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Re:A dubious writing style emerging in science by mmwelt on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @03:43AM (#28139202)
"designs preparing unit" = graphics processing unit (GPU)

"focal preparing unit" = central processing unit (CPU)

"individual computerized collaborator" = personal digital assistant (PDA)

It really is quite hilarious.

Re:A dubious writing style emerging in science by duskwuff on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @04:01AM (#28139294)
And, branching out to biology: "underground creepy crawly province" -- among others -- for "ant colony".

What all of these phrases have in common is that their words have been individually replaced with synonyms, with no regard to context. The author correctly identifies this behavior as characteristic of a text spinning service -- I've seen the same sort of thing frequently in spam.

Re:A dubious writing style emerging in science by duskwuff on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @01:45PM (#28145198)
Followup:

The phrase "underground creepy crawly", in isolation, appears to be unique to whatever text spinning tool is being used to generate these papers. A Google search for that phrase turns up dozens of suspicious papers full of other tortured phrases.

Notably, this phrase is not used by Spinbot. It only uses "insect" or "subterranean insect" as substitutes for "ant".

Re:A dubious writing style emerging in science by barrkel on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @05:37AM (#28139934)
They also sound like mistranslations from round-tripping through another language.
Re:A dubious writing style emerging in science by bodge5000 on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @05:27AM (#28139874)
"language input implement" = keyboard

"muscle directed navigational utensil" = mouse

Re:A dubious writing style emerging in science by BasDirks on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @05:56AM (#28140078)
Keyboard = piano Mouse = rat