Re: VMs: Bifolios and Smudges

[Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 28 July 2003 08:44, GC wrote:

> I've already pointed out that over 50% of the
> words on these pages are unique to that page, and this is more than enough
> to account for specific terms applied to any single plant, apart from the
> standard repetitive phraseology. 

One has to be a bit careful with the interpretation of those figures. For 
example, looking for unique A or B words that appear only once, how can one 
be sure that those are "uniqe" words to that language?  There is no way to 
differentiate between a A- or B-word that appears once from another (rare, 
but not necessarily unique) word that is common to both language but appears 
only in one of them due to the (short) length of the corpus.

Instead one could look at the commonest words in one language that do not 
appear at all in the other. However for something like this, it would be 
better to have the entire ms transcribed.

Cheers,

Gabriel

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