09-12-2019, 10:01 PM
Yes, something like "syntax" (I'm sure you meant that in a broad way) does seem to be missing. It's one of the main things I was looking for when I created my concordance of every "word" in the VMS.
There should have been certain kinds of patterns related to the drawings OR related between sections of text even if there were no drawings, and they just didn't seem to be there.
Now, there is a limitation in my concordance... I've only done one pass through the whole manuscript to actually map it (it takes not just months, but years to do it) AND, I respected the spaces. It is possible I didn't find what I expected BECAUSE the spaces are something else (in other words, not necessarily word breaks). I knew this was a possibiity, but you have to start somewhere.
So, that might account for the lack of expected linguistic patterns, but the task of doing it again (it is arduous, difficult, time-consuming work) in such a way as to re-interpret the spaces (which means a certain amount of guessing which are "real" and which ones might not be) is even bigger and I'm not sure even this would yield anything useful. Even when you take out some of the spaces, you are still left with patterns that suggest something other than words and natural grammar.
There should have been certain kinds of patterns related to the drawings OR related between sections of text even if there were no drawings, and they just didn't seem to be there.
Now, there is a limitation in my concordance... I've only done one pass through the whole manuscript to actually map it (it takes not just months, but years to do it) AND, I respected the spaces. It is possible I didn't find what I expected BECAUSE the spaces are something else (in other words, not necessarily word breaks). I knew this was a possibiity, but you have to start somewhere.
So, that might account for the lack of expected linguistic patterns, but the task of doing it again (it is arduous, difficult, time-consuming work) in such a way as to re-interpret the spaces (which means a certain amount of guessing which are "real" and which ones might not be) is even bigger and I'm not sure even this would yield anything useful. Even when you take out some of the spaces, you are still left with patterns that suggest something other than words and natural grammar.