VMs: excessive frequency of doubles...

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

18/08/2004 8:03:00 AM, "Jan" <hurychj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> many  "words" where 
>for instance only one character is changed or so many permutations  of the same 
>letters in one word (that is not a typical feature of any natural language)

It is, of some natural languages. I have already given many examples
here, drawing now from Indonesian, now from Japanese, and I forgot 
what else. I'll just give one example from French this time: cahin-caha.
And, why not, one from English: bow-wow. Such words are not very common
in French or in English, but they are very common in some other languages.

>Combined with no appearance of "longer" words

Jorge Stolfi has observed similar properties of word-length distribution
in Chinese, Vietnamese, and Tibetan. Do a google search "chinese theory
stolfi" and you'll find it (it was in 2002).


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