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by acqq 4722 days ago
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?

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> why searching for some more complicated explanation?

But why generate all that text using a cardan grille?

To sell a book as something extraordinary.