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11 December 2008 at 6:01am | IP Logged

Darobat wrote:

English has a lot of of informal 'abbreviations' in the spoken language that aren't written.
For example, we have 'gonna' (going to), 'gotta' (got to, though if we're not going to abridge the word, one is
more likely to say 'have to'), 'kinda' (kind of), 'whatcha' (what are you)... Some of those are written, but they're
informal and you likely wouldn't see them in any sort of literary text.

This is my point regarding the difference between English and Swedish. In English there are a "kinda" official
informal spelling but in Swedish there "ain´t". No matter how you pronounce the words, you always spell them
the same way.

My examples from Swedish were, as Jeff so correctly pointed out, very personal interpretations of my spoken
language. (gävlemål)

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