Fleira af Ijslenzku

At 17:15 -0400 2.8.1999, Padraic Brown wrote:


>I'm not sure what language BPJ answered me in (maybe Norwegian?), but he
>could obviously understand my attempt at rewriting the quote line in
>Icelandic.  I'm not 100% sure, but I think he must be questioning my
>morphology (-r vs. -ur).  I tried to answer, but probably didn't do a very
>good job!  I'm just happy I could grasp as much as I did! :)
As I already told Jennifer, I'm using Modern Icelandic.  I had no issue
with -ur vs. -r (which is a superficial difference, MIc. having inserted a
svarabhakti vowel in final Cr clusters, and simplified final -rr).  What I
had issue with was the masc. vs. feminine thing.  Incidentally our exchange
has debunked the claim that the differences between Old and Modern
Icelandic are negligible -- to others than linguistically-minded native
speakers.  Fine with me; it needed debunking!



/BP

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