I don’t know how difficult the right-wingers have made it to move here in recent years, but Sweden has pretty great trans healthcare. The wait times can be annoying, but are lightning fast compared to the shit I hear from the UK and US, and everything is paid for collectively. It should go especially smoothly if you’re coming in with a diagnosis and prescriptions already from home.

Nearly everyone is capable of speaking English to accommodate the array of international people here, and there are dedicated courses for foreigners to learn Swedish from beginner level through high school. These courses are paid for collectively and can even earn you money through the CSN program which helps alleviate financial burdens while studying.

It’s kind of nuts how generally trans-positive the public is. When I went to get my ID with my new name the cop who handed it to me was really excited and happy for me. It’s not something I was expecting based on the general transphobia of the world.

Thank you for the first-hand perspective.

they do not have right to agitate others to be “non-binary” or something like that.

Can you give some examples of what is and isn’t allowed so that I can understand where the line is?

You can find “leftenant” as a normal spelling in older texts. No one is sure why.

It was spelled with an R in the past, and they tried to change it to an L (because that’s how it “properly” should be according to its origins), but only the spelling stuck, probably due to everyone being illiterate anyway.

It helps to break it up.

worce - ster - shire

“Worcestershire sauce is the worst.”

“Thousand island is worster.”

“‘Worster’? Sure.”

Everyone has trouble with that one. There’s even a joke about it in Finding Nemo. I don’t imagine most English-speakers can spell it offhand.

eye-dee-uh

It was I, Dia.

Schedule depends on where you’d like to blend into. You’ve got:

• skedjuhl
• sked-juul
• shed-juul
• shedj-yuu-uhl
• skedj-yuu-uhl

Possibly more! I think the ones with two syllables sound most common/least specific to a dialect. SK is more American and SH is more UK.

Okay, thank you for confirming. I can’t agree or disagree because I’m not Canadian, but I’m glad to understand how strongly you feel about it. I knew relations were bad, I just didn’t realize they were that bad.

It’s my impression as an outsider that the unspoken position of the Canadian government is that the blind should seek euthanasia rather than costing the public valuable pennies. Is this a correct impression to have? If not, please correct me. This is an information-seeking post and not an insult or attempt to spread misinformation.

I don’t think I understand the Canada/US situation well enough to understand what you mean. It sounds like you’re saying Canadians who visit family in the States or need to visit the States for professional reasons should be tried with treason.

For the books I would personally most like to translate, I think the problem is marketability. Nordic children’s/youth literature often contains nudity/sexuality and/or darker emotional themes which are often viewed as inappropriate in English-speaking cultures.

In “Vi skulle vært løver” by Line Baugstø a young girl discovers her classmate is transgender, and for much of the book participates in transphobia before learning better and supporting her new friend. It’s a very well-told and realistic emotional experience, but would likely be seen as grooming by many English-speaking audiences. Not only does it support trans people, but it also spends quite a lot of time in the girls’ locker room. I think if you tried to give this to kids in the US or UK there’d just be a ton of controversy about it and it’d get banned.

I wonder this all the time. I can’t help but fantasize how I would translate things while reading, but there’s nothing to be done about it if the publisher isn’t interested. They could at least make it legal to distribute fan translations.

Those things pop your ears, yeah, but they’re not what I mean, and they don’t make the noise. Oh well.

I taught myself to do this after reading about it in a short fantasy promo when I was little. An adult asks a boy what he can hear, and he says people talking, so the man instructs him on how to really listen to what is being said around him, to gather information without attracting notice. I’ve always wondered what that story was because I’d like to read the whole thing.

I didn’t realize that’s not a thing everyone can do. There’s a part of All I Want for Christians is You that’s just someone mashing annoyingly on a piano, and it’s so disgusting that I love it. It starts at about 0:58 on the YouTube Music copy, and then changes at about 1:05. It’s such an annoying sound in isolation.

Human skin contains photoreceptors, so this makes perfect sense.

Based on what I’ve read about senses, I think most of human sensory variance is born in the brain and is trainable to be much more sensitive than we’d generally expect possible given our comparatively weak hardware. Some of us have the supertaster gene, but no one comes out of the womb a sommelier.

Can you do that thing where you flex some internal muscle and hear a loud rumbling that I assume is rushing blood? It’s hard to explain. I think the muscle is related to the jaw, or maybe ear movement. It’s not externally perceivable, but it’s useful on an airplane.