Comment by phorese

> In Icelandic, a compass is a direction-shower, and a microscope a small-watcher.

I find this somehow very poignant :) What exactly does the author think "microscope" means? From Wikipedia:

> microscope (from the Ancient Greek: μικρός, mikrós, "small" and σκοπεῖν, skopeîn, "to look" or "see")