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RE: How could we approach the Pharma and Recipes? - MarcoP - 30-01-2020
(29-01-2020, 01:31 AM)DONJCH Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.If Q20 contains recipes and if daiiin and other such are numbers then would we expect a higher frequency of these here?
This is discussed by Rene here:
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Rene Wrote:Frequent words
The most common word type in the A corpus is daiin or in Currier notation: 8AM (3). In the B corpus, the most frequent word is chedy, or in Currier: SC89. A peculiar fact is that the latter word does not occur at all in the A corpus, whereas daiin is relatively frequent in B as well. In general, words tend to either occur in both languages or they occur in 'B' only. There is a very short list of moderate-frequency words that occur only in language A. Had the split between A and B languages coincided with the apparent split in subject matter (apparent from the illustrations), this would make sense. This is not the case, however, since the herbal illustrations have text in both languages, so we do have a reason to question whether the text is related to the illustrations at all.
These are counts for the % frequency of daiin in different sections, together with the % of sho-words ('sho' is an excellent indicator about Currier A/B). Sections are sorted as suggested by Rene You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. AstroCZ groups together Astrological, Cosmological and Zodiac pages.
SECTION daiin sho
Herbal_A 5.1 6.6
__Pharma 3.8 2.8
_AstroCZ 1.1 1.7
Herbal_B 2.1 1.5
StarsQ20 1.1 1.2
_Bio_Q13 1.2 0.5
While the correlation between daiin and Sho-words is not perfect, it is still strong. In particular, daiin is much more common in HerbalA than B: as pointed out by Rene this suggests that the frequency is not due to subject matter (if the illustrations and the text are both meaningful). Anyway, daiin does not seem to be particularly frequent in Q20.