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Monday, June 14, 2010

Farts, fukts, and duschy Swedish

I'll confess, I tend to have the sense of humor of a 14-year-old boy.  Some of the most common Swedish words are funny for an English-speaker to read and say; bra means good, and slut means the end, or to stop something.  When I first visited Sweden last year, I couldn't stop giggling over the road signs containing the word for speed, which is fart:

A farthinder is a speed bump, and

an utfart is an exit.

 At first glance,  fuktslukare sounds the the most complicated and amazing swearword on the planet, especially when it's spelled in a weird wavy font on a mysterious container.   But, fukt is humidity and sluka is devour...what we have here is just a drying agent to keep your stuff from rotting.

And finally:
If you're going to be duschy, the least you can do is keep it original.

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