Re: Icelandic orthography (de-lurking)

At 00:50 2000-11-05 -0500, Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:
>Basically, an Icelander hearing Faroese for the first time will
>catch about one word per sentence but yet have the uncanny feeling that he
>should be understanding more; as if it were his own language, only spoken
>extremely unclearly.
Yes, I had the same perception, even tho I was a foreigner having learnt
Icelandic in adult age.

>It's kind of disturbing. Anyway, after some further
>contact with Faroese, the Icelander should be able to start understanding
>most words that he's lexically familiar with (though I can't confirm this,
>as I haven't yet reached this stage with Faroese, having had very little
>contact with it).
I never reached that break-through, probably because I'm not a native
Icelandic speaker.  I could easily **read** Faroese however, since the
non-Icelandic lexis is basically mainland Scandinavian, and I'm conversant
in two mainland languages.



/BP 8^)>
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