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Re: Cryptography of 1502 with Voynich resonances
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- Subject: Re: Cryptography of 1502 with Voynich resonances
- From: "Gabriel Landini" <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 12:38:05 +0100
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- References: Zandbergen@t-online.de (Rene Zandbergen) "Re: Cryptography of 1502 with Voynich resonances" (Jul 29, 20:10)
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This has nothing to do with the vms, but with nomenclators.
On 29 Jul 2000, at 17:47, Jim Reeds wrote:
> (To the ancient Romans, a nomenclator was a servant who reminded
> one of the names of people one met!)
To the people of Uruguay, nomenclator is the collection of names
of streets (!). There is a curious tradition of naming streets after
(usually not so) prominent people (mostly politicians). There is
even a piece of legislation stating that one has be be dead for 10
years before a street can be named after you.
So the Uruguayan nomenclators usually have lots of people's
names who nobody knows who they were.
In Japan, the great majority of streets have no names, and in
Englad, many streets have almost the same names and you're
never shure which one you want: things like Queen's Street,
Queen's Road, Queen's Close, Queen's Way (and also
Queensway!), Queen's Circus, Queen's Crescent, Queen's Row,
Queen's Lane, Queen's Path :-(
Gabriel