How many pages?

[Koen G]

I agree that translating an ancient text correctly can be difficult, in some cases impossible. A new Dutch translation of the Bible has just been released where they corrected thousands of issues. And how much has been written about Homer's colour terms.

When checking a Voynich solution though, there is a lot we should be able to confirm before this difficult step. For example I cannot translate medieval Greek, and even using dictionaries it would take me ages to translate a page directly. But before this difficult step, I must somehow convert Voynichese to Greek. And I am very capable of judging whether the result of the conversion is an actual language.

I cannot judge the accuracy of your translation, but I can certainly judge the viability of your conversion method. So far, nobody has been able to present a repeatable method that can convert Voynichese into anything that comes close to an existing language.

What happens is often, as you say, that the conversion step becomes inseparable from some type of interpretation step. Even when we don't master the language, we can deal with some ambiguity there. Does the system conflate a and o? Fine, I'll write @, and I will still be able to see if something like language comes out. But there must be a system, otherwise it is just a creative writing exercise.