A key to understand the VMS

[nickpelling]

Your explanations makes no sense to me precisely because you see the presence of "al" (3002 occurrencees) and "ail" (29 occurrences) in your network as having equal argumentative value. The former occurs 100x more often the latter: and yet you give not a single practical argument as to why there should be disparities of the order of 100x within such small edit distances of common groups.

Your autocopying argument requires the presence of a proto-network from which the full network is somehow an extended manifestation (via autocopying): yet you are silent as to what mechanism drove that proto-network. You spend your time talking about your overfeathered chicken but the matter of the missing egg from whence that chicken grew is a debate you prefer to explain away.