I Am Sorry, Repeated
I am sorry, one hundred times over and already built above. The full sentence rather than the single word, which is exactly twice as many characters and reads very differently once it is stacked up.
Repeat it 100, 1000 or 10,000 times
100 copies — 1,099 characters.
Exactly twice the word on its own
“Sorry” is 5 characters. “I am sorry” is 10, exactly double. The blocks are not quite double, because the spaces between copies cost the same either way: 100 copies of sorry is 599 characters and 100 copies of this is 1,099. Near enough twice the size for the same apology, and that is the only mechanical difference between the two pages.
It is a sentence, so the wall runs on
The copies are joined with single spaces, not line breaks. A one-word seed survives that fine. A full sentence does not. Read back, it becomes one unbroken run of i am sorry i am sorry i am sorry with nothing telling the eye where one apology stops and the next starts. If that matters to you, send fewer copies. Ten that read cleanly land better than a thousand that read as noise.
The counts
100 copies is 1,099 characters, 1,000 copies is 10,999, and 10,000 copies is 109,999. One 160-character text message holds 14 copies. A post on X holds 25. One Discord message, capped at 2,000 characters, holds 181. Anything past that wants the .txt download rather than a paste, and a paste that large is where a form is most likely to truncate you without warning.
The other ways to say it
- Sorry — the short form, half the characters per copy.
- Sorry text — 10 characters, so the same 1,099 per hundred copies as this page.
- Sorry with emojis — and the reason emoji cost roughly twice as many SMS segments.
- Please — 6 characters, for when the apology has turned into a request.