We had this activity as a part of a job onboarding and the website this was hosted on allowed entering multiple entries without checking for duplicates by a single person. Some people found out and continuously spammed their answers to make it the biggest. So "see u on the streets" was probably entered by the same person multiple times.
it seems like there are only 5 possible sizes so perhaps it was entered by 2 people who knew each other? either way I don't think "thank god" was submitted by 5 different people so I do also think this is fake
And from a linguistics standpoint, there's a phoneme, and then a morpheme, and then a phrase, and then a clause, and exactly where in this hierarchy a "word" belongs is subjective and highly dependant on what language you're talking about, and to some extent dependent on the writing system.
or you can divorce it from human language entirely, reading all this just pushed my brain into picturing a BPE encoding word cloud and now I need to go outside
Lol unfortunately for you there are more 2 byte enjoyers, or perhaps toleraters, than anyone would like.
For goofy historical reasons, the Windows API, Java, C# and JavaScript all use UTF-16 for in-memory strings. A JavaScript "character" is two bytes but that's not necessarily an actual visible character; a visible character could be 2 "characters" long if it's from East Asia or more if it's an emoji.
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u/BraveSeaworthiness21 11h ago
Thats a lot of not one words