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durn for'ner
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: South of Sweden
Posts: 17,090
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I (most Swedes) would probably come off very rude in USA. We donīt have the tradition of using words like Sir or Ma'am. It is a pretty useful phrase however when trying to get the attention of someone unknown. We had the same words in Sweden but they were more or less lost in practice decades ago.
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Markus
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