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Some people with schizophrenia invent their own languages and alphabets, and their speech can seem randomly generated in severe cases. Or an alchemist might hav

• DonaldFisk 9y ago
  While it's still worth testing that, my understanding is that it's very difficult for anyone to think up values indistinguishable from random, and this appears to be what we're dealing with here. What I'm proposing is that the words we see are the output of a random process, but that their order appears to be random, in the statistical sense. However, everyone who's studied the text agrees that the glyph distribution within words conforms to a well-defined syntax, and there are significant differences between different parts of the text. My theory explains these. Of course, a well-designed cipher will appear to be random, and the input to the text generation process appears to be just that, but the problem is that there's no way of subsequently decrypting the text, as information (in the mathematical sense, as well as the everyday sense) would be lost.