:-) But, but, but.... I think we know that it's not a different alphabet for a human language. I make that as a very conservative statement. Asking solvers to translate a word accepts the mental model that this is solvable in a grade-school sense with alphabets and dictionaries. I wish I could, somehow, contribute to getting Critical Thinking into primary education.
One could ask "Who was Prescott Currier?" "Who was Mary D'Imperio?"
"What things must be accounted for in any solution?" D'Imperio's "Elegant Enigma" section 4.4.1 is a good starter.
"What is a Grove word?" Extra credit: "What is a Neal key?"
I harranged on the phone tonight by a smart friend who thinks I should be applying GPT-LLM to perform image analysis on the ms. and get it solved right now! People are so resistant to actually taking a look at the problem. We don't have an OCR (optical character recognition) problem. Smart people with sharp eyes have created transliteration files.
One could ask "Who was Prescott Currier?" "Who was Mary D'Imperio?"
"What things must be accounted for in any solution?" D'Imperio's "Elegant Enigma" section 4.4.1 is a good starter.
"What is a Grove word?" Extra credit: "What is a Neal key?"
I harranged on the phone tonight by a smart friend who thinks I should be applying GPT-LLM to perform image analysis on the ms. and get it solved right now! People are so resistant to actually taking a look at the problem. We don't have an OCR (optical character recognition) problem. Smart people with sharp eyes have created transliteration files.