Do you mean Russia?
Nope…
Sure they’ve got their own “fingerprints” down there, but these are totally different ones. For example, if you come across something along the lines of “I wanted to ask” in the sense of “I would like to ask”; pearls like “feeling myself good”; missing articles or use of “very” all over the place (i.e “very cold” instead of “freezing”,“very funny” instead of hilarious",etc), then you may,indeed, have a good reason to suspect someone from that part of the world. However, if you come across “I’m having a doubt” in the sense of “I’ve got a question”; “same” in the sense of “it”; “guide on/in XYZ”(typically combined with the previously mentioned “fingerprint”), then you can be 100% sure that your “target” is located somewhere around 3K+ miles south-east of Moscow
Furthermore, I don’t see any reason why someone from Russia would want to pose as “James Smith” in a technical NG - AFAIK, they prefer
the politics-oriented sites and NGs for this purpose.
[enter OT mode]
BTW, once we are at it, I just wonder if I may have had accidentally solved, by a mere serendipity,“the unsolved mystery” of our “Windows fanboy’s” sudden disappearance from NTDEV. Probably, he just changed his"occupation", and now poses as some “Big Bad Max from New York” in some politics-oriented NGs, effectively sending the readers of the said NGs on the floor right on the spot? Taking into account his propensity to make the political speeches on NTDEV in few months preceding his mysterious “disappearance”, this suggestion does not really seem to be as outlandish as may be deemed at the first glance. Taking into account his “productivity rate” that is comparable to that of a machine-gun, the readers of the target NGs must be having a truly enjoyable time indeed…
[leave OT mode]
I don’t think one random post implies anything general.
As you may have guessed, “one random post” (and even dozen of them) is insufficient for even considering “Discovering the poster’s origins and geographic location by means of analysing their English grammar” project, let alone actually implementing it (which holds true for both artificial neural networks and the “natural” ones). Therefore, we must be speaking about the “sufficiently large” dataset here, don’t you think…
I’d expect standard Gaussian curve with script kiddies and this one on the left side and who knows who is on the right side?
I think it simply does not make any sense to speak about this curve without mentioning percentiles. How many standard deviations away from the mean are those “in the know” located at in this particular case?
Anton Bassov