Calgary engineer believes he's cracked the mysterious Voynich Manuscript

[Mark Knowles]

I don't think it's a coincidence, but I think your method includes this multi-layered alphabet because it has to; if you don't give yourself so much freedom, your translations don't work. At the same time, real language doesn't work like that - it has to be mostly unambiguous and repeatable because it's meant for two-way communication, where the reader must understand what the author intended. If there are too many degrees of freedom, a language becomes meaningless. 

I suspect the issue of "too many degrees of freedom" probably lies behind all failed translations.

If you look at the Greg Kondrak decipherment one clear degree of freedom was that each vord was an anagram in his theory, I believe. So I guess different people can find their degrees of freedom in different places, but unless it is the correct decipherment those degrees of freedom have to be found somewhere to allow for the flexibility to produce a text which seems to fit the context of the drawings. I imagine that these theorists don't realise that the degrees of freedom in their theory inevitably allow them to produce a very roughly plausible text, so whilst it may look like they have deciphered it they have really just made something fit.