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trevelyan -

"This is not to bash adso. It's just hard to parse terse chinese, as my laughable attempt shows."

No offense taken. I think I can shed some light on what happened in case anyone is curious. It
seems the software saw the following grammatical construction in a position where it seemed
reasonable to have a noun construct, and so bundled them together automatically:

假 - to borrow (VERB)
币 - money (NOUN)
者 - (personal indicator)

What it should have seen was:

使用 - to use (VERB)
假币 - counterfeit money (NOUN)
者 - (personal indicator)

The problem was that the backend database didn't contain the word 假币. So it interpreted 假 as
a verb rather than adjective modifying 币 as part of a larger noun compound. I just added 假币
to the backend database and the software now kicks out "person using counterfeit money".

This is actually a pretty good example of why data entry is so important.



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