[split] What can the structural peculiarities of the VMS tell us about the nature of the underlying text

[nablator]

Getting a particular result does not require intentional, conscious choices rather than emergent properties from a generation process, with some degree of freedom in initial conditions (seeds).

Yeah, I get that—you could possibly explain Currier A and B as a drift, but not the significant differences between the sections. Or am I wrong about that?

For example Q13 has few ody, even fewer oda, and almost no 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. How odd is that (pun intended)? 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.