06-05-2026, 06:48 AM
(06-05-2026, 06:19 AM)JoJo_Jost wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.4. It is a nomenclature system with lists switched by f.e. line-start markers, and the lists no longer exist.
That "code switching by line" is the LAAFU hypothesis. I don't think there is real evidence for it. There are all sorts of statistical anomalies around line breaks, sure; but I still believe that they can be explained as side effects of the Scribe's line-breaking "algorithm", that do not affect the "encoding" and do not depend on the meaning of the text.
As for the theory that the "code" is a codebook-based cipher, the structure of the words indeed suggests that they are numbers in a Roman-like notation. (IIUC, that is the basis of the "Naibbe cipher" proposal, correct?) But the main argument against it is that, until the 1800s, such a cipher would be quite laborious to write and read. AFAIK codebook ciphers were used only for short documents with very sensitive contents. Is there any example of a VMS-size book that is written entirely in such a cipher?
All the best, --stolfi