WPML comment merging

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: WPML comment merging
Plugin URI: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpml-comment-merging/
Description: This plugin merges comments from all translations of the posts and pages, so that they all are displayed on each other. Comments are internally still attached to the post or page they were made on.
Version: 1.3
Author: Fabian Lange
Author URI: http://blog.codecentric.de/en/2010/06/wordpress-wpml-comments-filter-plugin/
License: MIT
*/

function sort_merged_comments($a, $b) {
    return $a->comment_ID - $b->comment_ID;
}

function merge_comments($comments, $post_ID) {
    global $sitepress;

    remove_filter('comments_clauses', array($sitepress, 'comments_clauses'), 10, 2);
    // get all the languages for which this post exists
    $languages = icl_get_languages('skip_missing=1');
    $type = is_page($post_ID) ? 'page' : 'post';
    foreach($languages as $l) {
        // in $comments are already the comments from the current language
        if(!$l['active']) {
            $otherID = icl_object_id($post_ID, $type, false, $l['language_code']);
            $othercomments = get_comments( array('post_id' => $otherID, 'status' => 'approve', 'order' => 'ASC') );
            $comments = array_merge($comments, $othercomments);
        }
    }
    if ($languages) {
        // if we merged some comments in we need to reestablish an order
        usort($comments, 'sort_merged_comments');
    }

    return $comments;
}

function merge_comment_count($count, $post_ID) {
    // get all the languages for which this post exists
    $languages = icl_get_languages('skip_missing=1');
    $type = is_page($post_ID) ? 'page' : 'post';

    foreach($languages as $l) {
        // in $count is already the count from the current language
        if(!$l['active']) {
            $otherID = icl_object_id($post_ID, $type, false, $l['language_code']);
            if($otherID) {
                // cannot use call_user_func due to php regressions
                if ($type == 'page') {
                    $otherpost = get_page($otherID);
                } else {
                    $otherpost = get_post($otherID);
                }
                if ($otherpost) {
                    // increment comment count using translation post comment count.
                    $count = $count + $otherpost->comment_count;
                }
            }
        }
    }
    return $count;
}

add_filter('comments_array', 'merge_comments', 100, 2);
add_filter('get_comments_number', 'merge_comment_count', 100, 2);