>tfw your language doesn't support quantitative verse
>tfw so dumb that I want to write in quantitative verse
>>9020980
>dumb
>>9021441
*what's dumb
>tfw your language is so old you can read 100y.o. manuscripts without any issue
>>9022804
>tfw your language is so old you can read 1000 year old manuscripts with no issue
suck it from iran
>>9022804
what language has changed so much that you would have an issue with only 100 year old texts
>>9023511
learned both at university, I found old icelandic a bit more challening, was glad to have the recent Icelandic fpr my own use. very beautiful language indeed.I especially like how you keep you language to its own instead of welcoming any anglizism how badly it may be
> in German we use "handy" for mobile phone, fuck that!
>>9023592
>speak a language whose grammar is dependent on words fitting in to the phonology
>import words that don't
swedish can be be beautiful and all but fuck this
>smartphone
>den smartphonen
>de smartphonerna?
>de smartphonearna
>de smartphonerarna?
>de smartphonesen?
>de smartfÄnarna?
>pekskÀrmstelefonhelvetena
>>9023592
That's something we're always careful of, every time a new foreign concept comes about our government creates an Icelandic word for it. It doesn't always catch on though.
>>9023646
What are Icelandic authors worth reading?