Language facts and etymology fun.
This is a channel for lovers and learners of English. It'll tell you where the words we use come from and why we say the things we say.
As a newsreader on the TV and radio in the UK and Germany, I've built up an understanding of how English works and relates to other languages.
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Rob Watts
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Bro, please don't confuse Dutch and German anymore ok? :) You show a Dutch flag but you say German. :) Good work. Go on..
We have a similar situation with the language of the indiginous people of Scandinavia. The dialects of Sami language in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia are noticeable different. A big problem is that these languages never had a written culture. I'm not a Sami Swede, but I feel it would be a very sad loss, if this non-Germanic and truly indiginous language was lost. happily, a lot of Sami people are aware, and lern the language. And there is a clever adaption of latin write that works - even discerning the different variants of the Sami language.
Hindi heavely or monky
Was eviland once when god lived in wales
It's obvious, some words evolve by leveling up, other evolve by trading. Some don't have evolution, other have regional forms. Yes I'm still speaking about words not Pokémon!
Or just make your othography make sense like Italian
Another family of words that have been bleached of their meaning, and detrimentally so, are the various ists and isms. Calling someone the original word for those mid-century Germans (canxt use the word cause KZread censors it) now just means you disagree with someone about something. And all the others (racist, sexist, etc.) Just mean you disagree with them on some topic related to their base word's meaning. And having studied Psychology, I get really pissed off at the misuse of -phobia for things that aren't debilitating irrational fears at all.
Crazy,
Guess where the D came from
was it not the Romans who named the islands housing england, scotland, ireland (republic and northern) and wales the British Isles?
Now about the b in Russian pronounced
This was one of the finest masterclass videos I have come across on KZread. Kudos to you, sir 👏
I'm not native English spicker But that diacrics make reading English way easier 😅
Well, they sure as hell didn't fly
isn't the title not "on french being english" but "on english being french"? I know "is" an equality here and it doesn't matter strictly speaking what is where on each side of it but in this case french precedes english historically and if at one point is was become then it matters
jain = yo 🙂
@6:05 Vibin.
Arselong is handsdown my favourite word on this list. 😅 FYI a lot of these words are still used in other Germanic languages like, German, Swedish and Dutch.
*ALL LANGUAGES ARE BEAUTIFUL, MALE AND FEMALE* 😊
It's a pity the English call it ingerlund it's all you here them say ..
almost 18 minutes, I'll never finish it, (thinks I) but I did
I wonder how Gallic ? The language of Gallicia relates to these 5 Celtic languages ? Gallicia is the part of Spain above Portugal & the remnants of the Celtic people that was in Iberia, the peninsula occupied by Spain & Portugal now.
Counting in French always made me laugh. Counting from 1 to 100, we run out of numbers after 60 and start adding things together such as 68 (60 AND 8 ) or 77 (60 and 17) or 85, four twenties and five, or 94, (four twenties and fourteen) Growing up in Quebec, the separatist government originally created Bill 1 making French the only official language in the province and causing all kinds of panic. Then one of the Montreal news papers suggested we compare Bill 1 to the ORIGINAL Bill 1... William the First, or William the conqueror. He became King of England and made Normandy French the official language of England in 1066. Move forward 1000 years and Normandy French is no longer a spoken language... but the Kings/Queens English has survived.
"Just desserts" got me. I never knew that etymology relating to "deserve", and always assumed the single 's' variant was a typo as "desert" and "dessert" already get mixed up quite often. I also blame the Yu-Gi-Oh card.
It is generally much easier to understand what a foreign word means, when you READ it. Because often the pronunciation is often different from how a word is written. Plus, when reading, you can take your time and don't have to follow somebody talking like a machine gun....
Jaya he bharata bhagya vidhata,vande mataram jaya aryavarta jaya bharat।
Makes sense why we have Si"ster"? Edit: probably Sir"ster"?.. hey wait did you make a video about this?
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There is an Irish comedy trio called Foil Arms and Hog and they have a funny video sketch about a police officer who claimed that he can speak Irish and it went all wrong during interrogating the Irish speaking suspect 😂
The Celtic languages repeating the verbs of a question to respond yes or no to a question actually is very similar to English, where it's most proper to answer "Yes, I do" instead of just "Yes". Could this be an influence from Brythonic?
The incorrect intrusions from 'experts' were bad. "So to speak" and "uh" from the 'king'. RobWords should differentiate "similar to" but "different from". Listen carefully to hear other examples of errors.
Old English has a lot of latin ... same as French. Also it has from German. Many words that you say are French, actually you have them in Spanish as well. Too many French words can be changed to Spanish by changing the last e by an a and problem solved and sometimes not even that, they are exactly the same.
Before Great Britain was invaded by the Germanic interest, Saxons and Angles, Greek and Latin because it was already Great Roman Britain and of course there was already Roman and Greek there and their descendants speaking Greek and Latin, that same Latin and Greek goes get into Jute, Anglo and Saxon spoken by the Germans, then in the 19th century Fred Robinson and Bruce Mitchell and others will reconstruct the English rogue goatee in the 21st century, the 10s, the 10s of it now and they already contaminate the fake English rogue goatee with Latin and Greek. Then you realize that English before the Normans and with the Normans, even with the Germans, he wants Latinphony, goes with it, enters into it from Greek and from military, maritime and popular Latin, later clerical. Then you go back to the archaic and middle ages in 1339 you find the book by the French Champagne grammarian Gautier de Doux, from the Greater Ardennes, Champagne in eastern France "Manners of the Language" this grammar already teaches the French Norman Aquitanian Occitan English to the French, To the English, this book teaches two regional French languages, Champagnese and Normand, so that the English could travel, buy, live and study in France like normal, ordinary French people. This book Gautier dedicated to his beloved French wife living in England, Madame Dionyse de Mountchesny. There are other French founders of the English language, this one and a French founder, there are still other French founders, but just open the Norman bookstores in France, England, Welsh, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland and Manx. If you open the medieval French Norman grammars that the right and this entire audience will understand the essence and eternal truth of the RobWords video. Bye my friend buddy. 🍻🍺🍷🥂🫂🍾💙
I had a minimal contact with Serbo-Croat and fond it a beautiful combination of Itallianate vowels and rich Slavic consonants.
I’m still trying to convince myself that this could be the new English alphabet.
please learn the ipa before appropriating its symbols
German easy Danke 😂😂😂😂
Celebrities being called “people” is ironic
Great video. My native language is English but I speak Dutch reasonably well and have learned a bit of French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. All these languages have genders (well Dutch has Neuter and Not Neuter) and in Dutch it does not usually matter if you get the wrong gender as it does not affect the meaning of the word, it just makes you stand out as non native (there are a few exceptions such as 'pad' which is either a path or a toad, and idee which is an idea and a lot of native speakers don't even realise comes in two forms). But I really don't understand the purpose of genders in a language if the gender does not alter the meaning, it just seems a complication that should have faded away years ago, but as a non-native I guess I would say that.
I once read a lecture series on the history of English in which the Professor suggested that almost all the words commonly used in English have one word derived from the Anglo-Saxon and an equivalent derived from French. She also suggested that college-educated people tend to use the one derived from French when they speak formally and others use the word derived from Anglo-Saxon. She also suggested that in our hyper-egalitarian time, some of the French-derived usage has lapsed because the words have come to indicate pedantry or elitism.
This is precisely the false discourse of Anglonism with a very racist (hitlerist) background so that Anglophones do not know that the founders of grammar, logic, linguistics and semiosis are French and of course never know that they are Latin speakers when in fact, they are Latinophonies and Neolatins speakers in all the aspects of English that we speak today, yesterday and the day before yesterday.
So all American rappers owe their lyrics to the French. Voilà!
Yes english was founded by frenches grammarians and translators, so english is romanic in all senses and sides, themselves creators are/were romanics frenches. So the show continues. It's simple to see the truth rappers should buy the book Manners of Language from 1339 made by Gautier/ Gaiter from Doux, Grand Ardennes, East France, in this book rappers can learn Normand aquitanian occitan romanic english in all pratic rules and learn champagnese and Normand , the regional idioms from northern and eastern France, simple as that, touch and find the truth by your own eyes all the world 🌎🌍 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 "Listen to music, it's something special, I know it's true, and I know, It's gonna be serious." /LP and MS/ Follow the words of global masters' rappers til then knows about the romanic english and about English belongs forever to Latinophony. 🌎 Globe follow the signs, the messages, the codes and true infos, check by your own eyes and free yourself forever ♾️🥂❤️ 😌💗🌷💗🥂🫂🍾🍷🍺🍻💛😉
A British person figuring out the joy of a phonetic language. Spoiler alert: most languages other than English, are.
a house of designers (in reference to the bauhaus movement of the 20th century)
There are no ugly languages, there's ingnorant people.
I was waiting the whole time for you to get to Bone Apple Teas! /r/boneappletea
My grandfather told about when he was in class talking about geography. Perhaps 5-6 grade and he had been daydreaming, as the teacher was talking about the equator. He heard the teacher say "The equator is a menagerie lion running around the middle of the earth." I forget how long, but it was an image he held for quite a while, as I remember the story.
All these elements and he forgot the element of surprise!
In hindi 'gaand' means the a**, so 'gaand with the wind', while it sounds like a western classic, is actually a new age product of various languages ..... and cuisines.
Russian alphabet when everything is english: A B V G D Ĕ Ë Ž Z I Y K L M N O P Ř S T U F Ķ Ts Č Š Š ' I " E Yu Ya
Funny how you said, "He's keen on me" referring to the wasp. In Canada and probably the States too we would never say that. We might say, "He likes me or seems to like me" I've seen it in British movies too where they will say, "He fancies me". That would never be said in North America. If a dog licked your hand you would say, "He likes me" Just a silly observation. We rarely use the word keen anymore. I have heard the British expression, "Keen as mustard" referring to the brand of mustard. No one would use that in Canada anymore. Mark in Hamilton Ontario.
Now I'd like to know how Doric does or doesn't relate to Gaelic.