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Comment author: ChristianKl 08 January 2014 02:03:29PM 2 points [-]

English is for my a second language but I probably wrote more words in it than in my native one.

In the last months I frequently found myself forgetting "'s" after "there" or "ït". It not an issue that I remember being there a year ago. Has anyone observed similar things or knows of research that might describe processes like this?

The only explanation I can think of is having reread Korzybski's arguments against the "is of identity".It would be interesting if my unconscious is so opposed to "is" that it censors me from using it whenever I don't pay attention.

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.