Re: VMs: RE: Word pairs

[Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 08 July 2003 10:42, J R Elliott wrote:
> I emphasise the  
> latter, as the behaviour of the script seems to have all the hallmarks of
> artifical creation: symbol frequency, combinations and word statistics
> etc.

Interesting! Would it be possible to summarise what are these hallmarks of 
artificial creation? (I would be surprised if symbol frequency alone can 
pinpoint to it).

What transliteration (alphabet) did you use for this?

> I did not wish to present such a negative conclusion but the dispationate
> computational evidence, across a variety of metrics, using a suite of
> tools I developed for analysing represenative languages (45 in total)

Did you look into Hawaiian? (which allegedly has a low entropy) and any 
artificial languages?

Cheers,

Gabriel


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