• troed@fedia.io
    262·
    9 months ago

    Swede here. We all speak English. Heck - my kids use English whenever they’re speaking about games or Youtube anyway.

    Come to think of it. We should just drop Swedish altogether.

    • Geometrinen_Gepardi
      28·
      9 months ago

      The last time I went to Systembolaget I said “hej” to the cashier who replied “you’re from Finland aren’t you?”

      • khapyman
        5·
        9 months ago

        Last time I went to Systembolaget they refused to sell anything to me because of my obviously Finnish accent. Luckily the nearby ICA had no problem in selling me some folköl. My Swedish is passable, it is just obviously from wrong country.

        • kungen@feddit.nu
          4·
          9 months ago

          they refused to sell anything to me because of my obviously Finnish accent

          Skitsnack, you’re just joking or they thought you were drunk.

          • khapyman
            4·
            9 months ago

            I was sober, on my way to Åre - buy some beer, buy some groceries from nearby store. Just to get by for a week of off piste.

            It’s just the casual Swedish racism.

            • kungen@feddit.nu
              2·
              9 months ago

              So what reason did they say to you when you went to the checkout with your drinks?

              • khapyman
                4·
                9 months ago

                As I understood my Swedish was so off that they couldn’t trust my Finnish passport or driving licence to be trustworthy. They claimed they could not verify my age.

                I was in over 40 in this exchange.

                • kungen@feddit.nu
                  2·
                  9 months ago

                  Did they think the majority of Finns who go through Pakkoruotsi remember anything more than “jag heter homopeter”? 😂 Still seems weird, Systembolaget has always accepted my US driver’s license (this was additionally before “real ID”; it basically was like McLovin’s fake ID), despite the fact that they’re not supposed to accept anything other than a passport for people from outside of the EU. And I looked young then, barely 20 years old.

                  I would have fought them harder instead of taking folköl instead. Regardless, sorry that happened to you, Finns are our brödrafolk, and it’s a shame if the cashier forgot that.

      • crispy_kilt@feddit.de
        3·
        9 months ago

        A Finn wouldn’t pay 100 billion trillion for a light beer at Systembolaget, he’d bring his own for cheap when crossing the border

    • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
      31·
      9 months ago

      Isnt rinkebysvenska swedish turning into a mix of english, turkish, arabic and serb? Tbh im really interested in what will happen to the swedish language in the future. Will they just switch to english or will it slowly turn into a mix like rinkeby? Idk but its interesting to see the lamguage develop. In hungary the state regulates the language so much that we dont really see any development.