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Fun article about Swedish words

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Ari
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27 March 2013 at 9:31am | IP Logged 
If you're in Sweden, you probably heard about the "ogooglebar" debacle. The Atlantic has written a great list of fun Swedish expressions that people "should, obviously, incorporate [...] into English as soon as possible". Read the article here.
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schoenewaelder
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27 March 2013 at 2:04pm | IP Logged 
So what would be ungoogleable? Things with common names are sometimes a bit tricky to find I suppose, is that what it is supposed to refer to?
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