I appreciate the input from you all 
I'm well aware we all have our doubts when it comes to the nature of the text, whether it has any semantic meaning, whether there are any ciphers or plaintext languages under it. It's most likely the case that we are all quite open and perhaps actively exploring several other possibilities simultaneously, from the hoax/gibberish hypothesis, to the artificial language one, "exotic" languages and whatnot. I myself am quite open to most of these.
I'm interested however in getting a rough idea of the degree of verbosity we are expecting within the framework of the more "mainstream" hypotheses, and an insight into what kinds of encoding we're considering given all the stats that have been pulled out throughout the years.
I totally get it. There are many schemes that don't exactly fit within the 3 options, even some substitution ciphers can fall outside those 3 options, but if you had to make a guess of what the "usual" vord will map to, in terms of quantity of plaintext characters?
Now, I've no idea what kinds of ciphers you're considering but say for instance, you have a cipher through which sequence of pseudo-repeated like oke+y oke+y vords map to a whole words, or perhaps ol ol maps to a single letter while maybe three k t k gallows are parsed separately ahead from the surrounding characters. In such cases you could perhaps average out the rough mapping to get an estimate of the verbosity you're expecting.
I'm well aware we all have our doubts when it comes to the nature of the text, whether it has any semantic meaning, whether there are any ciphers or plaintext languages under it. It's most likely the case that we are all quite open and perhaps actively exploring several other possibilities simultaneously, from the hoax/gibberish hypothesis, to the artificial language one, "exotic" languages and whatnot. I myself am quite open to most of these.
I'm interested however in getting a rough idea of the degree of verbosity we are expecting within the framework of the more "mainstream" hypotheses, and an insight into what kinds of encoding we're considering given all the stats that have been pulled out throughout the years.
(30-06-2025, 10:52 AM)oshfdk wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Spaces are likely pure convenience or maybe a trick to make the encoding look more language-like in appearance.
I totally get it. There are many schemes that don't exactly fit within the 3 options, even some substitution ciphers can fall outside those 3 options, but if you had to make a guess of what the "usual" vord will map to, in terms of quantity of plaintext characters?
Now, I've no idea what kinds of ciphers you're considering but say for instance, you have a cipher through which sequence of pseudo-repeated like oke+y oke+y vords map to a whole words, or perhaps ol ol maps to a single letter while maybe three k t k gallows are parsed separately ahead from the surrounding characters. In such cases you could perhaps average out the rough mapping to get an estimate of the verbosity you're expecting.