army1987 comments on Open Thread for January 8 - 16 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 08 January 2014 06:46:51PM 0 points [-]

English is for my a second language

for me

;-)

Comment author: RolfAndreassen 09 January 2014 05:43:07AM 4 points [-]

Come now. If you're going to correct that, why not make the whole sentence more idiomatic and point out that

English is a second language for me

flows better and sounds more natural? Putting the "for me" up front is a very Germanic sentence structure.