It cannot be a language - in reference to Koen's latest video

[Koen G]

"It just can't be a language, under the assumptions that were made".

This is a very important point. My video was in the first place a reaction to the way most Voynich theories are formed: pick a language you like, find some words that match, immediately get into trouble so start inventing rules that eventually give you a ton of freedom to produce what you like. My point was very much that we can't just wildly start slapping Latin or Greek on it - first, the system must be discovered.

My conviction that the text must contain meaning has decreased over the years, but I still give it over 50% chance. Just not a simple substitution cipher.

On the other hand, I'm glad to see that you understood my point very well: even forced vowelless systems won't work, for a variety of reasons. I think most people overestimate how legible an unknown text in vowelless English would be, for example. And it still wouldn't match Voynichese in any way.

Most importantly, I believe the glyph set and the system are chosen with a certain elegance. This was premeditated and cannot have come about as a coincidental effect of doing something like omitting vowels from a language.