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7 Sep 2024 11:26:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Randomly-generated "Finnish" text  
From: Invisible
Date: 5 Jun 2008 03:59:02
Message: <48479cc6$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:

>   Any random text will pass as any random language if, as the article says,
> "if the reader wasn't paying much attention".
> 
>   If you know even the least bit of Finnish, you'll start noticing oddities.
> 
>   Even if you knew nothing about Finnish, from a linguistic point of view
> it could be a bit suspicious that there's absolutely no repeated words in
> that piece of text. This is very rare in any language.

Just for amusement... does the text even vaguely look "Finnish"? As in, 
are most of the words remotely pronouncible?

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