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Re: Tho (was: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences))

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 18, 2001, 17:26
Daniel Andreasson wrote:
>Roger Mills wondered: > > > Just out of curiosity: to those of you who have occasion > > to write e-mails in other languages (Swedish, Danish, German, > > Spanish...Chinese?)-- are there abbreviations similar to > > AFAIK, IMHO etc. in those cases? > >I don't usually write that many e-mails in Swedish in which >I have to use AFAIK, IMHO, etc. Different genres, you know. >Though one very common abbrev in Swedish e-mails is "iaf", >short for "i alla fall", i.e. "in any case", most often used >as "anyway". > >Iaf...
I use "iaf" regularly, and sometimes pronounce it as /jaf/. There's also "iofs" /jofs/ for "i och för sig", which's hard to render in English. "Det är iofs inte så snabbt men ..." "It isn't very fast but ..." perhaps can give you an inkling what it means (Daniel, can you explain better?). "dvs", "osv" "pga" and some others that're used even in formal(ish) contexts are of course frequent in mail, and in "Chat Swedish" there's any number of odd abbrevs ... Andreas PS /jofs/ is also, at least among some nerdy people including me, used as an "acknowledgitive": "(Yes,) that is so." _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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