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Post #430,396 by rcareaga 8/18/19 7:17:31 PM 8/18/19 7:17:31 PM Reply	My gosh and golly—Bengali! I don’t spend a lot of time on Twitter, but in recent weeks whenever I follow a link there, most of the page displays in…Bengali? WTF? I’m not aware of having engaged in unprotected internet lately. Any ideas? cordially,
Post #430,401 by a6l6e6x 8/18/19 10:37:39 PM 8/18/19 10:37:39 PM Reply	Well, there is unrest in India. Modi is doing tRumpish things. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #430,430 by scoenye 8/20/19 6:29:32 PM 8/20/19 6:29:32 PM Reply	Browser language preference nudged? I can replicate something similar by telling Firefox my preferred language is Bengali. All Twitter sourced headings become Bengali, user content remains original language. Websites that do not offer their content in Bengali would supply their default content and so would look "normal". (Safari uses the preferred system language on OS X)

My gosh and golly—Bengali! - (rcareaga) - (2) - Aug. 18, 2019, 07:17:31 PM EDT

Well, there is unrest in India. - (a6l6e6x) - Aug. 18, 2019, 10:37:39 PM EDT

Browser language preference nudged? - (scoenye) - Aug. 20, 2019, 06:29:32 PM EDT

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