VMs: RE: zara

["Marke Fincher" <markefincher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> To me, this means that a final result of using a random method applied 
> to a selected set of words can be made to match the VMS in some 
> statistics but that same method, barring a statistical fluke, will not 
> approach those statistics as soon as the VMS. I think that has already 
> been shown by other methods.

If individual words were chosen randomly from a list the choice of each 
word would be independent to the choice of the previous word.  But in 
practice there are observable relationships between neighbouring words.

"chol" and "daiin" are both frequent words but "chol.daiin" occurs 34
times and "daiin.chol" occurs only 7.

Also, repeated words occur more frequently than should happen by chance
alone, and consecutive sequences of similar words are more common 
still.

Ultimately, if there is a random element to the construction, it is
not on a per-word basis.

Marke

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