English is my only language. When I read, I definitely narrate each word in my head. But something very interesting that your post has just brought me to realiz

English is my only language. When I read, I definitely narrate each word in my head. But something very interesting that your post has just brought me to realize is that I read code very differently from plain English. In fact, I barely have any mental narration for code at all; mostly it's this morphing blob of mental imagery and intuition. Maybe this explains in part why, while I'm a very slow plain-English reader, I actually read/parse code faster than average.