Calgary engineer believes he's cracked the mysterious Voynich Manuscript

[ChenZheChina]

I am open to the idea that the Voynich is some kind of old Turkish, but their claim about acrostic worried me.

To write acrostic, sometimes one might have to use weird grammar, word order or even unusual words, or just unusual spelling of words. This gives them one more layer of freedom to interpret words: If somewhere of the text is having inconsistent grammar or whatever, they could simply explain it as “necessary modification” in order to write acrostic. Unlike modern languages which have native speakers, we have no way to decide whether such modification is OK or not for a dead language.

Another claim that sounds unusual to me is their “100 percent correct alphabet”. I don’t know how they define this, but since all previous simple substitution solutions did not work well, I guess they might have a very complex, multi-to-multi mapping alphabet, so that they could choose which mapping to use every time interpreting a word, case-by-case.

I mean, multi-to-multi mapping is not necessarily bad. It’s just like in English, we have c/ch/k/q, all reading /k/, as well as ch, reading /tʃ/, /k/, /ʃ/, /x/ case-by-case. How much freedom is acceptable, is another question, though.