[split] Implications of multiple scribes

[Koen G]

Renegade: I'm quite fond of the structuring/oversimplifying missionary theory because it can integrate almost everything that's wrong with Voynichese into a historically possible scenario. 

There is probably no true parallel though. Writing systems are like animals, if one doesn't function in its surroundings, it won't survive long. It has to be adopted in a systematic way to gain traction and reach us after 500 years.

So if Voynichese was a writing system once used to plainly write a language, it was probably a faulty one. Or a secret one. It's either faulty or secret