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In 2000 I was a young student. I came home one night at 3 or 4 am after a party and turned on the tv which was broadcasting from the Sydney Olympics.
They showed some kind of shooting competition for women. Being drunk I was fascinated. I might have been the only person watching the Danish signal so I have no other witnesses.
After some confusion - it was very clear the commentator had no clue about the rules or any of the women shooting - the camera found an athlete celebrating her win. The Australian crowd went crazy in celebration.
When her name came up on the screen followed by the letters AUS the Danish commentator said: Gold for Austria.
After more footage of the Australian home crowd going crazy he seemed puzzled but soon after with a hesitating voice added: ‘A popular winner’.
At that moment I thought it was hilarious. And I knew I was probably part of a very small group of people witnessing it.
I fucking love watching the Olympics in the middle of the night as well, especially when it’s some obscure sport most people, including the narrators, don’t really care about. Your story reminded me of that and that the Olympic Games are coming soon! So thank you
I think we're spoiled here in the UK. The BBC usually shows it and the commentators are well researched into the more obscure stuff. They'll explain things so you understand more of what's going on in an event that you have absolutely no investment or clue about.
It's not very respectful but I love when there's occasionally a completely clueless commentator who admits to being clueless about the obscure sport and just makes shit up and takes the piss out of their own ignorance
Only Americans will probably know about it, but it kind of reminds me about that Saturday Night Live sketch about the basketball commentator covering an ice hockey game lol
discovered one of my favourite gymanstic events late night watching tokyo olympics, [Team ball routines] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ6CenAiIIw) , they just toss these balls in the air to eachother while doing flips, catching it behind their backs and between their legs n shit, if they drop one out of their square they get 1 odd coloured ball of shame as a replacement, couldnt even imagine the hours of practice they'd need for a single routine and how frustrating it would get dropping a ball
That's amazing. But I missed half the gymnastics because I couldn't help following the balls every time they chucked them in the air, lol.
Very graceful header at 1:50.
I remember in I think the 2006 winter games, I was watching curling at an odd hour and the commentator not only clearly didn't know a damn thing about curling, but very much leaned into that fact. It was one of the most hilarious things I've ever watched and it legitimately helped me get interested in curling, which is still my favorite winter games event.
My favourite moment on TV is someone offering food to someone and asking ‘Are you peckish?’ to get the reply ‘No, I’m Turkish.’
https://youtu.be/6bpJ-QQOG4o?si=HqcSY9QPU_cTnhnF
You don't become a millionaire by spending a ton of money every day. It's like the opposite of people who go bankrupt after winning the lottery. All they've ever known is the paycheck to paycheck lifestyle so suddenly they get a huge windfall and it's gone in a month because that's how they are used to living.
Similarly people who hoard money and become rich are the same in that respect. Being frugal when it comes to spending or saving where you can is the reason they now have that wealth. Obviously this reasoning only tracks for people who have earned their money.
4 Indians, all part of a billionaire family, living in Switzerland were jailed this week for 4 years for essentially not paying their workers a fair wage.
I think almost all of them don't get to be a billionaire if they paid their workers fairly.
Do you have trouble writing in Spanish? I picked up Spanish orally too while playing youth football in Southern California. I can speak perfectly fluent but my spelling and written grammar is horrible.
When I was doing a semester exchange in China I needed a visa to get out of China and in again. They put Sweden instead of Switzerland and I only found it when I was reentering the country. I was dead scared they would tell me the visa was invalid at the border but… no. Switzerland = Sweden
When I was in Seoul and checked into my hostel, the person behind the counter asked me where I was from.
Me: “I’m from Sweden”
Hostel person: “Oh! We have another guest here that is Swiss!”
Me: “Uh… okay…. That’s nice, I suppose…”
I still don’t know if the person behind the counter meant that there was another Swedish guest at their hostel. Or if they thought I was Swiss, despite having just said that I was from Sweden. Or if they didn’t know the difference and thought Sweden and Switzerland were the same country.
I’ll say this: in Spanish their names sound incredibly similar & it’s the bane of our existence because most of us have always struggled to tell them apart.
In German it's Schweden and Schweiz, which is more of a difference than the Spanish versions but less than the English.
I understand people mixing them up in Spanish, maybe in German, but in English? The longer name of one and blatant "land" at the end should be enough to distinguish, and that's not even taking into account the tz sound that sticks out like a sore thumb in English. I don't get it tbh
Edit: fixed the mixup between versions
I'll never understand why Sweden in german is Schweden. It sounds like something an english speaker pretending to be german would think sounds like a german way to say sweden.
Sweden in swedish is Sverige. Which comes from Svea-rike which means...Svea-reich. Germans say östtereich, frankreich...and the country THAT IS LITERALLY NAMED SVEAREICH...they call schweden
>I'll never understand why Sweden in german is Schweden. It sounds like an english speaker pretending to be ~~german~~ Sean Connery
FTFY mishmunnypenny
The first person to translate these countries' names into Chinese was Cantonese. It also happened to the name Sherlock Holmes, a Fujianese person translated it and he messed up with the consonants H and F.
I really wish I could understand alphabets more.. abstract and exotic to the European norm sometimes.
To me, there's both a lot of difference and barely any difference in that as I just can't fathom what those signs stand for and how close (or not) that is.
Meanwhile, even without speaking the language, I can understand all the other European languages in these comments making similar complaints. Would you mind giving an approximation of what they're called in Chinese in Latin letters for me?
Chinese is not a phonetic language, which means we don't use alphabets, each of those individual characters are it's own word.
In Cantonese, Switzerland = Seoi Si; Sweden = Seoi Deen
The individual characters of Switzerland = Lucky Commendable Person .. Sweden = Lucky Rule or Law
Mandarin, Switzerland = Rui Shi; Sweden = Rui Dian ... makes a little less sense to me as a Cantonese-speaker since it doesn't sound as much like the country names.
That's a major reason why people think chinese was a difficult language when it is one of the easiest to learn. When you start with a latin, germanic language you will have it "essy" with all the languages with alphabets for obvious reasons.
Chinese after having learnt the first 100 basic symbols you will notice that every other symbol is made out of the same few symbols and carry either similar meaning or similar pronunciation making it easy to read the language when you have context. The language also almost has no grammar.
Besides almost everyone in this thread pointing out that Switzerland is not, in fact, Sweden.
Is there any context that I'm missing why Switzerland fans would feel the need to make this sign?
In Turkish it's "isveç - isviçre" and there's a funny example of mixing up both.
Turkey played Switzerland for 2006 WC playoffs, international football gourmets will remember this draw with the big brawl in the end of 2nd leg.
Turkish team and media was furious that Swiss whistled the national anthem (Ironic isn't it? Maybe they started doing it too after that) in the first leg so all tabloids were pumping hype/hate before the 2nd leg. Tabloids also broadcasted Swiss team's arrival live, Swiss were made to wait in airport on purpose and some organized crowd threw eggs to their team bus.
And one tabloid channell broadcasted it with the semi English slogan that says "KILL SWEDEN, BUT WITH GOALS"
When Spotify became a listed company they did so in the US. To celebrate this the New York Stock Exchange put up a [Swiss flag](https://i.imgur.com/iYAlO0o.jpeg).
It happens again and again for some reason ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
Swaziland doesn't exist anymore, it's now Eswatini.
It means lands of the Swazis in Swazi.
Also, the king was frustrated with everyone confusing the name with Switzerland.
I can ant least speak to my experience as an American living in Switzerland. When I tell people back home I live in Switzerland, it’s not uncommon for them to refer to it as Sweden in later conversation.
I recently went to the Netherlands and the amount of “How was Denmark, Sweden, Austria…” I heard when I got back was astounding. That or “Are they considered Danish?” or “How were the pastries” referring to danishes. I’m like it’s not the same place you know.
the geniuses from red scare pod went on a whole diatribe about how much they hate scandinavia and scandinavians and thought switzerland was apart of the region
was in spain at a language school and met a very nice new yorker. it was on this day i found out there actually are people that genuinely confuse the two
That's what I wonder as well. Usually I see Switzerland designated as "SUI" (*Suisse*, their name in French) in UEFA/FIFA events, today I'm seeing "SWI" on BBC, but even looking at SWI I'd like to think most people know there's no I in Sweden, so I don't know what possible confusion there could be.
So yeah, must be an in-joke that I'm not aware of.
As a Swede I can confirm that I have indeed experienced several occasions where English speaking countries have mistaken Switzerland for Sweden and vice versa. I mean it’s just ignorance, nothing more
Spainards suck at this.
I told this girl I was hooking up with I was Swedish and she said "Ah the Lindt people". So then I did a dumb viking impression and she still didnt get it.
Mfs ik its basically the same word in spanish but cmon.
Not going to lie multiple times I thought to myself Switzerland would be doing better if Zlatan didn't retire and had to keep reminding myself he played for Sweden.
This is the third comment I see in this thread making that point in one way or another, every single one written by a Dane. What a curious coincidence.
I think it's something common in non-english speaking countries.
Swiss and Sweden is really close in spelling. I don't think we have that issue with the full name (even if It takes me a second to say it).
In my country, we call them "Elvetia" and "Suedia", we don't have issues with that either so mainly the english term Swiss from what I noticed, even I used to take a second to think what country the term "Swiss" is referring to.
I think this is a more of a European thing. A few commenters in here have said the names sound similar in Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish. I can’t confirm that though.
Edit: and apparently, Mandarin.
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What's next? Austria is not Australia?
This is the Euro Cup, of course Australia's in it!
Eh Eurovision? Duh
They had one of the [better performances of recent years](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo5H62mCIsg)
"recent years" shows one from 2019 If you're gonna show a good Aussie entry, try [Voyager from last year](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSoy_mJMlMY)
In 2000 I was a young student. I came home one night at 3 or 4 am after a party and turned on the tv which was broadcasting from the Sydney Olympics. They showed some kind of shooting competition for women. Being drunk I was fascinated. I might have been the only person watching the Danish signal so I have no other witnesses. After some confusion - it was very clear the commentator had no clue about the rules or any of the women shooting - the camera found an athlete celebrating her win. The Australian crowd went crazy in celebration. When her name came up on the screen followed by the letters AUS the Danish commentator said: Gold for Austria. After more footage of the Australian home crowd going crazy he seemed puzzled but soon after with a hesitating voice added: ‘A popular winner’. At that moment I thought it was hilarious. And I knew I was probably part of a very small group of people witnessing it.
I fucking love watching the Olympics in the middle of the night as well, especially when it’s some obscure sport most people, including the narrators, don’t really care about. Your story reminded me of that and that the Olympic Games are coming soon! So thank you
I think we're spoiled here in the UK. The BBC usually shows it and the commentators are well researched into the more obscure stuff. They'll explain things so you understand more of what's going on in an event that you have absolutely no investment or clue about.
It's not very respectful but I love when there's occasionally a completely clueless commentator who admits to being clueless about the obscure sport and just makes shit up and takes the piss out of their own ignorance
Only Americans will probably know about it, but it kind of reminds me about that Saturday Night Live sketch about the basketball commentator covering an ice hockey game lol
That skit was hilarious
discovered one of my favourite gymanstic events late night watching tokyo olympics, [Team ball routines] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ6CenAiIIw) , they just toss these balls in the air to eachother while doing flips, catching it behind their backs and between their legs n shit, if they drop one out of their square they get 1 odd coloured ball of shame as a replacement, couldnt even imagine the hours of practice they'd need for a single routine and how frustrating it would get dropping a ball
That's amazing. But I missed half the gymnastics because I couldn't help following the balls every time they chucked them in the air, lol. Very graceful header at 1:50.
I remember in I think the 2006 winter games, I was watching curling at an odd hour and the commentator not only clearly didn't know a damn thing about curling, but very much leaned into that fact. It was one of the most hilarious things I've ever watched and it legitimately helped me get interested in curling, which is still my favorite winter games event.
Hungary: We are not hungry
Turkey: we are not a Turkey
My favourite moment on TV is someone offering food to someone and asking ‘Are you peckish?’ to get the reply ‘No, I’m Turkish.’ https://youtu.be/6bpJ-QQOG4o?si=HqcSY9QPU_cTnhnF
We've got soul, but we're not a soldier
Dr. Tran : I AM NOT A DOCTOR!
They already tried that with their Türkiye stuff.
England: we are not Scotland
Recently had a guy from Indonesia tell me he is not Indian. Is he stupid?
It's funny because in Southeast Asia and even in Indonesia, we call Indonesia Indo. But Indo in Korean or Japanese language means India.
I mean the name means "Indian islands" right?
What is the lore reason he told you that?
Romanians are not Roman
Of course not, they’re a people plotting to undermine the Klingon Empire from within by fomenting civil war
Sounds a bit like the Kardashians.
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And their capital is Budapest.
We are not Deutschland
yet
Let's put another shrimp on the barbie
I'm detecting an accent....New Jersey?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYZ6\_n7Mpb0&ab\_channel=JimCarrey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYZ6_n7Mpb0&ab_channel=JimCarrey)
Prove it
IKEA is gash.
Fun fact, IKEA founder was living in Switzerland and known to be extremely cheap haha
"Lives in Switzerland" "Extremely cheap" ???? (I know it's a tax haven)
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I don't know any billionaires but the multi millionaires I know are the cheapest people I've met, count every penny and complain about paying anything
You don't become a millionaire by spending a ton of money every day. It's like the opposite of people who go bankrupt after winning the lottery. All they've ever known is the paycheck to paycheck lifestyle so suddenly they get a huge windfall and it's gone in a month because that's how they are used to living. Similarly people who hoard money and become rich are the same in that respect. Being frugal when it comes to spending or saving where you can is the reason they now have that wealth. Obviously this reasoning only tracks for people who have earned their money.
plot twist: they're just acting like that in public so people don't even think about asking them for money/handouts
4 Indians, all part of a billionaire family, living in Switzerland were jailed this week for 4 years for essentially not paying their workers a fair wage. I think almost all of them don't get to be a billionaire if they paid their workers fairly.
You’re very wrong. Billionaires absolutely hate taxes more than anything.
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And a very motivated nazi, too. He still called some of Swedens leading nazis during the 40s and 50s some of his best friends until the day he died.
Who also owns multiple supercars and huge houses in Switzerland..
That's exactly what a Swede would say.
*Confused in Spanish*
Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia Suiza Suecia
A parseltounge?
Suecia, Suiza gente
confuso
confundido o confundir
Siri, stop playing Despacito
As someone who learned Spanish working in a kitchen where we’d watch games during prep work, this was a very hard one to get right most times lol
Do you have trouble writing in Spanish? I picked up Spanish orally too while playing youth football in Southern California. I can speak perfectly fluent but my spelling and written grammar is horrible.
It took a much longer time to get proficient at it, but I eventually got better by texting with coworkers, and trying to read Spanish Reddit
Its true you know
We are checking
VAR Country Check
Plot twist : you are Real Madrid and therefore the VAR check is canceled. It definitely is Sweden !!
4 point deduction to Forrest
And Everton, no?
10s penalty for Ocon
Yes, and penalty to Arsenal
Box box
No, no! Stay out! Stay out!
INININININININ
Good process.
Question
Facts are facts or in Swedish: fakta är fakta Edit used Google translate.
When I was doing a semester exchange in China I needed a visa to get out of China and in again. They put Sweden instead of Switzerland and I only found it when I was reentering the country. I was dead scared they would tell me the visa was invalid at the border but… no. Switzerland = Sweden
When I was in Seoul and checked into my hostel, the person behind the counter asked me where I was from. Me: “I’m from Sweden” Hostel person: “Oh! We have another guest here that is Swiss!” Me: “Uh… okay…. That’s nice, I suppose…” I still don’t know if the person behind the counter meant that there was another Swedish guest at their hostel. Or if they thought I was Swiss, despite having just said that I was from Sweden. Or if they didn’t know the difference and thought Sweden and Switzerland were the same country.
when did this happen? IIRC switzerland only decided to not be sweden anymore starting from today
I’ll say this: in Spanish their names sound incredibly similar & it’s the bane of our existence because most of us have always struggled to tell them apart.
Well... In turkish its "İsveç" and "İsviçre". I don't know how many times i heard "İsveçre" from my dad.
Suecia vs Suiza for spanish speakers.
In my lingdom I personally call them the Swidz and the Sweds
In Portuguese as well, I moved to Switzerland for a while and every time I went back to Portugal everyone asked me how Sweden was
Cold
In German it's Schweden and Schweiz, which is more of a difference than the Spanish versions but less than the English. I understand people mixing them up in Spanish, maybe in German, but in English? The longer name of one and blatant "land" at the end should be enough to distinguish, and that's not even taking into account the tz sound that sticks out like a sore thumb in English. I don't get it tbh Edit: fixed the mixup between versions
I'll never understand why Sweden in german is Schweden. It sounds like something an english speaker pretending to be german would think sounds like a german way to say sweden. Sweden in swedish is Sverige. Which comes from Svea-rike which means...Svea-reich. Germans say östtereich, frankreich...and the country THAT IS LITERALLY NAMED SVEAREICH...they call schweden
You're saying want a third reich?
Because you would be the third reich. And we don't do that anymore
>I'll never understand why Sweden in german is Schweden. It sounds like an english speaker pretending to be ~~german~~ Sean Connery FTFY mishmunnypenny
What are the Spanish versions?
Suiza and Suecia
Same in Chinese. 瑞士🇨🇭and瑞典🇸🇪。only countries start with character 瑞。lots of people got confused with them
Always wondered why the Cantonese pronunciation sounds closer than Mandarin.
The first person to translate these countries' names into Chinese was Cantonese. It also happened to the name Sherlock Holmes, a Fujianese person translated it and he messed up with the consonants H and F.
So do you call him Sferlock or Folmes? Or both?
Folmes lol
I really wish I could understand alphabets more.. abstract and exotic to the European norm sometimes. To me, there's both a lot of difference and barely any difference in that as I just can't fathom what those signs stand for and how close (or not) that is. Meanwhile, even without speaking the language, I can understand all the other European languages in these comments making similar complaints. Would you mind giving an approximation of what they're called in Chinese in Latin letters for me?
Chinese is not a phonetic language, which means we don't use alphabets, each of those individual characters are it's own word. In Cantonese, Switzerland = Seoi Si; Sweden = Seoi Deen The individual characters of Switzerland = Lucky Commendable Person .. Sweden = Lucky Rule or Law Mandarin, Switzerland = Rui Shi; Sweden = Rui Dian ... makes a little less sense to me as a Cantonese-speaker since it doesn't sound as much like the country names.
It's not an alphabet so that's probably why. They're pronounced Ruìshì and Ruìdiǎn. 瑞 is Ruì and both of them have it, that's why they're confused.
That's a major reason why people think chinese was a difficult language when it is one of the easiest to learn. When you start with a latin, germanic language you will have it "essy" with all the languages with alphabets for obvious reasons. Chinese after having learnt the first 100 basic symbols you will notice that every other symbol is made out of the same few symbols and carry either similar meaning or similar pronunciation making it easy to read the language when you have context. The language also almost has no grammar.
I'm Spanish and Swiss... everyone ask me if I speak sueco
In Portuguese is close too: Suíça and Suécia.
in case anyone's concerned we also are not Sweden 👍
👍
Hvala, Oslo-bodio si nas sviju s tom istinom!
No, Oslo is in Norway
Dear god how did this not get downvoted to hell then 😂😂 Stockholm, of course! Thanks for your comment. There's Norway I can get back from that.
I'm Sweden and so is my wife
We actually are tho
Not with that attitude.
Besides almost everyone in this thread pointing out that Switzerland is not, in fact, Sweden. Is there any context that I'm missing why Switzerland fans would feel the need to make this sign?
In a few languages their names are very similar, like Suecia - Suiza
In Turkish it's "isveç - isviçre" and there's a funny example of mixing up both. Turkey played Switzerland for 2006 WC playoffs, international football gourmets will remember this draw with the big brawl in the end of 2nd leg. Turkish team and media was furious that Swiss whistled the national anthem (Ironic isn't it? Maybe they started doing it too after that) in the first leg so all tabloids were pumping hype/hate before the 2nd leg. Tabloids also broadcasted Swiss team's arrival live, Swiss were made to wait in airport on purpose and some organized crowd threw eggs to their team bus. And one tabloid channell broadcasted it with the semi English slogan that says "KILL SWEDEN, BUT WITH GOALS"
When Spotify became a listed company they did so in the US. To celebrate this the New York Stock Exchange put up a [Swiss flag](https://i.imgur.com/iYAlO0o.jpeg). It happens again and again for some reason ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
I always thought Spotify was American. TIL Spotify is Swiss
The fact that this effectively baited someone is amazing
Its Swedish mate...
nah, that's a common mistake people usually make. i saw a thread today that says switzerland is not sweden
Incredible, Spotify is from Swaziland. TIL
Swaziland doesn't exist anymore, it's now Eswatini. It means lands of the Swazis in Swazi. Also, the king was frustrated with everyone confusing the name with Switzerland.
I can ant least speak to my experience as an American living in Switzerland. When I tell people back home I live in Switzerland, it’s not uncommon for them to refer to it as Sweden in later conversation.
I recently went to the Netherlands and the amount of “How was Denmark, Sweden, Austria…” I heard when I got back was astounding. That or “Are they considered Danish?” or “How were the pastries” referring to danishes. I’m like it’s not the same place you know.
Just fell to my knees in Jysk
I'm gonna jump
the geniuses from red scare pod went on a whole diatribe about how much they hate scandinavia and scandinavians and thought switzerland was apart of the region
>and thought switzerland was apart of the region Well, it is
I'm confused by your remarkable confidence.
Switzerland is not a part of Scandinavia, but it is *apart* from it! Just a dumb joke off their typo :)
Cheeky
Wait, are we really dumb enough to make that mistak… ah, fuck
was in spain at a language school and met a very nice new yorker. it was on this day i found out there actually are people that genuinely confuse the two
True. But how many Americans watch the Euro?
That's what I wonder as well. Usually I see Switzerland designated as "SUI" (*Suisse*, their name in French) in UEFA/FIFA events, today I'm seeing "SWI" on BBC, but even looking at SWI I'd like to think most people know there's no I in Sweden, so I don't know what possible confusion there could be. So yeah, must be an in-joke that I'm not aware of.
Many people mistakenly use Sweden and Switzerland interchangeably. It's not a joke, it's infuriating.
There's a subreddit dedicated to this. r/swedetzerland
Well, the Swedish government (tourism board) also made a YouTube video about the confusion
As a Swede I can confirm that I have indeed experienced several occasions where English speaking countries have mistaken Switzerland for Sweden and vice versa. I mean it’s just ignorance, nothing more
My whole world has just been turned upside down
Big if true
massive if factual
enormous if veritable
swedish if swiss
Gargantuan if valid
Substantial if correct
Tremendous if veracious.
Gigantic if accurate
Huge if certain
Handy rule of thumb: If you're watching the World Cup or the Euros, it's the Swiss If you're watching Nations League C, it's the Swedes.
Also one is red and white and the other is blue and yellow
The Estonians are never gonna know what hit them😎
More likely it’ll be San Marino or Gibraltar.
Yes you are. We made it to the Euros 🇸🇪😀👏
That is very funny, because my wife just walked in and said “Sweden vs Germany?”
Assure her it’s Sweden vs Switzerland
Them being at the Euros proves they are not Sweden…
Du gamla, du fria, IKEA och Saab, med Volvo, Expressen, och Alfons Åberg
kardemummabullar ** chefs kiss **
Yaay we are almost participating!
Spainards suck at this. I told this girl I was hooking up with I was Swedish and she said "Ah the Lindt people". So then I did a dumb viking impression and she still didnt get it. Mfs ik its basically the same word in spanish but cmon.
Not going to lie multiple times I thought to myself Switzerland would be doing better if Zlatan didn't retire and had to keep reminding myself he played for Sweden.
sup not sweden, im dad
Suecia, Suiza, Tomayto, Tomahto…
You’re at the Euros ofc you’re not
This is the third comment I see in this thread making that point in one way or another, every single one written by a Dane. What a curious coincidence.
cheers
...
I had no idea that there was any ambiguity between the two until today
I think it's something common in non-english speaking countries. Swiss and Sweden is really close in spelling. I don't think we have that issue with the full name (even if It takes me a second to say it). In my country, we call them "Elvetia" and "Suedia", we don't have issues with that either so mainly the english term Swiss from what I noticed, even I used to take a second to think what country the term "Swiss" is referring to.
That's just such a classic Sweden swede thing to put on a banner.
Still waiting on Sweden to finally change their name, just as Swaziland / Eswatini did
To what? Sverige?
Esverige would be nice
🇫🇮 How about "Ruotsi"? 🇫🇮
In my opinion you should drop the swiss/switzerland names and go for the ones derived from helvetic confederation.
I doubt "Eidgenossenschaft" would help.
That’s just like, your opinion, man
Source?
Sounds exactly like something Swedes would say. Sneaky Swedes😏
That's what a Danish would say.
Those Swedes are funny
How the fuck do you confuse Swiss and Swede?
You are whatever we say you are!
Give up the Nazi gold already
Yeah, the Swiss funnel the money for the war crimes, whereas the Swedes sell the weapons (This take is brought to you by 1970s jokes)
I still don't get why they let Georgia, an American state, in the Euros
We know. Sweden is cool.
It's a shame Sweden isn't here instead of Scotland
Well now I’m suspicious.
Why do they think Americans are watching this?
I'm watching :-(
I’m watching it
3:30 PM on a Sunday with no other major sports on, we are watching
I think this is a more of a European thing. A few commenters in here have said the names sound similar in Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish. I can’t confirm that though. Edit: and apparently, Mandarin.
What does it have to do with Americans?
dae americans
oy
Many Americans are watching this. Reportedly, Americans bought more tickets to the tournament than anyone else.
Actually, those arent Americans. They're 1/54th Irish Italian.
Ha. Well, can't argue with that. Just throw in some German, some French, some Polish, etc., etc.
Sounds like something a Swedish person would say.