Re: VMs: egnilsh spllenig

["Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote

Subject: Re: VMs: egnilsh spllenig


>
> --- Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >> >the olny iprmoetnt tihng
> > >> > is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit
> > pclae.
> >
> > Hilpapy aoutrhs sitll issnit on fwinollog dullfready
> > oslotebe snellpig.
>
> Hmmm.
> It worked very well with the message from Jeff's
> friend, which had mostly short words. I could
> read it just about as fast as plain English.
> Above, words are longer, and distracting 'fake'
> words pop up (dull, pig) and it becomes a puzzle.
>
> Fascinating,
> Rene
>

Words appear to be short in the vms. If the words were chosen to be short
intentionally, then rearranged in a similar manner, then enciphered, what
would the effect be? Keeping the start and end letters is obviously out of
the question as the VMS would have different properties. However the
statistics deviate so much from known languages that either some
pre-processing was done or as I stated recently it was an artificial
language produced by mechanical rules. What if the start and end letters
always appeared in the middle of the word? Glued together and  marked in
some way? This would mean that the surrounding letters could be arranged
according to rules that produced the kind of repetition that we see.



Having just watched the Diana Dors program it surprised me to learn that her
code was based on Vigenere's tableau. However one half of the code is
missing. Could the VMS be one half of a code?

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