Re: VMs: One simple question

["Larry Roux" <lroux@xxxxxxx>]

Two things:
1) It would be worth looking at the words in the source.  The debate over "spaces vs half spaces" continues to rage on.  The definition of what a word really is can be interpreted different ways by different people.  

2) I am not so excited about your being able to derive an unanticipated word.  I don't know much about your process, but there are already many ways to do so.  The Voy appears overall to be very prefix-suffix orientated so any program could come up with likely words.  For instance, "oka" is pretty popular at the beginning of words.  "iin" is a popular ending.  So does "okaiin" exist? (I looked - yes it does)  How about dcho and dar making dchodar?  (yes)  "oto" is popular.  otodar?  (yes - it exists) otoiin?  (yes).

So there are 4 "logically-invented" words that exist - and the only 4 I tried! Every one existed.

I could do the same with individual letter statistics. For instance, "o" starts a lot of words.  "y" ends a lot of words.  Let's work with that.

o is followed often by "l".  "l" is often followed by "k".  "k" by "e". "e" by "d". "d" by "y".  So we have a word "olkedy" Does that exist? Sure does!

So I can create words based on different rules that create Voy words - but they don't tell me anything except that I am following some set of rule structure that seems to be evident in the Voy itself.

Does it help me solve the riddle?  Nope.  Maybe I am blind to the piece of data in those rules that is screaming "duh! This is the answer" But I can't see it.





 


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Larry Roux
Syracuse University
lroux@xxxxxxx
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>>> jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 09/14/03 18:07 PM >>>
Larry Roux <LRoux@xxxxxxx> wrote

> It does not look Voy-like to me...One thing you can do in situations like
this is do a google search for the word.  There are enough Voy Eva pages
that if it were indexed it would return some result.
>
>

I found rcheo & dalor as separate words by doing a google search. Although
the search only returned two sites. However the EVA sample used to build the
database did not contain the pattern rcheo at all whilst it did contain
dalor. This was generated by the scanning algorithm. Rcheo only appeared as
an individual word in the samples I found in the google search as did dalor.
As my sample did not contain rcheo at all even inside other words then I
feel this must be significant. To have generated an unknown EVA word by
means of an algorithm must mean something. Even if it only means
coincidence.


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