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Glee owns my soul. No surprise there.
Last episode totally smashed my brain, too, and my crush on Chris Colfer has reached truly numbening heights. Like, youtube marathon stalking sessions heights. Where I sit and am adored by him putting on a really credible fake Russian accent with Cory or watch him swirl tiny swords around or just, seriously, the

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okay, I forgot,

1) what does Perkele mean anyway? Is it universal cussing? How can they put it in a commercial? (remember we are the land of no f-word or boob-flash)

2) YESSS!!! These new detective books, Erik Winter? All set in Goteborg! AND Winter is not a depressive, twisted emotional mess like in all my other Nordic crime books (what a shock, eh?) He's almost .... normal. And GOTEBORG!!!

What the hell kind of name is Erik Winter? Is Winter a word in Swedish? They keep commenting (in the book) his name is weird, what's weird about it?

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It's another word for the devil. You can use it as a curse, but you can also use it as a description of someone's character, that they've got guts or fighting spirit. We have a similar use of the Swedish curse jävlar, it's devils, but if you add anamma, as in jävlar anamma, it's a word for go-getting spirit. :)

A normal detective in a Scandinavian crime novel? I don't believe you. No dead spouse or children? He's not even an alcoholic?

It means winter. We just usually spell it vinter, maybe that's why? Or they could just mean it's not a common surname, like reacting to someone being named Rainbow, heh.

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Sorry, you don't know this but you are actually helping me through a really difficult project. I work on it for awhile and then I go check my email to see if you've responded

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I've actually heard of the books, and his name is spelled Winter forreals. :)
W instead of V is an old fashioned spelling, probably where the English comes from.

Also, in this day and age, if you're a new dad and you haven't taken your six months worth of paternity leave, you're either hick working class, über workaholic or a male chauvenist pig. Or a combo, heh.

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And I forgot -- in this last one, some really bad shit went down in .... Hisingen! Anyway, I thought of poor Carsten.

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Bad shit at Hisingen. You're kidding me. XD

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PS english is ridiculous, I was just thinking: threw, through, though, tough, trough. That right there would make me bang my head on my desk.

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Hahahahahaaaa, that's the best thing I've read today! (Except for Chris Colfer being on the Time 100 most influential people list)

It's funny because it's true. :)))

Immigrants have the same wtf-moments when it comes to sh-sounds in Swedish. Stjärna, sjuk, sköterska, skjuta, chock, schampo, all the same sh-sound... And there're no rules as to the decisive form (I think it's called?). Our "the" is much worse than the French le and la. You have to learn every individual word's form.

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Hehe and we're under this total lie that, you know, other languages are so CONSISTENT. I have high-school Spanish and it's pretty straightforward except for some of the conjugations, and of course the really weird ones are the most common ones (like "to be"). I end up saying everything in the present tense. "Yesterday I am going to the store."

Okay this Easter-witch thing WHAT THE HELL?!? There are no witches! Just the Easter Bunny, who rolled the stone away from Christ's tomb and left the eggs behind, I think that's the way it goes. What are the witches doing there? Lol because I thought in your original comment it was a typo or (my apologies) you'd come up with the wrong word in English. And then in tonight's adventure with Erik Winters, they actually *reference* the Easter-witches (in a joke about riding a broomstick.)

Please explain.

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When you're a kid, Easter witches are much more insteresting than the bunny, yo. You dress up as one (boys too) with a scarf over your head and an apron and broom, and very importantly, red cheeks and freckles

Dammit.

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Those kids!!! Thank you so much, this is why cultural exchange = so important. (Also - little kids talking in Swedish? cute cute cute) And I love that the boys dress up like witches too

glee

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PS also I keep forgetting to comment on the original topic of this thread :) Glee isn't my favorite but I think Chris Colfer is adorable.
Do you know Dan Savage? Advice columnist in US, I love him, his stuff is fun, mostly (fairly pervy) sex questions combined with glimpses of US culture. Anyhow, one time he's answering a question about watersports and ewwwww and who can do THAT? And his answer is, well, if (famous disgusting old man conservative US politician) asked for that, your response would be: gross, no thanks. But if Chris Colfer suggested it, you'd be thinking, welll........ hey, it's basically warm water, right?

In case you don't know his column (and why would you?) here's a sample, they have an archive. Fun reading when you're bored. This one's lactation kink, pegging, and a hint of scat? (hope your mom's not reading this)

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=7769528

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Dan Savage, omfg, hahahaha!
And my mom. I think she's still hoping for me to be gay or something, cos then I'd be easier to define... I don't think she'll read through all this, too much work, hah!