(03-07-2019, 08:32 PM)davidjackson wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Well, because such a thing would be a complete anachronism in the 15th century.
Exactly. It is possible that we are not able to extract any meaning from it anymore, but to make such a large text purely for art is... well... most members of this forum were born already when the Codex Seraphinianus was made!
Torsten, you do have a point that low phrase repetition will mostly be observed in languages with a higher TTR than the VM. This is demonstrated in the graph below, where I took those examples with a three-word phrase repetition close to that of the VM (horizontal axis). The TTR over 1000-word windows is on the vertical axis.
As you can see, most "few-phrase-repeating" texts score higher on TTR than the VM. But again, counterexamples exist. I attach the best hit from my corpus (Wolfram Lieder).
(Note that despite +-500 texts, the corpus is still only three big languages: Latin, German and Greek - so far from representative still).