From: Torsten
Message: 66438
Date: 2010-08-12
>Sorry for being snappy. 'Meet my friend from Holland' happened a couple of times to me in the USA.
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Etherman23" <etherman23@> wrote:
> >
> > --- 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
>
> You, sir, must be American.
>
> > 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?