Why is there Swedish loanwords in Verdurian?

Noriega · Post by **Noriega** » Thu May 06, 2004 6:04 am

I haven't really looked into the history of Verduria or the other countries. But I found the "Modern terrestrial terminology" dictionary, and many words came from Swedish. Why is this? (If there exists any logical answer to that

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Thanks,
Felix

vec · Post by **vec** » Thu May 06, 2004 7:30 am

I think it's because there is an Embassy of Verduria in Sweden and the largest terretrial influence would come through there in the future

Shm Jay · Post by **Shm Jay** » Thu May 06, 2004 8:29 am

As someone once said to me in another context when I was all bothered about something ahem, giant winking Tweety bird heads:

Why? Why not?

What ever happened to the "Swedish ambassador", by the way? You would think he would post here a lot. Was Verduria just a passing fad for him?

Post by **zompist** » Thu May 06, 2004 11:53 am

Yes, the idea was that since an embassy was established with Sweden, then information about modern Earth would be filtered through Swedish.

I heard from Markus a month or so ago, but he hasn't written back since, so I really don't know what's up with him.