Re: OT: Icelandic help

Silly me, it never occured to me to look at the website itself. I see the
phrase

ÞESSI GÖMLU GÖÐU

 

which using the Univeristy of Wisconsin online dictionary is

 

That old good.

 

Looking at my phonetic transcription from before, it never ceases to amaze
me that what I hear and what is being said can so often be so different
particularly with vowels.

 

S



-----Original Message-----
From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On
Behalf Of Edwin Chen
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 5:33 PM
To: CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu
Subject: Re: OT: Icelandic help

Not too helpful and probably totally wrong O:-), but my initial thought is
that the "k@m li" might be "gamli".

What sound do you mean by the @?

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Scotto Hlad <scott.hlad@...> wrote:

> In order to keep my conlang juices flowing, I listen to radio on the
> internet from many different European countries (my love of language
> is definitely Eurocentric.) I discovered a website, www.listenlive.eu
> which has many radio stations available to me. Often times I listen to
> Gull Bylgjan.
> I
> get to hear Icelandic and hear some Icelandic oldies as well as other
> oldies. I hear a phrase on there all the time which is no doubt their
> slogan or such and having heard it so many times I wonder what it
> means, how it is spelled etc. Below is the best phonetic translation I
> can come up with.
>
> [In d@ k@m li ko va]
>
> As I don't know which syllables go together or for that matter whether
> there may be something missing at the beginning, does anyone have any
> idea what this says?
>
> Thanks
> SCotto
>

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