I was a sophomore, maybe a junior in high school when our teacher brought him in to perform for us ! 5 years later and I'm still in love with his work. He is absolutely amazing ♥

Watching this, I'm proud to be a teacher and a performance poet.

"I will stop talking eventually, just not at any moment in the foreseeable future." I am adding this to my list of things I quote on a daily basis.

Why do this man’s words always bring me to tears‽

I am so pleased he ended it that way. The content/intent/heart means more than the word/prose/punctuation/grammar. I do think grammar and knowing proper punctuation is important, but it's not the most important thing, and I'm so glad he said that.

That's exactly the point, when he says that he's actually portraying the inaccuracies as he judges them (notice he also says "irregardless" at the end of the sentence to make his point).

My english teacher showed us his poem about speaking with conviction in class today and now im hooked

Goosebumps every time I listen to you! Thank you!

I love this poem - spoken from the heart.

I have always been proud of being a teacher but thank you Mr. Mali for making me even prouder!

Am I the only one thought he had already started the poem before 1:40 ! lol

what a beautiful poem. the endings always leave me with a bit of a punch :)

Love it!

I love your work.

Mr. Mali, YOU are the passion of my lions! :)

Fantastic stuff!

Yes!

I love all of his conclusions in the videos I have seen so far :)

Thank you. I learned something today because of this poem. Aloha from Hawaii, Thomas

I love the audience

I'm in love. :)

Yes.

Being a person who is always correcting others' grammar, I fully appreciate this poem. Just because I am strict when it comes to the written rules of communication, people often feel intimidated talking to me face to face, but really there is no need. ^_^

When i was a kid, i used to correct the notes my friends passed me. As a teen, I would wince when people used incorrect grammar and correct them. Now I force myself to simply be open to receive the point the person is trying to make. My relationships have definitely improved.

I actually thought you were reciting a poem in the beginning

I love how people are talking about grammar in the comments...it makes me happy! Plus I just love this video/ poem/ Taylor Mali in general :)

This man made me want to become a teacher and a poet.

irregardless! lol. I loved the last line.

another gooden'.. muchos respect

Whoosh.

Thanks for the video is excellent. God bless you Martha Azcona de Arroyo

May I have this teacher? For at least one day? ...Please?

I hate poetry, but I love his poems. Poetry doesn't make any sense to me, but his does. Thank you Mr. Mali for creating poetry that I can enjoy :)

oh god this is the man of my dreams

KingZaos, he used it ironically.

I wish I could have had him for a high school English teacher...lol...that would have been an epic class.

That's an interesting resolution. It would be difficult to keep, though. :)

you are the passion of my lions.

When Ask The Editor at Merriam-Webster posted a video saying that "irregardless" is technically a word, I admitted to my students that I was, in fact, incorrect in telling them that they couldn't use the term because it wasn't a "real" word. I then clarified and told them that they shouldn't use the term in my classroom because there were more effective ways to communicate that didn't make them sound like twits.

I don't care if your commas are in the right place, so long as your heart is.

Holy...!!! I just met him a couple days ago and he looked at me really strong and I started being very interested in my feet..... Good god he was diving into my left eye >.

Funny high school teacher/performer.

Hey I am a HUGE fan of your poetry I am also entering OSSAA speech and drama competitions and was wondering if I could please use some of your poems?

I love his Jordan references

ah, Mr Mali does it again... brilliant . and is that Sarah Kay i hear in the background??

@Fitchsticks I love you. I tried explaining this in 4th grade and not even the teacher understood me. :|

i really wanna talk to this guy

search "luciana mocchi - tu luz"!! :)

@straightjacket510 Very well said, my friend. I hate to admit having been a "grammar Nazi" in the past, but you get your point across so well, that I don't think it matters, personally! And having taken some harsh criticism on KZread myself, I'm learning that there will always be critics, but ultimately, I can be the bigger person.

2:40 ... all of my teachers do that when I talk >.

This is great! Know one will correct the grammar in my comment

*oftentimes

"Irregardless of the context you are speaking in" LMAO

I love how at 3:30, they spelled language "Lanquage." Was that intentional?

that said, that being said, having said that.... LMAO!

Fun science fact: Saying uhm or ah, so long as it is done irregularly makes what is said around it more memorable which is why it is good for lectures. And as much as this is competely irrelavant to the main content of the video, I couldn't help but share

@globulin if that's true then I retract my comment . @nvyseal199 just because its in a dictionary that doesn't make it proper English which I assumed mr Mali is quite good at

What the hell? Where's the audio?

> have girlfriend > send message > mfw passion of lions.

Wait so did he start reading his poem at 0:07 or at 1:41 ????

Ironically he used the term "irregardless" which Is a double negative (ir - and -less) the correct term is "regardless"

@zengrenouille You're incorrect.

Him make me wants to talk English more goodly!

ill tell you what kills me is the girl laughing in this video

#thatlaughinglady o.O

I really like Taylor Mali, and tried to listen to this vid, but the loud woman's anxious and hyper-vigilant laughter was very distracting.

And I thought he started with the poem...

You know what's funny? Finding people online who try to correct another person's grammar and spelling... while using incorrect grammar and making spelling mistakes. People just want to make themselves look more intelligent (which, in turn, often times does the exact opposite) XD

@KingZaos dude, look it up on the online dictionary, it's there

Wasn't that his point in using it?

I correct grammar and spelling all the time. I can't read something if those two elements are messed up, but I can understand that people aren't perfect. The only thing that really gets on my nerves is pronunciation and making up words. I'm fine when people use a real word in the wrong place (because at least they can learn the meaning of the word and learn where to use it), but making up words to seem smart doesn't work for me.

@Fitchsticks That's absolutely incorrect. People just accept the use of their as singular, but it is not correct to use it in the singular form. It should be his or her. It is also perfectly acceptable to just say his when there is an unknown gender, but our society has pretty much exorcised that in the name of feminism.

lol see this 1:00

she is so loud!! stop laughing louder than he is speaking!

Funny that as he starts making his poem sound ridiculously impressive with really long words he says 'mispronuciate' which isn't a word, it would be 'mispronounce'.

He looks like Mel Gibson in 'Patriot'. Unfortunately, Gibson doesn't have 1/2 of this man's intellect.

"Lanquage"? Was that a joke?

irregardless is not a true word for the prescriptive nature of this theme

Will someone please edit out that blithering woman's laughter? It's so annoying and distracting.

Irregardless had better have been a joke...

@taylormali9276

10 жыл бұрын

You think?

@TheCpstudios1

10 жыл бұрын

After watching again I realize it is. My apologies for doubting. I am a big fan of your work and appreciate what you make.

@SidneyAnderson36

9 жыл бұрын

Taylor Mali Why does irregardless draw such ire? I've dismissed it from my vocabulary, because I'm not even sure its a word. But I've noticed people get really irritated upon its mention. Why?

@emotown1

9 жыл бұрын

Sidney Anderson Because it is an illogical, non-existent, made up word, like 'ungodless', which I just made up and just means 'godly', as does the made up word 'unungodlessless'. If you can't follow the syntactical logic of that, I'd advise you to give up with language generally. I'm being harsh, I know.

@taylormali9276

9 жыл бұрын

Sidney Anderson I disagree with Keith's admittedly harsh judgment that it's an "illogical" word. "Irrespective" IS a word, and people who say "irregardless" probably think they're on safe ground because of it. In fact, my father said that if you ever found yourself ABOUT to say "irregardless," try to switch to "irrespective" if you can, and no one will likely notice. But why does the mistake elicit such vituperation? I think it's human nature. We criticize in others what we know we could be guilty of ourselves. We want to be the last person on the elevator. Whatever our IQ is, we tend to think it's high enough; anything higher is superfluous, and anything lower means you're an idiot. Anyone who says "irregardless" has accidentally drawn a line, and it's up to us to point out that they're on the WRONG SIDE.

I get very very vexed when otherwise intelligent people make the massive massive mistake of doubling many many adjectives/adverbs. It really really ticks me off so so much. Inanywayshapeorform, does it kindalike annoy anyone else, or am I basically the Lone Ranger on this one?

@heavysystemsinc.

Жыл бұрын

My thing with using the same word twice is to emphasize the action. Such as, "We went shopping but we didn't go SHOPPING shopping." "I was asleep, but not ASLEEP asleep." This bugs me. For the first one, it's easy to just say, "We bought some things, but nothing expensive," with the second one being easily remodeled to, "I dozed off a minute."

this guy is funny and has heart ill give you that but doesn't hold a candle to Louie comedy wise

His noun and pronoun didn't agree with each other when he said "in their left eye." Their is plural and eye is singular. I just thought I should point that out since he said that he corrects grammar.

that women's laugh is annoying