RE: VMs: Re: word length counts

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- GC <glenclaston@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've been pushing to expand the alphabet to a
> standard Latin 24, but had
> problems with my last transcription.  I am somewhat
> taken aback that when I
> finally decide to pull numbers from my new
> transcription, I'm facing an
> alphabet of 21, not 23 or 24.  I'm going to have to
> digest this.
> 
> I did a few tests before that indicated I'd get a
> better yield at 21, but I
> couldn't see how these could be right.  I may have
> been wasting a lot of
> time by ignoring my own findings.

Hello GC,

you find what you find. I wonder if you were to
use the same transcription mechanism on a 
handwritten English or Latin text, what you would
find. (Of course, you'd have to pretend that you
did not really know the alphabet, which is hard).

I am pretty sure you would not find a closed 
set of 24 characters, but something similar to
what you found now: a character set from which
one cannot really deduce the alphabet size.

Since you are transcribing the whole VMs with
a consistent method and a well-defined character
set, all statistics that you can produce will
be extremely valuable.

Cheers, Rene

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