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echo: coffee_klatsch
to: George Pope
from: Bjrn Forsstrm
date: 2006-06-16 09:06:50
subject: Swedish

BF>>  GP> "7" sounds like "hooyle" to my ear. . .
BF>>
BF>> Really strange ears you have.

 GP> Or a strange accent you have?

Nothing wrong with my accent. I speak high, or normal Swedish.

 GP> mosquito bite sounds just like you transliterated it for the filename:
 GP> Myggbett :)

Nothing strange with that.

 GP> I've been pronouncing smurgesburd wrong all these years, eh? heh

I told you so.

 GP> After all, it's YOUR language's word, so I'll cede to you!  (in English,
 GP> of course, we don't have any of our own words, we're thieves &
scavengers,
 GP> linguistically!)

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

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