BERLIN — Most people dread a letter from the tax office, so spare a thought for the German man who got 1,700 of them. In an administrative meltdown worthy of a Franz Kafka novel, the mountain of ...

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This would show up in an unusual number of repeats. Because more of these letters would have been common German letters like E and N, there would be more repeats than in a random position.