"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

General 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.

I 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.

The 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.

That 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.

> 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.

Not necessarily, you're overthinking this. It's just what anyone with basic vernacular knowledge of English but no actual Russian language skills would do to generate 'pseudo-Russian'. It's a pretty common idiom to make an English adjective into a Russian sounding one by adding '-ski' to the end of the word, and then to pluralise it, add -s to that, as in normal English.

So, for many small Russian cats, we have the following:

    'Kitten' -> 'Kittenski' -> 'Kittenskis'

The definition of the '-ski' [1] suffix has some other examples. This advert [2] for yoghurt (and yes, it was for Ski unfortunately, and somehow they spent GBP 8.5 million on it...) from 2003 also used the same formulation. See also 'Eye Dialect' [3] used to show foreign or regional speakers in literature, or the use of a backwards 'R' character to create a faux cyrillic, Russian feel; as seen in the Tetris logo.

    1. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ski
    2. http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/170244/nestle-comes-faux-russian-relaunches-ski
    3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_dialect

I'm delighted that this whole thing led me to a discussion of 'eye dialect'. I've been fascinated by that sort of writing for years, and I never knew it had an actual name.

Sure they would, it was in every silly American movie about evil Russians in the 80s.

"I am Russian, [..] This styling looks intentional to me, and doesn't seem to be Russian"

Well, then I suppose that, if they are Russian, they are doing a great work.

Based 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.

Intentional. 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.

I 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.

Yeah, I also thought it's just clever linguistic invention.

Just my personal opinion, but it feels intentional to me. Not that I think the writer is necessarily a native English speaker.

Curiously some of the server names are misspelled, wouldn't expect that from a dump.

s03.informatik.uni-bremin.de -> uni-bremen

It is hostnames and IP addresses, not DNS names and IP addresses.

I've seen boxes inside organizations where the orgs own domain was typoed.

My first thought reading the post was that it reminds me of Polandball memes.

Intentional I think