Re: The French Hypothesis, Etc.

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

Gabriel Landini wrote:
> 
> In the unchecked version, the most common 280 words make up for
> 58.72% of the vms.
> To get the 80%, you have to include 1504 words. That comes down to
> words with frequencies of 3 or more in the entire ms.

	Thanks.  The number I remember was a long time ago, by
Robert Firth, and I believe that 280 words got to words
occurring 4 times for more.  

	Can you quote any comparable statistics for a natural
language?
 
> >  If it really is a philosophical language, it sounds
> > really tough to me.  Perhaps that's the tripartite
> > paradigm: the combination of three groups of qualities,
> > like Ramon Lull's wheels of correspondences.  But how
> > do you solve a whole a priori language?  It would have
> > to at least be related to the ones we know about.
> 
> Do you mean the underlying grammar?

	No, I meant the vocabulary.  That could be quite
unpredictable, depending on how the creator envisioned 
the universe of knowledge.

Dennis