Re:Wikipedia starts work on $2.5M internet search engine pro...
by coldpie on Monday February 15, 2016 @08:44AM
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Yeah, it's super weird. I'm usually pretty understanding of corporate communication, especially when it's going to be public, but those paragraphs are just bizarrely phrased. "Ideation," "retrospecting", "beings," "universe," frequent references to a "rocket." It reads like one of those crazy-people websites from the 90s with a dozen different fonts.
Re:Wikipedia starts work on $2.5M internet search engine pro...
by chris_wot on Monday February 15, 2016 @09:00AM
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Her native language is Russian and country she was born in was Russia. I always assumed that was the reason the language used is like this.
I've been critical of her "rocket" imagery, but I like to think I'm understanding about the odd use of English in the rest of her comments. Especially as I'm a monolinguist, heavens only knows how I would sound if I tried to learn and speak Russian amongst Russians...
Re:Wikipedia starts work on $2.5M internet search engine pro...
by coldpie on Monday February 15, 2016 @11:36AM
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Thanks, I did wonder if she is a native-English speaker or not. It didn't have any of the telltale grammatical or sentence construction errors, just really weird word choice.
Re:Wikipedia starts work on $2.5M internet search engine pro...
by nickpsecurity on Monday February 15, 2016 @12:30PM
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That makes sense. Could be. I'm with you on heaven knows how retarded I'd probably sound trying a foreign language haha.
I mean, there's certainly styles I'm unfamiliar with. I'm always open to new experiences. Could be the case here. Hers just instantly set off red flags in my intuition. I hope she didn't always write like that as it might mean whoever brought her in either fell for a con or were part of it.