Re: VMs: VMS not Welsh? oh well....

[Jim Gillogly <jim@xxxxxxx>]

GC wrote:
> Without proper decipherment techinques in place, the VMS is as
> Welsh as it is Chinese.  Both are equally as valid....
> It cannot be directly translated
> character-for-character, glyph-for-glyph, into any language.  I
> think most of us can at least agree on this point.

I'm with you so far.

> This sounds very arrogant to write, and I don't doubt I'll gain a
> few disparaging remarks because of writing it, but folks, I'm
> right.  I'm going to say straight out that you need to go back and
> really look at Dr. Strong's papers.  He wasn't entirely there - he
> didn't have our information - but he had the kernel.

OK.  Would it be disparaging to ask whether any of his purported
plaintext was in this kernel that you categorically assert is
correct?  While I appreciate the Mordoresque poetry of "ped-stans
skubent, stokked kimbo", I haven't seen any credible explanation
of why Anthony Askham or anybody else would actually *write*
something like this, much less encrypt it!

> I won't say
> anything further about it, and leave it at that,...

And this is the problem that I've had with Strong all along:
the essence of Science is repeatability, and his claiming
the conclusion without showing his work wasn't compelling.
And the reward in his tunc-bag wasn't appetizing enough to
persuade me rummage in its entrails in search of more of
it without a clue more compelling than "my description of
the system of decoding used is clear... any expert decoder
should be a master in his own field."  As an aspiring decoder,
I wouldn't comment on what he should know about medicine.
I'll let linguists comment on his grasp of Askham's English.
--
	Jim Gillogly
	Mersday, 12 Afteryule S.R. 2003, 09:28
	12.19.9.15.18, 2 Edznab 11 Kankin, Third Lord of Night

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