Comment on How My Six Months Working on the Railway Changed My LifeparentComments−isoprophlex1y"They" would have been a lot less confusing here...−laserlight1yI'm baffled by why one would use a Swedish pronoun in an English text. We live in a strange world.−Philpax1yhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SwenglishNot uncommon for Swedish-first speakers - just accidental language bleed, as is the case with most other second language speakers.(As for "strange world" - have you looked at the etymology of most English words? :p)−darkstar_161yI'd guess its similar to Danish and hen meant "he" here, Han in Danish
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"They" would have been a lot less confusing here...
I'm baffled by why one would use a Swedish pronoun in an English text. We live in a strange world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swenglish
Not uncommon for Swedish-first speakers - just accidental language bleed, as is the case with most other second language speakers.
(As for "strange world" - have you looked at the etymology of most English words? :p)
I'd guess its similar to Danish and hen meant "he" here, Han in Danish