Be careful if you watch a Swedish
documentary movie
Years ago I
was watching a Swedish sports documentary about a girl who was very good at
orienteering.
At the end
of the movie, she was crossing the terrain and had the word “slut” emblazoned
across her body.
All of us
Americans started chuckling, but after the movie was over our Swedish host
explained that “slut” in Swedish meant “end”, and that it was pronounced
“slute”.
Slut in
American English is often a sexually active and low-life kind of girl, at least
in my mind.
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