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Old 04-20-2010, 05:29 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Eyjafjallajoekull. ?
I dare you to try to successfully pronounce this. News readers everywhere are hopeless at it.

On topic, I feel really bad for the people stuck in Europe, and will the aviation industry actually recover from 240 million a day loss in funds?
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Of all the people on MB, I think I stand a fair chance at pronouncing Eyjafjallajoekull right .. It seems to be made up of words we have in norwegian language. "Fjell" here means mountain and "joekull" must be "jøkul" which means a stretch of glacier like the part of a glacier coming down a mountainside. Iceland was inhabited by norwegian ancestors back in the days so the languages are quite similar. They're much better at preserving the old stuff than we are.

I'm supposed to travel back up to the arctic sometime in summer .. Hope I don't get stranded up there because the darned volcano starts burping again.
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Of all the people on MB, I think I stand a fair chance at pronouncing Eyjafjallajoekull right .. It seems to be made up of words we have in norwegian language. "Fjell" here means mountain and "joekull" must be "jøkul" which means a stretch of glacier like the part of a glacier coming down a mountainside. Iceland was inhabited by norwegian ancestors back in the days so the languages are quite similar. They're much better at preserving the old stuff than we are.

I'm supposed to travel back up to the arctic sometime in summer .. Hope I don't get stranded up there because the darned volcano starts burping again.
I believe you. To be honest I want to hear your voice because it seems as though you'd speak so articulately.
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I believe you. To be honest I want to hear your voice because it seems as though you'd speak so articulately.
Thanks With the pressure of such expectation, I would have to!

I've actually always wondered what norwegian and perhaps other scandinavian languages would sound like if I came from an english speaking country like England. For example, would I think it sounded more similar to japanese than dutch?

Icelandish to us is very old fashioned, ancient really as it's similar to the norse language of the vikings. It also seems perhaps a bit posh. They go to great lengths with keeping the language the way it is while in Norway, it's been allowed to evolve.
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Icelandish to us is very old fashioned, ancient really as it's similar to the norse language of the vikings. It also seems perhaps a bit posh. They go to great lengths with keeping the language the way it is while in Norway, it's been allowed to evolve.
I find that interesting because I heard the French spoken in Canada is an older type then France's French, too.
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