Comment on Regarding an unpaid bill

• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That is actually incorrect. This document was transcribed by OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software around 20 years ago, and had since sat in one of my old files folders for about 2 decades.

  I saw the recent old scanned post from 1982 yesterday regarding the 97 year old lady that was thankful for the gifted transistor radio. I found it funny of course, and it reminded me that I had this old scanned letter, along with the transcription, sitting somewhere in an old files folder.

  Sorry I didn’t bother nitpicking and proofreading every last word before I posted it, I just remembered ‘hey, I have an old funny document, where the fuck did I store it?’

  It was only after I finally found and posted it that I went back to finally read over it again, and of course by then every other commenter here started losing their shit over one word in the middle of a large word salad that unfortunately happens to be offensive, which was originally typed before I was even born.

  TL;DR - No, I was not aware that derogatory word was present in the original image, I had simply forgot after 20 years. It’s not the end of the world my dude, but at least Lemmy’s filters automatically removed it from the transcribed version.

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  • agent_nycto@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah I saw the other comment right before I saw this response. Sorry I wasn’t psychic and knew you didn’t bother to read things you post.

    It’s a funny post, despite the slur.

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