[split] On the validation of Theories

[Torsten]

Is there any hypothesis or theory out there that pleases you? If there is one, how did you validate it?

What is with the following hypotheses:
- it is an unknown natural language,
- it is an artificial language,
- it is a shorthand verbose cipher,
- it is a codebook cipher,
- it is an ambiguous cipher,
- it was tampered beyond recognition during copying

Are some of this hypotheses more likely than others? Does one of this hypotheses help us to understand what we already know about the Voynich manuscript? Does one of this hypotheses makes some testable predictions?