Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Won in translation...



I've never been to Sweden but it sounds wonderful... A selection of headlines from today's The Local - Sweden's News in English include the following:

Thirsty Swede jailed over snot attack

Robot attacked Swedish factory worker; which includes the wonderful quote "I've never heard of a robot attacking somebody like this!"

Sweden tops European rape league - I didn't know there was one...

Fetishism goes pop culture: Sweden’s latest social trend; which contains some wonderful prose like "In a rather bohemian cafĂ© in Stockholm, a heterosexual fetishist couple walked in, dressed casually in jeans and shirts."

I'm not sure how much of these stories got lost in translation but these articles are all winners when read in a Swedish accent...

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