Re: VMs: glossolalia

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

	Hi, Don, Jean-Yves, Knox, everyone.  

	I don't think that word salad is at all the same as
glossalalia.  In spoken glossalalia words are difficult
to differentiate, one difficulty in studying it.  Rap
is semantically rather than linguistically redundant,
it seems to me.  ;-)

	Automatic writing, the "nonsense" form of it, might be
a good source of written glossalalia, though most
examples of automatic writing, or channeled writing, I
know of (The Course in Miracles, OAHSPE, eg.) are quite
good English.  I know French, and Nostradamus is quite
comprehensible, early modern French with a mix of
Latin.  

	I think that information theory is useful but only to
a certain extent.  I worked with the entropy concept
for quite a while while I was doing my paper:

http://www.geocities.com/ctesibos/voynich/mbpaper.htm

Entropy is just the average number of effective bits
transmitted per character, an idea invented to deal
with transmission noise.  It is only a crude measure,
and we must not confuse that with meaning, a much
broader concept.  A file of characters produced by a
random number generator has a higher entropy than an
English file of the same file - but has no meaning at
all!   Conversely, Hawaiian has a lower phonemic
entropy than English - but Jacques assured me that it
is as concise and meaningful in expression as English
or French!  

Dennis
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