LAST EDITED ON May-16-16 AT 10:20 AM (EDT)
>>Well, it couldn't be worse than the somewhat dodgy Swedish
>>translation
>
>I will have you know that there is absolutely NOTHING 'dodgy' about
>the Swedish translation.
>
>It's an utter hack-job from a ham-fisted moron with delusions of
>adequacy, and all those books should be collected for an enormous
>bonfire! The name 'Ohlmarks' should be prohibited by law"I'm sure you can see, Captain Andersson, that your position is hopeless. Surrender is your only rational option now."
"Y'know... it's a funny thing about us Swedes. You think we're all nice, calm, reliable sorts of people, and then one of us goes and does something completely daft and unexpected. Like invent dynamite, or colonize North America, or fire photon torpedoes!"
- Olivia N. Andersson demonstrates the USS Ångström's voice-activated command override system
That reminds me, obliquely, that I must remember to include a character quirk I recently ran across online in Swede's portfolio. One of the Yogscasters, Rythian, is Swedish, and evidently from Malmö, Swede's hometown. Whenever they play Civ 5 on their channel—which they do a lot—he plays Sweden, but the first thing he always does is delete Stockholm and call his capital Malmö. If questioned about this, he generally either feigns ignorance of anyplace called "Stockholm" ("are you sure you're not thinking of Denmark? they have a lot of crappy cities in Denmark") or just dismisses it as too inferior to Malmö to be worth bothering about. :)
--G.
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