Re: VMs: Initial gallows

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Larry,

At 18:57 27/03/2004 -0500, Larry Roux wrote:
> What I am finding as a problem related to a code change system is the 
> preponderance of common words (dar) that seem to equate to an "and".  if 
> the code basis changed (cypher, table, or whatever) you would think these 
> words would change too.  But then I have not investigated whether those 
> words are common to certain paragraph prefaces (t, k, p, f).

...or perhaps your "you would think" clause is wrong (and in Voynichese, 
there ain't-a no sanity clause).

Again, if you conclude that the VMs is most likely a cipher-system with 
some kind of local mode-change switch (whether gallows or otherwise), you 
have to reconcile that with global (mode-independent) properties of 'words' 
like <dain daiin daiiin> etc (and in fact with most <d-> words).

So... is it a local (mode-change) cipher, or a global (structured) cipher 
(using verbose pairs like qo, dy, or, ol, etc)? I think it has to be both 
at the same time - and that the VMs' system is composed of multiple smaller 
cipher-systems assembled together in an ingenious way (boringly, I've been 
saying this for years). Think of it as a compilation CD - "Now That's What 
I Call Ciphers (1460 remix)", probably with about 12 tracks. :-)

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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