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I have noticed that no human wants to be alone.

This is because of how they are made.

Except for maybe when they are in a bath-room, they always like to be with other humans and do human things with them. 

They like to talk with their mouths and ears with them, watch moving pictures with them, and listen to tón-list with them, and take photo-grams of their food for the inter-net with them, and dance with their feet with them, and sometimes kiss them on their mouths with their mouths.

If two humans like dancing together with their feet often, and kissing each other very much with their mouths, they are in a “sam-band”. 

This word means they are together, and that they are no longer alone.

This good, Icelandic word was pósted by your friend Iceland on 17 May 2013, and has 243 nótes.

Halló, this is Iceland. Because humans are very small and not very strong, they invented “rafmagn”. It means “electricity”, but do not be confused. It is not a city. They use rafmagn to help them do many things. For example, they use it to light up their streets at night so they do not have to see the stars and feel small. They also use it to feed their inter-nets, and to talk to their friends on a sími, and to make pönk rokk, and something called a búgalú.  Many humans think rafmagn just comes out of their walls by itself. This is not true. Before the rafmagn can come out of their walls, they first have to make it. They do this with a big machine that can turn waterfalls into rafmagn. But even though not many humans really understand rafmagn (or even notice it), I have noticed that they all become very angry when their rafmagn stops coming out of their walls. Bless bless,- Iceland

Halló, this is Iceland.

Because humans are very small and not very strong, they invented “rafmagn”. It means “electricity”, but do not be confused. It is not a city.

They use rafmagn to help them do many things.

For example, they use it to light up their streets at night so they do not have to see the stars and feel small.

They also use it to feed their inter-nets, and to talk to their friends on a sími, and to make pönk rokk, and something called a búgalú. 

Many humans think rafmagn just comes out of their walls by itself. This is not true. Before the rafmagn can come out of their walls, they first have to make it. They do this with a big machine that can turn waterfalls into rafmagn.

But even though not many humans really understand rafmagn (or even notice it), I have noticed that they all become very angry when their rafmagn stops coming out of their walls.

Bless bless,
- Iceland

This good, Icelandic word was pósted by your friend Iceland on 23 November 2012, and has 70 nótes.

Gaur.

Halló.

I have noticed that when young humans talk to other young humans, they often call them “gaur”, even though this is usually not their real name. 

Like when you say:

  • “Ég hef aldrei séð aðra eins frysti-kistu, gaur”, or 
  • “Ertu búinn að skila skatta-framtalinu, gaur?”, or
  • “Gaur, það er kominn tími á að vax-bera þennan Barbour jakka.”

It means “dude”.

There are many different types of gaurar. The people who help me with this internet do not really know all of them, even though they are very clever.

A “klikkaður gaur” is someone who has just done something very interesting with his skate-board or his snow-board.

A “góður gaur” is someone who will buy you a bjór or drive you to töff places in an auto-mobíle. 

And “Gaurinn” means “The Dude”.

If you are a young person who likes to say clever things to your friends, this word can be very useful to you.

This good, Icelandic word was pósted by your friend Iceland on 23 October 2012, and has 87 nótes.

Vitleysingur.

When humans think one of them is very wise, they say that this human is “vitur”. That means they have a lot of “vit” in their head.

And if they are wise enough, they get an award.

But when a human thinks another human does not have any *vit* in their head, they say that this human is a *vitleysingur*. 

It means that they are not wise. They are just a “wit-less-person”. 

Wit-less humans can also get an award, but they do not get the same award as the wise humans. And sometimes they just get their own “reality tele-visions”.

It is all very confusing.

This good, Icelandic word was pósted by your friend Iceland on 8 October 2012, and has 101 nótes.

Auglýsing.

I have noticed that many humans have very many feelings about what other humans should do. They think that it would be better if the other humans would do what they are told to do. 

“Auglýsing” is an Icelandic word for something that they make if they are very serious about this. 

It means “advertisement”, and when they have made it, they put it on your tele-vision, and your inter-net, and even on your shirt. That way, you will see it, and do what they are telling you to do. Especially if the auglýsing is töff.

Many humans are very used to other humans telling them what to do. They think they must always do this, and that this is normal. 

This good, Icelandic word was pósted by your friend Iceland on 8 October 2012, and has 33 nótes.

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