VMs: zara

[Knox Mix <knoxmix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marke Fincher wrote:
> If individual words were chosen randomly from a list the choice of each 
> word would be independent to the choice of the previous word.  

Yes, for tokens. A word-list (pre-selected vocabulary) was also 
considered. In that case, no word could be selected more than once.

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

But consecutive sequences are shorter and occur less frequently than in 
"ordinary" European text unless liberties are taken with the EVA 
transcription to reduce the vocabulary.

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

Would you say that there is no random element to the construction on a 
word-component (prefix-midfix-suffix) basis, also?

KM


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