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[tgies]

I live in georegia but i dont see rusia no where not even sound but they says theres tanks should i be worrie

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[r-transpose-p.livejournal.com]

Hehe, sounds like a word-for-word translation from a language which requires multiple negatives to express negation of an idea.

P.S. "Oh, I guess we're being invaded -- at least thats what I read on teh intarwebs"

[r-transpose-p.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, the answers this guy got are atrocious.

I wouldn't be surprised if (s)he flew over and burned Atlanta out of spite.

[tgies.livejournal.com]

I was pretty sure that she lives in the state of Georgia, and misunderstood the news reports as referring to the state.

[r-transpose-p.livejournal.com]

As did half of the people on yahoo answers apparently.

If you translate "I don't see any russians anywhere" into russian, and translate it back into English word-for-word you get something like "I not see no russians nowhere"

Perhaps the confusion stemmed from the fact that various dialects of American English also insist on multiple negatives, and those dialects are spoken in the U.S. state of Georgia.

[r-transpose-p.livejournal.com]

You know, it didn't occur to me until now that the people posting "Good troll" were referring to the original question and not the answers which referred to Atlanta.

Luckily the person asking the question might be used to such abuse :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_jokes#Georgians