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Sprache: English
Miland (Profil anzeigen) 1. April 2008 13:46:13
"A sensational find in a city of Bialirus, hidden in the foundations of a medical building were uncovered when city engineers tried to reroute a pipe: the manuscript, entitled 'SEKRETA: REVIZIITA ELDONO DE INTERNACIA LINGVO' which says that it was printed privately in 1908 in only 75 typewritten copies, this one being No. 54, contained a revised edition of 'International Language' by a Dr. Esperanto, in which he said he did not want to reveal his proposed revisions during his lifetime for fear that it would unsettle his fledgling movement, since they had already decided not to change the 'fundamentals'. Unfortunately the small number of people having or knowing about copies, Jewish relatives of the author, probably died during the 1941-45 war. There is now a race to find more copies. The Mondo Esperanta Ligo issued a statement that 'they would under no circumstances depart from the Fundamento, not even if a book by the founder himself were discovered'.
Pressed for more details, the following coded message was revealed in the book:
WKLVL LVFDH VDULD QZULW WHQLQ HQJOL VKDEF.
No one has offered a deciphered version, and
the Russian Esperanto Association has made no comment."
-Rueters
mnlg (Profil anzeigen) 1. April 2008 15:21:50
Miland (Profil anzeigen) 1. April 2008 15:52:35
mnlg:Why 23?If I understand your question correctly, the answer is: When in Rome, do as the Romans do (or rather, might have). But remember here that modularity permits two alternative ways of looking at it, and you took the harder one.
mnlg (Profil anzeigen) 1. April 2008 16:04:20
eb.eric (Profil anzeigen) 1. April 2008 16:40:30
Miland (Profil anzeigen) 1. April 2008 18:52:19
mnlg:Do you think the Romans would have said "-3"No, but they could well have said 'Shift each letter forward three places' as a method of encipherment. That is the Caesarian cipher.
Here's a wiki article on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_cipher
For anyone still baffled, indeed, it is an April fool joke. To make sure the penny dropped I had an apparent lost text of Zam contain something in English that he probably wouldn't have written. To decipher the message, just shift each letter in the ciphertext back three places (using the English alphabet), so that the plaintext begins THIS IIS CAESARIAN.. the second i in 'is' is to throw you off the scent, naturally.
mnlg (Profil anzeigen) 1. April 2008 19:15:36