About word length distribution

[tikonen]

If words starting "q" and/or ending "n"/"y" are discounted as mechanically inserted spaces rather than dice rolls, shouldn't they be discounted from the statistics?



Either way, I think if viewing the text like "2 5 7 3 4 8 2 3" this obviously could work. However I can't think of a way to hold it together once accounting for preferences of "words" just at a start-middle-end preference level.

Could it be that the word length is determined randomly for each word and the length is part of the key used to encode the word? Naive example would be a number of additional translations in Caesar cipher or what code table to use.
I guess in this case one would expect to see effect of padding characters at the end of paragraphs where the decided word length is longer than the available text. Not sure if VM has that property.