| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 19, 2000, 16:15 |
* BP Jonsson <bpj@...> [000419 07:57]:> Swedish would normally use _ska_ as unmarked future, _tänker_ "think(s)" as > unemphatic intention and _kommer_ + infinitive for certainty about what's > going to pass. Obligation is expressed with _måste_ or a stressed > _ska_. (Older Swedish spelling was _skall_, Danish always had _skal_, > whereas modern Swedish and Norwegian have _ska_.)Nitpick: it is still *spelled* _skal_ in Norwegian tho' most do not *pronounce* the l... t.