Guccifer 2.0: DNC's servers hacked by a lone hacker

Re:Guccifer 2.0: DNC's servers hacked by a lone hacker by umanwizard on Thursday June 16, 2016 @02:30AM (#11914396)

Those automatic translations are wrong. The name you cited means "Felix Edmundovich" (or "Felix, son of Edmund")

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Re:Guccifer 2.0: DNC's servers hacked by a lone hacker by extortionist on Thursday June 16, 2016 @05:43AM (#11915045)

Russian names are generally given name then patronymic (i.e. 'son of' or 'daughter of') then family name. A person is formally addressed by their given and patronymic names.

In this case Felix Edmundovich would refer to Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Dzerzhinsky

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Re:Guccifer 2.0: DNC's servers hacked by a lone hacker by derFunk on Thursday June 16, 2016 @03:04AM (#11914505)

I agree. This leads to the question what the heck Bing is translating here.

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Re:Guccifer 2.0: DNC's servers hacked by a lone hacker by loblollyboy on Thursday June 16, 2016 @10:05AM (#11916167)

It's algorithm is probably associating words or ideas with equivalent but not identical best match in English - if you translate First Patronymic of some famous dude (famous enough that the bingbot has a lot of Russian and English text about them to learn from) it'll spit out the English First Last - as the patronymic will rarely be used in English articles about them. In that way First-Patronymic serves as sort of a dual-index on the Russian half of the Russian-English translation. Just a guess

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