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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Ask me anything about Iceland, its history, culture, and modern politics
 
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hitension
Feb 14, 2005


Hey guys, I learned Chinese so that I can write shame in another language
Hey, thanks for the detailed response! :) Pretty cool that you guys are OK with calling your elected officials by first names even in the media.
Somehow this just led me to have more questions about Iceland...

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the name committee is allowing more, unorthodox names

Name committee? Does this mean in the past only certain names were allowed? What about immigrants? In general how are immigrants treated, it seems like with a population that small things could get cliquish real fast.

Also, do you guys (normally I wouldn't feel comfortable referring to the entire population of a country as "you guys", but it seems OK in this scenario) know Michael Corgan? One of my old professors, the only American specialist on Iceland to the best of my knowledge. The answer to every bonus question was Iceland :)

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hitension
Feb 14, 2005


Hey guys, I learned Chinese so that I can write shame in another language

Deceitful Penguin posted:

Everyone speaks English anyway.
This probably goes further towards explaining why nobody learned Icelandic. I can't speak for everyone but the odds that I will learn a language are directly correlated with the odds that I will meet a monolingual speaker of that language.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Language_Learning_Difficulty_for_English_Speakers

Icelandic is ranked as a medium-difficulty language here, requiring about 1100 hours of class in order to reach a "professional proficiency" level.

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