What the fuck is up with the Anglo-American hegemon? Americans freak the fuck out if they see bilingual packaging, can you imagine how much they'd flip if it was like this?
There's a ton of countries and languages in Europe, and even for smaller regions like the Nordic countries it makes sense to just use English for branding purposes (the ingredients are listed in the back in a bunch of different languages)
You're required by law to have a list of ingredients in Finnish and Swedish (the whole two official languages thing), but the sheer amount of English you see looking around at the shelves at your average supermarket does feel a bit weird sometimes. It gets even weirder when Finnish companies make products that are mainly in English
Yeah like, shoe on the other foot, imagine me going into an American grocery store and the ingredients are in English but everything else is in Chinese.
What the fuck is up with the Anglo-American hegemon? Americans freak the fuck out if they see bilingual packaging, can you imagine how much they'd flip if it was like this?
There's a ton of countries and languages in Europe, and even for smaller regions like the Nordic countries it makes sense to just use English for branding purposes (the ingredients are listed in the back in a bunch of different languages)
I mean it's still fucked, I get why, but it's fucked.
You're required by law to have a list of ingredients in Finnish and Swedish (the whole two official languages thing), but the sheer amount of English you see looking around at the shelves at your average supermarket does feel a bit weird sometimes. It gets even weirder when Finnish companies make products that are mainly in English
Yeah like, shoe on the other foot, imagine me going into an American grocery store and the ingredients are in English but everything else is in Chinese.
Chuds would break their thumbs tweeting.
Do most people also read and speak Chinese to at least some extent through sheer cultural osmosis in this alternate universe
Honey even in this alternate universe you know Americans ain't gonna know a second language