"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Friday, February 21, 2014
My guess is this'll turn out to be a recipe for meatloaf
It doesn't sound like code or cipher, Mojo. It's sounds like an obscure written form of a language that wasn't in wide spread use, and wasn't passed on culturally. Hence, we have no record of it, pretty much like Egyptian hieroglyphics once were.
I once read a hilarious sci-fi where a spaceship picks up a mysterious book in outer space. All the scientist were extremely exited because they were convinced they found the Martian´s bible, until the Japanese cook saw it and told them it was the phone-book for Tokyo.
(The novel is called "Terra" by Stefano Benni, BTW. You should read if you get the chance, it´s really great!)
The class notes of a 10th grade student in the age before marijuana?
ReplyDeleteConsidering all the stars and herbs, I'm betting on a recipe for beer.
ReplyDeleteCompendium of herbal medicine. Valuable, back then, which is why it's coded.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't sound like code or cipher, Mojo. It's sounds like an obscure written form of a language that wasn't in wide spread use, and wasn't passed on culturally. Hence, we have no record of it, pretty much like Egyptian hieroglyphics once were.
ReplyDeletePeople consider foreign languages "secret"? I did not know that.
ReplyDeleteMore likely to be a personal code.
I once read a hilarious sci-fi where a spaceship picks up a mysterious book in outer space. All the scientist were extremely exited because they were convinced they found the Martian´s bible, until the Japanese cook saw it and told them it was the phone-book for Tokyo.
ReplyDelete(The novel is called "Terra" by Stefano Benni, BTW. You should read if you get the chance, it´s really great!)
Sounds good, Mikael. Thanks for the recommendation.
ReplyDelete"To Serve Man"
ReplyDeleteI said "obscure"' Mojo, not "secret". Ain't no language what be "secret".
ReplyDeleteAnd if by "code" you mean "shorthand", that's plausible.
I already translated using the Professor's translatobot.
ReplyDeleteIt said, "Your parents love you very much."
OK didn't someone tell Wronwright to hold on to that. Sheesh.
ReplyDeleteMerilyn: Hey, maybe it's the Sumerian mead recipe!
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