From: "Jan" <hurychj@xxxxxxxxx>
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To: "vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx" <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Re: Re: VMs: Criteria for a successful solution
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:12:35 -0500
Hello John,
======= At 2004-08-16, 14:25:00 you wrote: =======
>- If it's gibberish, it's impossible to make a mistake, although this
>argument works less well in the face of "constructed gibberish." Against
>this, I think it's felt, e.g., by Rugg, that if it is gibberish, it is
>highly constructed gibberish.
Well, it certainly cannot be "unconstructed" gibberish, the statistics
shows it is not
purely random, not even haphazard random.
>
>- The VMs a is a clear copy, or a second copy, most likely by the
original
>author(s), since a latter day copiest would be less practiced (at first),
>resulting in errors and awkwardly formed letters.
Right, but I have the feeling that even when copying, it would be difficult
to avoid
few mistakes and subsequent erasures or deletions. But I might be wrong
here.
>
>- A third possibility is that the text is not elaborately enciphered,
Right again - and there is of course another option: when mistakes were
discovered bu author,
they were cunningly left uncorrected. Or maybe he did not discover any
mistakes? :-)
But seriously, the author's method cannot hardly be that sophisticated or
that complicated
as we assume. As Kahn and Manly pointed out, there must be something simple
we
still cannot see. But if there is a clue in the manuscript, where should
we look? ( only a
rhetorical question, of course :-).
Jan
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Jan
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