The Late Show with Steven Colbert, screengrab via Kotaku
As luck would have it, Pewdiepie, the world's biggest YouTube star, grew up speaking Swedish. Though perhaps it makes sense; the Swedes are so good at so many things - health, education, Ikea furniture... - that it's little surprise they could come up with an online video sensation with nearly double the subscribers of anyone else on Youtube, the world's favorite viral video mill.
Last week, Pewdiepie showed he was also at home in more conventional forms of video transmission as well when he took to Steven Colbert's Late Show to field a few questions. And when the conversation turned to Pewdiepie's native language, Colbert naturally went right to the vocabulary everyone wants to learn first when they learn a language: the bad words, the potty-mouth, curse words, which Americans sometimes call four-letter words but seem to have much more than four letters in Swedish. The show's producers bleeped some of the words out, but one of them made it through was a word that sounded weirdly like "Helvetica". Colbert naturally pounced on the joke opportunity by saying it reminded him of Microsoft Word. Though the list the two personalities compiled was sadly left incomplete, the inimitable Youswear.com has compiled a much more thorough list. You can also watch the clip from the Late Show here: |
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