Don’t let chowder know. He’s had enough problems with garden gnomes.
OMG. I just hurt myself laughing so hard.
You must send the internet-translated letter. It’s too perfect not to mail.
More proof that a person can click on a random thread on the Dope, and end up with tears running down the face.
Well done!
<Begins slow clap>
“I am a fish fillet with shame and a guilty conscience” OK, who’s gonna get the t-shirts made? I’ll order 2.
So where’s the freakin’ translation? Grrr!
I hate this coitus interruptus shit! :mad:
Peace,
mangeorge
Grrr!
I have never laughed as loud at anything as I did at “fish filet with shame and guilty conscience”.
Not videos of men getting hit in the nads with baseballs/bats, not dramatic chipmunk, not Monty Python sketches, not even Eddie Izzard. Nothing.
Don’t you mean “Aþoles” ? 
Don’t you mean the other way around–hard (voiced fricative) sound in “this” and soft (voiceless fricative) sound in “thin”?
Isn’t Icelandic nearly impossible for other Scandinavians to understand with just their native language knowledge? IIRC the Continental Nordic languages, especially Danish, have lost nearly all the morphological complexity that they once shared with Icelandic, which imposes syntactic requirements that an inflected language does not have.
I can only speak with regards to my Swedish friends. Those that know me and my family (and have hence heard us speak Icelandic) can after 20+ years pick up bits and pieces of sentences and guesstimate what’s said. But then again, we speak rather quickly.
But what does the original letter say? Is the letter an Icelandic equivalent of Who Shot JR? Inquiring minds want to know. Plus, with a trip to Iceland planned soon, I want to know how to avoid my own fish fillet o’shame…
Aluminum elves I can handle.
Worm the Red sent it to me. Probably much less interesting than you think (aside from the Icelandic government apparently not understanding the difference between someone brought over to consult and a native Icelandic citizen employee).
Thanks, Mate!
Just glad I could help.
Now I’m waiting for a question regarding a unicycle, which **Sunspace **mentioned 
At this point… it doesn’t care.
The small-city-that-thinks-it’s-a-country is facing a staggering 10% GDP contraction this year… and another the next. Its economy has been obliterated by the financial crisis, being a tax and law haven for international bankers. But with a per-capita GDP that is fourth-highest in the world, it is hard to feel sorry for them.
When I see a stat like that, I always wonder who gets that GDP.
The aluminum elves 
Probably. And we all know what they spend it on.
Glögg and lutefisk.
Sounds . . . . ,
well, it sounds Icelandic, I guess. Or Swedish. What do I know?
I wiki’d both. So now I know.
I love wikipedia, with all it’s faults.