(10-02-2026, 08:16 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The thread title "Have we ruled out simple substitution unwisely?" implies a judgement (unwise) on those who rule out simple substitution (people like Marco, myself and many others). So this is the rebound of that. But let's remain friendly.
Definitely, let's remain friendly -- people too often seem to take any suggestion that threatens their own beliefs on the VMS as an attack. The defensive response here might have been anticipated if eggyk had said "Have you ruled out simple substitution unwisely?". But I think he went out of his way to avoid offense by saying "Have we..."
As for simple substitution (which by normal definition means one-glyph represents one-letter in some language), that seems to be a strict dead-end unless and until, one first identifies a mechanism of word-delineation that accounts for the word length distribution seen in the Voynichese. It simply does not align with any known language (and I've looked at a very large number of candidates.)