Why and how the text could be Bavarian

[JoJo_Jost]

On the other hand, I think it is still very valuable to have a scheme that seems to align well with many known properties of Voynichese ...

I agree with that, too.

And I think it’s clear that this VBM is NOT a “I translated three words, so I’ve solved the VMS” approach.

It’s a very structural approach—I took the peculiarities of the VMS (those strange spaces) and developed a model (!) from them.

Then I realized that this model, with just two rules (delete all spaces; bigrams spanning a space are vowels), already explains some of the statistical oddities of the VMS.

I think I’ve presented this here clearly and scientifically, right down to a possible rationale for extreme word repetition and this strange long-range effect of glyphs.
I’ve also shown other structurea that results from this.

So there’s nothing read into this here—no crazy assumptions, no eisegesis—but rather, it’s simply presented clearly and in a way that anyone can verify.

What it is: It’s a simple model that explains much more than any other simple models I’ve encountered.

And that’s what matters to me for now: to make it clear that such a model can support the idea that the VMS might be based on a completely normal language (note the subjunctive). No more, but also no less.

And of course I’m tinkering with generators, and of course there are statistical features that I can’t reproduce just yet. I’m working on that. But even the Naibbe cipher, strictly speaking, was only near by VMS - and that was based on many more necessary assumptions.

However, since I get the feeling that, because of the length of this thread, many people don't actually know exactly what VBM is, I've created a PDF that explains the current status fairly clearly. I'll update it with any new information and keep posting it here in this thread. That way, no one will have to search to find out what's current and what isn't.