The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[nablator]

It is not Chinese for the same reason that it is not any transliteration or simple substitution cipher of any language: Voynichese is not flat.

Some of the "bumpiness" features listed by Nick seem to affect a relatively small fraction of the text, and (like transcription errors, or missing fragments on clay tablets) should not be a big obstacle to decipherment.

There are small oddities, perfectly explainable as mistakes, spelling variants, abbreviations, etc. and then there are massive inconsistencies, much less explainable: the big differences between Currier "languages" and all the many "dialects" on a smaller scale.