Tag: language problems
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Finnish pronunciation
Putting the emphasis in the wrong place in another language can cause a lot of confusion.
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Fun with language pt. 132
Reading Swedish the wrong way sometimes means seals can be spooky.
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Please remove this creature
I wrote the doctor here in Sweden to make an appointment to have a mole removed. I may have mis-translated.
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News of the Weird
I picked up the Swedish paper this morning and had to ask myself, why is there a train full of virgins going to Moscow? After careful reading I finally realized […]
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Watch your language
I am usually very careful about the expressions I use around people who don’t have English as a first language, but I slipped up earlier this week. A woman was […]