The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[Jorge_Stolfi]

Jumping back in briefly, this kind of recitation of a classical text was extremely unusual because it is incomprehensible. Language change meant it was a very different situation from Latin where national pronunciations were quite understandable and educated people were expected to be able to converse in them. A phonetic transcription would have been opaque to the reader even if he were proficient in the scribe's alphabet.

Sorry, I don't understand this objection.  What "reader"? 

Again, the premise of this scenario is that the Author had lived in "China" long enough to have learned the local spoken language.  That was the language that the Dictator used when reading, and the language that he wrote down.  The existence of other languages elsewhere, that would also read the same text but with different sounds, was not relevant at all.

Maybe you are still hung on the idea that  the Voynichese script was created by some community, to communicate among themselves?  That idea is definitely excluded by the COT.

All the best, --stolfi