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06 May 2024, 11:45 am

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06 May 2024, 12:30 pm

Yes, this ad is directly aimed at Republicans. It says if you elect Trump he will abandon Ukraine to Putin.



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07 May 2024, 12:25 am

^
That's the message of the ad. But the OP is asking about intonation. Or am I being too literal?



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07 May 2024, 12:49 am

Aspinator wrote:
Yes, this ad is directly aimed at Republicans. It says if you elect Trump he will abandon Ukraine to Putin.


To be fair there is a good chance that is what Trump would do if elected, but I was already going to vote democrat regardless of that add.


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07 May 2024, 5:25 am

Sweetleaf wrote:
Aspinator wrote:
Yes, this ad is directly aimed at Republicans. It says if you elect Trump he will abandon Ukraine to Putin.


To be fair there is a good chance that is what Trump would do if elected, but I was already going to vote democrat regardless of that add.


Before I saw the ad, I thought it meant that Trump would poison his critics (like Putin did to people like Navalny).


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07 May 2024, 6:44 am

ToughDiamond wrote:
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That's the message of the ad. But the OP is asking about intonation. Or am I being too literal?

Yes, I was curious if people with autism are aware of speaking patterns used here.
Are they too obvious?
Just right?
What is intonation?



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07 May 2024, 2:22 pm

My issue is that a Ukrainian accent and a Russian accent are too similar for most people in the U.S. to distinguish between, and so a thick accent like this could be confusing.



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07 May 2024, 2:26 pm

What exactly are you asking?

The narrator has an accent that sounds like it could authenically Ukrainian. Works for me.