Greatest Expectations

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Takk fyrir síðast !

There is this very useful phrase in Icelandic, displayed as the subject of this entry and it basically means "Thanks for last time". The reason I put it there is twofold, both because I havn't blogged in a while but mostly because I heard it alot when I came to school today.
To describe the phrase I think I first need to describe Icelanders a bit :) We are usually a bit closed or cold even towards people we don't know, well at least when we are sober. But when we get drunk we are so your best friend. I think you can see where this is going, ok, so I got drunk on friday with alot of people from school, talked to alot of people that I never talked to before and really had so much fun. So upon coming to school there were alot of "Takk fyrir síðast", which is sort of a single phrase that encapsulates so many meanings. It can sort of open up discussion on gossip from that evening or basically just a way of saying you enjoyed it or to reconfirm that you know each other better than before.
It's just one of those phrases filled with meaning, it means everything from "remember last time" to "thank you for the invitation, your party was awsome" to "omg you were so drunk and I witnessed it", and you can just take a pick on meaning for the "takk fyrir síðast" I got today :)