16-12-2020, 06:39 AM
VViews, I'm fascinated by this:
"The other is AEUIA, for, you guessed it, Alleluia."
All consonants removed and yet, if you know the context (even without specifics) you can guess what it is.
Usually with ciphers, one of the first things you look for is whether it has abjadic qualities. Completely understandable because there are natural languages written as abjads (there's a historical precedent for it).
But consonants are less likely to be removed. And yet, if you were to pick languages that are mostly vowels (compared to other languages), they would be ones like Hawaiian and Occitan/Catalan, very round sonorous languages. When I see historic Occitan/Catalan next to Old French, one of the things I can't help noticing is that consonants in common words are frequently dropped.
I know someone who comes from a rural region where they speak a dialect where consonants are dropped. People in bigger cities nearby turn their noses up at this for being "provincial" but the dialect is completely understandable and considered perfectly legitimate by the people who speak it.
And, further, when there are computational attacks on the VMS (from a linguistic point of view), Hawaiian is often mentioned.
"The other is AEUIA, for, you guessed it, Alleluia."
All consonants removed and yet, if you know the context (even without specifics) you can guess what it is.
Usually with ciphers, one of the first things you look for is whether it has abjadic qualities. Completely understandable because there are natural languages written as abjads (there's a historical precedent for it).
But consonants are less likely to be removed. And yet, if you were to pick languages that are mostly vowels (compared to other languages), they would be ones like Hawaiian and Occitan/Catalan, very round sonorous languages. When I see historic Occitan/Catalan next to Old French, one of the things I can't help noticing is that consonants in common words are frequently dropped.
I know someone who comes from a rural region where they speak a dialect where consonants are dropped. People in bigger cities nearby turn their noses up at this for being "provincial" but the dialect is completely understandable and considered perfectly legitimate by the people who speak it.
And, further, when there are computational attacks on the VMS (from a linguistic point of view), Hawaiian is often mentioned.