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I was thinking about English words that follow the "one character makes the
difference between 2 words" and came up with things like
am -> aim arm ram pam dam cam etc.
pan -> pain pant part past span pans pane plan etc
cup -> cusp
cut -> cute curt, (nope, won't include THAT word here)
hit -> hint, hilt (nope, not THAT word either)
sit -> site, silt
god -> good, gold, goad, etc
so I am not sure that you can say that the likely difference between the
two words is vowel-like.
Of course, this is English. Not sure how this holds up for other
languages. I would suspect that Russian would have more trailing vowels
due to the genderization of the word.
****************************** Larry Roux Syracuse University lroux@xxxxxxx ******************************* >>> rob_hicks_vms@xxxxxxxxxxx 02/21/03 10:34AM >>> Fascinating! And thanks, Claus, for saving me a lot of effort - I guess you do this sort of thing for a living then? It's interesting that the top 5 (oldys) are the letters that intuitively (and, if I recall correctly, statistically) are vowel-like. My plan for this stuff is to look at the characteristics of candidate languages for the VMS. If, as I anticipate, the value 'polygons' of Latin, English, Hebrew, etc, are vastly different, then we might be able to match VMS text in some way. If the VMS contained an abbreviated form of a language, we should still be able to identify it because, inevitably, the abbreviated form would retain the letters with the highest value. (E.g. in English, "Th qck brwn fx jmps vr th lzy dg" is a far more likely abbreviated form than "e ui o o u oe e a o"). Rob _________________________________________________________________ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://messenger.msn.co.uk ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx with a body saying: unsubscribe vms-list |