patterns counting letters in vords

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It is more probable that a word contains more letters, for example the letters are always groups of 2. But then we have a problem with all the singles letters.
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David, THIS, is the sticking point. This is one of the essential problems/challenges with interpreting the VMS. This one seemingly simple point affects everything, not only interpretation of the glyphs, the glyph patterns, entropy, etc., but also the results of computational attacks.

This is the basic problem that has kept me up more nights than I care to count. It's possible to figure out some of them, I feel I have a reasonably good grasp of it, but some are difficult to interpret and without them, it's difficult to advance further.


Here's why I think it might be so difficult to sort this out even after one has noticed this dynamic in the text... I think it's POSSIBLE that there are nulls, but that nulls may be positional. In other words, in one position, a glyph may carry meaning, but in another position, it may carry a different meaning or none at all.