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>those people aren't quoting doge in 2025

Could you explain what this means? Is this article quoting doge?

There was a clear attempt at the doge meme format, yes:

> very scientific. much engineering.

Emphasis on attempt because you're supposed to use words with grammatically incorrect modifiers, and the first one doesn't. (Even the second one doesn't seem entirely incorrect to me? I'm not a native speaker though.) "many scientific, so engineering" for example would have worked.

I assume they, or most likely their LLM, tried too hard to follow the most popular sequence (very, much, wow) and failed at it.

You'd think it would be easy to write "very engineering, much scientific". LLMs work in mysterious ways.

"Much engineering was required" Archaic but still used a bit in articles or to give a certain vibe.

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