A Conversation for GG: Icelandic Pronunciation
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Peer Review: A2141812 - How to pronounce Icelandic
Gnomon - time to move on Started conversation Dec 19, 2003
Entry: How to pronounce Icelandic - A2141812
Author: Gnomon - U151503
A straightforward reference to Icelandic pronunciation.
A2141812 - How to pronounce Icelandic
Pimms Posted Dec 19, 2003
Cracking entry Gnomon . I must admit guessing when it came to reading placenames in Desmond Bagley's Running Blind. I wonder if the Manx mountain should be pronounced as in Icelandic?
typo: most letters are pronounced indivually - missing your 'id' (good for my ego to offer a correction )
Pimms
(so do you speak a bit of Icelandic, correspond with an Icelander (such as Ismarah with whom you wrote the Iceland entry) or possess a handy phrasebook?)
A2141812 - How to pronounce Icelandic
Gnomon - time to move on Posted Dec 19, 2003
Thanks, Pimms. I put in Snæfell specially for you!
I learnt how to pronounce Icelandic on a trip to Iceland many years ago from our tour guide, Cathy Harlow. I see she is writing books about Iceland now.
A2141812 - How to pronounce Icelandic
Geggs Posted Dec 19, 2003
Okay, here's why I didn't look at this before.
It's the title really. It reads like the entry will take you through how to pronounce the word 'Icelandic'. Clearly, had I known you wrote it, I would have been so judgemental over the title.
Maybe if it was called something like 'A Guide to Icelandic Pronounciation' or something.
Geggs
A2141812 - How to pronounce Icelandic
Gnomon - time to move on Posted Dec 19, 2003
That didn't stop people looking at my 'How to pronounce Italian' entry. Maybe people wondered if it was "it-alian" or "eye-talian".
A2141812 - How to pronounce Icelandic
Gnomon - time to move on Posted Dec 20, 2003
OK, by popular demand I've changed the title, although I couldn't see anything wrong with it myself. Isn't this Peer Review great?
A2141812 - How to pronounce Icelandic
Gnomon - time to move on Posted Dec 21, 2003
You're right, Jodan. The conclusion was a waste of space. I've replaced it with a Further Reading on Iceland section with links to other h2g2 Edited Entries.
A2141812 - How to pronounce Icelandic
. Posted Dec 22, 2003
It's always hard to write stuff about pronunciation, but I like this entry.
Can the o with umlaut (two dots on top) sometimes be written without the umlaut, but using another letter? This happens in German, where an E can go after a vowel if an umlaut is not available (in email addresses for example). Does this happen at all in Icelandic?
Niwt
A2141812 - How to pronounce Icelandic
Gnomon - time to move on Posted Dec 22, 2003
Niwt, I don't know whether o umlaut can be written oe as in German. I suspect it can't.
A2141812 - How to pronounce Icelandic
Gnomon - time to move on Posted Dec 22, 2003
You're right. They just leave it. For example, the Manntöl section of the Íslendingabók is at http://www.islendingabok.is/IServlets/Manntol.jsp. The accents have all been omitted in the URL.
A2141812 - How to pronounce Icelandic
Recumbentman Posted Dec 30, 2003
The very model of a snappy Guide Entry.
Just a gripelet: some people might know the word pâté better than the word pate, and get confused, poor dears. Would "page", "pale", "pane" or "paper" do better if you want to stick to p-words?
A2141812 - How to pronounce Icelandic
Gnomon - time to move on Posted Jan 1, 2004
Quite right! I've changed 'pate' to 'pale'.
I remember Fozzie Bear saying "Verily I did strike him on the paté".
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