VMs: RE: f78r pairified...

["John Grove" <John@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Couldn't you also say that all the words end in 'd' and the same stats
would result with the first letter of every word being 'y' (without
pairifying).
You could probably take that farther and say that sh/ch/t/k are actually the
end of word markers and most words begin with 'e'.

John.

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Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 8:32 AM
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Subject: VMs: f78r pairified...


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.....

				* * * * * * *

<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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