[split] Implications of multiple scribes

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Renegade, that is exactly what I think may have happened in the VM, since it might explain the reduced phoneme inventory and some of the reduced entropy. What keeps me from embracing the theory is that I don't see how it could lead to the positional rigidity. This feels planned rather than the result of loss-by-difficult-transcription.

That's how I see it, as well. A miscopied manuscript or mistranscribed oral dictation wouldn't come out like Voynichese. The VMS text is strongly positional and almost alarmingly consistent.