On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Tim May wrote:
But of course people aren't going to learn new human languages for such an ephemeral and mostly useless reason as to hide their textual clues.
Hence my specification for compatibility with English (so anyone who would speak English would understand the text - my proposal is de facto drastically simplified English), and the requirement for machine translator to Anonglish from English (so the bulk of the work would be done by the machine). If you want something to be actually used, it has to be simple.
It's doubtful that K. would have had any interest in trying to write in some synthetic language, stripped of various stylistic choices and options.
Or that we would want to.
Not for "normal" communication. However, special cases where long-time protection of the nym has to be achieved, and the user has other nyms that could lead to the discovery of his True Name, would require this approach.