A key to understand the VMS

[Sam G]

Your pattern for japanese is not like the network of similar words for the VMS.  I didn't know for a grammatical network connecting all words used in a language and I didn't know of a natural language where similar words occur with similar frequencies.

The basic pattern is still similar and I think it's an indication that we're looking at a similar phenomenon. I don't disagree that the VMS text is atypical in that a very large fraction of words appear to be compounds of basic elements, but I also don't see any real reason to think that there couldn't be a natural language that works like this.