On plain texts and ciphers (a thought experiment)

[ThomasCoon]

Thomas,

all I can think of, when seeing this,  is: 'numbers'.

I can see why you'd think that, Rene - other people on the forum (Anton) also believe that letters <ar, or> represent numbers.

I think that digraphs are part of the system, as well, and noted some of the more common ones (ox, al, ar, etc.) in pics from the small plants section:

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I think I have some idea of how it works (not a solution, but the ability to predict where a vord will show up and approximately how often) but I set myself a goal of not presenting anything until I could read an entire paragraph (I'm having trouble sticking to that goal with all the recent posts on this subject but I'm managing to restrain myself so far).

The two main things that are slowing me down are 1) I'm pretty sure they're not all digraphs, and 2) interpretation of certain of the glyphs.

Very nice! I look forward to seeing your work one day - you are approaching this from an angle similar to me, so I can definitely relate to your search

What is odd about this? Apart from the last none of the words is all that common. And though you can find small clusters on a few pages, it is something to explore rather than worry over. Is there any proof that these words are related either semantically or morphologically? Proving it would be a breakthrough but assuming it a danger. We can't even assume that words spelt the same are the same. Thinking back to the example given above: is "clips" a noun or a verb?

Very well-written answer, Emma - You are right, I can't prove that any of these words are related semantically or morphologically. Maybe they are not.