Showing posts with label iceland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iceland. Show all posts

Sunday, April 18, 2010

In which an Icelandic volcano prompts the funniest paragraph on the Internet today

Yglesias writes:

Ever since the eruption, I know I can’t be the only person who’s been wondering how to say “Eyjafjallajökull.” In principle, the Internet and its multimedia cornucopia ought to shed a lot of light on this issue. In practice, no matter how many times I click over here and hear it pronounced, I can’t come any closer to saying it myself.

I thought oh come on how bad can it be. And then I clicked through to Wikimedia and I burst out laughing.