The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[Jorge_Stolfi]

There are plenty of people - particularly influential voices - who are still open to alternatives, such as that the text is meaningless.

You are right, there are other serious theories being supported besides "complex encryption of an European language".  Including random gibberish, constructed language, codebook cipher, etc.

But these theories too were proposed only because the naive theory "simple substitution cipher of an European language" failed, and people were convinced that "if it is a meaningful text, the language must be European" because of the physical features and illustrations.  In particular, this has been the only reason why most serious Voynichologists rejected the "Chinese" theory offhand.

And my point is that this last conclusion is a logical error.

All the best, -stolfi