A case for Gibberish

[Voynichgibberish]

1. only if you take spaces as literal, they may not be
   
2. that's not uncommon for medieval manuscripts
   
3. doesn't matter if it turns out to be a verbose code or multi-glyph characters, then this would be expected to happen. Alternately, there are languages where significantly different concepts are expressed with the exact same spelling (see my blog on Chechen).
   
4. cool, more to study
   
5. probably so, but we don't know yet if it is an invented language
   
6. doesn't matter, it could be a reference label, an abbreviation, or an adjective rather than a noun
   
7. there is no evidence yet for what is a consonant or a vowel, but in the medieval period consonants and vowels were frequently single characters that stood for abbreviations
   

Sometimes what appears to be an intractable problem is merely a sympton of insufficient imagination.

Dear JKP,

My imagination is quite healthy, because I have peered into the Voynich Manuscript since 2009, thank you very much!

I do take the spaces literally, because they are used and are there.  How common is it for a manuscript with so many references, images and ideas to have no punctuation from medieval times; that's 240 pages long to not have any punctuation whatsoever, can you reference any others?  From Bullet points 3 & 5 you seemed conflicted admitting yes and no to repeats for languages and geometric repeats are different from repeated words that are right next to each other.  JKP have you read Schinner paper?  I think the label is very evident from the way the imagery is simplistic so to is the label even if it came from a mechanism which produced random gibberish.  Lastly all languages usually contain a finite (low amount I should say) amount of vowels and a simple scan would show an abundance of lonely glyph characters which also stand out against a frequency attack.

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