The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[JoeyB]

I may be misunderstanding but it seems like two issues may be getting mixed together, and I definitely don't understand all the rooster/f105v.32 nuances...

One issue reads historical, FIRST: which SBJ or ZHB version is the right comparator. And SECOND, whether the source text could have existed in the 'right form' around 1400. And I definitely don't have anything useful to add there.

BUT, the other issue seems to be more testable: if this is a positional-distance hypothesis, can the method we use to match also recover the rooster/f105v32-38 pair when we run the whole thing blind? Which files shouldI grab for that?

EG, compare all SPS paragraphs against all SBJ/ZHB entries without preselecting the rooster pair, and ask whether the repeated ones line up well for f105.v32-38 and rooster, compared with other pairings that pop out. Same with daiin/dair/etc pairs, are they popping out better than other plausible pairs.

Is this the right road method-wise? I started looking at and playing with files in the ic.unicamp....Notes/077 folder but before I go too far down the road, if the method is bad I don't want to keep going, and if there are files that are final versions or authoritative I'd want to use those.

thanks,
Joey