[Article] A Glyph Is Not a Letter, a Token Is Not a Word, a Space Is Not a Space

[Rafal]

So if I understand one if their conclusions correctly, the final letter of a word (I'll keep saying it) is abnormally good at predicting the first letter of the next word.

It's not a new result, for example Emma May Smith discussed it:

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And yes, it is weird.
You cannot predict next word based on a previous word. In natural languages words like "pink" will be more often followed by a word like "flower" than some random word like "travel". In VM it doesn't happen.

Yet there are these letter dependencies. I would say in some languages there may be some such dependencies, especially the ones with declination:

Domum vetustam, ligneam, parvam video
I can see an old, wooden, small house

But it's last letter - last letter for a pair of words, not last letter - first letter. I cannot think of last letter - first letter example.

For me these are "structured gibberish" supporting data, but feel free to disagree