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 # Linguist
 
-We use this library at GitHub to detect file language types for syntax highlighting, ignore binary files, suppress generated code in diffs and generate language breakdown graphs.
+We use this library at GitHub to detect blob languages, highlight code, ignore binary files, suppress generated files in diffs and generate language breakdown graphs.
 
 ## Features