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Something "fast" named "snabb", from Switzerland. I bet they get their kicks out of triggering Swedish people.

Snabb is Swedish for fast. Switzerland is often confused with Sweden and vice-versa, stereotypically by the under-educated kind of americans.

Grr. :]

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This is the first thing I noticed! I guess the reason is maybe just that the creator used to live in Sweden (as indicated in the comments below), but I would like to believe this some inside joke among the Swiss workers. As a Swede, I find it hilarious. :)

edit: Looking at the older threads linked above I found this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8009309

Oh well I still choose to believe the Swiss are trolling the Swedes. :)

Their logo also seems to be a tiger! :-D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_svensk_tiger

Well the creator of Snabb lives in Sweden.

He used to, but I believe he now resides in Switzerland.

Moved back to Sweden recently, as it happens :)

Sorry about the timing :)

Two letters should be enough for every country!

It can be confusing how the country code for Sweden is .se (from "Sverige"?) but the language code for Swedish is sv (from "svenska"?).

Similarly, ja_JP, ne_NP, nb_NO, my_MM, sl_SI.

Luxembourg is .lu, but the language code is LB. It causes all kinds of funny bugs when people set their language code to 'lu' and end up with things like date strings automatically translated to Luba-Katanga, a very melodic and completely different language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

.sv is El Salvador; both SE and SV were assigned in the same 1974 standard.

Yeah, and as a language code, "se" refers to Northern Sami.

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