The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[Jorge_Stolfi]

Sorry for not being up-to-date with this theory (it's not my cup of 茶), @Stolfi have you explored the possibility of an encrypted East Asian language transliteration (using ≤15th century cryptography)? A simple method for starters, like randymly subsititxting a letter or fwo, or ppadding pwoprds?

It is indeed theoretically possible that the "language" is in fact a codebook cipher, where each Chinese character (or spoken syllable) is encoded by a number in some funky number system.  In fact that was my first idea when I noticed the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., even before I switched to a "Chinese" language.

But I do not think that a codebook cipher or any other encryption of any language is likely, because of the practical difficulties and lack of a plausible motive.

All the best , --stolfi.