Cat…I Farted.

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  • @henkdedeurklink260
    @henkdedeurklink2607 ай бұрын

    Fun fact: If you smush together enough sounds in a particularly grotesque manner you actually gain the ability to make the earth's wet parts dry and then conquer them. On the downside, you are now speaking Dutch

  • @Respectable_Username

    @Respectable_Username

    7 ай бұрын

    Kudos, you got a literal out-loud chuckle out of me for this one 😂

  • @Shade.85

    @Shade.85

    7 ай бұрын

    I can't breathe, irl 😭 why is this so on point though

  • @capacle

    @capacle

    7 ай бұрын

    Bravo

  • @bartolomeothesatyr

    @bartolomeothesatyr

    7 ай бұрын

    Why is speaking Dutch a downside?

  • @irakyl

    @irakyl

    7 ай бұрын

    zeg makker

  • @BradenJohnYoung
    @BradenJohnYoung7 ай бұрын

    I laughed way more than I should have at Pepsi resulting in Network Error

  • @vlogbrothers

    @vlogbrothers

    7 ай бұрын

    When it happened I was like, "Oh, thank you Chat GPT...thank you..."

  • @KyleJMitchell

    @KyleJMitchell

    7 ай бұрын

    It took me a second to process that ChatGPT had a network error rather than the original translators (or that it was something that needed to be censored), and for me that adds tremendously to the joke!

  • @elleoat

    @elleoat

    7 ай бұрын

    My favorite part of that was "still some glitches to work out." idk if it was an intentional vintage vlogbrthers reference or if it was just a coincidence but I loved it.

  • @Dalenthas

    @Dalenthas

    7 ай бұрын

    "I put your symptoms into the thing and it says you could have network connectivity issues."

  • @alissa6380

    @alissa6380

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@Dalenthas my first thought! 😂

  • @aaronhorne8496
    @aaronhorne84967 ай бұрын

    "Still some glitches to work out" may just be the oldest nerdfighter in-joke. Still amazing

  • @HelenRosemarySmith

    @HelenRosemarySmith

    7 ай бұрын

    I love it 😄

  • @dsjgfhidupgjret

    @dsjgfhidupgjret

    7 ай бұрын

    autopower off!

  • @joshuasims5421

    @joshuasims5421

    7 ай бұрын

    Auto power off???

  • @vlogbrotherdave

    @vlogbrotherdave

    7 ай бұрын

    Omg way to catch that 😂

  • @KatieRomrell

    @KatieRomrell

    7 ай бұрын

    Wow, I totally missed that on the first watch. Love it!!

  • @abdullahenani9670
    @abdullahenani96707 ай бұрын

    why would “Cat, I farted” look so good in a pizzamas shirt though? It has so much potential

  • @namantherockstar

    @namantherockstar

    7 ай бұрын

    Vlog inspires me.. My parents said if i get 70K followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally Begging...

  • @scottcampbell96

    @scottcampbell96

    7 ай бұрын

    Or "chat j'ai pété m'a volé mon travail”. “Cat, I farted” stole my job

  • @nickwilliams330

    @nickwilliams330

    7 ай бұрын

    ++

  • @kylehenderson9489

    @kylehenderson9489

    7 ай бұрын

    Image of a farting feline above the text. "Ce n'est pas un chat qui pète." This is not a farting cat.

  • @CatMom-uw9jl

    @CatMom-uw9jl

    7 ай бұрын

    @@scottcampbell96 I’d wear it and giggle the whole time. Very few French speakers where I live.

  • @teucer915
    @teucer9157 ай бұрын

    In college, when I needed a study break, I would sometimes walk half a mile in the bitter Minnesota cold to the 24-hour grocery store for a donut that had officially just become day-old and a 99c liter of pretty good root beer. The shop's house-brand spices were labeled in English and Spanish. Most of them were correct - parsley / perejil, garlic / ajo, and so on. The ground cinnamon / canela de tierra clearly had the wrong kind of "ground" in mind, but it made sense. What was baffling to me was the basil, translated as "la albahaca se va" - "the basil goes away." A friend of mine finally figured out that somebody had tried to say "basil leaves."

  • @kolt9051

    @kolt9051

    7 ай бұрын

    LMAO now if this story isnt enough motivation for me to learn a second language...

  • @selinaforsyth4844

    @selinaforsyth4844

    7 ай бұрын

    I was similarly baffled by an English drink menu in Mexico that listed water, lemonade, coffee, "I fry you," Coke, etc. Took me a while to figure out... Cold Tea: té frío. I fry you: te frio.

  • @boswell7279

    @boswell7279

    7 ай бұрын

    +

  • @ericeaton2386

    @ericeaton2386

    7 ай бұрын

    This is honestly one of the funniest comments I’ve ever read. I made an absurd sound when I got to that last line 😂

  • @athingwithfeathers
    @athingwithfeathers7 ай бұрын

    As someone who has grown up bilingual (French and English), I can assure you that in my house we still say "cat I farted" and no one can talked about ChatGPT with a straight face anymore.

  • @IrisGlowingBlue

    @IrisGlowingBlue

    7 ай бұрын

    Thank you for your commitment to joy

  • @euca8704

    @euca8704

    7 ай бұрын

    You are doing the world a service, please continue

  • @callmeperch
    @callmeperch7 ай бұрын

    0:50 "Most of the wet parts are not ours yet" is such a powerful idea phrased so simply, but then it's followed by the existential crisis of "let's leave it that way" which seems like an increasingly unlikely ideal

  • @therabbithat

    @therabbithat

    7 ай бұрын

    Most of the parts which are ours are not wet yet

  • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

    @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

    7 ай бұрын

    @@therabbithat Speak for yourself.

  • @SteakNAleOrPonderosa

    @SteakNAleOrPonderosa

    7 ай бұрын

    If you're into D&D and/or podcasts, check out The Adventure Zone: Ethersea. Exploration of this exact subject.

  • @caydennormanton9682

    @caydennormanton9682

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Talk about a double-whammy... 😂

  • @ashleighhislop9392

    @ashleighhislop9392

    7 ай бұрын

    Don't worry. The orcas are on it.

  • @lassi8519
    @lassi85197 ай бұрын

    A milestone in the proliferation of English into Finnish marketing was when a company that makes chips(as in crisps for the Brits out there) was selling a particularly big bag of chips. What you need to know is that 'a bag' in Finnish is 'pussi'. So they had big block letters on the bag reading: "MEGAPUSSI". Needless to say, it now reads 'Megabag', instead.

  • @storyspren

    @storyspren

    7 ай бұрын

    Or that bag of bread that was called Jussipussi, which I don't think they sell anymore (or at least I haven't seen it)

  • @archer111000
    @archer1110007 ай бұрын

    "Network error" has a very "WebMD says you have internet connectivity issues" vibe.

  • @IrisGlowingBlue

    @IrisGlowingBlue

    7 ай бұрын

    +

  • @SilverLikeStarlight

    @SilverLikeStarlight

    7 ай бұрын

    One of the best jokes on that show

  • @phyphor
    @phyphor7 ай бұрын

    I can't help but think that "if I didn't know about languages and you tried to explain language to me" would be hard to do without language.

  • @kata9553

    @kata9553

    7 ай бұрын

    Communication via vibes

  • @cloudytea3121

    @cloudytea3121

    7 ай бұрын

    Nerd to nerd communication, nerd to nerd conversation :D

  • @feefen

    @feefen

    7 ай бұрын

    this reminds me of the movie Arrival, where a few linguists try to communicate with extraterrestrials

  • @thatfly5360
    @thatfly53607 ай бұрын

    I love how Hank seems to be on the verge of tears like he’s extremely worked up about the idea of not living in a world where Chat GPT is Cat, I Farted in French

  • @catmariesposato5857
    @catmariesposato58577 ай бұрын

    As somebody named Cat, the title of this video made me believe that this would be a deeply personal confession specifically made to me about an embarrassing moment. What a joyful surprise when I watched.

  • @PrivateAnariel
    @PrivateAnariel7 ай бұрын

    French canadian here, I still giggle at the fact Audi's first fully electric car is named the "Audi Turd" and they are still coming out with a new Turd every year.

  • @panpolypuff

    @panpolypuff

    7 ай бұрын

    You'd think they could have developed a fourth by now.

  • @adrien5568

    @adrien5568

    7 ай бұрын

    The e-tron?

  • @PrivateAnariel

    @PrivateAnariel

    7 ай бұрын

    @@adrien5568 yeah, étron is the proper french word for turd. Its not the word people use coloquially, but it is what it translates to

  • @adrien5568

    @adrien5568

    7 ай бұрын

    @@PrivateAnariel Puisque le nom n'était pas directement cité j'avais un doute.

  • @zaplan6762

    @zaplan6762

    7 ай бұрын

    Yes hahahahha I forgot about that and saw one in the wild yesterday 😂

  • @madalen532
    @madalen5327 ай бұрын

    My personal favorite is in Coldplay's "Yellow" they say "Your skin and bones" sounds like "I shat a homeless man" in Danish

  • @sudokis
    @sudokis7 ай бұрын

    always feels weird when I already know what a vlogbrothers video is about from the title, it's like solving the crossword

  • @sexyscientist

    @sexyscientist

    7 ай бұрын

    +

  • @RobG93
    @RobG937 ай бұрын

    Hank’s current hair and glasses combo is close to growing into its prime Jan 1st 2007 season

  • @RobG93

    @RobG93

    7 ай бұрын

    On that note 2:45

  • @RobG93

    @RobG93

    7 ай бұрын

    Next video could you film it with your super close up, weird angles on your face for some nostalgia from before my nerdfighting time

  • @1901180108
    @19011801087 ай бұрын

    Friendly reminder that not all languages are made of sounds (because sign languages exist). But yes, French speakers, please continue to call ChatGPT "Cat, I farted."

  • @allenliu4956

    @allenliu4956

    7 ай бұрын

    What's fun is that signed languages are also analyzed in terms of "phonemes" like the sounds of spoken languages, but signed phonemes are things like location and finger positions.

  • @_maxgray

    @_maxgray

    7 ай бұрын

    Excellent reminder!

  • @IrisGlowingBlue

    @IrisGlowingBlue

    7 ай бұрын

    +

  • @krabkit

    @krabkit

    7 ай бұрын

    not all spoken language is purely sound, gesture and expression can convey a lot

  • @Crimson_Cheetah

    @Crimson_Cheetah

    7 ай бұрын

    +

  • @erilassila409
    @erilassila4097 ай бұрын

    Holy hell..a Vlogbrothers video about language stuff, on the day of my graduation with a bachelor's degree in linguistics? This is so goddamn cool!

  • @carleybutler1707

    @carleybutler1707

    7 ай бұрын

    congratulations!!

  • @ueblay

    @ueblay

    7 ай бұрын

    congrats! hope you got assigned a cool word

  • @KyleJMitchell
    @KyleJMitchell7 ай бұрын

    I appreciate Hank recognizing Nintendo for pulling off their Wii.

  • @NinaDmytraczenko

    @NinaDmytraczenko

    7 ай бұрын

    As an ESL speaker, I was today years old when I realized the connotation lol

  • @darthtace
    @darthtace7 ай бұрын

    It's worth noting that language, like most things, sits on a spectrum. Sometimes we have a series of sounds that are not, in fact, words -- and yet they STILL mean things! They're called vocables. Ow, uh-oh, uh-huh, nuh-uh, etc. These are different from sounds like laughter or screaming in that they can actually differ between languages! If you're in pain in Japanese, you will probably say "itai!" instead of "ouch!", or if you're uncertain you might say "eto..." instead of "um..." (though, of course, simply humming shows uncertainty across human cultures, so the spectrum is blurry). Some vocables are so far from being words that they literally cannot be written! My personal favorite -- which tends to cause people learning English a fair amount of discomfort -- is simply humming or grunting to say "I don't know", which is, somehow, an English vocable that is both pitch- and rhythm-specific despite the fact that English uses neither pitch accent nor strict isochrony!

  • @ueblay

    @ueblay

    7 ай бұрын

    +

  • @SoloMumboJumbo
    @SoloMumboJumbo7 ай бұрын

    This also happens when two countries speak the same language, when Coca-Cola tried to market their water in the UK they said it contained spunk... I'll let you look up what that means in the UK

  • @CircleThinker

    @CircleThinker

    7 ай бұрын

    Funny it didn't do well, ey 😂🤢

  • @ByOwlLight

    @ByOwlLight

    7 ай бұрын

    Yeah it also means that in the US. That was just somebody not being up on slang and/or somebody being very up on slang but knowing their bosses weren't and giggling like a madperson in the background.

  • @belindaweber7999

    @belindaweber7999

    7 ай бұрын

    😂😂😂

  • @emilycarr2913
    @emilycarr29137 ай бұрын

    “Still some glitches to work out” -Hank Green -Hank Green

  • @Kim-iz5fx
    @Kim-iz5fx7 ай бұрын

    As a french software developer (who uses that tool a ... completely reasonable amount), i am weirdly proud to tell you, Hank, that everyone i've ever met uses the pronunciation "tchat j'ai pété".

  • @StarrysLostandFound
    @StarrysLostandFound7 ай бұрын

    Calpis is a non-carbonated Japanese soft drink, but given how it sounds in English its name was changed to Calpico in the English speaking market.

  • @Asummersdaydreamer14

    @Asummersdaydreamer14

    7 ай бұрын

    I have read about this many times on the internet, but I keep putting off looking for some to try. Anyone recommend any flavors if there are multiple?

  • @StarrysLostandFound

    @StarrysLostandFound

    7 ай бұрын

    @@Asummersdaydreamer14 I only know of the original favor.

  • @DonkoXI

    @DonkoXI

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@Asummersdaydreamer14There are a few. The original is very good, but so are the white peach and melon flavors.

  • @thatjillgirl

    @thatjillgirl

    7 ай бұрын

    Calpis is pretty good. I also got a giggle out of Pocari Sweat when I was in Japan. I mean, it IS a sports drink, but most English speakers wouldn't have put sweat in the name.

  • @StarrysLostandFound

    @StarrysLostandFound

    7 ай бұрын

    @@thatjillgirl Very true

  • @Midgit315
    @Midgit3157 ай бұрын

    I think we're gonna need some "France, do not let us down here" merch. Also could have been a song from Hamilton.

  • @inuendo6365

    @inuendo6365

    7 ай бұрын

    Gdi, it would be a perfect Hamilton song I can practically hear it in my head

  • @ForgivingCross
    @ForgivingCross7 ай бұрын

    There's another element at play here. The reason Phil Fish (I'm kind of just assuming its the game developers from Quebec) might be hearing "cat I farted" more than other french speakers is that he's from Quebec where adopting anglo-words (and their pronunciation) isn't well liked for a number of sociopolitical and historical reasons. So while Parisian French speakers might just say the english phonetics that make up "ChatGPT", Quebecois French speakers (and especially news/government organizations) may very well say the non-anglo "cat, I farted".

  • @Naabeille

    @Naabeille

    7 ай бұрын

    Yes, I am from Québec and I mostly hear the « tchat j’ai pété » (cat I farted) pronounciation here. France may let you down, but us québécois don’t fear that beautiful french way of saying ChatGPT. 😂

  • @caydennormanton9682

    @caydennormanton9682

    7 ай бұрын

    These sociopolitical and historical reasons you mentioned interest me - can you provide any more details to point me in the right direction?

  • @bluetoes591

    @bluetoes591

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@caydennormanton9682 The big picture is big. Basically Canada was settled by the French and the British, and they have always been at odds. Quebec is therefore fiercely protective of the the French language, there are many laws about the use of English on signs in that province for example. Here is a good documentary about some of the more recent political events, specifically the last time they had a referendum proposing separating from Canada. kzread.info/dash/bejne/eKBrzrGunsfRZLw.html

  • @caydennormanton9682

    @caydennormanton9682

    7 ай бұрын

    I see! I suppose that's why I keep hearing of French Canadians - it never occurred to me to look into the history of Canada (specifically). Thanks for the reply and the link!

  • @bluetoes591

    @bluetoes591

    7 ай бұрын

    @@caydennormanton9682 It's tricky. Canada is legally a bilingual country. Any federal service has to be available in French and English regardless of location. But only one province is legally bilingual, New Brunswick. And the Yukon Territory. BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and PEI, provincial and local government services are only required to be available in English. In Quebec they're only required to be available in French. The territories of Nunavut and The Northwest Territories both legally recognize a few official languages, English, French, and their indigenous languages. All of that said, any government service is likely to have speakers of many languages, and efforts are usually made to provide paperwork and other services in many languages as demand requires. Here in BC you can take your written test to get a learners driver's license in 12 langauges for example.

  • @persikosaft
    @persikosaft7 ай бұрын

    Honda had planned to release a model called "Fitta" (they had made commercials and brochures and stuff), but they quickly changed the name to "Jazz" when they realized what it meant in Swedish. The tagline was supposed to be "Small on the outside, big on the inside."

  • @EricaGamet

    @EricaGamet

    7 ай бұрын

    As someone learning Swedish I decided to look that one up! I then replied, "Herrejävlar!"

  • @CatMom-uw9jl
    @CatMom-uw9jl7 ай бұрын

    Before I went to Europe after high school, I was told-by a nun whose order was based in France-that there was a French soda called Pschitt. I could hardly wait to order a bottle of Pschitt at a café. I kept that bottle as a souvenir until the label faded.

  • @mastaw
    @mastaw7 ай бұрын

    As a German speaker I was confused by what the issue is with Gutvik. Until I realized that we usually pronounce V as F. Probably took me that long because my brain is recovering from two exams today

  • @meadowl

    @meadowl

    7 ай бұрын

    i still dont get it help

  • @saintnicotine5585

    @saintnicotine5585

    7 ай бұрын

    I still don't get what it means. I feel so dumb

  • @karljones543

    @karljones543

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@saintnicotine5585 Es hört sich an wie gut f*ck.

  • @connierobinson1090
    @connierobinson10907 ай бұрын

    Hank is about to ruin my favorite recent AI fun fact isn’t he

  • @vlogbrothers

    @vlogbrothers

    7 ай бұрын

    Only a little.

  • @connierobinson1090

    @connierobinson1090

    7 ай бұрын

    Whew!

  • @connierobinson1090

    @connierobinson1090

    7 ай бұрын

    Update: of course it got turned into a Call To Action at the end lol

  • @benroston4752

    @benroston4752

    7 ай бұрын

    @@vlogbrothers*only a litter

  • @jimjones7980
    @jimjones79807 ай бұрын

    Alan Pope, an Open Source developer and podcaster, is tired of saying "ChatGPT" and has proposed "Chatty Jeeps" instead. I love it and that's all I can think of when I see ChatGPT anymore. As a follow up, when you interact with Chatty Jeeps, you Ask Jeeps... which I love for its call back to the days of Ask Jeeves.

  • @Yitzh6k

    @Yitzh6k

    7 ай бұрын

    I've called it Jippity for a while now

  • @Alfonso162008

    @Alfonso162008

    7 ай бұрын

    "Chatty Jeeps" sounds way worse.

  • @dresinss
    @dresinss7 ай бұрын

    When I took German in high school, on like the first week when we were learning the alphabet and numbers we played a game of Battleship. I was so thrilled with myself and the world when I had some sort of epiphany and yelled out "G6!!!!!!"

  • @b33thr33kay
    @b33thr33kay7 ай бұрын

    I'm Italian, and despite knowing of Sega, I had never heard the jingle with sound. I laughed for a full minute. 😂 Thank you Hank, that was very funny.

  • @laghimagupta5716

    @laghimagupta5716

    7 ай бұрын

    What does it mean lol

  • @mgraham0160

    @mgraham0160

    7 ай бұрын

    When you start a Sega game and the logo appears with the 'Sega' sound

  • @laghimagupta5716

    @laghimagupta5716

    7 ай бұрын

    @@mgraham0160 no no what I mean is what does sega mean in italian?

  • @b33thr33kay

    @b33thr33kay

    7 ай бұрын

    @@laghimagupta5716 It literally means "saw", but colloquially it means the act of self-pleasuring (for men).

  • @laghimagupta5716

    @laghimagupta5716

    7 ай бұрын

    @@b33thr33kay aah lol okay

  • @Norman834
    @Norman8347 ай бұрын

    "Still some glitches to work out" references somehow still get me, and I think it'll always be funny

  • @IrisGlowingBlue

    @IrisGlowingBlue

    7 ай бұрын

    +

  • @minimarker3

    @minimarker3

    7 ай бұрын

    +

  • @IzzyIkigai
    @IzzyIkigai7 ай бұрын

    honestly the best worst part about GUTVIK is that it's a bed. That makes the name so much funnier in German. :'D

  • @supersquip
    @supersquip7 ай бұрын

    I didn't have an impassioned plea from Hank to the French on my Holiday 2023 bingo card but now that its happened, I feel like it should have been the free space

  • @llsilvertail561
    @llsilvertail5617 ай бұрын

    And this is exactly why I love linguistics. It’s beautiful

  • @morganburt2565

    @morganburt2565

    7 ай бұрын

    +

  • @huehuetecti6115
    @huehuetecti61157 ай бұрын

    Seeing ads for the Ford Kuga always made me smile, because in Slovenian 'kuga' means plague

  • @snozzmcberry2366
    @snozzmcberry23667 ай бұрын

    "You can make a very long video just about..." PLEASE DO. HANK. HANK. PLEASE. PLEASE DO THIS.

  • @merrillsunderland8662

    @merrillsunderland8662

    7 ай бұрын

    HANK DO NOT LET US DOWN HERE

  • @Imurai
    @Imurai7 ай бұрын

    Hank, those teary eyes at the end really sold it to me!

  • @sebastienvondoom8615
    @sebastienvondoom86157 ай бұрын

    In which Hank demonstrates the products of his Simlish language course

  • @ThePlainumAcheiver
    @ThePlainumAcheiver7 ай бұрын

    What's also interesting about language and communication is cultural differences that can change meanings as well. Knock Knock jokes are big on language play, but there are some places in the world where you don't even knock on the door to announce you're there to the homeowner, you stomp on the floor! What does it mean then to make a knock knock joke! Side note, apparently one of the most accessible jokes in the world regardless of what language/culture you're translating it into is the one where the hunter calls for a doctor and says "my friend's been injured hunting, he may be dead." "Well check to make sure he's dead" *gunshot* "Okay, what now?"

  • @jessephillips1233
    @jessephillips12337 ай бұрын

    My favorite one of these was when Coca-cola was introduced to china they transliterated the phonetic equivalent of the characters (common to do with foreign names) but neglected to consider the meaning of the individual characters, which read "bite wax tadpole". The main issue is the phoneme "la" generally means wax, so now in China Coca-Cola is pronounced Coca-coler because the "ler" phoneme typically means joy or happiness.

  • @parisgreen4600

    @parisgreen4600

    7 ай бұрын

    Thank you - I was going to comment this but I couldn't remember the product. I think of "bite the wax tadpole" as the superlative of "that bites!"

  • @AbbreviatedReviews
    @AbbreviatedReviews7 ай бұрын

    That "network error" part nearly had me choke to death on a rice krispy treat.

  • @caydennormanton9682

    @caydennormanton9682

    7 ай бұрын

    To be fair, I'm pretty sure that happens with rice krispy treats regardless... 😅

  • @mccorkleknight
    @mccorkleknight7 ай бұрын

    There is so much to language, the amount of things that sound terrible in one language are extremely different in another. I absolutely love this kind of thing.

  • @p4riah
    @p4riah7 ай бұрын

    chat gpt: about as actually useful as a cat fart. without being as funny.

  • @shayelea
    @shayelea7 ай бұрын

    My favorite example of a sound communicating everything necessary without any actual words is if you asked me a question and I responded, “Nn-nn-nn” with the right singsong cadence, you would interpret that as “I don’t know,” with a side of, “and I’m not sure why you thought I would.”

  • @jortand
    @jortand7 ай бұрын

    This was exactly the information I needed on a Friday evening

  • @KillCoWhiskeyMusings
    @KillCoWhiskeyMusings7 ай бұрын

    I'm so glad you did a video about the sounds we all make and how we call them words. So many don't bother to understand how we're all just making vocal noises to understand one another. Anyone hearing a language foreign to their ear knows this as true. It's wild how our brains figure out anything with a bunch of mouth noises!

  • @triciac.5078

    @triciac.5078

    7 ай бұрын

    I read a sci-fi short story where aliens in orbit over earth discussed how we made sounds by slapping meat together. They found it very grotesque. Took me a bit to realize that talking really is just slapping meat together.

  • @vanessapierson4913

    @vanessapierson4913

    7 ай бұрын

    it’s all made up! it’s so freeing! so is everything! free!

  • @glennhower9265
    @glennhower92657 ай бұрын

    I love how “still some glitches to work out” is the longest running and most sporadically used joke on Vlogbrothers

  • @Leftistattheparty
    @Leftistattheparty7 ай бұрын

    Hank's hair sure is doing interpretive dance these days.

  • @CyberGrape
    @CyberGrape7 ай бұрын

    Was really hoping we would get to see Chester this week, after Potato's introduction. You could've even included him in the conversation 😁

  • @peapots2619
    @peapots26197 ай бұрын

    It's even funnier in Québec cause we're mostly all bilingual here. We could without issue say Chat GPT in english, but we honestly choose not to LMFAO

  • @RaphaelClancy
    @RaphaelClancy7 ай бұрын

    My favorite is still the vacuum cleaner slogan: Nothing sucks like Electrolux.

  • @zacharyhan4351
    @zacharyhan43517 ай бұрын

    the title alone roped me back into vlogbrothers after 2 years of absence

  • @tbella5186
    @tbella51867 ай бұрын

    This reminds me of John's excitement that Fault in our Stars translated to "F*ck Fate." I just don't remember what language that was! I love it!

  • @HelenRosemarySmith

    @HelenRosemarySmith

    7 ай бұрын

    I think it's the Norwegian version!

  • @Kikabopom
    @Kikabopom7 ай бұрын

    this is some douglas adams level humor the universe is pulling right now

  • @trinkab
    @trinkab7 ай бұрын

    French guard their language like a national treasure. (Like the language police wanted them early on to call e-mail: message électronique...courrier électronique eventually downshifted to courriel... or that could be Canadian. I am SHOCKED that they have not come up with a french substitute that is unwieldy but super specific...like Transformateur pré-entraîné génératif de chat!

  • @tonymouannes

    @tonymouannes

    7 ай бұрын

    French canadians have lots of old english borrowings, but now they're not accepting any new ones so that their language doesn't disappear in Canada. On the other hand, in France, they love to borrow english words. They're very conservative when it comes to the french labguage itself, but foreign words are welcome. They care more about keeping their grammar and stuff like that. So the word that come from english are different between France and Canada.

  • @elabanana1715

    @elabanana1715

    7 ай бұрын

    The language police, also known as the " académie française" clearly states in their official dictionary that the term "courriel" should be preferred to the english e-mail in France but office culture tend to lean in the english words and we usually say "e-mail" or just "mail". As for chat GPT it's too young to be in the dictionary yet but considering that it is a brand I don't believe it would be translated anyways. We will use our best english accent for "Chat" and tell GPT really quickly with a straight face until we forget about the farting aspect of it.

  • @VegaChristiansen
    @VegaChristiansen7 ай бұрын

    THERE ARE ENTIRE KITCHENS THAT ARE ENTIRELY FITTED OUT WITH SMEG!!! Some Smeg items can be rather large, like the size of a fridge even. And it is not a cheap undertaking. Comes in a range of pastel colours (and probably scents and flavours, I imagine)

  • @iriandia
    @iriandia7 ай бұрын

    I had a friend who discovered her last name was a word that, while perfectly fine in Finnish, was a vulgar reference to a female body part in the neighboring country of Estonia. The languages are closely related but the word had made quite a swerve in Estonian! Whenever she met an Estonian she never introduced herself with her full name, first name only!

  • @marcielston3019
    @marcielston30197 ай бұрын

    Hank, I love you like a brother. We need this, you are right.

  • @bhangela
    @bhangela7 ай бұрын

    i absolutely love this. ever since you tweeted a screenshot of that chat i farted post i think about it every time there's a mention of "chatgpt". FRENCH PPL DON'T LET US DOWN!

  • @camsaffari
    @camsaffari7 ай бұрын

    For those of you who are wondering about the "Barf" brand, it's pronounced /bærf/ not /baarf/. It's a Persian word which means "Snow" 😊😅

  • @AndrewDBarker
    @AndrewDBarker7 ай бұрын

    Hank, there's a book on language you may very much enjoy, it's called The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson.😊

  • @annierichardson5296

    @annierichardson5296

    7 ай бұрын

    Wonderful book! My copy was read and passed from reader to reader until it fell apart and is now a collection of loose pages in a bag.

  • @Starlysh
    @Starlysh7 ай бұрын

    I was hoping for some cats in this video, but it was still a fun time. Love the Network Error 😂

  • @calvinball1
    @calvinball17 ай бұрын

    This video had serious old school blog brothers vibes and I love it

  • @GameDesignerJDG
    @GameDesignerJDG7 ай бұрын

    I think I saw your eyes well up with tears at the end.

  • @Runix1
    @Runix17 ай бұрын

    We had the opposite problem here in Denmark, as English tourists weren't eager to visit "Klithotellet" ("The Sand Dune Hotel")

  • @Jawmsie
    @Jawmsie7 ай бұрын

    The fact that you actually worked up some tears (or at least the lighting made it look like that) for that last piece really sold this one. Here's hoping the Francophones among us do the good work.

  • @Ford_prefect_42
    @Ford_prefect_427 ай бұрын

    I found this video as i was petting my cat... Good timing

  • @m0061
    @m00617 ай бұрын

    The "Pepsi network error- still some glitches to work out" was not W throwback reference I expected, tbh it took me out XDD. Love that reference Hank, I'll never stop saying "Autopower off, still some glitches to work out"

  • @nathdominguezmazhari1094
    @nathdominguezmazhari10947 ай бұрын

    As a language and science nerd I'm so happy you're talking about languages... And, as someone who speaks french, as soon as I saw the title I knew where this was going 😂

  • @grantbaugh2773
    @grantbaugh27737 ай бұрын

    I lived in Argentina for a few years and down there they had a brand of hamburgers called "barfy" and a soda called "bichy". And at least the hamburger was actually an apt description.

  • @LukeShumaker
    @LukeShumaker7 ай бұрын

    The next season of Dimension 20 after you were on features a really lovely description of what "writing" is for someone who has never conceived of the written word.

  • @sapphodyl
    @sapphodyl7 ай бұрын

    And here, from the title I expected Hank to have a confession for Katherine ! 😂

  • @betajippity
    @betajippity7 ай бұрын

    A reverse case to Pepsi is Coca Cola’s name in Chinese: the Chinese name for Coca Cola is pronounced “keko kele” which when spoken in Mandarin sounds pretty close to the English name, but the Chinese meaning is literally “joy in the mouth”, which is pretty convenient for a soft drink!

  • @munjee2
    @munjee27 ай бұрын

    For all the times hank brought back "still some glitches to workout" this might be the first one where it actually makes sense 😊

  • @cultivatingcivicconversations
    @cultivatingcivicconversations7 ай бұрын

    Thank you for the first genuine, spontaneous laugh I’ve had in weeks.

  • @AnneOnymaus

    @AnneOnymaus

    7 ай бұрын

    Your dearth of mirth need not continue: KZread alone is full of comedic offerings. I hope you find more things that tickle your funny-bone 🙂

  • @christajennings3828
    @christajennings38287 ай бұрын

    There used to be a Japanese soap called Skin A Babe. One of my favorite Japanese beverages is called CalPis in Japan, though it has been renamed Calpico in the US.

  • @annafirnen4815
    @annafirnen48157 ай бұрын

    There is this brand of lightbulbs called "Osram". In Polish, that means something like "I will shit all over [it]". Surprisingly, the brand has great business here nonetheless, because we Poles love a bit of humour in our lives 😂

  • @amykathleen2

    @amykathleen2

    7 ай бұрын

    I’m impressed that you have such a short way to express such a… bold… idea.

  • @caydennormanton9682

    @caydennormanton9682

    7 ай бұрын

    I've never met the Poles. Which one are you - North or South? (Lol)

  • @MechBlank
    @MechBlank7 ай бұрын

    what a title.

  • @ItsCatchin
    @ItsCatchin7 ай бұрын

    This takes so many layers to explain but basically my dad, a scholar in the English language learning field and specializes in Cambodian communities, wrote a textbook about English language learning. For obvious reasons, you would want to translate this textbook into many languages, including Russian. The way that the Russian translation team transliterated his last name into Cyrillic characters looks to an English and Cambodian bilingual person how one might transliterate the Cambodian word for “fart” into Latin characters. (“Wright” got transliterated to something that looked like “PAUM” which still sounds like “Wright” when pronounced with Cyrillic conventions, but pronounced the English way sounds like Cambodian for “fart”) The irony goes deep and gratefully he finds himself with enough linguist colleagues and Cambodian-English bilingual friends to appreciate the humor of this.

  • @lagomoof
    @lagomoof7 ай бұрын

    This reminds me of the - possibly apocryphal - tale of the young man who thought it would be funny to fart into a microphone that was attached to a computer with speech to text installed. It thought he said "France".

  • @daphnegrace64
    @daphnegrace647 ай бұрын

    Dying laughing alone in my car on lunch break over the amount of times you just said cat I farted

  • @rolothomosky
    @rolothomosky7 ай бұрын

    Why do I feel like "Cat, I farted" is the first step needed to Manifest a Cats sequel.

  • @retard_activated

    @retard_activated

    7 ай бұрын

    Why do I picture (and smell) this comment so deeply?! 🤣😭🥺😍😁😉😆😅

  • @wavesofbabies

    @wavesofbabies

    7 ай бұрын

    Because only LLM's can make something more horrifyingand uncanny than the original?

  • @macgirl1234
    @macgirl12346 ай бұрын

    We do need this

  • @smeltervillehorror
    @smeltervillehorror7 ай бұрын

    Halfway into this video I still thought you're gonna tell us how cats communicate by farting.

  • @pipestone
    @pipestone7 ай бұрын

    What an amazingly fun video

  • @kitkatelife8014
    @kitkatelife80147 ай бұрын

    "still some glitches to work out" pricked my ears so immediately

  • @misterscottintheway
    @misterscottintheway7 ай бұрын

    We need this

  • @Imallwrite212
    @Imallwrite2126 ай бұрын

    This is so funny! thank you for this amusing conversation.

  • @keggarino
    @keggarino7 ай бұрын

    This was a awesome video!

  • @mono-no-aware.Lem.
    @mono-no-aware.Lem.7 ай бұрын

    hank's hair is the biggest comeback of 2023. congrats once again on kicking cancer's ass! never quit!

  • @Hudston
    @Hudston7 ай бұрын

    The beginning of this video reminds me of the short story "They're Made Out of Meat" by Terry Bisson. "You know how when you slap or flap meat it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat."

  • @charliebrown1184
    @charliebrown11847 ай бұрын

    I had this exact discussion with a group of French-speaking friends literally two weeks ago, right down to the reference to the Nova!

  • @bethn2836
    @bethn28367 ай бұрын

    I DEFINITELY snorted super loudly at Laputa. 🤣 My 8yo is has a hyper fixation on car makes and models, so HOW HAVE I NEVER HEARD THAT ONE BEFORE?!

  • @dascandy

    @dascandy

    7 ай бұрын

    I was expecting a Pajero... but not a Laputa.

  • @phoenixliv
    @phoenixliv7 ай бұрын

    What a blessing. I've been seeing "Cat, I farted" a lot lately and thought it was some meme or something I didn't know about and now I know!

  • @krank23
    @krank237 ай бұрын

    So, here in sweden a clothing company which shall remain nameless because I don't remember and cant be bothered, launched Sliq Fit jeans. In sweden, "slicka" means licking. "Fitta" is…well. Let's ust say I don't disagree with the command given by the brand, but I'm guessing it wasn't their intention.

  • @ckronenwetter
    @ckronenwetter7 ай бұрын

    so much joy

  • @jude4896
    @jude48967 ай бұрын

    Excellent! Thank you for the great story.