] Before the group read started, a few people mentioned reading the book in different languages - Sonia in Portuguese, and Helka in Finnish. Have I missed anyone else? How do your translations deal with the "D____" line?

] And Ann, I remember Barbara asking how the Swedish translation dealt with the "nice" conversation. It's a pun on an English word, she wondered how that would go over in Swedish. How was it - care to give a report? ;-)

I am not actually following the GR, as I found out my english copy of NA existed only in my imagination (?!) and I've got too far behind. But after your "call", I tracked down my good old portuguese copy, so here goes my side of it:

no delicacy in portuguese swearing either - the "d__"'s are translated in to "With the devils" or "With a thousand devils", our own version of mild swearing ;-)