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> who cares, if it is not used in U.S. right?

This isn't intended to sound rude, but why should an American care? Dismissing the argument that for better or worse many people hold doesn't do any good. Making it might convince them otherwise.

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Please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar.

That strikes me as much closer to linguistic than nationalistic; there's more than one nation that speaks English. Could you clarify what about that statement was flame-y? All I did was ask that adontz make the argument rather than making a dismissive statement.

You took a sarcastic question that was being asked from a defensive place and reflected it back to the person in an amplified way that was guaranteed to rub salt in their wound.

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