Re: VMs: obfuscation

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

Marke Fincher wrote:

> Has it have been suggested here before that certain words 
> in the VMs vocabulary only exist as deliberate alterations
> of another word; intended to further obscure the meaning
> or the construction method ?

	Or from spelling variations from a lax orthography,
such as English and most European languages other than Latin
had before printing.

> ...and that these "altered" words therefore occur in 
> similar contexts to the word they are derived from, because
> they are basically the same word.

	What about the strings of the same word repeated?
(Just how common are these, anyway?  Rugg says they are very
common in the VMs, but I don't think that's correct.)

> ...and that consequently the actual VMs vocabulary maybe 
> much smaller than the apparent 7000->9000.
>
> ...and how the curious lack of repeated phrases is replaced
> by an abundance when you take into account these simple word 
> mutations.

   If so, it must work both ways, to produce the strings of
the same apparent word.  Are those then actually phrases
composed of different words that superficially look alike?

Dennis



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