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redfiona99I have a things for codes and ciphers, despite lacking the mathematical or logical facility to be any good with them. So a book like this is right up my alley.
Well I say a book like this, it does seem to be in almost two separate sections, the bit about ciphers and codes, and the longer bit about secret, hidden languages, and while the ciphers and codes section is good and useful and solid, and he does try to link the two parts but I think they could have done with being two separate books. Mostly because then there would have been more on the languages part.
According to the blurb, Blake is a specialist in Aboriginal languages, and it shows because there are far more Australian (and indeed Oceanian) examples than normal. It also meant his example of English secret languages were very London-based.
I really enjoyed the book.
1 - Cryptanalysis by Helen F. Gaines (1989)
2 - Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics & Chip Design by Electronic Frontier 3 - Foundation (1998)
4 - The Kids' Code and Cipher Book by Nancy Garden (1981)
5 - The Evolution of Morphology (Studies in the Evolution of Language) by Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy (2010)
6 - Geheimschriften en codes by D. Tyler Moore
7 - The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics) by J. P. Mallory (2006)
8 - Verschlüsselte Botschaften: Geheimschrift, Enigma und Chipkarte by Rudolf Kippenhahn (1998)
PGP. Pretty Good Privacy by Philip Zimmermann (1999)
9 - Dialectology (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by J. K. Chambers (1980)
10 - Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report) by Edward L. Glaeser (2006)
Well I say a book like this, it does seem to be in almost two separate sections, the bit about ciphers and codes, and the longer bit about secret, hidden languages, and while the ciphers and codes section is good and useful and solid, and he does try to link the two parts but I think they could have done with being two separate books. Mostly because then there would have been more on the languages part.
According to the blurb, Blake is a specialist in Aboriginal languages, and it shows because there are far more Australian (and indeed Oceanian) examples than normal. It also meant his example of English secret languages were very London-based.
I really enjoyed the book.
1 - Cryptanalysis by Helen F. Gaines (1989)
2 - Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics & Chip Design by Electronic Frontier 3 - Foundation (1998)
4 - The Kids' Code and Cipher Book by Nancy Garden (1981)
5 - The Evolution of Morphology (Studies in the Evolution of Language) by Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy (2010)
6 - Geheimschriften en codes by D. Tyler Moore
7 - The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics) by J. P. Mallory (2006)
8 - Verschlüsselte Botschaften: Geheimschrift, Enigma und Chipkarte by Rudolf Kippenhahn (1998)
PGP. Pretty Good Privacy by Philip Zimmermann (1999)
9 - Dialectology (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by J. K. Chambers (1980)
10 - Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report) by Edward L. Glaeser (2006)
