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by silvestrov 1555 days ago
The problem with monolingual is the thought that there is One True Language.

It isn't so. I write half my emails in one email, the other half in another. Often emails will have sections in one language (e.g. quote from another email) and other sections in a different language.

Spelling tools must be able to detect language automatically to be of any value and be able to handle multiple languages within a single sentence!

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I use LanguageTool [0] as an extension, it never has issues detecting if I’m currently writing in English or German. I sadly have yet to find a solution that works as well on my Android.

[0]: https://languagetool.org/

I've managed to set my phone to accept and suggest both in English and Dutch. Works reasonably well.