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echo: coffee_klatsch
to: Bjrn Forsstrm
from: George Pope
date: 2006-06-16 10:56:52
subject: Swedish

On (16 Jun 06) Bj”rn Forsstr”m wrote to George Pope...
 BF>  GP> mosquito bite sounds just like you transliterated it for the
 BF> filename:
 BF>  GP> Myggbett :)
 BF>
 BF> Nothing strange with that.
 BF>
 BF>  GP> I've been pronouncing smurgesburd wrong all these years, eh? heh
 BF>
 BF> I told you so.

What you told me was that it'd be impossible to transliterate "myggbett"
into Enlish letters, yet you did just fine!

 BF> And here we're soon forgetting about Swedish. Everything is
 BF> Americanized.

There's nothing American about myggbett!
(the Ameuican version'd probably be muskeetoe byt! *LOL*)

Because I care,
|<+]::-)  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))




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