Ungrammatical repetition of the same few words

[punainerkarhu]

Yes that’s what I meant, they were writing words in whatever language they spoke and used invented alphabet instead of the normal script for that language, so something like:


STONE CAT LAKE GREEN WATER HOUSE ROAD ROAD ROAD FIELD LAKE GOD CAT IN WATER WINDOW HOUSE GREEN STONE LAKE ROAD CAT WATER FIELD GOD IN AN LAKE HOUSE HOUSE TREE HOUSE GREEN WATER CAT SMALL ROAD LAKE

WATER LAKE HOUSE CAT GREEN STONE GOD FIELD ROAD WATER CAT LAKE HOUSE GREEN WATER STONE ROAD GOD CAT FIELD LAKE WINDOW WATER HOUSE HOUSE CAT GREEN LAKE ROAD STONE WATER GOD ……


just wrote it in a new script. The only purpose of doing that that I could think of is to make a resemblance of a mysterious text that isn’t meant to be read or understood. And for that purpose it’s probably easier and faster to just think of meaningful sentences or copy phrases from existing books. They would also complicate things for themselves by starting or ending lines/paragraphs with specific words and doing other deliberate things for seemingly no reason other than aesthetics maybe.

So I guess I wanted to ask if anybody tried using some software to assign glyphs to various Latin (or other alphabet) letters and check if the resulting words would exist in one of the natural languages or whether such a test is possible in practice. Or maybe we can just rule out simple substitution based on the structure and specific properties of voynich words alone even if we assume that the text isn’t natural speech but rather random selection of words. I think you already addressed my questions well by pointing out variations like [dain, daiin] which is a deviation from simple substitution.