I’m Norwegian, and I really struggled when learning English in school, but then I started watching UA-cam, and realized that actual English speakers just bs every sentence so much that most of them don’t even make sense, and that’s a rule I’ve never forgotten.
@@jonathanmangum4347Some people are just better or worse at learning languages than others. I'm also Norwegian, but never had much problem learning English. In fact, my English grades were better than my Norwegian grades.
My english teacher used to have a poster that read sm like "I before E, except when your foreign neighbour Keith received eight counterfeit sleighs from feisty caffeinated weightlifters. Weird."
4:27 my English teacher in 7th grade had a board that said “I before E except after C unless…” then it formed a whole sentence of words that break that rule
A group of scientists went to their neighbor to get help for a weird science project where they destroy an otherworldly being by triggering a seizure. Later, they received a celebratory dinner, high in protein, as a reward for their actions.
@@cool_guy87 Hard to tell if the person did it for the bit or actually struggles with such a simple lesson. As someone who speaks many languages, it's somewhat baffling
Back in high school over here in Germany we had to learn a poem called “The Chaos” Here’s a short part of it, the whole thing is much longer Dearest creature in creation Studying English pronunciation, I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse. I will keep you, Susy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy; Tear in eye, your dress you'll tear; Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer. Pray, console your loving poet, Make my coat look new, dear, sew it! Just compare heart, hear and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word. Sword and sward, retain and Britain (Mind the latter how it's written). Made has not the sound of bade, Say-said, pay-paid, laid but plaid. Now I surely will not plague you With such words as vague and ague, But be careful how you speak, Say: gush, bush, steak, streak, break, bleak , Previous, precious, fuchsia, via Recipe, pipe, studding-sail, choir; Woven, oven, how and low, Script, receipt, shoe, poem, toe. Say, expecting fraud and trickery: Daughter, laughter and Terpsichore, Branch, ranch, measles, topsails, aisles, Missiles, similes, reviles. Don't you think so, reader, rather, Saying lather, bather, father? Finally, which rhymes with enough, Though, through, bough, cough, hough, sough, tough?? Hiccough has the sound of sup... My advice is: GIVE IT UP!
yeeeesh, that a lot of similar sounding words. I think that I had a stroke whilst trying to understand why so many of 'em look similar, but sound different. As for the@@irreleventperson , don't worry about him, he's just stupid. Bet he didn't even get halfway through the poem before his ADHD brain told him to write THE most nonsensical of all UA-cam comments ever! Btw @irreleventperson , you made a ridiculously large amount of grammar mistakes that could've been easily avoided if you weren't trying to sound like a smart ass, so here let me fix it for ya. (words that were changed are put between " "
My third grade teacher always said that you shouldn’t start a sentence with “and” or “but” because only very good writers know how to use them properly at the start of a sentence, and 8-year-old me took that as a personal challenge
I'm impressed they came up with a reason. My teachers were full deontological with it. The god of words commands that you never begin a sentence with coordinating conjunctions - and always use the Oxford comma.
I can honestly say that only a few of my English teachers actually cared at all about writing. They would tell you all kinds of BS and unilaterally enforce these arbitrary, thoughtless policies. They don't respect genuine curiosity and to me it was obvious. That's how I learned to filter... ...learn when to check out and complete the motions. The few I had that showed any outward vim for the craft really seemed to love me. I got high marks from them. And I broke form quite an often. Both my 5th grade and 11th grade literature teachers would gush to my parents about my writing for their classes. The 11th grade one used pieces of mine to show the top bar for what her curriculum is meant to teach them. I always jammed out any writing assignment where you are presented with a relatively open-ended prompt with a gathered response. Analyzing creative works creatively is just plain fun to me. 'wanna know a secret? You can bend the rules of form any time you want, provided you can justify it -- usually by what or how it expresses the idea, within the context you are choosing to use it in (where the abberation sits in your "big picture.") It's a bit like swearing. You can use the forbidden grammar and phrasing to great effect... ...an effect that is arguably unique to them. The main drawback to swear words precipitously trickles down a spectrum where it is either tacky, tactless, or utterly unapproachable. You can't do it just 'cause you wanna. The break has to be clean enough that the pieces mesh like the individual boards in a fine hardwood cutting board. You can do anything you want, so long as it effectively conveys the right thing at the right time, to the right audience.
As a non-native speaker, I hate the word "bicycle" with a burning passion. Every time I feel stupid, because I have to mentally pronounce it as "бисусле" (bee-soos-leh).
The second/third syllable isn’t even pronounced like cycle, it’s pronounced like sickle! Then to make matters worse, we then shorten it to “bike”, transposing the second c, pronounced like k, to the first c’s position. I’ve heard Russian is bonkers difficult, with all the noun cases and declensions, but at least there are rules and it’s phonetic.
Today I learned nonplussed is supposed to mean confused. I have always used it to mean something like "not impressed, underwhelmed, and maybe vaguely annoyed about it."
The 'starting sentences with conjunctions' thing always pissed me off since I was a little kid. My school always had worksheets that had "Why..." Questions, and I instinctively always started it with "Because..." But my teacher constantly got on me for doing that, and insisted, I restate the question BEFORE writing "Because..." Doesn't sound like a big deal until you realize we were given all of 2 lines to answer the question, so inevitably I always ran out of room because I had to dedicate space to restating the question for no damn reason!
oh my god you unlocked a forgotten memory. Getting into fight with my favourite teacher, and the entire class watching in awe, because I was that "smart kid".
Ya cuz it takes time which one could save without typing it as a “full” sentence. Like that reminded me how teachers would instantly cut you off once you started with because 😅
My english teacher made us do the same. But since I am foreign I always assumed it was meant to make us repeat and remember the language better. The same reason why she didn't want us to write simply yes/no answers. It wasn't about the answer, but making a proper sentence..
Fridge is more a case of a name brand replacing a product name. Like jell-o or kleenex instead of gelatin or tissue. Fridge being short for Frigidaire @@JS-rv3et
Well technically speaking no matter can remain of a person and they steal the person, all their cells can die and be replaced, all their teeth can be pulled, and still be the same person. It's not your memories, those can change, if the person then you would be different imposters throughout your life. Countless occasions, arguably multiple times every day. It can't be consciousness, it goes away when you're asleep, and based on my deduction only one thing remains. Perception, the act or action of perceiving. When you're asleep you can proceed, but the consciousness is not aware. And even if you argue that you are the some of your parts, every cell can perceive. If you ask most scientists if the point of nerve is to perceive stuff, they probably say "yes". Skin can adapt, and the stuff that interacts with the physical world is dead, you're covered in billions of a flattened and stretched out corpses that line your exterior. Your bones can get stronger as a result of being strained, same thing with the muscles - the immune system would almost entirely be useless if it could not perceive. Imagine the white blood cell just doesn't know that it's rubbing against a bunch of flu, and does nothing. And before you say that your teeth can't perceive, there's nerves inside of the teeth, and there's living cells in between the enamel and the nerves. Sometimes if there's a blockage in your veins, and it doesn't kill you. an entire additional vein will form, going around the blockage. Even your veins can perceive - including your organ. When searches are done fixing the problem in your body or whatever, they don't bother rearranging your guts. They started just stuff them in there, and then the organs realign themselves. Also tendons and ligaments can become longer, and Bones will straight up get longer if they're broken and there's a gap - because a parent leave the body prefers to make the bone bigger, rather than pull together whatever's left and fuse the pieces back together. And here's a little something that you can think about. If you have a boat, heck maybe a pc. And one of the pieces aren't doing so hot, so you replace it. That still the same ship or PC right? One new hard drive doesn't make a new pc, when you plank doesn't constitute a new ship. But if you replace all of the PC or the ship. New motherboard, new hard drive, new sticks of ram, new wireless new heat sink and water cooling, new fan, the whole shebang. But what about a ship? You replace the mask, the sales, the rudder, every plank replace the lanterns that are hung up to give it light because apparently this is a pirate ship from 1649 on May 12th at 6:14 p.m or something. You replace the cruise quarters, the pieces to the cabin, you replace the ropes holding it together you replace the nails in the brackets, every single part. Is that still your ship? Is that still your pc? What if you've just been putting the pieces into a dumpster, and some homeless guy decided it would be a good idea to rebuild it from your still usable but not top quality parts? Which one is your pc, the one reassembled from the remains of your replacements, or the amalgamation of replacement parts? Which ship is yours, the one you're selling, or the resurrected zombie Frankenstein's together with glue or something? Yeah obviously it's the one the homeless man rebuilt right, right? For the sake of argument let's say it is, and you apply this to the human body. Which is the case. You are merely the latest in a line of slightly different copies, of the same thing, unaware of when you will stop impostering and when the new imposter will take its place. Something getting through a life you didn't start, a bunch of cells taking the place of other cells. Put on a journey without their consent, started without the consent of anyone involved, and a journey you might be able to hand off to another group of cells that had no consent, and didn't sign up for this? Or are you just perception, a non-physical concept, a construct of action, amir byproduct of matter that allows every living thing as we know it's too exist and continue existing? Yeah that wasn't really part of for the thing I hate you to think about, I had a half decent seguing to tying it back to the original premise, and giving you another source of existential dread. Good luck sleeping knowing that you're either an imposter, continuing something without their consent, that was started without the practitioners consent - or you are a non-physical by-product, likely never intended to exist in the first place, arguably not even real. Certainly tell people say stories aren't real, even though they have meaning, they can be categorized, you can read them, know of them, perceive them - or how people say video games aren't real even though they do exist. Sleep tight
“Definitely” makes complete sense as I look at it as a form of “definition” or “define”, as in the subject you are agreeing or confirming is to the definition
This video was hilarious. I think your writing has gotten so good it feels so unique and “like you”. Every pause and joke you made really hit its note feels like you’re in your element this was a great one
I’ve been saying since I was in middle school that the letter C has absolutely no reason to exist because every sound it makes is capable of being made by another letter like K or S. the only thing is contributes is the hard CH sounds like in “church” but if GH and PH can sound like F why can’t KH sound like CH
It removes ambiguity. Without it, “rice” and “rise” would be spelled the same even though the c/s is pronounced differently. -ce tends to be pronounced like the s in “see” while -se is often pronounced like a “z”.
I before E except after C, and when sounding like A as in neighbor and weigh, and on weekends and holidays, and all throughout May, and you’ll never be right *no matter what you say*
This thought always enters my mind with my kids. 😅🤣 But the wonder in their face reminds me that they're discovering it for the first time. It may seem easy or silly to you, but to them, it's the first time they've ever done it and they want to show it to you. Feel honored that they want to share the coolest things they've ever done/seen with you. 💖
I can NEVER spell immediately I have to auto correct every. SINGLE TIMEEEE and sometimes I spell it so wrong that auto correct doesn't even know what I'm trying to say and I have to use the voice thingy
Idk if it can help, but since you can't write immediately, well... immediately, i'd stay the double m make you stumble/slow you down ? Like, "that word makes no sense to me, so of course it couldn't be shorter and more immediate" or something
6:50 Something that can help if it’s spelled so badly (if alone) is to either say the word or the sentence either to phone search assistants or microphone search in the keyboard for settings (it helped me a lot because I can’t spell well either)
my spelling test paraphanillia = paraphernalia liquify (probably because of the liquify tool in design/art programs is why I know) = btw both are acceptable spellings aquiesse = acquiesce (i feel like this spelling is intentionally bad so people question sanity) aquiresce would’ve been better because (aquire+esc+e) buerrocraticy, beraucraticy, burocratici = bureaucracy (send help, I couldn’t continue)
My parents were very strict with learning proper grammar when I grew up, so here's a list that nobody will read, but I'm writing anyway because it will make me feel better. 0:56 It's pronounced Keltic when you're talking about the language, Seltic when you're talking about the team. 1:17 I'm learning twelve languages, and the ones I hate the most (besides English) Chinese (messed up pronunciation and too many characters), Arabic (too many characters), Hindi (too many characters), and Japanese (too many characters). My favorite ones are Russian (very simple sentence structure), French (consistent pronunciation rules), and German (you get to smash together words to make new ones). 1:47 I hate this so much because it doesn't take that much effort to learn it's (it is) versus its (belonging to it), your (belonging to you) versus you're (you are), their (belonging to them) versus there (referring to a place) versus they're (they are), and the difference between literally and figuratively. Just learning those things would fix 90% of grammar mistakes on the internet. 2:19 If you're using he, you can replace it with who, if you're using him, you can replace it with whom. For example, "He is rooting for him" can be changed to "Who is rooting for whom?" 6:46 Just look up the word and write it down correctly over and over. That's a super easy way to memorize the spelling of any word. 9:16 Here are my attempts: paraphernalia (Latin and Greek origin), liquify (French), aqcuiesce (Latin), bereaucracy (French), pterodactyl (Greek), handkerchief (French)
@yoonisverse "to" is position or possession, and "too" is addition (and two is the number, but that one is less common to see in the mix) so you go from one place *to* another, and someone else was there *too.* Or, you want *to* travel, but right now gas is *too* expensive. (first "to" is "travel" -> "you want," second "too" is "extra/more of;" the price of gas, or the additional person.) I hope any of that made sense, I'm not a teacher or even that good at expressing myself usually lol
@@gemmietime I'll be totally honest, I don't remember what an indirect object is grammatically XD it's been a *hot* minute since I actually studied English (and yes, it's the only language I speak)
I said fuck French when they decided to say YES by saying WEE and spelt it OUI. Russian and German SOUND sooo much better to. Have a cute German girl whisper you to sleep or a badass Russian lass bark command on a battlefield and your feel Like you can deck superman. Red army probably had such high moral because their sexy women cheered em on.
My attempts to play along with the "Guess that Obscene Spelling" Section as a native English speaker: parafinalia : liquify : And I literally googled the actual spelling after Big Tugg presented it because I refused to believe it that hard. aquees : Knew 100% that that was wrong but it's exactly as he says, it's a word you know there's some funky shizz going on with and it's really not worth the effort trying to figure it out because I never ever will. bureacuracy : Pretty darn close, I thought I actually got one right for a second there but I mixed up the order of c and u handkerchief : I didn't get a chance to pause the vid for this one but I would have gotten it right because I had to write this word a lot not too long ago and grappled with it's strange spelling then but I totally agree. It's one of those words that once I learned the spelling of it I suddenly second guessed the way I've been pronouncing it all my life but I said it right.
@@user_3460 You wizard! Why can you spell acquiesce, where have you learned such ancient spells? Though I'm glad we agree on liquify and bureacuracy. Good to know the wizard is on my side at least.
@@BirdBean_ Lol, it's nothing. Although my school teaches English and I used to have tuition for Cambridge English, I mainly learned English through exposure (I am very whitewashed), and I've just seen the word "acquiesce" a bunch of times already.
The one edit to the I before E rule I’ve heard was from Brian Regan and it was “I before E, except after C, and when sounding like A, as in Neighbor and Weigh” and honestly that almost fixes it
Living in New Orleans, I will say that you get use to the eau/eaux making an “O” sound. There’s a supermarket here called Breaux Mart and it’s pronounced Bro Mart lol
I have 2 nieces and 7 nephews. I only still talk to 1 of them on rare occasions, like 2 years ago he joined the Air Force and I texted him, "Good luck". Never heard any of them ever say anything that was worth listening to.
As someone who learned English as a second language in school I can tell you that 1 English is far more easy to learn then like French And 2 that English is still fu ing confusing and without english autocorrect I would literally die 😭 Also love ur videos and the really relatable rant
I passed every single spelling test in third grade because I wrote the words in pencil on the desk and covered them with my arm while the teacher was looking. No regerts.
3:28 this one pissed me off the most, because it felt so natural to me, and when I got to college, I went through pains to keep that up until I was told that’s not a thing😔 also apparently I can’t not write in passive voice and that’s an issue so fuck me
@@anvarjonmirzaliyev5147 ig but they are so annoying to be around , and any kindergardner actually managing should get a raise for their herkulean task of just having the thickest ever nerves
in 7th grade i missed a ton of school from health issues and needed tutors to catch me up, and for English i got this older teacher from a different school to tutor me. i needed help w the grammar we were learning which was like gerunds, participles, infinitives and other stuff (no i dont know what the fuck that means) and the tutor didnt even know what the fuck they were 😭 im half certain my english teacher js pulled them out of his ass to make our lives a little less enjoyable
A gerund is a verb that is used as a noun. For example: "I love swimming." In this sentence, "swimming" refers to the concept/idea/activity of swimming, rather than the action itself, making it act like a noun (love is the verb). Infinitives are basically the base form of a word preceded by the word "to". Participles are similar to gerunds but instead of acting as a noun, it can act as an adjective. It is also used in certain tenses like perfect tenses. Hope this helped 👍🏻
@@GabbaDabbaDoo That feels like my friend group with our Cambridge English exam, they usually just go off feeling and consult me regarding grammatical terminology minutes beforhand because I remember some of them (another one of my friends is also really good at grammar but he sucks at explaining stuff 💀)
You got very unlucky at the time when you were sick for 7th grade. I got sick in kindergarten and my parents wanted me to repeat it so I wouldn't be behind in life.(Though I got my dad brains for math.)
Reading was fun in elementary school, then came middle school and they destroyed my love for it. And now, English is my least favorite school subject. Thankfully, in my freshman year, I had this teacher named Mr. Poe who NEVER assigned homework and the most we ever wrote was a paragraph or two. He actually made English fun in high school. Then, last semester this junior year, I had a teacher who assigned book reading. Not a book you read together in class, but a book you read by yourself. If it wasn’t obvious, I did not read them and when she said there was going to be a test, I was expecting a multiple choice test so I started to read some chapters and then, when it came to the test, it was an ESSAY test. So yeah, that’s what English class was like for me. Hopefully, I get Mr. Poe in my senior year.
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The c in celtic is a hard c so it spunds like keltic but when talking about sports than yes it sounds like seltic
don't mind me
We have signed the petition to get Abby more screen time on the mean comments video plz more abby
One word: "Whermst"
Well, it's not BetterHelp. So that's a plus
English is like that one cousin where the larger family has absolutely no idea who the real dad is
oh this was the LOST video from the other day eh
It's a chimera of all of em
the real dad is all of them and none of them
This might be the most American description of English ever
Lmao-
0:10 one time my little sibling came up to me and said “did you know that it looks like you can touch the moon but you actually can’t?”
I know this is a comedy video, but that's such a strangely beautiful thing to say.
If a dead victorian said that it's called poetry.
depending on how old they are that's adorable
If they're under four they are possessed
@@HungerGamesFan88
kinda poetic tho ngl
I’m Norwegian, and I really struggled when learning English in school, but then I started watching UA-cam, and realized that actual English speakers just bs every sentence so much that most of them don’t even make sense, and that’s a rule I’ve never forgotten.
Yeah, we pretty much bs everything tbh.
Funny because I thought Norwegian was pretty simple to learn for me as a native English speaker. Probably because our grammar is pretty similar.
@@jonathanmangum4347Some people are just better or worse at learning languages than others.
I'm also Norwegian, but never had much problem learning English.
In fact, my English grades were better than my Norwegian grades.
I am sorry for you
As an English speaker that is very true. We just wing it 😭✌️ them old fucks who made the language probably had no clue too.
I asked so much about why I couldn’t start with “and” or “because” in third grade that my teacher told me that it was illegal. I never forgot that.
Lock him up
Because it's illegal
My english teacher used to have a poster that read sm like "I before E, except when your foreign neighbour Keith received eight counterfeit sleighs from feisty caffeinated weightlifters. Weird."
My boyfriend's first language is Spanish. the poor guy gets so confused and asks why, and I can't even help because no one really knows why 💀💀
tell him it's because french
“because fk you that’s why” - english
@@HungerGamesFan88if it isn't French, it's German xD
Ewwww you’re gay. And I even spelled you’re right :)
It's both and also a little of spanish/latin @@aazhie
we need more UA-camrs that display the gradual depletion of their sanity in their videos
If you're looking for more, The Theorizer is a pretty good/concerning one
@@Sly-Moose ima go check it out thx lol
Daniel Thrasher is a great one.
I think super eypatch wolf counts but maybe not you should still watch his vids
Jreg is also one, very ironic (not)
“I hate children”. That’s all I heard and I know this will be amazing.
Edit: Jesus I didn’t mean to start a war.
Same here. My response was immediately “Same”
same lmao
Real
Y’all need therapy
@@chaosbeam4654 womp womp it doesn't help and kids still suck
4:27 my English teacher in 7th grade had a board that said “I before E except after C unless…” then it formed a whole sentence of words that break that rule
A group of scientists went to their neighbor to get help for a weird science project where they destroy an otherworldly being by triggering a seizure.
Later, they received a celebratory dinner, high in protein, as a reward for their actions.
@@TYoshisaurMunchakoopasi feel like you could also fit seizure somewhere in there as well
@@guyonyt999 Will do.
@@TYoshisaurMunchakoopas thank you
weird. thats really WEIRD
"If you're friend calls you out for misusing your and you're, call them a smelly dork."
Tucker in his video reading mean comments: 👁️ 👄 👁️
your*
@@cool_guy87 Hard to tell if the person did it for the bit or actually struggles with such a simple lesson. As someone who speaks many languages, it's somewhat baffling
Back in high school over here in Germany we had to learn a poem called “The Chaos”
Here’s a short part of it, the whole thing is much longer
Dearest creature in creation
Studying English pronunciation,
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.
I will keep you, Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy;
Tear in eye, your dress you'll tear;
Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.
Pray, console your loving poet,
Make my coat look new, dear, sew it!
Just compare heart, hear and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word.
Sword and sward, retain and Britain
(Mind the latter how it's written).
Made has not the sound of bade,
Say-said, pay-paid, laid but plaid.
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as vague and ague,
But be careful how you speak,
Say: gush, bush, steak, streak, break, bleak ,
Previous, precious, fuchsia, via
Recipe, pipe, studding-sail, choir;
Woven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, shoe, poem, toe.
Say, expecting fraud and trickery:
Daughter, laughter and Terpsichore,
Branch, ranch, measles, topsails, aisles,
Missiles, similes, reviles.
Don't you think so, reader, rather,
Saying lather, bather, father?
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, bough, cough, hough, sough, tough??
Hiccough has the sound of sup...
My advice is: GIVE IT UP!
I’m not sure if they’re confused about how it’s actually pronounced, or if it’s satire
Either way, it definitely shows how weird english is lol
@@irreleventperson my dude why are you so salty? Sounds a lot like you're projecting.
This is so painful oh my god. I hate English so much more. Of course a German broke it down lol
yeeeesh, that a lot of similar sounding words. I think that I had a stroke whilst trying to understand why so many of 'em look similar, but sound different. As for the@@irreleventperson , don't worry about him, he's just stupid. Bet he didn't even get halfway through the poem before his ADHD brain told him to write THE most nonsensical of all UA-cam comments ever!
Btw @irreleventperson , you made a ridiculously large amount of grammar mistakes that could've been easily avoided if you weren't trying to sound like a smart ass, so here let me fix it for ya. (words that were changed are put between " "
@@irreleventpersonwho hurt you
My third grade teacher always said that you shouldn’t start a sentence with “and” or “but” because only very good writers know how to use them properly at the start of a sentence, and 8-year-old me took that as a personal challenge
My childhood rule was "follow the rules at least once. I have been very inconsistent with it.
i still feel like i commit a grammatical sin when i start a sentence with and or but
I'm impressed they came up with a reason. My teachers were full deontological with it. The god of words commands that you never begin a sentence with coordinating conjunctions - and always use the Oxford comma.
Mine does too but those two are always the ones I wanna use
I can honestly say that only a few of my English teachers actually cared at all about writing. They would tell you all kinds of BS and unilaterally enforce these arbitrary, thoughtless policies. They don't respect genuine curiosity and to me it was obvious.
That's how I learned to filter... ...learn when to check out and complete the motions. The few I had that showed any outward vim for the craft really seemed to love me. I got high marks from them. And I broke form quite an often. Both my 5th grade and 11th grade literature teachers would gush to my parents about my writing for their classes. The 11th grade one used pieces of mine to show the top bar for what her curriculum is meant to teach them.
I always jammed out any writing assignment where you are presented with a relatively open-ended prompt with a gathered response. Analyzing creative works creatively is just plain fun to me.
'wanna know a secret? You can bend the rules of form any time you want, provided you can justify it -- usually by what or how it expresses the idea, within the context you are choosing to use it in (where the abberation sits in your "big picture.")
It's a bit like swearing. You can use the forbidden grammar and phrasing to great effect... ...an effect that is arguably unique to them. The main drawback to swear words precipitously trickles down a spectrum where it is either tacky, tactless, or utterly unapproachable.
You can't do it just 'cause you wanna. The break has to be clean enough that the pieces mesh like the individual boards in a fine hardwood cutting board. You can do anything you want, so long as it effectively conveys the right thing at the right time, to the right audience.
As a non-native speaker, I hate the word "bicycle" with a burning passion. Every time I feel stupid, because I have to mentally pronounce it as "бисусле" (bee-soos-leh).
The second/third syllable isn’t even pronounced like cycle, it’s pronounced like sickle! Then to make matters worse, we then shorten it to “bike”, transposing the second c, pronounced like k, to the first c’s position.
I’ve heard Russian is bonkers difficult, with all the noun cases and declensions, but at least there are rules and it’s phonetic.
@@thehousecat93it's "bicycle" because it cycles 2 wheels, but yeah, thats not how it should be pronounced
А я бикукле……….
I feel your pain bud
Genius!
Today I learned nonplussed is supposed to mean confused. I have always used it to mean something like "not impressed, underwhelmed, and maybe vaguely annoyed about it."
For me it was always unbothered or not stressed, I guess the point about it meaning anything you want it to mean is true
I thought it meant shocked or surprised, but the only time I ever saw the word was in Harriet the Spy and I don’t think she knew what it meant either
I'm from Iran and learned English just from UA-cam and didn't know grammar and spelling but now I know 1% of them now
The 'starting sentences with conjunctions' thing always pissed me off since I was a little kid.
My school always had worksheets that had "Why..." Questions, and I instinctively always started it with "Because..."
But my teacher constantly got on me for doing that, and insisted, I restate the question BEFORE writing "Because..."
Doesn't sound like a big deal until you realize we were given all of 2 lines to answer the question, so inevitably I always ran out of room because I had to dedicate space to restating the question for no damn reason!
No comma after "insisted". Ironic, I know.
Kinda like ending sentences with prepositions. I see and hear so many sentences like “where are you at?” All the time!
oh my god you unlocked a forgotten memory. Getting into fight with my favourite teacher, and the entire class watching in awe, because I was that "smart kid".
Ya cuz it takes time which one could save without typing it as a “full” sentence. Like that reminded me how teachers would instantly cut you off once you started with because 😅
My english teacher made us do the same. But since I am foreign I always assumed it was meant to make us repeat and remember the language better. The same reason why she didn't want us to write simply yes/no answers. It wasn't about the answer, but making a proper sentence..
Wait till Tucker finds out about fridge and refrigerator
Refrigerator is the real name fridge is a regional choice.
Also ice box or Chester drawers.
Or chest of drawers
@@JS-rv3et but refrigerator has no D
@@SuperTurtle0good point
another one that upsets me is forty vs four and fourth. like WHY?
Fridge is more a case of a name brand replacing a product name. Like jell-o or kleenex instead of gelatin or tissue. Fridge being short for Frigidaire @@JS-rv3et
Love my weekly existential crisis! Nothing is real, we are all meat suits with a little bit of electricity
Isn't that the truth ✨
We are just a brain trapped in a skeleton whitch is trapped in skin
Well technically speaking no matter can remain of a person and they steal the person, all their cells can die and be replaced, all their teeth can be pulled, and still be the same person. It's not your memories, those can change, if the person then you would be different imposters throughout your life. Countless occasions, arguably multiple times every day. It can't be consciousness, it goes away when you're asleep, and based on my deduction only one thing remains. Perception, the act or action of perceiving. When you're asleep you can proceed, but the consciousness is not aware. And even if you argue that you are the some of your parts, every cell can perceive. If you ask most scientists if the point of nerve is to perceive stuff, they probably say "yes". Skin can adapt, and the stuff that interacts with the physical world is dead, you're covered in billions of a flattened and stretched out corpses that line your exterior. Your bones can get stronger as a result of being strained, same thing with the muscles - the immune system would almost entirely be useless if it could not perceive. Imagine the white blood cell just doesn't know that it's rubbing against a bunch of flu, and does nothing. And before you say that your teeth can't perceive, there's nerves inside of the teeth, and there's living cells in between the enamel and the nerves. Sometimes if there's a blockage in your veins, and it doesn't kill you. an entire additional vein will form, going around the blockage. Even your veins can perceive - including your organ. When searches are done fixing the problem in your body or whatever, they don't bother rearranging your guts. They started just stuff them in there, and then the organs realign themselves. Also tendons and ligaments can become longer, and Bones will straight up get longer if they're broken and there's a gap - because a parent leave the body prefers to make the bone bigger, rather than pull together whatever's left and fuse the pieces back together. And here's a little something that you can think about. If you have a boat, heck maybe a pc. And one of the pieces aren't doing so hot, so you replace it. That still the same ship or PC right? One new hard drive doesn't make a new pc, when you plank doesn't constitute a new ship. But if you replace all of the PC or the ship. New motherboard, new hard drive, new sticks of ram, new wireless new heat sink and water cooling, new fan, the whole shebang. But what about a ship? You replace the mask, the sales, the rudder, every plank replace the lanterns that are hung up to give it light because apparently this is a pirate ship from 1649 on May 12th at 6:14 p.m or something. You replace the cruise quarters, the pieces to the cabin, you replace the ropes holding it together you replace the nails in the brackets, every single part. Is that still your ship? Is that still your pc? What if you've just been putting the pieces into a dumpster, and some homeless guy decided it would be a good idea to rebuild it from your still usable but not top quality parts? Which one is your pc, the one reassembled from the remains of your replacements, or the amalgamation of replacement parts? Which ship is yours, the one you're selling, or the resurrected zombie Frankenstein's together with glue or something? Yeah obviously it's the one the homeless man rebuilt right, right? For the sake of argument let's say it is, and you apply this to the human body. Which is the case. You are merely the latest in a line of slightly different copies, of the same thing, unaware of when you will stop impostering and when the new imposter will take its place. Something getting through a life you didn't start, a bunch of cells taking the place of other cells. Put on a journey without their consent, started without the consent of anyone involved, and a journey you might be able to hand off to another group of cells that had no consent, and didn't sign up for this? Or are you just perception, a non-physical concept, a construct of action, amir byproduct of matter that allows every living thing as we know it's too exist and continue existing? Yeah that wasn't really part of for the thing I hate you to think about, I had a half decent seguing to tying it back to the original premise, and giving you another source of existential dread. Good luck sleeping knowing that you're either an imposter, continuing something without their consent, that was started without the practitioners consent - or you are a non-physical by-product, likely never intended to exist in the first place, arguably not even real. Certainly tell people say stories aren't real, even though they have meaning, they can be categorized, you can read them, know of them, perceive them - or how people say video games aren't real even though they do exist. Sleep tight
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@@number-14nobody cares btw
The fact the UA-cam auto-captions still got the spelling of most of the words at the end is sending me
“Definitely” makes complete sense as I look at it as a form of “definition” or “define”, as in the subject you are agreeing or confirming is to the definition
"By whom were the dogs let out?"
Sorry for my bad English, I'm not a native speaker.
@@pawer122 You’re better than this guy. 😂
Just finished giving myself a small tug, now a big tugg? Best Saturday of my life
😂 😂 😂 Punny
Ayo?
can you give me a small tug next UwU
It's always the comments about the tugg in his name that, embarrassingly, crack me up 💀
Wtf
My little sister once spelled "trips" c.h.r.i.p.s. and that made so much sense I haven't been the same since.
Does se wear blue bandanas aswell?
My sister once spelled “nature” like “natchure”
This video was hilarious. I think your writing has gotten so good it feels so unique and “like you”. Every pause and joke you made really hit its note feels like you’re in your element this was a great one
Tucker: Nobody cares if you use the wrong your
Also Tucker last video: They used your easy dub
“Nothing means anything and everything’s a shit show” -Big Tuggard III
"I already filmed this whole fucking video!" Felt that in my soul 😂😂
I’ve been saying since I was in middle school that the letter C has absolutely no reason to exist because every sound it makes is capable of being made by another letter like K or S. the only thing is contributes is the hard CH sounds like in “church” but if GH and PH can sound like F why can’t KH sound like CH
C should just be the ch sound. It has no other use.
oui oui monsieur fromage je suis une baguette
@@jontyjoyce4816 yes yes sir cheese I am a baguette
So real @@jontyjoyce4816
It removes ambiguity. Without it, “rice” and “rise” would be spelled the same even though the c/s is pronounced differently. -ce tends to be pronounced like the s in “see” while -se is often pronounced like a “z”.
9:15 tug I don’t know how u didn’t see the gnome come in and unzip your fly. I saw him take a peak in there, bud!
thank you again, Tucker for tuggin it on camera for everyone to enjoy on Saturdays
Goddamn what a way to open the video.
I before E except after C, and when sounding like A as in neighbor and weigh, and on weekends and holidays, and all throughout May, and you’ll never be right *no matter what you say*
Amazing video but Tucker absolutely FUMBLED by not putting colonel in the “guess that obscene spelling” segment
This thought always enters my mind with my kids. 😅🤣 But the wonder in their face reminds me that they're discovering it for the first time. It may seem easy or silly to you, but to them, it's the first time they've ever done it and they want to show it to you. Feel honored that they want to share the coolest things they've ever done/seen with you. 💖
He said something about people who correct which “your” you use in a sentence being dorks, but I have a screenshot of him doing that.
I was just thinking the same thing. 😆
Also, that one's at least because of English, not Greek.
@@GeorgeDCowleyI’m lost with this one
I can NEVER spell immediately I have to auto correct every. SINGLE TIMEEEE and sometimes I spell it so wrong that auto correct doesn't even know what I'm trying to say and I have to use the voice thingy
Idk if it can help, but since you can't write immediately, well... immediately, i'd stay the double m make you stumble/slow you down ? Like, "that word makes no sense to me, so of course it couldn't be shorter and more immediate" or something
Same, that and necessary..
I - T
"Apparently" is also a word that I sometimes forget how to spell.
Focus on the middle word -> "Mediate", then add "im" in front and "ly" at the end.
his fly is almost always down in a video and hes finding this now HES GAINING SENTIENCE HELP!!!!
I thought I only noticed
why you lookin 🤨
@@DinosarDaniel cuz why not
I love that (almost) all words in the guessing segment are of french origin lol
6:50 Something that can help if it’s spelled so badly (if alone) is to either say the word or the sentence either to phone search assistants or microphone search in the keyboard for settings (it helped me a lot because I can’t spell well either)
my spelling test
paraphanillia = paraphernalia
liquify (probably because of the liquify tool in design/art programs is why I know) = btw both are acceptable spellings
aquiesse = acquiesce (i feel like this spelling is intentionally bad so people question sanity) aquiresce would’ve been better because (aquire+esc+e)
buerrocraticy, beraucraticy, burocratici = bureaucracy (send help, I couldn’t continue)
8:07 "if a word doesn't look like how it's pronounced..." Me, a mandarin speaker: 💀
Straight 📠 (fax)
“Haha look at these sticks!”
Me a Bengali speaker: 💀
(In bengali, there is a simple looking word with no added syllable but when you pronounce it, SOMEHOW THERE IS A SYLLABLE!)
My parents were very strict with learning proper grammar when I grew up, so here's a list that nobody will read, but I'm writing anyway because it will make me feel better.
0:56 It's pronounced Keltic when you're talking about the language, Seltic when you're talking about the team.
1:17 I'm learning twelve languages, and the ones I hate the most (besides English) Chinese (messed up pronunciation and too many characters), Arabic (too many characters), Hindi (too many characters), and Japanese (too many characters). My favorite ones are Russian (very simple sentence structure), French (consistent pronunciation rules), and German (you get to smash together words to make new ones).
1:47 I hate this so much because it doesn't take that much effort to learn it's (it is) versus its (belonging to it), your (belonging to you) versus you're (you are), their (belonging to them) versus there (referring to a place) versus they're (they are), and the difference between literally and figuratively. Just learning those things would fix 90% of grammar mistakes on the internet.
2:19 If you're using he, you can replace it with who, if you're using him, you can replace it with whom. For example, "He is rooting for him" can be changed to "Who is rooting for whom?"
6:46 Just look up the word and write it down correctly over and over. That's a super easy way to memorize the spelling of any word.
9:16 Here are my attempts: paraphernalia (Latin and Greek origin), liquify (French), aqcuiesce (Latin), bereaucracy (French), pterodactyl (Greek), handkerchief (French)
You, I like you
thank you for the whom and who, and the its and it’s. Im still trying to figure out how to and too work. lol
@yoonisverse "to" is position or possession, and "too" is addition (and two is the number, but that one is less common to see in the mix)
so you go from one place *to* another, and someone else was there *too.* Or, you want *to* travel, but right now gas is *too* expensive. (first "to" is "travel" -> "you want," second "too" is "extra/more of;" the price of gas, or the additional person.)
I hope any of that made sense, I'm not a teacher or even that good at expressing myself usually lol
@@gemmietime I'll be totally honest, I don't remember what an indirect object is grammatically XD it's been a *hot* minute since I actually studied English (and yes, it's the only language I speak)
I said fuck French when they decided to say YES by saying WEE and spelt it OUI.
Russian and German SOUND sooo much better to.
Have a cute German girl whisper you to sleep or a badass Russian lass bark command on a battlefield and your feel Like you can deck superman.
Red army probably had such high moral because their sexy women cheered em on.
4:22 efficiency is the worst offender I CANNOT REMEMBER HOW TO SPELL IT EVERRRRR
Efficiency 3 Minecraft enchantment: 🗿
It's not efficient
i always felt this rage growing up in school. thank you for expressing it.
The whole rant about how much he hates small children at the beginning was probably my favorite part of the video. Very good video.
My attempts to play along with the "Guess that Obscene Spelling" Section as a native English speaker:
parafinalia :
liquify : And I literally googled the actual spelling after Big Tugg presented it because I refused to believe it that hard.
aquees : Knew 100% that that was wrong but it's exactly as he says, it's a word you know there's some funky shizz going on with and it's really not worth the effort trying to figure it out because I never ever will.
bureacuracy : Pretty darn close, I thought I actually got one right for a second there but I mixed up the order of c and u
handkerchief : I didn't get a chance to pause the vid for this one but I would have gotten it right because I had to write this word a lot not too long ago and grappled with it's strange spelling then but I totally agree. It's one of those words that once I learned the spelling of it I suddenly second guessed the way I've been pronouncing it all my life but I said it right.
I got acquiesce and handkerchief right, was really close with "paraphenalia", "liquify" and "bureacuracy"
@@user_3460 You wizard! Why can you spell acquiesce, where have you learned such ancient spells?
Though I'm glad we agree on liquify and bureacuracy. Good to know the wizard is on my side at least.
@@BirdBean_ Lol, it's nothing. Although my school teaches English and I used to have tuition for Cambridge English, I mainly learned English through exposure (I am very whitewashed), and I've just seen the word "acquiesce" a bunch of times already.
I WORK in a restraunt and I still can't spell it. So yeah, number one for sure.
Cracked me up thay his correction of spellings all looked like the right spellings to me
THANK YOU FOR SAYING NECESSARY. I always say nessecary instead and auto correct has no idea what I’m saying i hate it
Tug: "if you miss spelled "you're" and your friend makes fun of you call him a silly smelly dork"
Also Tug 10 days ago:
The one edit to the I before E rule I’ve heard was from Brian Regan and it was “I before E, except after C, and when sounding like A, as in Neighbor and Weigh” and honestly that almost fixes it
Or you could go with the reverse rule.
Weird.
Eight
"Whomst hast summoned thee ancient one" is my first thought at the name.
I miss Shakespearian English, it was really funny
whomst isnt a word, thee means you, hast was never a word. that's not Shakespearian English, that's Shitpostian English
I mean, it was funny because you don’t speak it.
@@BigRedDino3311 this should not have made me laugh as much as it did
@@BigRedDino3311 Congerts you found the joke
"America keeps misusing it"
*shows a picture of a Reaper drone
In my old school when we were in first grade we had a wedding for q and u because “they where always next to eachother” sometimes..
I love the misspelling of "fragrances" in the ad on a video about the English language. Deep.
7:38 here`s a fun fact: the "restaurant" spelling is actually the EXACT same as in spanish except for one "e" at the end
and it's "restaurant" in french (rɛstɔrɑ̃)
Nuh uh. I mean, technically, but most people say restorán. At least down here in Argentina
@bautispidey8864 It just depends where you live. Now, I'm sure everyone will still understand what you are saying.
Tugg attaching his microphone to a kitchen knife has to be the best improvision I've probably ever seen on UA-cam
Click in a cool looking video
“I hate children”
Me: well alright then
You're new here, aren't you...
Discovering that I speak English as a non-native speaker than an actual native speaker wars not something I thought I would do today
Holy shit the fuck I just wrote
You are the only UA-camr I don’t swipe through the advert… so funny.
I'm just here to add to the "Tucker left his fly down" tally.
Ahhh 17 seconds into the video and he’s already said he hated kids. This man is the best.
As a child, yes (I'm making a presentation on the Big Bang and am multilingual but am still stupid).
Nice profile picture!
@@OGRenegadeKingThank you! I like yours as well!
@Psychic_card You're welcome and thank you!
I’m a kid and I had kids 😂
Living in New Orleans, I will say that you get use to the eau/eaux making an “O” sound. There’s a supermarket here called Breaux Mart and it’s pronounced Bro Mart lol
THE WORD LIKE🤢🤢🤢🤢
"Ye so like i saw him there like amd he was like.." instant slap to face!
I have 2 nieces and 7 nephews. I only still talk to 1 of them on rare occasions, like 2 years ago he joined the Air Force and I texted him, "Good luck".
Never heard any of them ever say anything that was worth listening to.
1:23 a chart of Latin verb endings isn’t the best reason to learn a language other than English lmao
i was literally abt to say 😭😭 verb endings are literally destroying me tho so thanks tugg maybe i’ll pass latin 3 now idk who knows
As someone who learned English as a second language in school I can tell you that
1 English is far more easy to learn then like French
And 2 that English is still fu ing confusing and without english autocorrect I would literally die 😭
Also love ur videos and the really relatable rant
This. is why I misspelled their for like a decade, filled with self doubt. FU elementary school
3:50 he started the sentence with a conjunction
@@strawzulusansundertalehorr7624
My bad I thought which was a conjunction
i for sure thought it would either be a babel or Grammarly sponsorship
wait until he hears about the word syzygy (its when 3 or more celestial bodies line up)
💀
10:18 it is actually spelled liquify
Both are correct.
@@Fritz9672 liquefy just feels so fucking wrong though
I refuse to accept that liquefy is correct
I make weird little rhythms in my head for spelling words like restaurant (rest-a-u-rant), Wednesday (Wed-nes-day), and definitely (de-finite-ly)
I passed every single spelling test in third grade because I wrote the words in pencil on the desk and covered them with my arm while the teacher was looking. No regerts.
3:28 this one pissed me off the most, because it felt so natural to me, and when I got to college, I went through pains to keep that up until I was told that’s not a thing😔 also apparently I can’t not write in passive voice and that’s an issue so fuck me
Thank you sir, you have made my day now
How big is your tug
why u think his name big tugg
Quite large my child
How big is your tug
bureaucracy comes from the french word "bureau," where in THAT language, "eau" makes the "o" sound
As a ESL person there are only two rules in English; be overconfident and loud.
0:02 same 😑
Hate is a strong word though.
@@anvarjonmirzaliyev5147 ig but they are so annoying to be around , and any kindergardner actually managing should get a raise for their herkulean task of just having the thickest ever nerves
@@anvarjonmirzaliyev5147yeah man thats why i agree
@@anvarjonmirzaliyev5147id say despise even. loathe
As a non-native speaker I agree.
I mean, Spanish is hard, but at least is consistent (mostly).
Spanish is the easiest natural language on Earth. Like, officially. Easier wold be only toki pona and it's conlang specifically designed to be simple.
I don’t know why but I love that my favorite UA-camr is a the point of bursting in anger in every video
The mic clipped on to the dinner knife I'm dying 😂
3:55 It's I before E EXCEPT after C, or when sounding like A as in neighbor and weigh
AND YOULL ALWAYS BE WRONG NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY
in 7th grade i missed a ton of school from health issues and needed tutors to catch me up, and for English i got this older teacher from a different school to tutor me. i needed help w the grammar we were learning which was like gerunds, participles, infinitives and other stuff (no i dont know what the fuck that means) and the tutor didnt even know what the fuck they were 😭 im half certain my english teacher js pulled them out of his ass to make our lives a little less enjoyable
A gerund is a verb that is used as a noun. For example: "I love swimming." In this sentence, "swimming" refers to the concept/idea/activity of swimming, rather than the action itself, making it act like a noun (love is the verb).
Infinitives are basically the base form of a word preceded by the word "to".
Participles are similar to gerunds but instead of acting as a noun, it can act as an adjective. It is also used in certain tenses like perfect tenses.
Hope this helped 👍🏻
@@user_3460 oh yea that was a couple years ago lol i remember needing to self study the night before the quiz bc no one else knew 😭
@@GabbaDabbaDoo Oof
@@GabbaDabbaDoo That feels like my friend group with our Cambridge English exam, they usually just go off feeling and consult me regarding grammatical terminology minutes beforhand because I remember some of them (another one of my friends is also really good at grammar but he sucks at explaining stuff 💀)
You got very unlucky at the time when you were sick for 7th grade. I got sick in kindergarten and my parents wanted me to repeat it so I wouldn't be behind in life.(Though I got my dad brains for math.)
1:11 Fun fact there is a poem called "The Chaos" made to showcase the chaos that the english language can be.
The common words i struggle with most: necessary, embarrassed, acknowledgement, refrigerator
“In the real world nothing means anything and everything is a s*** show”
-Big Tugg, 2024
Posted 42 seconds ago and with over 100 likes already, amazing
0:41 I can't be the only one who noticed that his fly is down lol
Why were you looking 🤨
@@yourshoulderdevil5229 🤷when you worry too much if your own is down because you forgot you notice
"who let the dogs out?" he let the dogs out. if it was "him let the dogs out" then it'd be whom
Tugg, you just unintentionally taught me a way to remember how to spell 'definitely.'
Reading was fun in elementary school, then came middle school and they destroyed my love for it. And now, English is my least favorite school subject. Thankfully, in my freshman year, I had this teacher named Mr. Poe who NEVER assigned homework and the most we ever wrote was a paragraph or two. He actually made English fun in high school. Then, last semester this junior year, I had a teacher who assigned book reading. Not a book you read together in class, but a book you read by yourself. If it wasn’t obvious, I did not read them and when she said there was going to be a test, I was expecting a multiple choice test so I started to read some chapters and then, when it came to the test, it was an ESSAY test. So yeah, that’s what English class was like for me. Hopefully, I get Mr. Poe in my senior year.
11:17 Honestly.. I wont stand for the bureaucracy slander!! That word follows all the rules..
I love your videos so much❤
3:06 “But he’s a lying prick. Because” I see what you did there
10:40 damn, I felt that one
11:00 nobody tell him how you spell water in italian
lemme guess its like ocqu or something stupid
@@spidersinyourventilationsystem kinda close lol
10:11 as an artist, it should be spelled differently!!!
My teacher (I'm in 7th) told me that I can't use conjunctions at the start of a sentence too 😨😨😨
Get off the internet, kid. Go study
@@jasiahvazquez3649 today's saturday
I know. Go study for Monday.
@@jasiahvazquez3649 nothing to study for