In the previous paper (I haven't seen the latest one and I'm not even sure I want to) he equated x (rare character) to the letters u/v and f and the y to the letter "a". He must only have looked at the labels and not the body of text as a whole.
No language, especially a Romance language, would have no "a" letters in the middles of words and no Romance language (or any western language) would have only 50 or so instances of the letters u/v and f in more than 200 pages of text.
It might be possible to explain away the "a" by changing the word breaks, but there's no way to explain away the paucity of u/v/f letters.
No language, especially a Romance language, would have no "a" letters in the middles of words and no Romance language (or any western language) would have only 50 or so instances of the letters u/v and f in more than 200 pages of text.
It might be possible to explain away the "a" by changing the word breaks, but there's no way to explain away the paucity of u/v/f letters.