User talk:Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

Note: I don't maintain any of the software I've written of MediaWiki anymore, if you have patches, problems or improvements please file them in https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 15:54, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

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That volcano, again

Hello
In answer to your query (here), my question was mainly a challenge to the previous editor, an IP from Virginia with yet more advice on how to pronounce the name...
But my questions may well have been answered;
I understand "jokull" translates as "glacier", which is a fairly imprecise term; I wondered which definition(s) of glacier (here) it equates to.

It's a colloquial term applied to any permanent ice sheet. There are more precise terms (like skriðjökull for outlet glacier) but these sometimes get mixed up.

It’s the same in English, the terms have both a specific scientific, and a colloquial meaning. Colloquially, “glacier” is usually used just to denote “a river of ice”, like an outlet glacier.

Also if the mountain under the glacier/ice-cap had a name of its own, or if "Eyjafjallajökull" applied to both.

Hopefully this will answer that.

I does; (I never thought of looking there!). Regarding the “mountain under the glacier” comment, though, I’d made the same assumption, that the icecap sat on a single volcanic massif, rather than a range of separate peaks. Live and learn!

And finally I wondered if the suffix "–jokull" was applied colloquially to any ice-capped mountain ( in the manner of Glacier Peak, or Snaefell, or Snowdon) separate from its actual meaning.

In practice pretty much any such peak in Iceland is also on a glacier, but no. Jökull implies an ice sheet, it isn't used for areas with a light permanent snow or ice cover.

Can you shed any light on any of those? Moonraker12 (talk) 15:33, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for this, its been helpful. Moonraker12 (talk) 10:28, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

PS I also am wondering about the letter "ll". It seems, like the Welsh ll, to have a particular (and tricky) pronunciation, but there’s nothing on the ll or digraph pages about it: Can you shed any light on this? Moonraker12 (talk) 15:40, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

The double-l is a distinct sound in Iceland, I'm not aware of any current Wikipedia article that explains it. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 17:04, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Hmm; I might have a go at that, if I can get my head around it. It seems to be a Voiceless alveolar lateral fricative, approximating to a "tl" or "dl" sound (the Welsh is more of a "kl" or "chl" sound). would that be right? Moonraker12 (talk) 10:33, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Something like that. I don't know Welsh. It's made by blowing air to one side of your mouth with your teeth slightly apart. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 11:26, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Ah! Thanks! Moonraker12 (talk) 09:43, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia's tagline

Hi. I noticed that you participated in a 2005/2006 discussion and straw poll on whether or not the tagline at the top of all Wikipedia articles should be changed from "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" to "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit". I don't know if you're still interested in this issue or not, but this exact change has been proposed once again, this time at the Village pump, and there is currently an RFC (Request for Comment) on the subject where it is being discussed. All Hallow's Wraith (talk) 18:08, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Open Street Map

Hi. I've done a lot of work to making pin maps on wikipedia from OpenStreetMap, recently I created en:Template:Location map Norway Oslo actually to display landmarks!! However I just came across the geohack on German wiki. When you click the geo globe on German wiki now it features on the open street map at different zoomable levels without having to leave the site. This would absolustely ideal for english wikipedia and end a long term disagreement over set pin maps and to provide the option for zoomable maps iwthin wikipedia itself. Could you please import the technology they are using on German wikipedia to display open street maps within the wiki site itself. This would be perfect and would mean we could probably not bother with the city pins. Would it be possible to display these zoomable open street maps within article infoboxes themselves? An example. See Harris Theater. If we had the zoomable open street map within the infobox theatre we would not need that pin locator. By default there could be none but a "Click map" option within the infobox. When you click it, it would then display the open street map zoomable as shown here [here. Can you do this? It would be extremely beneficial to us. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 18:18, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

Template in signature

I believe your {{ns:2}} in your signature is confusing archiving bots (it also probably runs counter to WP:SIG#Templates). Could you please replace this with "User talk"? Thanks! 14:05, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

File:AAAAAA Bullet.png listed for deletion

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Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Accessory fruit

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