A case for Gibberish

[Mark Knowles]

A case for Gibberish and no one should suffer anymore by the hands of the Voynich Author

Anyone reading this please have mercy on me for passing any judgments upon the Voynich Manuscript, as I know this is a contentious topic for everyone involved.  Over the years I've looked at the manuscript's text searching for any meaning whatsoever.  I have run dozens of frequency analysis on several languages and compared it to the Voynich Manuscript to no avail.  I even compared it to classical and modern ciphers and I could not fetter out a rational input and output cipher with languages which resembled normalcy of its kind.  The output just became garbled so to speak.  Lastly I began to think this was a created language and it only held meaning to the owner or a group, but that's when I woke after reading the Random Walk Pdf by Schinner.

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Here is some bullet points to ponder before going down the path of a literal translation of the VMS:

1. VMS contains a low use of 1-2 tokens
   
2. NO evidence for punctuation in the VMS whatsoever.
   
3. Tokens repeat geometrically to often compared to languages
   
4. Even in the modern era there is no decryption for the VMS
   
5. If this was an invented language it still should obey a normal language rhythm for token repeats
   
6. otol is a label for a star, plant and a empty pipe
   
7. Lastly what likely would be consonants can be found at times as 1 character tokens
   

If you are a person trying to decode the Voynich Manuscript I would HIGHLY and its capped for a reason, go on and read the Schinner paper with the link I provided.  In my opinion stop wasting your time.  Its a dice roll of randomness and the text contains gibberish.

I am glad you pointed out (6). Examples of a number of quite distinct things having the same label struck me as very problematic. However I suppose I hold what might be regarded as a compromise position, i.e. that some of the text is gibberish or "filler" and some contains meaning; this is not unusual for ciphers.