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dexdex · (This post was last modified: 19-08-2025, 11:25 AM by dexdex.)

(19-08-2025, 10:45 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
(19-08-2025, 10:17 AM)dexdex wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Rene, you mentioned there are difficulties with this hypothesis. I'm curious, can you think of other ones in addition to the ones I mentioned?

It is all subjective, of course, but the main problem for me is that so much planning and attention has gone into the book, that the 'just a prop' idea isn't entirely satisfactory.
I recently decided to check a feeling I have long had, about the frequency distribution of the labels, in particular the zodiac labels.
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I still want to add some other things to that, so I had not yet mentioned this, but this is perhaps a good occasion.
Note that this is not proof of anything, but it is one of the things that shapes my opinion.

Yes, the idea that labels have a non-zipfian distribution (as they should) is a thing that makes me think that some information is there. However, the built vocabulary + imitated books of a certain type might also explain some of those aspects. The hardest part is that some label words do happen in other 'books' - though perhaps this is merely accidental and an artifact of the word generation: similar words were regenerated while imitating word structure of typical labels. Or it's an artifact of a self-copy method. I will read that page as I haven't seen it yet.