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(07-05-2026, 10:48 AM)nablator Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.For example Q13 has few oda and fewer eod (maybe just one, or none because there is a small space in oteeo dy You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ) unlike Q20. Large discrepancies between large sections are impossible to explain away as normal statistical fluctuations of the same Currier B language; there must be something causing them. It could be a consequence of variable constraints set by initial conditions and generation rules, I don't see why not.
Looking at the various dot-cloud maps of various statistics posted by various people, I would say that the "Language A vs Language B" is an oversimplification. As I see it, in those maps each section is its own fairly compact cloud of points. Herbal is the exception, in that it consists of two well-separated clouds, which are more different from each other than any other two clouds. The clouds, including those two, overlap but remain distinct; they are not a single stretched cloud, not are they all contained in ether Herbal-A or Herbal_B.
It seems likely that the VMS is not the original creation of a single Author. Rather, each section of the VMS was probably coped or translated from a different source book, probably by a different author. Herbal would then be the merging of two such ur-books.
In that case, the mere change of topic and style could cause significant differences in all statistics, even if they are all the same language. Imagine comparing an English cookbook, an English tourist guide book, and an English computer programming manual.
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may not be enough to explain the differences between Herbal-A and Herbal-B, so there may also have been a change of dialect and/or of spelling system. Consider a book in English that spells the consonant of "the" as "th" and an older one that spells it "y". Or a book in German and one in Letzeburgish...
All the best, --stolfi