Posted on 04/15/2010 1:57:39 PM PDT by TaraP
That’s a spoken word?
Yep, follow the youtube link and you will hear an Icelander pronounce the name of the volcano, then a bunch of various newscasters trying to say the name, all wrong, of course.
I know some Icelandic, very little really, but it can be a bit funny to hear others trying to pronounce it.
Yeah, it is quite funny, I had already posted the link on another thread about the eruption.
We have always found it strange reading other countries languages, that they are often spoken so far differently to how they are written, but, at least for us, our words are always spoken exactly like the sounds of the words. That is why we have f.e. never understood spelling contexts, you just have to sound out the words to know how they are spelled. In fact, many of us do it for english words that have a hard to remember spelling, like f.e. be-a-uti-ful, e-mer-gency and so on.
Of course we are so small that we are more exposed to and dependent on learning foreign languages and with the exposure to their culture to us, we think we can laugh at many things and that we know so much, but of course if it was the other way around many of the things we do would be found silly.
But I have to give due to where due is bound, and they surely are getting better saying this most natural of words;)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.