New Decoder

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I also believe that the characters might possibly represent sounds. But my theory differs in that I believe the text is meaningless, an artificial fabrication. And that a possible method that the authors could have used to construct the text was to babble to themselves meaningless words and then to write them phonetically. Apparently some people have the ability to do this. Have you ever listened to someone religiously 'speaking in tongues'? If you listened carefully you might have detected repetitions and that the speech seemed to be lacking structure, which is what the manuscript is like. I recall the Poet Laureate John Betjeman once mentioning in one of his interviews that sometimes with one of his friends when they were in a crowded place they would babble to each other in a meaningless 'swedish chef' speech in order to confound and rattle any eavesdroppers. It was his jocular character.

If this hypothesis is true then it might explain some of the irregularities in the text. For instance ed occurs far more often than would be expected if the letters appeared randomly. Words beginning q  follow words ending s or r far less than would be expected. This could be explained by ed being harmonious, the two sounds rolling nicely from one to the other. And sq  and rq  being discordant. Such analysis might possibly give a clue to the sounds that the characters represent.