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Re: VMs: Can one "prove" a hoax?


On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 09:26 AM, Jacques Guy wrote: 

Well, is it a hoax or not? Were the Hitler diaries
a hoax? Yes. But they made perfect sense. We are
back to: is the VMS glossolalia? From the
distributional properties of the VMS, I have
no choice but to say: this is entirely compatible
with a real language.

But I have often wondered, are the distributional properties of glossolalia compatible with a real (but nonsense) language? Does anybody have any statistics from examples of glossolalia?

-Seth

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