Scandinavians cam be such a pain in the butt about this! Lmao I speak Swedish very well but usually travel with Anglophones. I’ll be in line somewhere speaking English to a friend, then the cashier will overhear and end up expecting English, and I come out with an order in Swedish and it all gets very awkward. Just…

My advice would be to really go heavily into Danish to start. I kind of regret not doing so now that I’m learning it, with seven or eight or whatever years of Swedish lessons and C1 proficiency. It’s the harder pronunciation. Swedish can be weird and has 17 vowel sounds or whatever but it’s a lot easier to learn.

i dunno, i’ve never once gone “hipp hurra” over my period, in english or swedish. it’s mostly an unpleasant experience. it’s cool that it’s being talked about though

haha, you learning too? i’ve been at it for years, and it’s a fun language!

or don’t, because our police suck just as bad but we hide it better in the international media.

It took me forever to like my name. It’s not a weird word or anything (though my last name is an English word, but is actually French and not pronounced like that!!!) But it was and is super uncommon and kids used to make fun of me for it. Now I’m pretty cool with it. I might change my middle name though, but have to…

in Scandinavia they have Gitte, but that’s a lil weird. However, in Sweden, they use Britt as a short form. That sounds pretty cool. Rita could also work (Riitta is a Finnish derivative of Birgitta soooo)

I’m autistic. I’m sick and tired of these disgusting humans who have no idea what autism really is being the way they are.

A moment of silence for the time Finland attempted to become a monarchy in 1918 but then decided to be a Republic. Never even got a pointless and overly lavish ceremony, the Finns...

Haha yeah! It’s cool then, no worries.

I’m autistic and I infodump a lot. Apparently, as they were putting me under and as I woke up post-op, I wouldn’t stop talking about Scandinavia. I’m super interested in Scandinavia and I had come back from an Iceland/Sweden trip the day before.

You do realise when you see the same thing over and over it can be hard to restrain yourself as rigidly? I apologise for jumping at it, but as someone who also has a rather complex and inaccessible heritage that is totally inaccessible because of colonisation (I feel too white to pursue anything beyond some basic…

I like how you say native people and their culture. Tell me again about these natives and their one homogenous culture.

Okay but think about it this way - per capita, how many white people are killed in the US versus black people? It isn’t about totals; it’s about percentages.

God, she seems so fun. It’s a real pity her cousin has so much blood on her hands (seriously, fuck her), but Melissa’s presence on earth makes me feel at least a bit better.

Okay, did sad face guy put in a ): or did he actually write sad face as its own little clause. This is important because I want to know how much I should hate him - a lot, or a LOT

Birthday WEEK I do not get, though.

I’m not even 25 yet, but I tend to make a big deal of mine. Then again, I grew up with an abusive mother who always stole my spotlight, and due to multiple complications that arise from being brought up by a really poisonous narcissist, thought I would kill myself before age 20. Any birthday is a sign of another year…

I believe so! It was taken in 2004 for his personal site, according to him. Kind of neat that he’ll be immortalised forever, not cool that someone on wikipedia is trying to claim the copyright.

Oh my god! My German oral exam was the same, but my prof kind of laughed it off because I mixed it up with Swedish, which is similar, if you squint. Well, same language family.