What's new? Hvad er ad fretta? / Hvað er að frétta?
I missed you so much! Eg saknadi thin svo mikid / Ég saknaði þín svo mikið
Come with me! Komdu med mer! / Komdu með mér!
Fun Facts!
- It is common in Iceland to believe in elves. Certain roads have been re-routed to avoid disturbing areas where elves are thought to live.
- Icelandic language has remained practically unchanged for the past 1000 years.
- Icelanders enjoy having some of the highest quality tap water in the world.
- Iceland was the first country in the world to vote democratically for a woman president.
Funny Online Terms
"Fram": When a relative/friend sends fifteen emails a day with titles like "The funniest joke", "Take my survey", or "Cutest kitties", this is "fram". Similar to spam, fram comes from a friendly source, but an inbox fills just as quickly from friendly fire. Read More
"Fat Finger": This is an error in typing due to fingers much larger than the buttons, such as "I accidently texted 'lets meeeet for dinner'–I fat fingered.. Read More
Namibia's "Khoekhoe" language – one of the famous African 'clicking' languages Here's a video of a native Khoekhoe speaker demonstrating some basic Khoekhoe vocabulary. Khoekhoe, also known as Nàmá, is a language natively spoken by around 200,000 people in the southern African nation of Namibia.
As well as being a tonal language, Khoekhoe is also characterized by its use of 'clicks', or doubly articulated consonants, a familiar property of languages in the Khoisan language family. There are several other African languages that share this 'click' quality, foremost among them the Zulu language, which is spoken by around 10 million people... Play Video
The near-extinct German dialect, found in… Texas, USA Sometimes while casually browsing the internet, you'll click a link to a Wikipedia article and somehow become stuck in the trap of clicking related links to learn more, until you find yourself at 4 in the morning, reading about something completely unrelated to the original topic. Wikipedia should come with a warning.
So it was that I discovered Texasdeutsch, or "Texas German", a dialect of German still spoken by descendants of mid-19th century German immigrants to the Texas Hill Country region. The fact that Texas has a German immigrant population comes as no surprise; that they have an (albeit barely) extant dialect of modified German might... Read More
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Icelandic words and expressions
