To speak proper English, you have to use FWord?? :blink: :tomato:

My point was that it doesn't prove anything, but never mind. We agree about the main point after all.:)

It's seem. I seem, you seem, he/she/it seems, we seem, you seem, they seem.

It's definitely seem, and it's true that nice guys play lots of computer games ! :D

Should be "seem" - but I wouldn't write that sentence in that form myself because it's ambiguous - is the speaker saying that the subject seems to be a nice guy because he plays a lot of games or in spite of it?

I'd say it's more likely in spite of it.:D Anyway, putting it like that sounds a bit like a translation of some Latin construction.

Hi guys,

I have another question regarding English.

Does the word "insofar" sound like an English word to you?

I once had some American guy explain to me that it was a Germanism, i.e. a frequent mistake made by Germans translating a German word into English literally. But all my German-English dictionaries have that word in them, and searching British websites with Google yields some 120,000 results (whatever that indicates).

So, is it a genuine English word or not? :blink:

I would say it is a genuine English word. I heard/read it being used in English language.

Yes, it's only that it isn't fashionable lately, sounds pretty outdated--but I don't dislike that myself. It should be followed by "as" I think. (And it was "seem". :D )

It's an English word which is often (though not as often as it used to be) used - "I'm a grammarian insofar as I have an interest in grammar, but no formal training beyond secondary school English lessons."