I spied on someone...Freddie Woo says: "I was staying at a youth hostel in Europe and realised you could spy on the female dorm by looking through the keyhole in the adjoining door. So I knelt down, put my eye up to the hole... and saw an eye staring back at me. And I was the one they called a pervert." Tell us your tale of spying shenanigans.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 2 Jan 2014, 12:23)
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I assumed that this is a coded message (spy - geddit?)But letter frequency analysis shows that the letters are already distributed pretty much as you'd expect for english - so it could be random gibberish generated using these letter frequencies.
However, I also note that there are *no* repeated letters. This seems suspicious - simple random generation should have created a few.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who made half an effort to extract something from all that and failed horrendously.
Bit of a Skagra fan, but damn is he an odd one. Has he ever broken character?
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I bet he has a tiny Peter Davison coat, jumper and hat to dress up his wanking sock.(
Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 8 Jan 2014, 12:08,
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Oddly, Google Translate detects it as Italian but doesnt translate it. Are letter frequencies the same between Italian and English?
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no.Google Translate's not anything like that clever. Google traslate detects it as Italian because there are about 6 or 7 Italian words in amongst it. I assume that's coincidence, and that there are marginally more accidental Italian words than any other language (there are a couple of French and Spanish ones in there and all)
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 8 Jan 2014, 14:06,
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Yep, it came up as Romanian for me.(, Thu 9 Jan 2014, 3:24, closed)
Actually "Random English-like gibberish" describes a fair number of posts here quite nicely...(, Wed 8 Jan 2014, 12:14, closed)
:) noticed that tooAlso, the words are all made up of plausible syllables, and the syllable structure is consistent but also a pretty rare type- no consonant clusters or codas except at the ends of words. So I was thinking that the words are composed systematically, whether that's from gibberish or something meaningful.
Gonna try a few more things before he reveals that it's some kind of message about pissing in his own mouth.
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the prick of misery pierced my foot on a spiiiike on, Wed 8 Jan 2014, 12:49,
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It's not just ROT13 or somet' like that, is it?(, Wed 8 Jan 2014, 13:21, closed)
No, that would show letter frequencies shifted - R would be the most common letterIt would also show double letters
It's not a fixed, monoalphabetic substitution cypher.
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I just noticed that it's strictly consonant, vowel, consonant, vowel...Which explains the missing doubles
Perhaps this is a clue to the code used? Letters (or letter pairs) map to consonant+vowel pairs?
Actually I suspect it's gibberish, and he's laughing at us all trying to decode it. Either that, or it's Tolkien poetry in Klingon...
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the distribution of vowels E is the most common. If you just type random shit on a keyboard would you get that distribution.
absbebrba gwhazurh ne comra doohilly werpanda?
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a) No. b) Beware Doohilly the Were-Panda!(, Wed 8 Jan 2014, 15:30, closed)
it's something to do with doctor whoI'll bet my trousers I'm right
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