Interesting. I'm a native English speaker, living in a foreign country, so I spend most of my day working with a language I'm not completely fluent in, and I f

Interesting. I'm a native English speaker, living in a foreign country, so I spend most of my day working with a language I'm not completely fluent in, and I find I do the opposite-- I'm trying to put the meaning together word by word as the sentence unfolds, which makes reading things with long, Proustian sentences very difficult.