The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[eggyk]

And , by the way also, the match with f104v.22 would be even better if one accepted lsaiin as a spelling error for daiin. Note that ls and d are in fact rather close in "ink distance"...

Out of interest, what does a "spelling mistake" actually mean in this context? Like, what are the individual characters representing?

If voynichese is a sort of insruction set on how to write out words (hand strokes for chinese characters), a spelling mistake implies an incorrect drawing instruction. If they represent sounds, or instruction on tones, it represents an incorrect tone for the word. If either of these are the case, you would expect that similar looking (or sounding) chinese words would share features in spelling. 

The alternative is that the author chose random sets of voynichese characters for each individual word, and then maintained consistency across pages for each word. That however begs the question "Why bother?".