The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[Koen G]

Marco: Those are interesting entropy values. Do you know how the diacritics are handled? Does entropy increase or decrease when they are removed? What happens when we plot h2 against h1?

Regarding the other discussion: I obviously agree with the sentiment that the Voynich manuscript did happen and it is without parallel, so whatever caused it to happen must also be an unparalleled combination of factors. However, this does not mean that antecedent should be disregarded altogether. Languages like French, English, Dutch, German... were all forced into the constraints of the Latin alphabet, even though their phoneme inventory is vastly different. We made do. And throughout history, the rule has been that whatever language we encounter, we attempt to write in our familiar script. Missionaries typically did not go and invent an entirely different writing system for each indigenous language they encountered.