Not much, I got my share when we, my sister and I were moved from Sweden to Denmark in the early 50s... Yes, back then being a Swedish kid in Denmark was as bad or worse than coming from any kind of distant strange country in our days. But first of all I was quite big - and could thus hit back and next, we were both pretty good in school and within a year my Danish in writing was top.
Now, that said, what offends me today? As siad, almost nothing but this one: I just hate the quite frequently used American English expression or rather idiom "Good for you!"... It is used in so many stupid way and who in hell knows what is "Good for me"? And I always feel, maybe incorrectly, that the real meaning may be "...good for you - but not so good for me".
Now, since I understand, that I may just have a personal problem here - and yes,with my quadrolingual 4 languages (those I dream in and use every day - and night...), I have long ago identified common expressions, which I avoid using, because they to me seem to be just - stupid - if not offensive.
I just don't use those, they are unfit for my tongue or they make me feel so stupid!
I asked you the negro question for good reason, so please let me know.
The word 'neger' (negro) was removed by academics from the official Swedish Language List (Svensk Ordlista) 3 years ago. No longer an official part of Swedish! I went to sailing races in Split, Croatia back then and tiold some of my Swedish freinds from Sweden what just happened: They were totally unaware of it and believed I was puttuing them on! Well, it is the truth and while no more belonging to the Swedish language, a negro is part of it and nobody uses it in any wrong way. Don't think any Swede ever has considered it offensive, but it is all over the place in literature etc. The equivalent of 'nigger' we for good reason don't have in Swedish. We have some names for the Norwegians, but they belong more in the friendly joke department and the Norwegians proud from their North Sea oil hardly take offense from anything from their Swedish borthers anyway :)
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