fredag 2 juli 2010

Battered english.

Mosquito bitten, When you write it like that it looks almost german.
Can I have a mosquito bitte, but that was not what I meant it to be when I started out on this writing.
What I wanted to say is that mosquitos do not bite or do they? Dogs, cats, horses and such bite but mosquitos, no. As I remember they have a sort of sting and suck apparatus mounted to put into our unsuspecting limbs.
Squirt in a drop of anticoagulant and then turn over to suction, a bit like those petrol-lorries Ken is driving.
I wonder if he who “invented” this shared his patentrights with some mosquitofarm as an acknowledgement to the theft off the original idea or do you skip that when you steal from nature.
If you wonder why I started this horrible battering of the english language I am not sure I can give you a straight answer. I think it all started with a request from an english friends to accept an invitation to Yahoo pulse.
When I registred there I saw that I could connect Facebook to it and as I show my blogg there I realised that very few people outside Sweden can read swedish.
If you read the papers over here not many swedes seems to be able to do that either but you should not believe everything that is written my Mom always said.
Then I set out to see if I could, making myself understood I mean. So far I can understand what I have been writing but as some of you probably point out, I am a bit biased concerning this question.
But on the other hand I can say that to 98% certainty that I write better english than you write swedish. I wonder if that turned out a bit cheeky, things that pass in swedish is not all that passable in other languages.
My computer is giving me a text full of red underlinings and have an odd way of spelling some words. Some words like other, my computer persists of spelling Otter whatever that is and I have to go back and override the spellingsystem.
Very annoying I must say.
There are words in the english language that are hard to understand, like of and off. When and why are they used. The swedish language is almost certain full of this type of annoying things.
It is just not noticeble to me as I am used to it but for all those foriegners that has to learn swedish they must seem mad.
My stepfather, an englishman born and raised in central London, always said that you swedes always sounds as you are angry at each other. The only words he ever learned was flicka, flaska, hej och tack.
As he said, why bother, everyone speaks english anyway and he was right, People felt a bit proud when he spoke to them in english in his natural way, just assuming they would understand what he was saying.
Nowadays each and everyone speaks english, if not like a native so at least like a immigrant.
Well, I think I have battered your language enough for one evening and will therefore leave you to go about your business.
Thanks and goodbye.

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