24-02-2016, 07:35 AM
(22-02-2016, 04:10 PM)Davidsch wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.-job-
i am feeling stupid, because i do not understand your numbers on "replacement counts"
Quote:In Pliny's vocabulary, if we take a word containing an "m" and replace it with an "s", we get a valid word 7% of the time. There are other valid substitutions but they yield less than 5% - i'm only listing the most significant ones.
Bible (Latin):
m replaced by s: 136/1887 7.0%
o replaced by i: 107/1828 6.0%
"The following gives the percentage of words that are still valid after a character substitution, in some texts of roughly equivalent lengths"
Pliny: m replaced by s: 213/3074 7.0%
What does this mean in plain English ?
What is the software you use for this analysis, what rules ?
What don't you understand, specifically?
The portion you quoted indicates that, among the set of words used in the Latin Bible sample text that contain an 'm', replacing the 'm' with an 's' results in another word used in the same sample text about 7% of the time.
The software i used was my own, which has also generated You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..