01-03-2016, 08:37 AM
I posted a few examples of this kind of thing here:
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I think there's far more of this type of structure in the text than has been documented.
It would be an interesting project, for someone with better programming/UNIX skills than I possess, to sort the VMS words into different types of "equivalence classes", then come up with sequences of equivalence classes and see how many matches they find in the text, and report on any that show up much more frequently (or much less frequently) than chance would predict. (I would of course be happy to "advise" on this, if someone wants to do the actual coding.)
As far as why there are no exact repeating phrases in the text, I think the "writing style" of the VMS may play a role here. It's possible that the VMS author simply consciously avoided repeating the exact same phrases.
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I think there's far more of this type of structure in the text than has been documented.
It would be an interesting project, for someone with better programming/UNIX skills than I possess, to sort the VMS words into different types of "equivalence classes", then come up with sequences of equivalence classes and see how many matches they find in the text, and report on any that show up much more frequently (or much less frequently) than chance would predict. (I would of course be happy to "advise" on this, if someone wants to do the actual coding.)
As far as why there are no exact repeating phrases in the text, I think the "writing style" of the VMS may play a role here. It's possible that the VMS author simply consciously avoided repeating the exact same phrases.