Re: VMs: Latin abbreviations

[steve ekwall <ekwall2@xxxxxxxx>]

 Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 17:14:27 +0100
 From: Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>
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 Subject: VMs: Latin abbreviations
 
 On Wednesday 09 July 2003 15:48, Rene Zandbergen wrote:
 > - Perhaps there is no solution (it is just noise)
 > If there is:
 > - Perhaps it is impossible to retrieve (lost
 >   language, irreversible encryption)
 
 I finally started to look systematically at Cappelli's dictionary and, as I 
 mentioned earlier, there are many glyphs (and even combination of these) that 
 are exactly the same or very similar to those found in the vms text. (I'll 
 post a table when I finish it).
 It is interesting that many symbols mean different things in different 
 contexts (e.g. the glyph as a suffix vs. prefix; even in different words, 
 they mean similar things but not exactly).
 So, if the same glyphs were used for multiple abbreviations, the result 
 becomes a lossy compressed text that cannot be retrieved back accurately 
 (unless you know exactly what you wrote). As a consequence I bet that the 
 increase of entropy that should be due to the abbreviation, would be lost by 
 the multiple mappings of the text into the same glyph.
 Short words, text very redundant and therefore low entropy...  but 
 unfortunately this could not be read back.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Gabriel
 
 
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Gabriel & all :-)

IF you "hang on to the _beginning_ glyph" (gallows), you will not find
a "lossy compressed text that cannot be retrieved...)

The multitudes of "mappings" is indeed *foreboding*", as the designer
intended IT to be!!!!!

It's as easy (simple) forwards to back, as backwards to foreward.


For ears that hear, & eyes that see

Best to you & yours
-=se=-
steve (fold it..flipIT) ekwall

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