Wednesday, October 04, 2006

...automatic language identification systems, which attempt to determine what language a sample of unknown text is written in, needlessly endanger the sanity and survival of the human race. In particular, such systems fail to take into account that some knowledge has been wisely hidden away from human eyes for millennia, and that such dangerous knowledge is generally preserved in one of a handful of ancient, disturbingly alien languages...
Do not read the whole thing! My mind reels at the vistas of cyclopean horror already spread before it, a nameless terror out of the depths of time which I would by no means visit on our comfortable, hapless readers. Note, however, the first comment, which informs us that "Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fthagn! Ph'nglui mglw'nfah Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!" is identified by the software as Irish. Sláinte!

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