@ stolfi
Thx - Yes, I read your theory from back then; this is based on it, at least in part, but of course goes much further. The key point isn’t so much the slot structure—that was already known—but rather that the bigrams formed by word boundaries consist of a single letter and are therefore, logically speaking, a vowel (and diphthongs). Only with this specific trick can one achieve a balanced ratio between vowels and consonants. And as already mentioned here, if that were actually the case, it would have been an extremely ingenious trick to conceal the vowels.
We’ll see; of course, I’m always much further along than what I’m writing here, but I haven’t done any plaintext analyses yet—that will be the decisive criterion...
Thx - Yes, I read your theory from back then; this is based on it, at least in part, but of course goes much further. The key point isn’t so much the slot structure—that was already known—but rather that the bigrams formed by word boundaries consist of a single letter and are therefore, logically speaking, a vowel (and diphthongs). Only with this specific trick can one achieve a balanced ratio between vowels and consonants. And as already mentioned here, if that were actually the case, it would have been an extremely ingenious trick to conceal the vowels.
We’ll see; of course, I’m always much further along than what I’m writing here, but I haven’t done any plaintext analyses yet—that will be the decisive criterion...