EU's Rarest Language Revealed | Pointless | S03 E16

EU's Rarest Language Revealed | Pointless | S03 E16 | Full Episode

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@realnoahsimpson Ай бұрын

3 people couldn’t guess that French was an official language of the EU, 10 couldn’t guess ENGLISH the language they were actually speaking in (!)

@Dendarang Ай бұрын

presumably those are the people who didn't know or were confused on what "official language of the EU" means and assumed something like official working language of the EU institutions in Brussels and Strasbourg and then assumed that that was French or German.

@richardfox6595 29 күн бұрын

Had the UK sort of left the EU when this was filmed?

@Dendarang 28 күн бұрын

@@richardfox6595 no, this was filmed in 2010 I believe. The transitory period for the UK was 2016-2020 before full withdrawal from the EU.

@CasimirdeHauteclocque 9 күн бұрын

It is not that they couldn’t guess that it was. The questions to the panel are open. They have 100s to name as many languages as they can and were too focus into finding odd ones that they forgot to name the obvious

@thisravenhasflown010 7 ай бұрын

Brilliant performance for that winning duo!! Well deserved! Interestingly tough question

@pib712thesecond 8 ай бұрын

Patrick Bateman first appeared in The Rules of Attraction (1987), but I’m sure they’d only accept American Psycho (1991)

@LoudMinded 2 ай бұрын

Interesting. Maybe that's why they didn't show that answer.

@alisdairmckenzie Ай бұрын

If they'd stopped yapping and got to it we may have heard. I think they would have accepted both though, I am sure the popular answer would of been American Psycho. Isn't he referred to by his brother, Sean, in Rules of Attraction - not really a main character.

@pib712thesecond Ай бұрын

@@alisdairmckenzie He does actually appear and is a point of view character so I'd count it

@alisdairmckenzie Ай бұрын

@@pib712thesecond thanks

@alisdairmckenzie Ай бұрын

I had to think way way back trying to picture him in it.

@RFC3514 2 ай бұрын

I guess some of them confused "official EU language" (i.e., languages that EU documents must be translated into) with "official language of EU countries" (which includes a lot of regional languages that EU documents _aren't_ translated into).

@MrJeppe313 Ай бұрын

Even then, they also simply answered with languages from countries that aren't members of the EU like Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania (could also add Welsh from the UK to this, but I believe this is recorded before Brexit). I don't think you're wrong that they aren't aware that each member country only get to pick one language to become an official EU language, but I think the biggest issue was simply not knowing which countries are members or not.

@cocazade7703 18 күн бұрын

Official languages and regional languages are not the same thing. For example, although Catalan is spoken by millions of people, its still not an official lanaguage of Spain and therefore isnt an official language of the EU. However, despite its size, Irish IS a national official language of Ireland therefore an official EU language too

@RFC3514 18 күн бұрын

@@cocazade7703 - There's no "therefore". Luxembourgish is a national official language of Luxembourg but not an official language of the EU. The same goes for Turkish (which has official language status in Cyprus, but isn't considered an official language of the EU).

@johnmckenzie4639 9 ай бұрын

This is so annoying. Richard and Alexander spent so much time faffing about over Ulysses that they forgot to give the score for Patrick Bateman. SPOILER: It's American Psycho, which is the one I would have chosen. I guess it wasn't pointless, but I figured it would be a low score.

@pib712thesecond 7 ай бұрын

The Rules of Attraction was the first book Bateman appeared in.

@slyasleep Ай бұрын

I would have sworn that Luxembourgish was an official language of the EU. I would have been wrong.

@Dendarang Ай бұрын

yeah, that's where I would've probably failed and gotten 100 points as well. I was certain Luxembourgish was an official language and that that would've been a pointless answer but, after checking, apparently its not. Even though Luxembourgish is one of the official languages of Luxembourg (alongside German and French) and Luxembourg is a full member state of the EU, Luxembourgish isn't an official language instead it's a regional language of the EU.

@jmp9035 23 күн бұрын

Luxembourgish isn't even a language rather a dialect of Moselle German

@toinenosoite3173 Ай бұрын

This is an old episode, isn't it? Thus, it clearly shows how little people knew of the EU, and of the countries belonging to it. No wonder that there was a Brexit!

@prosquatter Ай бұрын

Herzegovinian is, in fact, not a language, but it is a rather polarizing accent. By that I mean, nobody can stand listening to it, except Herzegovinians 😂

@joanneaugust6611 Ай бұрын

Whew! I got a pointless answer for the first time - Slovenian. But apart from the fact that as a German, I couldn't get on the show, I would horribly fail at the final. The chances of getting a category you know anything about are slim. And even as a musicologist, I wouldn't go anywhere near Opera or Classical Music - the questions are weirdly specific and the British concertgoer definitely knows just as much about Verdi's operas etc. as me. Give me something like symphony's nicknames or anything by Mendelssohn, that's fine.

@22espec 8 ай бұрын

I remember Fanny price from Mansfield Park because I thought it was a funny name

@karl-erlendmikalsen5159 8 ай бұрын

The fanny of mans field does have a ring to it x)

@thisravenhasflown010 7 ай бұрын

I remember her from a play that was set in a shop, with two unmarried women, who met two men. I want to say The Matchmaker but it was a long time ago 😅

@slyasleep Ай бұрын

Oh, is that why Brexit happened? Would be helpful if they put the original airing dates

@daniloruocco2728 Ай бұрын

2010.

@rabomarc Ай бұрын

Fun fact, English is still an official EU language.

@swedishmetalbear 4 ай бұрын

This shows how little Brittish people cared about the EU or Europe at all.. Not a clue...

@MelissaThompson432 4 ай бұрын

In 2024: B&H are EU member candidates, not yet members. Croatian is the EU official laguage of Herzegovina (aka Bosnia & Herzegovina, which has 3 official languages, but only Croatian is EU-official.)

@LoudMinded 2 ай бұрын

Croatia wasn't in the EU when this was recorded.

@MelissaThompson432 2 ай бұрын

@LoudMinded you will notice the first two words of my comment....

@LoudMinded 2 ай бұрын

@MelissaThompson432 Obviously I didn't 🙂 Sorry.

@MelissaThompson432 2 ай бұрын

@LoudMinded 💙

@rabomarc Ай бұрын

B&H is a member candidate, not member candidates. It’s a single country. Also, all over the Balkans, the language is a very divisive topic. Linguistically Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin are nearly the same, on a level similar to British English vs American English. But their native speakers all claim that these are separate languages.

@jmp9035 23 күн бұрын

Serbo croat is the language spoken in Bosnia Herzergovina

@brainwaiver1 9 ай бұрын

Some negative comments below are undeserved.

@giacomoandria904 9 ай бұрын

Round 1: Italy also did a question about Official EU languages and there were no pointless answers at all 6:49 In Italy would've scored 8 points 9:21 In Italy would've scored only 6 points 😱😱😱 10:48 Only 16 points 12:13 2 points 13:33 Only 13 points 15:24 The first answer from the top would've scored 2 points, the second one 8 points and the third one 3 points 16:16 The 3rd answer from the top would've scored only 68 points, the 2nd one 95 points and the 1st one 98 points (In Italy our language would've scored just 57 points 😭😭😭😭😭😭) (In Italy another correct answer was the Croatian and scored 3 points. In Italy the best answer on the board would've been the Czech, our only 1-pointer)

@thisravenhasflown010 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for the difference in cultures. It would be interesting to know that about all the questions on all the episodes