An intriguing idea, that does not *appear to* work, unfortunately!
The Distance-2 repetitions provide more numerous and more linguistically familiar examples. Theoretically, with the use of numbers (one by one, two by two, etc.), there could be an unlimited number of possibilities for vord-1, but this also implies there is no variation in vord-2. However, this is problematic when there are multiple choices and few repetitions for vord-2.
Other D-2 repetitions can use the same vord-1 and different examples for the middle vord. (day to day, day by day, day after day)
The analogy with "language" is problematic when the texts used are historical standards of medieval literature. The VMs content might not measure up. The VMs text might include various emotional interjections (my oh my, woe upon woe) and could be some sort of historical, religious or superstitious rant, prayer or incantation where these D-2 phenomena occur more frequently. Such structure might present the appearance of something positive, except there seem to be too many differing variations within the limited VMs vocabulary.
D-1 repetitions don't reveal much about the VMs text. However, they do become important in the examples where D-1 and D-2 share the same vords, which happens in multiple examples, despite limited vocabulary in both investigations. D-1 and D-2 are like simultaneous linguistic equations.
D-1 [vord-1 vord-1] combines with D-2 [vord-1 vord-2 vord-1]. Solve for vord-1. Explain the variations of vord-2. Unfortunately, the number of reasonable, potential solutions seems to be well short of the variety of the VMs examples.
The Distance-2 repetitions provide more numerous and more linguistically familiar examples. Theoretically, with the use of numbers (one by one, two by two, etc.), there could be an unlimited number of possibilities for vord-1, but this also implies there is no variation in vord-2. However, this is problematic when there are multiple choices and few repetitions for vord-2.
Other D-2 repetitions can use the same vord-1 and different examples for the middle vord. (day to day, day by day, day after day)
The analogy with "language" is problematic when the texts used are historical standards of medieval literature. The VMs content might not measure up. The VMs text might include various emotional interjections (my oh my, woe upon woe) and could be some sort of historical, religious or superstitious rant, prayer or incantation where these D-2 phenomena occur more frequently. Such structure might present the appearance of something positive, except there seem to be too many differing variations within the limited VMs vocabulary.
D-1 repetitions don't reveal much about the VMs text. However, they do become important in the examples where D-1 and D-2 share the same vords, which happens in multiple examples, despite limited vocabulary in both investigations. D-1 and D-2 are like simultaneous linguistic equations.
D-1 [vord-1 vord-1] combines with D-2 [vord-1 vord-2 vord-1]. Solve for vord-1. Explain the variations of vord-2. Unfortunately, the number of reasonable, potential solutions seems to be well short of the variety of the VMs examples.
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