Re: VMs: I have stunned myself

["Larry Roux" <lroux@xxxxxxx>]

'dico' and 'nel' both appear in this page from Galileo
http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/Galileo_Prototype/HTML/F044BR/T1.HTM
 
Not that the text is from Galileo - just that the words are valid Italian

See also http://www.crs4.it/Letteratura/VitaNova/Cap38.html

It is interesting that your text shows .dico.nel. and this seems to be a valid word progression.

I didn't look at the rest.  What I normally do when confronted with words that may or may not exist is first do a google search on them to see what comes up.  

I checked my Italian Dictionary and these words did not appear there.  However, based on my French I would guess "Dico", is "to say" and "nel" I would suppose is 'inside' or 'in'....so dico nel could be read as "that is to say, in..."

My main concern with the text you have calculated is the preponderence of repeated characters (which comes from just about every attempt at translation so far..).  For instance:  e delle edelle elle ... etc.  Of course, this could be the point.  It could be part of intentional obfuscation of the original text.




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Larry Roux
Syracuse University
lroux@xxxxxxx
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>>> jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 11/08/03 21:01 PM >>>
This is the latest to come out of the VMS. DOES ANYONE RECOGNIZE
ANYTHING!!!!

For the first time vowel placement appears to be even. I do not know if all
the letter placements are right but it looks like a language!!!!

???con.?de?.?i.??elle.?io?.?iole.??????.?.dal.?io???

??le.???ei.???.e.dell.???elle.?iei.?i?.???ei.???ei.?e?

???ell.?i???.?l.edelle.?ior.???o?ie.?????.?ei?lle.??

?ell.e.?c??i.???elle.??chi.???elle

?ni??.nior?.??ico?.???co?.?co???o.???co.nele.?col ?a?

?elle.?io?.???o?.?ior?

???io.??io?.??ell?e.?????.??el.?iorele.??????.nelle

?io?.?????.darelle.??co.??corell??.?????.ni?.???ele?l

?ele.??le.?co?.?relle.?corele.?c??.??ele.nel.???o.?a?

?io.?co?.?i??rel.??io.dico.nel.?corelle.?io.?ico?

??co.??c??.?co?ele.?i??.??io?.??n?n ???o.?el???o

???.?io?.?i?.?ar?i??.??c????.?e???le.nele.???on

?io?.icol.?c??.nele.?????

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