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12-15-2003, 03:25 PM

Chaerophon,Dec 15 2003, 01:31 PM Wrote:EDIT: More specifically, I ask because I have several Swedish friends who picked up English so quickly and so naturally that I was really quite amazed and wondered how much of idiomatic English had been taken up as a part of Swedish. (Media influence, the internet, adverteising and all that good stuff would then seem to be quite a factor in the answer to my question)

I'm sure I'll be barbequed for saying this, but Swedes (and their Scandinavian sister countries) aren't very religious, okay, the majority basically have no religion at all.

Now since that's a large part of what the countries culture is about, we don't have much to lose by "converting" to English, and there are many English things which can be counted as religions (the net, music, films, drugs . . .).

I'm not sure I know what you mean with idiomatic (yes I looked it up in a dictionary), but I've been asked if I was American, or others have been very surprised when they found out I was Swedish.

I would normally not say this, but because of the nature of the thread, I did it anyway. I'm sure I phrased/explained things wrong, sorry in that case.

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