Any TAs from Iceland? I am thinking about visiting and maybe moving for a few months.
It looks like a nice place.
tubularbills
watch out for the volcano
Jon_Snow
*** spoiler. ***
justin
I hear china is lovely.
Kylle
I'm from The Faroe Islands. It's pretty similar to Iceland only smaller. Our language is almost identical.
Trance-MB
Iceland: water, rocks, more rocks, even more rocks, Kimi, is there more?
Yes, our money, well more like the money which is gone (not mine though)
Nice for this too:
and this, national sport is Hillclimbing by car:
Watts
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Originally posted by Kylle
Wow, this looks great. Thanks a lot for sharing. I will have to try to make it out that way some day.
Spacey Orange
i would have sex with all this white girls
aquila
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Originally posted by Kylle
Our language is almost identical.
What, like English and American?
Kylle
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Originally posted by Spacey Orange
i would have sex with all this white girls
Girl on the right is my cousine
Kylle
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Originally posted by aquila
What, like English and American?
Perhaps not that identical. Maybe more like Danish and Norwegian, or Swedish
This is part two of the same program
Lira
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Originally posted by Kylle
Perhaps not that identical. Maybe more like Danish and Norwegian, or Swedish
Hello guys,
Icelandic, Faroese, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are all North Germanic Languages, a sub-branch of closely related Germanic languages. The problem with English is that, unlike the rest, it incorporated a huge amount of French loanwords, so that it stands out a bit more than usual, so it's hard to compare it with the others.
Here's a sample sentence in all North Germanic Languages plus English, and you can see speakers of Icelandic and Faroese would have little trouble understanding one another (and, for that matter, their brethren from the continent if these numbers are to be trusted), because the different word endings and diverging grammar notwithstanding, you have many familiar roots to help you figure out what's being said - specially if you speak an insular language, as opposed to the ones in the continent, which are apparently more conservative.
As for the varieties of English, they're all too recent, and the language has not diverged as much, reason why they're way way way closer than all these languages combined.
