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Political Linguistics Toolkit - Gaffes, Phonetics, and Text Transformation

v1.0.0 · Jan 26, 2026 · GPL (>= 3)

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A comprehensive toolkit for political linguistics featuring a museum of famous digital gaffes, phonetic transformation algorithms (Soundex, consonant shifts), QWERTY keyboard geometry for typo simulation, syllable parsing, word blending (portmanteau creation), and text corruption analysis. Originally inspired by the infamous "covfefe" tweet of 2017.

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new 1.0.0 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.0.0 ← 0.1.0 diff Jan 25, 2026
new 0.1.0 Jun 5, 2017