> > > ... This strikes me as spooky because there's English words I haven't used before and really don't know the definition of, but somehow I'm able to use them right anyway. This has happened to me quite a few times lately..."holt, taking in-name quotes to the extreme.
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> > Heh. Travholt, your English is at LEAST as good if not better than many native speakers of the language. If you hadn't explained that your prefered language was Norwegian, I would have sworn your mother tongue was North American English.
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> Thank you very much! I hear this a lot around here, and I'm equally pleased every time. I'm starting to believe it! :-) But what gives me away are the silly inflection errors like the one above: "there's English words"... But at least I notice many of them, although often a tad too late.

If anything, errors like "there's English words" tend to *conceal* the fact that you aren't a native English speaker rather than giving you away, because that is the sort of mistake made by many people who have grown up speaking English. Unlike them, however, you actually recognize the error. :-)

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