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In reply to the discussion: Massive misinformation campaign against Israel. [View all]wnylib
(22,084 posts)It's been a long time interest of mine and one reason why I studied languages and anthropology and taught English to English language learners as well as tutoring American born English speakers from disadvantaged backgrounds who were preparing for college. I'm accustomed to American English regional and ethnic/racial dialects, different uses of English between Americans, Canadians, British, and Australians, and patterns of English among ELL (aka ESL) students.
I have seen OPs that have some consistent language patterns. I asked one OP poster where he/she studied English when I recognized some phrases that were understandable, but had syntax irregularities, combined with consistent dropping of articles where English uses them but Slavic languages don't. The response was a vague reference to "people who look like me," trying to imply an ethnic or racial "dialect" of American English.
English speakers from birth phrase things awkwardly sometimes, too, or make grammatical and spelling mistakes. We have regional or ethnic/racial dialect speech in the US, too. But they have patterns that identify them as regional, ethnic/racial, or just someone struggling to get their thoughts out. Not the same as someone pushing a divisive view with patterns of speech that resemble some Amazon product descriptions by a foreign manufacturer.
One promoter of the false analogy between Native Americans and Palestinians, who presents as an American, self-identified to me as an American enrolled in a Native tribe whose history has always been exclusively within the boundaries of what is now the US. The poster's English is good, but he/she uses only Canadian idioms in reference to his/her supposed American tribal membership issues.