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I don't speak or read swedish but my big brain tells me that this "slur" is just the equivalent of just calling someone a "Swede", right?
It's like calling an English person Tommy, as far as I am concerned.
Yeah more or less. It's used like cracker but for white swedes and it's really funny (disclaimer I'm a svenne)
Except its not even intended to be offensive. It's been used before the massive immigration.
True true it's funny either way
No it's based on the name Sven
That doesn't seem like an insult to me
It's the same as calling a German Hans or an American Johnny.
It's not. It's mostly used to refer to a very stereotypically Swedish person.
The Redditor seems to be projecting this word to mean something it's not then, they must have been called it and felt offended because:
. So cringe.
It sounds like it is literally just an affectionate diminutive form of the given name Sven.
Is "Sven" a common swedish old-person name like "Svend" is in Denmark and Norway?
Old and middle aged mostly in my experience.