Re: VMs: Word Endings

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Gordon

> Makes sense to me - so, for instance, "Galli Romanos oppugnaverunt hastis
> clamoribusque" could be transliterated into "Galli Romany oppugnavy hasty
> clamory", and it would be possible to re-translate that unambiguously. Then,
> adding your twist, you could have something like "GallichRom any oppug 
> navy hasty
> clamory", again unambiguously.

FWIW, I imagine the processing sequence to be more like:-
     Galli Romanis oppugnaverunt hastis clamoribusque
--> galch romch opgnavch hasts clamrch&
--> gal chrom cho pgnav chhast sclamr ch&

The final cipher stage(s) then have as its/their job the obscuration of any 
remaining language-like sub-sequences, like <numbers>, <pairs of 
consonants>, and <vowel-consonant pairs>. I think that a pair cipher (which 
also encodes pairs of consonants as a single pair) would do a pretty good 
job of this.

One interesting thing is that this is already starting to have a VMS-like 
feel to it: and it's already noticeably shorter, which would give any 
verbose cipher stage some of the leeway it would need.

> I still don't think it's what's going on in Voynichese, because of the order
> constraints within the medial chunks :-( but it opens some interesting
> possibilities.

Maybe, maybe not - though I guess my preference is to think of what we call 
"Voynichese" as a process / algorithm artefact (rather than a language per 
se) - hence my reaching out to find stages within the overall dataflow I 
can comprehend. :-)

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


______________________________________________________________________
To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx with a body saying:
unsubscribe vms-list