Americans have perfected the art of talking a lot without saying a thing.

@user-rq7hv6lf8c

2 ай бұрын

That is an international phenomenon. Mainly by hip young people. They also like to invent new words without knowing the existing ones.

@mastod0n1

2 ай бұрын

​@user-rq7hv6lf8c language evolves constantly. Otherwise we would still be speaking Old English or Old French or Old Frankish or whatever to this day.

@VioletJoy

2 ай бұрын

No, yeah. Lol

@immune85

2 ай бұрын

Literally?

@ergot1803

2 ай бұрын

English is actually the language with the highest ratio of meaning to phoneme.

I've always thought about this. Glad he picked it up and created a joke out of it!

@blucat4

22 күн бұрын

Can we assume that whenever people don't say this, they are lying?

Not gonna lie, that was hilarious

@edwardnguyen3985

2 ай бұрын

I'm gonna lie, it wasn't funny

I love this guy. Very funny and very original.

To say that in a positive way is "Well, to tell you the truth......".

@marco1941

2 ай бұрын

To be honest.

I love ismo

@James-fe7wd

2 ай бұрын

He's an excellent comedian

Valehtelematta hyvää settiä 😂

Like around here people often say “No Problem” when asked a question or after having done a favour and being thanked. Most people know it just means “You’re welcome,” but now and then someone will still look slightly affronted and say, “Why would it have been a problem?” 😂

@user-rq7hv6lf8c

2 ай бұрын

Often thought exactly the same thing: (If your threshold for problems are THAT low, than I better avoid it to demand ANYTHING from you.)...but I don't say it out loud.

@musMiro

2 ай бұрын

Because for some foreigners it may be strange to use "You are welcome". It doesn't translate well to some other languages. Many languages use word like "please", but you don't use it like that.. So for someone, who is not native English speaker "no problem" might sound better, than "you are welcome".

@benkalem

2 ай бұрын

The difference between "you're welcome" and "no problem" is that the former implies you having gone through some trouble to accommodate the other person, while the latter statement means you didn't even consider it to be worth mentioning. For the younger generation, a certain degree of kindness is the default expectation, not something extra you give out, like it used to be with the older generations.

Not gonna lie, he’s a great comedian!

There's a couple of phrases like in arabic too. Its usually a preface when you're giving a negative answer or when you're telling them you're not qualified to answer the question. Alot of people lie because they hate saying "i don't know". Its not a sinister reason, just low self esteem.

In London (UK) slang there's a phrase "I can't lie". I always want to tell them "no, but you can lie!!"

@mastod0n1

2 ай бұрын

"I can't lie" also pops up in American english. Or at least around where I live. I've probably said or heard it a dozen times in the last year.

@Shiva-wj6im

2 ай бұрын

The Brits also say 'to be honest' a lot. I mean a lot

@Paxmax

2 ай бұрын

@wj6im "To be fair..." 🥺 Yes, please... 😂 Now I'm trying to find such expressions in my native language, Swedish. One is not exactly in line with these, but close enough "Sanningen är..." which equates to "The truth is...". Just a very bold claim to know with absolute certainty.

@teuvokanerva9868

Ай бұрын

⁠@@Paxmaxan also commonly used expression is ”ärligt talat” - honestly speaking. And that is maybe a humble way to say that you’re “dude guessing” (kill-gissar). 😂 (And what’s the English equivalent to THAT!?) 🤪

@Paxmax

Ай бұрын

@@teuvokanerva9868 *Boom!* Yes! "ärligt talat" is right on the money. Thx!

Good call. It is a funny phrase, especially questioning why and when to use it.

I agree! I’ve never understood why people say that!

@user-wd7ex4gr6b

Ай бұрын

Basically they're parroting others!!

Not gonna lie, that was pretty good.

Feels the same with the line "to tell you the truth"

@user-wd7ex4gr6b

Ай бұрын

Or "To be perfectly honest..."!!

Ngl this made me lol

Please make a tour to Denmark

When are you coming to London Ismo

I have a friend who is constantly saying, “I hate to tell you….” Ugh it grates my onion!!! Dangit.

@Ximonic

2 ай бұрын

I would love to tell you, but not gonna lie...

He didn’t say that to the wife.

Uploaded 13 hours ago... but i swear i have seen this before🤯

@MrAatami

2 ай бұрын

Bing Crosby Theater has clips of his set there. There a few things there that Ismo himself has not uploaded, yet.. this was one of them.

What's worse is when people tell you ALL about something and then finish their entire story with, _"not gonna lie!"_

Ismo you start sounding too much like an American ♥

@fellow7091

2 ай бұрын

For me it sounds Ismo has exaggerated the tempo of that video but I am not sure. Or his speaking is really evolved to faster during his living in California? Hope he keeps our finnish accent though.

I'm not gonna lie I laughed my ass off 😆

@kaukamela

2 ай бұрын

I doubt it.

It means I am going to lie.

Well. When Homer lets some hero ask a question, it's always with "and tell the truth". But obviously they're all Greek.😊

I did this once for real. A woman friend asked me how she looked in her new dress. I asked, " You want me to tell you the truth or lie ? ". She said, " Lie ". I then said, "You look good in that dress." Oddly, she seemed happy about that.

@eddiewinehosen6665

Ай бұрын

Sounds just like a woman, they like to deluded themselves. Just ask them to rate their looks between 1-10 and you'll almost always get an inflated number.

To be honest, we get that here too.😉

I could tell you I'm going to lie, but that would be a lie.

@pluki1357

2 ай бұрын

That would've been a lie only if you could not lie. But you can, so it's not. 😜

Not gonna lie, I'm gonna lie that I'm not gonna lie but gonna lie

To be frank, you gotta born Frank.

funny, no cap fr fr ngl tbh

I'm lying right now.

When hot wings video?

In some places in deep Africa, local people will answer your question even if they don't know. Ignorance is worse than giving wrong information. 🤷‍♂

@danfors1333

2 ай бұрын

Yes I've seen those youtube vids of a guy talking nonsens to jamican people and they just go along with it despite being clueless.

I'm not gonna lie. You're standing in the airport.

Millon pilkkivideoo?

😂😂😂

When a whole special?

There are such unnecessary expressions in other languages ​​too. But Finns are pragmatic and that permeates the language as well. A generalization but largely true.

God bless you God more greater then your video is now days everything proven

Very annoying phrase, like "to be honest".

@nilsp9426

2 ай бұрын

These phrases, if used properly, are only superficially meaningless. They do communicate something.

@needfoolthings

2 ай бұрын

​@@nilsp9426 Correct. "To be honest" even shows some empathy because you're acknowledging that what you're saying might be taken with some incredulity otherwise. "Not gonna lie" shows more surprise on your own side. Both add semantical meaning to what you're saying.

@sdrtcacgnrjrc

2 ай бұрын

It is, to be fair

@CheriTheBery

2 ай бұрын

​@@sdrtcacgnrjrcTo be frank, my name isn't actually Frank!

@ronr7791

2 ай бұрын

At the end of the day

Valehtelisin jos väittäisin etteikö ois ollu suorastaan ratkiriemukas vitsi. 😛

Hi Ismo do you have a Facebook account as I think there could be a fake one?

I'm not going to lie means that he's going to lie.

@pluki1357

2 ай бұрын

Nope. It rather means: "You probably will not like what I will tell you" ;) "- I'm not gonna lie: the airport is far away / 1 hour drive (etc.)"

@Paxmax

2 ай бұрын

Depends on the person saying it... A politician saying it..? Has only one interpretation of great skepticism from me! 😂

"I'm not gonna lie..." "To be honest..." Americans have such big help, but STILL can not fugure out, that the expotus is untruthful from the beginning to the end.

NGL is one of the most irritating ways to start a sentence.

@katharina...

2 ай бұрын

Not gonna lie, I find this irritating too.

@N0t4v41l4ble

2 ай бұрын

TBH, I agree.

@user-rq7hv6lf8c

2 ай бұрын

Imagine a grotesque situation: Judge to defendant. "The verdict. I'm not gonna lie, you're gotta say bye, bye....."

@pluki1357

2 ай бұрын

IMHO, TBH etc the only more irritating one is to start a sentence with an acronym. 😉

@StarshipToMars

2 ай бұрын

@@pluki1357 SALTS

If you start a sentence with "I'm not going to lie"..... it means you usually do.

Valheella on lyhyet jäljet, paitsi jos on pyyhkinyt koko maton pituudelta jarruraidan ja valehtelee EN SE MINÄ OLLUT.

How about, "I was gonna say", and then you say what you were gonna say anyway... always sounds dumb. And yes, I say it too lol

I am gonna lie big time, worst comedian ever

Get a shave, a haircut and change the l to a d!

@user-wd7ex4gr6b

Ай бұрын

???! 🤷‍♀️😮