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Re:Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal ... by remarkEon on Saturday April 08, 2017 @03:11PM (#14068464)
I haven't read enough broken English to take a gander at what the native language is for the authors of that...manifesto. Anyone have a good guess? There's some pretty common mistakes throughout ("peoples" for people, "Americans' having" for "Americans have").
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Re:Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal ... by anotherturn on Saturday April 08, 2017 @03:13PM (#14068480)
It's likely to have been run through an author obfuscation tool which mangles the language to avoid stylometry detection.
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Re:Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal ... by remarkEon on Saturday April 08, 2017 @03:19PM (#14068511)
I hadn't thought of that. Interesting.
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Re:Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal ... by pilsetnieks on Saturday April 08, 2017 @04:20PM (#14068795)
There's plenty of omitted articles (which is indicative of Slavic language speakers,) but at one point it devolves into a kind of caveman speak, so it's likely intentional.
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Re:Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal ... by corndoge on Saturday April 08, 2017 @03:14PM (#14068486)
Most likely an American trying to write in an Eastern European accent.
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Re:Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal ... by tomjakubowski on Saturday April 08, 2017 @03:42PM (#14068609)
Yeah, it's so over the top that it reads like a native English speaker's intentional obfuscation.
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Re:Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal ... by tyingq on Saturday April 08, 2017 @07:34PM (#14069660)
I immediately thought of the "Opulence, I has it" commercials from DirecTV.
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Re:Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal ... by cyphunk on Saturday April 08, 2017 @06:07PM (#14069319)
this. and probably an american that had not lived outside the US long enough to notice how over the top the effort comes off as.
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