So.. What should I actually be doing?

[eggyk]

Hi!

First of all, you should have a clear idea about what you are interested in:
1) analysing the text
2) analysing everything else about the MS (for most people: the illustrations)

Secondly, you should not stop reading.
Check wikipedia.
Then check my web site ...
Then think again...

I appreciate the advice! I have read some of the pages when you have linked to sections in past threads, it's extremely helpful. 

My heart lies in analysing the text, but my head says more information is needed to do so accurately. I have serious doubts about the underlying details/axioms for any potential analysis on the text. People have claimed everything from turkish to scottish to gibberish, and I think the underlying issue is a lack of certainty on the background of the VM. Not to mention the issues around languages A and B. If we knew where it was written, or even had a good guess, the text analysis may hold more validity.

This is why most of my list was made up of "Find x" tasks, instead of novel analysis theories. If a match for an image was found (for example) in a manuscript containing latin, german, and greek, the resulting analysis could take that into account. If it was in a turkish or arabic work, it would be quite different. 

For example, comparing the letter distribution between the VM and another manuscript on pages that may have similar meaning, such as the zodiac or moon cycles. Or searching for matches for the text on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. which appears to have both voynichese and (german/latin?) plaintext. 

I'm not sure which category that fits into, i suppose "2 so we might do 1". Or the "think again..." section.