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LordTancretus 21 points ago +22 / -1

I still don't believe she was 16, more like 12 (unless malnourished younger) plus an English accent but supposedly Swedish.

Nothing about her is real.

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tombombadil 17 points ago +17 / -0

Meh. I teach high school and there is a lot of variation in when kids start to look more adult like. She passes as a 16 year old. Also, it is pretty normal for Swedes to have weird accents when they speak English. They are not taught the differences between American accents and British accents.

I still agree that her fame is totally manufactured. Her parents ought to be in prison.

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climatestatis 4 points ago +4 / -0

It is not an English accent - source: me, in England for a long time. Nobody sounds much like that.

She did have a period of not eating, or limited eating, so was likely undernourished. I don't think it was long enough to make her this way. Maybe she's just small.

She's got a sister, two years younger. Compare their faces here:

https://heavy.com/news/2019/09/beata-ernman-thunberg/

The sister looks the same height and has a normal face. It emphasises that there is something wrong with Greta. If anything, it makes her look about 2 years older than Greta. Greta has a rounder face, squinty eyes, thin lips, no chin. There have been a lot of speculations about the cause of Greta's looks, but it is especially enlightening when we compare her to someone with 1/2 the same genes that we can see what she should have looked like.

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tcriv -2 points ago +1 / -3

I've encountered dozens of young swedes whose english abilities are so advanced that they make me think they are from UK or USA. Nothing strange about that, in my opinion.

I dunno what greta sounds like, never bothered to hear her speak... but a lot of nords can absolutely pass for native speakers.