A key to understand the VMS

[Psillycyber]

Moreover similarly spelled words occur frequently one above the other.

This is not uncommon in meaningful texts either.  And obviously we can expect more of it by pure chance when the words are more similar in general.

You can see exactly how much more common this is in the VMS compared to several example languages in the most recent Torsten Timm paper.  Mandarin was not tested, but Arabic, German, and Latin were tried.  It is much, much more common in the VMS, and in other languages the pattern only holds for words at all in lines immediately above the given word in a straight line upwards, whereas in the VMS the same words and similar words (edit distance of 1) recur atypically frequently in previous lines to the left and right as well, which is not consistent with poetry.  There are spatial diagrams that explain what I am referring to better than I can explain it.  You basically just need to read the paper to see what I mean.  I found it to be very uncanny and a bit of a smoking gun to reveal how the author created the vords in the VMS. 

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