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Cultural issues are as real as any other issues...

Isn't it much easier to make an easy neutral change to your writing that will be positive for some readers than to assert their culture should learn to read better?

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Following your reasoning we should all do efforts to translate all the documentation of all the software available in many languages, a major amount of work, instead of asking developers to learn English. And learning English is a major undertake compared to read comments without spacing.

I'm making a pragmatic argument, not a moral one. Adding spacing is easy and it helps more people enjoy your hard work. That's why you should do it.

I believe that improving accessibility of most knowledge through localization is a good thing.

How much a better thing it is that we Europeans learned English instead? Now most of us are bilingual.

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