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Crankit posted:I heard there's a database that people in Iceland have to check to make sure they don't sleep with their own cousins, is this true? Does it bother people there or do they just view it as a part of the dating process? Nah, it's not a database where they have to check, this story is probably just a case of Chinese whispers. It was in fact a recent iPhone app where people about to sleep with each other can just tap their phones against each other and it checks if you're related to each other and if yes, how critically.
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If you're really too lazy to type it Björk, please, at least go for Bjork. Bjeourk looks just horrible.
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Deceitful Penguin posted:It's phonetically correct though. Ö sounds nothing like O, after all. Yeah, but still, at least for me that looks very clumsy. I'm not Icelandic, but speaking Swedish and Finnish I see more than enough of that from foreigners and while o/a is incorrect, it just looks less... weird. Hämäläinen might not be Hamalainen, but jesus what an abomination Haemaelaeinen is. If Icelanders have a different stance on this I don't know, but you're a broken nation if you prefer those vowel monstrosities. But seriously, getting the ümlauts takes just a few seconds on google. They're letters of their own and leaving them out is exactly as bad as leaving out letters in English, it really doesn't matter in widely recognized names such as Björk but in other contexts a lot more so. I guess there's a chance I care too much about ümlauts but goddamnit they're letters and deserve love too as much as anyone else!
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If glögg in Iceland is anything like in rest of the Nordic countries, it really doesn't have anything to do with eggnog (besides possible alcohol content and being a Christmas drink) and is a lot more closer to the German glühwein. Absolutely delicious, anyways.
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