Re: VMs: Mixtures of languages in the VMS

["Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jacques Guy jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote


> 3/11/2003 8:59:38 PM, Bruce Grant <bgrant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Regarding recent discussions of the possibility that the VMS is a mix of
> >languages, encrypted:
>
> >It's like fitting a (polynomial) curve to a set of data points - by
> >using  enough powers in the formula you can make the curve fit all the
> >data points exactly, but that doesn't generally produce the best fit -
> >between those particular points the curve can gyrate wildly.
>
>
> Exactly. That is the rule in technical analysis (predicting the
> stock market by only looking at past share prices). You can
> always find a formula that will fit past prices even
> to a microdollar, but it is worthless for telling future prices.
>
>
> >Given the freedom of seventeen vocabularies and no common gramatical
> >rules, it seems like you could make the VMS say almost anything ...
> >beware, that way lies madness!
>
> That is precisely how Dr Carroll, of Sydney, "deciphered" the
> Easter Island script some 110 years ago. The Easter Island
> tablets, according to him, were written in a number of
> Central and South American languages. You can read the
> whole funny story there:
>
> http://www.rongorongo.org/carroll/index.html
>
>

The VMS is either a hoax or is written in more than one language PERIOD!

Jeff


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