01-03-2016, 11:50 PM
Quote:Then there is no explanation at all, is there?
It's clear that we can only guess about his motivation. We cant ask the scribe about his motivation for switching from words similar to 'chol' to words similar to 'chedy'.
Anyway, the motivation of the scribe only comes important if you accept that the scribe was generating the text with the Auto Copying Hypotheses.
Quote:You can't explain why words are structured how they are, or why certain character combinations appear and change throughout the text, or really anything.
For the VMS similar spelled types co-occur (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.: p. 3-5) or the paper of Montemurro and Zanette [You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.]. They occur with similar frequency whereas words, which contain less frequent bigrams, also occur less frequently (see the grid You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. p. 66 - 82). For me the conclusion is inescapable. The words are structured as they are because they are copied from each other.