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Post by Jedi Knight on Apr 21, 2010 15:46:48 GMT -5
Not our fault they gave it a name that looks like someone stuffed an alphabet in a blender It translates as "eat my ash, British suckers ! " Or maybe "The glacier on the island's mountains?"
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Post by big_electron on Apr 22, 2010 4:16:34 GMT -5
ay-jaf-jaLH-uh-yur-kuLH
Now say that 5 times really fast!
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Post by Jedi Knight on Apr 22, 2010 9:29:10 GMT -5
You want that to be: ay-jaf-jadLH-uh-yur-kudLH Still not perfect, I'd say, but closer.
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Post by big_electron on Apr 22, 2010 15:21:44 GMT -5
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Post by Jedi Knight on Apr 22, 2010 15:37:30 GMT -5
Pronounciation good, transcription not so good. What happened to the dental stops before of the l-sound? Not noted in the transcription.
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Post by big_electron on Apr 22, 2010 16:15:40 GMT -5
l-sound with dental stops? We don't have that in English. I took German in high school, and German doesn't have it either.
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Post by Jedi Knight on Apr 22, 2010 17:22:31 GMT -5
Basic Icelandic pronounciation rule: Where written Icelandic has ll, you pronounce it dl. Also, written nn is pronounced dn. The same sound chance occurs in Faroese and several Western Norwegian dialects.
If you listen to the Youtube clip, you'll hear that he actually pronounces the dental stop before the l, both times. But, as you can read, he doesn't note it in the transcription.
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Post by Elly on Apr 22, 2010 21:51:40 GMT -5
Nobody outside Iceland knows how to pronounce "Eyjafjallajökull." Wikipedia does.Okay then, no one outside of Iceland would know how to spell out the word just by listening to that mumbled letter salad. I love how the name is pronounced. I won't even try to attempt it, since I'm not much use with languages beyond boring Midlands-accented American English. Go me... sigh.
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Post by ironbite on Apr 23, 2010 0:41:30 GMT -5
Basic Icelandic pronounciation rule: Where written Icelandic has ll, you pronounce it dl. Also, written nn is pronounced dn. The same sound chance occurs in Faroese and several Western Norwegian dialects. If you listen to the Youtube clip, you'll hear that he actually pronounces the dental stop before the l, both times. But, as you can read, he doesn't note it in the transcription. Fuck that. Ironbite-I say we invade and we make you speak American.
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Post by big_electron on Apr 23, 2010 4:37:32 GMT -5
Eyjafjallajökull = "HEY YOU FORGOT YOUR YOGURT"
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Post by Jedi Knight on Apr 23, 2010 9:55:38 GMT -5
Fuck that. Ironbite-I say we invade and we make you speak American. "American?" Never heard a language named "American."
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Post by ironbite on Apr 23, 2010 13:58:41 GMT -5
You will after we invade you.
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Post by Old Viking on Apr 23, 2010 14:51:58 GMT -5
@evil Stoat Ferreter: ... the spread of lap dancing clubs ...
No pun intended, right?
Right?
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Post by The_L on Apr 25, 2010 6:35:41 GMT -5
@evil Stoat Ferreter: ... the spread of lap dancing clubs ... No pun intended, right? Right? I'm sorry, I lost my train of thought after I read the words "lap dancing." Nobody outside Iceland knows how to pronounce "Eyjafjallajökull." Enya-failya-yokel.
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Post by Distind on Apr 26, 2010 17:40:49 GMT -5
Limbaugh managed to make the front page with this one: fstdt.net/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=72516It's really special when someone says something so stupid I don't want to believe that they said it, and I don't like them.
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