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The Voynich Manuscript May Be a Hoax (www.youtube.com)
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[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 points 3 months ago

It's still completely up in the air, and as I said above: paradoxical. Voynichese doesn't behave like any known language, and has several problems besides just entropy. On the other hand it obeys Zipf's Law, and topic analysis indicates the content of the writing varies with the subject matter of the pages, like a real language would.