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TIL Iceland is extremely protective of their language, instead of loaning words from other languages they repurpose old ones, telephone is ‘simi’, meaning thread, jet plane is 'thota’, meaning to zoom and the word for computer, 'tölva’ translates to number priestess or numbers witch.

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