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		TedDoesntTalk on Jan 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YouTube crypto giveaway scams But the lack of articles like “the” are a flag to be that this is probably Russian or Ukrainian. They generally do not use “the” when writing English.

rich_sasha on Jan 16, 2022 [–]

While this prior may be informative, plenty of languages don’t have these. All Slavic languages AFAIK for a start.

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