Recently I got back a bizarre review. The paper was accepted, but... Here are some sentences from the review (with my C++ style comments):
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1) No conclusion is given. // ???
2) Each word should be enough comprehensible even in its first appearance in the paper.
// The next time I'll give a link to Webster's!
3) "The first protocol works .. but has 2 messages" in the introduction is not easy to follow. What is "messages" in this phrase?
// Protocols have messages. No, really!
4) Some expression like a=(a_0, ..,a_{n-1}) in introduction are not immediately understandable. (One needs to wait until sect.2 whose precise definition is given.) (Or this notation is common in this topic.)
// In THIS topic, we use this notation to denote vectors!
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The reviewer's confidence was "medium"!