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Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong!
I don’t know how many times he said it, Bream in “Five Ants Are More Than Four Elephants,” when he was testing Magnus and Eva with his slatted frame and the “One Will Disappear” guessing game.
And it was completely wrong when I wrote in my last post that the word Raggardusch had been removed from the recent edition of the Swedish Academy Glossary (SAOL). Because it was exactly the opposite. After all, Raggardusch was something new – even if the phenomenon is as old as the street.
There’s no way I’m going to shift the blame because it got so crazy. I had read a little carelessly and confused the patterned words with the newly added ones.
After my rant, a few readers reached out, but still surprisingly few. Maybe there are more people than me who have no idea.
One person who definitely has it all figured out is Louise Holmer, a lecturer at the Department of Swedish, Multilingualism and Language Technology at the University of Gothenburg. Louise was the editor-in-chief of SAOL and very kindly pointed out in an email that I was wrong about the keyword “rag shower”, but also told me an anecdote. She herself wasn’t sure whether a real Raggar shower would work. Should you use water at all or just deodorant?
Louise asked two younger men when she was in Stockholm recently. One of them replied that you splash water on yourself before taking in the Deon. I don’t know what the other person answered. Louise also interviewed several Gothenburg residents who claimed that they don’t wash at all, but ride with deodorant until the end.
Is there a difference in cleanliness? when it comes to Stockholmers and Gothenburgians? Louise isn’t the only one who’s curious.
Back to SAOL. It says that the word poodle can have two meanings – both are nouns. Part dog, part unreservedly self-critical, sorry.
Not because I like poodles, on the contrary – even though the expression “smart as a poodle” is one of the best compliments you can receive. Instead of getting a poodle, I’ll settle for making one.
Read other series from EKG, for example about Astrid Lindgren’s missing cherry tree.
