Re: VMs: Re: Hebrew Kabbalistic Cryptography

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Luis,

> In light of the recent exchanges re: Tree (Finding), this is an avenue 
> definitely worth exploring further. Nick, I know at first it seemed 
> remote, but I think it makes sense to explore this further? I bet Donald 
> did not find the 'finding' all that surprising, after all.

My suspicion that one part of the encoding process involves removing the 
vowels would seem to correlate with the code-maker's knowledge of either 
Hebrew or shorthand.

In fact, I'd go so far as to suggest that these two strands may well have 
been coincident in the Quattrocento: that is, European shorthand scribes 
may have been influenced by the increasing knowledge of Hebrew to develop 
their own vowel-less type of (wax-tablet) shorthand, which was perhaps 
later recorded as Mr Ratcliff's system.

GC has talked about religious shorthands a few times: so perhaps we're both 
reaching back towards the same thing here. :-)

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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