I believe it was best described when someone once called English the language that mugs other languages in back-alleys and rummages through their pockets for spare vocabulary and grammar
Underrated comment! 🤣 As a French speaking person, I bet your everything that learning English is beyond difficult! 😅 And I HATE words that starts with a H!
We are trying, it's just a little (🥲) difficult when there are differents prononciations depending of the country like english from uk, from usa, from Canada, from Australia... so yes it may be hard sometimes, but to be fair french is hard too so it's just fair-play I guess 😂
Enthusiastically making a strawman, sadly. Those words don't sound similar because that's not how words work... you construct them left to right so shoving letters on the front means you start in a different place. Wait and Weight sound the same because they're taking the W sound and modifying the end. Height doesn't sound like Weight because it starts with a H sound. On top of that, you do also have the issue of homophones based on which language the word came from. This isn't a feature of English, it's a feature of natural languages in general. French, of course, knows this because it has the same stuff. There's the word "Terre"... So I get the lenght unit by sticking a "me" on the front? No, "metre" ... Au... Aux... Eau... *shrug*
Everytime I think my German or Spanish is terrible, I find one of these videos. I'm so glad I learned English as my first language. Thank you, German and Spanish for having easy to pronunce and spell languages.
Ikr when I was 10 in an English class and nobody spoke English (I was better at grammar then even my teacher) and the whole class would always ask me for help I can say I got a headache from explaining stuff to at least 3 people at once 😀
Damn that was better than my explanation of “english is a language created by two people, one is overdosed on all the drugs at the same time, besides LSD just to make grammar, and the other person invented LSD and overdosed on it, and gallons of every alcohol, along with enough caffeine to give a water buffalo a heart attack, to create the spelling and pronunciation logic” Im going to quote you
@@heavendevour Kanji is Japanese... also languages' difficulty depend on your native language. English is harder than Chinese for a Korean or Japanese person, who would a similar language, while English is easier than Chinese for a Dutchman or a Swede, because English is similar to their languages
As a second language learner, I confirm this is the case😂. I was told that English is so systematic but look at all the messes. The English pronunciation never makes sense
English is my first and only language and sometimes when I’m reading and come across a word that has more than one form of pronunciation and definition, I sometimes I have reread a sentence about three times before it makes sense because when I read it the first time I used a different pronunciation and was thinking of a different definition in my head. My favorite example of this is desert…depending on the context, you can talking about a dry area of land or you could talking about abandoning something or someone and each definition have difference pronunciations. The abandoning something one, the pronunciation is the same as the pronunciation for dessert (with two “s”), which is something, usually sweet, eaten after a main course/dinner. So I feel for non-English speakers learning English.
I'm a Pole and English native speakers often say that Polish has very hard pronunciation but at least our rules of pronunciation are as simple as possible.
English doesn't borrow words from other languages, it chases them down dark allies, beats them up and goes through their pockets for syntax and spellings.
My english teacher was straightforward with us about that. "A lot of times english pronunciation doesnt make sense, so don't get too attached to rules, focus on listening and practicing". Best advice she could ever give, it made things a lot easier.
@It aint no thing No, it isn't a conspiracy. The printing press cemented English spelling just as the sound changes of Early Modern English occurred/started occurring. So the pronunciation changed, but the spelling stayed the same.
also, most native english speakers (the ones with half a brain, anyway) will understand what you mean regardless, at least here in 'murica. since there's a lot of non-native english speakers here anyway, a lot of us are used to hearing mispronounced words. and if a native english speaker does still make fun of you, remind them that you're at least bi/multilingual, while they (probably) aren't.
I think it's pretty consistent. You just gotta accept that sometimes the rules are bent because there are a metric fuck ton of words that are just lifted from other languages at some point or another. That does admittedly get more confusing because of the slow morphing of pronunciation across different dialects and eras over time.
Even the word “neither” has too many ways to be pronounced Neither n - eye - v - er Neither n - ee - th - er (but with the “th” and “er” pronounced together to sound different..) Either eye - v - er Either ee - th - er (but once again with the “th” and “er? Pronounced together to sound a specific way)
yep....every language class in the US talks about this as if no one has ever thought of how English is difficult/confusing...he did really great to bring up something everyone knows and talks about every time they think about the English language. Really bright individual...can't believe he recognized something people have known for over a hundred years....great job he did. really thinking outside of the box and getting as creative as I'm sure he could ever be...lmfao. Language professors....only useful as translators for people who actually use their brains like: engineers, doctors, scientists, etc.
As a native English speaker, I appreciate the ridiculous nature of the language. It makes sure anyone who wants to speak/read/write in it is willing to suspend some disbelief and just roll with the chaos.
@@EnigmaGameMaster well you live right next door to one of the biggest English speaking countries in the world. It's why Spanish is easier for Americans to learn because of how often we're surrounded by it
When my friend was learning Spanish, I had to teach her to not adjust pronunciations randomly like in English. I had to teach her to be phonetically consistent 😂
Spanish isn’t built of as many languages as English is. Hard to be consistent with words from: German, French, Greek, Latin, and a few just invented by English.
@@yourlittleinsomniac5369 yes good point! LoL! I'm always learning new things! I forget what it was now, but there was a word I pronounced wrong for years because I didn't say it out loud often, just read it. Finally said it out loud in front of the right person and they corrected me. English is confusing for all ages. 😆
@@Mebh547 I'm Hungarian and when I was learning English we didn't even had to memorise any pronunciation rules, we just accepted that we have to learn it for each and every new word. I think it's true that English is not one language, but three different ones in a trenchcoat pretending to be one.😂
As a french, I would not have get that english prononciation is so messed up unless I heard the native speaker talk about it You listen to english, and then you'll naturaly learn the prononciation In french, there's also several ways to write a single sound, so I guess I just didn't notice while learning english
@@hungariangiraffe6361 LOL yes! That's a perfect description! 😂 And yeah learning every word individually is unfortunately about all you can do. So much easier when it's your first language, but it has still confused me since I was old enough to talk! 😂 I actually know a french guy and a Romanian girl who speak better English then me because they don't use bad Grammer and stuff like I do. They have strong accents and make a mistake here and there but they seem to know more about English than I do because they worked so hard to learn it. How hard do you think it would be for an English speaker to learn Hungarian? Is it a difficult language?
@@delailama736hat they’re trying to say is rules and pronunciation r extremely inconsistent to the point where u could just learn words individually and maybe have better luck learning It’s just that typically u use phonetics for when u see a new word u dk, even then though an English speaker will most likely get a word right by following what they think it’d sound like in English over using logic
@@av_kay5059 No. What they are talking about is known as "whole word" method of learning to read. The phonics method of learning to read is superior. If you have kids and you want them to have the best results, you use the phonics method.
@@mincat1412 that doesnt make a lot of sense. Something is relatable if you relate to it, by having the same experience, but if you never even realised it, how can you have the same experience as someone who does realise it.
well it isn't as hard as german.. 😅 and yeah in French when you learn the rules it's natural.. and even if you mispelled it it's isn't so bad.. (sorry if i'm bad at writing in english , i'm french.. 🙏)
As an Italian who loves to read in English, I'm always a bit frustrated that any time I encounter a new word I have to check how to pronounce it. Italian is super consistent. Any first grader, at the end of the school year, could (should be able to) read and write any new word. And that's why we don't have any spelling competition. 😁
Same with Finnish. Super systematic, but also syllabic (so example syllable "mik" is always pronounced the same no matter the word) and children usually learn to read and write before end of the first school year. Only problem with Finnish is that we have like 14 grammatical cases and learning to use them right takes time. But usually kids who have been read to a lot (bedtime stories and such) before school age have quite a solid grasp of the more common cases at 1st grade. The clause is that while certain logic in cases conjugation fits with words A and B, it doesn't go with word C _even_ if it sounds similar/ends in similar fashion, and kids just have to learn to remember the exceptions... 😅
Get use to it meaning is given by context. Learn enough to understand the minimum amount then you will learn the rest even if it may be rough. For context I am trying to learn German and french , my second language is English. I am using it daily and it got bad now that my inner dialogue became mostly English. ;D My mothertounge isn't related to any core european language.
Same with Spanish. When I was a kid I remember watching The Simpsons and wondering why they would do spelling contests... I thought it was SO easy. Now I get it.
In Polish this also is rarely the problem. For non Polish speaker it's hard to pronounce words, but not because you don't know how to read them. You mostly read the same as you write.
Honestly, English is my first language and sometimes I STILL have to look up new words to know how they're pronounced. There's nothing more annoying than saying a word out loud that you've only ever seen written, and getting weird looks from everyone in the room.
As a not native English speaker I can say: English is easy compared to other languages. Portuguese, for example, have so much rules you'd never get it. We have like 12 different words with the same damn meaning and each word is applicable depending of pronom, verbal time and plural or singular.
Do you not know history? England was colonized over and over again. You're hating on the ultimate colonized country. All those languages are the languages of England's oppressors.
@@JLa7257are you really that daft when it comes to the history of the English language and modern etymology in general?? Like, most languages are ‘stealing’ words from each other to convey ideas they were previously using entire sentences to convey, and also as colonization, trade, and world slavery started to become more and more prevalent, languages married and evolved. And if you’re hung up on OP using the verb ‘steal’, you really need to get off it, because that’s a very pedantic thing to try and make a point off of, this isn’t “Um Actually”.
"English is like three languages stacked in a trenchcoat. It stalks other languages in a dark alleyway, and rifles through their pockets for loose vocabs." - Den of Wolves responding to MissTrillium on a VSauce video.
actually its more than 3. we just sampled everyone elses language and then called it our own work. we basically copied the homework from every student in the hypothetical language class, and then turned it in to the teacher saying how hard we worked on it. 😂😅
This quote is actually a reference to a Terry Pratchett (author of the Discworld series) quote: "English doesn’t borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar."
I appreciate this joke so much more after learning French for some time. French is extremely consistent with its letter groups and pronunciation. I can totally totally feel the confusion.
Relatable. The English language makes sense because it makes sense, even if this explanation doesn’t make sense, the pronunciation makes sense because it’s easy for the brain to process. 😅
@@philliperasmus8426mericans speak great English and some of the greatest writers of the English language are American. It’s also our form of English that is the standard for new learners and it’s the american form of English that is used all over the internet, so be real.
English is easy, you tend to grow up being surrounded by it if you have any interest in pop culture. Don't try to make up to be some high level skill to grasp.
🤣 I love it ! My mother is currently learning english and she has the same reaction than french with this word 🤣 each time she discover a new word she will just read it in the most french way and it's always so fun and terrible.
@@liu.calazans yes ! Because there is similar but not exactly the same sound, it's hard to say them right 🤣 for me it's all word that end with "tion", my accent just tangle up with something else and it just become incomprehensible in english 🤣
I can relate to this, my mom is the exact same. 😂 She asks my sister and I for how to say this or that and there's eventually a time of "just say it, don't think it" because it makes no sense. The worst sound for me to pronounce is the "thr" tbh. I can manage soft and hard "th" okay. But adding a frigging R after it? No can do. So I end up rolling my r because otherwise I am literally unable to count past 2-
yep....every language class in the US talks about this as if no one has ever thought of how English is difficult/confusing...he did really great to bring up something everyone knows and talks about every time they think about the English language. Really bright individual...can't believe he recognized something people have known for over a hundred years....great job he did. really thinking outside of the box and getting as creative as I'm sure he could ever be...lmfao. Language professors....only useful as translators for people who actually use their brains like: engineers, doctors, scientists, etc.
@@matts3425 Tf u on about bruh. This is UA-cam. Not school. You were typing all that shit to be sarcastic when it's only for entertainment... Are you perhaps getting offended by this video? Lmao
@@Mster_Jexactly and lets not even start with stringing words together phonetically in a sentence 💀 i couldnt believe french was such a direct descendant of latin (italian is no.2!!!) because it certainly sounds like being sleepy, drunk, stoned and having two strokes and a heart attack at the same time!!
हिन्दी में अक्षरों का उच्चारण हमेशा समान रहता है अ आ इ ई उ ऊ ए ऐ ओ औ अं अः स्वर व्यंजन क ख ग घ च छ ज झ ट ठ ड ढ ण त थ द ध न प फ ब भ म य र ल व श ष स ह क्ष त्र ज्ञ श्र
@@yannickdrunkler1531 that’s a nice argument and all, but maybe you should lay back on the hobby of condoning arguments online over a simple youtube comment.
How it is to learn a language depends on how similar it is to the language you already know. A French guy has an easier time learning English than a Chinese person
@@jeremiahenglish6461bro im french and no, im 15 and we learn to conjugate 2 words verbs that the second word could agree with an object if hes before the verb and if the first part is the good one.
We made English couldn’t understand so just started adapting it now depending on where you are it’s basically a whole other language pretty fun but a bitch to learn
The Great Vowel Shift! Right after we standardized spelling, we had a big thing where people changed where in the mouth we said various words, which changed the pronunciation
Join the club. Been in France for 5 years and now I understand why they struggle so much. I thought their language was complicated, but I'm about to reconsider
@@nurilnuril4372Yeah, french language isn't that hard just...french make it hard... Verlan, weird anglicisme (without english accent of course), the different french accent who are...VERY different.
@@phantommangagirl no English is not the second actually mnderine is the first Arabic I'd the second and the third is Japanese then Hungarian and fiichi and then franch , the list goes on and matter fact English is on of the easyest bro
As a person who's probably as fluent as you can be in English without going to college for it, this is 100% English. You just either understand it or you don't, and I think all early school does is make sure you understand that nuance.
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Funny thing is that the reason English is so confusing is because it has so many Latin words in it because of the French monarchs that rules England for centuries.
English has the most confusing orthography in the world. The only other language with equally confusing orthography is Tibetan. English has simple grammar and rules, but pronunciation and vocabulary is a perpetual beast to wrestle.
@@Ty13136 French has messy orthography, but unlike English, the French at least try to maintain order and consistency. For example, the French don't pronounce the last letters in words, most infamously 's', 'x', and 'e'. If you ever play a videogame or watch a movie, listen/read carefully for a non-Francophone's dialogue: If he/she pronounces the 's' at the end of a French word, it's incorrect. For example, take "Les Infants Misérables" (lit. "The miserable children"), just pretend the 's' doesn't exist - French speakers will understand and differentiate singular/plural depending on the context.
I remember messing around with it on my own time a good while ago and having a decent amount of success working with futhorc as a starting point, rather than the Latin alphabet. English just has too many different vocalic sounds to fit an alphabet that only has 5 symbols for vowels.
@@jonathanlange1339 I love diacritics as much as the next guy and probably abuse way too much them in my... spelling reform adventures (the language I work with the most distinguishes vowels both by length and quality), but they are not great for readability.
It is more of a people failed to convinced other people to run along with their proposed standard, rather than failing at standardizing spelling. Standardizing English spelling is easy, getting it to be accepted and stick is hard.
@@IreneSaltini Only if you're writing poorly by hand, but then that is not the "diacritics" fault. "Diacritics", because in many languages (e.g. Finnish, German, Swedish) they aren't diacritics, they're considered actual different letters (it is not o with two dots, it is ö, different letter name, and different sound) and we don't have readibility issues. Vanilla futhorc and the cousin runic alphabets are about as bad as vanilla latin alphabet for modern English. Modern English's sound system has little to do with Anglo-Saxon/Old English's. IIRC futhorc had at most 33 symbols in its most extended version, while Modern English is sort of an anomalous language (at least among Germanic languages) with its about 20 vowel sounds and some 24 consonant sounds too. It is a few more, but not enough for it to be a substantial advantage over the latin one, which can easily be extended if you really want a one sound for each phoneme (granted, some of the vowel sounds are diphtongs and would be better to represent than as such, but that is me), just like other germanic languages (and even non indo-european ones) did by employing å, ö, ø, etc. which, again, does not cause readibility issues for people who are actually literate in those languages (which is an issue, but different). Now, you might still prefer an extended runic alphabet over an extended latin based one, and if it is just a matter of taste that is completely fine. But if you're going to try to give objective reasons for it anyway, then "insulficient letters for vowels" and bad for readibility aren't really good ones.
French: strange exceptions to every rule
English: there is no rule; embrace the chaos
I believe it was best described when someone once called English the language that mugs other languages in back-alleys and rummages through their pockets for spare vocabulary and grammar
@@PeterDivineyeah I read that comment too. Laughed my ass off reading that.
So true
T-shirt worthy. Yes, humans are the source of all choas. Why should language be different?
@@PeterDivine pretty much dead accurate as English will happily take from French , German , Latin , Greek and Scandinavian languages
You don't learn English, you memorize it.
Same as chess
@@con_el_maestro3544u memorise the rules yes, like everything else😑
Facts! I remember our teacher teaching us different words and how to pronounce them on a whole ass blackboard.
That’s a whole fact!
Underrated comment! 🤣 As a French speaking person, I bet your everything that learning English is beyond difficult! 😅 And I HATE words that starts with a H!
French : I don't get it
English : neither do we
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@@DiscipleJameson what about vegetarian? thats what i am
Now am wondering how I even learnt all these tough stuff in my childhood 😂😂
nethier do i
It may seem complex, it can be understood through tough thorough thought though.
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@@MJKFanaticI think I just had a stroke😮
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English: Let's confuse the french, they started it
French really shouldn't have been bragging about confusing the Americans.
I was thinking the same thing 😂😂😂😂
I mean their ancestors are partially at fault for some of this
French are at fault for bringing French words and spellings into a germanic language
Aren’t the english vocabulary’s roots basically 50% germanic, 25% french/latin and 25% celtic?
Gosh gotta love French, he is asking questions that did not even cross my mind. I share your videos with my English Teacher.
Wait you actually share it???
@@undisclosed600 You mean shair it, like sh and air.
I share some of them with a friend who is a teacher 😁
@@ПавлинаЖелева-л6б Is he a teechur, you said? Chur like from church.
@@undisclosed600 Well yes, I was in school in the 90s and I have been in touch with her since.
Poor French was so enthusiastic about learning 😭
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We are trying, it's just a little (🥲) difficult when there are differents prononciations depending of the country like english from uk, from usa, from Canada, from Australia... so yes it may be hard sometimes, but to be fair french is hard too so it's just fair-play I guess 😂
Enthusiastically making a strawman, sadly. Those words don't sound similar because that's not how words work... you construct them left to right so shoving letters on the front means you start in a different place. Wait and Weight sound the same because they're taking the W sound and modifying the end. Height doesn't sound like Weight because it starts with a H sound. On top of that, you do also have the issue of homophones based on which language the word came from. This isn't a feature of English, it's a feature of natural languages in general.
French, of course, knows this because it has the same stuff. There's the word "Terre"... So I get the lenght unit by sticking a "me" on the front? No, "metre" ... Au... Aux... Eau... *shrug*
yea, ironic when all these spelling/pronunciation problems were actually caused by the norman (french) conquest of England and the "great vowel shift"
Everytime I think my German or Spanish is terrible, I find one of these videos. I'm so glad I learned English as my first language. Thank you, German and Spanish for having easy to pronunce and spell languages.
Same with Polish, I might not know the word, but I can sure pronounce it (with my terrible accent at least)
English: there are literally no rules, just memorize every word
Online dictionary is a godsend for audio pronunciation
English language enters the chat: yel I've got 5 million words about counting, enjoy.
Yes just...
exactly 💯
Which in the ass coming from a language that has clear and strict rules for spelling
you don't realize how hard your language is until you have to teach it 💀
I tried to explain basic spelling to a 2nd grader once and I confirm I lost understanding of English myself
Facts.
True
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Ikr when I was 10 in an English class and nobody spoke English (I was better at grammar then even my teacher) and the whole class would always ask me for help I can say I got a headache from explaining stuff to at least 3 people at once 😀
"English isn't a language, it's three languages stacked on top of each other wearing a trenchcoat."
Thats so true tho
This is the most underrated comment
Damn that was better than my explanation of “english is a language created by two people, one is overdosed on all the drugs at the same time, besides LSD just to make grammar, and the other person invented LSD and overdosed on it, and gallons of every alcohol, along with enough caffeine to give a water buffalo a heart attack, to create the spelling and pronunciation logic”
Im going to quote you
Just 3
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The walk off is a comedic masterpiece. 😂
My english teacher once told me that in english there is only one rule. And that rule is, dont think, be chaotic.
What does chaotic means?
@@sapnasingh5629in a state of complete confusion and disorder.
and when someone makes a typo on the internet they'll start a war in the comments lmao
@@Danielz_Sozenlthat is absolutely applicable to english what is this language. this is why teaching the sound it out method is dumb
and have good memory.
Learning to read English is almost like learning Kanji, you basically have to remember how everything sound
I heard harder chinese language than english bru😅
@@heavendevour Kanji is Japanese...
also languages' difficulty depend on your native language. English is harder than Chinese for a Korean or Japanese person, who would a similar language, while English is easier than Chinese for a Dutchman or a Swede, because English is similar to their languages
I don't think so. Kanji seems to need memory, whereas English pronunciation works on intuition
@@azearaazymoto461 okay, there is memory involved. Pronunciation gets pretty random sometimes. I wouldn't call it Kanji levels of memorization though
@@kiwenmanisunokanji is Chinese origin. Japanese adopted it to their own language as writing system because they didn't have one before.
Truly, English is a matter of, “If you know, you know…”
Literally 😭😭
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A nod to the originator of this bit - Gallagher.
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@@TeckTheBlooded that's his brother... Gallagher 2.
Two different acts
You don't get English, English gets you, has it's way with you and leaves you broken and defeated.
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As a second language learner, I confirm this is the case😂. I was told that English is so systematic but look at all the messes. The English pronunciation never makes sense
Whoever told you English is systematic is a liar. It's literally the most inconsistent language haha
@@adamabdelfattah9040 the grammar is more or less consistant, but the spelling and pronunciation are the language equivalent of alphabet soup
English is my first and only language and sometimes when I’m reading and come across a word that has more than one form of pronunciation and definition, I sometimes I have reread a sentence about three times before it makes sense because when I read it the first time I used a different pronunciation and was thinking of a different definition in my head. My favorite example of this is desert…depending on the context, you can talking about a dry area of land or you could talking about abandoning something or someone and each definition have difference pronunciations. The abandoning something one, the pronunciation is the same as the pronunciation for dessert (with two “s”), which is something, usually sweet, eaten after a main course/dinner. So I feel for non-English speakers learning English.
I already abandoned the thought "English must be systematic" and just rely on my instinct or how it sounds
@@adamabdelfattah9040 There are far more inconsistent languages out there.
This reminds me of the time I wrote an essay about Fahrenheit 451 without knowing how to spell fahrenheit
Same😂😂😂
Nobody knows how to spell Fahrenheit 🙄
Fahrenheit sounds Germanic so I guess it might have been gotten from Der Deutsch or ancient English
Wrote a whole essay about a book and didn't even read the cover 😂
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That s how you read it
I'm a Pole and English native speakers often say that Polish has very hard pronunciation but at least our rules of pronunciation are as simple as possible.
As an anglophone who visited a slavic country for a summer, you are SO correct.
English doesn't borrow words from other languages, it chases them down dark allies, beats them up and goes through their pockets for syntax and spellings.
This made me laugh way harder than it should have
Nice stolen comment…
@@patrickmorrey8722 Agreed!
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This is fucking great, you should make t shirts
My english teacher was straightforward with us about that. "A lot of times english pronunciation doesnt make sense, so don't get too attached to rules, focus on listening and practicing".
Best advice she could ever give, it made things a lot easier.
Yes, don't think about it. Just use the words that you already know, adding a few words here and there.
house
mouse
ladder
...
It is what it is ;-)
@It aint no thing No, it isn't a conspiracy. The printing press cemented English spelling just as the sound changes of Early Modern English occurred/started occurring. So the pronunciation changed, but the spelling stayed the same.
Cough,dough,rough,bough,through,trough......what insanity!!!!
also, most native english speakers (the ones with half a brain, anyway) will understand what you mean regardless, at least here in 'murica. since there's a lot of non-native english speakers here anyway, a lot of us are used to hearing mispronounced words.
and if a native english speaker does still make fun of you, remind them that you're at least bi/multilingual, while they (probably) aren't.
I think it's pretty consistent. You just gotta accept that sometimes the rules are bent because there are a metric fuck ton of words that are just lifted from other languages at some point or another. That does admittedly get more confusing because of the slow morphing of pronunciation across different dialects and eras over time.
French ate at eight but his hate for extra height and weight must wait because it’s great to eat! 😂😂😂😂
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How dare you
It makes no sense if you don't know.
It also makes no sense when you do 😂.
let me perfect this for you; Because he feels great to grate - cheese over his pate at eight.
This explains my confusion everytime I try to teach non-native English classes English language
Us English speakers:: "They will never know our next move...and neither will we"
If neigh is pronounced like nay, it’s pronounced like nayther, right?
*No-*
The English even try to battle against the enemy with their linguistic 'ambush' rules!😂
The perfect predator.
Even the word “neither” has too many ways to be pronounced
Neither n - eye - v - er
Neither n - ee - th - er (but with the “th” and “er” pronounced together to sound different..)
Either eye - v - er
Either ee - th - er (but once again with the “th” and “er? Pronounced together to sound a specific way)
I actually WAS down on the floor on
NEITHER DO WE!!!
One does not just speak English,
English speaks you.
So many Russian oligarchs in London, englishmen are now making Soviet Russia jokes...
@@TheNefastor 😂 lol
In Soviet Russia Russian speaks you
Ain’t that the god damned truth 😤😤😤
Like in Soviet Russia 😅
His performance is everything... he deserves to get a gig from it
yep....every language class in the US talks about this as if no one has ever thought of how English is difficult/confusing...he did really great to bring up something everyone knows and talks about every time they think about the English language. Really bright individual...can't believe he recognized something people have known for over a hundred years....great job he did. really thinking outside of the box and getting as creative as I'm sure he could ever be...lmfao. Language professors....only useful as translators for people who actually use their brains like: engineers, doctors, scientists, etc.
He's a musical actor
@@matts3425 ok
@@matts3425 You want a medal or something?
@@FalconWindblader no but this guy deserves one for being so original and creative...such a great video 10/10
wait till u come across MINUTE (60seconds ) and MINUTE (very small)
Woow English is a real chaos indeed, those two words are hard to pronounce differently coz the spelling is the same
As a native English speaker, I appreciate the ridiculous nature of the language. It makes sure anyone who wants to speak/read/write in it is willing to suspend some disbelief and just roll with the chaos.
This channel makes fun of French and Spanish often too, it’s not like English is the only one with quirks.
lol never try french nor german you'll rethink about the defintion of chaos
As a french, let me introduce you to silent letters
@@kamikazboy69 Why?
@@sciencefreak7913 LOL Look up Twain's single sentence German article.
As a native speaker, I never realized how hard English was😂
English is one of the harder languages to learn because its consistently inconsistent and it drives non native speakers batshit
True
Well I'm a native Quebecan French speaker and I found English to be easier to learn than French and easier to think with it too.
@@EnigmaGameMaster well you live right next door to one of the biggest English speaking countries in the world. It's why Spanish is easier for Americans to learn because of how often we're surrounded by it
Thats fine, ive found that most English only speakers can't speak English either
My English Teacher used to tell us that English isn’t a language, it’s 4 languages stacked on top of eachother in a trench coat
Hahahah that is a good way of putting it
English stealing from every language that isn’t Asian:
Definitely feels like it at times.
That’s the most accurate description I’ve ever heard.
Accurate
"I've never understood why English is always called the hardest language" ohh I get it now...
When my friend was learning Spanish, I had to teach her to not adjust pronunciations randomly like in English. I had to teach her to be phonetically consistent 😂
That's why I failed Spanish.
Consistency is unAmerican😂
Spanish isn’t built of as many languages as English is. Hard to be consistent with words from: German, French, Greek, Latin, and a few just invented by English.
@@nvfury13 Spanish has a mix with ,Latin ,greek ,Iberian and Arabic. It has its mix in the pot to deal with.
Es muy frustrante. He pasado por eso.
- di "O"
- ow
- prueba alargando la "O"
- oooooooooo...
- y ahora para en seco
- ...oooow
Sorry french. We native English speakers feel pretty much the same way when learning how to spell and pronounce things as kids. 😂😂😂
Even as adults! You'll find new words written down and just have to take your best shot at it until you get corrected.
@@yourlittleinsomniac5369 yes good point! LoL! I'm always learning new things! I forget what it was now, but there was a word I pronounced wrong for years because I didn't say it out loud often, just read it. Finally said it out loud in front of the right person and they corrected me. English is confusing for all ages. 😆
@@Mebh547 I'm Hungarian and when I was learning English we didn't even had to memorise any pronunciation rules, we just accepted that we have to learn it for each and every new word. I think it's true that English is not one language, but three different ones in a trenchcoat pretending to be one.😂
As a french, I would not have get that english prononciation is so messed up unless I heard the native speaker talk about it
You listen to english, and then you'll naturaly learn the prononciation
In french, there's also several ways to write a single sound, so I guess I just didn't notice while learning english
@@hungariangiraffe6361 LOL yes! That's a perfect description! 😂
And yeah learning every word individually is unfortunately about all you can do. So much easier when it's your first language, but it has still confused me since I was old enough to talk! 😂 I actually know a french guy and a Romanian girl who speak better English then me because they don't use bad Grammer and stuff like I do. They have strong accents and make a mistake here and there but they seem to know more about English than I do because they worked so hard to learn it.
How hard do you think it would be for an English speaker to learn Hungarian? Is it a difficult language?
As my English teachers told me: don't try to find any logic of pronunciation, just learn each word individually.
That's a terrible way to learn to read. Phonics is the superior method.
Well that explains a lot 😂
@@delailama736hat they’re trying to say is rules and pronunciation r extremely inconsistent to the point where u could just learn words individually and maybe have better luck learning
It’s just that typically u use phonetics for when u see a new word u dk, even then though an English speaker will most likely get a word right by following what they think it’d sound like in English over using logic
@@av_kay5059 No. What they are talking about is known as "whole word" method of learning to read. The phonics method of learning to read is superior.
If you have kids and you want them to have the best results, you use the phonics method.
i learned through watching English cartoons when i was little
J'adore tes vidéos. Elles me font trop marrer 😂😂
As an English speaker I didn’t realize how true this is. 100/10 relatable😂
My guy, how can you say you’re an English speaker, then spell realise with a zed.. keep your McDonald’s English to yourself cowpoke 😂😂
How is it relatable if you never realised it. Jesus
@@flipnshiftynow that they have realized it it is now relatable.
@@mincat1412 that doesnt make a lot of sense. Something is relatable if you relate to it, by having the same experience, but if you never even realised it, how can you have the same experience as someone who does realise it.
@@flipnshiftyit can still be relatable after noticing how weirdly English works, and understanding the language.
French: we memorize rules
English: we memorize the dictionary
well it isn't as hard as german.. 😅 and yeah in French when you learn the rules it's natural.. and even if you mispelled it it's isn't so bad.. (sorry if i'm bad at writing in english , i'm french.. 🙏)
For spelling, sure. For noun genders it’s the other way around.
Rest of the world:- we have our own words
English:- yeah but I stole a lot of words and made them sound like ours😂😂😂
Wow
@@dasilvaolivia6559je te comprend moi aussi j’ai se problème
As an Italian who loves to read in English, I'm always a bit frustrated that any time I encounter a new word I have to check how to pronounce it.
Italian is super consistent. Any first grader, at the end of the school year, could (should be able to) read and write any new word. And that's why we don't have any spelling competition. 😁
Same with Finnish.
Super systematic, but also syllabic (so example syllable "mik" is always pronounced the same no matter the word) and children usually learn to read and write before end of the first school year.
Only problem with Finnish is that we have like 14 grammatical cases and learning to use them right takes time. But usually kids who have been read to a lot (bedtime stories and such) before school age have quite a solid grasp of the more common cases at 1st grade.
The clause is that while certain logic in cases conjugation fits with words A and B, it doesn't go with word C _even_ if it sounds similar/ends in similar fashion, and kids just have to learn to remember the exceptions... 😅
Get use to it meaning is given by context. Learn enough to understand the minimum amount then you will learn the rest even if it may be rough.
For context I am trying to learn German and french , my second language is English.
I am using it daily and it got bad now that my inner dialogue became mostly English. ;D
My mothertounge isn't related to any core european language.
Same with Spanish. When I was a kid I remember watching The Simpsons and wondering why they would do spelling contests... I thought it was SO easy. Now I get it.
In Polish this also is rarely the problem.
For non Polish speaker it's hard to pronounce words, but not because you don't know how to read them.
You mostly read the same as you write.
Honestly, English is my first language and sometimes I STILL have to look up new words to know how they're pronounced. There's nothing more annoying than saying a word out loud that you've only ever seen written, and getting weird looks from everyone in the room.
I love this guy, he's the best at what he does ❤
As an English speaker i want to apologize to everyone who is trying to learn English.
We just do broken english
As a not native English speaker I can say: English is easy compared to other languages. Portuguese, for example, have so much rules you'd never get it. We have like 12 different words with the same damn meaning and each word is applicable depending of pronom, verbal time and plural or singular.
I'm Polish trying to learn English :D
As an Englander, I apologise for nothing! Embrace the chaos that is our language!
English is quite easy to learn honestly
The problem isn't that English has no rules...the problem is that the rules differ depending on which language of origin we stole it from.
English stay stealing since it inception
...stole it?
Borrowed @@JLa7257
Do you not know history? England was colonized over and over again. You're hating on the ultimate colonized country. All those languages are the languages of England's oppressors.
@@JLa7257are you really that daft when it comes to the history of the English language and modern etymology in general?? Like, most languages are ‘stealing’ words from each other to convey ideas they were previously using entire sentences to convey, and also as colonization, trade, and world slavery started to become more and more prevalent, languages married and evolved.
And if you’re hung up on OP using the verb ‘steal’, you really need to get off it, because that’s a very pedantic thing to try and make a point off of, this isn’t “Um Actually”.
"English is like three languages stacked in a trenchcoat. It stalks other languages in a dark alleyway, and rifles through their pockets for loose vocabs." - Den of Wolves responding to MissTrillium on a VSauce video.
Wow.... why was that so accurate?
actually its more than 3. we just sampled everyone elses language and then called it our own work. we basically copied the homework from every student in the hypothetical language class, and then turned it in to the teacher saying how hard we worked on it. 😂😅
@@MrSirWivd Isaac Newton once said, "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Celtic language(s) + Roman conquest (adds Latin) + a few centuries + Anglo-Saxon conquest (adds "German") = "English"
"English" + Norman Conquest (adds French) + a few centuries + Globalization = English!
This quote is actually a reference to a Terry Pratchett (author of the Discworld series) quote:
"English doesn’t borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar."
I appreciate this joke so much more after learning French for some time. French is extremely consistent with its letter groups and pronunciation. I can totally totally feel the confusion.
As an American, I have no idea how to explain English to non English speakers
Relatable. The English language makes sense because it makes sense, even if this explanation doesn’t make sense, the pronunciation makes sense because it’s easy for the brain to process. 😅
Americans barely speak English anyway...😅
Uhh, actually we don't really care about Americans?! 😅🤧
@@amoldivo but you bothered to comment. yeah, ok. Americans live in your head rent free.
@@philliperasmus8426mericans speak great English and some of the greatest writers of the English language are American. It’s also our form of English that is the standard for new learners and it’s the american form of English that is used all over the internet, so be real.
I have no idea how my brain is reading English properly at this point... I just know it does 😂
am right with you hear
the problem is wrighting
@@aseelbakheet5556 How did I understand that sentence 😂
@@parthasarathyvenkatadrifr😂😭
@@parthasarathyvenkatadriI konw, rhgit?
that's the way we understand our first language
#1 rule of the English language:
There is no consistency, ever. Dont expect it.
Second rule every word has multiple meanings sometimes contradictory
Third rule everything has more than one word to describe it
As an English learner the Golden rule is don't assume pronuciation, always check it in dictionary or online
ör jus prenounse like u vout in ur ön länkkuate.
just trying to replicate finnish rally english
Oneth rule of the English Language:
Ther iz now conzistensy, ever. Do not expect it.
थैंक गॉड!! हिंदी के साथ यह प्रॉब्लम नही है!!
Thank God ki jagah hey bhagwan likhte na?!
we just pronounce words based on their vibe
Based on which language we took them from. Just learn to spell latin, German, French, and a few other strays...
This guy does it so well I literally feel like it's two different people every time
What are you talking about, that's its brother from france
Wait, its the same person? I didnt even focus on that.
Obviously it was two different people 😬
It's his twin, what are you talking about?
I didn’t even notice it was the same person. I just thought there were 2 different men.
Anyone who learns English as a second language is an actual gigachad and should be appreciated
You don't know what chaos is always happening in Russian language, as a second language English should be a lot easier
Ye
as a 3rd language English I am not surprised anymore
I'm Italian bro
English is easy, you tend to grow up being surrounded by it if you have any interest in pop culture. Don't try to make up to be some high level skill to grasp.
I love the way french sounds like a small confused kid
Us English speakers underestimate how strange English is
Oh no we are aware we just like to watch as yall try to decipher the chaos that is english
I didn't realize until I started watching these shorts. That's also this other video reciting a confusing english poem
Dude, the word “fridge” has a D in it, but the word refrigerator doesn’t. That’s how messed up it is.
I legit have a problem with English n I only speak English soooooo........
I height it
Imagine throwing “laughter” and “daughter” into the conversation.
lotter and dafter, EZ
You can learn it through tough and thorough thought though.
Daughter, Laughter, Slaughter
@@angelicasmodelJesus. Im a native and that almost gave me an aneurysm.
Can I get a glass of waughter please
🤣 I love it ! My mother is currently learning english and she has the same reaction than french with this word 🤣 each time she discover a new word she will just read it in the most french way and it's always so fun and terrible.
I think it's a problem with latin languages because I am brazilian and I am fluent in English and still struggle with the pronunciation of some words
@@liu.calazans yes ! Because there is similar but not exactly the same sound, it's hard to say them right 🤣 for me it's all word that end with "tion", my accent just tangle up with something else and it just become incomprehensible in english 🤣
I can relate to this, my mom is the exact same. 😂 She asks my sister and I for how to say this or that and there's eventually a time of "just say it, don't think it" because it makes no sense.
The worst sound for me to pronounce is the "thr" tbh. I can manage soft and hard "th" okay. But adding a frigging R after it? No can do. So I end up rolling my r because otherwise I am literally unable to count past 2-
If you thought that was confusing, try guessing what certain Irish words phonetically sound like
Using the IPA in subtitles is genius. I just thought that was cool to show the exact dialogue.
yep....every language class in the US talks about this as if no one has ever thought of how English is difficult/confusing...he did really great to bring up something everyone knows and talks about every time they think about the English language. Really bright individual...can't believe he recognized something people have known for over a hundred years....great job he did. really thinking outside of the box and getting as creative as I'm sure he could ever be...lmfao. Language professors....only useful as translators for people who actually use their brains like: engineers, doctors, scientists, etc.
@@matts3425 Tf u on about bruh. This is UA-cam. Not school. You were typing all that shit to be sarcastic when it's only for entertainment...
Are you perhaps getting offended by this video? Lmao
@@matts3425 Do you gotta go to the ER to get that apple tree removed from your rectum or are you waiting to get apple scented breath?
This video just made me forget how to English for a second
I like it when people make languages into verbs, since i do it too and i dont feel alone
You should see his sketch on the swimming pool. "A place to piscine"
@@AgniKaiGuy❤
Same
If you think this is confusing, you should look up Gallagher, the original creator of this Bit.
You have expressed my feeling about English 😂. Thank you
Try learning French, 95% of the words aren’t pronounced how they look
@@Mster_Jexactly and lets not even start with stringing words together phonetically in a sentence 💀
i couldnt believe french was such a direct descendant of latin (italian is no.2!!!) because it certainly sounds like being sleepy, drunk, stoned and having two strokes and a heart attack at the same time!!
Xpressed*
bro am french lol
Please 🙏 no more than nine (9) more people like this comment I am replying to. It's at 69x10 likes rn
this is a conversation that can go on forever...love it
- "English?"
- "Yes, French?!"
Had me laughing! 😂
How does languages greeting eachother make you laugh?
@@yannickdrunkler1531 broken humor.
हिन्दी में अक्षरों का उच्चारण हमेशा समान रहता है
अ आ इ ई उ ऊ ए ऐ ओ औ अं अः स्वर
व्यंजन
क ख ग घ
च छ ज झ
ट ठ ड ढ ण
त थ द ध न
प फ ब भ म
य र ल व श
ष स ह
क्ष त्र ज्ञ श्र
@@yannickdrunkler1531 that’s a nice argument and all, but maybe you should lay back on the hobby of condoning arguments online over a simple youtube comment.
@@yannickdrunkler1531 and besides, if it’s not worth “thinking about twice” why are you even here commenting this?
English was my second language and i can relate to this WAY too much
Its my frist and yet I get it, I've just practically given up on "proper" english lol
My first language is English and my second language is french. I am so lost.
It's my third language and it's so easy
@@Banndit_Nationit is my 3rd language but i see no difference
same because my first language was spanish
I speak English fluently and I never realize how hard English was😂
It’s not hard, it’s silly…😅
@@teasipper5236It’s hard *because* it’s silly.
It's cave dwelling people's language.
😂😂😂
How it is to learn a language depends on how similar it is to the language you already know. A French guy has an easier time learning English than a Chinese person
As a native English soeaker, I totally agree 😂😂😂😂😂❤🎉 Good Content!
English: Never let them know your next move.
English took it to another level 🤣🤣
(Cont'd) English:.... because we also don't know our next move
English: you cant mind game me if i dont have a mind
I am your 420th like. Savor this moment
Portuguese: Amateurs
As a non native speaker, i get more and more surprised everyday that i can remember how to speak english😂
As a native English speaker, I get more and more surprised everyday that I can remember how to speak English...
Same
French: Why would you do this?
English: YOU did this to me!!!
Don't forget German and Latin
@@jeremiahenglish6461 No, French influence did this.
@@ScrapKnight2005 do you realize the English language has more than French roots?
@@jeremiahenglish6461bro im french and no, im 15 and we learn to conjugate 2 words verbs that the second word could agree with an object if hes before the verb and if the first part is the good one.
Le français c trop dur à comprendre
Bro, I have kept watching over and over 😂😂😂😂 I just can't get it 😅😅😅😅😂😂
“England created English, but they also F#ck it up”
-Uncle Roger
We made English couldn’t understand so just started adapting it now depending on where you are it’s basically a whole other language pretty fun but a bitch to learn
Camman18 fan!!
@@andyleeds202mhm
ah, my favorite hashtag, #ck
#@Camman18
As a french person who was learning English before; this was relatable. I had a mental breakdown many times before I finally understood 😭👍
If you feel you understand English, your still in a mental breakdown 😵💫
The Great Vowel Shift! Right after we standardized spelling, we had a big thing where people changed where in the mouth we said various words, which changed the pronunciation
well, for the record, your english is great. don't even know many native speakers who know how to use a semicolon!
Comma, not semicolon. The first part is a fragment.
@@DumplingDoodleWell, now you know one.
even english probably doesnt understand what kind of hell they created...
Chinese: first time?
But once you speak English none of it seems that bad
Com on every language doesn't not fully understand that language
Welcome to Elementary English where you're really learning how to have PTSD
This man has made me realize how confusing my vocabulary really is
Join the club. Been in France for 5 years and now I understand why they struggle so much. I thought their language was complicated, but I'm about to reconsider
@@nurilnuril4372Yeah, french language isn't that hard just...french make it hard...
Verlan, weird anglicisme (without english accent of course), the different french accent who are...VERY different.
Well look up Gallagher, he wrote this bit about 40 years ago, but better.
This person should be a middle school teacher, kids would laugh but also be learning.
Yall just started learning this in middle school?
Or you can tell them to watch Gallagher, the creator of this content... Nearly 40 years ago.
Big respect to people who learned English as their second language
Thank you 😅
I once read that English is the second-hardest language to learn (the hardest is Mandarin).
@@phantommangagirl no English is not the second actually mnderine is the first Arabic I'd the second and the third is Japanese then Hungarian and fiichi and then franch , the list goes on and matter fact English is on of the easyest bro
Yep, these videos make me understand some common mistakes I hear non-native speakers make. Big ups to them for trying.
Thanks, it's my third actually😂
People who got confused and are English speakers or can speak English
As an English teacher, I confirm that English makes no sense sometimes 😂😂😂
In „Pacific Ocean“ every „C“ is pronounced differently. 😂
@@p.zeller*pronounced, not spelled
@@LeAltgu_pbMthanks a lot. Corrected it.
Sometimes?😂
Everytime
Ok I'm concerned for french's mental health
Same here 🤣🤣🤣
😂 Lol
You're JUST now becoming concerned?! XD
French: I don't get it
English: WE LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOU.
French : Then open your eyes !
English : Can't ! Looking at all the exceptions is an eyesore ! We thought no rules is quicker !
Destroyed in second ❌ destroyed in every second ✅😂
I’ve never felt more like a professional in my life
Edit: Thank you for the likes 😁
hahahaha
Lol
I mean yeah
As a person who's probably as fluent as you can be in English without going to college for it, this is 100% English. You just either understand it or you don't, and I think all early school does is make sure you understand that nuance.
You drive a white car don't you?
@@Arthur19-v3y I drive a white vehicle but don’t understand where you’re going with that comment 😂
@@kowalchukm I was referring to the poster of this comment lol.
In other word, hes saying the person is white
Yup . I remeber being a kid that the basic nuances were really taught over and over again. It does not need to make sense..
I just love how innocently confused french is, like my guy needs a hug with how much he be struggling 😅
Dude's acting skills are top notch
Jesus Christ will come back soon and we
have still got time to turn to Him. He died
for all of our sins so that we can be
forgiven. All we have to do is accept Him
into our lives and trust Him wholeheartedly. Nobody but Jesus can
save your soul. This might be your sign so
turn to Him today. He loves you
@@darioclb1363❤❤❤
@@darioclb1363 see ya at the welcome home jesus party im hyped
Funny thing is that the reason English is so confusing is because it has so many Latin words in it because of the French monarchs that rules England for centuries.
Love this guy and his videos a lot :D
Awwww French is so cute when he tries ❤
French getting some of his own medicine
@@al87221 hahaha fair enuff 😂
@@Shannon_Vlogs french taught him that back when the normans were ruling england
As a Englishman I can confirm that our language is really confusing
English has the most confusing orthography in the world. The only other language with equally confusing orthography is Tibetan. English has simple grammar and rules, but pronunciation and vocabulary is a perpetual beast to wrestle.
Appreciate it
@@Ty13136 French has messy orthography, but unlike English, the French at least try to maintain order and consistency. For example, the French don't pronounce the last letters in words, most infamously 's', 'x', and 'e'. If you ever play a videogame or watch a movie, listen/read carefully for a non-Francophone's dialogue: If he/she pronounces the 's' at the end of a French word, it's incorrect. For example, take "Les Infants Misérables" (lit. "The miserable children"), just pretend the 's' doesn't exist - French speakers will understand and differentiate singular/plural depending on the context.
Fr
It is the script, not the language itself.
When I was an English teacher, my korean students used to ask me why. I said ‘ i didnt make it so i dont know either.’
I am learning korean and I ask WHY most if the time🥴 so learning any foreign language is same I guess🤗
Dude was treating language as math... Logical approach, can feel him
Props to him for putting the actual pronunciations in the captions.
"Never let em know your next move" - English
Someone give french a hug. He needs it.
ew
@@LeowithoneO wha-
He really does need a hug 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
No they are rude
@@kushshah9146 why
I want a whole 1 hour version of this video
When learning English you learn not to question it. It doesn't make sense, it just works.
Yeah it's a mongrel of a language. That's why it's like this
Anyone learning English later in life is SO POWERFUL
@ikaiko8612
But that’s because you already speak English
this is why aliens can't understand our language 😂
Fr:
Lead rhymes with read
And Lead rhymes with read
But lead doesn’t rhyme with read
And lead doesn’t t rhyme with read
@@beans8938 : |
Why Zuckerberg can?
Which ones, or both?
That's a more reason why aliens don't wanna contact us cos they can't just figure us out 😂
That last part is like a hard tongue twister
English is like 5 different languages hiding in a trenchcoat.
What a completely UnDeRrAtEd comment!!! Brilliant! If only I could remember this, I would certainly use it!
Hahaha that is a clever metaphor
English is Muppet Man
I better metaphor would be that is English is like every Jail I've been in, so where do you guys live?
Well, that defines all modern languages
I love how you make the connections....I had no idea English was this chaotic 😂
He didn't, he stole the bit from Gallagher.
This material is about 40 years old.
I am reminded that people have been trying to standardize spelling in English and failing since the introduction of literacy to the language.
I remember messing around with it on my own time a good while ago and having a decent amount of success working with futhorc as a starting point, rather than the Latin alphabet. English just has too many different vocalic sounds to fit an alphabet that only has 5 symbols for vowels.
@@IreneSaltini
Just use those:
äâàáāåãæ
ėêëèé
Üûúùū
öôòóöœøō
@@jonathanlange1339 I love diacritics as much as the next guy and probably abuse way too much them in my... spelling reform adventures (the language I work with the most distinguishes vowels both by length and quality), but they are not great for readability.
It is more of a people failed to convinced other people to run along with their proposed standard, rather than failing at standardizing spelling. Standardizing English spelling is easy, getting it to be accepted and stick is hard.
@@IreneSaltini Only if you're writing poorly by hand, but then that is not the "diacritics" fault. "Diacritics", because in many languages (e.g. Finnish, German, Swedish) they aren't diacritics, they're considered actual different letters (it is not o with two dots, it is ö, different letter name, and different sound) and we don't have readibility issues.
Vanilla futhorc and the cousin runic alphabets are about as bad as vanilla latin alphabet for modern English. Modern English's sound system has little to do with Anglo-Saxon/Old English's. IIRC futhorc had at most 33 symbols in its most extended version, while Modern English is sort of an anomalous language (at least among Germanic languages) with its about 20 vowel sounds and some 24 consonant sounds too. It is a few more, but not enough for it to be a substantial advantage over the latin one, which can easily be extended if you really want a one sound for each phoneme (granted, some of the vowel sounds are diphtongs and would be better to represent than as such, but that is me), just like other germanic languages (and even non indo-european ones) did by employing å, ö, ø, etc. which, again, does not cause readibility issues for people who are actually literate in those languages (which is an issue, but different).
Now, you might still prefer an extended runic alphabet over an extended latin based one, and if it is just a matter of taste that is completely fine. But if you're going to try to give objective reasons for it anyway, then "insulficient letters for vowels" and bad for readibility aren't really good ones.
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