VMs: VocTok

[Knox Mix <knoxmix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello All,

I posted a chart showing the changing vocabulary to token ratio in the 
VMS as tokens increase.

http://home.earthlink.net/~knoxmix/voctok/id2.html

There is a noticeable decrease in the balneological section. The 
vocabulary building of three other texts (10 would be better for 
comparison) slacks off at about the same point, very roughly around 
11000 tokens. My guess is that the VMS accomplishes a lot of this by 
repeating the equivalents of big cats/big rats, big cars/big bars and 
maybe red carpet/red barpet while all continue using higher ratios of 
words from earlier sections. Quire 8, approximately, is anomalous.

Leaving the balneological section, the VMS resumes adding new words at a 
much greater rate than the comparison texts. Its total curve has a 
general bow shape like the others (and all others?) but the scale is 
altogether different. Those also vary quite a bit from each other. 
Comparison texts are Landini's Challenge, Meditations, and Fourth 
Crusade (Clari). Hang in, Dennis: this already eliminates two contenders 
for the Challenge.

Without more comparisons, I would not say from this that another 
"language" or "dialect" is indicated but, from what is known, I suppose 
that is part of what what it shows. Nothing new here but it gives a 
picture.

There is also a Monkey chart for the segments with 8001-16000 tokens 
(not incremented) to show the changes in h1 and h2 entropy. I probably 
should have done that with spaces-off. I do not understand it. If it 
looks odd to you/youse/y'all, I must have done something wrong.

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I wrote "balneological" because I agree with those who think that is 
what the section represents. I think the tubes are superdoodles but 
cannot learn anything by dismissing it so I am still open on that.


Regards, ......... Knox
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