Re: They Have a Word for It!

Daniel Andreasson wrote:

> Hehe. I just read the following at the Swedish humor site
> "Yttermera". I copied it into this mail for your convenience:
>
> http://www.yttermera.se/reshosta/theswedishway/a_touch_of_sweden.html
>
> Lagom – Not too much and not too little. Yes, you
> know the idea, but you don't have one little word for
> it.
[snip other Swedish lexical in-jokes]

My favourite 'untranslatable' Swedish word is _fika_, a verb, meaning roughly
"to chat with friends over a cup of coffee" (right, Daniel?).  When I was an
exchange student in Sweden, we used _fika_ all the time, even when we were
speaking English ("You wanna go _fika_?").  Such a useful word.

Matt.

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