We Can English: Sweden's Biggest Fails Using English in Ads

We Can English: Sweden's Biggest Fails Using English in Ads

2022 • 138 pages

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ADDICTABLE CONTENT MADE IN THE GOOD OLD SWEDEN STRAIGHT OUTTA GARDEN Sweden, land of elks, modular furniture and upper-lip tobacco, has a strange quirk its love for using English in its advertising, written with no help from native speakers. This freshly-arrived Irish immigrants natural reaction was to collect as many examples of this terrible yet hilarious English ad copy as possible. Presented here, with the question: CAN YOU ENGLISH? Paddy Kelly, born in Ireland, has soon spent half his life in Sweden. A longtime writer, published in places ranging from The Irish Times and The Local Sweden to Analog Science Fiction, he now works with coding and innovation in Stockholm.


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Jag har blivit extremt osäker på min engelska sedan jag läste ”We can english”. För i vissa av exempel som författaren tar upp, så fattar jag inte vad felet är.

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