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Friday, November 14, 2014

Be careful if you watch a Swedish documentary movie



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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