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And of course, this granddaddy of all gripes on English punctuation, which was written 100 years ago now: https://www.learnenglish.de/pronunciation/pronunciatio
by dublin 7y ago
And of course, this granddaddy of all gripes on English punctuation, which was written 100 years ago now: https://www.learnenglish.de/pronunciation/pronunciationpoem.html 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.)
- vidanay 7y agoThis 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)
- StavrosK 7y agoThat's why garden-path sentences are easier in English, I guess.