Reply to post: A foreign language isn't code.

Declassified files reveal how pre-WW2 Brits smashed Russian crypto

Robert Carnegie Silver badge

A foreign language isn't code.

It takes years to learn a foreign language properly, and people whose language it is can immediately understand you... unless you're dreadful.

A dictionary of under 100 common words in any language liable to be used in this way should make it veey easy to detect.

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