Ruby's Greek Thread

[tavie]

I still persist in seeking a solution by simple substitution. I know that the majority of Voynich followers do not share this kind of idea.

I think the point is not that individual glyphs can't be substitutes for plaintext characters:  some may well be.  But the whole solution itself cannot be down to simple substitution.  Simple substitution cannot possibly explain all of the various odd behaviours of Voynichese, such as the the paragraph starting glyphs mentioned here, wider oddities around gallows' behaviour elsewhere, line starting characters, line end characters, excessive - in fact in parts obsessive - alliteration for certain glyphs, and most of all the entropy problem that Koen explained so well. 

You can develop a theory with a core element of substitution that works alongside other mechanisms to explain these problems...but then it will no longer be a simple substitution theory.