From "decryption" to "translation"

[Anton]

Good point. Of course that's without spelling variations, and, more important, without inflexions.

But one who is heading to encipher his opus by means of a nomenclator would, most certainly, exclude spelling variations (you have one word form in a nomenclator, and you consistently refer to it), and, most probably, minimize inflexions. E.g., there may be different tenses (so as to distinguish "are" vs "were" and "will"), but probably one would not be in need of genders. But I'm speculating, I don't know if there are examples of large texts enciphered solely with a nomenclator.