Re: Spelling corrections
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:38 amAnd then there's the "little list" with the following...well, whatever they are:
"...implore you with im platt"; "phomphit" and "impriest".
Which don't make sense on any level if we're assuming that Z is misspelling deliberately. They don't make sense as personal jokes either.
The only thing which does make sense is that Z has simply misheard what's being sung - and written it down in this fashion. Which is, in my opinion, quite telling. As I've argued before, there are three possibilities here:
1. In Z's mind these meaningless words had some meaning. In which case he was more nuts than some think. Or - a possibility brought up by murray a while ago in another thread - he was influenced by something when he prepared the letter.
2. He was gambling - for lack of a better term - on the words meaning something beyond his knowledge, i.e. being technical terms of some kind, perhaps, or jargon of some kind, or belonging to some sort of nomenclature he was unfamiliar with. In which case...yes - what? He arguably wasn't a highly educated man - I think that's fair to say.
3. He KNEW that he wasn't making any sense. He didn't understand what was being sung, but he just went on and wrote it down as he heard it regardless. In which case...yes, again, what?
I'm becoming more and more open to the possibility that Z was stoned, drunk or on some kind of medication when he composed his missives. Or at least some of his missives. The ciphers are seemingly too neatly done (not to mention that at least the 408 did make sense, with the odd mistake here and there) to have been prepared by someone who was totally out of it - but then again the effects of either drugs (legal and illegal) or alcohol influence people very differently. It's not unthinkable that someone under the influence (even heavily) could have prepared those letters, in spite of them being coherent enough.
"...implore you with im platt"; "phomphit" and "impriest".
Which don't make sense on any level if we're assuming that Z is misspelling deliberately. They don't make sense as personal jokes either.
The only thing which does make sense is that Z has simply misheard what's being sung - and written it down in this fashion. Which is, in my opinion, quite telling. As I've argued before, there are three possibilities here:
1. In Z's mind these meaningless words had some meaning. In which case he was more nuts than some think. Or - a possibility brought up by murray a while ago in another thread - he was influenced by something when he prepared the letter.
2. He was gambling - for lack of a better term - on the words meaning something beyond his knowledge, i.e. being technical terms of some kind, perhaps, or jargon of some kind, or belonging to some sort of nomenclature he was unfamiliar with. In which case...yes - what? He arguably wasn't a highly educated man - I think that's fair to say.
3. He KNEW that he wasn't making any sense. He didn't understand what was being sung, but he just went on and wrote it down as he heard it regardless. In which case...yes, again, what?
I'm becoming more and more open to the possibility that Z was stoned, drunk or on some kind of medication when he composed his missives. Or at least some of his missives. The ciphers are seemingly too neatly done (not to mention that at least the 408 did make sense, with the odd mistake here and there) to have been prepared by someone who was totally out of it - but then again the effects of either drugs (legal and illegal) or alcohol influence people very differently. It's not unthinkable that someone under the influence (even heavily) could have prepared those letters, in spite of them being coherent enough.