Met a Swede the other day who told me something interesting that fits with this theme.

Apparently it is illegal to bring new words into the Icelandic language - they are trying to maintain its purity. When something new appears on the world's horizon (like "the internet" for instance), the Icelanders invent a word with roots from their own language to describe it. Sounds too damn hard.

(Was interesting to meet this Swedish guy - I thought they all had blue and yellow faces - but he didn't....)

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