A funny sketch is circulating around the internet from Saturday Night Live where the comedians are acting out a Swedish chat show. Full of stereotypes, it goes something like this:
‘Hurdy gurdy flurdy ja ja my vagina lurdy flurdy gago?’
‘Liga gargy murdy flurdy rollga buggla hurdy gurdy you bitch.’
And so on, you get the picture. Everyone was stereotypically blond and all of the understandable words were sex-related – yet another Swedish stereotype.
As I watched the clip, I couldn’t help laughing because, without knowing it, the comedians were actually right on the ball. I’m not talking about the Swedish chef style way of communicating but the Swedish preference for chucking English words into sentences when there is a perfectly good Swedish word to use. Why is this such a preference? Is it to sound international? Or to impress? I don’t know the answer, but it something very noticeable as you listen to Swedes conversing with each other.
Only the other day, I was listening to the radio and, although I can speak Swedish, I imagined what it would be like if I couldn’t. As it happened, the hosts were talking about sex toys, and the conversation went something like this:
‘Swedish, Swedish, Swedish, Swedish, dildo, Swedish, Swedish’
‘Swedish, Swedish, sex, Swedish, Swedish, swingers’
‘Swedish, Swedish, rimming, Swedish, Swedish, Swedish, butt plug’
Seems like the comedians weren’t that far off!
SNL Link: http://feber.se/video/art/242494/swenglish_med_snl/
Watching the Swedes 
Right on the money! Heheh! They are soooo full of themselves, and think of themselves as global citizens, when in reality they are very parochial and ignorant about how other countries are and differ from them, for the BETTER! They have never heard such at home…”Aren’t we the country everybody want to/does emulate?” Sorry FEW if any know about Sweden or for that matter care….