Posted on 11/09/2019 4:23:52 AM PST by nikos1121
Today’s Cryptogram
C ZEJK KJKUVOZCMN, VKO ZEJK MSOZCMN, EMX EAOZSINZ C QSRRKRR MSOZCMN ROCAA SD MSOZCMN EG C CM BEMO. ---OKUKMHK
You can find this little fun word game, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications.
The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram).
Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated.
PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and any tips you might give the group on how you solve these puzzles as puzzle solvers love to hear how you made out.
You can certainly send your solution to my private reply, or if you need a hint for today’s Cryptogram.
If you need a little help you can copy the cryptogram and paste it to Hal’s Helper below:
You can then work on the puzzle without using pen and paper.
THE IN THING NOW IS TO SCROLL DOWN TO MAGNUM44’S “HELPFUL HINT” BEFORE YOU SOLVE THE PUZZLE.
Solution to our last puzzle:
YOU’RE NOT TO BE SO BLIND WITH PATRIOTISM THAT YOU CAN’T FACE REALITY. WRONG IS WRONG, NO MATTER WHO DOES IT OR SAYS IT. MALCOLM X
The name of the author matches the pattern for UNKNOWN, yet though few have heard of him, yet he is not UNKNOWN and still he is UNKNOWN to most.
CELESTE
COLOMBO
LATASHA
LAWANDA
NATALIA
NATASHA
RODOLFO
TERENCE
UNKNOWN
Whew, I want a coffee and sandwich after that puzzle
I didn't and look where it got me.
3 minutes. The word with the double letters, and a familiar suffix were my way in.
What you did there... is true.
Did I miss a day?
AMEN....
I thought I was real clever dropping that in before ‘Hal’ had a chance to set up.
Of course that ‘fractured’ English at the end was also ‘fun’....
Have to admit when I had it all but the last 3 or four words but had the Author, I had to google to see what great jems he had laid upon us and when I saw the era he was breathing our air, the last three or four words made pefect sense.
That is my story and I am sticking to it
The English isn’t fractured, and the syntax is actually rather elegant, as one would expect of the author, albeit through a translator.
Normal Indo-European syntax placed the verb second in a sentence, and the item one wanted to emphasize first. In most modern European languages that is the subject, but in the final subordinate clause UNKNOWN (or his translator) flips that around to good effect, although it gives the cryptanalist some pause.
BTW in UNKNOWN’s native language, one generally did not use the nominative case of the personal pronoun, it was apparent from the verb inflection. Or as UNKNOWN’s countryman put it, “What an artists dies in me!” Verb second, naturally. Google: “What an artists dies in me!”
I got suckered by the “obvious” author. Once I got over that it was clear sailing, though the syntax of the final clause gave me pause.
The perfect quote too....IMO
If you notice I bracketed 'fractured' in the same sense as I would bracket 'intelligent' liberal.
It is somewhat like saying the native English don't speak OUR English.
of nothing am I in want is not worked into very many sentences in this country these days.
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