The oddities of the bigram "ed" pt. 2: Same as it ever was.

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But you saw You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. I re-posted yesterday, right?   Would that be one of the "unexplained" things that need explaining?

Yes I saw them and liked your first post.

With enough replacements you can transform the distribution of anything into anything and claim that Herbal-A and Herbal-B are not really different languages, but it doesn't prove anything and it doesn't explain why so many transformation are needed and why a gradual change in some spelling/encoding parameters/settings happened throughout the manuscript.

I would agree that they are not "really different" in a hand-waving way, not because these statistics can be made similar by hammering them until they comply, but because the two "languages" have obviously a lot in common and the drift of vocabulary is gradual, continuous, resulting in the V-shaped PCA plot of pages: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.