10 more cool Swedish words and expressions (part 2)

The creatively titled follow-up to '10 cool Swedish words and expressions'.

A few of my favourite Swedish words and expressions.

I love the Swedish language and as it’s been a while since my original '10 cool Swedish words and expressions' post, I figured it was about time I posted a few more of my favourite Swedish words and expressions.

Just to recap, many of the alien names and places in my first comedy scifi novel were inspired by Swedish words, so that was the inspiration behind the original post.

Anyway, here are another 10 cool Swedish words and expressions which I like…

1) You look good out

If you’re Swedish and you’re good looking (which admittedly is a very strong possibility judging by all the Swedish girls I’ve ever met), then luckily in Sweden they have several words and expressions to describe you. If I had to guess then I would say that the abundance of words for ‘good looking’ in Swedish is similar to the way that Eskimoes have numerous words for snow.

The wisdom of kids

Some amusing quotes from kids, including a few which highlight that sometimes kids can be wiser than you realise.

The dream of every child...  Can you guess what it is?

On my Charles Fudgemuffin facebook page I occasionally post funny comments that kids have said, so as an idea for a blog post I thought I would round up a collection of funny and interesting comments from kids.

1) "The dream of every kid..."

I’ll start off with a description of a funny clip from You’ve Been Framed I saw a few weeks ago. A couple were taking their daughter on a surprise trip to a secret location and the mother said to their young daughter (probably aged about four or five), “Rather than tell you where we’re going, we’re going to show you the letters so that you can spell it out.”

The mother then started showing her daughter the letters and the young girl started spelling them out…

“D – I – S – N – E – Y”

Suddenly a wide-eyed look of uncontrollable excitement appeared on the daughter’s face.

“Do you know where we’re going now?” the mother asked.

To which the daughter punched the air with delight and replied, “Alaska!”