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

[RenegadeHealer]

Marco, after observing a lot of researchers of this book come and go over the past few years, one of the most reliable indicators of whether a new researcher has anything helpful to add to the discussion of the text, is whether or not they understand the statistical drift in the Currier languages, and what it implies. If a new idea doesn't take this well-documented phenomenon into account, or is incompatible with it, it's probably not an idea with much merit.

I think the most parsimonious conclusion that can be drawn from all the statistical properties of the VMS text which aren't like typical written works, is that the writing system as a whole was ad hoc, unique to the VMS's writer. My grasp of the statistical anomalies of the VMS is far from expert, but enough to make me rule out any notion that this writing system was ever used by many people or transmitted across generations. What I see in the early pages (Herbal A) is a new writing system that doesn't have all of its bugs worked out yet. As the author went on, he found his system problematic for his purposes, and made subtle changes to make it a better fit. This still leaves room for the text to be meaningful or meaningless, linguistic or non-linguistic notation.