Re:Icelandic language battles threat of 'digital extinction'
by pacaro on Friday March 02, 2018 @09:15PM
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Agreed, it’s definitely context dependent. There’s a world of difference between holding up a line in a store and having a conversation, however limited, with a taxi driver.
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Re:Icelandic language battles threat of 'digital extinction'
by Mediterraneo10 on Friday March 02, 2018 @09:28PM
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The shop could be completely empty, no queue, and the shopkeeper might be free and even bored, but chances are he still won't want to listen to a novice-intermediate foreigner practicing Dutch. Listening to halting speech can feel like a waste of your time even if you have nothing better to do.