Re: VMs: Split -ol- pairs...?

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

At 12:54 23/05/2004 -0500, Knox Mix wrote:
> "o l"  Graphs  here:
> @http://home.earthlink.net/~knoxmix/id12.html

To me, a language (like Currier Language A) where "l" was overwhelmingly 
preceded by "o" but where that pair sometimes has a space inserted between 
them, points to spaces being "plastic" (i.e. malleable, able to be inserted 
at will) rather than syntactic.

Yet with other character pairs being almost entirely word-initial (like 
"qo") or word-terminal (like "dy"), there also appear to be rigid rules 
associated with spaces.

So, some VMs spaces are "hard" (rule-based), while other VMs spaces are 
"soft" (discretionary). In particular, many soft spaces seem to me to have 
been inserted specifically to break up visual repetitions of verbose pairs: 
I've mentioned "oro.ror" in the past (as hiding "or.or.or"), and many split 
"ol" pairs (like "chodo.lol" on f1v, hiding "chod.ol.ol") appear to have 
the same intention.

All of this simply screams out "Cipher!" to me - but what subtle language 
nuance am I missing which might explain this?

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


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