Re: VMs: Worry - information loss in transcription - pictures ...

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

Dennis wrote:
> 
> Rene Zandbergen wrote:
> >
> > > And isn't it strange how <o> and <y> are so common,
> > > yet so very rarely
> > > occur beside each other? Glyph transcription + ee +
> > > oy + yo ==> (oy = 0.07%
> > > and yo = 0.05%).
> >
> > This is precisely the origin of the low pair
> > entropy.
> 
>         I don't follow this, Rene.  Could you explain?

Gabriel Landini wrote:
>  
> The distribution of duplets is very skewed, so some duplets are very common
> while others are very rare (that is why it is said that the structure of
> words is so rigid, Stolfi's word structure and so on).
> Once you know 1 character, you can guess the next one with more success than
> if they were all equally probable.

	OK.  Why then are <o> and <y> rarely adjacent?  Is it
because 
<o> often begins words and <y> often ends them?

Dennis
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