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The spaces-before-questionmarks-and-exclamation-marks is one of the "tells" I use to figure out a writer is French.

More often than not it's a dead giveaway...




Funny story, I'm a native English speaker but I've been studying French for the past few years. I now constantly and subconsciously add spaces before punctuation like French grammar.


Sounds like a half-way decent spam detection rule !




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