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I dunno. Sometimes there's just a scenario that isn't really easy to fit into a meaningful phrase, and that shouldn't happen too often.

"FUUUCK" is awfully good at conveying the seriousness of the error, and "aslfkhsdf37" ensures that the string is unique, so you can pinpoint it instantly in your gigantic codebase.

The fact is, it kind of works. Something like "missing record (line 38)" doesn't indicate the severity, there might be 10 different "missing record" error strings in your codebase, and somehow in real life, line numbers and filenames never seem to quite match up like they should (transcompilation, async callbacks, and so on.)

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