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Skriven 2004-12-05 23:19:00 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av BJöRN FORSSTRöM
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-=> Quoting Björn Forsström to Frank Scheidt <=-

 BF>>> Do your famous "reading between the lines" thing.
 BF>>> Who, besides China, is the biggest oil dependant country?
 
 FS>> Lessee ... Japan?  U.S.?
 
 BF>> Not in that order.
 BF>> U.S. and then perhaps Japan.
 
 FS> OK ...

 BF> And then you must have a certain intrest in the Iraqi oil, or....?

I would hope Iraqi oil production would increase to the extent 
that petroleum prices drop ...
 
 BF>>> Then you should be thankful to us as well.
 
 FS>> Why?  Any sale is supposed to be mutually beneficial!
 
 BF>> Key words "supposed to be" but it isn't so.
 BF>> I can't prove it but I think we buy more from you then you from us.
 
 FS> And the significance of *that* is?

 BF> We support you welfare.
 
OK ... thank you ... heh heh heh ...

 BF>> I once saw a list of most corrupt contries and that wasn't to your
 BF>> benefit......
 
 FS> I'd suggest you abandon that reading source ... [sigh] ...

 BF> Why?
 BF> No smoke without a fire.

Apparently you've never seen a smoke bomb in operation ...

 FS>>> After all, some times your English is a bit screwed up.

 BF> English cointaines of more than 3 times more words then Swedish.
 
*That* I didn't know.  I've read that English is one of the 
easiest languages to coin words in ... maybe that explains its 
size -- assuming that's true.

 BF>> As I have said, this isn't my mothers tongue so sometimes I do it wrong
 BF>> but i'm working on it.
 
 FS> I know, and I have no problem with it whatsoever.
 FS> After all, your Swedish is undoubtedly far better than is *my* Swedish ...
 FS> especially since I don't know even one *word* of Swedish ... heh heh heh
 FS> ... OTOH, when you make some simple mistake in English I'm inclined to
 FS> correct it, but *don't* since that might be perceived as an insult.

 BF> Oh no, to me it isn't. Please, fell free to do it. I'm willing to
 BF> learn. 

OK here's a common example:  It's "speak" not "speek" even though 
it's pronounced "speek" and a spoken statement is called a 
"speech" ... confusing?  Yep!

 BF>> Then you should hear a German trying to speek Swedish....
 
 FS> I read German far better than I speak or understand spoken German.  When I
 FS> was in college maybe 2/3 of the world's chemical literature was in German
 FS> hence I *had* to learn it.  By the time I retired the vast majority of
 FS> chemical literature was either in English or there exists translated
 FS> journals in English.

 BF> My wife have two cusins in Munich Gemany who "speeks" Swedish and
 BF> they are so fun to listen to and I think they thinks the same about us
 BF> when speeking German.

I suspect that's the cause of amusement world-wide -- listening 
to a foreigner speak one's language ... while I tend to consider 
it funny I don't really feel any contempt for foreigners 
mis-speaking English since I can't speak any other language 
myself fluently.

... "Anything you'd like to do?"      "Yes -- go into a coma."

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