>"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 Is this in relation to Ohlmarks' translation or my reaction to calling it 'dodgy'? :)
>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. :)
And there's a bit of a laugh...because if there is ONE city that could be taken for a crappy Danish one, in Sweden, it would be Malmö.
Hell, the entire county is generally 'dismissed' as reserve Danes anyway. :P
On the other hand, Massive Entertainment is located there, so they do have ONE saving grace...
...!
Gott's Leetle Feesh in Trousers!