Alex:
>Oh.. I am very impresed. You want to have the last word. Have it with
>the example of your grandma which left Sweden and of course she
>consciously decided to abandon her language consciously recognising she
>won't be able to learn Swedish the new society where she lived.
As long as you finally accept that my having the last word is inevitable,
you'll
feel a lot better :) Secondly, it was my greatparents who left Stockholm.
My grandmother was raised in the US. She was taught English at school,
naturally, and Swedish from her parents. She moved to Canada, met my
grampa, had more babies and then gramma forgot, for pratical reasons,
to teach my father Swedish. Why would she? Seems like language
abandonment to me.
= gLeN
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