Re: VMs: Re: Currier A and B

[Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jorge,
On Tuesday 15 July 2003 19:47, Jorge Aveleira wrote:
> That should not be the case for the shorter vocabulary in VMS, we could be
> almost sure about that :-)

There is a perception (unjustified, I think) that the vms vocabulary is short. 
I do not think it is. Words are shorter than English and Latin, but the 
vocabulary is about 8200 words, that is not very short, I think.

> It may be just a terribly attractive coincidence, but we have exactly 9
> equally-likely objects containing labels and rings of text arranged in an
> impressive composition in f85_86. One of the objects contains a collection
> of 10 labels... I would feel really thrilled if you or Stolfi, or you both,
> decide to make a few comparative analysis between the groups of labels in
> f85_86 and the text of Herbal A, for example.

Can you post the 10 labels? I'll check if they appear anywhere else.
Cheers.

Gabriel

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