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I am not sure I understand correctly, but I don't know how these ideas explain the available evidence.

1. Though average word length is comparable for Voynichese and ordinary European languages, the  shape of the distribution is significantly different. In particular, Voynichese has fewer short and long word tokens than ordinary languages (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).

2. A simple example of a many-to-many cipher would be a Caesar cipher where words are written in "Boustrophedon" style, i.e. alternating left-to-right and right-to-left for each line, so that 'wolf' can be ciphered as 'XPMG' or 'GMPX', and both 'XPMG' and 'GMPX' can be decoded as both 'wolf' and 'flow'. This would increase character conditional entropy (while we are looking for methods that decrease entropy) since each bigram would occur in both its original and reversed form with the same frequency (e.g. TH vs HT, CK vs KC). Also, this cipher does not explain why consecutive words tend to be similar in Voynichese (e.g. <f108r.42> okeey.qokeey.qokeedy.qokeey). Maybe this method is not what you are thinking of, but it seems compatible with the description you gave.

Thank you for the comments!

I'm now writing a summary explaining my personal favorite hypothesis with regard to the encoding method in VMS (again, with pictures   , oh I love pictures). I think I'll finish it later today and then post a link to the forum. As far as I can see, it should address your comments. I actually don't insist that what I'll describe is the way the text was created, that's why here I'm talking about many-to-many encoding models in generic sense, but it will be a good particular example of a system like that, and could also explain some peculiar properties of the manuscript.

Sorry for not addressing your points here specifically, if my summary won't give you a good enough answer, I will be happy to discuss them