[Interview] An interview with Stephen Bax

[Anton]

I watched the video and I did not percept anything as personal attack on anybody.

I would suggest to break the discussion of separate issues into dedicate threads (which mostly already exist). Otherwise this thread would become a mess, the scope is such that a single thread just is not fit.

What is most valuable is that those threads often discuss appropriate methodological approaches - something which Nick, Stephen and many others rightly put accent on.

Just to name a few:

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - why the VMS is or is not a cipher (hence not plain text in a natural language)
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - why the text is meaningful or meaningless
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - word repetitions (with some examples of mine to show that repetitions can be valid not only as poetic embellishments, as Stephen suggests in the interview), also look here: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

And many others... basically, just stumble through the "Analysis of text" subforum.