Re: VMs: Strange pattern (key?)

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> And there's the mystery: Markov-like combinatorial
> templates which our VMs 
> word-paradigms typically describe might make sense
> for an artificial 
> numbering system, or perhaps even a way of
> traversing some kind of mnemonic 
> tree of knowledge - but does they really describe
> language behaviour?

Several people have experimented with hidden Markov
models and from talking to one of them (Jim Reeds)
I remember that, when applied to language
(I guess it may have been Latin or English), it
will highlight the alternation between vowels
and consonants. This did not happen with the VMs.
Instead, there it highlighted the well-known word
patterns, e.g. (q)ok(e)(e)(d)y.

To get back to Jeff's original message, the
piece of text he showed had many lines where 
additional initial characters appeared at the
start of each line - not only t or k, but also
y.
It is a pity that we don't know which page it
is from, because there are some pages where
these first characters are actually written in
a semi-detached way from the line.
It seems like a relevant piece of the puzzle.

Cheers, Rene

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