VMs: Re: word length counts

["Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The statistics gathered here are the way to unlock the phrase structure and
the reason for the unique nature of a high percentage of words. It suggests
a catalogue of items, or a recipe. When explorers visit new regions they
often produce such catalogues to record specimens that they are collecting.
The images do not fit this notion, but they may have an associated meaning
that no one is looking for. Symbolism that indirectly depicts the catalogue
type. A visual shorthand to expand on the catalogue contents. Remember that
any information is better interpreted through visual means. A graph of
rainfall data is much clearer than a table measured in inches. Matchstick
men and women indicate which restroom it is appropriate to walk into. No
words are involved in these representations. The symbols are already within
the culture.

If a lot of these words are place names then they would occur quite
infrequently. If you want to return to a place where you found an unusual
plant you would surely give that place a name. Also you would need to record
directions to that place.

Do the astrological/astronomical diagrams match to any constellations? If so
these would be usefull in navigating back to the place of origin.

Astrological symbols could indicate which month individual places were
visited. This would be important to recollect specimens. The plants would
only be available during certain seasons.

Is there anything that could be interpreted as a map. It may not look like a
map as we see it.


----- Original Message -----
From: "GC" <glenclaston@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "VMS List" <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 05 July 2003 03:53
Subject: VMs: word length counts


> Here are some stats from a glyph-based point of view, taken from the first
6
> quires, or the first 96 pages of the VMS.
>
> 96 pages
> 31,412 glyphs or characters
> 8,175 words
> 2,940 unique words
> 2,141 words occur only once (i.e. 72.8% of all words are truly unique)
> 309 words occur only twice
> 146 words occur three times
> 69 words occur 4 times
> 51 words occur 5 times
> 2,716 words (or 92.4%) used five times or less.
>
> 8am is the most popular word, with 362 occurrences.  The next in order has
> less than half of this, at 172 occurrences.
>
> The longest word is 10 glyphs in length.
>
> Word length counts
> 1 235
> 2 980
> 3 2540
> 4 1928
> 5 1494
> 6 684
> 7 225
> 8 69
> 9 16
> 10 4
>
>
> 92 unique glyphs (including the two astrological glyphs on f1r)
> 22 occur only once
> 17 occur only twice
> 6 occur three times
> 2 occur four times
> 2 occur five times
> 49 ( or 53%) occur five times or less.
> Only 21 glyphs occur 100 times or more, to make up 30,529 occurrences, or
> 97% of all occurrences.
>
> Only 15 glyphs occur 1% or more of the time.
> If the standard Latin alphabet of 24 were considered, the highest 24
glyphs
> make up 30,760 occurrences, or 98% of the first 6 quires of the VMS.
>
> GC
>
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