CDR: Re: Treatment of subjugated people (and bagpipes)

Ray Dillinger bear at sonic.net
Mon Sep 4 13:24:52 PDT 2000





On Mon, 4 Sep 2000 ocorrain at esatclear.ie wrote:

>Patrick would have spoken Gaelic or Latin as his first language. The
>Irish would have been no more difficult to understand than a Californian
>to a Noo Yawker. The upper echelons of Irish society may even have
>spoken Latin.

An interesting point:  There are ancient inscriptions in Wales  
that no one has been able to read in modern times.  Deciphering 
an unknown langauge, not related to known languages, when it is 
written in an unknown script is a feat of linguistics that 
transcends mere cryptanalysis and has, so far, rarely or never 
been done.  

And, as language, doubtless it has regular structure, patterns, 
grammar, and the flexibility of use that people in everyday lives 
need in speaking - and presumably they're not even encrypted. 

"Poor Man's Crypto", possibly even better than digital crypto, 
may consist in creating an artificial language together, and 
then using it whenever you don't want to be eavesdropped on. 


					Bear







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