18-05-2026, 12:29 AM
(17-05-2026, 10:56 PM)Dunsel wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.And here's another thought along that line. No mistakes? If you're creating a hoax like the one I described, mistakes are irrelevant. Wrote the wrong letter? So what, now we have a hapax token.
In self-citation, copying words and modifying them IS the text generation method. Every word is a "mistake" in the sense that it's a modification of a source word. The hapax legomenon isn't a mistake — it's a moment where the modification produced a form that happened not to be repeated. The word "daiin" with 836 instances isn't more "correct" than the hapax "You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view." on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. — both were produced by the same process. One was used as a source for further copying, the other wasn't.
The scribe's real challenge is managing repetition. If you copy with too few modifications, you produce text like "qokeedy.qokeedy.qokeedy.qotey.qokeey.qokeey.otedy" on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. — which doesn't look like language. So you modify: substitute a glyph, add or remove a prefix, combine elements. The "mistakes" create the vocabulary. The exact repeats are what the scribe needs to avoid.