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Re:The hardest aspect of learning English as a second language by dublin on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @08:47AM (#21824712)
And of course, this granddaddy of all gripes on English punctuation, which was written 100 years ago now: https://www.learnenglish.de/pronunciation/pronunciationpoem.... (This link was chosen because it has audio links for each section of verse. The German speaker doesn't nail the pronunciation of all the words, but gets very close, to the point that most differences are possibly a matter of regional dialect.)
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Re:The hardest aspect of learning English as a second language by vidanay on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @09:04AM (#21824888)
This is interesting...while reading this line of the poem:

"Tear in eye, your dress will tear."

I could physically feel my brain rewinding and re-defining the leading "Tear" when I encountered "in eye".

(I am a native speaker of American)

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Re:The hardest aspect of learning English as a second language by StavrosK on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @09:14AM (#21824993)
That's why garden-path sentences are easier in English, I guess.
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