It's been encrypted pretty naively, pretty simplistically, but it's actually an English sentence that's been somehow scrambled; but scrambled in a reversible way.

它被天真地，相当简单地加密了，但是它实际上是一个被加密的英语句子,但是加密方式是可逆的。

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What it is doing, that's another bad English sentence, but what it is doing?

它本质上也就是说，对于给定的两个东西，它们是不是指向同一个引用？

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