We received some Westside discs with Finnish text and they're already gone. So I ask Svante if we can get some more, and maybe we can. He calls on Skype from Sweden at 11 p.m. when it's 5 p.m. here in Massachusetts. Svante's day is finally ending, but his company keeps running all its injection molding machines 24/7. Some of the guys operating the equipment used to be among the best players in the world.
They still can't quite meet demand...
...The conversation turns to Latitude 64 coming out with discs, like Westside's Finnish discs, except in Swedish. "So the Halo would be the 'Gloria', Riot would be 'Upplopp' and Bolt would be 'Åskvigg.' All would be 'PDGA-godkända' of course."
Swedish is a wonderful language. It looks like German but sounds like your mother assuring you to sleep. Mellifluous and slightly guttural, with syllables almost sung in a voice emanating from under the back of the tongue.
I jokingly advise Svante to stay away from any Swedish words that sound like English words for genitalia, yet seriously towards words that sound melodic when read aloud phonetically by American disc golfers.