[Poll for Mark Knowles] Explanation for Voynich text?

[Hermes777]

The option "It is written in a known or unknown natural language in an unknown script" needs the addition: "according to an unknown method."

A possibility, for instance, is a natural language rendered phonically. The interplay of what seem to be consonants and vowels suggests phonic textures. 

In Australian English there is the phenomenon of "strine." A "strine" is a language written - folkishly - as it sounds. The word itself is strine for "Australian" which can become "strine" as in "I'm Strine, mate" meaning "I'm Australian, mate." Whole tracts of Australian English can be written like this, usually for humorous purposes: 'Are you going to go to Melbourne for Easter?" can be rendered as: ""Yagunna goda Mairlben freester?" This might be how a non-speaker renders a broad accent. 

You could have a hard time picking a text written in strine as English. 

An option might be (an over-stylised) rendering of an unfamiliar spoken language for which there were no written conventions.

[Koen G]

I had never heard of Strine, but it sounds funny. It may not be the best example though. Strine is still written by English speakers, and its phoneme inventory, entropy statistics and so forth will be very similar to those of English. I even doubt if any of the statistical tools available to us would be able to pick up the difference between Strine and a standard Germanic language. Well it appears somewhat more "agglutinative", which might throw off the results when comparing word length distribution, but this will still be within the range of normal linguistic behavior.

If you want to argue that it could be a natural language rendered phonetically, I think it is a requirement that the scribe is not familiar with this language. This will often lead to reduced entropy. For example, if I had to transcribe spoken Chinese, I would miss all the tonal variation. I would probably also miss distinctions between sounds that don't exist in my native Dutch, so I would conflate them to something I do know. All this would lead to a reduction in the phoneme inventory and possibly a reduction in entropy. I'm doubtful that this extreme scenario would lead to any form of positional rigidity though.