VMs: f78r pairified...

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

I thought I'd pair-transcribe the first paragraph of f78r (Leonell Strong's 
preferred page). Apart from noticing that the only English word in the EVA 
transcription was "cheeky", what did I find?

If I remove spaces and then insert spaces after {e|ee|eee|eo}, 63 out of 86 
"words" then begin with <dy>, equivalent to a 73.2% probability (ie an 
information content of about half a bit).

This is a highly structured result at the pair-level, and would seem to be 
acutely incompatible with the kind of glyph-transcription and 
polyalphabetic cipher Strong claimed. It's hard to see how any proposed 
"straight polyalpha" cipher solution could ever be reconciled with these 
kind of stats. I've previously criticised Strong's assault based on the 
multiple interpretations he gave to the two separate glyphs in <qo>, but 
this would seem to be an equally powerful criticism.

IMO, this result seems to point to <dy>'s use not only as a coherent pair 
(ie as a unit within the stream), but also as some kind of cryptographic 
null when following {e|ee|eee|eo} characters.

Alternatively, if this is some kind of "linguistic null" (like the "u" 
following "q") in a novel alphabet, why would it require two following 
glyphs to express it? To me, this all points to weird crypto - but YMMV, of 
course. :-)

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

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<f78r, para 1, pair-transcribed, word-breaks inserted after {e|ee|eee|eo}>:-
t.sh.e
d.or.sh.e
dy.qo.p.ch.e
dy.qo.k.e
dy.dy.qo.k.ol.ok.y.qo.k.ee
dy.qo.k.e
dy.sh.e
dy.t.ch.e
dy.ot.ar.ol.k.e
dy.d.am.q.ckh.e
dy.ch.e
k.y.d.ol.ch.e
dy.qo.k.e
dy.qo.k.ain.ol.k.e
dy.y.t.ee
dy.qo.t.al.d.ol.sh.e
dy.qo.k.e
d.ar.ch.cth.*.y.ot.ar.d.or.or.qo.k.al.ot.e
dy.qo.k.e
dy.qo.k.e
dy.d.al.qo.k.e
dy.qo.k.e
dy.s.k.am.d.sh.e
dy.qo.k.e
dy.ok.ar.qo.k.e
dy.sh.e
dy.y.k.e.
dy.sh.e
dy.qo.k.y.s.ch.e
dy.k.ee
dy.qo.k.e
dy.ch.ckh.d.qo.k.ain.ch.e
dy.qo.t.e
dy.dy.d.sh.e
dy.d.ee
dy.qo.k.ee
dy.ot.e
dy.ot.al.t.e
dy.ot.e
y.ol.aiin.qo.k.y.ok.ee
dy.sh.ee
t.y.qo.t.ee
dy.ot.e
y.sh.ckh.e
dy.s.ok.ol.or.d.or.sh.e
k.e
dy.qo.k.ol.k.e.ch	// note <e.ch> is ligatured, so treated as one character
dy.ot.e
dy.ol.t.e
dy.ch.ckh.e
dy.qo.k.e
dy.ol.k.e
dy.qo.k.ain.ok.e
dy.k.e.dy.t.ol.dy.qo.t.ee
dy.dy.s.or.ch.e
ckh.y.or.ch.ckh.dy.d.ol.k.e
dy.qo.k.e
d.e
dy.qo.k.an.ol.d.ch.ckh.e
dy.qo.k.ch.dy.qo.k.e
dy.ok.e
dy.d.al.or.ok.ee
d.ol.k.ain.qo.k.ol.ot.e
d.ok.ain.ch.e
d.r.al.or.y.s.oiin.k.ar.k.e
dy.p.ch.e
y.t.ch.d.ol.t.dy.ol.ch.e
dy.qo.k.ain.d.ar.ar.ok.ain.y.ch.e
s.aiin.ok.ee
dy.qo.k.ain.ch.l.s.ol.sh.e
dy.d.al.sh.dy.qo.k.y.ch.dy.*ch.e
dy.qo.k.ain.ch.ee
k.y.l.ok.e*
dy.y.ch.e
d.qo.k.ain.daiin.ch.ckh.dy.l.r.s.aiin.sh.e
or.ol.k.ch.dy.r.oiin.ok.ee
dy.qo.k.ee.dy.k.e
dy.qo.k.ee
y.qo.k.e
dy.ol.ol.s.ok.ee
dy.k.eo
l.l.or.ain.ol.k.ee
y.r.aiin.s.ol.sh.e
y.k.ar.y.*r.sh.e
dy.q.ee
d.ar.ain.a.ol.daiin.ch.ckh.al.d.aiil.al.dy


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