@@fiendracks UA-cam just recommended his vid on hotels, then DVDs, and now this. Suffice to say, I've watched them all and am enjoying this nostalgia trip. It was a simpler time.
I've always told friends that English is the hardest language to learn ans properly understand, yet their naïve ignorance always say it's the easiest. Now that's bullshit!
English isn't difficult. It is very stripped down. The only thing that's weird about it is that it has a huge vocabulary. Other languages have the same amount of irregularity and oddness in their syntax. English is missing the really complicated systems in other languages like class and case. European kids learn English very quickly.
Silent letters are remnants of former sounds. Each letter was once vocalized but as the language evolved people began omitting the sounds, this is true for many languages. Although, some words have silent letters such as "receipt," "debt" or "doubt" to distinguish it's root language and origin.
+JesseRoxII to add onto this. I really hate that the akronym, GIF is supposed to be pronounsed jif all bekause the guy who made it said so. If we have rules on how to pronounse a word, why don't we fuking use those rules? But I feel the biggest issue is that g when you say it alone is 'jee', when it should be pronounced 'gee'. that's what you know g for right? its 'guh' sound. all words beginning with g but have a 'juh' sound should have a j instead. i don't mind spelling it jiraffe or jiant. let's give one sound to each letter and not miks them up with other sounds. and how about that one league champion? shaco. I've always called him sha-ko, but people say he's shay-ko. may i ask why? he doesn't have a y anywhere in his name, why would you pronounce his name shay-ko?
+JesseRoxII They exist because they're taken from the Latin alphabet (where they were used). In Italian (very similar to Latin) all letters have different sounds, and in fact they don't have J K W and X because this letters have the same sound of G,C, and U, so they're not needed.
skeleking It's because man and woman go under the Germanic umlaut so they become men and women, with e, human is regular because in Latin it was regular too (humanus and humani), but both come from the same Indo-European root and happened to be in two different types of languages
This video had me in stitches. There are really good points brought up, and they can only be addressed by "That's just English, man." Learning English is a tough thing to do because of all the exceptions it has. Combine that with your textbook delivery and angry demeanor? It's laughable for all meeses and mens.
***** Srecko Petrovic at least the pronunciation and silent letters are consistant in those languages, which was the whole point. It's easy to get used to easily, while in english you learn new exceptions even if you moved to an english speaking country years ago.
Virideon: Are you confused about the Bullshit mask ("Because my face... is bullshit", as he said at the end of the Too Much Cream Cheese episode), or are you making a subtle joke about how modern art is bullshit?
“I” before “E” except after “C”? More like: “I” before “E” except when your foreign neighbor Keith received eight counterfeit beige sleighs from feisty caffeinated weightlifters. ...weird.
When your foriegn nieghbor Kieth recieves ieght counterfiet biege slieghs from fiesty caffienated wieghtlifters, you know it's time to see a therapist and talk to them about how that row of abstract hice messed with your mind because you thought they were occupied by meese.
How about the prefix "Pre". George Carlin despised that prefix! "Place the turkey in a pre-heated oven." It's ridiculous! There's only two states an oven can be in: *HEATED OR UNHEATED!* "Pre-heated" is a meaningless fucking term! It's like "pre-recorded". "This program was pre-recorded." WELL, OF COURSE IT WAS PRE-RECORDED! WHEN ELSE ARE YOU GOING TO RECORD IT?! *AFTERWARDS?!* That's the whole purpose of recording, *TO DO IT BEFOREHAND, OTHERWISE IT DOESN'T REALLY WORK, DOES IT?!*
Pre-existing, pre-planning, pre-screening. You know what I tell these people? *PRE-SUCK MY "GENITAL SITUATION!"* And they seem to understand what I'm talking about! - George Carlin
+THE OFFICIAL TBONE2004 The only way to express the thought, "I have a pre-existing condition" without using the prefix is by saying, "I have a condition that has existed before this present time." The latter is unnecessarily more complicated. The prefix is a way of more efficiently expressing a thought. Just like, "Place the biscuits in a pre-heated oven." would have to be expressed, "Place the biscuits in an oven you've heated beforehand."
Darryvon __ The prefix "pre" means "prior" or "beforehand." Saying, "Place the biscuits in a preheated oven" means, "place the biscuits in an oven you've heated prior to doing this." I get what you're saying, but instructions these days have to made dummy-proof, so if you put on the box, "Place biscuits in a heated oven," some people may misinterpret this as "place the biscuits in the over and turn it on." This would fuck up the time table supplied on the box for how long they need to bake. Thus, the prefix makes it clear that the oven should be *_heated_* BEFORE placing the biscuits in.
Screw up with plural words in English? try Indonesian Language, every singular can be plural by just repeated the word, for example "Gadis" that mean girl, the plural form will be "Gadis-gadis" that mean girls. Simple as that!
Learn hungarian. Every letter has it's own pronounciation, which never changes. It doesn't matter, where a letter is, you always pronounce it the same way.
"How about we pronounce our words however we want. Everybody's different, talk the way you talk. Anybody who objects, shut the hell up, suck our Coxen." Best quote of the century.
PWNZOR671 _"It's a British term. That's why it's an official rank in the *American* military. Yes, that makes perfect sense". Also, the accent doesn't matter. Whether you're American or British, by pronouncing it how it's spelled, it sound like "call-en-all".
I think the main issue with modern English is that we’ve taken words from every other language and incorporated into ours. If you look at any language from Europe you’ll recognize at least a word or two that we’ve adapted, either their spelling or pronunciation, with maybe a letter or two changed.
Sometimes it's multiple loanings, Eg.: "foot ball" (English) -> "fußball" (German) -> "fooze ball" (closest English approximation of the German approximation) And then in the United States it's still called fooze ball even though the game clearly depicts what we call "soccer"
I am thankful I am Spanish and the Spanish is a language where the words have the same pronunciation as they are written. The only silent letter is the h, and there are not irregular plurals. The only problem can be the irregular verbs, but they are not so many of them.
douchebanner It's more that if you speak eEnglishincorrectly, it's easier to understand what your saying. If a foreigner or kid says 'mooses' we know what they mean. If you conjugate a word in Spanish incorrectly, people don't really know what your saying. Spanish is a pain in the ass the learn, I'm assuming English is easier to start to learn, but native speakers don't know every bit of grammatical trivia.
gazcan1 I've learnt English as a second language, and I've always thought of it as a really simple and easy language. If I ever see a new word I've never heard of, I can always pronounce it; I've never thought of English as an especially hard language.
english is way easier tho, you just think Spanish is easier because you learned it growing up. learning a new language is hard no matter where you're from, but english is pretty easy compared to most, majority of the people i know who speak english learned just by playing videogames.
When you look at how the English language was constructed over the years, it becomes apparent that it's just one incoherent conglomerate of all other languages thrown into a blender and set to 'puree'. There are so many rules and exceptions to the rules that it all just boils down to rote memorization. I'm only as good with pronunciation as I am because I have a really sharp memory for these types of things, understand the roots of words and the history & culture from whence they came, and in general have scrutiny about attention to detail. I don't begrudge others for mispronunciation because of the incoherent nature of the English language, or as AVGN so eloquently puts it, it's complete bullshit.
+Sir Quaffler Had I read your comment before I posted my own, I would have refrained from posting at all. Your contribution effectively renders mine redundant; nay, inferior. The eloquence you spoke of is thine, my good sir. ::tips hat::
Yea, but there are shit ton of rules to learn, and almost every rule has at least one exception... Finnish is the third most difficult language to learn. But at least you pronounce every word how it's written.
You Know What's Bullshit? Finnish language... Kuusi palaa! = The spruce is on fire! Kuusi palaa! = The spruce returns! Kuusi palaa! = The number six is on fire! Kuusi palaa! = The number six returns! Kuusi palaa! = Six of them is on fire! Kuusi palaa! =Six of them returns! Kuusi palaa! = Your moon returns! Kuusi palaa! = Six pieces. English: a god, the god, two dogs Swedish: en hund, hunden, två hundar, hundarna German: Den Hund, einen Hund, dem Hund, einem Hund, des Hundes, eines Hundes, den Hunden, der Hunden Finnish: Koira, koiran, koiraa, koiran again, koirassa, koirasta, koiraan, koiralla, koiralta, koiralle, koirana, koiraksi, koiratta, koirineen, koirin, koirasi, koirani, koiransa, koiramme, koiranne, koiraani, koiraasi, koiraansa, koiraamme, koiraanne, koirassani, koirassasi, koirassansa, koirassamme, koirassanne, koirastani, koirastasi, koirastansa, koirastamme, koirastanne, koirallani, koirallasi, koirallansa, koirallamme, koirallanne, koiranani, koiranasi, koiranansa, koiranamme, koirananne, koirakseni, koiraksesi, koiraksensa, koiraksemme, koiraksenne, koirattani, koirattasi, koirattansa, koirattamme, koirattanne, koirineni, koirinesi, koirinensa, koirinemme, koirinenne etc.. Word pronunciations in english, yeah sure... tough.
Never thought that would be hard.. well yeah, if you think about it.. 21 = einundzwanzig (German) 21 = Twenty-one (English) 21 = tjugo-ett (Swedish) 21 = Kaksikymmentäyksi (Finnish) Just try to find online dictionary with pronunciations and you'll see what CCCP Communist means..
KabulTheAngryFinn Man, I hate this list when Finnish people act like it's something special. If you write out all these forms in Finnish, you should write them out in English too. Of a dog, of the dog, to a dog, to the dog, by a dog, by the dog, for a dog, for the dog, ... Finnish is an agglutinative language, so you stick the preposition to the noun. So writing all these Finnish forms compared to English which doesn't agglutinate is rather silly and unfair.
I was doing grammar or spelling homework in 6th grade and one of the questions was "what is the plural of moose?" and the answers were meese and moose.
At 1:28, he pronounced "walk" as a word I can only spell as: "disanthoplonopious" (I tried Googling it with multiple spellings). Is that a word? If not, well, James is a modern Shakespeare who can make up fascinating words. (FYI: Shakespeare made up the name "Jessica" and the word "circumstantial.")
Spelling "Wednesday" as a kid drove me insane.....damn, spelling bees. Silent letters used to throw me off a lot. I also hated how some words have historical meanings such as the term "bees" in "spelling bees." In this case, "bees" does not refer to those little buzzing insects. Instead, "bees" refer to a get-together. Y U SO COMPLEX, ENGLISH!!!
That's because of a horribly implemented linguistic puritanism. When English spelling was in the process of being standardized, some scholars just took wild guesses on the etymology of English words, and thought that "island" and "isle" were somehow related to the Spanish word "isla" (or rather the Latin word that originated it). So they saw fit to include the silent "s" on "island", much like the "c" in "muscle". In fact, however, "island" is an old English compund word that just means "land on water" and has nothing to do with Latin or Spanish. So yeah, English spelling is a result of people fucking up the way they write since time immemorial.
I'm actually very interested in the name of the stock banjo music in the intro when the bull takes a crap. I'm only interested because I heard it in The Nutshack.
English is an insane language, most European Languages are based on Latin or old German to some degree while English is pretty much a merry clusterfuck of whatever the friggin hell we could get our hands on over 2 millennia of invasions, immgrations and importations. Also if you think that standard English you see in our TV shows is bad just wait till you get to regional stuff... we have about 35 different separate terms for bread rolls... I know most countries have unique regional colloquialisms but I think the UK doesn't just take the cake but pretty much runs off with the dessert trolley on that score.
More than occasionally French or Latin or Greek in origin (30% in COMMON speech), the rest being principally Germanic. The main reason for all the inconsistencies is the alphabet changed either too fast or slow, didn't keep pace with the common speech.
A lot of it came from other people invading English speaking areas. I think English is beautiful. If you know English, you will see connections in many other languages and become more worldly in your knowledge of how language adapts and changes so vividly.
Sephirothwolf Apparently, it's easier to learn Chinese than it is ours. I guess the only way anyone could truly learn English is to be born listening to it.
It was a gh sound that merged with f. Last spelling update was when the American spellings changed from the British ones, last one before that was never.
I bought two boxen of doughnuts!! I saw a flock of moosen! There were many of them, many much moosen. They were in the woods, the woodes, woodesnessen! The meese wanted the food! Food is for eatenessen!! (And no, I have TOTALLY not watched this Brian Reagan clip a few hundred times... XD)
The ox-oxen plural comes from old english plurals, where the -s ending hadn't existed. Most of the words that were brought to middle english were arbitrary, but back in old-english no plural used -s.
Enough - GH makes the F sound Women - O makes the I sound Nation - TI makes the SH sound Therefore, "GHOTI" is pronounced exactly like "FISH." Welcome to the English Language, motherfuckers.
The plurals come from Old English, which was more closer to English's Germanic roots. They were the words most frequently used during the French Occupation of England, and thus they were the only ones that withheld the French influence on the English Language. A field of Oak Trees used to be a field of Ack... Two books used to be two beek. There are ten toes on your feet because 10 toes used to be 10 ten.
Thanks for this Mr. Bullshit. People online take things way out of hand. I had somebody comment on a video I made saying they wanted to "Fucking punch me" because I pronounce Mario "Mary-Oh". People get bent out of shape over little friggen things.
***** Libarry doesn't get to be a mispronounced word, it's just simply wrong. You're eliminating letters from the word. It's not like Tomato Tomawto because they at least consist of the same letters. much like Vase and vawz
pejnismiggle "Libarry doesn't get to be a mispronounced word, it's just simply wrong. You're eliminating letters from the word." Then tell me why "Wensday" isn't wrong. Writing is simply a representation of language. Language changes and evolves, and writing can never keep up. It's the reason we have so many silent letters. Spelling doesn't determine pronunciation, pronunciation determines spelling. Unfortunately, spelling is standardized and doesn't change very often. Fun fact: the "k" and "gh" in "knight" used to be pronounced. Is it wrong to not pronounce them because we're "eliminating letters from the word"?
pejnismiggle Go watch an old episode of the Super Show and listen to how it's pronounced. Captain Lou Albano was raised in New York, Charles Martinet was raised in San Francisco. It's regional. Most folks around Long Island (Where I'm from) and NYC usually say "Mary-Oh" but if you go upstate it'll become "Mah-Rio"
English is terrible. We make rules for spelling and grammar then it turns out there are seventy thousand exceptions to said rules. Like "I before E". "Friends", compared to "their". What happened?!
Centuries of undocumented language use will do that. Languages evolve. They aren't written out and planned. Of course they'll be fucked up. Especially considering the geo-political divides of it's speakers.
well, it's because it isn't one language, because England was invaded a couple times in its early history, our language is a mash of words brought in by the french, vikings and various others so naturally rules that apply to one set of words from one language don't necessarily apply to words from others.
English, specifically American English is terrible because it's got words from French, German, latin, and other languages that make in an amalgamation.
New rule: if you want to say someone is pronouncing a word wrong, you had better be able to explain why, historically, FROM MEMORY. You only get to school someone if you are qualified to teach on the subject.
Contractions aren't that hard. Seems easy to me. They're = they are, We're + we are, etc. Tho it is kinda effed up how these type of words got invented. I don't think other languages do this.
i want a "look at all those meese" t-shirt
He actually sells them I have one
@@garrrett_81 really?
Meesa wanna see the meese.
Moosen
Game God me too
Remember "Queue" sounds like "Q" but with 4 silent letters
English is not my native language and this word fucks me over everytime i see it, now I know how to deal with it, thx.
Same here. Kwewe.
#001 Chocobos??
ke ue ue
And there's also "cue " which is a whole NOTHER word....haha, jk but seriously I love the English language, it's so bizarre!
I'm showing this to my english teacher
What did he/she say?
Blake Ballard Sniff. :C
o shit
Alright English class tomorrow let's see what I can do
Luna
I had to come back here after hearing him talk about how the word bimonthly is bullshit.
Same
@@fiendracks UA-cam just recommended his vid on hotels, then DVDs, and now this. Suffice to say, I've watched them all and am enjoying this nostalgia trip. It was a simpler time.
"Hey, look at all those motherfuckin' meese!"
LMFAO 😂😂
but this is the best grammar education video ever.
Jun Master and the weird al parody
Apparently, English is one of the hardest languages to master.
My favorite word is "colonel."
Pronounced, "kernel."
I've always told friends that English is the hardest language to learn ans properly understand, yet their naïve ignorance always say it's the easiest. Now that's bullshit!
@@AriochStarr To be fair, if they ever had to grow up trying to learn Chinese or Japanese Kanji, they're also a friggin nightmare and a half.
Or /knout/, /knight/, /knot/... The 'kn' is always said with the silent 'k' :)
English isn't difficult. It is very stripped down. The only thing that's weird about it is that it has a huge vocabulary. Other languages have the same amount of irregularity and oddness in their syntax. English is missing the really complicated systems in other languages like class and case. European kids learn English very quickly.
@@killingmewillnotbringbacky9177 Kids learn everything quickly... umm...
Your "bury" pronunciation is a Pennsylvania thing; my dad's from Philly and says it the same way. I like it.
Where I'm from we say "bury" and "berry" the same way, but the way people tell him is wrong (Both bUR-e). It's completely regional.
Same here. I'm from the Philly area too (Norristown)
You're*
@@zherean42069 "You are "bury" pronunciation..."?
@@zherean42069 r/confidentlyincorrect
Coxen, that would be a word...
A child's name, perhaps?
Coxswain
Caution
Tsoshen
I named my kid "John Le Fucker" by accident
"Brian, what's plural for Moose?"
"Moosen! I saw a flock of moosen!"
It should be Meese, not the same word
I get it, it's a Brian Reagan Reference!
"Brian... what are you talking about?"
There were many of them Many much Moosen.
As a non-native speaker, I find the discussion about dialects hilarious. One of my favorite videos of YKWB.
1:25
"How do you spell 'walk'?"
"Dis-an-tho-plo-no-pi-ous."
what does that even mean?
And all the letters are silent.
THIS is why I love James's work.
Silent letters are remnants of former sounds. Each letter was once vocalized but as the language evolved people began omitting the sounds, this is true for many languages. Although, some words have silent letters such as "receipt," "debt" or "doubt" to distinguish it's root language and origin.
So then why not get rid of the letters? I'm sure no one will really mind it lol
Finally someone that knows what's going on
@@AkkeeGamer
Exactly.
subtle>suttle
island>iland
dumbass>dumass
*its
@@AkkeeGamer
Tradition.
I lost it with "suck our coxen"
xD
LMAOOO
That never fails to make me laugh
He hasn't seen French, where half of a word is silent
And don’t forget tonal languages where the word is same but means differently in different tones.
I get dumped on for pronouncing croix as crocs
How about the word queue?
1:54 I BOUGHT 2 BOXEN OF DONUTS
somerandomguy365
Out in the woods- IN THE WOODSEN
MEESE WANTs the foods FOODS TO BE EATED IS IT
😂
Michael Fixedsys - Fixedsys Labs
You're an imbecile
*INBECILEN?*
somerandomguy365 didn’t think anyone would make a reference to Brian regan
"FOXEN" IS A WORD! Also succ R coxen
Disantholplianoplious is officially my new favorite word
Sorry, I need to go take a disantholplianoplious.
I love how you can hear James starting to laugh when he says "BOXES"
I like how the Bury Berry closed captions say Barry.
🎶ba BA baBAH.. ba BA Ba ba! 🎶
Though, through, trough, thought...
+Max Moser (aMAXproduction) "Oh boy, who woulda thunk it?"
-Joel
and taught
+Chameleon the Ninja *Uncle Jobel
hello mr tou
as a english student (from Brazil), I must say that I struggle with those words since my 5th grade
English spelling is so inconsistent because most of the vocabulary is taken from other languages.
Especially Norman and French
My car's parts are also from different countries, but it still runs consistently.
@@DocMaggie 🤣
@@sarsath7481 German? :)
@@DocMaggie my ancestors are from all different countries, how come I can't run consistently :(
The letters C, X and Q don't even need to exist.
C = K or S.
X = K _and_ S.
Q (without U) = K. Not even a combo of letters, just K. Period.
+JesseRoxII X and Q look kool, though, leave 'em be.
C kan go fuk itself.
You're right, they shouldn't eksist! You get what I'm saying, right? Ekzaktly (sounds more to me like "Egzaktly")!
+JesseRoxII to add onto this. I really hate that the akronym, GIF is supposed to be pronounsed jif all bekause the guy who made it said so. If we have rules on how to pronounse a word, why don't we fuking use those rules? But I feel the biggest issue is that g when you say it alone is 'jee', when it should be pronounced 'gee'. that's what you know g for right? its 'guh' sound. all words beginning with g but have a 'juh' sound should have a j instead. i don't mind spelling it jiraffe or jiant. let's give one sound to each letter and not miks them up with other sounds.
and how about that one league champion? shaco. I've always called him sha-ko, but people say he's shay-ko. may i ask why? he doesn't have a y anywhere in his name, why would you pronounce his name shay-ko?
Grade a under a said the same thing.
+JesseRoxII
They exist because they're taken from the Latin alphabet (where they were used).
In Italian (very similar to Latin) all letters have different sounds, and in fact they don't have J K W and X because this letters have the same sound of G,C, and U, so they're not needed.
Man -> Men
Woman -> Women
Human -> Humans
Obviously
John Freeman, the saver of humens
What I hate is that the pronunciation of women is "wi men". Fuck.
skeleking It's because man and woman go under the Germanic umlaut so they become men and women, with e, human is regular because in Latin it was regular too (humanus and humani), but both come from the same Indo-European root and happened to be in two different types of languages
Hummus
@@yuh39 Right. It should be Womb men because women have wombs. But of course the b is silent because reasons.
HEY! LOOK AT ALL THOSE MOTHER FUCKIN MEESE!! XD
***** Yes it is
***** lmao i would totally buy that
Your Profile Pic makes it more WTF.
😆😆😆😆😆😆😂😂
UA-cam Sucks meseeks?
This video had me in stitches. There are really good points brought up, and they can only be addressed by "That's just English, man." Learning English is a tough thing to do because of all the exceptions it has.
Combine that with your textbook delivery and angry demeanor? It's laughable for all meeses and mens.
lindo video
♥
***** Same with French.
***** Srecko Petrovic at least the pronunciation and silent letters are consistant in those languages, which was the whole point. It's easy to get used to easily, while in english you learn new exceptions even if you moved to an english speaking country years ago.
The english language is 99% exceptions.
RiftDisruptor the english language is 100% bullshit
This is such a well done and informative video, great job Mike and James!
I remember how my mind was blown when i learned that "dice" was the plural of "die"
Thanks for reminding me. I almost burnt the 2 pice I had baking in the oven.
Mine, too
they didnt die, they diced
MOOSEN! I SEE A FLOCK OF MOOSEN!
There were many of them, many much moosen! Out in the woods, and the woodes and the woodsen!
A lot of meese
João Lucas So from now on once I look at a bunch of geese I’m gonna say hey everybody look at all those gosh darn goose
I know this reference.
Why are you wearing a piece of modern art on your head?
that's the bullshit man's character. he wears it when he tells bullshit stuff like itunes and water.
Because his face is bullshit.
Because he's fed up with this bullshit
Virideon: Are you confused about the Bullshit mask ("Because my face... is bullshit", as he said at the end of the Too Much Cream Cheese episode), or are you making a subtle joke about how modern art is bullshit?
And he says: "THAT'S BULLSHIT!"
“I” before “E” except after “C”? More like:
“I” before “E” except when your foreign neighbor Keith received eight counterfeit beige sleighs from feisty caffeinated weightlifters.
...weird.
What, you think you're some kind of Einstein?
When your foriegn nieghbor Kieth recieves ieght counterfiet biege slieghs from fiesty caffienated wieghtlifters, you know it's time to see a therapist and talk to them about how that row of abstract hice messed with your mind because you thought they were occupied by meese.
Those weightlifters were also atheist scientists.
God I love German for this reason, you can always yell "ie" vs "ei" based on phonetics
a little fun fact: english and german are both west germanic languages.
I actually started using "meese" as the plural for moose, simply because I love the way it sounds and it fits.
Rocky and Bullwinkle took it to 11 with "meeses"
And I’ve started saying “Burr-y” because I like how it sounds, and the word has a U in it. James had a point there.
Best episode of "You Know What's Bullshit" yet. Extraordinarily valid points.
If you think that english is bullshit, try learning portuguese. By the way, AVGN helped me learning english, so thanks James!
Amiznyan portuguese is worse
portuguese is wrong to say: Sounds like porchyageese!
The word queue has four silent letters. Think about it.
+randman lololololololololol
+randman True bullshit. Well... what can we expect from a language that's only about 2 thousand ys. old?
Hahahahhahaha😂
I mean q doesn't actually make the sound "queue" that's just its name so technically no
just say line.
KANSAS - "can-sass?" WRONG "can-zis"
ARKANSAS - "r-can-zis?" WRONG "r-can-saw"
That's BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLSHIT
MrNotorius5500 Many geographical names in the USA originate from language(s) of the natives... Maybe these are also the case.
The s is silent in Illinois
MrNotorius5500 Tidus - Tie-dus Tee-dus
+MrNotorius5500 in german:
KANSAS = KÄNSES
ARKANSAS = Ar-KÄNSES
Wait...that's how Arkansas is spelt?
If you have one computer mouse and get another one, is it computer mouses or computer mice?
For the rodent, only mice is acceptable. For the device, both are OK.
You get mices
Mousen
Mice, of course.
I bet Bill Gates was asked that before. If so, I wonder how he answered it.
How about the prefix "Pre". George Carlin despised that prefix!
"Place the turkey in a pre-heated oven." It's ridiculous! There's only two states an oven can be in: *HEATED OR UNHEATED!* "Pre-heated" is a meaningless fucking term! It's like "pre-recorded". "This program was pre-recorded." WELL, OF COURSE IT WAS PRE-RECORDED! WHEN ELSE ARE YOU GOING TO RECORD IT?! *AFTERWARDS?!* That's the whole purpose of recording, *TO DO IT BEFOREHAND, OTHERWISE IT DOESN'T REALLY WORK, DOES IT?!*
Pre-existing, pre-planning, pre-screening. You know what I tell these people? *PRE-SUCK MY "GENITAL SITUATION!"* And they seem to understand what I'm talking about! - George Carlin
+THE OFFICIAL TBONE2004 The only way to express the thought,
"I have a pre-existing condition" without using the prefix is by saying,
"I have a condition that has existed before this present time."
The latter is unnecessarily more complicated. The prefix is a way of more efficiently expressing a thought.
Just like,
"Place the biscuits in a pre-heated oven."
would have to be expressed,
"Place the biscuits in an oven you've heated beforehand."
Darryvon __
The prefix "pre" means "prior" or "beforehand."
Saying, "Place the biscuits in a preheated oven" means, "place the biscuits in an oven you've heated prior to doing this."
I get what you're saying, but instructions these days have to made dummy-proof, so if you put on the box, "Place biscuits in a heated oven," some people may misinterpret this as "place the biscuits in the over and turn it on." This would fuck up the time table supplied on the box for how long they need to bake.
Thus, the prefix makes it clear that the oven should be *_heated_* BEFORE placing the biscuits in.
*****
The way George delivered it was hilarious though. XD
+THE OFFICIAL TBONE2004 precum
This was always my favourite episode
Screw up with plural words in English? try Indonesian Language, every singular can be plural by just repeated the word, for example "Gadis" that mean girl, the plural form will be "Gadis-gadis" that mean girls. Simple as that!
That is...very strange
Hey, whatever works.
japanese has something like that.
Same thing with Malay. Well, except Tortoises...it's called Kura-Kura...even if it's only one.
werewolf873 Huh.
The world is quiet here.
Learn hungarian. Every letter has it's own pronounciation, which never changes. It doesn't matter, where a letter is, you always pronounce it the same way.
Sounds amazing.
Finnish too.
Bulgarian too
Same with Ukrainian. Although dealing with Cyrillic alphabet is a pain in the ass for an English speaker.
Serbian too.
Is the 's' or 'c' silent in the word 'scent'?
Also, from now on I say Coxen for cock's plural
skygazer Cool, thx!
Since C tends to be a K sound in most languages, but not in all cases of course, it makes sense to say the C is silent.
I wanna cut myself with a nife
I want a “Look at all those MEESE!” T-shirt!!!
"How about we pronounce our words however we want. Everybody's different, talk the way you talk. Anybody who objects, shut the hell up, suck our Coxen."
Best quote of the century.
And just to put the final nail in the coffin... Colonel = Kernel?
Yep, the English language is _definitely_ broken.
Colonel is a British term, say it with a British accent
PWNZOR671 _"It's a British term. That's why it's an official rank in the *American* military. Yes, that makes perfect sense".
Also, the accent doesn't matter. Whether you're American or British, by pronouncing it how it's spelled, it sound like "call-en-all".
There are many examples, another one: ate = eight
or better yet corps=Core?
I'd like a Colonel of popcorn.
Why not make more of these? they're hilarious!
new episode today
magnusm4 because coming up with an idea and writing a script for stuff like this is hard?
I think the main issue with modern English is that we’ve taken words from every other language and incorporated into ours. If you look at any language from Europe you’ll recognize at least a word or two that we’ve adapted, either their spelling or pronunciation, with maybe a letter or two changed.
Sometimes it's multiple loanings, Eg.: "foot ball" (English) -> "fußball" (German) -> "fooze ball" (closest English approximation of the German approximation)
And then in the United States it's still called fooze ball even though the game clearly depicts what we call "soccer"
I am thankful I am Spanish and the Spanish is a language where the words have the same pronunciation as they are written. The only silent letter is the h, and there are not irregular plurals. The only problem can be the irregular verbs, but they are not so many of them.
Every language has good things and bad things, yes.
douchebanner It's more that if you speak eEnglishincorrectly, it's easier to understand what your saying. If a foreigner or kid says 'mooses' we know what they mean. If you conjugate a word in Spanish incorrectly, people don't really know what your saying. Spanish is a pain in the ass the learn, I'm assuming English is easier to start to learn, but native speakers don't know every bit of grammatical trivia.
douchebanner
Wtf how is English simpler and more logical?
gazcan1 I've learnt English as a second language, and I've always thought of it as a really simple and easy language. If I ever see a new word I've never heard of, I can always pronounce it; I've never thought of English as an especially hard language.
english is way easier tho, you just think Spanish is easier because you learned it growing up.
learning a new language is hard no matter where you're from, but english is pretty easy compared to most, majority of the people i know who speak english learned just by playing videogames.
When you look at how the English language was constructed over the years, it becomes apparent that it's just one incoherent conglomerate of all other languages thrown into a blender and set to 'puree'. There are so many rules and exceptions to the rules that it all just boils down to rote memorization.
I'm only as good with pronunciation as I am because I have a really sharp memory for these types of things, understand the roots of words and the history & culture from whence they came, and in general have scrutiny about attention to detail. I don't begrudge others for mispronunciation because of the incoherent nature of the English language, or as AVGN so eloquently puts it, it's complete bullshit.
Even a gammar nazi like myself can agree to this
+Sir Quaffler Had I read your comment before I posted my own, I would have refrained from posting at all. Your contribution effectively renders mine redundant; nay, inferior. The eloquence you spoke of is thine, my good sir. ::tips hat::
you like big words don't you
Yes, but it's Bullshit Man, not AVGN.
😂😂👏👏
"LOOK AT ALL THOSE MOTHER FUCKIN' MEESE!!!"
2:12, Geese Howard just liked that reference, LOL!
When I started to learn English, all these peculiar exceptions in pronunciation didn't really piss me off, I just found them rather interesting.
yeah ... there are much shittier languages ...
In my country it's 100x more confusing then in english
I made a T-shirt with MEESE and i'm wearing it right now
Come to Finland. Here we pronounce every word like it's written, and rules for plural words are constant aswell.
Suomi mainittu!
came here to say this
Jari Litmanen!
trolz666 Torilla tavataan.
Yea, but there are shit ton of rules to learn, and almost every rule has at least one exception... Finnish is the third most difficult language to learn. But at least you pronounce every word how it's written.
Well, the English language is a Frankenstein of several European languages.
This is my favorite YKW video to date, and it's totally relatable. I know you feel, BS man.
I agree. Best Bullshit video so far.
You Know What's Bullshit? Finnish language...
Kuusi palaa! = The spruce is on fire!
Kuusi palaa! = The spruce returns!
Kuusi palaa! = The number six is on fire!
Kuusi palaa! = The number six returns!
Kuusi palaa! = Six of them is on fire!
Kuusi palaa! =Six of them returns!
Kuusi palaa! = Your moon returns!
Kuusi palaa! = Six pieces.
English: a god, the god, two dogs
Swedish: en hund, hunden, två hundar, hundarna
German: Den Hund, einen Hund, dem Hund, einem Hund, des Hundes, eines Hundes, den Hunden, der Hunden
Finnish: Koira, koiran, koiraa, koiran again, koirassa, koirasta, koiraan, koiralla, koiralta, koiralle, koirana, koiraksi, koiratta, koirineen, koirin, koirasi, koirani, koiransa, koiramme, koiranne, koiraani, koiraasi, koiraansa, koiraamme, koiraanne, koirassani, koirassasi, koirassansa, koirassamme, koirassanne, koirastani, koirastasi, koirastansa, koirastamme, koirastanne, koirallani, koirallasi, koirallansa, koirallamme, koirallanne, koiranani, koiranasi, koiranansa, koiranamme, koirananne, koirakseni, koiraksesi, koiraksensa, koiraksemme, koiraksenne, koirattani, koirattasi, koirattansa, koirattamme, koirattanne, koirineni, koirinesi, koirinensa, koirinemme, koirinenne etc..
Word pronunciations in english, yeah sure... tough.
Your language looks like someone wanted to marry Arabic with Japanese with Russian with German.
manictiger That pretty much sums it up.
ReHeated Even worse, saying numbers in finnish.
I'm a Russian Karelian with finnish influence btw
Never thought that would be hard.. well yeah, if you think about it..
21 = einundzwanzig (German)
21 = Twenty-one (English)
21 = tjugo-ett (Swedish)
21 = Kaksikymmentäyksi (Finnish)
Just try to find online dictionary with pronunciations and you'll see what CCCP Communist means..
KabulTheAngryFinn
Man, I hate this list when Finnish people act like it's something special. If you write out all these forms in Finnish, you should write them out in English too.
Of a dog, of the dog, to a dog, to the dog, by a dog, by the dog, for a dog, for the dog, ...
Finnish is an agglutinative language, so you stick the preposition to the noun. So writing all these Finnish forms compared to English which doesn't agglutinate is rather silly and unfair.
I wonder if there's multiple cinemassaci
+Faintedsquirtle Cinemassacres? Cinemassacrix? Cinemassacrees?
PupdudePwns Cinemassecees
Faintedsquirtle
That makes no sense, the r needs to be preserved.
Cinemacrescre.
Seeneymahsakeeu
I was doing grammar or spelling homework in 6th grade and one of the questions was "what is the plural of moose?" and the answers were meese and moose.
There can be correct variations of plurals. Fish -> fish or fishes. Person -> people or persons.
At 1:28, he pronounced "walk" as a word I can only spell as: "disanthoplonopious" (I tried Googling it with multiple spellings).
Is that a word? If not, well, James is a modern Shakespeare who can make up fascinating words. (FYI: Shakespeare made up the name "Jessica" and the word "circumstantial.")
I've legit never heard anyone say bury like that. Huh.
Welcome to Finland and finnish language! The way you write it is the way you say it.
Coxen made me laugh pretty hard, that should be a word
I'm Argentinean, and learning "Wednesday" as a kid almost drove me fucking insane
Is that even the way you call someone who comes from Argentina? I don't know. English.
Rhyme Bito
argentinian
I'm pretty sure someone from Argentina is an argentine
There doesn't seem to be a set, single adjective. I've seen both "Argentinean" and "Argentine".
Spelling "Wednesday" as a kid drove me insane.....damn, spelling bees. Silent letters used to throw me off a lot. I also hated how some words have historical meanings such as the term "bees" in "spelling bees." In this case, "bees" does not refer to those little buzzing insects. Instead, "bees" refer to a get-together. Y U SO COMPLEX, ENGLISH!!!
I don't understand island or isle... There is no s in them. It should be iland and ile.... That's bullshit
That's because of a horribly implemented linguistic puritanism. When English spelling was in the process of being standardized, some scholars just took wild guesses on the etymology of English words, and thought that "island" and "isle" were somehow related to the Spanish word "isla" (or rather the Latin word that originated it). So they saw fit to include the silent "s" on "island", much like the "c" in "muscle". In fact, however, "island" is an old English compund word that just means "land on water" and has nothing to do with Latin or Spanish. So yeah, English spelling is a result of people fucking up the way they write since time immemorial.
You're totally correct about "island," but "muscle" comes from Latin "musculus". The letter C became silent maybe only 300 or 400 years ago.
I've always found the words to look really cool though. Aesthetically.
What about aisle
@@AleksKwisatz
The i of island is a cognate of aqua. Mind = blown.
I'm actually very interested in the name of the stock banjo music in the intro when the bull takes a crap.
I'm only interested because I heard it in The Nutshack.
Lolwutburger YES
I've started pronouncing review the same way James does ever since watching this ^^'
'Queue' just the letter Q followed by 4 silent letters
English is an insane language, most European Languages are based on Latin or old German to some degree while English is pretty much a merry clusterfuck of whatever the friggin hell we could get our hands on over 2 millennia of invasions, immgrations and importations. Also if you think that standard English you see in our TV shows is bad just wait till you get to regional stuff... we have about 35 different separate terms for bread rolls... I know most countries have unique regional colloquialisms but I think the UK doesn't just take the cake but pretty much runs off with the dessert trolley on that score.
Languages that derivate from latin aren't easier than english by a long shot.
More than occasionally French or Latin or Greek in origin (30% in COMMON speech), the rest being principally Germanic.
The main reason for all the inconsistencies is the alphabet changed either too fast or slow, didn't keep pace with the common speech.
A lot of it came from other people invading English speaking areas. I think English is beautiful. If you know English, you will see connections in many other languages and become more worldly in your knowledge of how language adapts and changes so vividly.
Like the Bread Rolls thing, what's a difference between a Chalice, a Goblet, a Cup, and a Grail....that might be a stupid question but it's weird
Sephirothwolf Apparently, it's easier to learn Chinese than it is ours. I guess the only way anyone could truly learn English is to be born listening to it.
ROUGH, TOUGH, and ENOUGH are pronounced with an F, but there is none in the word. Also, G.
Would you rather say
Roug, Toug and Enoug?
chainsawplayin Quite so laul
+chainsawplayin If the pronunciation wasn't made with an F, you would say it with a G
Ruf, Tuf, Enuf
It was a gh sound that merged with f. Last spelling update was when the American spellings changed from the British ones, last one before that was never.
"LOOK AT ALL THOSE MOTHERFUCKING MEESE!"
- James Rolfe, 2014
James: How 'bout Moose? What would you say after there's more than one Moose?
Me: MOOSEN!
If you didn't get the reference, go live in a boxen
I saw a flock of moosen in the woodsen.
I bought two boxen of doughnuts!!
I saw a flock of moosen! There were many of them, many much moosen.
They were in the woods, the woodes, woodesnessen! The meese wanted the food! Food is for eatenessen!!
(And no, I have TOTALLY not watched this Brian Reagan clip a few hundred times... XD)
The ox-oxen plural comes from old english plurals, where the -s ending hadn't existed. Most of the words that were brought to middle english were arbitrary, but back in old-english no plural used -s.
HI batclone!
I did not know that.
So back then the plural of ladle was ladlen?
Or like how instead of the word 'you,' it was just the letter 'u.'
But we still say u...
Enough - GH makes the F sound
Women - O makes the I sound
Nation - TI makes the SH sound
Therefore, "GHOTI" is pronounced exactly like "FISH."
Welcome to the English Language, motherfuckers.
***** Too bad you didn't learn english well.
***** That... can't be true. How on earth do you pronounce those two, then?
I have.
***** plural of woman he meant
***** Where are you from? Women is pronounced "wi-men" from where I'm from.
0:34 what about:
release
repeat
revolve
renew
repulse
etc.
All ree.
Because if you took out the re, they wouldn't be verbs. You never peat anything.
@@jwanbesande2734
You never tain anything or scind anything either. What's your point?
@@kekeke8988 You can say them either way, ree or ruh.
@jwanbesande2734 you can LEASE something though
The plurals come from Old English, which was more closer to English's Germanic roots. They were the words most frequently used during the French Occupation of England, and thus they were the only ones that withheld the French influence on the English Language.
A field of Oak Trees used to be a field of Ack... Two books used to be two beek. There are ten toes on your feet because 10 toes used to be 10 ten.
"Shut the hell up and suck our coxen" XD
Thanks for this Mr. Bullshit. People online take things way out of hand. I had somebody comment on a video I made saying they wanted to "Fucking punch me" because I pronounce Mario "Mary-Oh". People get bent out of shape over little friggen things.
Usually people on the east coast say "Mary oh", I live in the southwest, so a lot of people will say "mah rio".
To be fair, it is really stupid when the character and company themselves said Mar-ee-oh. Mary-Oh really does sound stupid.
***** Libarry doesn't get to be a mispronounced word, it's just simply wrong. You're eliminating letters from the word. It's not like Tomato Tomawto because they at least consist of the same letters. much like Vase and vawz
pejnismiggle "Libarry doesn't get to be a mispronounced word, it's just simply wrong. You're eliminating letters from the word." Then tell me why "Wensday" isn't wrong. Writing is simply a representation of language. Language changes and evolves, and writing can never keep up. It's the reason we have so many silent letters. Spelling doesn't determine pronunciation, pronunciation determines spelling. Unfortunately, spelling is standardized and doesn't change very often.
Fun fact: the "k" and "gh" in "knight" used to be pronounced. Is it wrong to not pronounce them because we're "eliminating letters from the word"?
pejnismiggle Go watch an old episode of the Super Show and listen to how it's pronounced. Captain Lou Albano was raised in New York, Charles Martinet was raised in San Francisco. It's regional. Most folks around Long Island (Where I'm from) and NYC usually say "Mary-Oh" but if you go upstate it'll become "Mah-Rio"
"Who keeps piles of boxes around, honestly?!"
"Don't you talk about my boxen, I LIKE BOXEN!"
the bandage was wound around the wound.
It's always jarring to learn that someone has a "tear" in their eye.
I wind the clock as the wind blows.
thanks, Obama.
Yoda: "Smith, Will Smith will."
DragnSly I took my bass off the wall, which was next to the bass I caught at the lake
don't desert your comrades in the desert!
I'll make sure to say meese next time I see a group of moose's.
Mooses
Mechagodzilla3 a herd of moose.*
+Spunknerdiness meese
*Moxen
@@mapper534 lol moxen 🤣🤣🤣
This episode was just beautiful.
Next time I'm breaking down bunch of boxes at work, I'm referring to them as 'boxen'.
English is terrible. We make rules for spelling and grammar then it turns out there are seventy thousand exceptions to said rules. Like "I before E". "Friends", compared to "their". What happened?!
Centuries of undocumented language use will do that. Languages evolve. They aren't written out and planned. Of course they'll be fucked up. Especially considering the geo-political divides of it's speakers.
well, it's because it isn't one language, because England was invaded a couple times in its early history, our language is a mash of words brought in by the french, vikings and various others so naturally rules that apply to one set of words from one language don't necessarily apply to words from others.
***** say that to my dyslexic face XD
English, specifically American English is terrible because it's got words from French, German, latin, and other languages that make in an amalgamation.
You should learn French or German! They are whorses or whatever the superlative of worse is!
I lost it at “Hice” 💀
2:17 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Man as someone who doesn't speak english natively this video just perfectly explains my issues with english
2:03
MOOSEN!!! I SAW A FLOCK OF MOOSEN, THERE WERE MANY OF THEM: MANY MUCH MOOSEN!!!!
Points to you if you get that refrence
I watched this video years ago and it made me go from correcting everyone on the internet to not giving a shit.
New rule: if you want to say someone is pronouncing a word wrong, you had better be able to explain why, historically, FROM MEMORY. You only get to school someone if you are qualified to teach on the subject.
FINALLY, SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS MY LANGUAGE!!!!
Is anyone else RE-watching all of these episodes in a massive binge?
2:24.....
I want that t-shirt XD
You should have done this in the style of Dr. Seuss
Jimby, nah. It's good enough.
You know what's bullshit? James saying the word "mountain" as "moudin" instead of "mountain"
Tough = tuff
Enough = enuff
Through = throo
Lol, wut.
Robert O'Brien though=zo
The fuck ?
Correction... its nuff
shouldnt bury be pronounced "bew-ree"? like how you would pronounce fury?
OH DONT YOU TALK ABOUT MY OXES! I LIKE OXES!!!!!
0:34 actually yes, that’s how I would say recall
Depends on the context. If you're remembering something, it's ruh-CALL, if you're pull a defective product off the shelf, it's RE-call.
I say it both
There
They're
Their
Where
We're
Were
Tomato
Potato
Nuclear
thesupersonicstig nuclear is pretty straight forward. I don't see anyone pronouncing it differently. New-clee-urr
Your, You're
Entropy3ko You Your You're
Contractions aren't that hard. Seems easy to me. They're = they are, We're + we are, etc. Tho it is kinda effed up how these type of words got invented. I don't think other languages do this.
Two
Too
To