Dave said, "You're gonna love 'Shouts & Murmurs' in this week's New Yorker."
He was right.
As you know, "Shouts & Murmur" is a clever, satirical column, sometimes written by very famous people. This one is by one of my favorites, Nora Ephron. She teases Steg Larsson's third novel "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" for it's long and difficult Swedish words.
Blomkvist appears at Salander's door. He's in despair. The umlaut won't work on his computer. Now we readers know how serious this is. How can he type city names like Svavelsjo or Strangnas or Sodertalje?
(Obviously I can't type them because I don't have an umlaut to put those two little dots over some of the vowels.)
After much soul searching, angst, profanity and use of long words, Salander finally restores Blomkvist's umlaut.
With a Q-tip.
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He was right.
As you know, "Shouts & Murmur" is a clever, satirical column, sometimes written by very famous people. This one is by one of my favorites, Nora Ephron. She teases Steg Larsson's third novel "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" for it's long and difficult Swedish words.
Blomkvist appears at Salander's door. He's in despair. The umlaut won't work on his computer. Now we readers know how serious this is. How can he type city names like Svavelsjo or Strangnas or Sodertalje?
(Obviously I can't type them because I don't have an umlaut to put those two little dots over some of the vowels.)
After much soul searching, angst, profanity and use of long words, Salander finally restores Blomkvist's umlaut.
With a Q-tip.
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