LillaGrisen's "Thank you"-thread
I'm starting this thread in order to properly thank and acknowledge all the generous and wonderful simmers who have gifted me since I started talking on these forums, be it through the sponsoring of a...
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@creativemetaphor I saw your comment a couple of days back and was like "when I get the time, I have to reply". Of course, I then forgot all about it :cold_sweat:
But you're very welcome for the gifts! I don't think I need that much patience with your Swedish-skills, they're not questionable at all - I blame the lack of dots on your keyboard :wink: (unless your keyboard is Swedish. Then I blame it on you :lol:)
I also see no shame in using a translator to check if you understood a word/sentence correctly. Truth be told I do it all the time with English :kissing_closed_eyes:
By the way, no that you have to answer this question if you feel like it's too personal, but I was wondering why you are learning Swedish? I'm curious since it isn't exactly the most useful language (seeing how you could fit most of Sweden's population in NYC) and I can't imagine you started just because you wanted to know the origin of "common" words such as smorgasbord, ombudsman, gauntlet and tungsten :kissing: (useless trivia: tungsten literally means "heavy stone", but the metal itself goes by the name volfram in Swedish)
But you're very welcome for the gifts! I don't think I need that much patience with your Swedish-skills, they're not questionable at all - I blame the lack of dots on your keyboard :wink: (unless your keyboard is Swedish. Then I blame it on you :lol:)
I also see no shame in using a translator to check if you understood a word/sentence correctly. Truth be told I do it all the time with English :kissing_closed_eyes:
By the way, no that you have to answer this question if you feel like it's too personal, but I was wondering why you are learning Swedish? I'm curious since it isn't exactly the most useful language (seeing how you could fit most of Sweden's population in NYC) and I can't imagine you started just because you wanted to know the origin of "common" words such as smorgasbord, ombudsman, gauntlet and tungsten :kissing: (useless trivia: tungsten literally means "heavy stone", but the metal itself goes by the name volfram in Swedish)
