Quote Originally Posted by alexsms View Post
Marcus, the original text is in English.

The translation sucks as is customary with most of the material translated from other languages into Russian on Russian sites. Even yesterday i've repeatedly seen the word "стрелок" on Russian websites featuring news on mass shooting at Navy Yard in Washington DC. That's how they had translated the word 'gunman'/'shooter'. This sounds absolutely stupid as "стрелок" in Russian is used to indicate a person who shoots for sports, hunting, as a soldier who is operating a gun in cavalry vehicles, tanks, or aircraft, and also it is used to describe a marksman. The examples like that really abound in Russian articles on the internet. So I prefer the material in the original language. Especially those who learn Russian might want to avoid reading such translated material of dubious quality.
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