From: Torsten
Message: 66434
Date: 2010-08-12
>You, sir, must be American.
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "andythewiros" <anjarrette@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Etherman23" <etherman23@> wrote:
> > >
> > > --- 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 är)?
> > > > 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.
> > >
> >
> > You know that Torsten is Danish, don't you?
>
> I thought he was Dutch
> but figured I was wrong since he said his language was Swedish.No, I didn't.
> I'm so out of the loop on this one.Have you always been interested in linguistics?