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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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