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1. In India, we don't really put a dash when using the term 'Tier 1'. Therefore, if he is pretending to have read law at an Indian university, this is a textbook example of a Freudian slip.
2. I thought we'd absorbed Americanisms quite readily into our English. The word 'mate' certainly isn't an Americanism, but is much more commonly used in informal conversation in England and Australia for sure (speaking from personal experience), and likely New Zealand as well. The Americanism equivalent of 'mate' is, from my knowledge, 'buddy' (which I have heard quite often in India) or 'my guy'. So if he was working towards a JD at Yale and used those terms, just the thing which I previously described as a 'Freudian slip' would be very slim evidence of him being educated abroad, because those terms are co-opted into our English now.
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