Swedish: delinquent

[jasminasul]

Hello forum,
In a 1960s film, I have this scene:
A female contestant on Kvitt eller doubbelt is asked to sit in a booth to answer questions. The host says:
Please go into the booth. Agneta will take care of the delinquent.
In Swedish, it sounds like delinkventer, sorry about the spelling.
I imagine she's calling the contestant delinquent, which is a bit odd, but I want to make sure there is no other meaning of the word that might change the translation.

 

[Abbe]

Is it possible to listen to what they say somewhere? I don't have a clue what delinkventer is.

 

[jasminasul]

Hi Abbe. I could ask the mods to let me post a short audio file, or I can send you a private message perhaps. Thanks for your help.

 

[Abbe]

Send a PM

 

[piccando]

I remember to have heard delinkvent(-en) used in Danish as a humorous designation for the person in the limelight - like the contestant in the example above.

 

[jasminasul]

Thank you piccando! Is it because the person is in the hot seat or because he or she is in a booth? Is it high register or colloquial? I can't see the relationship between being in the limelight and being a crook, if that's what it means.

 

[AutumnOwl]

It's a joke, when someone is arrested and put in a cell, in Swedish you can say " han sattes i buren", he was put in the booth.

 

[jasminasul]

Oh I see, all is clear now. It's a shame the things that we lose in the translation particularly of rarer languages that most of us don't speak.
Thank you again, AutumnOwl, I'll try to fix the Spanish translation.