How to recombine glyphs to increase character entropy?

[RenegadeHealer]

I support anyone who is interested in "solving" the text to perform the basic frequency analyses like Searcher.  Nothing is more convincing than looking at the numbers yourself and realizing the issues that are being faced in getting Voynichese (at the glyph level) to look and act like natural language.

Maybe this explanation will help for understanding the issue better…

Great write up, Michelle. This is, as we’d put it over on Reddit, a good ELI5 (“Explain Like I’m Five”).  The thing is, to anybody motivated and intelligent enough to dive into cryptography or linguistics to explore a mystery, the statistical analyses that rule out Voynichese being either a natural human language plaintext or a simple substitution cipher are not rocket science. They can be dry and disappointing, but not nearly as much of a letdown as spending huge amounts of time and energy pursuing a possible solution that was doomed from the start.

I also like how diplomatic your explanation is, which is something I’ve said to/about Koen as well. What you’ve described here is nothing that Nick P, Marco P, and Rene Z haven’t been explaining to noobs for years. All three of these luminaries, however, are wont to express it in a way that hints at a weariness of having to explain it anew so many times, and a frustration that it isn’t more obvious or more common knowledge by now. And after having put so much time and labor into discovering these properties of Voynichese, I get it. But this can be a bit offputting to those minority of starry-eyed noobs who are willing to do their homework. (But just need to know where to start.)