Look at *differences* between words rather than at the words themselves?

[Davidsch]

@radapox

The reason I did not immediately run this differential test on the VMS text, because you can do that in 30 minutes in Excel,
is that I already did the exact same thing a couple of years back.

It was not the exact same test, because I did not took the differentials on sequential letters, but rather looked at the global text as it was a black box. (easiest to explain like this)  Then all options considering the gallows (PTKF) were taken and I compared it to the black box of all other known languages (and more). If the result would have been that it represented a language, I would have seen that. Also if the resulting text would have been hussled like an anagram or such.

What I am saying, rada pox leben (grapje), is that you also need at least 1 extra ingredient to succeed.   That is the reason, I like this out-of-the-box-thinking.