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Jul 2017
5:19pm, 3 Jul 2017
4,264 posts
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Icelandic Trigirl
My patio/deck is probably big enough but I need to paint it first (= pay someone to paint it).
Where is going, oh fleecy one?
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Jul 2017
5:26pm, 3 Jul 2017
13,279 posts
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Columba
No, it doesn't, ITG. It only has one page on Icelandic. If you look up Norwegian it does tell you about the two different standard versions of Norwegian, and that schools can choose which to teach. So I would have thought it might have included your info about Icelandic, But it doesn't.
Some Welsh-language purists object to direct translations into Welsh from English. For example, "penwythnos" for "weekend" (pen=end, wythnos=week), preferring the traditional Welsh term Dros y Sul ("across Sunday"). There are also two ways of counting; an old, complicated way and a newer simplified way, much better for doing arithmetic.
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Jul 2017
5:35pm, 3 Jul 2017
1,674 posts
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Ymee
I love learning about languages. Shame my sieve brain doesn't retain new learning so well these days 
Can we have an Icelandic-Welsh tutorial *wonders what the Welsh for patio and helicopter is*
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Jul 2017
5:37pm, 3 Jul 2017
4,265 posts
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Icelandic Trigirl
Danish has a very stupid way of counting where they do it all backwards and have things like "three times twenty" instead of 60 and "three and a half times twenty" instead of 70. I never buy more than 10 of anything
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Jul 2017
5:59pm, 3 Jul 2017
1,983 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
A bit like French and their "four twenties" for 80.
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Jul 2017
6:12pm, 3 Jul 2017
1,675 posts
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Ymee
Well, we did used to have four score years and ten here I suppose!
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Jul 2017
6:24pm, 3 Jul 2017
906 posts
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Heinzster
How do you say Icelandictrigirl in Icelandic? Just to make sure the helicopter lands on the correct sólpatur?
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Jul 2017
6:53pm, 3 Jul 2017
1,715 posts
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ferret
waiting... I love this thread
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Jul 2017
7:14pm, 3 Jul 2017
35,684 posts
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Fierce and Fearless Fleecy
Four twenty and ten always struck me as idiotic in the extreme of the French, numbers always confuse me though the Germans are nice and consistent and logical
No idea ITG, it's the world's most expensive school trip so a 5 star resort maybe?
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Jul 2017
8:57pm, 3 Jul 2017
4,266 posts
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Icelandic Trigirl
Belgians had more sense: they used settante and ottante and nonante rather than all that faffing about with multiples of 20.
Iceland is ridiculously expensive these days but the kronur is due to collapse again soon.
Icelandic trigirl = íslensk þríþrautastelpa
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