Discussion of "A possible generating algorithm of the Voynich manuscript"

[nickpelling]

Davidsch: Torsten's theory is both interesting and sincerely held - he believes it is sufficient to explain many (though not, I believe, all) of the features of Voynichese text. He is an astute observer, and (I believe) has run tens of thousands of statistical tests to provide the evidence supporting (or, at least, consistent with) his views.

But this also offers a splendid challenge to the rest of us: if we can find things that disprove his autocopying theory (and I think there are several areas where Voynichese is not as straightforward as his presentation makes it out to be), then the things we find to do that might well advance our understanding significantly.