A key to understand the VMS

[ThomasCoon]

I don't think Torsten is implying the text has meaning or that it is a cipher.  He has stated that the text is meaningless.  ThomasCoon Torsten is trying to explain something which is very complex to me maybe not to others, but I think you are making a play on words.

I apologize if I sounded like I was making a play on words - I was just very curious, since I always thought (for about half a year now) that Torsten was arguing the text is meaningless. When I saw a reference to "encoding", it threw me off guard. That was my confusion.

There is a "or" used in the sentence. The full statement is: "How was it possible to construct a language with 'generated' words and to write a text containing over 37,000 words with determinable word frequencies? Was the scribe counting the words he was writing? This seems very unlikely. A better explanation would be the assumption that it is an unintended side effect of the manufacturing or encoding process that similarly spelled words occur with predictable frequencies." [You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.]. This is a similar idea as in Nicks statement: "No 15th century person could remotely have sat down and said 'I'm going to create a dense network of words that follows a cleverly-thought-out set of transition rules'."

If you want to know what I argue please read my papers. They are both available online: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

Thanks Torsten. I did indeed miss the "or" in the statement. By the way, I've read at least one (if not both) of your papers