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The Basque-Icelandic Pidgin

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Re: The Basque-Icelandic Pidgin

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Post by jng »

I'm Basque, I'm a very long time HN regular, and I love linguistics related topics. So I'm keen to see this, but I still don't fully understand how this makes it to the front page :)

Re: The Basque-Icelandic Pidgin

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Post by sgt »

throw_away wrote: post #2

From the refs: Iceland revokes 400-year-old legal right in Westfjords district to kill Basques on sight https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/iceland-revo...

I wonder what would have happened if someone murdered a person before 2015 on Iceland who happened to be Basque (due to some other disagreement perhaps). Then in court, the accused would claim innocence due to the legal right that in fact was still in existence. Would he walk?

Re: The Basque-Icelandic Pidgin

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Post by sgt »

jng wrote: post #4

I'm Basque, I'm a very long time HN regular, and I love linguistics related topics. So I'm keen to see this, but I still don't fully understand how this makes it to the front page :)

Do you have disconcertingly long earlobes?

Re: The Basque-Icelandic Pidgin

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Post by sebmellen »

sgt wrote: post #6
jng wrote: post #4

I'm Basque, I'm a very long time HN regular, and I love linguistics related topics. So I'm keen to see this, but I still don't fully understand how this makes it to the front page :)

Do you have disconcertingly long earlobes?

Is this a Basque thing? I have significant Basque ancenstry and people have always pointed out how long my earlobes are.

Re: The Basque-Icelandic Pidgin

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Post by vruiz »

sgt wrote: post #5
throw_away wrote: post #2

From the refs: Iceland revokes 400-year-old legal right in Westfjords district to kill Basques on sight https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/iceland-revo...

I wonder what would have happened if someone murdered a person before 2015 on Iceland who happened to be Basque (due to some other disagreement perhaps). Then in court, the accused would claim innocence due to the legal right that in fact was still in existence. Would he walk?

It's in the article

>"The decision to do away with the decree was more symbolic than anything else," Westfjords district commissioner Jonas Gudmundsson told reporters last month. "We have laws, of course, and killing anyone — including Basques — is forbidden these days."

Re: The Basque-Icelandic Pidgin

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Post by vesinisa »

throw_away wrote: post #2

From the refs: Iceland revokes 400-year-old legal right in Westfjords district to kill Basques on sight https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/iceland-revo...

Holy s*it. As to why this had been decreed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaying_of_the_Spaniards

17th century Iceland during a famine year was a very, very bleak place.

Re: The Basque-Icelandic Pidgin

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Post by kebman »

throw_away wrote: post #2

From the refs: Iceland revokes 400-year-old legal right in Westfjords district to kill Basques on sight https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/iceland-revo...

Phew! Finally it's safe for Basques to visit Iceland again! :D Jokes aside, Iceland is a very interesting place, not just because of its incredible nature, but also its history and language, especially due to their very interesting and well preserved old texts, and also because they're so remote and insular. It's a treasure trove for etymologists and laypeople alike. It's also quite interesting to track the etymological differences between the nearby islets and countries, for instance on Faroe Islands. Personally I wonder about graph-driven language analysis, and it's a hobby project of mine to go deeper into that.
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