From: Etherman23
Message: 66433
Date: 2010-08-12
>I thought he was Dutch but figured I was wrong since he said his language was Swedish. I'm so out of the loop on this one.
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Etherman23" <etherman23@> wrote:
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> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
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> > > Myself, I was puzzled, when first getting acquainted with the English
> > > language, why anybody would want to use 'am', are' and 'is' for the
> > > same word, I mean, they all mean "er" in my language (Swedish �r)?
> > > So, perhaps as a native speaker of the language, you are the one I
> > > should ask: Why do you all do a silly thing like that?
> >
> > Because it's fun to confuse Swedes.
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> You know that Torsten is Danish, don't you?