Re: VMs: Strange or not?

[Eric <mynumberis2000@xxxxxxxxx>]

The heavy ch <-> sh similarity has been noted in
different ways before (though I haven't seen this
particular representation of the phenomenon). Marke F
has done some fuzzy matches and found very long
strings where the only interchange is ch <-> sh.

Back in the archives I read where Jacques was arguing
(in his notation of ct <-> c't for ch <-> sh) that
they were dialect variations of each other from the
Currier A (ct) and B (c't) authors (one's "lord" was
another's "laird" for instance).

It could also simply be a homophonic substitution
where ch and sh both represent the same underlying
letter.

That explains similar use of ch and sh... but what
about the EXACT counts you are getting? Hmmm. Well,
first, double check the work ;-). After that, I'd take
a guess at:

a - within statistical fluctuation. That should be
testable.

b - the author was being very careful and keeping
counts on the number of instances of every letter they
were using and purposefully evening the counts out.

c - the author(s) were transcribing and enciphering
the exact same underlying text in places but using
different substitutions.

Wild, hair-brained guesses.

Eric



--- Knox Mix <knoxmix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> columns 2 & 3.  word pairs
> column 4.  number of occurrences
> 
> columns 5 & 6.  word pairs
> column 7.  number of occurrences
> 
> column 1. column 4 minus column 7
> 
> 
> 0 		aiin 	chody 	2 		aiin 	shody 	2
> 0 		aiin 	chedy 	3 		aiin 	shedy 	3
> 0 		ar 	chey 	3 		ar 	shey 	3
> 0 		ar 	cheey 	2 		ar 	sheey 	2
> 0 		daiin 	cheody 	5 		daiin 	sheody 	5
> 0 		daiin 	checkhy 2 		daiin 	sheckhy 2
> 0 		dal 	chedy 	6 		dal 	shedy 	6
> 0 		dar 	chey 	5 		dar 	shey 	5
> 0 		dor 	cheey 	2 		dor 	sheey 	2
> 0 		okain 	cheey 	2 		okain 	sheey 	2
> 0 		okain 	chedy 	2 		okain 	shedy 	2
> 0 		qokaiin chcthy 	4 		qokaiin shcthy 	4
> 0 		qokain 	chey 	5 		qokaiin shey 	5
> 0 		qokain 	cheol 	2 		qokaiin sheol 	2
> 0 		qokar 	chy 	2 		qokar 	shy 	2
> 0 		qokar 	chey 	3 		qokar 	shey 	3
> 0 		qoky 	chey 	2 		qoky 	shey 	2
> 0 		raiin 	chey 	3 		raiin 	shey 	3
> 0 		sal 	chedy 	3 		sal 	shedy 	3
> 0 		sol 	chey 	4 		sol 	shey 	4
> 
> 
> All other ch-initlet & sh-initlet in second word of
> two-word series that 
> occur more than once compared:
> 
> http://home.earthlink.net/~knoxmix/nachxnashx/
> 
>  From an alteration of the Majority Vote transcript
> No labels or tags. A few minor changes.
> 
> Knox
> 
> 
> 
> 
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