Re: VMs: Word Endings

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Gabriel,

> This is interesting. One has to think, though, that this agglomeration should
> keep Zipf's law more or less unchanged.I am not sure whether agglomeration
> would do this, because one is creating a new word each time (there should be
> too many new words, but there aren't).

At least this kind of process could be tested out on a few languages 
without too much difficulty: we might well be surprised by their 
statistics. :-)

> We shouldn't forget about the labels.
> They are likely to be more accurate (at least as far as the word start and
> end) than other pieces of text.

IMO, labels would be such an obvious point of crypto assault that they are 
most likely either to be anagrammed, or initials (notarikon), or perhaps 
numeric reference into a code-book (perhaps the starred paragraphs at the 
end, who knows?)

Also remember that some of the astrology labels are ridiculously short: and 
no amount of anagramming or cribbing is likely to help determine them.

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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