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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan we talk about why DHS issued a press release that was badly translated from Russian?
I feel like we kind of need to talk about this.
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/12/12/walls-work
FACT: Prior to President Trump taking office, we have never built wall that high.
Once funding was provided, DHS began construction of border wall exceptionally quickly, in some locations in as little as nine months from funding to building a process that commonly takes two years or more in other parts of Government.
I mean, I only know a little Russian, but it's enough to know that those are definitely sentences that started their lives in Russian.
Hekate
(90,793 posts)dawg day
(7,947 posts)Definitely written by a Russian, or some Trumper.
And... someone should tell "DHS" that we STILL haven't built a wall that high.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)but then it had razor wire on the top. But that still didn't stop people from going over it.
Hekate
(90,793 posts)...to be falling into that unspeakable evil.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)When The Wall was first constructed people did go over the wall. My mother had a friend who did exactly that. Carried scars for life but made it to the States alive and well.
Hekate
(90,793 posts)Bavorskoami
(118 posts)Can I buy clue, Alexandr Alexandrovich [Trebek], where is definite article?
Recursion
(56,582 posts)His dad's name was George, Wiki tells me.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Seriously WtH the first line on the release to the last!
DHS is committed to building wall and building wall quickly. We are not replacing short, outdated and ineffective wall with similar wall. Instead, under this President we are building a wall that is 30-feet high.
FACT: Prior to President Trump taking office, we have never built wall that high.
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/12/12/walls-work
Me.
(35,454 posts)Kablooie
(18,641 posts)Is Homeland Security getting their marching orders from Moscow?
ThoughtCriminal
(14,049 posts)At least they knew to convert from metric to avoid insulting the base.
Denzil_DC
(7,257 posts)other than illiteracy or translation, it could have been that whoever posted it was given rough notes they were supposed to fill out into full sentences, and instead just posted what they were given.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)If you listen to that meeting a couple of days ago when Pelosi ate his lunch, you hear him constantly talking about 'wall' as if it's a measurable product, like 'beef', without any articles.
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)This actually sounds more like Chinese/English (chinglish) syntax than Russian to me. I speak Russian, but not Chinese, however I work with a person who has Chinese as a first language, and this reads something like some of his work product.