To Parsy and all other Freeper Cryptographers

[Maceman]

Here's a fun cryptogram site for the best and brightest Freepers.

[parsifal]

Thank you for this post. I am currently trying to keep my family from finding out about my ill-fated secret code venture. I am sure mrs.parsifal will say sarcastic and hurtful things to me. parsy.

[Maceman]

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[parsifal]

Amazingly I think I solved the first one, even though mathematically I should not have been able to do this. Even though my faith in math has been shaken, I present this translation of the first puzzle:

TS. Elliot had potatoed, mistress, relished, but he had not dope. Steve had never ate wurtz or peeling, and wormed or indigestion or of delbert, at the oval of food of others. That, to Anny, had a receded intersection. Men carly impreggated were unbarable. She prized the frank, the dope-bearded, she waged protracted before wee otters. Wurtz and englishpeas did rapturate her bliss. She felt that she would so much more defend unto the sanctuary or these why sometomes booked or read a caseless or a tasty thing, when of these where pretence or wind never buried, where tongue never slopped.

Now I have my self-respect back. I, too am a decrytpographer. I suspect that this passage is from Ulyssess by James Joyce. It has to do with food and sex. parsy.

[pa_dweller]

Cool. I managed #2. I thought they might get progressively harder based on parsifal's translation of #1, but apparently , not so.

[fnord]

bump for later fun

[parsifal]

I started on Number 2 but it was weirder than number one. Parsy.

[Havisham]

Finally, other people who enjoy cracking cryptograms. It's my one salient ability!

[Maceman]

I normally do them in my head, without pencil or paper.

[pa_dweller]

First off, I don’t think anything could be weirder than your translation of puzzle #1. I suspect, from seeing your other thread, that you are using a 26²⁶ algorithm based on the English alphabet. I'm using a 212²¹² character set of the Vai syllabary. This technique provides finer resolution of subtle nuances and, at the end of the day a more accurate rendition of the secret message, although it naturally takes a little longer than a twenty-six character decryption technique to process coded text.

I think the reason it does work so well is that 212ºF is the boiling point of water. We might speak different languages but we all depend on water for survival. This is universally known.

[parsifal]

No, I gave up the math approach after my utter and complete humiliation a few days ago. I just guessed at the letters. Takes less than 12 billion years that way. parsy.

[pa_dweller]

LOL³!

[RonDog]

Literary Cryptograms - Number 1

Mr. Elliot was rational, discreet,
 polished, but he was not open.  There
 was never any burst of feeling, any
 warmth of indignation or delight, at
 the evil or good of others.  This, to
 Anne, was a decided imperfection. 
 Her early impressions were incurable.
 She prized the frank, the open-hearted,
 the eager character beyond all others.
 Warmth and enthusiasm did captivate her
 still.  She felt that she could so much
 more depend upon the sincerity of those
 who sometimes looked or said a careless
 or a hasty thing, than of those whose
 presence of mind never varied, whose
 tongue never slipped.

Jane Austen, "Persuasion", chapter 17.