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by stavros 1475 days ago
> for whatever reason I find your reply borderline infuriating but I can't pinpoint exactly why that is.

I guess that says more about you than about my reply. Also, I'm a native speaker as well. That doesn't really have any bearing, my comment above comes from what I know about common implementations of language detection algorithms, not so much from looking at how Google Translate behaves.

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And I was honest about how I felt given how you structured it.

It does have a lot of bearing actually. While I am a native speaker, my spelling skills are atrocious as everything is a sequence of sounds in my head more so than a sequence of letters. To get around my spelling issues I frequently use homophones to find the correct spelling of a word which uses soundex or similar algorithms to find the correct word along with character mappings between the two languages.

Regardless, I believe I have proved the hypothesis to not be true.