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by isoprophlex 458 days ago
"They" would have been a lot less confusing here...
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I'm baffled by why one would use a Swedish pronoun in an English text. We live in a strange world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swenglish

Not uncommon for Swedish-first speakers - just accidental language bleed, as is the case with most other second language speakers.

(As for "strange world" - have you looked at the etymology of most English words? :p)

I'd guess its similar to Danish and hen meant "he" here, Han in Danish