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There are a lot of unique words but the difference between them is
amazingly small. (dara, dary, daryd, darydy, etc). It is as if the
language was something like: "this thin shin shined then the thin shiny shins
win". Which tells me that the words are not really words at all - either
that or the author was, er, a unique individual.
****************************** Larry Roux Syracuse University lroux@xxxxxxx ******************************* >>> G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx 07/16/03 05:06AM >>> 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 ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx with a body saying: unsubscribe vms-list |