The History of English - English and Empire (6/10)
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- Опубліковано 23 чер 2011
- Exploring how the British Empire spread across the world bringing back many new words and phrases.
(Part 6 of 10)
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While we Americans are no longer part of the Empire, a lot of words were picked up here like squash, pumpkin, chili, chocolate, lariat, maize, chipmunk, and Toboggan for example.
Excellent creative work! Worth a few laughs too.
The last one still has me laughing.
Do you have a source for the claim that 'nugget' originates from an Australian language? All the information I can find suggests the origin is unknown, but probably comes from 'nug', meaning 'small piece' or 'lump'.
@Ynysmydwr - Thanks for replying. But sorry for deceiving you, this was a test for a communications class, where we were testing if people take comments seriously and if they corrected people or not. But regardless it's good to know that there are smart and intelligent people commenting out there.
Zg
Interesting
The word "Cannibal" actually came from the pacific islands; not the carribean, on Captain`s Cooks Travels. But an entertaining video none the less.
@deathbysvent
Cause we rebelled before 1914.... I guess....
@beany900 I'm guessing you meant China. Japan was never colonized by any nation. They have been occupied but that isn't the same thing as colonization.
The map at the end was also missing India but whatever it's free learning and you get what you pay for. Still this was an entertaining series of videos.
@steevmac
OH...
That "Game Over" looked like SEGA's logo :P
@P2J3M4 > The word "Cannibal" actually came from the pacific islands... <
Oh no it didn't!
Cannibal: 1550s, from Sp. canibal "a savage, cannibal," from Caniba, Christopher Columbus' rendition of the Caribs' name for themselves (see Caribbean). [Onine Etymology Dictionary]
@AMockTurtle Oh, I thought that Egypt primarily spoke Arabic. I wonder what other countries this video conveniently forgot. (raises eyebrow) =P
Asimov reference!
They would have to depict the England pac-man thing getting sick and puking it back up.
Yup ;-)
@deathbysvent It should also have eaten Egypt, but yeh.
Then we agree. Whether you feel sorry for people who have a bad connection or not is besides the point. Uploading this as one big video lasting 10 minutes would have been a better decision, and that's that.
@nicolebmoviesFTW2 What kind of an answer is that? Even with 100Mbit per second, splitting a 10 minute video up into 10 parts if a stupid thing to do. Nobody would only watch parts 5-10 of 7-10, so splitting it up serves no other purpose than to give the youtube account more video views.
You weren't responding to my issue with this at all.
@Millhouse013 I agree that it'd be better in just one, big part, but I doubt it takes five whole minutes more unless you have VERY shitty Internet, and people with very shitty Internet, I don't feel sorry for.
@Millhouse013 AWWW! You're so CUTE! ^_^
Why isn't America eaten? ... or at least the east coast of America...
@deathbysvent High in fat.
Doesn't the word zombie come from some Hatian Creole.
I can't watch those videos! They're so funny, I only pay attention to the cartoon, and not to the narration... lol
@Millhouse013 Get less shitty Internet.
tumblr sent me here lol
I hate school
What the hell? By splitting it up into 10 videos, you make people load 10 pages instead of one, sit through 10 intros instead of one. All in all, watching this takes 5 minutes on moderate internet connections because you thought a few more video views are more important than actually informing people.