Have we ruled out simple substitution unwisely?

[Koen G]

Stolfi: I get that we can simply focus on word entropy, and this is a useful exercise. But if you ignore character entropy, you're basically treating it like a code. Again, that's a viable approach, but not what most people seem to have in mind.

For those who think character entropy issues are not inherent to Voynichese, I can only encourage you to experiment with this yourself. That's the best way to get a feel for the problem.