MSNBC's News Ticker Trips Out, Spits Out Sentences Like an English Gentleman

This is subtly hilarious.

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It's rare when serious news programs break out of their tired formulaic language for something more entertaining. Over at MSNBC, though, all that changed for a brief few minutes thanks to a very strange computer error.

On Way Too Early, the news ticker began spitting out lines that read like an annoying English major who's trying to assert his dominance by throwing words at you that you don't know. Oh, and he's from the 1800s:

LMAO.

Turns out that the lines were somehow coming from an old thread called "make sentence with big words" where users tried to one-up each other with dense sentences.

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