Koen G > 30-03-2018, 06:01 PM
-JKP- > 30-03-2018, 06:05 PM
(30-03-2018, 05:23 PM)Anton Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.But ol is something highly sequentially repetitive, ol ol is not rare, and there is one instance of ol ol ol.
Anton > 30-03-2018, 06:40 PM
(30-03-2018, 06:05 PM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Almost 50 occurrences of olol and if you include the ones that cross spaces, there are almost 150.
Quote:Anton, should we perhaps make a separate thread about the search for and? The advantage of focusing on one function word is that once we have a few candidates, they can be accurately compared to the distribution in a corpus of any language we want.
davidjackson > 30-03-2018, 10:40 PM
Quote:e = andTo further complicate matters when followed by a vowel initial word it's Ed, not e. And as, not a. Etc
è = is/are (third person singular of essere: to be)
Anton > 30-03-2018, 11:29 PM
Koen G > 31-03-2018, 11:39 AM
-JKP- > 31-03-2018, 01:54 PM
Anton > 31-03-2018, 04:53 PM
Quote:I'm thinking we could locate the most common form for "and" in a range of languages, European but also some plausible others like Turkic and Arabic. Collect a corpus for each language. Calculate frequency for most common form of "and".
Quote:Because we don't know if VMS spaces are word boundaries, you also have to calculate how often the "and" word (in any given language) occurs as a syllable.
davidjackson > 31-03-2018, 07:40 PM
Koen G > 31-03-2018, 07:57 PM