Complex sentence: This was the genesis of a joke that it is possible to make up to 8 errors in a two-letter word, possibly inspired by Catherine the Great, a tsarina of German descent who had a limited command of written Russian.
Split into simpler sentences: This was the gist of a joke that it is possible to make up to 8 errors in a two-letter word. The joke was possibly inspired by Catherine the Great, a tsarina of German descent who had a limited command of written Russian.