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dkga on July 14, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly

Curiously, it‘s also a tell-tale sign that a North-American typed the text.

FabHK on July 14, 2025 [–]

Just as a space before colons or exclamation marks is a sign that someone francophone typed it.

dkga on July 14, 2025 | [–]

Indeed - especially the space before colons and semi-colons. The space before exclamation marks sometimes happens in informal typing amongst Brazilians. But never the space before colons/semi-colons.

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