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[-] cobysev@lemmy.world 66 points 10 months ago

It's actually a mistranslation from Swedish to English. It's supposed to say waterproof.

[-] GreenPlasticSushiGrass@kbin.social 23 points 10 months ago

I'm going to choose not to believe this and maintain that Sweden was metal before there was metal.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

as a swede i can confirm we can barely use that word thanks to the influence of english, there are a bunch of words like that which english completely ruined..

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