The gibberish thread

[Torsten]

There are different kinds of gibberish. The text of the VMS is highly structured and repetitive. In this way I find it interesting that an alternative term for gibberish is jibber-jabber. The german word for gibberish is blabla. It seems that this words already suggest repetitive phrases like 'chol chol chol' or 'sho chol shol' (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).

Instead of comparing the text to something we know I would suggest to analyze the text as something we didn't know. This means that we should analyze the text without any preconditions. For instance we could ask questions like: 
What ist the best way to describe the VMS as it actually is? 
Why does the text evolve over time? 
Why did even rare features repeat in horizontal or vertical directions (see for instance 'shek', 'sheek' and 'shek' on page f103r)? 
Why 'k' is rarely used in line initial position ('k' is used 129 out of 10934 times or 1% in line initial position, 't' 6%, 'p' 24 %, 'f' 8%)?  
Why are 'chol', 'chor', 'shol' and 'chor' more frequent then 'chal', 'char', 'shar' and 'shal'? 
Why a word starting with 'q' comes in 65 % of the cases after a word ending with 'y'? 
Why is the letter after 'q' in 97,5 % of the cases a letter 'o'? 
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