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Hampie
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Message 25 of 26

01 June 2012 at 12:02pm | IP Logged

COF wrote:

From what I've heard, the Swedish don't even like the British accent and many of them think it is
funny sounding.

But the Swedish tend to dislike the British. They see the UK as the total opposite of their perfect, egalitarian,
socialist, democratic society.

You've only got to see the way Swedish football fans are when Sweden plays England. Never mind Spain, Brazil,
France, etc, there's no bigger prize for a Swedish football fan than beating England.

The Swedish clearly take issue with England. It isn't mutual however, most English people couldn't care less about
Sweden. To them it's just a little country somewhere north of Germany.

This is just utter poppycock: have you drawn it out from within your behind? There are no, and by that I mean no,
anti UK mentality in Sweden. If there is a country towards Swedes tend to have hostility it's the USA, which in the
media is generally portrayed as land full of fundamentally Christian money lovers.

Sweden has been governed by the conservative party for over 6 years by now, so, I would not call us socialist nor
egalitarian. That seem a bit utopian to me. As far as I'm concerned the UK have been governed by labour, the last
one being Tony Blair, a couple of times. How much do you even know about the UK, not to talk about how little you
seem to understand Swedes.
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montmorency
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Message 26 of 26

01 June 2012 at 3:12pm | IP Logged

jeff_lindqvist wrote:

montmorency wrote:

Also, Sweden is closer to England than it is
to the USA, so why would it not be reasonable for them to speak the "British" variant
of English?

A good question, but as I said on page 2 "hardly any kid will adopt it since the major
part of the popular media is American." Not that Swedes sound particularly "American",
but nearly everyone I've ever heard have an Americanized rhotic accent (except those who
learned English half a century ago).

I probably hang out with an older crowd Jeff :-)
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