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It seems that Google Translate simply output garbage when you input garbage. So it should be indeed a coincidence to get this translation.

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Wow I didn't realize what implicit trust I put in their translation output. Indeed I just tried some other Chinese -> English translation sites and they vary widely on what they output. Is it gibberish chinese characters these translators just guess on? Either way thanks for the insight I clearly put too much assumed faith in their quality/accuracy.

Right, completely gibberish. as a native speaker, I can recognize at most 4 characters, and not even one subsequence makes any sense.

Actually just by shuffling these characters you have a good chance to get some specious translations (adding a punctuation makes it more likely to generate a completed sentence): "祪癁番䔽䔽！" -> "I am so sick!" "獶獶祪灵癁癁癁！" -> "The soul is full of blood!"

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