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bradrn
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Re: Confusing headlines

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Two in one day! This one isn’t from a newspaper, but manages to be tremendously confusing all the same:

A portable Common Lisp toolkit for building inspectors

(As one commenter put it, ‘I was excited to learn how building inspectors were using Common Lisp’…)
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Travis B.
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Re: Confusing headlines

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bradrn wrote: Fri May 03, 2024 3:28 pm Two in one day! This one isn’t from a newspaper, but manages to be tremendously confusing all the same:

A portable Common Lisp toolkit for building inspectors

(As one commenter put it, ‘I was excited to learn how building inspectors were using Common Lisp’…)
When I first read the text in bold, before I read the text in parens I reacted in much the same fashion.
Yaaludinuya siima d'at yiseka ha wohadetafa gaare.
Ennadinutha gaare d'ate ha eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.
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