A key to understand the VMS

[Torsten]

Torsten, if you say "that the network is an 'unintended side effect of the manufacturing or encoding process'" then I have to admit I misunderstood you also: I thought you were always arguing that there's no underlying meaning behind the text; it is just randomly copied. But you do believe there is a meaning "encoded" in the text?

There is a "or" used in the sentence. The full statement is: "How was it possible to construct a language with 'generated' words and to write a text containing over 37,000 words with determinable word frequencies? Was the scribe counting the words he was writing? This seems very unlikely. A better explanation would be the assumption that it is an unintended side effect of the manufacturing or encoding process that similarly spelled words occur with predictable frequencies." [You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.]. This is a similar idea as in Nicks statement: "No 15th century person could remotely have sat down and said 'I'm going to create a dense network of words that follows a cleverly-thought-out set of transition rules'."

If you want to know what I argue please read my papers. They are both available online: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.