25-07-2019, 06:39 PM
This is an interesting question. To properly discuss it, one should understand what are 'labels'.
When I reviewed the important transliterations and defined the IVTFF format, I arrived at the following counts:
299 : Zodiac labels
297 : Loose words that are not apparently a label of anything drawn
195 : Labels of plant parts in the pharma section
76 : Star labels in the Astro/Cosmo section
63 : Nymphs in the bio/balneo section
47 : "Tubes and Tubs" in the bio/balneo section
40 : Containers in the pharma section
With other bits and pieces, the total is 1033.
I have looked more at the zodiac labels than all other ones, so my opinion is largely constrained by that.
The most conspicuous property of the zodiac labels is without a doubt that they do *NOT* follow Zipf's law. Even when some of them repeat up to four times (from memory), they are almost like unique words.
This was confirmed again in Koen's recent TTR experimentation.
When I reviewed the important transliterations and defined the IVTFF format, I arrived at the following counts:
299 : Zodiac labels
297 : Loose words that are not apparently a label of anything drawn
195 : Labels of plant parts in the pharma section
76 : Star labels in the Astro/Cosmo section
63 : Nymphs in the bio/balneo section
47 : "Tubes and Tubs" in the bio/balneo section
40 : Containers in the pharma section
With other bits and pieces, the total is 1033.
I have looked more at the zodiac labels than all other ones, so my opinion is largely constrained by that.
The most conspicuous property of the zodiac labels is without a doubt that they do *NOT* follow Zipf's law. Even when some of them repeat up to four times (from memory), they are almost like unique words.
This was confirmed again in Koen's recent TTR experimentation.
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