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06/10/2003 08:36:06 PM · #26 |
I tried one of these sentences ("Það væri gaman að hittast og ræða saman") in a translation machine, and what came back didn't make much sense in English. I tried Icelandic to German, but that one didn't work (???). I'll have to try Icelandic to Spanish next. I'm just so curious, what IS being said here?
Mavrik - I also tried to find out who John Galt is, and came up with a couple very different websites. Now I'm going to have to find out who "Anais Nin" (I think it's a "who") is.
Iceland looks like SUCH A BEAUTIFUL place!
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06/10/2003 08:37:32 PM · #27 |
John Galt is a mythical hero of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged - that's the JG you should be looking for if you're going to.
Anais Nin is Henry Miller's wife/ex wife/something. Both are writers I believe.
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06/10/2003 08:40:24 PM · #28 |
Originally posted by mavrik:
John Galt is a mythical hero of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged - that's the JG you should be looking for if you're going to.
Anais Nin is Henry Miller's wife/ex wife/something. Both are writers I believe. |
I figured as much (about John Galt). I just thought it was interesting that there should also be a financial forecasting company called the same. |
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06/10/2003 08:47:00 PM · #29 |
And a US Presidential Candidate. :)
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06/10/2003 08:48:30 PM · #30 |
Originally posted by mavrik:
And a US Presidential Candidate. :) |
What?
(I think I've hijacked this thread. Good thing the Icelanders are probably sleeping. They can get it back tomorrow :) |
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06/10/2003 08:51:06 PM · #31 |
Both Anais Nin and Henry Miller were writers and Henry Miller a very good one at that. For a while they were lovers. I absolutely detest Anais Nin. She had a very nice, intelligent husband who financed her luxury lifestyle which always included a number of simultaneous lovers. When she was in her early thirties she had an incestuous affair with her own father and wrote about how blissful that was. She is well-known for her diaries and, as reported by Henry Miller and many others, they reflect more fiction than fact. Her other books are pretty much considered third-rate. |
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06/10/2003 09:05:01 PM · #32 |
| Ah, muchas gracias, Journey! My English is just gotten good enough that I managed to read Tolkien over Christmas. I had tried it about 10 years ago, and didn't get very far. This time I enjoyed it. Shakespeare, here I come! |
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06/10/2003 09:09:24 PM · #33 |
"Það væri gaman að hittast og ræða saman"
It means : "It would be nice to get together and have some talk" |
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06/10/2003 09:28:21 PM · #34 |
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06/10/2003 09:30:36 PM · #35 |
A few pictures I took around midnight, just minutes ago...
//www.hn.is/aui/11juni/
Pictures taking in Akureyri, Iceland
Iceland is a great place for a GTG :)
aui |
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06/10/2003 09:37:03 PM · #36 |
| Oh, the colours of the sky are so beautiful! Nice pictures. What are the two tall buildings that look like steps on the left side? |
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06/10/2003 09:37:41 PM · #37 |
Originally posted by Journey:
Both Anais Nin and Henry Miller were writers and Henry Miller a very good one at that. For a while they were lovers. I absolutely detest Anais Nin. She had a very nice, intelligent husband who financed her luxury lifestyle which always included a number of simultaneous lovers. When she was in her early thirties she had an incestuous affair with her own father and wrote about how blissful that was. She is well-known for her diaries and, as reported by Henry Miller and many others, they reflect more fiction than fact. Her other books are pretty much considered third-rate. |
In English Lit academia these days, Miller's stock has fallen badly, I believe, while Anais Nin's has risen to make her, quite correctly in my view, one of the foremost female writers of the twentieth century.
John Galt is the uber-capitalist "hero" of the fascistic bible, "Atlas Shrugged". It is no wonder that a financial company takes his name.
There -- two very different literary viewpoints. You are free to take your pick :-)
Happy midnight to the Icelanders!
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06/10/2003 09:45:48 PM · #38 |
Originally posted by Jak:
John Galt is the uber-capitalist "hero" of the fascistic bible, "Atlas Shrugged". |
Fascist? LOL
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06/10/2003 10:02:21 PM · #39 |
Svalar Akureyrarmyndir maður...
glæsilegt...
En hvernig væri þetta þá?
hittast eina kvöldstund og fá sér öl og smella af? :) |
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06/12/2003 04:21:28 PM · #40 |
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06/12/2003 05:49:01 PM · #41 |
nefnið stað og stund, ef ég verð á svæðinu mæti ég að sjálfsögðu....ekki spurning
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06/12/2003 08:10:50 PM · #42 |
| Einhver á leiðinni til Akureyri City? :) hehe :) |
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06/12/2003 08:24:03 PM · #43 |
Tjah?
getur verið hvar sem er svosem...
en spurningar? - hvað á að gera?
KÃÂkja út að borða?
fá sér Öl á pöbb?
eða bara aðrar hefðbundnar?
Kannski allt saman maður? |
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06/12/2003 09:13:59 PM · #44 |
| Sorry to crash your conversation all the time, but I am completely fascinated by you guys talking back and forth in Icelandic. The only thing I think I can make out (without translators) is the name of the one city, "Akureyri"? I am going to try and learn a bit of Icelandic! |
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06/12/2003 09:29:22 PM · #45 |
Heyhey! - that's cool...
it's a quiestion though if you would call Akureyri "a city"...
isn't 20.000 peps livin' up there?
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06/12/2003 09:55:34 PM · #46 |
Originally posted by vjoz:
it's a quiestion though if you would call Akureyri "a city"...
isn't 20.000 peps livin' up there? |
Ahh, so you guys tease each other about the size of your "cities"? (20.000 sounds like you have a lot of quiet time and a lot of space ... ) |
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06/12/2003 10:18:08 PM · #47 |
:)
I live in the capital of southern Iceland... - we are 4.500 so I can't tease anybody 'bout those things...
Lots of space... |
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06/12/2003 10:20:39 PM · #48 |
Oh, but it's a spectacular country ... BAMartin and I just spent a week there last month and had a wonderful time. I'm still working through my many many photos that I took but I'll post them when I'm done. I'd go back again in a heart-beat :)
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06/18/2003 08:45:37 PM · #49 |
"Öl er böl" sagði maðurinn og snýtti sér àskÃÂtugan vasaklútinn...
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06/20/2003 04:38:59 AM · #50 |
Originally posted by uabresch:
Oh, the colours of the sky are so beautiful! Nice pictures. What are the two tall buildings that look like steps on the left side? |
This building is the church in akureyri: See this website //www.akureyri.is/ |
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