Comment by lmilcin

5 years ago

  As somebody said, I am just a
  random guy on the Internet. I
  learned this language already
  as an adult never attending a
  single lesson. There is a lot
  of other people that know the
  language way better than me.

  Thinking that it must be hard
  just because it is for you is
  a well known bias.

(EDIT:)

Gigablah, I can't reply to your comment because apparently I am rate limited.

I am not saying it is easy. I am just saying it is not "most scarily/stunningly impressive linguistic feat".

I hope you can appreciate there is a lot of space between "easy" and "stunningly impressive".

3 comments

lmilcin

camjohnson26 5 years ago

  It is easy to do this. All you
  do is write some text upfront,
  and go line by line and swap a
  few words to make the line fit
  in the margin. Use small words
  to make it easier.

Gigablah 5 years ago

Conversely, thinking that it must be easy just because it is for you is an even more well-known bias.

I can even think of an entire industry dedicated to countering this bias.