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Re:Tolkien was right: Scholars conclude Beowulf likely the w... by viko-h on Friday April 19, 2019 @02:41AM (#19697546)
simple & obscure solution: google translate to another language and back to original.
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Re:Tolkien was right: Scholars conclude Beowulf likely the w... by eru on Friday April 19, 2019 @03:00AM (#19697626)
That will add a bit of entropy, but might not be enough.
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Re:Tolkien was right: Scholars conclude Beowulf likely the w... by genera1 on Friday April 19, 2019 @06:45AM (#19698426)
To add additional entropy, you can do, multiple passes, use different sets of languages every time you write or even use different translator than GT
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Re:Tolkien was right: Scholars conclude Beowulf likely the w... by gpderetta on Friday April 19, 2019 @07:48AM (#19698725)
Fun fact of the day: Galactic Pothealer (written in 1969 by PKD) starts with the protagonist doing exactly this to play a game.
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Re:Tolkien was right: Scholars conclude Beowulf likely the w... by jammygit on Friday April 19, 2019 @01:17PM (#19701226)
The secret to the bad grammar in spam emails?
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