Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus

evangelina839 evangelina839 at yahoo.se
Sun Feb 8 15:09:57 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 90462

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" <gbannister10 at a...> 
wrote:
(very snipped)
> I believe the Swedish word is draken - their air force used to have 
> SAAB Drakens as part of their equipment. Friends Malfoy and Norbert 
> have certainly got the posts flying around!!


"Draken" = "the dragon". Drake = just "dragon".

Sorry, couldn't let this one pass. (I'm totally impressed that you knew this, by the way. 
But then, I also nearly started cheering when Jennifer Garner spoke two entire 
sentences in very decent Swedish on "Alias". So much fun, speaking a minority 
language. :))

Eva.





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