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Ye but smörgåsbord (swedish) is still swedish so she probably wanted to know what it was.

Yeah we tend to use it as a synonym for variety. Its not even what it means in Swedish.

Yeah...the word is used to indicate large quantity and variety.

We can use the word in that figurative way in Sweden as well.

yeas exactly! we're a buncha new yorkers and hitting the chinese buffet age 10 i remember my pop clapping his hands and saying "oh man thats some smorgasbord! " as a kid i had a confusing image of some kind of board in my head.

@Spooky Gangster Fun fact: We're both in America and Europe

I stg I see you everywhere wtfff

Your videos and their content are brilliant. I have children older than you, so I'm probably not your average subscriber, but just to say you are wiser than your years, keep it up.

Yh wtf you’ve been commenting on literally every other video I’ve watched for the past 2 years wtfffff!!!??

Your the fake

*_[ah, good to see you here. Greetings from Iceland]_*

its leviosahhh!

Lmao that’s like a majority of her content

Know-it-all....

Be careful with this spell. it has a side-effect of giving an untimely erection.

Debe de ser uno de los matrimonios más inusuales del mundo xd

@@florianbirnbaum6584 no tanto, yo soy español y estoy casado con una feroesa. Es más, una de mis hijas nació en Torshavn c:

@@juancristobalsanchezabreu98 Joeer, pues es un pueblo poco conocido... Allí haces un diccionario español-feroés y te forras xD

ajajajaj Was he drunk when he was ranting?

@shaka mata _ African pride So if people are living in worse realities than me, I'm supposed to be happy? That's just dumb. Everything must be judged within its own context. Which country has the highest suicides per capita? NORWAY!!

"I'm perfectly miserable!" I love this guy

That's because liberals like to correlate Marxist success with Scandinavia. It's a lie I dated a Women Sweden and learned slot about the depressive culture. Not demonizing them by what I said. I'm demonizing the soulless social politics and forced subversion of Scandinavian identity. She was a nutter and I'm crazy so that's saying something.

@@odinschild2239 We both know you're experiencing severe cognitive dissonance and projecting your depraved American politics onto European societies, and also just as likely made up your story to try and make your case. You're not fooling anyone pal

Mainly wide variety of hot and cold dishes in buffet originated from Sweden & became internationally known in NYC 1939 at world fair, sorry from Sweden js

@@isaacdarcy9827 But doesn't it just mean sandwich table?

@@nicolairvine6216 Not really hard to explain for me in english sorry 😅

@@nicolairvine6216 The direct translation is "sandwich table" but the meaning is what he wrote.

Smörgåsbord

Sam in the U.S. we use it a lot. Not knowing it was of Swedish origin mind you.

Smørrebrød, which he might have tried to say, is a national dish in Denmark. It's ryebread with different spreads. And Iceland has more history with Denmark than Sweden do, so it's likely he meant to say the danish word.

TeTea I hear you, but I’m saying as an English speaker, watching an English-speaking video, it’s more likely he used it with the English interpretation

Reason1717 yep me too, I’m Canadian/American as well

Sam Sanderson So you are correct. Smörgåsbord is exactly what you said: a buffet. It originated from the Grand Hotel in Stockholm and was featured at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York, at the Swedish hall’s “Three Crowns” restaurant. It’s generally known as a “cold table” in most Northern European countries. The original word comes from a popular Swedish open-faced sandwich called the Smörgäs (which basically means “buttered bread” or “butter goose”) and bord, which means table. These traditional sandwiches are a common food at holiday Smörgåsbords

Haha never said that! honestly I was not making fun of anyone! I know Icelandic is extremely hard 🙌🏻 I just thought it would be interesting for you guys to hear how some of those words are actually suppose to sound like

@@Hrafna You have great spelling of Iceland language ;P

@@Hrafnamate i was just joking, i know you aint making fun of noone and yes it is extremely insteresting for us (at least in my opinion) to hear how the words actually sound like. once again it was just a joke and keep doing those good videos

@@przemysawjozwiak144 of course she has, because she is from Iceland..

@@Hrafna try Slovene... We have active double...😂

He might have meant Smørrebrød which is a national dish in Denmark. Who knows :P

It kind of relates to the word for Sandwich in Swedish (smörgås), but yeah I know how he uses it. It sounded like she was making fun of him ;-;, but he was just speaking English.

The word is Smörgåsbord and it basically means “buffet”. It is not really a borrowed word, but rather a real Swedish word that some Americans use since the 1939 World’s Fair in New York.

or his school saw the writing on the wall...or a case of false memory, but I prefer the first

or TOO old

This hit me like a truck.. 8, when I was a kid there were 9.... ooooooh :(

I think it’s good that she says it but many countries have their own pronunciation for big cities because mostly it is difficult to pronounce it in the native language. I’m from Germany and English speaking people also don’t pronounce our biggest cities the German way 😊

@@jas1292 Yes, I agree that as non- native speaker it will be impossible to pronounce some if not most of the words correctly. But since she is a native speaker it's great that she can show us how those words actually sound. About German names, here in Israel, sticking to Israeli pronunciation, we call "Bayern" "Bavarya", but the famous soccer team we call "Bayern Minchen". People just don"t know that "Bavarya" IS Bayern, and it doesn't have to be this way. In some cases the names were altered so much that it's difficult to recognize the similarity between the two versions of the word. For example "München" and "Munich". The later one is so different when pronounced. Even saying "Munshen" instead would be less misleading

Joel Klein There’s a long history behind why cities are named as they are in different languages. It’s not always just a matter of adapting the sounds from one language to another, it can also be as a product of different sound change rules applying over history to what was originally the same word when languages split into new ones. There is no reason to make people change there pronunciation to the more closely match that in the language of the people who live there because it is not the people who live there that the word is for. Same as other languages have different words for ‘apple’ or ‘dog’, they have different words and pronunciations for places. For instance, Reykjavik is an English word pronounced in one way and Reykjavík is an Icelandic word with its own pronunciation. (Also this isn’t me coming at you specifically or anything, I just ended up kind of rambling).

@@jas1292 Most English speakers are either too lazy or too stupid to pronounce foreign words correctly. My first language is English, but I made the effort to pronounce both German and Icelandic correctly as I was learning them. The last thing I wanted to sound like was some backwoods bumpkin with a 1st grade education when I opened my mouth.

It's good to say how is pronounced, but you can't expect people from foreign countries to pronounce them exactly like the locals. It's impossible in some cases I've heard foreigners butcher place names in my country too, but I don't hold it against them.

You bring shame to our family

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@vinod sharma yes

It's definitely that. I've lived on and off in the Reykjavík area and when you first get there, you can definitely smell it. After a year or two, you can't. Then you move to the countryside for a year or two, move back to Reykjavík and you can smell it again. Rinse and repeat. And yeah, the smell isn't everywhere since not every place in Iceland has an easy access to geothermal water.

@@landkonnudur when I visited I stayed in Laugarás, close to Skálholt (the one where the church had it's seat) and you could definitely tell that the hot water is geothermal and is connected through different pipes. The cold water was one of the freshest and purest I ever tasted.

@@tammymammy1 Yes, I didn't say it was only in Reykjavík. Try travel in the west, north and east. The south is pretty geothermal.

The smell of White Sulphur is evident in SW Iceland's hot water. But this smell is pleasant, not the stinky fart smell of Yellow Sulphur. There is a big difference between White and Yellow Sulphur!

Doesn't it all smell like boiled eggs??

honestly i dont know how similar they are but my brother does rock climbing, and half the when hes not at work or rock climbing hes in his room, playing minecraft. or other games, but alot of minecraft. and hes sad.

Same!

The sulfur from the geothermal heat

true , but its not everywhere. Its usually in older parts of towns. In some places where I lived it was such a crazy smell that I thought I will vomit :D but in another place there was no smell..

Same here, I didn't enjoy the water smell out there :) On the other side I totally get that it's genes that makes people smell or not smell some stuff. For example some say hoya flowers smell bad, others find it pleasant.

The smell is sulfer . I lived in Iceland for four months it takes a while but you get used to it

I second this!

I mean that's by an Icelander tho so it's probably accurate

Oh yes please.

Actually when the Video was released Icelandic people got crazy about it 😅

I made a video about it, of myself singing that song actually

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Yes!! So happy I finally have the time to focus on making RU-vid videos ❤️ thank you for noticing!

I'm Russian and our R is rolling too, but Icelandic sounds more, I don't know, cute? Well, maybe partially because of Hrafna.

@@cjnf11 Hfafna is cute af so maybe that helps :D i have a fair few Russian customers and old work friends The central and eastern Europe languages do sound quite harsh :D

Russian Rs are flapped while Icelandic Rs are thrilled if I'm not mistaken. The difference is very ridiculously specific but it still can make this different feeling. Thrilled Rs are longer, they have lots of flaps, while flapped Rs are normally just one flap.

I've been trying to learn icelandic, I still cant roll my R's

@@stubby4000 You are not alone my friend....^^

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And weather ;)

Wouldn't be so sure

Used to before all the tourists.

Interesting! I guess we’re just so use to it that we can’t smell it at all! 😄

Never heard that word. (I'm an English speaker.)

Tom Peled The word came into the US lexicon via the 1939 World’s Fair, where it attracted lots of attention. If you’re from another English-speaking country you may not have heard of it.

The babys just take sometimes like a nap for like 24 minutes

A Smörgåsbord is Swedish for a cold buffet, which is itself a French term. Most Northern European countries call it a “cold table” in their own languages.

I think she didn't make the connection because although w and and the soft g have a similar quality to them, open and relaxed with a small interruption of the vowels, they have very different placements. One is done with the lips and the other with the tongue.