19-09-2019, 06:12 PM
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(19-09-2019, 05:46 PM)RenegadeHealer wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
Torsten, I have to say, the pattern of corrections you've pointed out leans me a bit in the direction of the cipher hypothesis. Of the major three hypotheses about the VMS's origin and purpose, the cipher hypothesis is the one I've explored the least, but this discussion makes me want to look deeper into it. If this were a cipher that the author wanted to be able to decrypt accurately in the future, it seems reasonable that he'd plan a careful rough draft, check over the final copy for accuracy against his rough draft and/or the encryption device, and fix any errors that would potentially hinder decryption. Were your thoughts swayed in this direction at all?
I discuss this idea in my paper from 2015: "More interesting is the hypothesis that the VMS is an encoded book of secrets. One thinkable hypothesis is that only a subset of glyphs has a meaning and the gaps between them are filled up with meaningless content. ..." (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., p. 37ff).