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Hard to tell whether the broken English in the post is real or intentional.
by AdmiralAsshat 10y ago
Hard to tell whether the broken English in the post is real or intentional.
- CoryG89 10y agoJust my personal opinion, but it feels intentional to me. Not that I think the writer is necessarily a native English speaker.
- wcummings 10y agoIntentional I think
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- ethanbond 10y agoBased on the last paragraph > How bad do you want it to get? When you are ready to make the bleeding stop, payus, so we can move onto the next game. The game where you try to catch us cashing out! Swag us out! it sounds intentional. "Swag us out" is pretty colloquial.
- omouse 10y agoIntentional. It is a happy route to wearing glasses and a beard to deceive the world on your identificational categories. It's clever because someone will not usually be writing in this manner. The only good identifiers are "Amerikanskis" and "USSA" which could unintentionally slip into conversation on Facebook or Twitter and which are unique enough.
- Bartweiss 10y agoI disagree on those as identifiers - they're pretty clearly conscious affectations. 'amerìkānskī' is an existing word, but it's an adjective describing American-style things. Converting it (via English rules) into a mocking noun for Americans appears novel, and I can only find a few instances of people using it as a joke on forum threads. Plenty unique, then, but not something the writer would likely stumble into using ever again.
- Florin_Andrei 10y agoYeah, I also thought it's just clever linguistic invention.
- sigmar 10y ago"yeah, [that bad english is a] security precaution. Much safer to be from nowhere than from somewhere you can be tested on, see Guccifer2" -thegrugq https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/793104621828907008 https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/793104621828907008
- turnip123942 10y agoMy first thought reading the post was that it reminds me of Polandball memes.
- Bartweiss 10y agoGeneral consensus from the last round holds that it's intentional. They may not actually be native English speakers, but it would be hard to tell because the affected, consciously bad English overrides unconsciously bad English. I suppose maybe a linguist could comb through it all for subtler stuff like sentence structure. "Amerikanskis" alone is a pretty serious tip-off. "amerìkānskī" comes up as a Cyrillic adjective for American-style, but I can't find any non-parody instances of people converting it into a pseudo-English noun.
- atemerev 10y agoI am Russian, and I am a native speaker of bad Russian English. :) This is not it. A Russian wouldn't use "Amerikanski" as a pejorative, we have "pindosy" for that. And we'd never use "SCOTUS", for variety of reasons. This styling looks intentional to me, and doesn't seem to be Russian.
- zzzcpan 10y agoThe post uses "Amerikanskis" (with the "s" at the end) and it's a big tell. Only people who do not understand any Cyrillic language could come up with something like that.
- Bartweiss 10y agoThat was my thought exactly. Someone took a Cyrillic adjective, treated as an English noun, and then applied an English pluralization to it. It's not the first use of the word, but all of the other examples I can find are very similar English-language jokes/insults.
- dsl 10y ago> Someone took a Cyrillic adjective, treated as an English noun, and then applied an English pluralization to it. So a Russian with a deep background in linguistics intentionally bastardized something so it looks like an English speaker trying to sound Russian. Clever. An actual English speaker wouldn't even know the root word existed.
- revelation 10y agoCuriously some of the server names are misspelled, wouldn't expect that from a dump. s03.informatik.uni-bremin.de -> uni-bremen
- dsl 10y agoIt is hostnames and IP addresses, not DNS names and IP addresses. I've seen boxes inside organizations where the orgs own domain was typoed.