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I—a native German speaker—suffer the same tick. Therefore my guess would be German. Sentences like the one you quoted have a similar structure as those deconst

I—a native German speaker—suffer the same tick. Therefore my guess would be German. Sentences like the one you quoted have a similar structure as those deconstructed in ReadsLikeGerman[1]. The "that" feels like the equivalent of "der"/"die"/"das" and I have the urge to place a comma in front of it. [1]: http://wiki.c2.com/?ReadsLikeGerman http://wiki.c2.com/?ReadsLikeGerman edit: rephrased for clarity

brokenmachine 8y ago
> I—a native German speaker It's hilarious that you had a very similar tic in this response, only with a hyphen instead of the comma... :-)
- ajkjk 8y ago
  But that was a correct emdash! Not quite the same. In fact "A markdown editor -- that allows you to edit live." would be correct, though with a slightly different meaning, sorta treating the latter clause as a surprising bonus, as though you would expect the opposite if you only heard the words "a markdown editor".