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Re:Wikipedia starts work on $2.5M internet search engine pro... by chris_wot on Monday February 15, 2016 @09:00AM (#11103396)
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...

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Re:Wikipedia starts work on $2.5M internet search engine pro... by coldpie on Monday February 15, 2016 @11:36AM (#11104228)
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.
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Re:Wikipedia starts work on $2.5M internet search engine pro... by nickpsecurity on Monday February 15, 2016 @12:30PM (#11104603)
That makes sense. Could be. I'm with you on heaven knows how retarded I'd probably sound trying a foreign language haha.
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