Re: VMs: RE: repetitions repetitions

[Mart Vabar <mesinik@xxxxxx>]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, John Grove wrote:
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> From: owner-vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Marke Fincher
> if the text is gibberish that the author(s) had a very sophisticated
> understanding of languages


back to the tradition of mongols (and probably many other 
people) to hide secret messages in songs.
can t give written sources for it, but from conversations with historians I 
know, in time before literacy was developed a tradition 
to send administrative/military messages to recipents (officials or so) in 
songs. 
Somebody remembered the song (you needed talant, because these was quite 
long) and travelled sometimes weeks with it (singing most of time - of course 
not this special song). btw ... such a message was harder to find out for 
enemies than any piece of written data (crypted or not)

Often the messenger did not understand, what was the message
(the hidden one) ... despite belonging to the same cultural 
background. This was a special science to deal with such data


why this could belong to the context of VMS:
1) is similar IMHO to native singing
2) could hide something inside "visible natural language-like text" (one chance 
for that is the "polyalpha", am I right?)
3) is phonetically similar to Tataric (Turco-Tataric) dialects

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