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GreenWave

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2. The sentence was: qutb vamp flog derk schwyz jinx.
Wed Nov 9, 2022, 08:55 AM
Nov 2022

One can only speculate how they knew the non-existent English alphabet and concocted a sentence using each letter once and once only! It roughly translates to "Mystic Islamic Saint-Vampire, whoop the brown cow whammy."

Linguists were also baffled by a sentence on the opposite side: Sit on a potato pan Otis.
Chief Linguist Simon N. Garfinkel said, "These sentences are a conundrum. I don't know if I should read it left to right or right to left!"

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