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Yes! This is my line of reasoning as well. For instance who is
to say that EVA "dy" doesn't decode to "metus" (d=met y = us) or some such
system? This is not unusual in early Latin text, and if someone versed in
such a system ported this into another language or encryption scheme...or even
extended the use of common groupings of letters into single glyphs I believe it
would look very Voy-like.
For instance, take the line
In the beginning God created the earth and it was good
substitute:
d = d or ad
i = in
l = l or ll
n = ing
s = sh
t = it
z = as
1 = cr
2 = ed
3 = and
4 = oo
9 = th
i 9e begin God 1eat2 9e ear9 a3 t wz g4d
Such a system shortens the word length and could even explain why some
attempts at decryption seem to find words but fail on the overall text (note
that begin and God remain as words, but the rest would seem to
be garbage)
If it was done as above, you could also get two or more words together that
appear to be the same but are not.
al al hd ...
all Al had ...
This has probably been explored before. I am just trying to go over
the message archives now.
****************************** Larry Roux Syracuse University lroux@xxxxxxx ******************************* >>> jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 07/05/03 12:47PM >>> The substitution method does not imply that a character for character substitution was used. More frequent character pairs may have been grouped under one symbol. the pair ie in english could have its own symbol based on its phonetic sound. Any decoding of such a text would be able to distinguish between and e and ie by the context of the phrase. This could also account for the frequency of short words. ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx with a body saying: unsubscribe vms-list |