Re: VMs: Babelfish translation [plus question for Dana]

["Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jacques Guy jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote

> 14/11/2003 12:39:27 PM, Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> 
> >--- Larry Roux <LRoux@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> I disagree.  ch is probably 2 glyphs.  They are
> >> written as 2 distinct characters and there are
> >> examples of ah co and others.
> 
> >I know that you're not alone to hold that opinion,
> >but you're certainly part of a minority.
> 
> I do not see that it matters at all, one glyph or two.
> English "oo" is one glyph in "zoo" and two in 
> "zoology".
> 
> One can even easily imagine a cipher encoding not
> letters, but their constituting strokes, e.g.
> 
> q -> "cat paw"  (or just "cp" if you prefer)
> 
> d -> "cat tail" (ct)
> 
> o -> "cat dog"  (cd)
> 
> b -> "tail dog" (td)
> 
> p -> "paw dog"  (pd)
> 
> i -> "stump dot" (sd -- it's all right: there aren't any stump-dogs!)
> 
> n -> "stump awning" (sa)
> 
> m -> "stump awning awning" (saa)
> 
> h -> "tail awning" (ta)
> 
> u -> "hook stump" (hs)
> 
> Decipher this now: saasdsasdsaahssaa
> 
> I leave you to apply a polyalphabetic cipher on it
> and see.
> 

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