The IOU letters were inserted in the correct places of FR’s quote to allow you to decipher the original text:
O??I?I?? I? ? ???? O? I??O????IO?
1. What was the saying?
2. Who was F.R.?
"Optimism is a lack of information"
Faina Ranevskaya (1896-1984) was a great actress of both comedy and tragedy, and was called the queen of supporting roles. Yet she was just as well known for having the sharpest tongue in the Soviet Union.
I used a word list and for each word made a list of possible matches assuming every O and every I was in the correct position and every ? was one of the 23 letters that were not I or O or U.
1 ['OBLIGING', 'OBLIVION', 'OBSIDIAN', 'OFFICIAL', 'OPHIDIAN', 'OPTICIAN', 'OPTIMISM', 'OPTIMIST', 'OPTIMIZE', 'OSSIFIED']
2 ['ID', 'IF', 'IN', 'IS', 'IT']
3rd word: probably A
4th word: any 4 letter word without a U
5 ['OD', 'OF', 'OH', 'ON', 'OR', 'OS', 'OW', 'OX']
6 ['IMPORTATION', 'INFORMATION']
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Posted by Larry
on 2023-05-19 06:48:20 |
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