The Voynich-Ms as a concatenation of abbreviations

[ReneZ]

I am quite happy, Helmut, to finally read more details of the method you propose.

Over the years, I have been presented with many dozens of proposed solutions, and when reading these, I am always looking for 'anything special' that makes it stand out. For 'anything promising' that at least begins to explain the unusual text features, but also for the 'typical mystakes' that show that the proposer of the solution is not aware of these.

You proposal is certainly different from most, and does not include the 'usual mistakes' which appear when the proposed method is basically a character substitution with various levels of freedom added to allow for more words to be translated.
On the other hand, I am also not seeing the 'promising bit', which is "any reason why the Voynich MS text behaves as it does".

Here, I would not refer to Currier's "line as a functional unit" because that is defined so vaguely that I don't see a way to measure it in practice. The recent work of Patrick Feaster does a much better job, as it is quite specific and presents several examples that require an explanation.

Apart from that, and more in general, the low entropy of character pairs (bigrams) and the observed word structure are not explained by your method, but seem to have 'just occurred'. This does not necessarily mean that it is wrong, but it is cetainly a shortcoming.

I also agree with the points of nablator (and others), that there is an issue with the high frequency of text phrases. Even for a bigram, the high freqency of Eva-dy is unusual. If this is to be expanded to a word (e.g. dictum), then this word appears way too frequently.
Again, this is not proof that it is wrong, but it makes the proposal much less convincing.

Adding text by expanding abbreviations means that one is adding information that previously was not part of the text.
This can only be done if it is done consistently, and it is confirmed by presenting a meaningful text. I am afraid that this last confirmation is missing, so we cannot be sure that the expansino of abbreviations is correct.