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.
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Larry Roux
Syracuse
University
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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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