Why bother? Why not just make the official language Arabic now and be done with it?
“Campaign to Replace ‘Standard Swedish’ With Migrant-Inclusive Accent Launched,” by Virginia Hale, Breitbart, January 31, 2017:
State-owned company Lernia on Tuesday launched a campaign to replace the standard form of Swedish with one that’s more inclusive of migrants.
The ‘new standard Swedish’, developed in collaboration with linguist Mikael Parkvall, mixes together accents and dialects that are commonly spoken in Sweden.
According to the staffing and training company, the new dialect better reflects Sweden in 2017 and the company hopes it will replace the neutral form of Swedish in recorded messages and on answering machines.
Training Manager at Lernia, Ina Tzacheva, told Östra Småland News there’s a labour shortage in Sweden and Europe and so it’s important that people with non-standard accents don’t feel excluded from the jobs market.
Expressing concern that some people are being excluded from work because of the way they speak, she told the newspaper: “We want to focus on how a person’s accent is not reflective of their skills and expertise … We cannot exclude people just because they do not speak in the same way as we do.”
Lernia hopes that businesses and organisations will use ‘new standard Swedish’ on their answering machines, and that it will become the default voice in recorded messages used in, for example, elevators. “We are looking for organisations, companies and sites throughout Kalmar County who want to help modernise the sound of Sweden,” said Ms Tzacheva.
So far, the dialect has already been picked up by Stockholm University’s library, and the Scouts.
Caroline Thunved from the Scouts said: “We are both proud and pleased that we were asked to be the first company to use the new Standard Swedish. As an organisation that is active in criticising [societal] norms in several areas, this now adds a new dimension, namely how we sound when we welcome new and existing members on our switchboard.”
Staff librarian at Stockholm University, Birgitta Lindgren Hellmark, said the institution hopes recordings in the new Standard Swedish will “increase people’s feeling of belonging regardless of pronunciation.
“In addition, [we hope the dialect] inspires conversation about similarities and differences, and why we so often allow differences to divide us even when they are irrelevant.”…

salim says
Sweden is determined to commit suicide, and when a nation is so determined, its difficult to save. I just feel sorry for those brave people like Ingrid Carlqvist, they got such a hard work to do.
Arabic has already forced itself on Europeans. Words like hijab, halal, jihad, sharia, allah akbar .. etc were almost unknown in Europe only 15 years ago, now they are house hold names.
Islam the religion of killers says
There wouldn’t one person in Europe that doesn’t know “allah ackbar”
A Harris USA says
So are the expressions like rape, murder, and beheadings.. Oh, let’s not forget that little noun, bomb, quran and of course terror attack.. Seems the Euros are determined to have an end to their civilization. They will have their wish.. Better open the borders to native, Christian and Jewish Euros who want to escape the ME North..
My Opinion says
Differences are IRRELEVANT? From what planet did this moron originate?! Tell the young boys, girls, men, and women who have been sexually assaulted, raped, beaten, subjected to sharia compliance that differences are irrelevant! I myself find that the differences between a 21st century and 7th century mentality are QUIT relevant!
My Opinion says
“Quite” relevant…see how relevant a minor little “e” is?
Ian Hoffa says
Newspeak, anyone? How do you say double-plus-cuck in swedish?
davej says
How do you say “Your God is the Greatest” in Swedish?
Other new phrases include: “Where do I pay my jizya taxes?”, “Please rape me now, you big Muslim hunk” , “Forgive me my sausages and beer” and “Our Aquatic Center has been renamed a masturbatorium”.
Julie says
We in the United States drooled over the successful, happy, and healthy society Sweden had attained for itself and its citizens. Our selfish oligarchy in the USA won’t even allow us to have semi privatized healthcare. With Trump on board we can forget about Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security in the future. But at least Trump has instilled fear in the Muslim population. I’m speaking of the hijab and burqa wearing Muslims. As a whole, they are utterly worthless to our society and cause nothing but problems. And Swedens too I strongly suspect.
Mike says
Right now, the USA looks a lot more successful, happy – though not healthy – than Sweden.
Or France.
A few weeks ago, I asked a leftist where they’d go, if they had to pick:
France, or
Trump’s America
This (honest) leftist picked “Trump’s America”.
I’ll bet you that 20% of the population of Sweden would immigrate to the USA right now, if they had the opportunity.
Manual Paleologos says
We don’t want them. They’ll try to screw up the USA as they screwed up Sweden. Let them save their own country or die.
Carolyne says
Sorry, Julia, I never drooled over Sweden’s Socialist paradise. I do not want a government which takes my money and doles it out as it sees fit. And where did you get the idea that President Trump “On board” would do away with Medicare, Social Security, et al? I’ll bet you were one of the marchers in Washington a couple of weeks ago wearing pig hats. Very appropriate.
I used to buy Volvos. I now proudly drive a LIncoln.
Nynaeve says
Pig hats, they were supposed to be representative of vaginas 🙂
Hugh FitzgeraldI says
Detta är idiotiska,, or svebonics to that effect.
gravenimage says
Så sant…
Lynne says
Are they nuts? I went to Sweden once and it was beautiful. No more.
Islam the religion of killers says
” Ina Tzacheva, told Östra Småland News there’s a labour shortage in Sweden and Europe”
And what Rocket scientists thought it would be a good idea to bring in a bunch of thieves and welfare bludgers under the guise of “young working people”.
What idiot employer would employ a muslim anyway, the only reason they go to work is to take advantage, have preyer breaks and steal…
In Germany out of the 1.1million refugees 34,000 have jobs,,,,,, duh, the numbers people .. do the numbers ….
I hope the people retiring after long working careers realise their superanuation will have to be reduced or their retirement date extended to make up the financial deficit ….
Sweden that lovely country of clean air, bounty, fantastic socialist life and safety, is well on it’s way to becoming another unsafe shit hole ..
gravenimage says
Sweden: State-owned company launches campaign to replace standard Swedish with “migrant-inclusive accent”
……………………..
More cultural suicide.
This would be like replacing standard English in the United States with “Spanglish” or “Ebonics”. Just disgusting.
I’m also sure that Swedish–*real* Swedish–has a richer vocabulary, including professional and technical terms. If this actually catches on–and is not just a multicultural fig leaf–it will succeed in dumbing down Swedish society.
Kay says
Thanks for the illustration. I hadn’t been able to figure out what a mew standard might mean.
Off topic–
I work in schools (though the same thing might happen in all kinds of organizations) and for visuals that communicate inclusiveness, there is always pictured . . .
(you guessed it) someone in hijab.
The newest sign has words “Immigrants welcome here.” but the picture isn’t a Mexican or Guatemalan.
I absolutely detest the way Mohammedens mark their females AND how the “progressives” have lapped it up as if it were worth defending.
Greyhound Fancier says
They have to mark them – otherwise some other Muslim rapist might go after them.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Kay–I worked briefly in education–adult literacy–luckily this in the 1990s, before 9/11 and before Islam had made so many disturbing inroads–but there were still serious discussions about how much we should teach standard English and things like proper spelling. And this was during the insane Ebonics scandal in Oakland–there was such a backlash the schools backed down pretty fast, though.
I can’t tell you how much idiocy like this angers me. I grew up dirt poor on welfare, and I *wanted* to learn proper English at school–it was very important to me. I didn’t want anyone dumbing things down for me or anyone else. I knew it would not help anyone in the real world.
And things are even worse when it comes to bowing to Islam. *Ugh*.
bernie says
Trump should declare English the official language of the United States at the federal level. And, while he’s at it, formally legislate against Shariah law. It has no place in the U.S.
Tommy says
mulla mulla hahchka mulla jihad jihad mohamed jihad
gravenimage says
Ha ha
DFD says
Recent interview in Sweden (Sweden at boiling point):
“We (there were several, faces pixelt) think of getting guns, then shooting and burning the newspapers and staff. Then get out and kill ‘them’, when the polices comes, fight to the death!”
I think it was reported on conservo or a similar site. Saw it this morning.
Champ says
“STOP THE LUNACY!” …works in any language.
Concerned Canadian says
Lyndsey Lohan can teach them in a day
Angemon says
Oh, for f***’s sake. Are things so good in Sweden that they need to manufacture an issue about “accent” to show how virtuous and mindful of “the other” they are? Sheesh, and I thought that “mansplaining”, “manspreading” and “micro-aggressions” were straining credibility to its limits…
common sense says
“Feelings” once again prevail over sober logic.
Champ says
Excellent point, Common Sense! …many bleeding hearts have forgotten how to think things through.
common sense says
I am unable to figure it out its a deeper mystery than the dark side of the moon.
Champ says
😀
Richard Paulsen says
So the language of swedish Nobel Prize winners in Literature will be obsolete. Selma Lagerlöf (1909), Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinsson (1974). Pär Lagerkvist (1951) and Tomas Tranströmer (2011)
Why change when the economy is so good? Do they know how this will change the economy?
It is crazy, but they are dead serious.
Richard Paulsen says
Recommen the novel Barabbas, by Pär Lagerkvist. There is a good picture based on the novel, starring Anthony Quinn.
Story about Barabbas being freed instead of Jesus Christ.
common sense says
Hey Swedes! Maybe, just maybe its time to stop pretending and be yourselves.
http://media.canal-plus.com.s0.frz.io/image/11/0/611110.200.jpg
Richard Paulsen says
Long time ago.
JayT says
Hmm, Swadan, Swedenizan, Swabal, I think these are all good candidates for when the time comes that they’ll want change the country’s name as well.
Baucent says
Better still, drop Swedish completely and use English. Most native Swedes speak English already and those Muslim migrants probably will find English easier. They are on the road to culture suicide anyway, give it a push and finish the job, ban the Swedish language.
Wellington says
Well, look on the bright side, to wit, Sweden is setting the foremost example of how to destroy a nation and a culture by way of those twin idiocies of political correctness and multiculturalism (both entirely inventions of the Western Left, I would note, for all those Western Lefties remaining out there who still think that Western Leftism has anything meritorious about it), all the while exculpating the many inherent totalitarian aspects that can easily be found in Islam.
Oh yeah, here Sweden is quite arguably in first place——a paradigm, par excellence, of what a Western nation SHOULD NOT DO. Yes, a “first place” no one of sense and knowledge would ever wish upon their country——–unless, of course, they are a Leftie, or a Muslim, or, if I might expand on a particular American note and theme, a RINO (think McCain and Graham here).
Sweden is dying. What a waste. And for what? The exculpation of Islam? Historical Sweden deserved better than this. Every Western nation does. And oh, btw, I despise Islam. It is the parasite of parasites and if only the West, some half century ago, had realized this. But the West didn’t and the grapes of wrath are now being harvested as evidence of this.
And, yes, I do relish invoking a leftist writer, John Steinbeck, as a way of excoriating the monstrosity which is Western leftism. I just love the irony. Who of sense and knowledge wouldn’t?
billybob says
Ikea will be pronounced i-kill-yu
gravenimage says
“Sweden: “Asylum Seekers” Deadly Knife Attack at IKEA, Mother and Son Murdered”
https://pamelageller.com/2015/08/sweden-asylum-seekers-deadly-knife-attack-at-ikea-mother-and-son-killed.html/
billybob says
“The victims, a mother, 55, and her 28-year-old son, died at the scene after being stabbed in the cutlery section of the store.”
Gotta keep Muslims away from the cutlery section.
gravenimage says
You know how IKEA reacted? By removing knives from kitchen displays. Now if you want to by a knife there you have to get it from behind the counter and buy it in a box. No, I am not joking.
Gen Jones says
IKEA has put up with a lot of craziness. About 22 years ago I was at the Ikea in Long Island with a friend and our young children. Hers was playing in their kid sitter area, the ball room, mine too young for that, so shopping with me. There was an announcement over the P.A. that there was a mechanical malfunction and they asked everyone to leave the store. At first it seemed like a joke but we had a bad feeling about it and followed the store employees escorting us out to the parking lot. The children in the ballroom were all in a very organized line, holding hands, being taken to a nearby fast food restaurant. All was ok. But we knew immediately that it wasn’t kosher. My husband called the next day and got a manager to admit after much denial that there had been a bomb scare called in. Ikea had just aired new commercials with a gay couple. Ikea tries to roll with the punches but the punches are stabs and worse now.
Mo says
What is WRONG with these people?! Seriously, this sounds insane!
Mr. Bigcockston says
Swedes have gone full retard.
mortimer says
Quote: “modernise the sound of Sweden”
Not exactly… it’s more like RETROGRADIZE SWEDEN to the backwardness of the 7th century.
LET’S ALL GO BACK TO THE BARBARIC 7th CENTURY AND CALL IT ‘MODERN’ !!!
Carolyne says
Some Christians, when they are attempting to quote “God” use the form of English which was used during the reign of King James I in England, as if God is an Englishmen from the 16-17th century. It’s sort of the same idea, only not mandatory, just silly.
Changing the way one speaks to satisfy barbarians from the 7th century makes no sense and destroys the indigenous culture.
More Ham Ed says
If you’re in the U.S. boycott Budweiser. If you’re not in the U.S. boycott Budweiser.
“Anheuser-Busch has a market share in the United States of 50.9% for all beers sold. This is primarily composed of Budweiser brands.”
Budweiser’s 2017 Super Bowl Commercial Goes Full Blown Social Justice Warrior
Carolyne says
I don’t drink beer, but when I heard of this commercial I sort of wished I did so I could boycott. They have those wonderful horses, though.
Wellington says
More Ham Ed: Thanks for the heads up about the upcoming Budweiser propaganda commercial.
Unfortunately, I can’t boycott Budweiser products because as a life-long devoted beer drinker I can only drink good beer, for instance Yuengling brews or Guinness products.
carol says
But Mark, surely Keith Ellison will save the day?
OJS says
Sweden is really a joke, even if you made Arabic the official language 99% of these muslim migranta wouldnt be able to get any job done.
The right solution would be to cut benfits and deport anyone who is not able to communicate in the local language at a decent level within reasonable time.
I wonder which industries Sweden will maintain in the future with such a mass of uneducated, lazy muslims
Carolyne says
Most Muslims are lazy and those who made it to Sweden are no different. They won’t work in any language. They live off Kaffir,.
Rotten Eye says
‘Training Manager at Lernia, Ina Tzacheva, told Östra Småland News there’s a labour shortage in Sweden and Europe and so it’s important that people with non-standard accents don’t feel excluded from the jobs market.’
What is wrong with bringing in people of the same culture from places in southern Europe that have huge unemployment?
Or people from Eastern Europe or Russia?
Carolyne says
A Person I know from England who now lives in Newfoundland, told me that the Muslims weren’t the problem in England, it was the Eastern Europeans. I’m still trying to figure that one out since I have heard of no Czech going on a killing rampage with a heavily loaded truck.
It seems to me that these folks from Eastern Europe who want to work and would likely assimilate would be a much better choice for manpower than a lazy good-for-nothing Muslim.
Dan King says
Well sweden does lead to world in suicides, as being a swede under their socialist govt is not compatible. with sane life.
Carolyne says
I’ve been watching a couple of movies, one from Sweden and one from Denmark on Netflix. They always can’t seem to resist throwing in a pro-Muslim message which has nothing at all to do with the plot. Subliminal attempt, I guess, but it doesn’t work with me.
politicalqrm says
Europe is under the sad misconception that these “people” they’re bringing in want to work.
Are they kidding? This is part of the invasion of Islam; to create pockets and spread out. These animals want to live off the host country while planning their jihad. Whether it’s violence, attempts to change the laws and do away with the country’s traditions and customs, it’s all part of their plan to “Islamisize” the country.
Bye-bye Sweden
John A. Marre says
I give Sweden 5 years at the most with their current flag. After all, can’t have something so blatant as a national flag with a cross on it! What will they change their flag to? A blond blue-eyed Swede bowing towards the East on a prayer rug?
berserker says
Remove the cross.
berserker says
Swedish elite are ambitious: http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/189515/swedish-minister-looks-forward-europe-turning-daniel-greenfield
– The Swedes have a lot of work to do.
John Shreff says
A plain white flag would be appropriate.
Lexa456 says
My goodness… Sweden is truly lost.