Why do you think Sedaris uses nonsense jumbles of letters— meismslsxp and palicmkrexjs, for example—in several places? How would his essay be different had he used the real words instead?

David Sedaris sprinkles scrambled nonsense words like "meimslxsp" and "lgpdmurct" into his essay His purpose is to illustrate his adult self returning to study the French language in Paris. He finds the experience "nerve-racking". Words and meanings are confusing which is reflected by the nonsense words.