Legolas comes fourth

epicstruggle said:
2 things
-so are official signs (road signs, et al) in swedish only?
-do you see a day in the future where english will become your official language?
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Road sign are mostly just symbols, who often doesn't make much sense. That's something I really liked in the US, the road signs were so clear and obvious, little education needed. Just read the text.
I mean, look at these:
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If you haven't read up about it, how would you know?

In any case, I would think English will make it into our daily lives more and more. There are more and more english signs getting up and most public institutions have english websites already. I think sooner or later it will be a dual language society, though I'm not sure this will be officially recognized any time soon. I rather just think our language will develop closer to the english language.
 
I agree with practically everything Humus said. Especially the subtitled TV and movie factor.

English is already unofficial second language in the sense that almost everyone understand it. Furthermore, higher university courses are often given in English (at least at KTH) since there are a lot of exchange students that don't know Swedish.

There are however comparatively few people who live in Sweden and know English but not Swedish. I have no official numbers, but I'd say that it's way more common to know Persian, Arabic or e.g. Bosnian but not Swedish.

I found a web page!
There are five official minority languages: Finnish, Yiddish, Meänkieli, Romani Chib, and Saami. It's not quite as uncomplicated as that, but generally speaking you have (with some limits) the right to use those languages when communicating with authorities. They also say that there is "a very wide range of languages spoken by newly-arrived minorities, such as Arabic, Danish, Kurdish, Persian, Turkish and Somali". You don't have official right to use those languages but sometimes it's OK anyway. I don't know any details about that though.

I might have strayed a bit off topic. To sum up my point I guess you could say that English is not an official language because, well, there's no real need for it to be given that status.

(Now that I read what I have written I'm not convinced that it contains any actual information (at least not interesting and/or relevent information) and I'm rather unhappy about it, but since it took me a substantial amount of time to write it I'll post it anyway! :rolleyes: Feel free to ignore.)
 
epic:
If you can guess it, then you try first.

I can give you an easy one as a start. :D
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One of the few with text on. And for some reason it's not Swedish. In Swedish it would have said "STOPP".
 
basic, im confused by your post. are you saying that the first pic from humus's post is stop? that would not have been my guess.
this is what i would have guessed:?,road ends (t-intersection), dont enter, and stop.
later,
epic
 
No, the image I posted is a fifth Swedish sign that stand at crossings where you should stop.

Humus' signs are:

"Priority road": Information that cars from all connecting roads have to give way to you.

"Dead-end street": The street you're at is the only way out of the area you enter.

"No entry": One way traffic, and it's going the opposite way.

"Parking and stopping prohibited"


More Swedish signs here.
 
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