I am A Swede so I swear. If an Anglo is offended, sorry it’s your own cultural fault

I was reminded  by a friend, and rightly so as he is correct,  that we swedes tend to over use the words ”Fuck, fucking, shit”. That’s how it is really, the result of what? 100 or so years of American culture and some brittish  as well. All the movies from Hollywood  and all the TV shows and tv series invading  us, have made us all embrace  the words fuck fucking shit, the same way we use our own words  to emphasize things and meanings and expressions.

I am a Swede and I take offense when Swedish channels bleep swearing and bad mouthing on TV. I am proud that we can swear and curse freely on TV. And that’s  why we really, or very rarely  does that. But American famous people coming on Swedish  TV seems to always like to exercise  the right to do so.

We use our words ”skit, fan & helvete”. Skit equals shit. Fuck is ”knulla” and fucking  equals, it equals ”knullar”. It’s plural. No one in Sweden would consider knulla and knullar to be words of beautiful  poetry. But again, it’s all the American culture  we are being exposed  by.

I think the brittish  words ”bloody hell” equals the Swedish fan jävla helvete” better than fucking shit. But I guess swedes who have lived a year or so in England use that more than the American expressions of shit, fucking fuck”.

Now my take on this is: if an American or British person is offended by me saying shit fucking fuck, then sorry mate, it’s their own fault. That’s what happens when they like to sell coca cola to everyone  outside the US.

Stefan Lindblad