30-03-2019, 07:11 PM
Emma: to be clear, "deception" is low on my list of possibilities. I think there are several indications that the text is linguistic. But if it is not, wouldn't it automatically mean we are dealing with something that's made to look more language-like than it is? The only third option is that the language-like properties we see in script, statistics and layout are an UNintended side effect of whatever else is going on. But that feels so unlikely.