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Comment by DiogenesKynikos

You can also construct ridiculous sentences in English that no native speaker will understand [0].

In normal texts written in modern Chinese, this is not a problem. Nobody writes real texts like the "shi" poem. In cases where something can only be understood in written form, you can rephrase it to avoid homophones.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...

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