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Re:Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest ty... by namelosw on Thursday August 22, 2019 @08:07AM (#20767117)
If you speak Chinese, you'll find it's very easy to squeeze sentences in exact same characters. Almost all poems in China (except very modern ones) do this.

It's so easy that people in forums do this a along - being sarcastic or just funny. You could have positive meaning literally, but hide dirty words in structures.

Also because it's so easy that this was defined as serious crime in many dynasties. There were even people committed it by coincidence were sentenced to death.

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Re:Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest ty... by dspillett on Thursday August 22, 2019 @08:18AM (#20767208)
> committed it by coincidence were sentenced to death

So they sentenced themselves to death with an unfortunate sentence structure.

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Re:Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest ty... by zhoujianfu on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:00AM (#20768129)
I believe the correct joke is simply:

So they sentenced themselves to death.

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Re:Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest ty... by dspillett on Thursday August 22, 2019 @12:44PM (#20769940)
Probably, I have a tendency to overcomplicate things, particularly when explaining or otherwise talking to others, which can really wreck jokes...
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Re:Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest ty... by _underfl0w_ on Thursday August 22, 2019 @12:58PM (#20770130)
Talk about a death sentence
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Re:Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest ty... by rv-de on Thursday August 22, 2019 @07:50PM (#20773441)
They literally did.
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Re:Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest ty... by namelosw on Thursday August 22, 2019 @08:57AM (#20767489)
That's a good one. My English is not sufficient to come up with this. There's also a Chinese pun story[0] with 92 characters with the same sound but different tone.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_...

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Re:Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest ty... by d33 on Thursday August 22, 2019 @08:41AM (#20767358)
...the sentenced sentenced themselves to a death sentence with an unfortunate sentence structure?
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Re:Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest ty... by Giornito on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:34AM (#20768487)
I wonder if sentencing like these still happen today.
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Re:Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest ty... by namelosw on Thursday August 22, 2019 @08:22PM (#20773626)
As far as I know, no.
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