2016 Postmortem

I see posts from them all the time. Russian has no articles (a, an, the) and so Russians who aren't well trained in English either omit them, or use them out of context. It also has no verb "to be" in the present tense, so they leave that out frequently as well. Russian is declined, and has a genitive case, so they also sometimes leave out "of" when writing English, as it is just an added/modified ending to a noun in Russian. e.g. автомобиль ("av-ta-ma-BEEL' &quot means "car," but also "a car," "the car," depending on the context. Aвтомобиля ("av-ta-ma-BEEL-ya&quot means "of a car," or "of the car."

"The girl left a basket full of fruit in the house. She is now home getting it." In Russian, this would come out as "Girl left basket full fruit in house. She now home getting it." That's is how many Russian trolls can be easily identified. Some have learned better English, but many of the ones I have seen on American boards have not.

The Republicanese posters are a different group altogether. They use the verb "is" and include all the articles because their native language is some form of American English. They just have no clue how to write it.