There is evidence that Voynichese wastes available space. Low entropy text is inefficient, this is why it is very unlikely that it would have been written like that even if the language sounded like that: extremely frequent patterns could be easily abbreviated.
My attempt, if it means anything,
at reverse-engineering it from Latin, with a variable-length "zigzag path" verbose cipher, had problems with language B. My idea was that low entropy is caused by optimization, so I was generating the shortest or close to shortest possible ciphertext only, for a given key. I ran hill climbing programs to find the key, trying to minimize the size of the ciphertext and improve the coverage of the Voynichese vocabulary. Maybe I should have counted null words as successful (in the coverage): definitely something I should try.
Q13 and Q20 is where qokedy qokeedy loops are found, so I suspect that these two words are meaningless. I have no idea which other words might be nulls. It would be funny if all the common words typical of language B were nulls, making A and B statistics much closer after they are removed. Also something to try.
My attempt, if it means anything,
at reverse-engineering it from Latin, with a variable-length "zigzag path" verbose cipher, had problems with language B. My idea was that low entropy is caused by optimization, so I was generating the shortest or close to shortest possible ciphertext only, for a given key. I ran hill climbing programs to find the key, trying to minimize the size of the ciphertext and improve the coverage of the Voynichese vocabulary. Maybe I should have counted null words as successful (in the coverage): definitely something I should try.Q13 and Q20 is where qokedy qokeedy loops are found, so I suspect that these two words are meaningless. I have no idea which other words might be nulls. It would be funny if all the common words typical of language B were nulls, making A and B statistics much closer after they are removed. Also something to try.