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What's up with these weird typos?

And is it just me or is there a consistency in the tone, among those who make these weird typos?

It's just weird. Also it's early in the morning and I'm a little addled.



> What's up with these weird typos?

I think sometimes the typos are speech-to-text artifacts. For instance "used that" would be phonetically similar to "used at" and I could see that easily tripping up STT. I know people that use STT and don't review the output before sending so I get weird text messages from them from time to time.


> For instance "used that" would be phonetically similar to "used at"

It was "and use that f Guantanamo" which is not that difficult to understand if you change "f" for "the F word".


Yeah it is just you. Non-American users aren't Russian/soviet bots. It is interesting to see the tactics in discussion being used here: add conspiracy to facts so they seem less plausible.


Have you seen these typos? These aren't just "I don't speak the lingo" typos.

And if I was attempting to bend the narrative, a good tool for that might be a counterargument that, tho apparently strong, is actually weak. Let's not be naive about how this works.




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