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Borque:
Just wanted to say hi - don't think I ever introduced myself here or the older SA fora. Some of you might know me as "Incariol" on the ASOIAF board where I've posted occasionally over the years.

I'm Swedish and live in Sweden. English is a second language for me, so I apologize in advance for any weird language constructs, grammar spelling, etc.

Happened upon Bakker after reading about him on the Martin board, which I found after having read AGOT, which, in turn, I found after looking after similar books to the first few Wheel of Time volumes, and so on, back via Donaldson, Tolkien, Dune and others, to the Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea sequence, which is what really got me interested in Fantasy in the first place.

Many thanks to all you who run this board, reading Bakker gets even better with all the speculation, interpretation and general discussion here.

Garet Jax:
Welcome!  Even though I am sure you have been around longer than I have.

Just as I said about Royce, your command of the English language as your second language is amazing.  I wish I would have lied and told everyone that English is my second language so I wouldn't have to apologize or agonize over my weird language, grammar, and spelling.

I look forward to your participation in these discussions due to your refreshingly simple way of explaining things so a person like me can understand them. 

Royce:

--- Quote ---Just as I said about Royce, your command of the English language as your second language is amazing.  I wish I would have lied and told everyone that English is my second language so I wouldn't have to apologize or agonize over my weird language, grammar, and spelling.
--- End quote ---

I forgot to thank you for that compliment earlier GJ, so thanks ;) I feel I must add that Scandinavians are generally pretty good at mastering the English language, especially people born in the seventies and later. We had English as a subject in school from the age of 10, and when hollywood started their entertainment colonization in the eighties, we were drowning in bad movies:) I grew up with a VCR, watching too many american movies at a tender age :)

Borque:
Thanks Garet!  :)

I look forward to participating to. If history is any guide, I will post very irregularly, though. I have a couple of small kids and am also starting a company on the side, which together tends to absorb substantial amounts of time.

Madness:
Lol - as a monolinguist (and one who has forgotten most of a second language and dabbled in many more) I really admire the second language writers around here as much as they inspire me.

Borque, kudos for trying Bakker with Westeros as your introduction. I never know how much the conversation there drives people away.

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