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Cake day: July 1st, 2023
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Also enjoy reading while on public transport, not much else fun to do then. I also usually end up reading when I get tired of speaking with others. Not like “I now hate all of humanity tired” but more “I want some me time”, and sitting or laying down in my bed with a good book in my hand and putting on some comfy music is honestly just a perfect me time activity.
As indicated above, I always have music on while reading. Can’t say I know why but I usually feel more relaxed with some music going on so it always helps when I just want to have some peace of mind while reading.
De/dem is simply the subject form and the object form of the same word, they and them respectively. The reason for the common confusion surrounding the use of these, as it might not be quite clear to a non-swedish speaker, is that both of them are pronounced in the same way nowadays: “dom”. As the comment above suggests, just using another subject/object pronoun such as vi/oss (we/us) usually works as they are clearly pronounced in different ways and therefore gets more automatically correct.
Why the words for they/them have evolved to both sound the same and not really that close to how either of them are written I do not know, but the wrong use in text annoys me quite a lot. Personally, I’m all for ditching the differentiation and just default to always writing “dom” as that better reflects the spoken language.
On another tangent, Swedes also often “särskriver” - write two words apart when they should be put together. A fun example of that that I’ve seen is “kassa personal” (~crappy staff) which really should be “kassapersonal” (checkout staff).