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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That won't work if you use rather idiosyncratic vocabulary or grammar, such as Unabomber did; for example he wrote "clew" for "clue", and used lots of uncommon vocab, so it was easy to narrow him down to "Chicagoan, uni degree or higher".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I donot u derstandd.