Re: pdf

[Big Jim <bigjim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:27 AM 2/14/01 -0800, you wrote:
> I don't know anything about visual encription.

Visual encryption was a term I made up to try to explain myself using this 
groups terminology. It simply means a deliberate hiding of a written work 
whose secrets are found by the eyes and not by set rules.
When I first looked at this, AIN, AIIN, and AIIIN stood out like sore 
thumbs. OIN, OIIN, OIIIN were  variations. I set rules for these words. I 
said all spellings of AIN were one word...the Hebrew word for eye.  OIN was 
the same word..but an alternate meaning which is; To look at, consider. If 
this was incorrect it would have failed somewhere along the line.  I needed 
to start somewhere and this was as good a place as any. The fact that 6 
words separated only by non consequential spelling differences have only 2 
meanings is visual encryption.  If you balk at that you are doing exactly 
what the writer wants you to do.


>  If it changes with every word
> and depends on the writer's whims, how can the writer read it later himself?

The writer would have the least problem with it.  He knows what he did.
Once one understands what one is looking at it's obvious. My problem is in 
conveying what I see to you.  I'm from a different background. I deal with 
language on a visual level. I understand what you all are saying. You 
expect letter for letter and word for word translation. This is exactly why 
you haven't found it. Everything that writer did was done to make you 
second guess yourself.   It's a visual trap.


> Regarding the assumption that VMS was written in Hebrew, what about the
> following two observations: 1) the VMS text looks writen from left to right
> (see the incomplete lines, they start on the left and end in the middle of the
> page). Hebrew writing is from right to left.

Encryption. Everything you are saying is exactly what he wants you to say 
and think.  Logical approach dictates finding a normal grammar filled 
language that answers to every known rule. As long as you look there, you 
will never find it.
There is no sentence structure.  Each word has a value. A meaning. All 
meanings tie together. Sentences are constructed through paraphrasing. In 
this way anyone from any language background could construct the text. A 
knowledge of the subject matter is necessary. If this was 2 years ago I 
never would have seen it. I didn't know the subject matter then.  Left to 
right, right to left, up and down..it would make no difference. Everything 
is done to throw you off the track.



>  2. The Hebrew alphabet has only 22 letters, while in VMS some 37 symbols 
> can be distinguished (indeed, for
> example Currier's transliteration uses all Latin characters plus 9 numerals
> plus the asterisk, the total of 37 characters).  If Big Jim's hypothesis is
> adopted, the above questions have to be addressed.


All I can tell you is that it works.  I am not a language expert. I don't 
even speak Hebrew. I have been looking up every single word as I go along. 
The values for the Voynich letters that this group has assigned with Latin 
values works.  The writer does do odd things. For instance the letter A 
could either be Aleph or it could be Ain.  Ain could also be the letter O, 
as O is derived from Ain.  He also juggles Caph. Koph,  and Cheth.  As well 
as Sin and Shin, Tet and Teth.  Then there are examples of letter exchanges 
that follow Hebrew grammar.  The Voynich construction YK (Y=yod ) is not 
found in Hebrew. But Yod alternates with Aleph according to Hebrew grammar. 
The next place I would look is under Aleph for all combinations of Alpeh 
caph, aleph koph and aleph cheth.  Then check the context. It has to make 
sense in an idea building structure. And that structure has to continue 
throughout the ENTIRE writing or else I am wrong.  Even IF I was deluding 
myself by making this up as I went along, the story would HAVE to fail at 
some point. And so far it hasnt.  The absolute worst line I came across 
took me two days to crack. The line made NO SENSE. It turned out to be the 
last letter in each word that constructed the text word.
When I get this PDF program I will try to do the best I can to explain what 
i see.

Regards
Jim

>   Best to all, Mark