'How the Hell Did Document Leak?' – Meta Internal Mail After a News Report

Re:'How the Hell Did Document Leak?' – Meta Internal Mail Af... by nyx on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @01:33PM (#33166232)

And the email purported to have been written by Andy Stone (who does not seem to be Indian) is rife with indicators that it was written by an Indian English speaker:

  * How the hell <report> got leaked? (non-standard conjugation)
  * Why didn't anyone of you bother... ("anyone" for "any one")
  * Put <names> on watchlist. (dropped article)
  * Send me ... for last one month. (dropped article)

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Re:'How the Hell Did Document Leak?' – Meta Internal Mail Af... by duskwuff on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @04:10PM (#33168614)

I'd add that "link me up" isn't a standard idiom in American English -- a US speaker would probably say "send me the link" or "link me to it".

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Re:'How the Hell Did Document Leak?' – Meta Internal Mail Af... by soulofmischief on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @04:46PM (#33169020)

I believe proper American parlance is "I'mma need the link".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwBEpjOwbpM

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Re:'How the Hell Did Document Leak?' – Meta Internal Mail Af... by feet on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:46PM (#33184735)

Where the link at

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Re:'How the Hell Did Document Leak?' – Meta Internal Mail Af... by prvit on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @04:51PM (#33169082)

Pretty sure that’s a common expression (in American English too) referring not to URLs but making contact with people.

“Why didn’t anyone bother to put me in touch” is how I’d interpret it.

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Re:'How the Hell Did Document Leak?' – Meta Internal Mail Af... by duskwuff on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @05:11PM (#33169311)

While "to link up" is an idiom in American English, "to link <someone> up" is not. The phrase is intransitive -- even if the referent were a person, one would usually say "to link up with <someone>". Moreover, the phrase implies a casual social encounter, which wouldn't be appropriate here; a more formal introduction would be implied by a phrase like "get me in touch".

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Re:'How the Hell Did Document Leak?' – Meta Internal Mail Af... by MisterSandman on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @07:13AM (#33175289)

I'd point out that "link me up" isn't a phrase used in Indian English either, so the person who fakes this wasn't really trying hard.

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