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by matheusmoreira 1288 days ago
On anonymous and pseudonymous communities, people tend to assume everyone's american for various reasons. This is also true here on HN.

In my experience, when people think someone else is a foreigner, they ask them where they're from. The assumption that they were talking to an american was violated so they try to determine who they're actually talking to. So if I can manage to not violate that assumption, it must mean that my speech resembles that of an american native speaker.