TheCodeBreakers
seek to suppress repetitions, not to intensify them.
What causes this difference? Friedman thought that the manuscript
represents a text in an artificial language that has divided all existence
into categories, assigned each a basic symbol, and indicated subclasses
by additional symbols tacked onto the first. The first artificial language,
that of the Scot George Dalgarno, was of this kind. He distributed
knowledge into 17 main classes and labeled each
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with a consonant: for example, K stood for political matters, N for
natural objects. He subdivided these into subclasses and assigned a
vowel to each. Thus Ke was "judicial affairs," Ku "war." Finer divisions
were represented by alternating consonants and vowels. Many other
artificial languages of this type have been invented, one by Bishop John
Wilkins, who wrote the first book on cryptology in English. Obviously a
annaabi.ee 
