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Re: Show HN: A community for Swedish Startups

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Post by sk00byd00 » Fri, Jun 07, 2013, 3:28 PM UTC

ninjin wrote: post #15

sk00byd00 wrote: post #5

I'm in currently in Sweden and I get a 502 bad gateway... so I can't comment on the site, but out of curiosity, if this is targeted at the Swedish entrepreneur, why call it 'Swedish' anything rather than Svensk/Sverige which would be the first phrase typed in by a Swedish person on Google (one would assume)? I know some people speak English in Sweden (you can even hear people modelling their accents on a British or A…

> I know that English is a requirement of Swedish universities Sure, to enter you need to meet certain requirements. But according to at least policy (if not law) all lectures for at least the bachelor level must be available in Swedish (if there is consensus among the students the lecturer may switch to English). Course materials is a different matter however, few if any books on advanced topics are translated into…

You would think 6 years is enough to learn English but in my day-to-day experience in Sweden (anecdotal) there are a fair amount of Swedes who speak a little to no English, especially in rural areas (and rural areas in Sweden are cheap, beautiful and fibred to the gills, so I have to assume there are some worthwhile start ups out there).

It certainly is an interesting state of affairs when you don't need to learn Swedish in Swedish cities (personally I feel guilty). At this rate I wonder if there will be a Swedish language at all in 100 years.

Re: Show HN: A community for Swedish Startups

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Post by sk00byd00 » Fri, Jun 07, 2013, 3:29 PM UTC

jp1989 wrote: post #16

sk00byd00 wrote: post #5

I'm in currently in Sweden and I get a 502 bad gateway... so I can't comment on the site, but out of curiosity, if this is targeted at the Swedish entrepreneur, why call it 'Swedish' anything rather than Svensk/Sverige which would be the first phrase typed in by a Swedish person on Google (one would assume)? I know some people speak English in Sweden (you can even hear people modelling their accents on a British or A…

Well, in order to promote the Swedish scene to the rest of the world - it must be in English - so that's the fairly simple reason. The second being, I am not Swedish myself, so it doesn't really feel natural to write in Swedish.

Ah, I apologise. I wasn't aware that was the point, I thought the target audience was in Sweden (the site was down when I made that comment so I hadn't seen it).

Re: Show HN: A community for Swedish Startups

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Post by jp1989 » Sat, Jun 08, 2013, 8:07 AM UTC

sk00byd00 wrote: post #22

jp1989 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, in order to promote the Swedish scene to the rest of the world - it must be in English - so that's the fairly simple reason. The second being, I am not Swedish myself, so it doesn't really feel natural to write in Swedish.

Ah, I apologise. I wasn't aware that was the point, I thought the target audience was in Sweden (the site was down when I made that comment so I hadn't seen it).

No problems, I should've made that more clear :)