YJAFJALLAJOKULL
YJAFJALLAJOKULL
The art of naming volcanos
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do not understand
and FIRST
You’re stupid.
Cats are known for jumping on keyboards and typing in random things while walking on the keyboard.
And that’s how Eyafjallajökull was born.
This pic, and apparently you too – the art of american douchebaggery.
im not american
I love it how people get pissed off if somebody says the word ”first”
Thats why i said it.
I want to point out that there are douchebags in every country. The only problem is that most of America’s douchebags are on the internet, TV, or are in office.
ah! but how did the umlot get over the o? what typing witchcraft be this?
Scandinavia Keyboard, thats how.
We got Åå Ää Öö on the keyboards.
Å is a hybrid betwen a and o, Ä is a hybrid between a and e, Ö is a hybrid between o and e.
Just putting that out there.
tl;dr
actually, i did read it. i just didn’t READ it, if you understand.
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tl;dr
CUTE.
Eyafjallajökul!
Eyafjallajökull!!
You forgot an L at the end.
But how did they figure out the pronunciation?
I love the Scandinavian imagination that’s applied to the naming of this volcano (thanks to my Swedish ex for teaching me the cold, harsh and sometimes brutal logic of Scandinavia)
Eyja – island – pronounced kinda like ‘Aya that hurt’
fjalla – mountain – easy start saying fjord but end with alla instead of ord
jökull – glacier – pronounced kinda like Cletus the slack jawed Yukel
what a cute kitteh!!!!
True, and Icelandic and Norwegian for example do sound like that.
Indeed. We have a beautiful nordic language… In your face english!
You have a keyboard faceroll language- ironically, it is one that is pointlessly complicated (as opposed yo the usual implications of the term “faceroll”).
Deal.
Funny, but it’s actually called Eyjafjallajökull, not Yjafjallajokull.
This is pretty much a direct rip off of a joke The Oatmeal did a while ago. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/volcano_name
Yep. You beat me to it.
Still funny though.
^ About to say the same thing. It’s like people think they’re the only ones who use the internet.
Isolationism, self-centredness and mental retardation!
No 1 cause of idiots being surprised about there being a whole world outside their borders since, well, forever.
Eyjafjallajökull means “The glacier on the mountain on the island”.
To make fun of someone else when it’s really you that is mind-numbingly ignorant is really not a sign of a good sense of humour.
i believe you are on the wrong site my friend because this is a site where you make fun of things i believe or was hitler really looking for kyle
E-RAGE!!!!
why so serious?
your volcano sounds like a sneeze.
Perhaps one who obviously does not understand how humour works should not speak about it.
Zing!
(as a note, you got the zing award because you had the zingiest reply. Well done, sir.
It was supposed to be humorous but it ended up being insensitive. Icelandic unlike English has gone through very few changes in the last 1,000 years. Mississippi, Missouri, and California must sound equally silly to the Icelandic.
They are welcome to make fun of Mississippi, Missouri, and California.
Oh and Worcester (pronounced wus-ter)
Wow, Buster, you must be a ton of fun at parties.
Who is “being made fun of” here? The word looks funny to people who don’t spell things like that. That’s it. Nobody is being “made fun of,” insulted, etc.
People like you are why the world can’t be a fun place.
To be ignorant is not the same as being funny.
To be a jackass is not the same as being…um…Whatever you’re a jackass.
Yeah cause it’s not like this site ever makes fun of American stuff.
Oh, Wait…….
Let’s face it American’s are an easy target…
They’re so fat you can’t miss
Zing!
tl;dr
OMG GTFO.
O get over yourself fer chrissake. There’s nothing more annoying than a humorless pedantic git.
There is no such thing as “mental retardation”. How ironic.
copied from the oatmeal…
RIP OFF
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/volcano_name
Idea was stolen from ‘TheOatmeal’ ……thats ok, still funny though ^.^
send it directly to failbook for spelling the name wrong, noob.
You mean failBLOG.
:B
Send Daniel with it.
Wow. Oversensitive much?
I often ask my Scrabble buddies if they’d like to switch to Icelandic. We’d rack in some MAJOR points.
Buster is confusing…first he’s mocking the Icelanders – the most isolationist, self-centered people in the world, (I wouldn’t call them mentally disabled).
Then he’s saying its not a sense of humor to mock the Icelanders.
Using his own definition -the one I am not using – Buster must be from Iceland.
WEAK! this is just a copy of The Oatmeal! and a rather late copy, might i add.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/volcano_name
Like this?
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/volcano_name
It’d help if it were spelled correctly in the caption…
Cats can’t spell. Your argument is invalid.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/volcano_name
…picture is unrelated? http://www.unrelatedcaptions.com/
Dude…the kitten tap dancing on the keyboard is how they came up with the name of the volcano.
Obviously.
Clearly.
quite humorous this foto, icelandic is the most dificult language to speak. Nordic languages and portuguese veyr hard idd. Americans open your eyes! ZOFMAMasdklfm,a
well, being icelandic i can’t really understand what the big fuzz about the name is… wikipedia even has a soundclip with the right pronounciation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyjafjallaj%C3%B6kull
im actually from Iceland and its.
Eyjafjallajökull
a-ya-fjaglar-jukull
that would be the english one
and yes icelandic is weirdly difficult.
fjalla = fjaglar?…with a “gl”???
it’s like greek, when you have a double “g”, the first one sounds like an “n”…euaggelion = euangelion… *O*
i love danish and icelandic and norsk, beautifuls languages, i know more from danish although
Copied from the Oatmeal. For shame.
I don’t find what’s so funny about this. Icelandic and Norwegian are very similar to this. Though I’m usually not a stickler for people making “fun” of foreign languages, I find this rather insulting. And I’M not even from Iceland or Norway.
Whichever country you are from, you should apply for a sense of humour.
cutest furry little bastard evar!
in Icelandic, that is pronounced ‘Mountain’ XD
i kid…i kid…
You’re all wrong! It’s eyjafjallajökull. It’s a J!
YOU STOLE THIS FROM OATMEAL YOU BASTARD!
Wonder if the Old Ones named this Volcano?
DSFARGEG
yet another instance of
WELL, THAT EXPLAINS IT!
Suddenly the whole world makes sense with this poster…
I KNOW, RIGHT?!
HAHAHA, You think Eyjafjallajökull is a funny word? The Icelandic language has got so many strange words let me give you some examples: Snæfellsjökull, Kaldrananes, Kringilsárrani and Möðrudalsöræfi. Hahaha, I would really like all of you to try to say thease words ;D that is just a little part of the “funny” Icelandic words. But anyway, greetings from the land of strange names, beautiful landscape and the ash
¬¬ FAIL, you must defend your culture, not making laugh of it for the public idolatry
You, sir, are a no good hardass.
1. Find volcano
2. Put cat on Keyboard.
3. Egbvylawbdeuy
4. Profit?
Klumpkatt, love the name.
But what on earth did you do to that poor creature to render it in such a state?
I’ts Eyjafjallajökull. haha I love when people try to say it. it sounds like they’re puking.
I think it is an awesome eye-opener language for english speakers, but I do have one serious question-
Do they have “Wheel of Fortune”? And does their Vanna wear rollerblades to keep the how under a half-hour? XD Peace!