19-03-2019, 01:32 AM
You can't just go by numbers, you have to LOOK at how the change manifests in the text.
Let's say I write the words "harbour" and "colour" and "theatre" in the first part of the manuscript, but then I decide to use "harbor" and "color" and "theater" instead.
What would happen statistically is that the frequency of the letter "u" would dramatically change from one section to the next, but the meaning of the words doesn't change at all.
So you have to look at WHAT changed in the VMS. If a common word gets written essentailly the same way but one character was dropped later on, then ask yourself what does that mean? Was that a substantive change? A change in language? Or was it just an easier way to write that particular vord or chunk or syllable?
Let's say I write the words "harbour" and "colour" and "theatre" in the first part of the manuscript, but then I decide to use "harbor" and "color" and "theater" instead.
What would happen statistically is that the frequency of the letter "u" would dramatically change from one section to the next, but the meaning of the words doesn't change at all.
So you have to look at WHAT changed in the VMS. If a common word gets written essentailly the same way but one character was dropped later on, then ask yourself what does that mean? Was that a substantive change? A change in language? Or was it just an easier way to write that particular vord or chunk or syllable?