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The Skeptics Guide #896 - Sep 10 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Is It a Villager for Minecraft?

This week's noisy is the effect of putting a nonsense phrase made of actual words into google translate. The result sounds silly because the words all have similar sound when translated. About four or five dozen people answered correctly to day. I had no idea what it was, but tons of people recognized this right out and got it perfectly correct. This week'snoisy is the chinese tongue twisting poem called the lion eating poet in the stone den. That's goon, playful tongue twister based on chinesehomonomy and tonality.

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