I mean, really, why would it be encrypted?

[Monica Yokubinas]

Perhaps it was because they knew Latin so well that it looked strange to them (despite the commonalities in glyphs). They couldn't read it.


To me it looks like real effort was put into designing the VMS script. I don't mean just the glyphs, mainly I mean the way the whole thing was put together. When you really study it, there is just enough complexity and variation from line to line and folio to folio to suggest there is SOMETHING there (what that something is, I don't know).

Personally, I don't think it is a cipher in the more common medieval sense.

Monica's take on it is that it's a Romanized alphabet, which is not a cipher.

I think it was written in a Semitic type language that is no longer in use. I was working with a gentleman from Israel who would mirror the page and be able to read some words, like 'sl' for basket, but he had a hard time in current Hebrew understanding other words, because they are no longer in use today like the word 'pz' for gold. It utilized some very old Hebrew script before the standard block lettering became more prominent, and used 'o' for Ayin, like the old paleo Hebrew. The elongated letters are for sound and how the word should be pronounced. In Hebrew the same letters can have different meaning based on its pronunciation, the 'g' at the end of most words is like a glottal stop.