Except the French words did not come from the Normen. They come from the Plantagenet (royal family of Anjou, France) who held the English throne from 1154 to 1485.
There´s also "Denglisch" which is a ironic German term for the many anglicisms and pseudo-anglicisms in contemporary German language like "handy" for cell phones, "checken" for "to understand" or "to check", "date" for "romantic appointment", etc.
I'm just enjoying this conversation about linguistics and grammar, almost as much as I enjoy these videos. Thanks for posting them, and thanks for talking about such an interesting subject on here! Kudos to you both! :)
Greetings from the Philippines! The Jutes joined forces with the Saxons in 415 AD. Jute - n, referring to a citizen of the Jutland Peninsula in Northern Europe. Thus, keeping two thirds of the peninsula as a part of Denmark, of course. Why? Because the other third belongs to the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which also formerly speaks Saxon.
Whether its Germanic or Latin doesn't matter, what matters is how beautiful this was presented and how it teaches people how languages not only grow but evolve and steal and/or adopt from other languages. All and all English is English. Whatever its true bases doesn't matter.
I teach English as a second language. My focus is on speaking and listening. My students can not understand this, even though one of them lived in England for 2 years while reading his master's degree.
English is a language which not only "borrows" words from other languages, it will actually chase them down dark alleys, hit them over the head, and then go through their pockets, looking for words.
There should be a reference to ancient Greek language influence in the science chapter. Most scientific terms and names are in Greek. Every medical direction, every dinosaur name and many other words as well are Greek. Some of them are: idea, policie, method, episode, enthusiasm, dialogue, organization, economic, dogma, analyzed and synthesized, critical, problem, agony, melancholy, phenomenon, characteristic, thesis, dynamic, practice, chaos,catastrophe, parallel, synergy, harmony, democratic, climate, basic, apology, eccentric, monologue, emphasize, gastronomy symposia, strategy, philanthropy, magic, monopolies, antagonism, orthological, logic, academic, acme, prognostics, tyranny, phrase, epilogue, cosmos and many more...
Let me add a few Greek words by picking up some from the comments: Some of my own : theater, philosophy, From the tittle of the video and Saundz Evove, Bend Marketing Group, Cristiana Coblis - translator, reviewer, copywriter, dlwatib and almost every one else : HISTORY! From siddhi palande : trigonometry, (trigono - triangle), (metry - the science of counting), (trigonometry - the science of counting triangles there for other geometrical shapes as well). Just because this words exist in every language it doesn't mean that they generated from all over... They where integrated in the western civilizations vocabulary from ancient Greek documents that where the the spark for putting behind the dark medieval age in Europe. If you read Aristotel (a philosopher and teacher of Alexander the Great) you will find it in his writings. Jeromepsy001 : music Gina Drayer and JuanDVene : grammar Beryl Boanerges : genesis John Moore : logical The English Centre Spain : idioma Mel Dixon : criticise David Means : codes The London School of English : comic Christine Dargan : basis lumach68i : stereotypical Ana-Maria Deliu : lexicology DareSunnyClimate ManLee : narcissistic, autism, ethnocentric, music, parasitic, logic, and hypocritical NKA23 : pseydo (means fake) Anders Hass : anarchy St. Overcome : basic Alex Meyer : you are the ancient Greek God of vocabulary... and finally I got bored... What I did here is not a matter of narcissism of the Greeks, but a matter of self-awareness for European people themselves...
It's all about who was doing the discovery in science. Look at how many stars have Arabic names. Despite current standing, the Middle East was once a center for knowledge, science and culture. And at that time, they happened to have these new things called telescopes.
Almost every scientific term in English, German or French language, has a Greek root, because European people of science and art, found inspiration from Greek history, art, science and philosophy during the Renaissance and the enlightenment. I don't sea any relation between Greece and middle eastern countries, other than the fact that Greece was always the first European country that was on the way of some of these nations, when they where on their peak and where trying to expand towards the west, in Europe. During the Greek-Persian war or the ascent of Arabic or the Ottoman civilisation many years later, Greece stood firm to defend Europe and what became later the common European cultural identity, based on the ideals of democracy and freedom of self education. These ideals are ignored today in the so called civilised western countries and specially in the States, as I see in many occasions.
Wao, a creative way of teaching or informing about the history of English. I really liked and enjoyed it. I'm sure my students will love it too. Thanks for sharing!
Right now around 1.5 billion people speak English, of these about a quarter are native speakers. A quarter speak it as second language, and half are able to ask for directions to a swimming pool. Aah! tha.t wos a love.ly narration.
Almost all of my ancestors contributed to English in some way. On my dad's side, I'm English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh, but also part German, a la the Germanic tribes. On my mom's side I'm French, like the Normans (my middle name is Norman in fact), and Scandinavian, I'm one quarter Norwegian and Swedish to be exact, and those cultures can be traced back to the vikings. It's like I'm speaking the language I was meant to speak. And it's the most widely spoken in the world! I'm so proud!
+Frogeggs yeah. You only speak 3. 1.Germanic 2.lateinic 3.slavic I am quite surpriced ,that you do not notice the small differances in dialect within each group.
Actually, texting and writing small blurbs like comments use our spoken language brain, not our written language brain. As such, they are not extensions are written language, so shorthand is more than appropriate.
I'm glad I asked the question. I never knew videos could be slowed down in the options. Thanks for helping me be a better teacher with technology! be well
On September 26, 1957 and October 2, 1959 in Washington, as part of the World Bank Annual Meetings, Mr. Xenophon Zolotas, a famous and highly educated Greek, delivered two speeches in English using (exclusively) Greek words. Not ancient ..... but words used by the Greeks, as they are, from Antiquity until today, in their daily lives and not only!!! Mr. Zolotas was a great Economist, who at the age of 24 became a University Professor, for a number of years Governor of the Bank of Greece and Prime Minister. who by many has now been accepted as one of the most important personalities of the last century). The special element was that he used throughout his speech words that were of Greek origin and are used in English. The audience watching the IMF meeting was speechless and Zolotas's speech became historic with him and his wife making headlines in the NYT and "Washington Post". (Somebody must be fluent in English and Greek to be able to write two such speeches. I will quote you the first one.) The speech was: ''Kyrie, I eulogize the archons of the Panethnic Numismatic Thesaurus and the Ecumenical Trapeza for the orthodoxy of their axioms, methods and policies, although there is an episode of cacophony of the Trapeza with Hellas. With enthusiasm we dialogue and synagonize at the synods of our didymous Organizations in which polymorphous economic ideas and dogmas are analyzed and synthesized. Our critical problems such as the numismatic plethora generate some agony and melancholy. This phenomenon is characteristic of our epoch. But, to my thesis, we have the dynamism to program therapeutic practices as a prophylaxis from chaos and catastrophe. In parallel, a panethnic unhypocritical economic synergy and harmonization in a democratic climate is basic. I apologize for my eccentric monologue. I emphasize my eucharistia to you Kyrie, to the eugenic and generous American Ethnos and to the organizers and protagonists of this Amphictyony and the gastronomic symposia. Η δεύτερη ομιλία στις 2 Οκτωβρίου 1959: Kyrie, It is Zeus’ anathema on our epoch for the dynamism of our economies and the heresy of our economic methods and policies that we should agonise between the Scylla of numismatic plethora and the Charybdis of economic anaemia. It is not my idiosyncrasy to be ironic or sarcastic but my diagnosis would be that politicians are rather cryptoplethorists. Although they emphatically stigmatize numismatic plethora, energize it through their tactics and practices. Our policies have to be based more on economic and less on political criteria.Our gnomon has to be a metron between political, strategic and philanthropic scopes. Political magic has always been antieconomic. In an epoch characterised by monopolies, oligopolies, menopsonies, monopolistic antagonism and polymorphous inelasticities, our policies have to be more orthological. But this should not be metamorphosed into plethorophobia which is endemic among academic economists. Numismatic symmetry should not antagonize economic acme. A greater harmonization between the practices of the economic and numismatic archons is basic. Parallel to this, we have to synchronize and harmonize more and more our economic and numismatic policies panethnically. These scopes are more practical now, when the prognostics of the political and economic barometer are halcyonic. The history of our didymous organisations in this sphere has been didactic and their gnostic practices will always be a tonic to the polyonymous and idiomorphous ethnical economics. The genesis of the programmed organisations will dynamize these policies. I sympathise, therefore, with the aposties and the hierarchy of our organisations in their zeal to programme orthodox economic and numismatic policies, although I have some logomachy with them. I apologize for having tyrannized you with my hellenic phraseology. In my epilogue, I emphasize my eulogy to the philoxenous autochthons of this cosmopolitan metropolis and my encomium to you, Kyrie, and the stenographers.''
finalfrontier001 Do you think it would be easier to learn Anglish (Germanic English) and then German or just go straight to modern German? Also, what about Anglish vs other Germanic languages like the Scandinavian languages.
I get what you mean coz i ve extensively studied Latin and Ancient Greek.Complex does not necessarily mean difficult and i m no stating that english is difficult.Difficulty is subjective to a large extent.I m just saying that every language has a grammar which involves the aspects i stated yesterday and need not be the kind of latin or whatever to be called a complex grammar.Grammar means how a specific language works and it also includes rules that sometimes you learn implicitly.
This is great. A good lesson on English history. I am looking for good English videos for my students at курсы английского киев to watch and learn. Thank you.
There is no natural language without a grammar.Grammar consists of the following parts; Phonology i.e. how the sounds of a language are stringed together, Morphology i.e. word formation, Syntax i.e. how words are put into phrases and phrases into sentences, Semantics i.e. the meaning of words and sentences and Pragmatics i.e. how meaning is used in context.All these aspects of grammar differ from language to language.
lots of tech speech? They might have finally overhauled their spelling the whay it sometimes happens on the internet, with "hi" for "high", but that would be hard to put into writing. As the video showed: either words are important from an influential culture, or newly developped technologies spawn new words. "Will Save The Galaxy For Food" has an interesting twist on how new expressions happen, too.
Excellent, but NO CREDITS?!?! Who wrote and drew it? Or doesn't that matter? (And, yes, we all recognise Clive Anderson, but I'm sure he doesn't want to take all the credit).
Phonology in closely connected with phonetics, it is not part of it.Phonetics studies the sounds and their properties.Phonology studies the underlying system of sounds in a specific language.
I actually took a course on this in College. It was alternatally the most interesting and deadly dull class I ever took! Would much rather have watched this video. And you young folks today have no idea how lucky you are to have the Oxford English Dictionary on CD-rom. I had to use my Dad's hard copy...the print was so tiny it came with it's own magnifying glass! And wow, looking up and documenting history of words for the Language class (also for my Chaucer class)! Oy! The stuff of nightmares!
Though I am russian, I love english language and fins this information very useful and entertaining. Thank you for you work and appreciation of good humor and animation! :)
It is very important for Greek people to be mentioned for their offer to European Civilization, especially this period that we get a lot of negative publicity due to economic problems. It is not a matter of narcissism of the Greeks, but a matter of self-awareness for European people themselves. Please support my comments as I did for yours. "History", "European", "period", "economic", "problem", "narcissism" are all Greek words.
So the ancient Greeks had television? Scientific terminology in English has not been, generally speaking, 'adopted' from Greek or Latin, but, yes, invented using Greek/Latin roots. You can talk about a word being 'adopted' when it's taken from a language to refer to something for which English has no suitable word, such as 'chocolate' or 'pyjamas'. Television might easily have been called something like 'electric-viewer', as it is in Chinese.
Phil Bowler what are you going on about? of course they didn't have television, which is a word created from greek -- and latin -- roots, but they most certainly had science and philosophy, and words were directly adopted. try mathematics, astronomy, geology, biology, zoology, hydraulics. oh, google it.
helen sotiriadis Yes, many words have been adopted from other languages; your point does not refute what I said about "invention". Think about these: Aeronautics, Automobile, Ergonomics, Spectroscopy, Telephone, Telegraph, Radium, Electronics, Electricity, Cinematography, Archeology, Dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus, Antibiotic, Elevator, Escalator. In particular, go the Wikipedia page on the escalator and read how the inventor of the moving staircase also *invented* the word to use for it. Do please let me have any references to these items in classical literature: I'm always keen to learn.
if by 'invented' you mean stringing together Greek words to create compound words, and if also you mean conveniently forgetting the sciences which had already been practiced by the greeks, and which i already mentioned, and you think that this is reason enough to omit mentioning their Greek origins, then by golly you must be right.
Of course this is the point.When speakers talk to each other they should not even think about grammatical rules.They apply the acquired knowledge.All languages are complex systems.Complexity is not determined by different conjugations, gender agreement or different case endings in nouns,verbs, adjectives,pronouns and participles.We can say this language is rich in inflectional morphology and may be difficult for a foreign language learner.
Most of the ancient scholars studied greek, the influence is obvious, greek was like the english language nowdays.Their love for greek was in a such degree, that they kept exactly the same form in some words.For this reason we have the word theatre in English and theater in American-English.Because the greek word is θέατρο,centre and center because in greek is κέντρο, Penomenon - Phenomena in plural,idea - ιδέα, exactly as it is in greek and so on.....
Isn't a firewall something you put in buildings in between flats to stop fires from spreading, or something you put in welding tanks to stop burning gas from travelling to the tank?
JuanDVene I don't mean this as an insult, but really..? The term firewall doesn't ring any bells that it might be a term used in a previous era, before computers were ever invented?
Lauri Hirn I'm guessing that IT devs borrowed the term as an analogy to fire resistant walls intalled in buildings. Firewalls in networks act as a way for keeping out unwanted communication from a computer and allows only previously defined "safe" applications to send and receive information externally i.e. Internet Browsers and email.
@juicykarkass Oh I assure you I do know what grammar is. However, about half of the people using English do not care for grammar and do not know it, and make themselves reasonably well understood. The only thing you need to learn to communicate in English is lexic, you can then use your language's grammar to create meaningful sentences.
+GothicZombie89 Let's be honest, laziness had something to do with it. Why spend an entire five seconds typing "That's pretty funny!" when "lol" does the trick?
Funny seeing all the people arguing that such-and-such word obviously came from their (other related) language. Some are borrowings, especially where the two cultures overlapped (eg. Norman French words in English) but in other cases, the reason words are similar is that most languages spoken in Europe, India and inbetween evolved from an even older language called Proto-Indo-European.
No it is not, Sanskrit is a decendant of Proto-Indo-European. Sanskrit is a sibling of Ancient Greek, Latin, Proto-Germanic, Old Persian etc., not the parent. Go read up on some linguistics.
+Declan Miller Computer simply means calculator. Both the scandinavian _dator_ and the french _ordinateur_ are more descriptive of what a modern _data machine_ is used for.
Well, many English words adopted from Latin but the majority of Latin words adopted from Ancient Greek language and those who know about glossology can prove it. Oops glossology sounds Greek: glossa (γλώσσα) means language. And if you are not sure if Ancient Greek civilization is one of the oldest, then just refer to history as there are enough evidences about this.
Hello my fellow Greek citizen. Let's support each other to make the truth glow. You can like my comment as I did for yours. Our point will be more obvious if we unite on one comment and make it the most popular, so that it will be the first for everyone to see.
Guys, I get where you are coming from but in Great Britain, they had their scientific papers, books and manuals in Latin, not in Greek.Of course, it is true that a lot of words used in Latin came from Greek, but the Brits didn't have a direct influence from the Greek language. I know it's frustrating that many people forgot the importance of ancient civilizations, like Ancient Greece, Babylon, Persia etc, but it makes perfect sense that this video doesn't mention the Greek connection for it's not a direct one.
"Firewall" (9:30) is a term borrowed by computer developers from building construction and automobile manufacture and means roughly the same thing in the physical world. Needless to say, this predates 1990.
In Romanian, kids learning the language often pronounce the "r" as an "l." "Th" doesn't exist at all. My natural tendency is to pronounce it as an "f" in "through," as a "d" in "that," as a "z" in "the," and as a "t" in most other situations.
Riveting Rosie I agree but actually its not only the latinos that speak spanglish many people in america actually tend to use spanish words like nada, ya and many other words just with a more english pronunciation
Well yeah, now that I think about it, what your native tongue is does factor into it. It's easier to learn Arabic if you're Israeli, Russian if you're Bulgarian, French if you're Italian, German if you're Danish, and so on. More generally, it's easier to learn English if your native tongue is an Indo-European one. The reason I brought up tones is that they allow little room for imprecision, whereas it's relatively easy to learn bad English and improve from there. Hence my calling it forgiving.
English has a grammar but it isn't as strict and complex as many other languages. In addition English speakers seem to be more accepting of non-native speakers' efforts and tend to work to understand them as there are many differing dialects of English with their own words etc. not only around the world but even within the British Isles.
Simplistic, incomplete, inaccurate at some parts but I really liked the animation. Outcome: The Open University has good animators and bad historians 5:11 Electricity: "Invented by the English". Really? 5:17 Pendulum: "Invented by the English". Really? 5:22 Cardiac: "Invented by the English". Really? 5:25 Sternum: "Invented by the English". Really? 5:31 Clitoris. You are right. This could not have been invented by the English.
@VeraSamuels It's Clive Anderson, and he didn't say there wasn't Christianity in Roman 'England'. It died out and missionaries brought it back in the late 6th century.
"BY THAT POINT NO ONE COULD COUNT ANY HIGHER IN FRENCH" Jesus Christ this is so amazing
Can you not just say that
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Suck what now?
"Clitoris was still a source of confusion" Amen brother.
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LMAOo
My old Irish father, RIP, used to say that the sun never set on the British Empire because Christ couldn't trust them in the dark.
I little bit heavy, isn't it?
I laughed 🤭 😂
I'm British and I find that hilarious, thanks for sharing!
Yep, that sounds Irish alright.
Hahahaha
Nothing beats animation for us simpletons.
as a linguists, I find this video very helpful for any historian, student, or even a person who is into History.
thank you for uploading such.
"As a linguists"
+Bel-Shamharoth He's is not a professional typer, he just knows shit about language. Get over it fam.
+Adam Moer It's still a little funny ^.^
I'm not into history but damn this explains a lot
Except the French words did not come from the Normen. They come from the Plantagenet (royal family of Anjou, France) who held the English throne from 1154 to 1485.
Students of History of the English Language will love this! Thanks.
Never was learning more fun! This really both entertained me and informed me. Well done!
"and the Italians arrived with the Pizza, their Pasta, and their Mafia."
I'm dying.
+ShiroiKage009 Just like Mama use to make.
i'm italian and it's even funnier
8:19
Ofc you must be a lvl 1 crook...
ma stroncatelo ni culo
The Bible: "Let there be light reading."
Ha! Ha! That was precious!
here in 2022 mate
There´s also "Denglisch" which is a ironic German term for the many anglicisms and pseudo-anglicisms in contemporary German language like "handy" for cell phones, "checken" for "to understand" or "to check", "date" for "romantic appointment", etc.
You should get an explainity Oscar! I think after watching this 4 times I finally got all the information and will pass my test 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
I'm just enjoying this conversation about linguistics and grammar, almost as much as I enjoy these videos. Thanks for posting them, and thanks for talking about such an interesting subject on here! Kudos to you both! :)
I remember this video from a lesson in uni, 10 years ago!! I still come back to it every other time because I simply love it!!
Hey bro do you have the summarize of the chapters?
This is the interesting part of my degree in a nutshell! LOVE IT!
This video pretty much covers everything I need to know for tomorrows exam in Global English. Awesome
Greetings from the Philippines!
The Jutes joined forces with the Saxons in 415 AD.
Jute - n, referring to a citizen of the Jutland Peninsula in Northern Europe. Thus, keeping two thirds of the peninsula as a part of Denmark, of course. Why? Because the other third belongs to the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which also formerly speaks Saxon.
"Their Pizza, Their Pasta, and their Mafia. Just like Mama used to make"
Let’s admit honestly,this is the most powerful video i’ve ever seen! Love the animation,the accent,literally everything…Keep up the good work❤️
I think I've watched this about 5 times. Funny and informative!
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Whether its Germanic or Latin doesn't matter, what matters is how beautiful this was presented and how it teaches people how languages not only grow but evolve and steal and/or adopt from other languages. All and all English is English. Whatever its true bases doesn't matter.
This 15 min history lesson should be voted best youtube educational video!
I teach English as a second language. My focus is on speaking and listening. My students can not understand this, even though one of them lived in England for 2 years while reading his master's degree.
Try slowing down the video speed. It is quite fast, ostensibly to stay within the 10-minute requirement.
Watching this was the most fun I've had all day.
this video makes the history of English so interesting....it really helped in my project work I had to do
Many years later and I'm still looking this up for a 12th grade project
Oh my goodness, this is a fantastic last minute overview of language change for my A2 English Language exam tomorrow! THANK YOU
“And then the Italians arrived with their pizza, pasta, and mafia. Just like mama used to make.” I love The Godfather reference with the horse head!
English is a language which not only "borrows" words from other languages, it will actually chase them down dark alleys, hit them over the head, and then go through their pockets, looking for words.
There should be a reference to ancient Greek language influence in the science chapter. Most scientific terms and names are in Greek. Every medical direction, every dinosaur name and many other words as well are Greek. Some of them are: idea, policie, method, episode, enthusiasm, dialogue, organization, economic, dogma, analyzed and synthesized, critical, problem, agony, melancholy, phenomenon, characteristic, thesis, dynamic, practice, chaos,catastrophe, parallel, synergy, harmony, democratic, climate, basic, apology, eccentric, monologue, emphasize, gastronomy symposia, strategy, philanthropy, magic, monopolies, antagonism, orthological, logic, academic, acme, prognostics, tyranny, phrase, epilogue, cosmos and many more...
I would like to add: chronos, rythm, music, astronaut, cosmonaut, physics, mass, energy, chemistry, mathematics, geometry, pathos, pathology, eros.
Let me add a few Greek words by picking up some from the comments:
Some of my own : theater, philosophy,
From the tittle of the video and Saundz Evove, Bend Marketing Group, Cristiana Coblis - translator, reviewer, copywriter, dlwatib and almost every one else : HISTORY!
From siddhi palande : trigonometry, (trigono - triangle), (metry - the science of counting), (trigonometry - the science of counting triangles there for other geometrical shapes as well). Just because this words exist in every language it doesn't mean that they generated from all over... They where integrated in the western civilizations vocabulary from ancient Greek documents that where the the spark for putting behind the dark medieval age in Europe. If you read Aristotel (a philosopher and teacher of Alexander the Great) you will find it in his writings.
Jeromepsy001 : music
Gina Drayer and JuanDVene : grammar
Beryl Boanerges : genesis
John Moore : logical
The English Centre Spain : idioma
Mel Dixon : criticise
David Means : codes
The London School of English : comic
Christine Dargan : basis
lumach68i : stereotypical
Ana-Maria Deliu : lexicology
DareSunnyClimate ManLee :
narcissistic, autism, ethnocentric, music, parasitic, logic, and hypocritical
NKA23 : pseydo (means fake)
Anders Hass : anarchy
St. Overcome : basic
Alex Meyer : you are the ancient Greek God of vocabulary...
and finally I got bored...
What I did here is not a matter of narcissism of the Greeks, but a matter of self-awareness for European people themselves...
It's all about who was doing the discovery in science. Look at how many stars have Arabic names. Despite current standing, the Middle East was once a center for knowledge, science and culture. And at that time, they happened to have these new things called telescopes.
Almost every scientific term in English, German or French language, has a Greek root, because European people of science and art, found inspiration from Greek history, art, science and philosophy during the Renaissance and the enlightenment. I don't sea any relation between Greece and middle eastern countries, other than the fact that Greece was always the first European country that was on the way of some of these nations, when they where on their peak and where trying to expand towards the west, in Europe. During the Greek-Persian war or the ascent of Arabic or the Ottoman civilisation many years later, Greece stood firm to defend Europe and what became later the common European cultural identity, based on the ideals of democracy and freedom of self education. These ideals are ignored today in the so called civilised western countries and specially in the States, as I see in many occasions.
doesntfitinatag I agree with the last part, fascism seems to have shrouded itself in the flag and sunk its claws in deep.
Wao, a creative way of teaching or informing about the history of English. I really liked and enjoyed it. I'm sure my students will love it too. Thanks for sharing!
Whoever wrote this script, genius. So entertaining and “punny”.
Right now around 1.5 billion people speak English, of these about a quarter are native speakers. A quarter speak it as second language, and half are able to ask for directions to a swimming pool.
Aah! tha.t wos a love.ly narration.
Almost all of my ancestors contributed to English in some way. On my dad's side, I'm English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh, but also part German, a la the Germanic tribes. On my mom's side I'm French, like the Normans (my middle name is Norman in fact), and Scandinavian, I'm one quarter Norwegian and Swedish to be exact, and those cultures can be traced back to the vikings. It's like I'm speaking the language I was meant to speak. And it's the most widely spoken in the world! I'm so proud!
+Frogeggs yeah.
You only speak 3.
1.Germanic
2.lateinic
3.slavic
I am quite surpriced ,that you do not notice the small differances in dialect within each group.
Actually, texting and writing small blurbs like comments use our spoken language brain, not our written language brain. As such, they are not extensions are written language, so shorthand is more than appropriate.
+Neceros Shorthand is Germanic and means the same as abbreviate which is French.
+The Major
True, but many of todays "germanic" people say things like _förkortning_ or _kortform_ (kort=short).
I was born and raised there and wish I could have learned about England like this when I was at school!
my linguistics professor showed us this video last week
Me too bro😂
Hey do you have the summarize of the chapters?
I watch a lot of UA-cam videos, I think that this is one of the best that I have ever seen !
I just love this well told historical spot
Most interesting video on the History of English by far. Well done
These are great videos about the English language from the Open University. Very informative while being very entertaining.
I'm glad I asked the question. I never knew videos could be slowed down in the options. Thanks for helping me be a better teacher with technology!
be well
On September 26, 1957 and October 2, 1959 in Washington, as part of the World Bank Annual Meetings, Mr. Xenophon Zolotas, a famous and highly educated Greek, delivered two speeches in English using (exclusively) Greek words.
Not ancient ..... but words used by the Greeks, as they are, from Antiquity until today, in their daily lives and not only!!!
Mr. Zolotas was a great Economist, who at the age of 24 became a University Professor, for a number of years Governor of the Bank of Greece and Prime Minister. who by many has now been accepted as one of the most important personalities of the last century).
The special element was that he used throughout his speech words that were of Greek origin and are used in English.
The audience watching the IMF meeting was speechless and Zolotas's speech became historic with him and his wife making headlines in the NYT and "Washington Post".
(Somebody must be fluent in English and Greek to be able to write two such speeches. I will quote you the first one.)
The speech was:
''Kyrie, I eulogize the archons of the Panethnic Numismatic Thesaurus and the Ecumenical Trapeza for the orthodoxy of their axioms, methods and policies, although there is an episode of cacophony of the Trapeza with Hellas.
With enthusiasm we dialogue and synagonize at the synods of our didymous Organizations in which polymorphous economic ideas and dogmas are analyzed and synthesized. Our critical problems such as the numismatic plethora generate some agony and melancholy.
This phenomenon is characteristic of our epoch. But, to my thesis, we have the dynamism to program therapeutic practices as a prophylaxis from chaos and catastrophe. In parallel, a panethnic unhypocritical economic synergy and harmonization in a democratic climate is basic. I apologize for my eccentric monologue. I emphasize my eucharistia to you Kyrie, to the eugenic and generous American Ethnos and to the organizers and protagonists of this Amphictyony and the gastronomic symposia. Η δεύτερη ομιλία στις 2 Οκτωβρίου 1959: Kyrie, It is Zeus’ anathema on our epoch for the dynamism of our economies and the heresy of our economic methods and policies that we should agonise between the Scylla of numismatic plethora and the Charybdis of economic anaemia. It is not my idiosyncrasy to be ironic or sarcastic but my diagnosis would be that politicians are rather cryptoplethorists. Although they emphatically stigmatize numismatic plethora, energize it through their tactics and practices.
Our policies have to be based more on economic and less on political criteria.Our gnomon has to be a metron between political, strategic and philanthropic scopes. Political magic has always been antieconomic. In an epoch characterised by monopolies, oligopolies, menopsonies, monopolistic antagonism and polymorphous inelasticities, our policies have to be more orthological. But this should not be metamorphosed into plethorophobia which is endemic among academic economists. Numismatic symmetry should not antagonize economic acme. A greater harmonization between the practices of the economic and numismatic archons is basic.
Parallel to this, we have to synchronize and harmonize more and more our economic and numismatic policies panethnically.
These scopes are more practical now, when the prognostics of the political and economic barometer are halcyonic. The history of our didymous organisations in this sphere has been didactic and their gnostic practices will always be a tonic to the polyonymous and idiomorphous ethnical economics.
The genesis of the programmed organisations will dynamize these policies. I sympathise, therefore, with the aposties and the hierarchy of our organisations in their zeal to programme orthodox economic and numismatic policies, although I have some logomachy with them. I apologize for having tyrannized you with my hellenic phraseology. In my epilogue, I emphasize my eulogy to the philoxenous autochthons of this cosmopolitan metropolis and my encomium to you, Kyrie, and the stenographers.''
I did not know how English had developed throughout history. This job is fantastic!
English language is unique and beautiful. Germanic with a touch of Latin to smooth it out.
finalfrontier001 At least 40% of english vocabulary derives from Latin (directly or via French),so it's a really BIG touch..:)
Johnny Handegg Wrong 30%.....
finalfrontier001 I still would choose a full Germanic english.
monkeytrollu You can learn it it's almost the same as English watch videos on it it's very similar to German too.
finalfrontier001 Do you think it would be easier to learn Anglish (Germanic English) and then German or just go straight to modern German?
Also, what about Anglish vs other Germanic languages like the Scandinavian languages.
I get what you mean coz i ve extensively studied Latin and Ancient Greek.Complex does not necessarily mean difficult and i m no stating that english is difficult.Difficulty is subjective to a large extent.I m just saying that every language has a grammar which involves the aspects i stated yesterday and need not be the kind of latin or whatever to be called a complex grammar.Grammar means how a specific language works and it also includes rules that sometimes you learn implicitly.
"American English, or not English, but somewhere in the ballpark." Hilarious!!
This is great. A good lesson on English history. I am looking for good English videos for my students at курсы английского киев to watch and learn. Thank you.
Excellent.
For a similarly acessible and informative tale on the history of the English Language, try Bill Bryson's book 'Mother Tongue'.
There is no natural language without a grammar.Grammar consists of the following parts; Phonology i.e. how the sounds of a language are stringed together, Morphology i.e. word formation, Syntax i.e. how words are put into phrases and phrases into sentences, Semantics i.e. the meaning of words and sentences and Pragmatics i.e. how meaning is used in context.All these aspects of grammar differ from language to language.
The sun never sets on the English language
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This was linked to my french/literacy lesson for today and it is by far the most entertaining thing that has happened
brilliant genius who made this video
I'm writing a story that takes place over a thousand years in the future and I'm trying to imagine how english will have changed by then.
lots of tech speech?
They might have finally overhauled their spelling the whay it sometimes happens on the internet, with "hi" for "high", but that would be hard to put into writing.
As the video showed: either words are important from an influential culture, or newly developped technologies spawn new words.
"Will Save The Galaxy For Food" has an interesting twist on how new expressions happen, too.
Excellent, but NO CREDITS?!?! Who wrote and drew it? Or doesn't that matter? (And, yes, we all recognise Clive Anderson, but I'm sure he doesn't want to take all the credit).
I thought it sounded more like Stephen Briggs, who narrates the Discworld audiobooks.
Phonology in closely connected with phonetics, it is not part of it.Phonetics studies the sounds and their properties.Phonology studies the underlying system of sounds in a specific language.
very interesting video.However,there is a mistake because most of the scientific words and medical jargon come from greek words which pre-existed
I actually took a course on this in College. It was alternatally the most interesting and deadly dull class I ever took! Would much rather have watched this video.
And you young folks today have no idea how lucky you are to have the Oxford English Dictionary on CD-rom. I had to use my Dad's hard copy...the print was so tiny it came with it's own magnifying glass! And wow, looking up and documenting history of words for the Language class (also for my Chaucer class)! Oy! The stuff of nightmares!
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Though I am russian, I love english language and fins this information very useful and entertaining. Thank you for you work and appreciation of good humor and animation! :)
This is brilliant! It's fun and informative and gave me a lot of inspiration for my final essay!
Another excellent 'History Of' from the Open University. Please keep them coming!
It is very important for Greek people to be mentioned for their offer to European Civilization, especially this period that we get a lot of negative publicity due to economic problems. It is not a matter of narcissism of the Greeks, but a matter of self-awareness for European people themselves. Please support my comments as I did for yours. "History", "European", "period", "economic", "problem", "narcissism" are all Greek words.
um... no, much of science terminology was not 'invented'. it was adopted from the greeks.
So the ancient Greeks had television? Scientific terminology in English has not been, generally speaking, 'adopted' from Greek or Latin, but, yes, invented using Greek/Latin roots. You can talk about a word being 'adopted' when it's taken from a language to refer to something for which English has no suitable word, such as 'chocolate' or 'pyjamas'. Television might easily have been called something like 'electric-viewer', as it is in Chinese.
Phil Bowler what are you going on about? of course they didn't have television, which is a word created from greek -- and latin -- roots, but they most certainly had science and philosophy, and words were directly adopted.
try mathematics, astronomy, geology, biology, zoology, hydraulics.
oh, google it.
helen sotiriadis Yes, many words have been adopted from other languages; your point does not refute what I said about "invention".
Think about these: Aeronautics, Automobile, Ergonomics, Spectroscopy, Telephone, Telegraph, Radium, Electronics, Electricity, Cinematography, Archeology, Dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus, Antibiotic, Elevator, Escalator. In particular, go the Wikipedia page on the escalator and read how the inventor of the moving staircase also *invented* the word to use for it. Do please let me have any references to these items in classical literature: I'm always keen to learn.
if by 'invented' you mean stringing together Greek words to create compound words, and if also you mean conveniently forgetting the sciences which had already been practiced by the greeks, and which i already mentioned, and you think that this is reason enough to omit mentioning their Greek origins, then by golly you must be right.
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Oh FFS
Of course this is the point.When speakers talk to each other they should not even think about grammatical rules.They apply the acquired knowledge.All languages are complex systems.Complexity is not determined by different conjugations, gender agreement or different case endings in nouns,verbs, adjectives,pronouns and participles.We can say this language is rich in inflectional morphology and may be difficult for a foreign language learner.
Most people in the US speak the English Slanguage.
Most of the ancient scholars studied greek, the influence is obvious, greek was like the english language nowdays.Their love for greek was in a such degree, that they kept exactly the same form in some words.For this reason we have the word theatre in English and theater in American-English.Because the greek word is θέατρο,centre and center because in greek is κέντρο, Penomenon - Phenomena in plural,idea - ιδέα, exactly as it is in greek and so on.....
... and "if we're honest a life threatening accident was pretty hilarious" simply became FAIL.
Highly entertaining and educational. I very thoroughly enjoyed watching this video. Bravo!
Isn't a firewall something you put in buildings in between flats to stop fires from spreading, or something you put in welding tanks to stop burning gas from travelling to the tank?
No, it's a software that protects viruses from entering a network or server. It is a virtual wall of fire that keeps bad stuff outside your computer.
JuanDVene I don't mean this as an insult, but really..? The term firewall doesn't ring any bells that it might be a term used in a previous era, before computers were ever invented?
Lauri Hirn I'm guessing that IT devs borrowed the term as an analogy to fire resistant walls intalled in buildings. Firewalls in networks act as a way for keeping out unwanted communication from a computer and allows only previously defined "safe" applications to send and receive information externally i.e. Internet Browsers and email.
The video says 'burnt wallpaper' so it must have known and meant the term was there prior but not as popular.
This is a very unusual approach to covering the history of the English Language.
8:22 and their mafia, just like Mama used to make! lol
The horse's head reference is awesome by the way.
It's a technical term that's within 30 or so years old, it's probably not difficult to track down its first usage.
Fantastic! Witty and accurate and hugely entertaining. Thank you OU!
@juicykarkass Oh I assure you I do know what grammar is. However, about half of the people using English do not care for grammar and do not know it, and make themselves reasonably well understood. The only thing you need to learn to communicate in English is lexic, you can then use your language's grammar to create meaningful sentences.
Helpful, informative and amusing. Well done!
But abriviations were used in messages because of limitations on the overall message size
+GothicZombie89 Let's be honest, laziness had something to do with it. Why spend an entire five seconds typing "That's pretty funny!" when "lol" does the trick?
Funny seeing all the people arguing that such-and-such word obviously came from their (other related) language. Some are borrowings, especially where the two cultures overlapped (eg. Norman French words in English) but in other cases, the reason words are similar is that most languages spoken in Europe, India and inbetween evolved from an even older language called Proto-Indo-European.
+Ian Pulsford And that older language is Sanskrit
No it is not, Sanskrit is a decendant of Proto-Indo-European. Sanskrit is a sibling of Ancient Greek, Latin, Proto-Germanic, Old Persian etc., not the parent. Go read up on some linguistics.
+Ian Pulsford Fun fact: The "Atlantean" language in the animated film "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" is a full conlang based around PIE.
+Declan Miller
Computer simply means calculator. Both the scandinavian _dator_ and the french _ordinateur_ are more descriptive of what a modern _data machine_ is used for.
Good sir your teaching method learning so easy for student.
This is terrific. Entertaining and interesting. Thank you! What DID happen to the Jutes?
no one knows
Our best guess is that they got wiped out or assimilated by the surrounding Saxons.
The speaker of this video explains it with full of wit,humor and sarcasm.
Well, many English words adopted from Latin but the majority of Latin words adopted from Ancient Greek language and those who know about glossology can prove it. Oops glossology sounds Greek: glossa (γλώσσα) means language. And if you are not sure if Ancient Greek civilization is one of the oldest, then just refer to history as there are enough evidences about this.
Hello my fellow Greek citizen. Let's support each other to make the truth glow. You can like my comment as I did for yours. Our point will be more obvious if we unite on one comment and make it the most popular, so that it will be the first for everyone to see.
Wow, so much self-masturbating ethnicentric bullshit.
Guys, I get where you are coming from but in Great Britain, they had their scientific papers, books and manuals in Latin, not in Greek.Of course, it is true that a lot of words used in Latin came from Greek, but the Brits didn't have a direct influence from the Greek language. I know it's frustrating that many people forgot the importance of ancient civilizations, like Ancient Greece, Babylon, Persia etc, but it makes perfect sense that this video doesn't mention the Greek connection for it's not a direct one.
"Firewall" (9:30) is a term borrowed by computer developers from building construction and automobile manufacture and means roughly the same thing in the physical world. Needless to say, this predates 1990.
NHS Dental Care, lol
This is beautiful. Thank you, so much for uploading this.
In Romanian, kids learning the language often pronounce the "r" as an "l." "Th" doesn't exist at all. My natural tendency is to pronounce it as an "f" in "through," as a "d" in "that," as a "z" in "the," and as a "t" in most other situations.
You all forgot Spanglish. Latinos in the US all speak both Spanish and English in a cluster of strange dialog.
Yeah, but you people don't matter.
quien te registra, papá? :v
say goodybye to your account, lince
Riveting Rosie I agree but actually its not only the latinos that speak spanglish many people in america actually tend to use spanish words like nada, ya and many other words just with a more english pronunciation
They didn’t about forget it. They weren’t going to mention ALL English varieties.
Very amusing AND educational - the best kind! Thanks so much!
Great fun. And informative.
Well yeah, now that I think about it, what your native tongue is does factor into it. It's easier to learn Arabic if you're Israeli, Russian if you're Bulgarian, French if you're Italian, German if you're Danish, and so on. More generally, it's easier to learn English if your native tongue is an Indo-European one. The reason I brought up tones is that they allow little room for imprecision, whereas it's relatively easy to learn bad English and improve from there. Hence my calling it forgiving.
awesome video - love the animation makes it easy to follow :)
Could you make this for french? I'd love to know about it's evolution
Epic voice!
English has a grammar but it isn't as strict and complex as many other languages. In addition English speakers seem to be more accepting of non-native speakers' efforts and tend to work to understand them as there are many differing dialects of English with their own words etc. not only around the world but even within the British Isles.
good video! Neverethess It is sad that the authors do not mention how many greek words English contains
Watching the butthurt autistic Greek comments it's good thing they don't, it serves you well.
@@autumnleaves6661 pure gold
Germanic language (German, English, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, icelandic)
Romance Languages (French,Latin, Spanish, italian, portuguese)
facts you don't know about The English language
loved this presentation? Could you show me how?
Simplistic, incomplete, inaccurate at some parts but I really liked the animation.
Outcome: The Open University has good animators and bad historians
5:11 Electricity: "Invented by the English". Really?
5:17 Pendulum: "Invented by the English". Really?
5:22 Cardiac: "Invented by the English". Really?
5:25 Sternum: "Invented by the English". Really?
5:31 Clitoris. You are right. This could not have been invented by the English.
You missed the point entirely, genius. The dates refer to the words, not the things themselves, and nowhere does it say 'invented by the English'
@VeraSamuels
It's Clive Anderson, and he didn't say there wasn't Christianity in Roman 'England'. It died out and missionaries brought it back in the late 6th century.
Where was 'Clockwork Orange English'?
Welly welly welly welly well
It was called Nadsat I believe.
viddy well
You mean Russian with the English alphabet?