Shadow brokers dump more NSA data

Re:Shadow brokers dump more NSA data by omouse on Monday October 31, 2016 @01:18PM (#12838808)

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.

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Re:Shadow brokers dump more NSA data by Bartweiss on Monday October 31, 2016 @01:58PM (#12839255)

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.

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Re:Shadow brokers dump more NSA data by Florin_Andrei on Monday October 31, 2016 @02:35PM (#12839648)

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

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