A possible way to break down Voynich text

[ThomasCoon]

the majority seem completely unrestrained to certain word positions (except for the ones like <qo> you mentioned - but for that see point 7).

That's not true. The strong relationship between glyphs and word position has been noted and analysed many times.
For example, your unit 18 aiin appears almost always at the end of words. Why? Why do we not frequently see other ordered combinations of unit 18 like aiinol, aiinkk or chaiinaiin? If all word spaces are fake as you suggest, there is still the question for the system: Why do certain units like aiin, but not others, (almost) always precede the fake word space?

That is a completely valid realization - certain groups always are at the end and others at the beginning. If I had the intent to mask my plaintext by placing word breaks regularly before or after certain cipher units (and that's the whole goal of using a cipher in the first place - to mask the plain text as best as possible) - then this easily explains why (aiin) is always last and (qo) is always first.

In an earlier post here, I've shown though that I can take a plaintext and encode it through my units system and generate a Voynich-like text where certain characters (aiin) always come at the end, and others (qo) always come at the beginning. Here was a random line from St. Augustine:

yolar ar Shaiin seeo Shoesal chetoly qoch qoskeaiin arSheo qochot qosolaiin otchod keesy oeee qochod ...

I think it should be striking that not only is this text very "Voynich-ish", but some of the words I generated are indeed authentic VMS vords.




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Well, friends, I guess it's back to the drawing board for me then.

Thanks for the responses and the constructive criticism. I appreciate the many insights into the text that I did not see before. I will try to amend my theory and get back to you. To be honest I still think that I am on the right track and have noticed some valuable things. Now it is just a matter of tweaking my theory. If anyone thought I saw anything useful, feel free to use my ideas in your theories also.

I greatly appreciate all the help you've all given me here. I am sorry that I didn't respond to everyone before this post but I am definitely very thankful to all of you guys.


Much obliged,
T.Coon