[split] Percentage of word types that occur more than once

[Torsten]

These can also be "filler words" that mean nothing, independent of the rest of the text. Perhaps this is one of the reasons for the relatively high percentage of unique words in the VMS. To check this, one would have to look at these words at the end of lines or between plants (are they unique or not?).

The existence of meaningless filler words would indicate some kind of encoding. Therefore this would be still a counter argument against a natural language. 

Currier argued this way "The ends of the lines contain what seem to be, in many cases, meaningless symbols: little groups of letters which don’t occur anywhere else, and just look as if they were added to fill out the line to the margin. Although this isn’t always true, it frequently happens." (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).

Words typical for a line final position can also occur in other positions (see for instance You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).