BessAgritianin's theory thread

[Koen G]

My solution is the truth.

That's not how science works. If your theory fails to convince anyone, then the problem is your theory. 

I understand that you genuinely believe that you are on the right track. But what tavie is trying to demonstrate is that you're the next one in a long line of people who equally thought that their theory was correct. To us, neutral observers, there is nothing that differentiates your theory from theirs. It's a system with way too much freedom that ignores Voynichese and linguistic reality in favor of a contrived fantasy.

I'm not saying that you or any of those many, many other people lack intelligence though. The manuscript itself has the ability to bring about these false positives, and reinforce our idea that we are on the right track. Once you select a language and come up with a rudimentary system, you will be able to make it work. Any language will do. 

Of course it doesn't actually work. That's where all the usual strategies come in.
* just pick a few words here and there that happen to work
* mix languages
* blame the manuscript when a nonsense translation comes out ("It's poetic language! The author had a strange style! It's a lost dialect!")
* ignore the grammar of the target language and go with whatever dictionary form works best
* assign multiple glyphs to multiple sounds in a way that gives too much freedom
* need to "interpret" the result before anyone can actually understand it
....

Not all of those are found in all theories, but they are all (subconscious) strategies that allow the translator to keep going with their system. Like that, they keep generating positive feedback, and through this experience become convinced that their theory actually works. That's how we end up in a situation like this: we say "it cannot work for these reasons", but you say "whatever, my theory is the truth". This is because this hyperflexible system you came up with has confirmed for you many times that your theory is correct. And it has happened for a hundred or more other people before you, and it will keep happening to others.