GRGR: Zipf

[David Casseres]

Autocunnilingus?

On 12/5/05, Glenn Scheper <glenn_scheper at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > It can furthermore be shown that either from speech-sounds,
> > or from roots and affixes, or from words or phrases, that the
> > more complex any speech-element is phonetically,
> > the less frequently it occurs.
>
> I applied the following sed scripts to convert the already
> [a-z]* character sequences of GR and KJV to simple lengths
> (x), or alternating vowels and consonants (~syllables) (ab).
>
> s/[a-z]/x/g
>
>         and
>
> s/[aeiou][aeiou]*/1/g
> s/[bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz][bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz]*/2/g
> s/1/a/g
> s/2/b/g
>
>
> KJV:
>   19891 x
>  130850 xx
>  221476 xxx
>  175827 xxxx
>   95514 xxxxx
>   52680 xxxxxx
>   39415 xxxxxxx
>   24782 xxxxxxxx
>   16642 xxxxxxxxx
>    7495 xxxxxxxxxx
>    3836 xxxxxxxxxxx
>    1702 xxxxxxxxxxxx
>     873 xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     349 xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>      89 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>      15 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>       4 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>       2 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> GR:
>   17374 x
>   55985 xx
>   72168 xxx
>   61683 xxxx
>   42247 xxxxx
>   29609 xxxxxx
>   24730 xxxxxxx
>   16247 xxxxxxxx
>   10135 xxxxxxxxx
>    5407 xxxxxxxxxx
>    2562 xxxxxxxxxxx
>    1540 xxxxxxxxxxxx
>     717 xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     219 xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     148 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>      28 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>      15 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>      12 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>       3 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>       1 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>       2 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>       2 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>       1 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>       1 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>       1 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>       1 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> KJV:
>   18132 a
>  145923 ab
>   18993 aba
>   27169 abab
>    2264 ababa
>    9534 ababab
>     600 abababa
>    2168 abababab
>     311 ababababa
>     369 ababababab
>       2 abababababab
>   14003 b
>  128876 ba
>  254205 bab
>   49221 baba
>   79233 babab
>    8953 bababa
>   22779 bababab
>    3658 babababa
>    4621 babababab
>     165 bababababa
>     257 bababababab
>       1 babababababa
>       5 babababababab
>
> GR:
>   10183 a
>   52101 ab
>    5521 aba
>   13165 abab
>    2094 ababa
>    4907 ababab
>    1028 abababa
>    1819 abababab
>     276 ababababa
>     305 ababababab
>      18 abababababa
>      16 abababababab
>       1 ababababababa
>       6 ababababababab
>       1 abababababababa
>   10430 b
>   45680 ba
>   99346 bab
>   23092 baba
>   47267 babab
>    5728 bababa
>   12764 bababab
>    2099 babababa
>    2430 babababab
>     158 bababababa
>     348 bababababab
>      12 babababababa
>      37 babababababab
>       4 bababababababab
>       1 babababababababab
>       1 bababababababababababa
>
> Is there anything to be seen therein?
>
> Yours truly,
> Glenn Scheper
> http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
> glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
> Copyleft(!) Forward freely.
>
>