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A coincidental layer of the joke is that Piglet's Swedish name is "Nasse", which means nazi in Swedish.
In Norwegian as well: en nasse = a Nazi, Nasse Nøff = Piglet
wow Norwegian and Swedish are the same yet again? definitely distinct languages, guys!
Yeah, Scandinavian is a dialect continuum with three (or I guess four?^[Nynorsk is a written standard without much of a spoken equivalent.]) Dachsprachen: simultaneously all three are close enough that they could be counted as one language (and sometimes are, I believe the Nordic Council does this), at the same time as all three languages have so much internal variation that you have to question whether there really are only three languages. Pronunciation especially can hinder spoken communication.
Either way, in this case it's slang and character name localizations, which can be a lot more variable between Danish, Swedish and Norwegian than things like the Swadesh 207. Norwegian does borrow a lot of slang from Swedish but not all of it catches on.
We also sometimes call nazis "pigs" in english as a reference to the fact that they're dirty animals! Love how language works sometimes.
(Joking aside, that actually is a really fun language fact thank you for sharing)