• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    If you think of them as errors made while copying letter by letter from a clean source, sure. But if it’s a scribe copying sentence by sentence from scribbled notes taken during the sermon (say), the first error would make the scribe more likely to misread the second word as well.