The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[davidma]

Albeit interesting, I find the case made for the daiin-zhu exchange quite weak if I have to be honest. A full coverage of the entire SBJ would have been better, the fact that daiin and zhu kinda overlap in one specific recipe is not nearly enough for me to be able to claim that the SBS is definitely the SBJ, as argued here. The only other point made is the character overlap between Chinese and voynichese (almost 1 to 1). As mentioned by the paper itself this isn't a particularly new idea, and unless a systematic analysis of the VM is conducted I really don't think this proves anything more than daiin and zhu behave similarly when looking at a specific paragraph of the VM/SBJ