Re: Diringer and 's "imprecision" and copy(-daiin) was: intercultural artefact

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Imagine English written in the *ultimate* deficient alphabet:
> only one letter!
>
> The above Cv, cvc vc vcc. Vcvcvcv v ... etc., etc., becomes:
>
> xx xxx xx xxx xxxxxxx x
>
> The original question was: what is the probability of
> finding the same word exactly P positions apart?
>
> The new question is: what is the probability of
> finding the _same-length_ word exactly P positions
> apart?
>
> If the language forbids the same word occurring twice
> in a row, I think it will still show in the statistics.
>
> Does anyone care to comment on this hypothesis before I test
> it?

x xxxxx xxxx xxx xxx xxxxxxxxxx xxx. :-)