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Old 09-12-2010, 04:45 PM   #58
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Originally Posted by dmacmart View Post
As a Canadian, whose language is somewhere in between British & American, I think that there were some unfamiliar words & phrasing. Example: “Norsjö was a small town with one main street, appropriately enough called Storgatan…” - how is this appropriate? had to Google to find Storgatan means "Main Street".
"Storgatan" literally means "big street". "main street" would in Swedish probably be "huvudgata" which literally means "head street".

But very strange to keep this in the English translation.
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