21-07-2018, 10:24 PM
(21-07-2018, 02:20 PM)MarcoP wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I agree on the usefulness of the test proposed by Rene!
(21-07-2018, 12:38 PM)farmerjohn wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.daiin - illī (that), also probably alī (leaf)
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is Nominative, masculine, plural (and Dative singular)
"ille" and "illa" (Masculine and Feminine nominative singular) should be at least as frequent. How do you think they appear in the VMS?
(21-07-2018, 12:38 PM)farmerjohn wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.shedy - partellus (part, piece of text)
"partellus" is a word I had never heard of. Most of the pages returned by google appear to refer to You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., a moth described and named at the end of the XIX Century. How many occurrences of "partellus" have you seen in medieval or classical Latin? Since shedy occurs more than 400 times in the VMS, if you cannot find an actual Latin text with at least 100 occurrences, you could consider picking a different word.
This is a list of words that are more frequent than "illi" (based on a small set of Latin texts):
I don't think VMS is written Classical Latin or classical Medieval Latin, and there is no need to kick at open door and compare them directly. Rather VMS is written in some form which mixes traits of Medieval, Vulgar and spoken Latin with artificial endings invented by the author.
Diminutive suffixes were very common that time so partellus is just a form of partus. This is word I'm 100% sure of.
Due to simplified gender system and artificial case system I don't think there was ille, and illus was probably used instead of illa. Also this word was used both as article and pronoun.
As for you word list, est was sometimes omitted, words were sometimes written in nominative, encl. que can be used instead of et, and supine instead of ut+verb, accusative instead of ad+noun and probably many more... All these specific details can transform this rating dramatically. If we merge all forms of ille it's already more than 500 and that's top 20. Was ipse interchangable with ille? If yes then 700+ and top 10. So matching top entities depicted by words may work. Matching top words doesn't.
PS Testday continues. Small test mentioned by Anton in other thread: oror sheey - breviōr apertitās (shortened beginning)


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