[split] Verbose cipher?

[geoffreycaveney]

The VMs scene is a bit of a Wild West or pirates' cove, where there's no clear set rules, or even objectives. 

Nonsense, our objectives are very clear! To solve the Voynich manuscript

Not necessarily! Some people may have given up all hope of the Voynich manuscript ever actually being successfully deciphered, and by this point their main satisfaction comes in refuting other people's incorrect theories and claims (: (I once saw a post on a Voynich researcher's blog where he actually complained about how people making incorrect theories and claims were starting to learn more about the legitimate Voynich research to incorporate it into their theories, thus making them harder to refute!  As if it were somehow a bad thing for everyone to learn more about the valid Voynich research. In truly objective scientific investigation one welcomes and wishes for opposing viewpoints to be argued as well as possible, so that as much as possible can be learned from the discussion and debate.) Such people may be disappointed if the Voynich ms is successfully deciphered, because they will no longer have the satisfaction of refuting all the false claims.