Posted by Nahaku on September 03, 1998 at 21:34:44:
He says he cannot use English to express himself well, because it is not his native language. I suppose I am willing to believe it, though his actions have seemed from time to time a bit quircky to me. I had a couple years of french in high school, and I was very good at it, my teachers always said. I pulled straight As with no problem. Then when i was in the Marines, a guy I go to be real good budies with had a wife who is French. She started speaking to me in french one day on the beach, because she missed her native lingo so much. (BTW, she spoke German and English fleuntly, and a few other languages too). When I started speaking, she nearly died laughing. She said my accent was great, but that my syntax was nearly gutter slang. Well, I still can't relate to her saying that...and I don't have nearly the vocab that I did. But maybe, just maybe, Mattias is a little missunderstood.