tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1291147930399569160.post82901736583106403..comments2024-03-21T09:39:36.523+11:00Comments on Ἡλληνιστεύκοντος: Lerna VIIb: Lemma counts and proportion of text recognisedopoudjishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106433476518749382noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1291147930399569160.post-25262251361405444062009-08-07T18:12:57.874+10:002009-08-07T18:12:57.874+10:00An inevitable consequence of words, like defects, ...An inevitable consequence of words, like defects, having normal distributions, I'd have thought. But you know more about it than I do; feel free to expand!opoudjishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02106433476518749382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1291147930399569160.post-69841094206563024972009-07-18T20:11:34.694+10:002009-07-18T20:11:34.694+10:00Keep on with this great presentation... It's a...Keep on with this great presentation... It's a treasure of well-presented knowledge even for a layman like me... With your every post I learn two or three (or more) new things, I get some new insight.<br /> Today, f.e., and among many others, I found it interesting that the percentages of word knowledge for the good understanding of a language are similar to those for a good quality industrial production (six-sigma theories and so on). Life's own quality controls?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1291147930399569160.post-54549561643393392542009-07-16T21:13:40.718+10:002009-07-16T21:13:40.718+10:00Well, I don't know. I once decided to deciphe...Well, I don't know. I once decided to decipher a poster written in French, a language in which my natural and unfettered capacity for human communication is decidedly fettered. I was able to understand the whole thing, with some reference to the pictures, with the exception of one preposition: did it mean 'before' or 'after' the date which followed it? I posted to Conlang, and the answer was that it meant 'as of' the date in question, and so in effect 'before'.John Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452247999156925669noreply@blogger.com