Nasal Swede Insults My People

From The Local:

Sweden’s Chancellor of Justice Göran Lambertz has ruled that it is perfectly acceptable to insult the dialect spoken by most people in the south of the country.

Skånska—often known as Scanian in English—is a guttural dialect bearing many similarities to Danish. With its uvular fricatives and pharyngeal diphtongs, the dialect can often appear impenetrable to outsiders.

To Aftonbladet columnist Alex Schulman, however, the dialect is not just difficult to understand—in a recent column he described the speech patterns of residents of Skåne as being somewhat akin to vomiting.

"To speak Skånska is to puke a little", he wrote.

To be honest, I only speak Scanian when I talk to my parents. In most situations, the communication is smoother when I use Standard Swedish with its slightly nasal pronunciation.