Re: Misovsky's MS in Uppsala

[Karl Kluge <kckluge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Reeds wrote:

> On Jun 25,  0:45, Rene Zandbergen wrote:
> 
> [about high speed language instruction]
> > 
> > I (almost) hate to bring this up, but didn't Roger Bacon make
> > some related claims? (About a general method for teaching any
> > language in a minimal amount of time?)
> 
> I don't know.  Bacon wrote a lot, & I wouldn't know where to
> look.  If Bacon did, then Trithemius's use of this idea is
> another example of his general stragegy of giving his cryptography
> the appearance of magic.

I believe this idea of methods for high-speed language instruction is
covered to some degree in Umberto Eco's book on the search for the
perfect language.

Karl