Old Polish (geoffreycaveney's theory)

[geoffreycaveney]

But I do not see how your earlier points about the large number of total possible verbose cipher analyses of the script "refute" my theory or show it to be in contradiction to any known properties of the Voynich MS text in any way

It only shows that the probability that your solution is the right one is astronomically low.

But I did not merely choose my particular interpretation of the script at random from among all possible interpretations. Let us even set aside the possible statistical meaningfulness of Koen's particular verbose cipher analysis as opposed to all other possible such verbose cipher analyses. On its own merits alone, my VCI interpretation at least has an inherent internal logic that is far from random. No, it is not the only possible such logical system, and no, this alone does not mean it is necessarily correct. But its inherent internal logic does demonstrate that it cannot be treated as simply one possible system chosen entirely at random from among all imaginable existing possibilities. Allow me to summarize the logical features of my Slavic VCI interpretation of the script of the Voynich MS text:

1. EVA [o+X] = voiced counterpart of voiceless EVA [X]

2. EVA [cXh] ligature / [X+ch] = palatalized counterpart of EVA [X]

3. EVA [qo+X] = nasal consonant at same place of articulation as EVA [X] and [o+X]

It is not such a simple task to develop an interpretation of the script that incorporates all these systematic features of a typical consonant phoneme inventory of a language in such a logical way. It is far from being merely one random possible interpretation among the countless totality of all possible interpretations. How many such interpretations can one actually develop that treat the voiced/voiceless distinction, the plain/palatalized distinction, and the nasal phonemes in such a logical way? It is not so simple to do so at all, much less to do so in countless multitudes of different ways.