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

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I am beginning to wonder if one of the main features of the Voynich MS text is that it is really page-oriented, i.e. properties are quite page-dependent. This would fit with an encyclopedic work (like Pliny).

My impression is that, while it is possible that specific subjects are partially responsible for how similar words cluster together, this explanation is not sufficient. Aren't the differences between sections too large for a word-to-word mapping of a uniform language?

There are many unknowns and variables to consider:
- are vords words? If not, there is no problem with using different (ciphertext) vords for encoding the same (plaintext) words, and a one-to-one vord-to-word mapping model is irrelevant,
- the vocabulary (that contains many similar words),
- a sometimes much reduced MATTR (Q13),
- some sharply changing unknown preferences/settings/constraints visible on glyph mono- and bi-gram statistics, very common in Currier language A at the page scale or even sometimes just a few lines,
- the "drift" between Currier language A and B characteristics,
- the hypothetical "self-citation",
- a hypothetical page-dependent subject matter.

Is there any way of separating the causes and consequences, the extent of the effect of each factor/hypothesis on local vord similarity? If not, there is no point in trying.