Can someone answer me this...?

[theillustriousHeather]

What exactly is Koksalt? I mean, I love making my man happy, but I'd prefer any koksalt I have in my mouth to be from him haha

[lxskllr]

Sodium carbonate. I believe it turns to sodium bicarbonate after it's been added to the snus.

[Premium Parrots]

Re: Can someone answer me this...?

What exactly is Koksalt? I mean, I love making my man happy, but I'd prefer any koksalt I have in my mouth to be from him haha

kill me now

[Jason]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Table salt? That's going by the English version label from the snus I get at the tobacco shop....

[lxskllr]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Table salt? That's going by the English version label from the snus I get at the tobacco shop....

I think you're right the surhetsreglerande is the sodium carbonate... maybe :^P

[Zero]

^ yes. Swedish is actually really easy to read if you know english, you just need to be creative.

Sur -> "sour" (aka - acid)
hets -> "hates" (to persecute, agitate)
reglerande -> to regulate

Surhetsreglerande is a general term for an acidity regulator, in snus E500, which is sodium carbonate/bicarbonate. :idea:

Koksalt - kok=cook, salt=salt. Cooking salt, table salt, etc.

With nothing more than a few German words as seasoning and a hoppy accent, you can almost speak Swedish by adding an accent to english :lol:

[theillustriousHeather]

Damn, just plain old table salt.. haha...
my fault.. when I saw 'kok', my first thing thought was not that in translated into 'cook'. My bad..

[chainsnuser]

Sorry Zero, but I guess you have to learn a single Scandinavian language to understand Swedish. No matter if Danish, Nowegian or Swedish (I'm not sure about some dialects or related languages, like Islandic).

For me, it was enough to read a book "Dänisch für Anfänger (Danish for beginners)", back in 1986 for vacation-use, just autodidactically, not that I speak the language fluently or fully understand everything and I also didn't study it much further since then, but it's still really enough to also understand most of Swedish. The grammar is just too different and also some words don't translate themselves, but it's really no big effort to get the hang of the Scandinavian languages, also for a native-english-speaker, I guess. Swedish indeed is somehow similar to German, like you mentioned, moreso than Danish, but not much. Overall, Swedish is maybe as similar to German as it is to English, so I often wondered why so many people here ask for translations. I'm no linguist, mind you.

BTW, IMHO 'het' (like in 'Surhet') is more like the 'hood' in 'childhood' or the 'ness' in 'sourness'. It has nothing to do with an agitation of things, more with the state of things, that converts an adjective into a substantive. A linguist could say it better and to be honest, I always hated grammar, back in school. It's just the same as the suffix '...heit" in german, which is maybe more often used then the '...hood' in English.

So damn, what was I about to say in the first place... yeah, everyone who loves snus, should just learn Swedish, me included :lol:

BTW, to learn Swedish maybe does help to understand words like 'koksalt', but 'Kocksnus' will always sound 'bad'.

Cheers!

[theillustriousHeather]

there's the word Kocksnus, too? My mind is much to dirty to ever learn Swedish... hahaha

[Zero]

Sorry Zero, but I guess you have to learn a single Scandinavian language to understand Swedish.

Haha, yeah, I was pretty close to about 90% joking when I said that. You're probably right about "hets" as well. I need to learn how to sound less serious, I think :lol:

[Xobeloot]

there's the word Kocksnus, too? My mind is much to dirty to ever learn Swedish... hahaha

Vin&Koksnus is Wine & Chef or Cooking. They market that as something for people who cannot sour their sense of taste because they need a clean sense of what they are tasting.

We had quite a few laughs about that one on this side of the pond when it was released :lol:

[CWC]

there's the word Kocksnus, too? My mind is much to dirty to ever learn Swedish... hahaha

Don't feel bad the first time I was in Sweden and saw a sign that said slut (meaning closed, out of order, ect) I was really scratching my head for a minute Not to mention I went into a place called the "Pub" expecting to get a beer and it was a big shopping place for cosmetics and stuff :evil:

[theillustriousHeather]

wow.. I would think slut would mean the opposite..

[Starcadia]

kok = kitchen
slut = done, over

[Winter Wooskie]

Well...even if zero was joking, he was partly correct...languages such as German, and most Nordic languages, and English have a lot of cognates, or near cognates! so sometimes that actually does work! And, of course sometimes it can get you into trouble too! But, some would ask; what do i know!?

:wink: