> If you rarely got to see letters and just saw fragments of words as something like Chinese characters (tokens), could you count the R's in arbitrary words well?
While this seems correct, I'm sure I tried this when it was novel and observed that it could split the word into separate letters and then still count them wrong, which suggested something weird is happening internally.
I just now tried to repeat this, and it now counts the "r"'s in "strawberry" correctly (presumably enough examples of this specifically on the internet now?), but I did find it making the equivalent mistake with a German word (https://chatgpt.com/share/6859289d-f56c-8011-b253-eccd3cecee...):
How many "n"'s are in "Brennnessel"?