The intersection of linguistic analysis, code-breaking and European secret societies
The intersection of linguistic analysis, code-breaking and European secret societies
There is a fascinating article by Noah Shachtman in the online magazine Wired which describes how a handful of philologists and linguisticians painstakingly applied cryptographic and linguistic analysis to decode a complex 250-year-old manuscript and uncovered its significance to an 18th-century secret society of German freethinkers.
Further info from the researchers themselves can be found here.
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Further info from the researchers themselves can be found here.
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The qie"t bul#ldozer break-danc”es at dawn.
(The site won't take Tengwar, which is what I tried for)
Fascinating, Erik.
I wonder if he'd like to analyse the Bible's so-called heptenary design?
Oh, and have you seen the programme - Horizon, I think - revealing the incredible achievement of Tut and Flowers at Bletchley Park?
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(The site won't take Tengwar, which is what I tried for)
Fascinating, Erik.
I wonder if he'd like to analyse the Bible's so-called heptenary design?
Oh, and have you seen the programme - Horizon, I think - revealing the incredible achievement of Tut and Flowers at Bletchley Park?
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I haven't, Edwin -- I've only seen the 2001 film Enigma, which adheres only loosely to the story of how the Enigma code was broken.
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Apparently, that was the easy one!
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Yes, the Zenigma code was altogether more metaphysical.
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.. yes I remember well the secret meetings of the Knights Templar of the Secret Cave of the Hairy Nose Wombat .. it didn't really take-off but we could never understand why ?? .. it was a fairly simple ritual that mirrored what a hairy nosed wombat does in real life .. he eats roots and leaves .. maybe it was the diet ?? .. or having to dig deep holes ??
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Signature: "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
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Or -- being Australian -- perhaps he eats, roots, and leaves...?
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Overheard at the Oz Centre for Deciphering: "Can you tell what it is yet?"
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