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Re:Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal ... by atemerev on Saturday April 08, 2017 @05:46PM (#14069224)
Right. However, things like "caucus" and "SCOTUS" are really unlikely to be written by a Russian, on any English knowledge level. We do make mistakes, but our mistakes are different. In this text, there are too few common mistakes, and too many strange things.
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Re:Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal ... by doktrin on Saturday April 08, 2017 @06:08PM (#14069328)
> things like "caucus" and "SCOTUS" are really unlikely to be written by a Russian, on any English knowledge level

What a weird thing to say. Even the most native of idioms can be learned, and there are plenty of fully bi-tri lingual people in the world.

Mining the text for cultural clues is a fool's errand.

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Re:Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal ... by PeCaN on Saturday April 08, 2017 @11:12PM (#14070234)
> Even the most native of idioms can be learned

the parent's point though was that there's a mismatch between the level of idioms used and the broken grammar used (which is, imo, pretty obviously intentionally obfuscated; it's just… not how a non-native speaker would write it, esp russian)

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