[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote - for reasons known only to pantries
hisheritself:
> brides Donovan venerable ascendency [etc]
Hmmm. Any ideas? Repeated words are
"aspirating","meridian","multiplicands";twice each. The presence of any
such in a 51-word message suggests either a very short list of symbols
[eg, 100 words used to re-encrypt a numerical cipher], a fairly
straightforward "book" code in which these correspond to common words,
or a high-redundancy code [say, only one letter per word, or word
length, is significant] implemented rather lazily.
The presence of multiple themes - mathematical terms, bride-groom -
suggests that the source of words is neither a dictionary or a single
work, but multiple rather short passages.
The distribution of initial letters is not uniform, and a little odd -
one would expect more Ss and fewer M's However, this could be just a
peculiarity of the chosen texts. It could also be the distribution of a
transposed alphabet - but probably not with a simple rotation (eg, A->S,
b->T, etc).
Any guesses about "Donovan", "Accra", "Meyers", "Summer" [capitalized?]
These *might* suggest the source - again, not a dictionary!
Of course, it might be a practical joke <grin>
-Robert Dawson
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