Just randomly came across this while browsing. The movie is Hjärta av Guld:
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The general meaning is the same, but I was calling it a mistranslation because proud in German is stolz, which might sound slightly similar to staunste, but is still a totally different word.

The main difference is that "standing proud" is not commonly used in German as an innuendo, or at least I ...

I wonder if him saying "proud, right?" At the beginning of the scene, was aimed down there too ;) as sometimes it can be referred to as "standing proud" ;)


As a German speaker, it sounds like this line was translated wrong. I think he says "[Da] staunste, was?" which roughly translates to ...

Eh, in my opinion AI really doesn't hold up in long-format storytelling yet. It feels really linear, unimaginative, and has no concept of subtext.

It has come to my attention that a lot of people on this forum don't know of Anna's Archive. It's a free and open library for e-books, in fact it's the largest one there is. If it exists as an e-book, there's about a 99% chance that they have it, and probably even in multiple languages!

While this ...

Night457 wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 10:40 am WOW!!!!! Thank you!!!!! I wish I had known of this site long ago.

Glad to be of help! The site really is the best there is for ebooks. If it exists as an ebook, there's a 99% chance they have it!
But beware, they do occasionally have corrupt and/or bad files, as you already found out.

Here's the English second book as direct download in a significantly smaller filesize:
https://annas-archive.org/md5/6a13046ea48d73d29a1532c0cc737b46

I also found one called Titta, Madicken, det snöar! (Look, Madicken, it's snowing!), another picture book with a bit of text:
https://annas-archive ...

Wow, thank you!