Re: LUNATIC again

charles wrote:
> All languages are codes. What's wrong with that?
No, language and code are different things.  A code is a way of hiding
something in an actual language.  It may be as simple as changing the
letters around (for example, replacing A with B, etc.), or it may
replace entire words, or some more complex scheme, but it's always that
original language in disguise, there's never any ambiguity in decoding,
for instance, whereas when translating, there may be two or three ways
to translate something.  A language actually has a different structure.
That's why during WWII, the Japanese were never able to break the Navajo
Codetalkers transmissions, because they weren't using a code of English,
they were speaking in their own language, but the Japanese did break
most (all?) of the *codes* we used.

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