On plain texts and ciphers (a thought experiment)

[Common_Man]

I don't think I have the expertise to post in this thread, but IMHO some people seem to think of VMS as a deliberately ciphered latin text, while it can be something that appears ciphered due to a very weird writing system which we are not familiar about.

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The difference between the script and the language is a really important one, because it could be that the underlying language is one that is known to us, but what stops us from getting there is just the script that's lying above it. And this is an element of the research which many people just don't seem to get. Even in recent discussions on the internet you get people confusing the issues of the script and language.

Just like Stephen bax said above, this writing system may have some weird property that makes it hard to decode.

I myself live in Southern India (Kerala), and my native language, Malayalam has a style of writing in which to every consonant sound, has a short /a/ vowel added to it by default, unless indicated otherwise by a diacritical mark (one that indicates another wovel sound, or even a mark for lack of the short /a/ vowel to make it sound more like the way we'd expect as english speakers.

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So even if you write a known language like english, in this script, all the /a/ sounds would be omitted, and there'd be weird diacritical marks at places where we'd not normally expect.

So I would give VMS the benefit of doubt and look at it as a natural language...