[Q & A] Grunt speak?

[arial_destiny]

In the scanlations I hear people say Sweden's accent is translated into 'grunt speak.' What exactly is grunt speak? The translations seem like gangster speech mixed with a Texas accent...

So, does grunt speak = gangster speech? o_o

Comments

[nisha_phi]

I always thought he sounded sort of like like Hagrid from Harry Potter.

[arial_destiny]

That makes more sense than the 50 Cent image I had in my head. xD

[chibitalia_chan]

NEW HEADCANON.

Cannot unsee

[underagedboys]

Well I thought it was more like loud mumbling but..

I wouldn't be surprised if he was secretly pimping out the Baltics at one point or Ikea being a black market for furniture...

Re: Cannot unsee

[bigfangirl]

Pimping out the baltics is a very, very funny image XD (as if they're not molested enough by russia lol)
I can totally see him messing with Estonia though <3

Re: HAHA MY ACCENT IS GRUNTY

[meomnimi]

that sounds like a cool accent though!

I like a lot of English accents XD;

Re: HAHA MY ACCENT IS GRUNTY

[shantari]

That to me seems a lot more like what Sweden should talk. (Shortening your Swedish tends to drop more consonants than vowels.)

[shantari]

This Swede can confess to sometimes carrying her end of a conversation with "Mmm", "Hmm" and "'m". But mostly when I'm being shy or don't really know how to converse with that person/in that situation.

[kanelros]

I always thought the grunty part came from the fact that Swedes have a tendency to be a bit 'lazy' when pronouncing words, and that being one reason to why people find it hard to learn swedish; it's hard to interpret what we're saying.
Like shantari above, this Swede is also guilty of "Hmm-ing" and "Mmm-ing" at times.

Here's a fandub of what Sweden's dialect sounds like to japanese. Tohoku-accent I think it was called?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JE1iQfNj6A
(Would someone be so kind to tell me how you post the video in the comments like epicfail1211 did?)

It's basically silent and a bit mumbly, and skipping one or two letters of a word, NOT cutting out all the vowels alltogether.