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No "Ungoogleable" In Swedish Lexicon, Thanks to Google

Posted by timothy on from the english-is-more-open-source dept.

jfruh writes "The Swedish Language Council is a semi-official, government funded body that regulates, cultivates, and tracks changes to the Swedish language. Every year it releases a list of new words that have crept into Swedish, and one of 2012's entries was 'ogooglebar' — 'ungoogleable,' meaning something that can't be found with a search engine. After Google demanded that the definition be changed and the Council add a disclaimer about Google's trademark, the Council has instead decided to remove the word from the list altogether."

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  1. A paradox? by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does that mean that the word "ogooglebar" suddenly became ungoogleable?

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    1. Re:A paradox? by PPH · · Score: 4, Funny

      It probably was until Google made an issue out of it.

      What's the phrase I'm looking for here? .......Like some performer that doesn't want her mansion photographed?

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    2. Re:A paradox? by GameboyRMH · · Score: 4, Funny

      A pile of trees...so like a very large bundle of sticks?

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  2. I am OK with this by X0563511 · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... seriously, we needed a word for this?

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  3. Translation assistance needed! by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 1, Funny

    Does anybody know how to say "Just for that, I'm going to do my best to genericize the shit out of your precious little 'trademark', motherfucker" in Swedish?

  4. Re:Good? by QilessQi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh, come on.... you just have to embiggen your vocabulary a little. And 'ogooglebar' is a perfectly cromulent word.

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  5. Re:Good? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Depratumate?

  6. Re:Good? by i+kan+reed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perhaps I'm getting old, but I'm tiered of these new fangled words that keep geting pushed into common use.

    I'll keep this brief: yes, that is just you getting old.