Anybody heard of one of these transmissions ?

I have heard many primary English speakers do just as bad as that.

The person is probably a millennial, true product of our current public school program.

Nope. That’s an old guy. Computers as a second language, not English. Most millennials wouldn’t know to try and call it a torqueflite to begin with. And I say most, aren’t you a millennial Rani?