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From: philabs!micomvax!musocs!mcgill-vision!mouse@nyu.arpa  (der Mouse)
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Subject: Re: Repeated words answer
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In article <1036@theory.cs.cmu.edu>, dld@theory.cs.cmu.edu (David Detlefs) writes:
> [about repeated word sentences]
>	Police!
>	Police police.
....
>	Police police police police police.

> Etc....I have to stop now.  "Police" is becoming a meaningless text
> string...

Indeed.  I find this will happen with any word, if you examine it
enough.  My favorite example is "sock".

					der Mouse

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