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akx
on Sept 17, 2014
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I was asked to crack a program in a job interview
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...
mandlar
on Sept 17, 2014
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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.
tomrod
on Sept 18, 2014
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Sounds like a half-way decent spam detection rule !
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