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		Ekaros 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Awful German Language (1880) The perks of coming late. Finnish did job properly with only one or two warts...

inkyoto 3 months ago [–]

That depends on how one defines «properly». Finnish, with its nearly 20 noun cases and vowel harmony, has made a spellchecker a computationally unsolvable problem.

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