Re: b432b
Date: 23 Jun 2004 02:05:00 -0700
Message-ID: <9cca45d2.0406230104.5564de71_at_posting.google.com>
> spoofed. Each of these posted lists looks to be a little different, and they look to
> be the type of list you'd get out of a word count or text mining application.
Strangely, some of the words are Russian, written in transliteration;
e.g. "isparitjsya", "to evaporate". I am aware of only one medium
where Russian is routinely written in transliteration, and this is
email (the reason is twofold: many terminals Russians use, especially
abroad, are not configured for cyrillic, and, no matter how strange
this may sound to you, many Russians can't type fast on cyrillic
keyboard (the majority of the typing practice is coming from all those
defuns and lets and mapcars :))). It is not normally used for other
types of text.
Incidentally, if you want to easily find other samples of these
strange messages, google for the word I mentioned above. If you wish
to transliterate 'translit' Russian back to a cyrillic encoding, use
translit.ru.
Received on Wed Jun 23 2004 - 11:05:00 CEST