24-01-2026, 01:51 PM
Personally I am pretty convinced that the text had some draft. I won't tell you if it was on paper or wax tablet or something else but there should be some.
There are two possibilities -the text is meaningful or the text is gibberish. Let's look at both of them:
1) Meaningful text
If the text is meaningful then it was written in some cipher or custom script. If it is a custom script then it may represent some exotic language as Jorge says because we may say with big probability that it doesn't work with any European language.
For me it is safe to assume that the scribes were not fluent with Voynichese and hadn't written a lot of texts in it before. Writing in cypher or uknown language requires a lot of attention and you usually make many errors. So they just needed a draft
2) Gibberish
There are actually different kinds of gibberish. To make it simple lets say there is random gibberish and structured gibberish. If Voynichese is gibberish then it is structured gibberish and not random gibberish.
Random gibberish appears for example during glossolalia. When people are doing it spontaneously ( You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ) then their talking are just loose words, they don't make patterns.
Writing gibberish without any preparation would give the same effect as glossolalia - stream of words not having any structure, most of them unique and not following Zipf law.
And Voynichese is systematic. If it is meaningless then it was created with some system (allowing some improvisation however). For me it would need a draft.
There are two possibilities -the text is meaningful or the text is gibberish. Let's look at both of them:
1) Meaningful text
If the text is meaningful then it was written in some cipher or custom script. If it is a custom script then it may represent some exotic language as Jorge says because we may say with big probability that it doesn't work with any European language.
For me it is safe to assume that the scribes were not fluent with Voynichese and hadn't written a lot of texts in it before. Writing in cypher or uknown language requires a lot of attention and you usually make many errors. So they just needed a draft
2) Gibberish
There are actually different kinds of gibberish. To make it simple lets say there is random gibberish and structured gibberish. If Voynichese is gibberish then it is structured gibberish and not random gibberish.
Random gibberish appears for example during glossolalia. When people are doing it spontaneously ( You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ) then their talking are just loose words, they don't make patterns.
Writing gibberish without any preparation would give the same effect as glossolalia - stream of words not having any structure, most of them unique and not following Zipf law.
And Voynichese is systematic. If it is meaningless then it was created with some system (allowing some improvisation however). For me it would need a draft.