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--- Quote from: LeeC on 19 Jul 2019, 12:57 ---Saw this video, it really starts at the 2:40 mark but its how to pronounce Norse Mythology characters names.

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Yeeeeaaaah - I'm not sure the Icelandic have exclusive dibs on the Norse pantheon, as she seems to imply - IIRC, the religion was widespread throughout northwestern Europe? I thought if anyone had dibs on Odin and Thor, it was the Danes? (Then and again, one could argue who settled Iceland ...)


--- Quote from: LeeC on 19 Jul 2019, 12:57 ---I can roll the Rs but not sure about that LL clicking sounds she makes.

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Errrrh - sounds to me like she's inserting a 't' before the 'll'? Heijm-da(tt)lürrh is what I hear.

Edit: Actually, that seems to be the case: "Double ll is in most cases pronounced [tl̥], as if spelled tl" (First footnote in Icelandic IPA-Wiki)

Her 'r' isn't just rolled, it's something between the Dutch 'g' and the German 'ch'.

The vowels sound like remote cousins of German umlouts to me, but ... I've learned that I when I listen to foreign-language phonemes, I tend to hear German (or English or Dutch ones) where none are present. I once spent an instructive half-hour with a Greek colleague who taught me to actually hear what Greeks are saying when the pronounce the letter gamma. It has very little to do with what I thought of as gamma ...


Edit: Interesting that Icelandic has pretty much the same 'th'-phoneme as English. That's the hardest sound for German ESL students to learn, and there's countless jokes the 'th-enabled' use to mock their wooden-tongued compatriots.

LeeC:

Dandi Andi:
And the USAF does not disappoint.

Of course it got big enough that the USAF was obliged to take it seriously (in a "there are enough stupid people out there that somebody might actually try this" sort of way) and so they need to make sure that people know the relevant terms being used. I am sure that there wasn't a single person who didn't feel incredibly foolish explaining "Naruto running" to senior military leaders. It all makes sense, but damn if seeing a picture of a guy in urban camo in a Naruto pose and the incredulous look on his face didn't just make my night.  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

LeeC:

hedgie:
Aah, yes.  Burrowing owls.  We have 'em around here, and there are a number of habitat areas for them that are fenced off from dogs.

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