Election day!

[shantari]

Democratic duty complete! I have now voted in the Swedish General Election of 2010. Let the democratic process unfold!

As I arrived at the election spot for my district I passed by several people handing out voting slips.
Moderate: Would you like some voting slips?
Me: Sure, why not?
*receives and passes by a social democrat who does nothing and

Comments

[shantari]

I've got another friend who worked the ballots today. :D

In general I think it's been the economic unrest. Those kind of things tend to increase divisions between groupings, and that kind of division can greatly support such a party.

*adds word to vocabulary*

[shantari]

I was thinking in terms of recent trends. While I don't know how it is in Finland, the integration in Sweden is pretty much a joke. (*points above to the mention of the actual Swedish Nazi party*) They are also very marginal, most people haven't heard of them in difference from the SD.

When the major conservative/rightwing party can market themselves as the "new workers' party" without much competition from the social democrats, you know that the boundaries have blurred somewhere there.

[silverjedi]

I can only imagine what was going on in their heads! XD I've done that, too. I feel like it's more polite than to refuse.

And the swastika things is disturbing! O_O That actually happened? Yikes! Yeah, I'm hoping they don't do so well, either.

Although, now that I think about it, maybe the person is an anime fan and is cosplaying a character from Naruto? XD *ducks thrown fruit* Just joking! ^_^ Don't know much about the politics of Sweden, but I'm sure this isn't a case of the Nazi Swastika being mistaken for I think it's the Buddhist symbol for good luck.

Hope it all goes well! ^_^

[shantari]

And the swastika things is disturbing! O_O That actually happened? Yikes! Yeah, I'm hoping they don't do so well, either.

What happened was that the Sweden democrat went to the police and said two men who spoke "Arabic sounding language" had jumped him and carved the swastika into his forhead. The idiot now insists that the court medical doctor's judgement of 9/10 certainity that the guy carved it himself came very "politically convinient" the day before the election.

1) That is NOT anywhere near as politically convenient as supposedely being attacked by people with elite ninja skills enough to carve a swastiska into your forhead without anyone else seeing it happen, just about a week or so before the election (when maybe not everyone who will vote BEFORE the election has done so).
2) Apperantly the guy is a chronic liar.
3) He used "dem" (them) when it's properly "de" (they). Them did nothing! They might have, but how can I trust a supposed politician aiming for Swedishness who mixes up their Swedish grammer

[silverjedi]

O_O *is very disturbed now and hopes the guy gets locked up for insanity if not for filing a false report and whatever the police can think of*

[shantari]

Here's the thing:

When writing plain text the plural third pronoun is divided into active object and passive object, just as all the other pronouns are:

De sprang fram till dem.

But in common talk people mush it together as one word "dom", which is then used when writing dialogue.

"Det var dom som gjorde det," skrek han åt dem, medan de andra pojkarna bara skrattade.

But because kids these days aren't as good at grammer, they've gotten the fix idea that "dom" is one word in plain text too, and that "proper" Swedish means that the word is just spelled either "de" or "dem" while pronounced "dom". Which has lead to me reading "them did something stupid when them used improper Swedish in difference from me" so many times that I feel like shouting from the rooftops.

(Is "dom" and "dem" switched in Finnish Swedish?)

While annoying, I can be lenient with teenagers and young Swedes in general making this mistake. But a politician? Who insists on Sweden as a Swedish country? Then he damn well better take care of his language!

[shantari]

Antingen sa han "dem" (i ett försök att låta intellektuell) eller så ligger felet hos journalisten som skrev ner det han sa. Vilket är nästan ännu värre då, ifall man nu ska behöva se folk som skriver för ett leverne göra den tabben.