A semantic encoding system?

[Jonas Barnun]

My well-meant suggestion is to first of all start wondering if the character groups separated by spaces in the Voynich MS actually represent words. 

This is the most widely assumed thing about the text, and it immediately leads to all these questions.

Reason enough to question this assumption.

In the sense the space could be either random or denoting something else than the end of a word.
Hmmm that’s opening a whole new area in the field of interpretation.

Anyway, I would think that if it is a conlang of some sort with its own original grammar, there is no way one may decipher it as there is nothing we could use as a reasonable basis to do so. It would be virtually similar with Linear A (although not a conlang) where we do have letters we can actually identify but the language remains obscure… So in the absence of a key to decode it, this hypothesis implies the VMS will remain obscure no matter how much time we spend analyzing it’s structure. Am I wrong? Are there ways to translate a totally unknown and unrelated language without any rosetta stone?