This makes me want to hook up with an Icelandic girl just to see what noises come out during freakytime.

Hint: It rhymes with "Moobs"

Evaleg? That's it?

Eva Glavin?

Eyjafjallajökullisticexpialidocious.

When they were naming cities there, did they simply slam their hands down on the keyboard? Because that is what it seems like.

pao9urwe;jko d;lkjashkljsd rjeixp ejvnjoiea, eixjgiekei.

Big Cheese Make Hair Go Boom: When they were naming cities there, did they simply slam their hands down on the keyboard? Because that is what it seems like.

Type it away, keyboard cat?

At this rate, Drew will never get back from Armenia.

That's not a word. Streichholzschächtelchen is a word.

/Gesundheit

that's easy for him to say

Iceland, you have a farked up language.

Big Cheese Make Hair Go Boom: When they were naming cities there, did they simply slam their hands down on the keyboard? Because that is what it seems like.

It means island mountain glacier. Eyja = island, fjall = mountain, jökull = glacier.

"Eyjafjallajökull" is Icelandic for "the"

Agreed CaesarSneezy

The actualy pronunciation sounds like two, maybe three syllables, yet the written pronunciation has more than 6. That's farked up.

Mr Chalmondley-Featherstonehaugh feels your pain.

Paris1127: Anyone want to take a stab? How about 3 times fast?

/translation: The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one

I think I see a pikachu in there somewhere.

/It's cheating if your "word" is just a really long sentence with no punctuation
//I'm looking at you, Native Americans
//NativeAmericanswhocramwholesentancesintooneexcesssivelylongandgenerallypointl e ssword

Paris1127, that's ONE friggin word??? It makes "drunkese" seem intelligble. No wonder why they don't have titty bars there anymore. It probably takes too long to say "titty bar."

WTF is that? That's a word? That sounds like something I'd say when I wake up in the morning if I'm still only 30% coherent.

Still trying to figure out how the Brits manage to never ever pronounce Sven-Göran properly...

That's the strangest way to spell ay-effa-via-vick I've seen all day.

Volcano
Pronunciation: \vol-ˈkā-(ˌ)nō

Epistax: "Eyjafjallajökull" is Icelandic for "the"

Mainrodax: This makes me want to hook up with an Icelandic girl just to see what noises come out during freakytime.

I can answer that... Went last year.

Pretty much sounds the same as any other drunk girl. LOL

Dumb-Ass-Monkey: It's as bad as Welsh!

Like the actor Ioan Gruffudd, from the Fantastic Four movies. It's pronounced "Owen Griffiths". Ioan = Owen, i can see. But how in hell is "Gruffudd" pronounced "GRIFFITHS"???

Welsh spells the "th" sound with two "d"s. Why, I don't know. The "u"s are schwa "u"s so they're pussy vowels that can pretty be much any vowel with little modification.

Lousy little ə...

Dumb-Ass-Monkey: Like the actor Ioan Gruffudd, from the Fantastic Four movies. It's pronounced "Owen Griffiths". Ioan = Owen, i can see. But how in hell is "Gruffudd" pronounced "GRIFFITHS"???

"th" is just a construct to replace the old letters ð and þ. I'd imagine they replaced ðð with dd and kept the original sound.

InferiousX: At this rate, Drew will never get back from Armenia.


What's he doing, shopping for a virgin Kardashian?

Mr. Featherstonehaugh would like a word with you.

/pronounced as "fanshaw"

Sum Dum Gai: Dumb-Ass-Monkey: Like the actor Ioan Gruffudd, from the Fantastic Four movies. It's pronounced "Owen Griffiths". Ioan = Owen, i can see. But how in hell is "Gruffudd" pronounced "GRIFFITHS"???

"th" is just a construct to replace the old letters ð and þ. I'd imagine they replaced ðð with dd and kept the original sound.

Pretty much what I reckoned.

Also, that word is nothing. Try reading "donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftsraddampferkapitänskajütentürsicherheitsschlü ssel" three times fast. It's the old germanic noun creation conventions that English "dropped" that is throwing people off. "Danube-Route Ship-voyage Company's executive-steamship-captain's cabin-door-security-key" We just break them up so that our eyes don't have a hissy fit for being forced to read such long strings.

When in Rome...wait...if you call it that you're not IN Rome!

Just like "Taliaferro" = "Toliver" and "Beauchamp" = "Beechum".

Queue, cue? Oh yeah, English is completely rational.

So... how do you say it? It sounded like "Aya Fa Laya Guk"

Prisencolinensinainciusol (new window)

/Ol Right!

I heard "A, uh, foot loke" which as we all know means "to bluff"

/liar
//liar liar
///liar liar liar.

Kinda reminded me of this

So, that means that Lovecraft was an avid fan of the Icelandic language?.

Dear Iceland,
If you're going to put your volcanoes under hard to pronounce glaciers don't complain when nobody can pronounce them.

Sincerely,
Everyone else