Quote:I can confirm quite resolutely that the text shown in MS 408 is coherent, non narrative content.
So please do it
If you can imagine some mechanical system that would generate let's say 90% of Voynichese words in their final form, show it to us. That would be the confirmation.
Let me state my position. I am not against wheels and volvelles. I think they could be used.
And I think the text could be meaningless which idea you seem to like too but due to some reasons avoid to say it directly
I believe however that if there was a wheel system to generate meaningless text, it wasn't 100% mechanical. It was auxilliary but there was still a human making decisions.
Let's take your link:
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And now take the sentence:
Select none or more glyphs from the outer ring
Does the cipher wheel system picks zero, one, or more glyphs from the outer ring here? No, a human does it. A human chooses each time which glyphs to pick and what number of glyphs to pick.
In this specific model he doesn't even have to turn the wheels.
Of course he could for example cast dice to choose the glyphs but this model doesn't mention it.
Does your imagined system also work this way or is it more automated?