[Blog Post] A Universal Template

[ReneZ]

But if there is a very plausible missing word, then why is this word missing in the first place? There must have been something working against its inclusion.

This depends, of course, on how the text generation worked. A system to generate meaningless text will work quite differently from a system to encode a plaintext.

In case there is a plaintext behind it all, one theoretical possibility would be a nomenclator, or more specifically a numbering (enumeration) system. Then, a valid word might be a very rare word, which does not appear in the extant part of the MS. One could even imagine that a vocabulary was set up at the beginning, and some words simply do not occur in the entire text, even the parts that were generated or planned, but have not come down to us.
(We really do not know how much of the original we are missing).

This would also work in case the apparent words only encode syllables.

In case the text were generated ad hoc, and is meaningless, the cause would be a very different one. This as yet unknown cause would still need to include an explanation why there is such a clear word grammar.