Icelandic

Icelandic
1. noun
A North Germanic language, the national tongue of Iceland.

Although its hard for us to imagine, they see the pixels in a raw, uninterpreted fashion, and thus to them a TV screen is as drained of long-ago-and-far-away meaning as is, to you or me, a pile of fall leaves, a Jackson Pollock painting, or a newspaper article in Malagasy (my apologies to you if you speak Malagasy; in that case, please replace it by Icelandic — and dont tell me that you speak that language, too!).

a) Of or relating to the North Germanic language spoken in Iceland.
b) Of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of Iceland.

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