What If English Were Phonetically Consistent?

[@awilix227]

innocent viewer in the beginning: "why are there captions?" same viewer at the end: "oh..."

[@AC9123]

lol, I need captions no matter what...

[@keeg_it]

666 likes I can't like this comment

[@syre7608]

i classify as a guilty viewer.

[@therealmoseph]

What ;-;

[@solarwolf1336]

Change “same viewer” to “awoken viewer” lol

[@markog1999]

Somewhere between the sounds of Danish, French and a stroke.

[@schizoidforjesus]

A bit of German, too

[@hiimred1851]

And a spanish chocking on his food

[@lemonkerr9932]

Danish, German, French, Dutch and stroke

[@tomforge614]

Sounded like a forced Chinese accent until he got to "O". Then it sounded like a terrible Swedish accent.

[@5illyMe]

Felt a bit like Latin at times too.

[@oliviamarie2852]

apparently pirates have been speaking the most proper english of all

[@stevenon5664]

That pirate "like" speaking is 100% fake. It was made for some English movie.

[@zoch9797]

Olivia Marie In fact you are correct. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYHPoaOeiZyhb9U kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4rMipdvh8h-a68 kzbin.info/www/bejne/r2O0inp7rLJkic0 kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZa6YpiMbLSWa6M How English was pronounced circa 1600!

[@scottcampbell2836]

Yarrrr. Had my facebook language on Pirate English for 2 years

[@aleesabarker8352]

To me it sounded vaguely Irish...

[@honestlyiris274]

I was thinking the same thing XD

[@WhatElseNow]

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[@AaronAlon]

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[@unkilledher]

does not matter how long you are in the game but what you do on it and honestly your bar is very low rlly you just sound like spam

[@volactic5240]

Hello dinosaur

[@mawinstallation6626]

Brother you have more to see.

[@OpelKadett289]

"What If English Were Phonetically Consistent?" **cries in Old English**

[@willhendrix3140]

*Early Modern English. Shakespeare was Early Modern. Middle English and Old English was much weirder

[@LittleGoblinBoi]

@@willhendrix3140 the joke was about how it sounded, not what was read. But I agree that it doesn't sound like Old Enlglish, maybe Middle English?

[@Metrion77]

ahahahahahahahahahahaha. This one thinks english was ever consistent. Consider that the culture of the british Angles was a conquering tribe from Germany, taking over the romans. The angles had a germanic history born from the gaulic celts of france, the romans, and the norse danes. It was a brew of many tongues, even back then.

[@ronpaulssecretary]

@@Metrion77 you're trying too hard dawg. He was just making a joke.

[@ronpaulssecretary]

@@LittleGoblinBoi it sounds a lot like Middle English.

[@peterayoub3]

Can we just appreciate the fact that this guy had to unlearn english to make this video?

[@eggmoni7]

LMAOOO

[@user-xj1zw7rv4r]

100th like wow this is funny

[@KristianKumpula]

Since he used some IPA symbols in the video, my guess is that he probably just learned phonetic transcription in IPA (before the idea to make this video), wrote down what he needs to say in IPA symbols and then just read it out loud, which is pretty easy if you knew how to write it, because IPA couldn't possibly get more phonetically consistent.

[@selin1587]

Kristian Kumpula it’s a joke

[@peterayoub3]

@@KristianKumpula nah man I'm pretty sure he just uninstalled English

[@mozzie7863]

This is how google sounds trying to pronounce foreign names

[@DaviSilva-oc7iv]

* proceeds to get no reply after 1k likes *

[@mr.osamabingaming2633]

@@DaviSilva-oc7iv Let's start an argument

[@DaviSilva-oc7iv]

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[@mr.osamabingaming2633]

@@DaviSilva-oc7iv tHe cABaL

[@DaviSilva-oc7iv]

@@mr.osamabingaming2633 eViDeNcEs

[@김예원-l7q]

this was such a fun watch, once i realized he started applying the new rules immediately i couldnt stop giggling. wonderful video

[@AaronAlon]

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[@tookiecar1]

0:52 starts here

[@tsukasatenma_]

Okay but I'm impressed that this guy was even able to talk like he was on the verge of a stroke so perfectly

[@blackislands]

I got lost on “of corsi” )

[@msods]

This guy's name is Aaron Alon, i'm sure he's well trained

[@AA-po3hn]

Dont say he was on a stroke

[@entorix4763]

I mean the video was edited (not live) so there were probably many takes.

[@smekneil2896]

When he started speaking in sim I felt that

[@jazmynes9474]

I can finally understand what my sims are saying

[@everette.3280]

Hello knome brethren

[@unregisteredhypercam2774]

✊😔😦

[@unlikepluto2085]

Omg you got me 😂

[@ciabaileigh9624]

It's called Simlish in case you didn't know!

[@justinmccauley3812]

it sounds like he has literally every accent of every part of the world

[@musical_lolu4811]

Except mine.

[@aurothelarper]

Especially mine

[@RenwickCrowley]

Makes sense, since the English language is made up of various different parts of other languages

[@sowndolphin5386]

especially nine

[@meghansullivan6812]

i used to think accent marks were simply added confusion to languages, especially w so many like in french, but now i realize how much theyre actually helping us by literally LETTING US KNOW what sound to make!!!!

[@_indigo_inked]

Oh 10000000% bro. Those are incredibly helpful in Spanish and Portuguese. Every time I work towards learning Portuguese especially I’m thankful for accent marks. That’s what convinced me that English would be greatly improved by them! You just chose French, which is automatically gonna be a confusing written language to read as a non speaker lol Their rules are also insane to me.

[@sans_hw187]

@@_indigo_inked accent marks in Spanish only indicate stress, they don’t indicate pronunciation. He was right to give French as an example.

[@_indigo_inked]

@@sans_hw187 trust me when I say the way you stress the sounds in a word can be very important to pronunciation. Knowing to stress a sound more or less in a word is valuable information. Although best example I’ve experienced is still Portuguese. I will stick with the fact that Portuguese’s accent marks are twice as helpful to a language learner than I would claim for Spanish lol.

[@sans_hw187]

@@_indigo_inked of course stress is important, but in Spanish the (‘) doesn’t make any difference in “letting us know what sound to make” to quote the original comment. The phoneme stays the same with or without it. In Portuguese however accent marks indicate both pronunciation and stress (and in French only pronunciation since there is no stress), so you’re right for this I was just pointing out the special case of Spanish

[@GloriaDuran-dw3qx]

Dhis iz mi propózal for an Inglish spelling Refórm: a vejtabel iz a plaant or part ov a plaant dhat iz eeten az food. Potátoez, beenz and unnyonz ar aul vejtabelz.

[@patatouille490]

"Tobby, or not Tobby, that ais the queestaion" - Shakeespeeairee

[@AnneWest_]

"NOOO, GOD! NO, GOD, PLEASE, NO! NO! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" - Michael Scott

[@a-human-interface4991]

So yeah I noticed that after a few changes it started to sound like OP

[@sofialuvs]

I CASNYT

[@Flippohoyyy]

Shakeespeeairee Approves

[@elizabellabethabell9003]

bro just sounded like he was speaking early-middle english by the end. insane how many sounds in our language have mushed together and mutated through the centuries

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

yeah that's what I thought too

[@midapita]

That makes me wonder how different old/Middle English compares to modern English in terms of phonetics…

[@LG123ABC]

@Oke Ihenacho We all had to memorize and recite the introduction to The Canterbury Tales in the original Chaucerian English in my High School English class. I can still recite part of it today -- more than 40 years later.

[@c.j.1276]

I don’t know if anyone mentioned this already, but the soundtrack and audio quality greatly enhance this video. I didn’t expect to laugh this much. Brilliant!

[@AaronAlon]

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[@j-hobi1417]

Straight into it after “A”: “CombinAHtion sounds” Me: wait wut

[@amandaprince9837]

Yeetum OMG WAIT I THOUGH HAHAHAHAHAH

[@amandaprince9837]

Thought I’m dumb dumb

[@jackweslycamacho8982]

I got suspicious as soon as he kawn (can)

[@aaliyah9321]

I replayed that part so many times 😂😂😂

[@randompromises1038]

I THOUGHT HE SUDDENLY TURNED BRITISH OR SOMETHING I WAS SO CONFUSED

[@zur137]

1:55 he Englished so hard he started speaking French.

[@yiumyoumsan6997]

*Englished*

[@Titanosaurus-tu8bw]

Yea

[@josep9016]

lol

[@deactivated.1254]

@@josep9016 The girl with the unexpectedly long name that has nothing to do with her profile pic, your IGN made me check your pfp, which lead me too your channel, where I ended up subscribing

[@alexandrapainiaye3191]

As a French person, I can only agree to this. It’s definitely French.

[@booboodadfool8015]

At a certain point you just sounded like you were giving the dragonborn a quest.

[@judasthedisciple9745]

Do you mind logging off for me?

[@grapejuice5294]

The Thu'um! He speaks with the Thu'um!

[@rurushu8094]

beer battered buckshot lok thu’um dovahkiin

[@Nuclearburrit0]

1:53 this point to be exactly

[@Po_124]

@@Nuclearburrit0 thanks man! I was wondering at which point it was.

[@tomas.hrazdira]

In Czech Republic we also pronounce everything with phonetic consistency. When you see a word written on a paper you automatically know how to pronounce it. It is so natural to me, that at the end it was very easy for me to follow the Shakespeare's Hamlet and predict in my head how you'll say it just from the text. Funny how brain works.

[@JennRazo]

I started practicing Czech on Duolingo and I can confirm that this is true, based on my limited experience. There are no pronunciation tricks with Czech. And the accent marks you use are simple and meaningful. I happened on Czech accidentally, and I just love the language. It is really beautiful.

[@ElYuricorn]

Wow you have a super power.😮

[@qayxsw5900]

Also in italiaaaan!!

[@Mefistofello]

Come on. What about Polish? Same thing

[@Mefistofello]

@@randangbalado Probably 99,9% of all languages are phonetic.

[@f-3172]

Everyone is gangsta until the word "combination" comes up

[@ominofail6826]

till 'selection' comes up

[@musicaldoodles9615]

1:40

[@berliandro]

@@musicaldoodles9615 thank you

[@berliandro]

@@musicaldoodles9615 i haven't even ask, but thank you

[@jacintaschneider4145]

I like how all of a sudden he isnt just explaining the phonetic differences, he is using them. I didnt even notice at first

[@Pip200ne]

Every time he adds one he uses it

[@rubenico8202]

Yup

[@jessicapeyton5444]

I noticed, but I thought it was an accident at first.

[@RafaelMunizYT]

I realized he was speaking funny then I wondered why... then I realized

[@kevinyoung42]

I started cackling at 0:50, gasping at 1:35 and then I wheezed thru Shakespeare until the end. The man slew me 😅😆😂💀

[@JR-zc5pz]

Impressive he managed to keep on talking for 4 whole minutes while having a stroke.

[@duchess8762]

I know, he must have practice this speech so much.

[@MuEnViFitness]

editing mate xDDDD

[@Modernhumanbeing]

Hard working man

[@claudiomarvel]

Bold of you to assume that this is not just him having a stroke.

[@Borksi_]

you don't know that it sure sounded like he was having one

[@ariventiuscrane4843]

Seeing this 5 years later. It was a lot cooler than I was expecting. Like a lot a lot. Enough to subscribe even.

[@AaronAlon]

Thanks for subscribing! You might enjoy the sequel video too: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKK3pHWtfa5jrq8

[@J0rdn_101]

He sounds like hes speaking five different accents at the same time

[@flyingspacebrainedidiot]

Yeah

[@watema3381]

prouhnaunsiashion

[@catacrack9445]

I get French, German and a little bit of Spanish vibes

[@tlep2979]

I just kept hearing irish

[@iodine1169]

French, Irish and Scottish

[@prestongarrett2124]

This man seriously just started having the slowest stroke in history

[@thanos4769]

r/ihadaslowstroke

[@claucemicro1080]

🤣

[@Hell0kitty]

Lol 😂😂

[@slowyourroll1146]

I can just imagine him finishing the video and collapsing to the ground

[@depressedteadepressoespres186]

I mean if you speed it up by 2...

[@antoniogabica3280]

Guyss relax... he's just teaching us the language of Sims.

[@AnonYmous-ob7py]

Woohoo!

[@chevon1920]

Ahh, yibs.

[@jesuschrist.6006]

Putting - putaing

[@carat2947]

Dag dag

[@NormalLunk]

Wooblooo! Yippee!

[@SurajKumar-ln8ij]

2:30 i laughed horribly 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@danielnewell843]

It sounds like he has the strongest accent on the world.

[@1a2b3c4d_]

*in not on

[@firexo]

@@1a2b3c4d_ probably a typo

[@jadenfedorchak8335]

Technically everyone has just as much as an accent, so there's no "strongest" accent.

[@eimearnichuanaigh]

From W H E R E

[@vukadinmc127]

Not true, you should hear slavic people who've never seen English try and read English.

[@chromaticangel7681]

Am I the only one who thinks he sounds like a pirate trying not to sound like a pirate

[@stevencliff7351]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@armaniphillips5618]

I never heard a pirate trying not to sound like a pirate before but I totally agree

[@ba-tobartc.6230]

i never heard a pirate language before too :D

[@arcguardian]

I say French ish

[@leen_art]

@@ba-tobartc.6230 watch pirates of the Caribbean

[@bam5663]

U just accidentally summoned a dragon with that Shakespeare's quote

[@MDG-mykys]

basically latin

[@lussperez4579]

Who says it was accidental

[@4yearsago592]

Haha

[@springboard1994]

Bambam ,😂😂😂

[@DragonsREpic]

You rang?

[@durlinmatthews5305]

Outstanding Aaron! This is extremely important but on an entirely different level!

[@kaidouhottopicgiftcard]

I think most of us native english speakers just memorized the pronunciations of words instead of the letters lol

[@platannapipidae9621]

I'm not native, but I have been watching so many minecraft that I probably too

[@omeragca2702]

That's actually how every language works, even those that are phonetically consistent.

[@i_dont_even_know_at_this_p4920]

As a non native speaker yeah that's pretty much how we learn english as well.

[@royalblanket]

As a native speaker, that's pretty much how English is

[@waldin.2952]

@@omeragca2702 not at all lol, maybe if english is ur first language and u dont remember how each letter is pronounced in the consistent language ur ur learning

[@kaiharris120]

I’m surprised that he didn’t accidentally summon a demon while making this.

[@RuyVuusen]

Well, of course, he didn't even sacrifice anything *_sufficient._*

[@kaiharris120]

@@RuyVuusen he sacrificed our brain cells, that's sufficient

[@RuyVuusen]

@@kaiharris120 But it's not *_sufficient._*

[@urmomlovesangie]

BAHAHA I BURST LAUGHING AT THIS

[@doubleyou3059]

@Kai Harris how can you be so sure that he didn't summon a demon?

[@diamondmetal3062]

Phonetically consistent English sounds a lot more like Old English.

[@robenkhoury7079]

Holy shit you're right! Maybe it _was_ phonetically consistent back then!!

[@folkloreofbeing]

@@robenkhoury7079 We all used to talk with a west country like accent, I quite like it.

[@robenkhoury7079]

interesting, guys

[@eljoe6281]

Actually it was probably rather the Great Vowel Shift that did this. It's just that the author has chosen different vowel pronounciation than it used to be before the shift.

[@mariekyslingerova4505]

true

[@darqed]

I love the effort put into making all the letters sound the same in this video

[@AaronAlon]

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[@shaheenlindo3411]

And thus the Sims language was formed

[@remyredrum2439]

As a non-native speaker this is mostly what I was hearing in my head when writing in English for the first 6-8 years of learning.

[@jcespinoza]

Exactly! 😂 English spelling has been making less sense for me the more words I learned

[@sid2112]

As evidenced by your sentence structure, nicely done!

[@IAmTheZombieGirl]

I still do this when trying to spell out words. It makes it easier.

[@brianaleclaire]

Native speaker here, and I do it too for words I have to think about how to spell.

[@sid2112]

@@Flumsycat aw man they deleted it. Did you get a chance to read it? I was kinda proud of that one.

[@Ink_Sack]

Sounds like a German, Scottish and Irish Viking trying to speak french

[@KatBurnsKASHKA]

LOL omg tru

[@sephyrartcore9523]

This is the farthest from french you could possible imagine.

[@Stage_3_Yawning_Cat]

@@sephyrartcore9523 I think that's the point

[@Ink_Sack]

Nathan Robitaille r/woosh

[@Ink_Sack]

It actually sounds like a German, Scottish and Irish speaking... English funnily enough

[@DefenestratedG]

the editing, music, and voice is just- perfect

[@AaronAlon]

Thanks so much! Please share and subscribe!

[@thelegend8570]

This sounds like a combination of Chinese and German spoken by a pirate.

[@madlad_don2387]

wow that's true, also like a French pirate in there somewhere.

[@mail9897]

@@madlad_don2387 Maybe a little sprinkle of Indian pirate on top as well.

[@viviane04]

I mean he pronounced the vowels, like you do it whilst speaking German

[@larahoyer3654]

@@viviane04 yeah kinda hahah I am bawling omg, especially the a

[@kolper6799]

French. it calls French accent.

[@VolutoEighto]

This sounds like an Italian, a German, and a French man who all have never even heard of English before teaming together to try to speak it.

[@jonathanmangum4347]

thats basically what english is lol

[@rhettbaldwin8320]

@@jonathanmangum4347 Basically, English is what happens when Vikings learn Latin and use it to shout at Germans.

[@kieranbennett7453]

It is that, but what each language donated has been reversed, so it sounds ridiculous

[@carmen7551]

I thought of Brazilian Portuguese, German and French natives😂

[@aaravos3636]

It sounded very Hungarian to me in the middle but definitely German in the end.

[@Amefidy]

Polyglots speaking English again after a year of speaking every other language:

[@random_user9302]

@Alison Estrada - CEM Student BRO YOU JUST REIGNITED MY CHILDHOOD- but there’s a chance it wasn’t, they exist outside of that universe. that’s the first place my mind goes though. dam i haven’t read the most recent book huh.... last i remember sophitz (which, now that i’ve aged, ew, but following shannon’s patterns, the next book was probably sokeefe oriented anyway) was a thing and she couldn’t be matched

[@random_user9302]

@@sparksy6273 almost a decade ago man. freaking 2012. God i feel so old. they’re still coming out though, i think one releases every year or so.

[@callmeobsequious]

My face when polyglot just means a person who can speak other languages

[@felesnocis]

@@callmeobsequious ikr it sound like it’s either a shape or some kinda threesome

[@maxinetumarao2005]

Now I'm just imagining Sophie when she's mad or sad slipping into different languages, not on purpose HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@erichetherington9314]

Fantastic! I taught very basic origins of English to 7 and 8th graders. They were surprisingly interested. I wish I'd had this in the classroom.

[@AaronAlon]

So glad you enjoyed this! Please share and subscribe to support my content! And bookmark it in case you ever teach English again! :)

[@jamilynnbenz]

I wasn’t really paying attention and when he started phonetically pronouncing the words I thought it was his accent

[@doggolover1450]

Sameeee 😂😂😂

[@yasminrodrigues6977]

I thought it too.

[@thesunskimmer5348]

Omg same lol

[@Rrek]

Same

[@ItsDefeat]

@@elliotthill7008 he has an American accent

[@EpicPandy]

my husband taught himself English. I think ill show him this to finally just send him over the edge

[@elevate07]

You monster...

[@PoluMesec]

What's his first language

[@ajs96350]

That's true love right there.

[@saaros]

well im selft taught too, and it did do exactly that to me as well LOL

[@twisted_tapestry]

Satan: I'd just like to say that I'm a huge fan...

[@naughtyninja9494]

What impresses me the most is how he said all the lines from that piece so seriously.

[@estrelladml5882]

Fr

[@axelknutt5065]

But how many out-takes ? 😀

[@aeliasstatic4376]

So dramatic, music and everything lol

[@constellious]

When your Mom is Half German and French and your Dad is half Finnish and Thai. And you were raised up in Saudi Arabia for 10 years until you moved to Mexico for 2 years and then you tried to study english

[@Umbideoma]

r/oddlyspecific

[@riptorii]

ive lived in saudi my entire life and im not saudi- everyones been trying to convert me lately

[@taggartblake]

Dang. Senior inteernaateeoenaal

[@chaoticcopycat4936]

oh i thought you were gonna end that with "so I got confused and fucked the hamster" or something idk

[@Ha-fh5np]

weird flex but ok

[@TJ-hg6op]

From the brief amount of time I’ve been learning spanish I appreciate the consistent pronunciation of letters so much. I still find myself screwing up english words because it’s impossible to know how they sound just by looking at them, or the other way around, spelling them based on how they sound.

[@hankkirby5386]

This is so weird, it’s like hearing a language you don’t speak but understanding the words

[@halfprince]

If you think about it literally, it's the exact opposite of what you just said xD hearing a language you speak but not understanding the words.

[@enternamehere3310]

Basically any other slavic language for russian speakers

[@Hato1992]

@@enternamehere3310 Any other slavic language for any slav. It works in both ways.

[@hankkirby5386]

Enter Name Here lmao

[@Jess-pe8bq]

If you want a variation of that feeling, look up Scots. It’s just similar enough that there’s some mutual intelligibility, but it’s always off and a language you don’t speak. Unless you do speak Scots

[@Rose-yx6jq]

Its just three languages in a trench coat that hangs out in dark alleys. Hits other languages with a lead pipe. Then digs in their pockets for loose grammer.

[@crispyein8601]

Underrated. Best analogy ever.

[@kyokoscupnoodles8239]

Very underrated

[@rebeccalopez5094]

I just choked on air I laughed so hard!!! Best. Comment. Ever! 🤣💜

[@apinchofdisappointment]

Lol this is brilliant

[@TheMimiSard]

This is the best version of this, though I'd say it's closer to five or six languages - Welsh, Germanic (Anglo-Saxon invasion), French (William of Normandy), with both ancient and liturgical Latin and scientific Greek for flavour.

[@TheAmorable]

This man is having an aneurysm and nobody’s helping him

[@NaturalAegyo]

😂

[@oOFeenringOo]

I laughed so hard alone at home because of this 😂😂 Thanks

[@matthias7968]

🤣

[@tawsifzzz5188]

Lmao as im studying medicine it really made me laugh

[@thelittlepotato1643]

Wow wut a world we live in

[@circa2OO7]

I took a spanish class in sophomore year, and i really appreciated that the vowels almost never changed their sound

[@5neakAttak]

His speech slowly turns into Doctors handwriting throughout the video

[@The_holly_and_the_holy]

This is such an underrated comment xD

[@werelemur1138]

A doctor's handwriting, or the Doctor's handwriting?

[@bmo3778]

I broke my laugh at this

[@HeadOfMoss]

This is a good comment

[@casperthghost486]

@@werelemur1138 it's stereotyped that doctors have unlegable handwriting, so they're referring to an actual doctor not The Doctor :)

[@Hockstar97]

When learning english remember these rules: Their our know rules

[@AaronAlon]

This physically hurt me to read. :D

[@dawooziest]

Eye- know thanks✨

[@sua4419]

Ummm sry can u explain urself (No offence tho)

[@novakiiwashere-7409]

@@sua4419 there are no rules, if you say it out loud, it sounds the same

[@bisquirrel1393]

This took me a sec, and made me even more disappointed in English

[@gustavschnitzel]

1:39 "combainashayan" is the most hilarious one.

[@rys1387]

We cAn stIll gEt A...

[@laurakaye5086]

That one killed me!!

[@Annie-cs]

3:12 conssumahshyon hahaha

[@jaslawrence]

Sounds like a dope anime lol

[@chrishernandez8361]

2:29 "Shahkeespeerayan"

[@ranjittyagi9354]

Quite a few mentioned it as sounding French. To me, a native of NW India, it sounded Irish initially and then proceeded to sound like a mix of some Dutch and more German. I don't know Dutch or German but can easily make out those two apart from 38 other languages. All this because I used to be glued to my 📻 since the age of 12, listening to stations from around the world. Thank you for a wonderful presentation.

[@AaronAlon]

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[@ltwt1938]

When your mum's Scottish, your dad's German, you were born in France, and you're learning English

[@MastaSmack]

Love the avatar, haven't seen that one since I was in highschool....need it on a shirt.

[@FrikInCasualMode]

So, exactly like English language came to be. Some Germanic, some Celtic, some Romance languages mixed together and stewed for couple of centuries.

[@RedCaio]

"...bit of a nasty shock for him when he found out" -Seamus Finnigan

[@AltheaIsana]

Yes. Agreed.

[@UshankaMaster]

Learning English while in Russia

[@heroofthe4-starmastersword526]

This sounds almost like middle English. Which was probably more phonetically consistent than modern English anyway

[@TheBluePhoenix008]

*Ye* means *the*

[@gimygaming8655]

I read this in modern English

[@Deathnotefan97]

In forget if it was Middle English or Old English, but there was a time when the letters Y and J were interchangeable

[@jaredgarbo3679]

@@TheBluePhoenix008 No, it doens't.

[@TheBluePhoenix008]

@@jaredgarbo3679 yes it does

[@aaronking2020]

His words slowly turned into what sounded like a different language

[@barricadeboizzz7459]

@@HBKnowItAll i was about to say that

[@57Strudel]

@@HBKnowItAll Absolutely!

[@dami-i]

This video is a pearl that should never be lost.

[@BroudbrunMusicMerge]

Suddenly a lot of non-native speakers' accents make _so much_ sense

[@amp-le4699]

Ikr lol

[@sweetsour4375]

Actually, accents are due to English having different phonemes (sound libraries) than their native language and having to substitute the closest equivalent.

[@codeinecowboy8607]

It’s us Americans that speak a butchered language

[@HomeDefender30]

Right? I could hear the different accents coming out as he change the sounds.

[@HomeDefender30]

Codeine Cowboy I realized how messed up English was when I was learning Spanish... Spanish has consistent rules and is a very well organized language. English is just all over the place with sometimes rules and sometimes other rules... it’s ridiculous.

[@WhoCaresAlisha]

It sounds like an Irish person who once lived in France for five years trying to speak German.

[@mariekyslingerova4505]

😂

[@gauriphadanavis8345]

😹😹😹😂Yes.. Yes It Does Sound Like That...😹😹😹

[@dominicstewart-guido7598]

That, along with a few other things thrown in the mix, is basically how English evolved.

[@aldenheterodyne2833]

I mean... That's pretty much what English is when you look at the history of the language.

[@stoerte]

Das ist eine Verunglimpfung der deutschen Sprache!

[@advitanargund336]

i refuse to believe this man recorded the audio with a straight face

[@AaronAlon]

I definitely didn't. :)

[@rexor8527]

@@AaronAlon how many takes do you think it took? to get it all correct and without cracking up part way through?

[@AaronAlon]

@@rexor8527, I don't think I ever got a take all the way through without laughing. Audio engineering to the rescue! I just had to get a clear take of each line. :)

[@icedchqi]

@@AaronAlon thats what i thought lol

[@ariahazelwood3842]

@@AaronAlon This video is legendary...can't even tell you how many times I've come back to this just because I hadn't thought about it in a while and it came to bless my thoughts 😂

[@Flamms]

As a french native speaker, I ve struggled with the letter I. In "Irish" same letter same word but two pronouciation! Thx for the video!

[@Hwan.421]

“Pro-non-see-awe-shuns”. Also this hurts my brain. I feel like something broke

[@anniehetflejsova9700]

I'm broke

[@Kojak0]

Yeah, for me too, and I'm not even a native English-speaker. But hearing English treated like this... I feel like I just chewed aluminium foil.

[@realJoshiBOI]

I'm broke as well, but in a different way lol

[@prasantabehara2547]

Jeff Couture

[@M3galodon]

lmao it's not even possible to write that phonetically because of "sh"

[@jairusmislang2760]

so basically... the sims had a perfect consistent phonetic english all this time

[@MeltingMellons]

Soosoo!

[@rogerschmitz3746]

Best comment ever XD

[@cooper31522]

@@MeltingMellons Sul sul**

[@mchagnon7]

They had a phonetically consistent language, which is actually commonplace. English is unique in it nonsensical pronunciations, which is why towards the end, it sounds like a combination of almost all other western languages.

[@jairusmislang2760]

@@mchagnon7 i think the real problem is that each english alphabet has different functions and pronunciations in certain circumstances while other languages only designate one specific sound for each alphabet or vowel

[@someoneonyoutube8622]

It’s so interesting how when you do this you can actually pick up on the hints of Latin, Celtic, German, French, Spanish, Italian, modern English, and other languages or dialects all of which interacted with each other to form English.

[@katiehazeltine5312]

i heard irish halfway through

[@adhdhikaru]

English is basically a bunch of European languages wearing a trench coat rather than an actual language

[@benjaminvarner3765]

@@adhdhikaru and we love it that way lol

[@royalblanket]

@@benjaminvarner3765 No we don't

[@mememan5466]

@@adhdhikaru you just described england

[@lassala]

Damn, it broke my brain. Bring the inconsistency pronunciation back! :) I often wonder about stuff like that. A few days ago, I was thinking about "mine, undermine, determine". :)

[@andreasantos717]

English became a whole different language by the end of this lmao

[@jewelxiat]

Yeah, Simlish LMAO

[@wooby4104]

it sounded like it was a lot closer to it's Latin roots to me (a lot of languages like French, English, Spanish, and most other European languages, originated in Old Latin). I honestly liked the way he sounded. it reminded me vaguely of Gaelic, which has me wondering if the evolution of English was influenced by Gaelic back some several hundred years ago. Gaelic is a beautiful language, I really wish people used it more, but it's one of the harder ones to learn.

[@natalyaporter5730]

Nat I personally like the way it is now

[@chiefexecutivesearch]

Welcome to Finland - our language is phonetically consistent. However, we compensate the easiness of pronouncing by having a totally irrational and random grammar.

[@SSMateuszSS]

Same in poland and 95% of european countries

[@Shiznit304]

Perkele

[@АлександрФедоренко-б7ч]

Same in all slavics languages

[@quack703]

@@АлександрФедоренко-б7ч but russian is not phonetically consistent, especially vowels

[@AverageLaur]

Also In Estonia

[@Vitx0o]

If this is to be a new language, I'd name it something like: *English: Collectors Edition*

[@tafu4049]

Severely underrated

[@ZoruaHunter]

Language of the Year edition

[@noahsupersaga4057]

@BEST *English uncut*

[@rifqioktario5546]

English: Deleted Scene

[@martinszymanski2607]

english: 1.21 grammar patch

[@owencoles2798]

This sounds more fun than trying to get English right all the time.

[@KarstenJohansson]

Now I understand why it's so hard to make computer voices sound real.

[@acridsama]

*cries in Vocaloid*

[@gray5105]

@@acridsama japanese doesn’t have phonetic inconsistencies

[@acridsama]

@@gray5105 I use the English voice banks :(

[@bladepanthera]

@@gray5105 hhhhhhmmmmmm idk, I mean か and え individually are "ka" and "eh" sounds. Put them together かえ and you get a "kai" pronunciation e.g. in かえる. Just started learning hiragana and discovered this 😃

[@RaawHax]

​@@bladepanthera Judging from translate's pronounciation feature, I'd say it's still pronounced exactly as you would expect :/ and while a lot can be said about translate, I think it's generally pretty good with pronounciation for major languages.

[@ellanaa9464]

There's a Scott, a German and a Frenchman. Who do you want to be? Aaron: *YES*

[@wyaakk]

Luise Naa firstly, *Scot, but also **Irishman

[@raventherogue]

What happens when Medic, Spy, and Demo fuse and attempt to speak English

[@aswinrajeev515]

He's also wakandan

[@firstnamelastname6016]

Then he veered a little into Chinese

[@rencat7075]

Don’t forget Jamaican

[@NotSoLegendaryGreen]

Sounds like a new language, and he hasn’t even touched the silent consonants.

[@Leafywasnteverhere]

oh god

[@rottinginthewoods5955]

oh fuck

[@monnocatto]

oh crap

[@Leafywasnteverhere]

oh shit

[@davisaoluis4201]

Oh dear

[@emraldswrd]

Thank you fur laeseinying! 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️

[@DogeAnimations]

It sounds like a French person trying to imitate Irish accent

[@arv584]

yeah

[@oxnyxws]

If you think about the evolution of England it's a Celtic pronunciation of a small mix of German, a handful of Latin a lot of French and ideas that it's stole.

[@bfurquim]

I'm not a native speaker, but to me it sounded definitely like a german trying to speak latin (or vice-versa)! Awesome (and pretty funny) results, btw!

[@jayhill2193]

@@bfurquim A German wouldn't have a hard time pronouncing Latin though as they are basically phonetically identical. An "A" makes an "a" sound, an "E" makes an "e" sound and so on. "ae" is a somewhat controversal topic but the generally accepted standard is that it's ponounced like the German additional vowel "ä", which also happens to be alternatively written as "ae" if, for example, your typing on an international keyboard that doesn't have these additional vowels. The most unintuitive things a German might find in Latin I'd say is the lack of the letter "k" and the use of "c" instead and, if one is looking at original texts, the fact that "u" and "v" were both written as "v" making Gajus Julius Caesar look like that: Gaivs Ivlivs Caesar.

[@legohexman2858]

@@BurgerCroissant based

[@rageldith9600]

This sounds so sophisticated and so dumb at the same time

[@tawsifzzz5188]

I choose 2nd one

[@MrBob-bj6kk]

I choose 1st one

[@stinkygoose666]

On point

[@philipblount2561]

That's the fun of language my friend

[@ailaG]

It sounds dumb because you're not used to it. My accent probably doesn't sound all that different, even though I know how words are supposed to be pronounced. So in both cases it's just different from what you may be used to.

[@goldmegaman1000]

This sounds like an irishman who speaks French trying to learn German

[@winter9753]

Well for the French speaker that I am it sounded more likee an English speaker trying to get non English speakers confused xD

[@linhfphung7867]

Oh god that description is accurate XD

[@mosef312]

It sounds like Americans speaking Dutch

[@cationpotasio]

Nordic vs Europe

[@fourever2ne1]

Goldmegaman1000 that's exactly what I thought!Like spot on what I thought

[@jojounicorn4610]

“you probably haven’t heard the “a” sound, (as in father) in a long time, since he left a long time ago.”

[@okamiexe1501]

You switched between Gaelic, Swedish, French, German, Latin and Italian just by making English consistent... crazy

[@ADeeSHUPA]

uP

[@originquantum5483]

Considering English has roots in the Gaelic, Germanic, and Latin languages, makes sense

[@DarthScosha]

Modern English derived from French and Germanic languages, as well as Latin. There might even have been some Scandinavian influence when the vikings invaded. In fact, the word 'Enlgish' has origins from the Old English word 'Englisc', it came from Germanic settlers in the 5th Century. It's no surprise you found a mix of these languages.

[@aniflowers1998]

Wait, which one sounds german? XD I'm german, but I'm terrible at judging accents

[@romilrh]

Interestingly enough, those languages ARE phonetically consistent

[@kuntaldive2618]

He's like an indian guy born in America having British accent trying to speak French...

[@nataliamiranda677]

Yes thank you. I couldnt put it in words and you just did.

[@bobbiusshadow6985]

It sounded like a pre-medieval language.

[@boo766]

💯😂

[@Mr-zj3eo]

Mr worldwide

[@alegria1813]

No German

[@marissahultman9525]

This sounds like sim characters talking to themselves

[@nandoskitty1723]

Ikr

[@dustercat21]

Yes

[@applesong01]

666 like

[@helmi9003]

True

[@arunnalunaru]

It does lmao🤣

[@MrSkme]

Gems like this is the reason youtube is awesome. Choice of music is perfect btw.

[@AaronAlon]

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[@nateds7326]

English is like the linguistic embodiment of the “well yes but actaully no” meme

[@ViscanPikamine]

Have you ever seen french my friend 😂

[@anupratee3058]

@@ViscanPikamine oh god please no french is the father of English when it comes to well yes but actually no

[@ViscanPikamine]

@@anupratee3058 we're the final boss of the well yes but actually no game

[@Mik-hm9tb]

Huh, try 'Yes no, maybe' one XD

[@cr0wnoss]

Mahaut Guermonprez Yeah we all have the « exception qui confirme la règle » or in English « the exception which confirm the rule » and it’s a huge mess lmao

[@gurjyot147]

He sounds like a Scandinavian Irish German Jamaican Frenchman living in Scotland

[@fabioartoscassone9305]

"YU CAN CACH AUR LIV BUT NEVER STIL AUR FRIDOM!" Wiliam Wallass

[@im-at-home]

Who grew up in a Chinese family

[@Elchinodiabolero]

And happens to be very drunk

[@7an7ara]

So... basically a normal Scot. (I'm from Inverness, I can say that)

[@xcyphoh7599]

You're forgetting Canadian

[@Tesseract.]

*I think this literally made me forget how to read for four minutes and five seconds.*

[@voanhkieta-pv8bj]

i love how this guy changed the ways he talked the vowels right after he define the changes

[@rabbiqa]

He sounds like he's doing every European accent, at once, *in cursive*

[@lukacerar5215]

Not at all.

[@kap1117]

@@lukacerar5215 it really does sounds european

[@TheMr0utside]

@Olalamio No reason for name calling out of the gate.

[@rvk4b3]

@Olalamio Nice one, Dick head.

[@tylerarnold3971]

Raghu Vamsi Krishna calm down, dickhead

[@hufflepufflez3293]

Guy; _speaks English in a phonetically consistent dialect_ His mouth; _so you have chosen _*_Europe_*

[@erik19borgnia]

Iuroupii?

[@hufflepufflez3293]

@@erik19borgnia this took me a WHOLE minute

[@erik19borgnia]

@@hufflepufflez3293 Hahaha whin you doun't ixpict ait, ait's daiffaicult (oh god that was horrible)

[@salmon9713]

French: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahàhahaha *oui oui baguette*

[@salmon9713]

@gapple * same for me, I'm italian, literally everything in Italian is phonetically consistent

[@manlingsun8928]

Him in his phonetically consistent voice: When we... My stupid brain: *Oui oui*

[@krystle3945]

louis

[@toomuchiridium]

Oui oui baguette

[@marygraceoyangorin8918]

Why do you comment this?

[@tomeofslyev]

Mine be like da JA!!

[@maurolimaok]

Great channel. I teach English, here in Brazil, with songs from 60s to 90s. This stuff will be very helpful.

[@AaronAlon]

Thanks so much! Please be sure to like and subscribe!

[@vseslavkazakov356]

I like how he gets progressively more Irish and French at the same time

[@mryan4452]

It's clearly a mix of Dutch and Cornish 😂

[@b0nes95]

Dutch..? I myself have not heard a single Dutch speaker speak English like this, though.

[@bspringer]

I likey hoe he geats progreesaiveelai morey Iraysh und freanch utt thee sahmey taymee

[@CouldntThinkOfaGoodUsername]

​@@bspringermahn thaht hert mi bran tu red

[@nakulkrejimon]

Its a mix of Patois, Irish, and somewhat German...

[@dimatadore]

He turned into a Jamaican Scotsman by the end of this.

[@Jypsie415]

That's exactly the combo I was thinking of! LOL

[@jalynnwilliams6170]

That’s what I was thinking lmao

[@piratecandy6310]

He sounds nothing like a Jamaican. He sounds like he comes from Scotland or speaking Old English.

[@AudreysKitchen]

@@piratecandy6310 there's absolutely some Jamaican inflection on some of the vowels. It's more Scottish than Jamaican, but it comes through a good amount still.

[@piratecandy6310]

@@AudreysKitchen no. I may not speak Patois but my parents speak it. It doesn't sound like Patois. I've grew up with English Creole. When I say it doesn't sound like it. It doesn't.

[@insertname3293]

He actually sounds like he's speaking another language

[@juanmanuelmoramontes3883]

Yeah...

[@maxb.1302]

Kind of sounds like german...

[@snkelol]

The language is called sim

[@x-mighty7602]

I remember laughing my butt off this video back in '21. It was awesome!

[@AaronAlon]

Welcome back! Please consider sharing and subscribing. You might also enjoy the sequel to this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKK3pHWtfa5jrq8si=hRb_KVUlD1bdAPVm

[@antonbanks8303]

I suddenly have a whole new respect for the programmers who do text to speech in English!

[@netherbrickfence4632]

Someone badass

[@AndreaBorto]

Telling the truth youtube automatic translator often understand a word for another... English is pretty much a DIY language!

[@ballsxan]

Programmers don't make knowledge bases, and their information is taken appart from the algorithm.

[@marseis4541]

What the video actually proves from a programmers point of view is the impossibility to parse the English language algorithmically. Therefore, text-to-speech programs rely on databases containing all english words in the phonetic alphabet.

[@spiderduckpig]

They would use phonetic versions of all words, not the words themselves

[@KnightOMoon]

When an English speaking time traveler goes back in time thinking "it's English. I don't need to worry about fitting in."

[@BigMamaDaveX]

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court... Hmm... 🤔

[@gaminganimators7000]

I don't understand it

[@creativeed6788]

@@gaminganimators7000 English used to sound very differently than today. Oddly enough almost close to how it sounds in this video.

[@kokofan50]

@@BigMamaDaveX King Arthur was pre-Anglo.

[@fromchomleystreet]

@@BigMamaDaveX Or literally every fictional time traveler since. Everybody in the past, however far back you go and whatever country it is, spoke modern English (possibly embellished with the odd “thou” and “thee”) pronounced in a poshish southern English accent (unless it’s America)

[@mateusporawski5347]

i'm Brazilian, and phonetically consistent english sounds like my dad trying to speak english

[@simona.4673]

same

[@GabeSurtos]

Verdade kkkkkkk

[@chilael6892]

Same, but if my dad was french and german at the same time.

[@joaovieira7541]

Parece mais um irlandês kkk brasileiro fala inglês com a fonética do português

[@flopilla2012]

I'm chilean, but SAME.

[@Benbeenbee]

Such a well crafted video, congrats!

[@AaronAlon]

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