tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423050459919800481.post3606903445114039671..comments2024-03-04T05:26:22.273-08:00Comments on Propnomicon: 1930 TelegramPropnomiconhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02073463298965255652noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423050459919800481.post-6069897279751769882012-01-02T20:23:03.614-08:002012-01-02T20:23:03.614-08:00Third, last, and most impressive to me in its shee...Third, last, and most impressive to me in its sheer vocabulary, <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=EfgYAAAAYAAJ" rel="nofollow">Bensinger’s Complete Phrase Code</a> (1921 reprint of a 1906 text), hat-tip again to <a href="http://www.jmcvey.net/cable/scans.htm#EfgYAAAAYAAJ" rel="nofollow">John McVey</a>:<br /><br /><b>EWGZOATAGM RIPEVUBSER AKBUZBRASC ETYONTUKEM DUTNYBAAVY ALKOCRILER GLERJABAMP AFTNAKUJBO BECKAHELEV CAFGOROYAJ OHVIRVAVUC IRLOTKOUMB DYDUROKAMV UKPUJLAHZO.</b><br /><br />"Eastward from-Australia ship-has sunk along-with full-cargo due-to heavy-storm, crew-saved, boarded another ship found abandoned adrift.* New bridge has-a chart showing previously unknown island near-here, curiously proceeding to-there now."<br /><br />*<i>[Movie version.]</i><br /><br /><b>OFDIJAHYUH. EMKNOKDYPAY EGODTDUTOL DEYVAIDYAB LOUISIANA ATZIJWOBUR IVSYLOBTIP POVOPUMPGA OBOXTKAYIT GAGEPICMAT KIEFKPYEMP LEKDAANSAY HIPYKPUWYX IZDICALBUT. BULKEKAOVS OVPOKHAZKY. ODVADOPGUB AGMEVEKIRS LEGRASSE NOLAPD OWSYLIJMUB ULWAGEFWIR.</b><br /><br />"Police be-on-the-alert.** Discovered very-dangerous deranged criminal conspiracy in-the Louisiana back woods killing people at-a-sacrifice to-a peculiar metal figure illustrating mixed sea-going eight armed headed scaled land animal. Caught members red handed. Please as-quickly-as-possible advise Detective Legrasse NOLAPD with-regard-to information-re this denomination."<br /><br />**<i>[Though realistically the police wouldn’t use this codebook.]</i><br /><br /><b>UMUKSJYNAG SAWUROFDIJ. GOYVACAYZO KALOJFIULN ARKHAM. OGELKCYTAZ WHATLEYW OGGIGHIPFE EKVATKELKA TYNZOOZCLA BABFEENRED IPFBOGYVLE RAEXTJOAWL.</b><br /><br />"To-the Mass State Police.*** From-the Chief Medical Examine[r] Arkham. Will-not-be-possible-to complete WhatleyW post-mortem head did-not-have mineral substratum remainder-of body dissolved into green semi- liquid."<br /><br />***<i>[Same comment.]</i><br /><br /><b>HYALBCUBUX FANOFJULAF, NOVTODYREC,<br>ALBAPFAPUH MYRIREVURD WESTAWIJYV<br>RAYETKINOV AYBOVGOWTA NOMHAELEDY.</b><br /><br />"I-will combat endless madness, outer darkness,<br>and-the enemies of-the Earth who-would willingly<br>serve monstrous beasts from other dimensions."<br /><br /><i>[Would make a great CoC "geek pin" with an LED flashing the Morse; if anyone wants to, feel free.]</i>Ravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974090948640572660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423050459919800481.post-63482349518597509402011-12-31T21:39:26.073-08:002011-12-31T21:39:26.073-08:00Of course there were also telegraphic codes for se...Of course there were <i>also</i> telegraphic codes for secrecy, like this <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=tT9WAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow">1882 bankers' code</a>, which (as <a href="http://www.jmcvey.net/cable/scans.htm#tT9WAAAAYAAJ" rel="nofollow">John McVey notes</a> has been argued) may have incorporated the <i>first</i> use of the "one-time pad".<br /><br />Minus the crucial one-time-pad conversion, the codewords look like this:<br /><br /><b>Nauseated Dilacerate Grainy Pitiless Outlay Limetwig Homiletic Cemental Gentiles Marasmus</b><br>"Pursuing Crowley headed stone ring We must intercept before gate opened"Ravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974090948640572660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423050459919800481.post-8976748636923049452011-12-31T20:36:55.701-08:002011-12-31T20:36:55.701-08:00Since your gamers needn't actually pay cable r...Since your gamers needn't actually pay cable rates, you may have them sending plaintext around the world, but telegrams used to cost a bit by word and distance. Commercial codebooks weren't secret, they were ways to compress lengthy blocks of text into, say, ten-letter words [5-letter half-words], thus saving transmission time and expense. e.g.:<br /><br /><b>ARKTEAWOIA</b><br>"The person is an adventurer, be on your guard; cannot find a more suitable agent."<br>—<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?u=1&num=xii&seq=1&view=image&size=100&id=njp.32101068315314" rel="nofollow">The ABC Universal Commercial Telegraphic Code, 6th edition (1920)</a>.<br /><br />More about commercial codes? See this wonderful site: <a href="http://www.jmcvey.net/cable/index1.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.jmcvey.net/cable/index1.htm</a>Ravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974090948640572660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423050459919800481.post-83226151870880535712011-12-28T17:44:56.283-08:002011-12-28T17:44:56.283-08:00@ Combom
They're an incredibly useful resourc...@ Combom<br /><br />They're an incredibly useful resource. Thanks for making them available.Propnomiconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02073463298965255652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423050459919800481.post-72783795288834548092011-12-28T14:28:41.822-08:002011-12-28T14:28:41.822-08:00pleased you like my scans :)pleased you like my scans :)Combomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15637799492393933245noreply@blogger.com