What are the characteristics of Labelese?

[Anton]

What looks like labels at first glance are actually syllables.

They don't look like labels, it's immediately apparent that it is just fitting the lines into the available space, because the baseline is radial. In contrast to that, in the VMS the baseline is mostly circumferential, with few exceptions, but in those ones the labels either clearly label distinct objects (e.g. Voynich pipes) or they are placed at a significant distance from each other (e.g. the central Rosette).