Thank you all for the wonderful help and rather
extensive language course. I don't want to sound rude
but can someone please tell me what most of that meant
in English?! I wasn't an english major by any means.
And I've yet to actually know two major things from
these messages; 1. What would I use to say Swiftaxe in
Icelandic as a byname? 2.How do I pronounce it?

You see I speak no other language but English and that
badly. I speak American which any will tell you is not
by any means a language of its own and a rip off of
nearly every other! I would like to learn to speak Old
Norse, of this I have no doubt. But I must learn from
the very beginning. Starting with the absolute basics.
It truly is unfair to start someone in the middle of a
language and expect them to know how the Spanish trill
their R! I am not trying to be disrepctful in the
least but I'm so lost now that I'm considering
changing my persona to an English man so I can say my
own name!

So can someone please help me with just a simple
spelling and BASIC pronounciation thereof of the name
Swiftaxe.
Sincerely,
Snaebjorn
--- "R.C. Zarco" <rczarco@...> wrote:

> Salutations,
>
> I would not enter in this discussion because I have
> some conceptions(in pronunciation matters) really
> different from the most of you.But,one little
> inference made me enter now in the question.So,let's
> go straight to the question:
>
> >"> Of these 2 is defensible, 3 and 3.2 are correct,
> >>I am not
> >>certain about 1 and 4 while 3.1 and 5 are
> >>definitely incorrect.
> >
> >5 is only incorrect because you've never tried it,
> >but wold otherwise be
> >correct as an assumption from English speakers
>
> When you say that "it's correct to the english
> speakers",you're defending a feeble point-of-view.
> All languages have a nomadic nature,but(how a
> delightful paradox!!!)they have some axioms that
> should be followed.So,how to solve this problem?Only
> assuming which all the "speaker beings" are capable
> to reach the hypothetic "herself" of other being
> that is a "natural speaker" of the language he is
> now trying to talk.
> Reaching this "state of mind",entering in the
> "herself" of a "natural speaker" of the language he
> is trying to use,ALL the natural conceptions of your
> hypothetic "birth-language" MUST be abandoned.This
> "abandon" it's a ineffaceable introduction to any
> effort in speak all languages not-natural to you.
> Of course someone might could say that,doing what
> was said above,all the singularity of the "being
> that is trying to speak another language than your
> own" it's lost.Certainly who say that has serious
> problems with his five wits.The singularity of the
> "speaker" isn't negated for his effort in follow the
> "languages rules" as any "natural speaker" of the
> language in question.This doesn't happens because
> all the combination,metric,rhythmics and contents of
> the words encountered in his message are really
> proper,express the unique and complete singularity
> of the speaker.
> Someone may could say too that "dead languages"
> don't have "living speakers" to we have absolute
> certainty how the pronunciation "essentially" works.
> In this case,the most prudent thing to do,it's
> follow what the majority accepts.The "majority
> acceptation" becomes the paradigm,the "metrics" that
> will give us the "proper space" to compose our
> "sonnet" with our own ideas,passions... singularity.
>
> My best regards,
>
> - R.C.Zarco
>
>
>
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