The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[tavie]

The evidence for SPS≈SBJ, specifically, includes the crib position matches (主 <-> daiin, 气 <-> Chedy, etc) in about 35 recipe-parag pairs (~50%) of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..  Considering that 4 pages are missing and a few dozen SPS parags were merged by the Scribe into mega-parags with unknown boundaries, the success rate could not be more than ~67%.  Some of those 35 matches are somewhat strained or uncertain, especially when they have only one or two cribs, or the SPS keywords are "spelling variants" like kaiin or dain for daiin. Any one of these, by itself, could argued to be mere coincidence.  But others just cannot be coincidences.  The latter include the 7-crib match between the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ("red rooster") and the longest non-mashed-up SPS parag (f105v.32).  

One cannot dismiss that as coincidence, even if one carefully avoid looking at the numbers.

One absolutely can.  

I know it seems it can't be a coincidence to you.  But you haven't come anywhere near close making your case that it cannot be a coincidence.  

I'm sorry about this.