First Eyjafjallajokull, now Grimsvotn

[marmar]

REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Iceland closed its main international airport and canceled domestic flights Sunday as a powerful volcanic eruption sent a plume of ash, smoke and steam 12 miles (20 kilometers) into the air.

The eruption was far larger than one a year ago that caused international travel chaos — but scientists said it was unlikely to have the same widespread effect.

University of Iceland geophysicist Magnus Tumi Gudmundsson said the eruption of the Grimsvotn volcano was "much bigger and more intensive than Eyjafjallajokull," the volcano whose April 2010 eruption shut Europe's airspace for five days.

"There is a very large area in southeast Iceland where there is almost total darkness and heavy fall of ash," he said. "But it is not spreading nearly as much. The winds are not as strong as they were in Eyjafjallajokull." ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_iceland_volcano

[The Straight Story]

1. Next Jidsybnspol (See I can make up volcano names too)

:rofl:

Those people in Iceland need to learn to speak and write english if they want me to care about their problems :evilgrin:

[druidity33]

6. Icelandic is a very old language...

they don't need to speak English, but most of them do anyway. Wales is similarly afflicted. I don't scorn the strange twists in their tongue. I revel in the weirdness and enjoy the spoken, whispered and shouted languages of old.

Try listening to the Mabinogion in Welsh...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabinogion

Or a famous Saga in Icelandic...

http://www.suite101.com/content/an-introduction-to-grettis-saga-smundarsonar-a129058



just my 2 pennies...

[AuntPatsy]

12. I'll add another two cents, I too enjoy the languages uniqueness, I used to listen to

Tapes attempting the right pronunciations, I have yet to even come close being ab,e to form the right sounds needed to be understood

[Silent3]

2. The volcanoes are protesting their unpronounceable names. n/t

[druidity33]

13. If you can't pronounce

Grimsvotn, you need to readjust your tongue. Grim + s + vote + n. Really not that hard. As for the other words, why not trying to sound them out? It's fun!

:)

[LiberalLoner]

3. Poor Iceland. Did they do something to tick God off by any chance? A person has to wonder. n/t

[femrap]

5. I believe it was

Mother Nature that they pissed off...

[JVS]

11. God must love the big banks they refused to bail out.

[Poll_Blind]

4. Grimsvotn, now there's a badass volcano name.

PB

[Electric Monk]

7. Remember that whole Wall St / Global Banking "thing" a couple years back?

London asked Reykjavik for lots of cash, but forgot there was no letter 'c' in the Icelandic alphabet. I guess this is what they get.



/for realz, look it up, yo

[hobbit709]

8. This is what happens if an island is part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

You can see plate tectonics in action there.

[TuxedoKat]

9. How Volcanoes Are Named

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/volcano_name

This is really cute. I'd post the cartoon here if my computer would let me.

[kestrel91316]

10. Just great. My niece is supposed to fly to Spain in about 10 days on her honeymoon.