[xk_id]

I found this scholarly article to be a concise summary of many interesting points: http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/voynich-11.pdf ("What we know about the Voynich manuscript" by Reddy S. and Knight K.).

[acqq]

And I really believe this is the simplest and exact solution:

Rugg (2004) claims that words might have been generated using a ‘Cardan Grille’ – a way to deterministically generate words from a table of morphemes.

(Gordon Rugg. 2004. The mystery of the Voynich Manuscript. Scientific American Magazine.)

If you know there was a reasonably fast way to produce the content which has exactly observed properties, why searching for some more complicated explanation?

[DanBC]

> why searching for some more complicated explanation?

But why generate all that text using a cardan grille?

[acqq]

To sell a book as something extraordinary.

[floobynewb]

thank you