[Article] Decoding Anagrammed Texts Written in an Unknown Language and Script

[Anton]

I had a quick look at the paper, it certainly deserves attention, and the "minimum alphagram distance" is an interesting concept.

Briefly, they explore the way that the VMS is a monoaplhabetic substitution of an abjad, with subsequent reordering letters in individual vords.

Of course, stupid media ride before the hounds (as always): in the paper there are no claims of having "cracked" or "decoded" the VMS, more than that, the authors explicitly state that (in respect of the cited Hebrew phrase):

According to a native speaker of the language,
this is not quite a coherent sentence.

Also, they do not claim it's Hebrew, it's only that Hebrew turned out to be the most appropriate (according to their method) language, although taken from the very limited pool of possible languages.