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Warning sign at the start of the path to the Reykjanes eruption
Icelandic and English are to be expected but the third language shows just how many Poles there are working in Iceland!
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Taken on Friday August 5, 2022
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Posted on Friday August 19, 2022
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Keith Burton said:
They've missed out telling people not to swim in the lava :-))
Gudrun replied to Keith Burton:
There are always idiots that are even more stupid than anyone can imagine;-)
slgwv said:
And yes, I would not have expected Polish in Iceland!
Gudrun replied to slgwv:
There are lots of Poles in the hospitality sector, we stayed at a farm hotel where only young Poles worked. Our Icelandic guide was at first a bit put off that nobody understood Icelandic;-) We got by with English though even their English wasn't too great.
slgwv said:
An interesting irony, I guess--
Gudrun replied to slgwv:
I have always been intrigued by the Norse origins of some English place names.
Fun fact- genetic sequencing in Iceland has found lots of celtic genes in females, Vikings used to raid Ireland and Britain and brought back women.
Marta Wojtkowska said:
Almost like the Rosetta Stone :D
Boarischa Krautmo replied to Marta Wojtkowska:
Gudrun replied to Marta Wojtkowska:
Gudrun replied to Boarischa Krautmo:
Dabei hat jeder, sobald er nur in der Nähe war, automatisch eine Warnmeldung aufs Handy bekommen, aber halt auf Englisch (Kinder unter 12 sollen nicht mit, weil sich die Gase am Boden ansammeln...)
Gillian Everett said:
www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-27/new-zealand-white-island-volcano-disaster-four-corners/12150706
Gudrun replied to Gillian Everett:
Icelandic authorities are very good and well prepared, every smartphone entering the area gets an automatic warning text! The problem are the idiots who choose to ignore the warnings....
Keith Burton replied to Gudrun:
slgwv replied to Gudrun:
Not surprising, I guess, about the DNA. Presumably they’re looking at mitochondrial DNA, which is strictly matrilineal.
The late science-fiction writer Poul Anderson, who was of Scandinavian extraction, wrote a time-travel story (“The Man Who Came Early”) about an Icelandic-speaking US soldier who found himself kicked back in time on Iceland and could still understand the local speech.
Gudrun replied to slgwv:
And btw- in northern Germany they have a language (bit more than a dialect) called Plattdeutsch which has similarities to Dutch (Frisian) and English and which people from other German regions can hardly understand;-)