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I'm Batman!


In Sweden Batman is called Läderlappen which translate to The Leather Patch. Originally Denmark used this name too where it could be translated as The Leather Flap (as in piece of cloth), taking it directly from the Swedish word, but it has since gone out of style. So yeah, I suppose Sweden should be saying Leather Patch but Leather Flap is so much funnier.

In Norway he was known as Lynvingen, The Lightning Wing, for a while.


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11th January 2018
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haddib

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6 years ago #9719802        
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nana nana nana nana nana nana nana nana LEÐURBLÖKUMAÐURINN!


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6 years ago #9719902        
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Here is my comment
https://i.imgur.com/MSClYJT.gif

6 years ago #9719922        
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How about the Batmobile..?
Leather + Flap + Mobile =
FlapLeatherMobile.

Batman: Quick! Get the FlapLeatherMobile!
Alfred: Sir, my apologies, but have you gone mad?

6 years ago #9721386        
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I'm utterly flappergasted. I guess I'll leather Swedes do their own thing.


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6 years ago #9719563        
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There is one enlightened translation for Peanuts character Woodstock; in Finnish that little bird is known as "Kaustinen" - which is again a town famous for its folk music festival - the analogy of the characters name survives the translation.

DK_JJ

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6 years ago #9719883        
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Denmark as Wonder Woman is one of my new favorite things

6 years ago #9719557        
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I also like the old Swedish name for Superman: Stålmannen (the man of steel). There is a good reason for that as "super" means drinking too much alcohol in Swedish. I guess it's kind of hard to take Drinkstoomuchman seriously as a hero.


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TexMex

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6 years ago #9719634        
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I think today he should be now known as "The Spandex Flap" which i think has an even worse implication

6 years ago #9724746        
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NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH

LEATHER FLAP!


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6 years ago #9720582        
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Oh neat, SatW is back. Just in case Humon reads the comment sections, for the past day and a half, Firefox considered this site to be malicious. It didn't give me much information as to why, but I thought I would mention it.


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