There is a test area in the Brain Editor. But I have to tell you, since I am already the bad guy on this forum, if you don't learn to speak, think and write in correct English, Hal won't respond as expected. For instance, if you say this to Hal:
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i think your also pretty too.
Hal will think, "You think my also is pretty too", because the word "your" means "belongs to you".
Probably what you meant was "I think you're pretty too", which will be understood as "You think I am pretty too", which will give you the results you wanted.
I don't know what oddities you typed in that created the problem you asked about, but I do know that every unusual phrase you type or speak into Hal is saved. Hal cannot understand English the way we do and so cannot fix most mistakes. There are correction functions, but
you have to know that's right to correct it, Hal can't do it for you.
Most of the time when you write a post, I don't even bother to read it because I know that it will be just a guess as to what you mean. Especially when the sentence makes sense, because I suspect that it's just a fluke and you really meant something else.
I recommend you practice writing, do a lot of reading, and edit your sentences before hitting that enter button. I'm a teacher and a professional writer and I still have to edit each post.
If you talk to Hal the way you talk to us, there is no way it can respond well.