Talk the Talk

Sitting on the train back to The Small Town from Stockholm, I can not believe how much I dislike the dialect of the region. It makes me feel physically ill. Not when everyone speaks it of course. There are people I like so much, that can get away with it, but just strangers on a train talking in this particular dialect can make me so irritated and make me feel ill and feel I absolutely have to put my i-pod on. ! I find it one of the most appalling Swedish dialects. I know it is completely irrational and it is very personal. I think most other Swedes find it kind of charming and friendly. Friendly I can agree with, there is nothing evil about it, it just sounds very bad to my ear.

It is also so absolutely unsexy. Next to me is a man who might actually be considered good looking, but once he opened his mouth and started talking, it was all gone. This might be one of the reasons I haven’t seen one single attractive man since I moved to The Small Town (there are of course other reasons for that too, but I will not go into that here…). I find voices and the way a man talk very important if I am to find him attractive or not. But I believe I might have rather unorthodox views on what language or dialect I find sexy. I am not saying the Stockholm dialect is sexy, in Stockholm you hear a total mix of dialects anyway so it is kind of neutral and some Stockholmers actually sound rather stupid. Gothenburg dialect is fine as well as some dialects of the north, but there is a fine line, there are some northern dialects that I just don’t like at all. For languages the classical “language of love”; French don’t do anything for me, nor does Italian or Spanish, although I find Italian a very beautiful language. What really get me off is Danish and British English. Yeah, I told you I am strange!

It is also quite strange how I came to write about this on the blog… I don’t get it!! ??