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Like the bed called "Gutvik", which for nordic languages sounds a bit like the translation for "Good F*k". But they should have perhaps used that one for a larg
by stragies 5y ago
Like the bed called "Gutvik", which for nordic languages sounds a bit like the translation for "Good F*k". But they should have perhaps used that one for a large double bed...
Or "Appelkaka", the Apple-Cake. "Kaka" sounds like the word for vulgar word for excrements....
Or the Ikea "Jerker", which is a desk
- toxik 5y agoIn Swedish, vik is bay. Gut isn’t Swedish at all*. Kaka isn’t pronounced like caca, it’s the A sound of law in the first syllable. Jerker is just a name, surely not limited to Sweden. *It can be “related to Gotland” I guess but that’s a stretch.
- Cederfjard 5y agoI want to second that all of the above is nonsense, except that äppelkaka means apple cake and Jerker is, in fact, a desk from IKEA. Neither of these names are meant to have any vulgar connotations at all, and if they do it’s not from a Swedish perspective (I can see an English speaker giggling about Jerker, sure).