(08-05-2016, 01:29 PM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.After this discussion it occurred to me that some of the VMS properties might be better explainable if one considers the possibility of the words having been written backwards (after the first step of encoding and/or abbreviation). For example, many paragraphs start with the small set of gallows symbols. But if the first word of a paragraph is written actually backwards, then the gallows represent word endings - probably in abbreviated form, and the typical word endings - especially for words not inflected - are possibly not that many in number.
Just an idea.
LOL!
I've been keeping so quiet about that (for years) but dropped a hint about it on Marco's astrology thread a couple of days ago.
It's quite possible for it to be written left to right but be read right to left or... for it to be written left to right and to be read left to right, but for individual vords to be read right to left.
Or, as I hinted recently, for it to be read left to right, but for there to be possible mnemonics going right to left to make it easier to remember what some of them mean.