The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[Jorge_Stolfi]

I don't understand what you are trying to tell me

I explained in a previous post what that stain tells me.  

The water must have softened the ink of whatever was written at the top of the page, and even carried some of it down.  The dark edge of the stain is dirt and possibly ink that was pushed by the edge of the water, like earth by a bulldozer.  

What was left of the writing then must have been mostly erased by the mopping or wiping of the spill.  Only the oror sheey at the lower right corner of the written area escaped the damage.

Then someone -- right after that accident, or any time later -- tried to repair the damage by retracing the few traces that remained.  But those were just faint bits here and there, and the person did not know the Voynichese alphabet, and probably did not know even whether the original writing was in Voynichese or some other language.  So he  tried to "restore" those bits as Latin letters..

That is why we cannot read that sentence now.  Both the indecipherable glyphs and the letters that we can read are just random noise, unrelated to the original text.

All the best, --stolfi