The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[oshfdk]

But what I said in the post above was that I see the exact opposite:  final m m seems underrepresented at the ends of paragraph that we can see clearly (i.e. those with clear indents).  It does not seem common at paragraph end, let alone more likely to occur at paragraph end.  It underperforms.  Quite badly.

This would be expected, if the final m was used as "etc.". It would end paragraphs when there is no space left to finish the paragraph on the same line, but the remaining part is too short to put it into a line on its own. When there is plenty of space, as in the case with clear indents, there is no need for "etc.", the paragraph is just written out in full.