[split] Verbose cipher?

[pfeaster]

The trouble with such stenographic shorthand is that it always develops through trial and error.
If you look at the history of such schemes -and there are a lot of them - it always starts off as something difficult and quickly evolves as proponents develop the system. 
Now, in the Voynich, it seems there is just the one system that is fairly homogenous throughout.
So if there is a "system" then it's fairly well developed. Which, especially if there are several scribes, suggests a well developed scheme that has a well worked out back story. Problematic, especially when you think that if this is true, it's centuries out in front of its rivals. And, there was no need for such a scheme to be developed. Such schemes didn't start to get going for several centuries more, for the simple reason that society didn't need them.

Stenotype shows some influence from older systems of manual shorthand, but the distinctive features I mentioned that remind me of Voynichese were new to it and would have been counterproductive before the use of mechanical typewriters.  In manual shorthand, the goal was to reduce writing to the fewest number of pen-strokes consistent with legibility, so that writing initial G as TKPW or final J as PBLG would have been decidedly a step in the wrong direction.

By likening Voynichese to Stenotype, I don't mean to suggest that Voynichese was also stenographic.  I'm just struck by apparent similarities in the structure of the writing itself.  Stenotype seems to be weird in some of the same ways Voynichese is weird.