I mean, really, why would it be encrypted?

[RenegadeHealer]

@RobGea I just finished reading the thread here about GF. I think this post from Marco P pretty much answers my questions about his intentions in creating a new set of written symbols:
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I ended up doing some reading about oligosynthetic languages and logical and philosophical constructed languages like Lojban. What I see in common with Fontana's ciphers is an intention to categorize things in logical ways, so that, when it comes to written language, things in the same category get symbolized similarly. The intentions behind creating and using logical languages like Lojban include the elimination of ambiguity, increased efficiency of communication, and as in the Fontana quote that Marco provided, improved ease of memory.

I was thinking about Stephen Carlson's post earlier in this thread about a teacher seeing the contents of his lecture notes as worth money, and wanting to keep them free from the prying eyes of competitors and learners who hadn't paid tuition. I can see how someone like Giovanni Fontana might have influenced the author of the VM to invent a simple and logical symbolic language that was capable of representing all the concepts of the type of material he taught, but familiar only to him. The grammar would be very basic, almost list-like, just enough information to remind the teacher of points he needs to cover. The question in my mind, then, is whether or not the rules of Voynichese allow anywhere near the number of unique states and category-delineating classes of symbols to say everything necessary about all of the subjects the book discusses, in a compact but retrievable form. Looking at the work of Koen G and Torsten and everyone else here who is doing the math, I could really see this going either way. One of my planned projects is to map out all the possible unique states that the rules that govern 95% of the VMS's vords allow for. I'll post my first draft of it as soon as I get it into a presentable form.

And while we're on the subject, thank you Helmut for reminding me it's my turn to give something back. I don't have a lot to offer this quest, but I'm going to keep looking for opportunities to do original research and share it with the group, because you guys are awesome.