The Changes I would Make to English

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  • @torgor_
    @torgor_ Місяць тому +103

    left ear mozart right ear Zzineohp talking about conlangs on 2x speed

  • @Ro-vl2cc
    @Ro-vl2cc Місяць тому +53

    completely incomprehensible, awesome vid 👍

  • @50gens
    @50gens Місяць тому +6

    english with case system falls on the uncanny valley of recognisability

  • @vulpes7079
    @vulpes7079 Місяць тому +11

    Let's run with this and eventually we'll get a superior Votgil

    • @5ucur
      @5ucur Місяць тому +1

      I'm a bit excited!

    • @Han-b5o3p
      @Han-b5o3p Місяць тому +2

      ​@@5ucur Because this episode is a first in a few ways.

  • @namesurname7665
    @namesurname7665 Місяць тому +31

    0:03 With this sentence structure I would generally expect "one of the things" to be an object (even though it comes first) and "learning Russian" to be the subject. Thus, after some swapping of cases,
    одной из многих вещей, которые я делал, было изучение русского языка
    However, "one of the things" as the subject might still work (even though it starts to sound more like a word-for-word translation from English than an actual Russian sentence), but then you would need "изучением" (творительный падеж).
    0:23 Not a bad pronunciation for such a nightmare of a word. Gotta love how Russian just bombards you with "Здравствуйте" for "Hello" right from the start and the terminology for the linguistic concepts isn't much better.
    0:28 I see what you did here, мой книга
    0:37 Это. There's a difference between this as in "this particular" and this as in "it". The former is indeed gendered, while the latter is always masculine/neutral.
    0:58 In Russia, in school they teach you that there are like 3 models for declination (+ a few exceptions like время, пламя), but in reality there's way more. Zaliznyak's classification (классификация Зализняка) for example uses a digit 1 through 8, then a letter a through f, plus sometimes an additional circle or star to denote the precise way a noun changes. And there are still exceptions. And that's just for nouns.
    1:40 more like "i will be beating you", but yeah.
    6:52 you are right
    8:16 Probably и, not а. Russian "а" union is something between "и" (and) & "но" (but). 99% of the time it corresponds to "and" in English, but in places where it still has some противопостовление (opposition? contrast?). For this case in particular, I would say И. Not sure if I can come up with the context where А would fit, but probably if you have some surprising revelation that turns all the previous things upside down, then maybe "а наконец" could work. Not sure.
    8:16 написан is perfective (or whatever it's called). So it's more of "have been written" than "is written". Пишется is probably what you're looking for.
    Видос огонь. Подписался из-за анатомии фуррей, получил модификации английского, вдохновлённые русским, с цитатами из Better Call Saul. Absolute kino, as they say.

    • @vladthemagnificent9052
      @vladthemagnificent9052 Місяць тому +5

      Этот комментарий тоже абсолютная синема

  • @magsaysay84
    @magsaysay84 Місяць тому +38

    I was, I admit, a little high, but there was a moment when I legitimately thought I had forgotten the english language. Language science is fascinating AF but is as inscrutable as the really esoteric mathematics and logic statements to my mind.

  • @albertmiller2electricbooga897
    @albertmiller2electricbooga897 Місяць тому +21

    Zzineohp just created the Kiwi accent with a few of those umlauted vowels

  • @strawberryturtle1815
    @strawberryturtle1815 Місяць тому +10

    w conlang

  • @MishaGold
    @MishaGold Місяць тому +5

    8:32 everyone also finds themselves so funny joking the similar way every time Subject-Verb-Object word order is brought up.

  • @Drathis
    @Drathis Місяць тому +29

    English is the only language i can use without having to think a while about every single word (aside from my native language (and french and dutch depending on the tense)) and i think this is mainly because the grammatical structures you want to introduce are not a part of english.
    So if those changes would happen i could probably not speak properly to anyone outside my country. On the other hand it would be funny so i am in favour.

    • @Drathis
      @Drathis Місяць тому +4

      Also I think that if you go through all this effort you should also get rid of mandatory sentence order.

    • @Капка.покапка
      @Капка.покапка Місяць тому +3

      I know , I'm learning german, and it's really hard cause you can't just put words into a sentence, you have to modify them. It's kinda frustrating

  • @mauriciocolmenares6455
    @mauriciocolmenares6455 Місяць тому +2

    Are you telling me that english just happened to change like that? No, he orchestrated it, Zzineohp!

  • @rimostle
    @rimostle 14 днів тому

    0:16 "very fun" is a crazy thing to say about cases😭

  • @drjong2651
    @drjong2651 Місяць тому +3

    DUDE that was Chuck's speech from Better Call Saul! I just watched that show for the first time, fkn amazing script and acting in that scene. What a trip to hear it in modded English lmao. Awesome vid.

  • @lordofforces
    @lordofforces Місяць тому +2

    Спасибо, что использовал слово "книга" как пример. Когда используешь английский, такие слова становятся смешными сами по себе!

  • @dark_jube1944
    @dark_jube1944 Місяць тому +4

    Saga begins mention, also better call saul

  • @thedinobros1218
    @thedinobros1218 Місяць тому +2

    The changes I would make: Give C the /ʕ/ sound, give Kh the /x/ sound, give X the /ħ/ sound, make long/short vowel distinctions and add the /e/ sound, make English mora-timed, unaspirate voiceless plosives, make English agglutinative, add vowel harmony, inflect every case, add grammatical gender between masculine and feminine, make English use an SOV order, make English prodrop, I would make English sue the Arabic script, and make R not rhotacize the previous vowel.

  • @Stonmann
    @Stonmann Місяць тому +10

    Dude I NEED u 2 translate the Lord's Prayer into this. As far as I know it's kind of the "Lorem Ipsum" of linguistics.

  • @jentegeeraerts1119
    @jentegeeraerts1119 Місяць тому +9

    Took me way too long to realise what the memorised passage was referencing lmao

    • @anselmschueler
      @anselmschueler Місяць тому +4

      I still don't know

    • @drjong2651
      @drjong2651 Місяць тому

      @@anselmschueler Better Call Saul. Chuck's speech in the courtroom at the end of Season 3. Great show with some amazing writing and acting (especially in scenes with Chuck)

    • @faokie
      @faokie 19 днів тому

      First three words for me, I should have known before he even started

  • @DeLoRiAnEc
    @DeLoRiAnEc Місяць тому

    0:49 "по" is actually used pretty ofen like for example "я скучаю по книге" which means "I miss the book". The same goes with "при".

  • @HenryThomas-vc2wy
    @HenryThomas-vc2wy Місяць тому +2

    I've always thought it would be neat to have an exlusive and inclusive "we/us", for example: "we1 are planning on using this room tonight", this includes the speaker and a third party, but not the person being spoken to. "we2 need to work together" includes the person being spoken to. We also need a plural "you", for that we could just destigmatize "yall", and a singular "them" that's distinct from the plural "them".

  • @zzineohp
    @zzineohp  Місяць тому +26

    Awooogah! Hummina hummina! Zzineohp is back, supports V over Z, lived in China for a year, and is learning Russian? Честно говоря, я думаю, что это слон. Не наш слон, но слон чого-то. Воможно поляков.

    • @sashavasilyev3000
      @sashavasilyev3000 Місяць тому +2

      наш слоняра, гойда сво, ты никогда теперь не станешь прежним

    • @namesurname7665
      @namesurname7665 Місяць тому +1

      Причина тряски

    • @vladthemagnificent9052
      @vladthemagnificent9052 Місяць тому +2

      Слоняра наш. Базовик

    • @irp3ex
      @irp3ex Місяць тому +2

      гойда братцы гойда

  • @mellonCoIIie
    @mellonCoIIie Місяць тому

    this just made me realize that i do pro drop in english in super casual sentence lol. am suprised tbh

  • @EverythingInMyBrain
    @EverythingInMyBrain Місяць тому

    “I run quickly” and “I am quick to run” have entirely different meanings in English. How would you differentiate between the two in your proposed upgrade?

    • @zzineohp
      @zzineohp  Місяць тому

      @@EverythingInMyBrain quick to run is idiomatic. Just say I'm fearful or hesitant

  • @yth592
    @yth592 Місяць тому

    I completely forgot you exist and fuck am I glad to redisxover this channel, wish you had a discord or something because I love talking about languages

  • @ggw1776
    @ggw1776 Місяць тому +2

    "let's talk about english" *discusses the worst part of russian*

  • @hoerange
    @hoerange Місяць тому +1

    Hilarious
    I guess that your allative might tend to become the default accusative over time btw

  • @enricobianchi4499
    @enricobianchi4499 Місяць тому +2

    in CHURCH?!

  • @rafa6222
    @rafa6222 Місяць тому

    I might use the declined articles in English, in which the change of the forms will denote the position. It might end up acting a little more like German or Icelandic, though. I might use the more complicated pronominal and conjugation system Early Modern English had, and keep the en infinitive (e.g. highten, to call or be known with a name) and the ge- -en past participle (e.g. gehighten, called or known with a name).

  • @indrome1656
    @indrome1656 Місяць тому

    2:42 you call this section umlaut plural, which is a slight misnomer. umlaut is only used to refer to the diacritics, the sound change itself is called ablaut 🤓☝️

    • @zzineohp
      @zzineohp  Місяць тому +1

      no ablaut is when it occurs in verbs. The term for the sound mutation is Umlaut, or I-mutation

    • @indrome1656
      @indrome1656 Місяць тому

      @ well damn, shows what i know 🤦‍♀️

  • @georgerussell2947
    @georgerussell2947 Місяць тому +9

    Why did you use kniga as the example 🤨🧐

  • @aborigine3716
    @aborigine3716 Місяць тому

    Book would be beek like foot-feet.

  • @yaelz6043
    @yaelz6043 Місяць тому +1

    Personally i would just replace it with a *real* language but you do you.

  • @ks1v
    @ks1v Місяць тому

    holy shit, this was intense

  • @the_unforseen8224
    @the_unforseen8224 Місяць тому

    Oh man your literal translations of grammatical cases are awesome, its too bad you didn't say "plural" was the "morer" number lol.

  • @davethesid8960
    @davethesid8960 Місяць тому +1

    I dare you to study Hungarian next.

  • @HenryThomas-vc2wy
    @HenryThomas-vc2wy Місяць тому +1

    also, i KNEW you were a Latter-day Saint. Called it in the cryptids vid

    • @ieatalgae
      @ieatalgae Місяць тому +3

      He really gives that homeschooled vibe loll

    • @HenryThomas-vc2wy
      @HenryThomas-vc2wy Місяць тому +1

      ? True but how is that related to what I said tho

    • @ieatalgae
      @ieatalgae Місяць тому +2

      @HenryThomas-vc2wy A lot of LDS/Mormons are homeschooled? Idk, I thought that was relevant

    • @HenryThomas-vc2wy
      @HenryThomas-vc2wy Місяць тому +1

      Didn't know that was a stereotype but fair enough ig lol

  • @angeldude101
    @angeldude101 Місяць тому

    I don't think English will ever be a pro-drop language in the foreseeable future. It _may_ somehow become a _verb_ drop language to an extent by reanalysing contractions as inflecting the noun based on the verb. We wouldn't have a future tense verb conjugation but we would instead have future tense pronouns: "Imma", "Yorra", "Werra", "Therra", and such, with more general noun inflection when not using a pronoun "-za", with other modes having their own forms. This is such a weird concept that I hope it happens.

  • @catritonix
    @catritonix Місяць тому +7

    trying to add any inflection to English beyond what it already has is Sin.

    • @artifactU
      @artifactU Місяць тому +4

      you say that like englishs got alot of inflection already

    • @EvenRoyalsNeedToUrinate
      @EvenRoyalsNeedToUrinate Місяць тому

      ​@artifactU it do, if you compare to Indonesia

    • @wolf7husky885
      @wolf7husky885 Місяць тому

      Everything has many inflections if you compare it to Toki Pona,
      But if you compare it to the "average" and its origin, English is quite tame (still a mess tho)

  • @shannonparkhill5557
    @shannonparkhill5557 Місяць тому

    The most productive thing anyone did at church that day

  • @zagle1772
    @zagle1772 Місяць тому +1

    thove

  • @n0vitski
    @n0vitski Місяць тому

    Based on my experience, all videos are about Russian politics

  • @MastaBaitaAmbatukam
    @MastaBaitaAmbatukam Місяць тому +2

    dint ass + I'm sigma ur beta

  • @yashagarwal8741
    @yashagarwal8741 Місяць тому

    some old english dialects did pluralised gós as gǿs(used to be gansiz) man used to be manniz in plural.
    the ablative case was dropped but its usage was kept as an adverbial like -ô form