Re: VMs: Word Endings

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

Having expressed my ch-related ideas well enough to post, I thought I'd try 
them out on the VMS: in practice, it seems as though many of the 
ligatured/composite ch-groups (which GC was so hot on a while back, like 
ccc etc) could well be types of word ending.

Looking at f78r (Strong's favourite), I can well imagine the first line being:-

	EVA:	tshed*r shedy qopchedy qokedy dy qokol oky
	Pair:	t-she  d-or-she  dy-qo-p-che  dy-qo-ke  dy-dy-qo  k-ol-ok-y

This actually raises an intriguing proposition: if you can imagine the text 
as being pairified, one hypothesis is that spaces in the VMS are typically 
coded *inversely* - that is, real spaces are always removed and fake spaces 
are always inserted inside words. So, word endings would normally 
detectable by their *absence*.

Trying it out gives *extremely* cool results, exactly the kind of 
Quattrocento Pig Latin-type parlour game people used as their private 
transposition ciphers:-

	     it actually raises an intriguing proposition
	--> itac tu al lyra is esanin tri gu ingpro po sit ion

Despite having read a lot about transposition ciphers, I've never seen this 
one mentioned, not even as a Victorian parlour game. Has anyone seen this 
used systematically anywhere?

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


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