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I sometimes see posts on social media that have such poor grammar & spelling that I can't even figure out what the person is trying to say. Then someone else will relpy as if it is perfectly understandable and I'm just staring at it wondering how on earth they managed to work it out. Is it the same superpower as understanding toddler speak, or a complete skill set on its own.
One of the more recent ones I saw a woman was talking about going shopping, and had something along the line of "git husband fine I have ordered more" and someone managed to translate that to wanting to know if she could return some items for a refund because her husband received a fine. I was just trying to figure out why she was calling her husband a git if he was fine with her shopping spree!
Oh man some of the jobs we get through our ticketing system at work from the front-line teams are like this... we can spend more time trying to work out what they're trying to say than actually working on the issue. Often our interpretations are wildly wrong too.
Also, clever of you to include a spelling mistake ('relpy') in the post, very meta - what do I win for picking it up? :D
Oh yeah, obviously I did that on purpose to see if anyone was paying attention. You get to choose either a gold star ⭐️ or an elephant stamp 🐘
OOO elephamant stamp pleaseee!!!! haha
I see this on Reddit often. It’s either intentional for engagement purposes, autocorrect shenanigans, or a bot post.