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

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Torsten: my proposed explanation for tightly bound pairs of letters begins with a specific, historically attested cipher mechanism - verbose cipher. This is a starting point that requires pairs of shapes to be locked together.

Your autocopying hypothesis, however, has no requirement for letters to be locked together. ..

This is the main difference I have with Torsten's description of the text and my perception of the text, and I'm glad you brought it up Nick, but I still like what Torsten is doing, regardless of whether I agree with an autocopying hypothesis.

I have a different idea for why proximate tokens are so similar so I don't think there's only one possible explanation, I think there are a couple (I can't think of many, but I can think of a couple), but it takes more than a quick forum post to explain them.