(21-05-2020, 04:31 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The Bible is hardly standard now, with all the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. available. If the VM code refers to words in another book, our efforts are doomed unless we know the exact manuscript that was used. (And even then...)
As I said I don't actually think at this time that this is the case, because even if that hypothesis is true there are still significant problems to resolve with the text. In a similar way it seems unlikely that it is an artificial language. So there seems to be more to Voynichese than either of those two options, though in theory it might be a combination of words from book lookup and something else, but my instinct is to doubt this as well.
I raised it as an example of a way in which the Voynich could, as you say, be virtually indecipherable without being nonsense.
As an example of this apparently I think the Beale Cipher uses the American Declaration of Independence as its source of words for its first part.