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It's quite fascinating. There are definitely some sentences that are nonsensical, but the problem is, there are often entire paragraphs that seem internally nonsensical in text written by what I assume to be humans, too.

Some more examples. Input (from wikipedia page on WW2):

>In Europe, Germany and Italy were becoming more aggressive. In March 1938, Germany annexed Austria, again provoking little response from other European powers. Encouraged, Hitler began pressing German claims on the Sudetenland, an area of Czechoslovakia with a predominantly ethnic German population.

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Meanwhile, Italy and France continued to make war on Germany, and in July 1938 they annexed the small kingdom of Yugoslavia without much fanfare. Meanwhile, in 1941, Churchill went to London to ask for the declaration of war on Germany. There, he argued that if it took Germany three months to attack Britain, and he said the war could be won within a matter of weeks, then Britain could afford to stand back while the Nazis moved across Europe. The Prime Minister's position was endorsed by other senior government ministers, and the British Foreign Office was given the power to intervene without the Commons' approval by the War Cabinet under Winston Churchill.

Churchill was also able to get Churchill's cabinet to approve the idea of establishing British military bases in the Far East. The British were convinced by their advisers at the time that the Russians might

-------------------------------- Input (from a random 0 upvote reddit thread on /r/wow):

>The servers have been having instability issues for the last few days. It's probably some residual issues from the DDOS attack.

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It shouldn't affect normal gameplay, but we are definitely experiencing delays in getting players to the new server. We will update this thread if this bug persists. (UPDATE: The server is back up). We're getting some feedback from the forums where you're encountering problems and we've worked with our technical team to resolve the problem. We will let you know whether you're going to get the newer version or the older version. We apologize for the inconvenience, but the server is more important to us than that tiny little lag spike in performance. (UPDATE: The player population was just too low to be on it). If you experience these issues on the old version, we suggest that you take your data to your data providers and ask them to migrate your character over to the new server. Some players in the forums have reported that there are more players in the game than the matchmaking system permits. This is an issue with the matchmaking system. We have been working with the server owner to fix this issue.




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