From: andythewiros
Message: 66417
Date: 2010-08-11
>You know that Torsten is Danish, don't you?
>
>
> --- 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.
>