re: #114 HappyWarrior

She as a Swedish language speaker naturally thinks in the metaphors and analogies of her native language rather than ours. I can’t fault her for that. I bet a lot of the usual suspects will use this for their own cynical bullshit though.

Yeah. And I’ve known english for close to 40 years, and I still at times fuck up with figures of speech and idioms between the six languages I have somewhat command over. For just having spoken the language for something around 8 years or so, I find her an excellent English speaker. My classmates English when I was her age tended to be worse than hers. Much worse.