The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[Jorge_Stolfi]

I agree with this assessment, too much freedom, fit isn't good without some type of modification.

Not "too much freedom", not at all.

Again, the longest entry in the SBJ is that "Rooster" recipe, which is actually seven separate sub-recipes for seven parts of the bird: (1) unspecified (presumably the meat), then (2) head, (3) fat, (4) intestines, (5) gizzard lining, (6) quills, (7) eggs.  Sub-recipes 1 and 3-6 start with 主治  = "main use(s)", entries 2 and 7 only with 主 = "mainly"  (then 杀鬼 = "kills demons" and 下血闭 = "drains blocked blood", respectively). Those are all the occurrences of 主 in that recipe.

The longest parag of the SPS has five occurrences of daiin (as words or suffixes), which are claimed to correspond to the starts of sub-recipes 1,2,4,5, and 7.  There is one occurrence of laiin (as a word), which is claimed to correspond to the start of sub-recipe 6. There are also two occurrences of dair; one (as a word) is claimed to correspond to the start of sub-recipe 3, the other (as a suffix) would be in the middle of sub-recipe 1, the longest one.

The evidence supporting those claims is that the distances between those words in the SPS are very close to the distances between the occurrences of  主 in that SBJ recipe.  This is true whether one counts words or EVA characters in the SPS, whether one considers only the occurrences of daiin (which give four distances) or those seven occurrences of daiin, dair, and laiin (which give six distances).  In spite of the fact that those distances vary by a more than a factor of three.   

See my reply to @dashtofsk for an estimate of how unlikely it is that those numerical matches are mere chance coincidences.  Even ignoring the other coincidences (both parags are the longest in their files, both words are the most common, the average parag lengths, etc.)

my last 2 questions got ignored

I am sorry, I haven't been able to keep up.  Let me check again...

(I could blame that oversight on one of the many "original features" of this MyBB forum software.  Suppose you check "Unread new posts" on the home page and see that there are 5 new ones on the Chinese thread. You read post 1 (the earliest one), and decide to reply. When you send the reply, the thread view is repositioned to show your reply at the end of the thread.  Unless you remember that there were more new posts, and manually back-scroll/back-page to them, you will miss posts 2-5.  And yet the software marks them as "read"...)

All the best, --stolfi