Idea-just spitballin'

[Anonymous]

Hello everyone.  I'm was thinking what if the person who wrote the VM wrote it whilst looking in a mirror? Has anyone here looked into this line of thought? When I write in my journal, I sometimes like to write backwards and I know this way of hiding information is used by various people through out history- a very simple way of hiding information. So, perhaps he created a code using various Romani dialects and then transcribed the using a mirror to write them backwards, or upside down, or maybe both?

Writing backwards doesn't hide anything. Many people read backwards as easily as they read forwards. Typesetters can all read backwards. You don't need a mirror to write backwards, many can write backwards also.

Some cultures wrote in both directions with no preference for one way or the other, so obviously they can read backwards. Some cultures even developed writing conventions with a "plough" formation (like mowing a lawn one way and then the other), so clearly direction made no difference to them either.


Might the VMS author have written backwards? Sure. But I'm certain many people have looked at it in both directions (including me).

 Thank you for your input   I haven't heard of anyone attempting this so I thought I'd just ask. The people I hang around with aren't exactly the sharpest tools in the shed and it takes them a very long time to read backwards and some of them do use mirrors to speed up the process. Their minds just don't seem to be wired to recognize backwards letters.