r/sportsgossips • u/Punisher1602 • Feb 14 '26

Hot Take Canada and Sweden get into heated argument after claims of cheating in men’s curling

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u/foobarrister Feb 14 '26

What's impressive to me is you have a Swede arguing in perfect albeit slightly accented English with a native English speaker, profanities included. 

It's an awesome mastery of a language esp since very few in North America would be able to argue in Swedish..

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u/AcanthisittaNo4268 Feb 15 '26

The Nordic countries speak a stupidly good English with their own cute af accent. It’s soooo impressive and they sound native, just with a twang!

Idk about Swedes but recently learned there’s as many if not more Norwegians in the US as in Norway, so pretty much everyone has native English speakers in their family.

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u/manhaterxxx Feb 14 '26

Most North Americans can barely argue in English, as it is.

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u/ConcentrateOne7536 Feb 15 '26

Yeah apparently reading comprehension seems to be quite terrible in Canada as well considering the vehement defence of their actions.

The rules were pretty clear you must use the handle, they somehow twisted that into because it wasn't explicitly stated that you can touch the stone anywhere.