>>942146307
There is simply no coherent scenario in which “hot” could be a typographical mutation of “mid.” The two words are anatomically incompatible from a keyboard mechanics standpoint. The first letter alone, “m,” is located on the bottom right of a QWERTY keyboard, while “h” resides in the middle left region of the home row. For a substitution like that to occur, a typist’s entire hand would need to teleport approximately four inches north and two columns left, skipping over several intermediate keys.
Then there’s the internal vowel: “i” versus “o.” While these are at least neighboring keys, the probability of hitting “o” instead of “i” under normal typing conditions is already low, and even then, a person who made only that mistake would end up with “mod,” not “hot.” Finally, we reach the end of the word, where “d” (bottom row, left side) would somehow have to transform into “t” (home row, just above it). Even granting that substitution, the typist would have had to simultaneously shift their left hand upward while the right hand performed a completely unrelated lateral motion across the board. The choreography required is so complex that one might as well assume a mild earthquake or a small seizure occurred mid-sentence.
This assertion is so fucking stupid, because the error pattern necessary to transform “mid” into “hot” would require the typist to abandon all conventional muscle memory, execute three discrete spatial displacements, and coincidentally assemble an entirely valid English adjective that perfectly fits the sentence’s romantic context. The probability of that happening accidentally is on par with randomly mashing the keyboard and producing a grammatically correct haiku.
