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	Language bar clarification in README.md
Clarified what the percentages in the Language bar are based on.
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| The Language stats bar is built by aggregating the languages of each file in that repository. If it is reporting a language that you don't expect: | The Language stats bar displays languages percentages for the files in the repository. The percentages are calculated based on the bytes of code for each language as reported by the [List Languages](https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#list-languages) API. If the bar is reporting a language that you don't expect: | ||||||
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| 0. Click on the name of the language in the stats bar to see a list of the files that are identified as that language. | 0. Click on the name of the language in the stats bar to see a list of the files that are identified as that language. | ||||||
| 0. If you see files that you didn't write, consider moving the files into one of the [paths for vendored  code](/lib/linguist/vendor.yml), or use the [manual overrides](#overrides) feature to ignore them. | 0. If you see files that you didn't write, consider moving the files into one of the [paths for vendored  code](/lib/linguist/vendor.yml), or use the [manual overrides](#overrides) feature to ignore them. | ||||||
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