Re: Grammatical Gender

From: Etherman23
Message: 66412
Date: 2010-08-11

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> 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.