Comments on: GUEST TMST POST: Teach Me Something Tuesday #23 http://puntabulous.com/2009/08/11/guest-tmst-post-teach-me-something-tuesday-23/ good. dorky. fun. Thu, 17 May 2012 12:19:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Howard http://puntabulous.com/2009/08/11/guest-tmst-post-teach-me-something-tuesday-23/comment-page-1/#comment-464687 Howard Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:17:34 +0000 http://puntabulous.com/?p=11235#comment-464687 <blockquote>occasionally the one in front could be if he braked without due care and attention or whatever, but that got changed decades ago.</blockquote> Decades ago was when I lived there, so that may be were I got that. That's for the update.

occasionally the one in front could be if he braked without due care and attention or whatever, but that got changed decades ago.

Decades ago was when I lived there, so that may be were I got that. That’s for the update.

]]> By: M. Nicodemus http://puntabulous.com/2009/08/11/guest-tmst-post-teach-me-something-tuesday-23/comment-page-1/#comment-464680 M. Nicodemus Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:49:34 +0000 http://puntabulous.com/?p=11235#comment-464680 Great post, thanks for sharing! I had not given Iceland much thought in the past as a possible vacation spot, but now you have me convinced! Oh, and I too would love to hear some ghost stories :) Great post, thanks for sharing! I had not given Iceland much thought in the past as a possible vacation spot, but now you have me convinced! Oh, and I too would love to hear some ghost stories :)

]]> By: Helgi Briem http://puntabulous.com/2009/08/11/guest-tmst-post-teach-me-something-tuesday-23/comment-page-1/#comment-464679 Helgi Briem Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:48:07 +0000 http://puntabulous.com/?p=11235#comment-464679 <blockquote>Oh! Traffic law. Not sure if it’s changed, but in a rear-end accident the person in front was at fault. Love that!</blockquote> Sorry, it's the other way around. The one in back is always at fault. There used to be complicated law where occasionally the one in front could be if he braked without due care and attention or whatever, but that got changed decades ago.

Oh! Traffic law. Not sure if it’s changed, but in a rear-end accident the person in front was at fault. Love that!

Sorry, it’s the other way around. The one in back is always at fault. There used to be complicated law where occasionally the one in front could be if he braked without due care and attention or whatever, but that got changed decades ago.

]]> By: Kári Emil http://puntabulous.com/2009/08/11/guest-tmst-post-teach-me-something-tuesday-23/comment-page-1/#comment-464632 Kári Emil Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:07:16 +0000 http://puntabulous.com/?p=11235#comment-464632 Yeah, I get called Miss and she on the phone in the States ALL THE TIME. I always start talking in this bass voice to fuck with the people on the other end but I don't correct them. It's so much fun. Oh and Mel, you are totally right about the byre/barn/bær thing. Interestingly, the Scots word is actually pronounced just like the Icelandic word. You'll also see the Danish/Norwegian/Swedish word by. Bær in Icelandic can both mean a farm and a town. And we also have a cognate with town, tún, but that doesn't mean town anymore, it now means pasture. I heart languages too :) Yeah, I get called Miss and she on the phone in the States ALL THE TIME. I always start talking in this bass voice to fuck with the people on the other end but I don’t correct them. It’s so much fun.

Oh and Mel, you are totally right about the byre/barn/bær thing. Interestingly, the Scots word is actually pronounced just like the Icelandic word. You’ll also see the Danish/Norwegian/Swedish word by. Bær in Icelandic can both mean a farm and a town. And we also have a cognate with town, tún, but that doesn’t mean town anymore, it now means pasture. I heart languages too :)

]]> By: Chris D. http://puntabulous.com/2009/08/11/guest-tmst-post-teach-me-something-tuesday-23/comment-page-1/#comment-464554 Chris D. Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:54:58 +0000 http://puntabulous.com/?p=11235#comment-464554 Wow! That was a really great post! I learned a lot. One thing I learned is that you are a guy. All this time I had assumed Kári was a woman's name. I also did not realize that patronymics were still used in Iceland. Thanks for sharing your background with us. Iceland does seem like it would be a very cool place to visit. It seems like it would be very different from most places I have traveled before. Wow! That was a really great post! I learned a lot. One thing I learned is that you are a guy. All this time I had assumed Kári was a woman’s name. I also did not realize that patronymics were still used in Iceland. Thanks for sharing your background with us.

Iceland does seem like it would be a very cool place to visit. It seems like it would be very different from most places I have traveled before.

]]> By: Michelle M. http://puntabulous.com/2009/08/11/guest-tmst-post-teach-me-something-tuesday-23/comment-page-1/#comment-464548 Michelle M. Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:52:34 +0000 http://puntabulous.com/?p=11235#comment-464548 Informative and entertaining : ). Hopefully I'll visit Iceland one day. I'd like to hear some ghost stories, too. Informative and entertaining : ). Hopefully I’ll visit Iceland one day.

I’d like to hear some ghost stories, too.

]]> By: Howard http://puntabulous.com/2009/08/11/guest-tmst-post-teach-me-something-tuesday-23/comment-page-1/#comment-464530 Howard Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:31:12 +0000 http://puntabulous.com/?p=11235#comment-464530 Kari - they had just stricken the law that made homosexuality illegal in Iceland and they had just opened the bar. It was straight downstairs and gay & bi upstairs. Supposedly it was the only one around so it was probably Spotlight. Kari – they had just stricken the law that made homosexuality illegal in Iceland and they had just opened the bar. It was straight downstairs and gay & bi upstairs. Supposedly it was the only one around so it was probably Spotlight.

]]> By: Mel http://puntabulous.com/2009/08/11/guest-tmst-post-teach-me-something-tuesday-23/comment-page-1/#comment-464529 Mel Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:24:21 +0000 http://puntabulous.com/?p=11235#comment-464529 It's probably a safe bet that the word bær comes from the same root at the Scots word byre and the English word barn. I heart languages. I so very much want to visit Iceland. Maybe I'll get lucky and be able to sort out a trip before the economy improves there and it's still cheap. It’s probably a safe bet that the word bær comes from the same root at the Scots word byre and the English word barn. I heart languages.

I so very much want to visit Iceland. Maybe I’ll get lucky and be able to sort out a trip before the economy improves there and it’s still cheap.

]]> By: Kári http://puntabulous.com/2009/08/11/guest-tmst-post-teach-me-something-tuesday-23/comment-page-1/#comment-464523 Kári Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:12:44 +0000 http://puntabulous.com/?p=11235#comment-464523 Wow, it's so interesting to here your memories, Tam and Howard. Tam, you can always tell if people are brother and sister, they'll have the same father's name. However, you won't be able to tell on paper who a mother is related to. But you can tell who the father is, obviously, since all the children bear his name. Oh, and the Irish women, they were just taken by force, I reckon. And I love vínarterta and also lagkaka which is líke vínarterta except it's brown and has white frosting instead of jam between the layers. And Howard, Batman is Leðurblökumaðurinn in Icelandic :D Which literally means The Leatherwing Man because bats are called leatherwings or leðurblökur. Can you remember what gay bar that was? I think the first one that wasn't a private club was Spotlight and since you saw Batman in the cinemas that must have been it. But maybe I'm wrong. Such a cute story with that mormon. I don't know any Icelandic mormons, actually. The regular butter is in green and yellow, the salted one is red and yellow. Liz and David, I'll give you some troll stories and ghost stories soon. Oh, and Polt. Civilised is not written with a ZED! Wow, it’s so interesting to here your memories, Tam and Howard. Tam, you can always tell if people are brother and sister, they’ll have the same father’s name. However, you won’t be able to tell on paper who a mother is related to. But you can tell who the father is, obviously, since all the children bear his name. Oh, and the Irish women, they were just taken by force, I reckon. And I love vínarterta and also lagkaka which is líke vínarterta except it’s brown and has white frosting instead of jam between the layers.

And Howard, Batman is Leðurblökumaðurinn in Icelandic :D Which literally means The Leatherwing Man because bats are called leatherwings or leðurblökur. Can you remember what gay bar that was? I think the first one that wasn’t a private club was Spotlight and since you saw Batman in the cinemas that must have been it. But maybe I’m wrong. Such a cute story with that mormon. I don’t know any Icelandic mormons, actually. The regular butter is in green and yellow, the salted one is red and yellow.

Liz and David, I’ll give you some troll stories and ghost stories soon.

Oh, and Polt. Civilised is not written with a ZED!

]]> By: Howard http://puntabulous.com/2009/08/11/guest-tmst-post-teach-me-something-tuesday-23/comment-page-1/#comment-464522 Howard Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:12:31 +0000 http://puntabulous.com/?p=11235#comment-464522 Ah-ha! I thought Batman started with an 'L', but couldn't remember for sure. Ah-ha! I thought Batman started with an ‘L’, but couldn’t remember for sure.

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