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Canonical Comment Spam
"Spammer just exposed his template and the whole thing showed up in my comments."
7 Responses:
Well, that explains all the strange verbage in the spam comments I've been getting. I figured it was just an artifact of poorly taught english in whatever corner of the world some mechanical turk lived. In south america everyone says 'principal' instead of main; i.e. this is the principal city, the principal mountain, principal river etc etc.
Could be worse. They could say "principle" instead.
Principal as a word exist in Spanish, and guess what does it mean? "Main" of course.
Another case of "false friends".
uhm, to me it doesn't seem strictly a false friend... in fact, "main" is a synonim
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/principal#Adjective
but sure, using it instead of the most common synonim is surely going to get you exposed as a non-native
Ah, northern hemisphere spring, when a young man's thoughts turn to clutching rss feeds.
Here's a more-complete version of that same spam spintax template. The one posted there appears to be cut-off early.
https://gist.github.com/Otto42/5467402
Note that his version's last line (124) matches up with line 158 in my copy. Other than spacing, I think they're identical up to that point.
Friend of mine got this in his blog a month or two ago too. I wonder how many sites got hit. Hopefully distributed spamblockers like Akismet are already exploiting it.