[Article] The Linguistics of the Voynich Manuscript (Bowern et al. 2020)

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So, having read to the end, I should slightly revise my impressions. It's not clear until the summary that they favour a "cipher" solution rather than a simple "language" solution. I think this is fair, though it seems that the conclusion rests mostly on the entropy problem.

Yes, that's right. In a world where I have to choose "cipher" vs "language", right now I'd choose cipher. there are arguments in favor of both, so consider it a preference rather than dogma