A Possible Reading of "rapa (turnip)" on f102v2

[rikforto]

If you have any specific arguments, based on the plant depicted, on the context or the linguistic parallels that the translation of the word cannot be turnip, please let me know!

You can simply refuse to consider the problems with simple substitution, but it does not make them go away! There are one of two problems with the chart you made in the first post:

1. There aren't enough letters in the Voynichese alphabet to extend that method to all the letters in the Latin alphabet, so words cannot be respresented this way
   
2. If there are enough letters, it is because there are no positional variants and you need to explain why q only ever starts words while n only ever ends words because no European language has such a small inventory and so many words fixed to a single "slot".
   

(Please note that like the page I linked, these arguments do not depend on a certain entropy value, but are instead qualitative descriptions of the text.) There are a few ways around this---the easiest being its not simple substitution. The poorly named Chinese Theory posits that we will eventually find a language that has phonotactics that fit the alphabet. People have occasionally suggested leaning in and arguing maybe the author really did have a preference for certain word forms, but it means most texts aren't suitable for translation into Voynichesee, and writing long passages that way is extremely difficult.

I know you think people are pointing this out to "prolong the mystery" or something, but if a solution is forthcoming, it will come from honestly dealing with the systemic facts of the manuscript, not from pretending we cannot make grounded observations about the wordform and what that implies.