Tag Archives: gammelmedia

Get your facts straight, SvD!

I’m keeping myself updated with news from back home in Sweden. There have been extreme amounts of snow in the country; several roofs have been crushed because of the weather. SvD, one of the major and respected Swedish newspapers, urges house owners to take care: Ett problem är dock att många fastighetsägare reagerar för sent [...]

“The keys are like right next to each other”

I’m constantly amazed of the low quality of language at the major Swedish newspapers, and in particular their respective online versions. But today was the worst of them all. Instead of writing the Swedish word for “ship”, fartyget, they had made a very interesting typo. The word fartpylypeyget decorated the article. For a second, compare [...]