I've deciphered the Voynich Manuscript. Here is the alphabet of the manuscript

[Eiríkur]

I goofed and lost a posting. I wanted to get this saved.
The first "what's really there on the vellum" challenge was LAAFU, the
unexplained position in line effects. Emma May Smith's recap is good:
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She's a favorite of mine. Her English word flow is like her reasoning.

The second thing is not something that I actually saw before it was pointed
out to me. This is the rigid internal structure inside each word. This is a serious
thing and it reduces the entropy a lot. Oh, Eirikur on entropy: I call it Shannon information or
carrying capacity. At this point in my journey I did some calculations and got a very
rough number of two bits per glyph. For a direct to dictionary model to work, I think you need
about six bits to define a European letter. So, that makes this a pretty labor intensive operation
for quill-pen users, doable of course, but strange. Someone did a more convincing bits analysis and got 1.6 bits per glyph. That's really tough to work with. I bet it's true, but I hope not. I'm exposing my personal biases here, but I don't trust them. I need to prove things. I'm good at being wrong.
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