Gallagher Explains Pronunciation | Stand-Up | The New Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

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[@charlesgallagher1376]

Everyone learning to speak English should see this.

[@tengenjoestar1991]

Ye thx

[@abdulhussain3180]

I think that a bad idea 😂

[@charlesgallagher1376]

@@abdulhussain3180 why is that a bad idea.

[@tubsy.]

If you're genuinely trying to learn a language that'd be useless.

[@jon_weetz]

I’m learning English and this is funny as hell, it’s exactly what we usually complain about 💀

[@prankhimjohn5942]

You don't learn English, you memorize it 😭😭

[@DJFreakky]

True

[@renz3712]

so true

[@Bjoviii]

Ive found that learning languages by just watching and hearing is a lot easier than trying to learn all the rules and stuff. I study french in school and I learnt jack shit

[@user-hu8fn2jp5v]

Nah you get used to it, I never memeorized it, just happens

[@dgh4918]

Straight up

[@pendomn5914]

Dude accidentally predicted "coom"

[@joeymiller5331]

You think that just because a word is slang it didn't exist before? Coom means coal dust

[@unitedleagueofgamers3633]

@@joeymiller5331yep well it definitely still means that same thing

[@pendomn5914]

@@joeymiller5331 maaan LET ME HAVE MY FUN!!!!!

[@terrellstahl1884]

Have your fun bro 👍

[@batmanjones655]

​@joeymiller5331 there is also the word cwm, pronounced 'coom', used in mountaineering. It's usually referred to as a cirque in geological terms. I know it's a different spelling and technically a Welsh (I think) word, but still 'coom' nonetheless

[@chrislmaoo_]

Damn i never realized as a native english speaker how hard it must be to learn this shit

[@ryanbale2416]

Apparently it’s the easiest language in the world to learn. English has one word for THE. German has 18 ways of saying the word THE. English grammar is simple. But spelling and pronunciation and the size of the language are the only hard things

[@chrislmaoo_]

@ryanbale2416 that's very interesting actually. Thanks!

[@yugimuto1639]

as a non-english speaker it sounds like it is hard for nearly everyone I know but when learning it I personally never realized this issue even existed

[@TheThingoftheSky]

​@@ryanbale2416probably a reason why English is a global language

[@eerokivisto5103]

It's actually fairly easy since English is everywhere at this point. I'm Finnish and I grew up watching stuff like The Simpsons. Most video games I've ever played were in English. By the time I started learning English at age 9, I already new bunch of English words and I just kinda got used to the fact it doesn't make sense.

[@anthonyanderson3448]

Teacher: just sound out the words. Words:

[@newhailman]

Wurds

[@mangotree1032]

Huirdz

[@Youtuber34172]

Just saund aut da wurds

[@Youtuber34172]

Okey

[@HIAMNK]

@@KZbinr34172The term OK comes from a funny miss spelling of the saying all correct. Tell me one other language that has a common fraise That everyone uses in that language that is completely misspelled ON PURPOSE.

[@elinblackburn7345]

when your language is making you angry, you’ve got problumbs.

[@jehoshualewis2525]

😂🤣🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣

[@jimmy_h7911]

No! That's problem! With p-r-o-b-l-em

[@douglaslane6184]

Underrated XD

[@cesiumion]

😂

[@darktansupahman]

@@jimmy_h7911your rawng

[@LaZyREBaL]

top ten jokes to tell in a TSA line

[@Thefalafelman27]

I don't have a bomb strapped to my chest i have a boom strapped to my chest

[@PatrickAngel525]

@@Thefalafelman27 Oh okay that's totally understandable have a great day. ...wait

[@logandarklighter]

"English doesn't just 'borrow' words, it stalks them down in back alleys, robs them and rifles their pockets for loose adverbs."

[@riyku]

As an English teacher, I feel this strong. My poor kindergarteners 😂😂😂😂

[@arnavthesceintist1149]

English spellings are hard even for native speakers

[@patrickn.4113]

As a german every time I see this word it feels misplaced😄

[@ResaAdilaksana]

you can explain. sorry for our silly language. just learn by common things 🤣

[@Shiva-jw5ds]

​@@arnavthesceintist1149they aren't hard they just don't make sense

[@Gogga9]

@@arnavthesceintist1149 non native speaker from caucasus, for me, it ain't hard at all

[@lorijohnson1478]

A genius. I'm glad we have him recorded.

[@ARCoventry]

Idk about genius lmao, I mean maybe here but he turned into a racist fruit ninja with a lack of good material.

[@morgsthegamer7121]

Someone else did this exact thing. Now I can’t tell who’s cheating who 😅

[@zoakyz]

​@@morgsthegamer7121pretty sure he did it first tho

[@gthegreat1996]

This ain’t funny

[@Dustin_smh]

​@@gthegreat1996 its a play on words, you wouldn't get it.

[@PorkChop71912]

I saw Gallagher live once. He was awesome. A real icon of the 80s, and my childhood.

[@VoidsDemise5443]

"N-O-ME NOME? No" Nome, Alaska: allow me to introduce myself.

[@jamesyboy4626]

GNOME

[@trentejames9773]

​@@jamesyboy4626 its NOME ALASKA Not gnome lol

[@jamesyboy4626]

@@trentejames9773 I know that, I was just pointing out gnome is another spelling of nome. I understand what the op was saying. There's a place in Alaska called nome and I did not think for a second it was spelt gnome smh.

[@jb32369]

He said NUMB

[@battleboss1744]

Bro just roasted the whole English dictionary

[@CupisCupidity]

what a sigma 😂

[@scawywag2935]

@@CupisCupidityLigma

[@abigailmiller6007]

Yes he did 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jakejackson-si8vz]

Just to show that we've been learning rubbish

[@thatnentendogamer3611]

Webster ain't recovering from this one

[@mick3y966]

Man really yelled "is it COOM?"

[@chimeron260]

Oh god I’m about to Comb

[@wnathanielw]

AAAAAAAAA I'M COOOOOMBING

[@mick3y966]

Whoever is liking this stop

[@notablediscomfort]

​@@mick3y966no

[@mick3y966]

@@notablediscomfort ok

[@ericblakley9960]

"This whole god darn thing is dumb" that killed me 🤣

[@Lookin4LoveInAllTheWrongPlaces]

I went to one of his shows in the early 90's. We had second row seats. Gallagher put on a great show. He brought a lot of energy to the stage. Very fun.

[@GhostTheJoker]

As an English speaker... I've never been more confused about my own language

[@ruledbysaturn]

Yeah it's designed to be that way.

[@Pro720HyperMaster720]

@@ruledbysaturnNo, it isn’t, the thing is there was a time where written English didn’t exist and/or wasn’t standardized, and they began the process of creating one, the problem was that shortly after a phenomenon that I recommend you to search called The Great Vowel Shift occurred and pronunciation of the written move from being precise to not actually spell those letters, for example when written English was made Book was pronounced with two Os (like the O sound of door) but the “vowel shifted” to an U sound, things like that began to happen all over English and the now established writing system was not compensated/redone to fix that so it continued that way, and the many loanwords didn’t help, English have many words from other languages that weren’t adapted in writing to the way it sounded probably because is difficult to do so when spelling is consistently inconsistent xD

[@S1LK_]

​@@Pro720HyperMaster720I think they were being sarcastic but aight

[@ruledbysaturn]

@@Pro720HyperMaster720 Thank you . I'm sure the ruptured capillaries on your nose belie the wisdom that is coming from your fingertips. Keep in mind I have no idea what I'm saying. I just like internet conjecture.

[@myfaceismyshield5963]

@@Pro720HyperMaster720 one issue is also the fact that English and the different regional dialects that came to be English already had a ton of germanic phonems that were represented with runes and such. The Latin alphabet that English has now used for many many centuries doesn't have letters for many of the phonems in spoken English, where the runes had representations of them. So when they shifted from the runes to using the Latin alphabet, they had to arbitrarily make up rules for how they could represent their sounds with the letters that didn't have those sounds represented. The other germanic languages (especially the norse ones) like Swedish or Danish have a similar thing, just in a different capacity. Icelandic has it's own letter system based on the old runes, which means Icelandic can represent it's own pronounciation much more consistently in the script. Romance languages also had a lot of vowel and consonant shifts where they deviated from Latin, but they were simple shifts where they could figure out the exact rules and make it almost entirely consistent. English didn't have that luxury. Some European languages had it fairly easy as well. Finnish for example, through (as far as anybody has been able to say) complete coincidence, happened to have phonems very similar to Latin so they could essentially just borrow a couple vowels from the Swedish alphabet and make almost all letters phonetically fixed to one pronounciation (with the exception of a velar nasal on 'nk' and 'ng') without any sort of mass annihilation of existing dialects. In general a language is most sensibly represented with a letter system people made or adapted specifically for that language. The freak coincidences, like Finnish do exist, but in general it doesn't work like that. Languages are fun.

[@Chr649]

“English is not a language, it's three languages wearing a trench coat pretending to be one.” - Gugulethu Mhlungu

[@Estazhe]

'Bold of you to say that considering youre named after the sound a plunger makes' -Sun Tzu

[@id1550]

“Everybody’s got a language, until they get punched in the plan”- Tyson Mike

[@eugenearciosa8633]

@Eztazhe , youre ? Maybe you want to say is you're or you are also dumb

[@kaakateeyadsnr]

​@@Estazhe😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@HaroldCalvin-zj2rt]

😂😂😂

[@mjp152]

Having passed 40 years of age my pun power is now sufficient to appreciate this.

[@badcornflakes6374]

Pun power 😂

[@RedFail1-1]

Miss this guy. Loved watching him as a kid.

[@shadowplaxianthgaming3694]

This guy set it up so well and how he ended it off was just spectacular!

[@jjjordan3881]

This guy? U have no clue who that is? 😢

[@iamtheteapot7405]

​@jjjordan3881 this guy doesn't think you know who that guy is.

[@shadowplaxianthgaming3694]

@@jjjordan3881 What's wrong?

[@KrizbyKrim]

@@shadowplaxianthgaming3694he’s one of the most famous and acclaimed comedians of all time. He likes smashing fruit.

[@SpinOxym]

….. Twin??

[@jamesgon7345]

Bro just gave me the worlds first dyslexia related stroke edit: thats a lot of likes look ma I’m road kill 👀

[@selmiravdic4798]

It trigger my dyslexia, and I'm not even that bad!

[@NinjaMinaBB]

My condolences 😂

[@ItzB-1037]

😂

[@proudtobeachristian286]

Jesus loves youu

[@ericcaldwell3584]

​@@proudtobeachristian286 Lucifer hates you.

[@ivangomez1288]

IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOR OVER A YEAR!!!! YEEAAAAAAAAA BUDDDYYYY!!!!!!!

[@Si74l0rd]

Absolutely brilliant, fantastic delivery too.

[@collinwarrick1785]

Somebody: "If you source your words from every language, how will anyone know how to pronounce them??" English: *shrugs*

[@Schnabelcraig]

That's the neat part, they won't!

[@dislike__button]

haha

[@EricForemaaaan]

You gotta be a native speaker. Get gud scrubs.

[@Taolan8472]

@@EricForemaaaan As a native speaker, English is not a single unified language. it is a dozen proto-languages pretending to be a language Muppet Man style by stacking on top of each other in a trench coat. English is an ongoing abuse against language as a concept.

[@ptkelly80]

@@EricForemaaaanplenty of native English speakers are functionally illiterate in English.

[@Cavalier.]

"The whole damn thing is dumb". You plumb got me with that. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼😂😂😂

[@DennisHolliday-mc8mw]

Bro I swear if it pops up one more time

[@chie970]

Is it plumb or plumb?

[@hemiilove]

he said doggone

[@vuvuzela4570]

He said doggone. Not damn

[@84AE85trueno]

@@chie970It’s obviously plumb, not plumb 😅

[@ArshmanIrfan-jw6en]

"English Makes Sense" This Guy: "Hold My Hairline"

[@matthewburton6360]

One of the best bits ever. Masterfully done.

[@SimonNewsome]

"if t-o-m-b is tomb then b-o-m-b is boom, the bombs over." What a brilliant line.

[@DatBiBoi]

I wish bomb was actually called 'boom, It fits so fell

[@jaldelasllagas7545]

True

[@HyperYT-ob8fc]

​@@DatBiBoiIt fits really fell

[@AnEnemyAnemone1]

I’m 14 and this is deep

[@glazedfaith]

Somebody set us up the boom.

[@angelschivas93]

I had a college English professor once tell us:" I'm convinced whoever created the English language was on drugs..."

[@shaz8636]

Was he on drugs? Because language evolves and picks up from other languages.

[@dracofunneh2498]

😂😂😂👍👍👍

[@Cat-uv7dy]

The english language wasn’t created, it’s a mess of other languages mangled together

[@save_theworld]

And the person that compiled french is coo coo. Write 7 letters and pronounce 2. Renault is pronounced /reno/ Renault [ʁəno] n m

[@medictf2gamingagain]

@@Cat-uv7dyuhm no it isnt its actually a very complex languages hiding in a comically tall detective coat

[@kendallward8368]

I want him as a teacher!😂

[@iwill9131]

He had it right with "Home"...Ho and Me. lol

[@user-cl6ct7ky1u]

Im convinced I don’t know how to read, I’ve just memorized a lot of words 😭

[@psychologicalsuccess3476]

My man... That's what we're all doing

[@ribbon0219]

I was a preschool teacher, I taught kids how to read. Most of reading is memorization, not "actual" reading. Children tend to read slower than adults because they see more new words and haven't memorized a lot yet. So yes, it is memorizing!

[@RadhaFrequency]

So I tell everyone to change the english script (roam ) to another script like devnagari .

[@kitsu13]

There are a lot of subtle rules you might have picked up without realizing it. 😅

[@RadhaFrequency]

@@kitsu13 there is a no problem with english . problem is with english scripit (roam ) .

[@hanayuuki790]

Me telling my Japanese friends the only way to correctly pronounce stuff is to listen to it first by googling or install dictionary and press the pronunciation speaker lmao

[@JasperJanssen]

Dearest creature in creation…

[@micahjohnson1855]

Put alphabet is so somplified comparative to theirs, there's a huge gap. I worked with a guy ywasra go who explained that what he spoke,althogh seemingly brokeen and erratic tense; is how our language would sound in their country. I still dont quote get that bit i do know they have like six different basic vharacter for every letter of our alpha et and it changes the sex of the perspn saying it, hearing ot; time as percieved verses conveyed and every variation of ownership tou can imagine.....and STILL have characters for words that dont exist in the English language...but probabaly should😂

[@NoriMori1992]

⁠@@micahjohnson1855 What are you even saying? Your comment might as well be gibberish for how much sense it makes. And irrelevant, because we're talking about the relationship between spelling and pronunciation, which in Japanese is nearly 1-to-1. I assume you're talking about kanji, but that's not spelling. Their spelling is done with kana.

[@NihongoWakannai]

Meanwhile japanese has thousands of characters you have to learn to read and even average japanese people don't know how to read a lot of them.

[@lilbich3048]

​@NihongoWakannai I think you meant mandarin

[@Eggs591]

He had me questioning my own language

[@esteban1487]

Gallagher was pure genius.

[@larrylindsey2833]

Glad somebody remembers him. I always had a great laugh when he did that show specially with the water melons.

[@b-dub6865]

I loved him so much & always watched him growing up. He made the whole family laugh.

[@Senpaik]

you mean the people from the Anime called Shameless or something?!

[@Senpaik]

@@b-dub6865 you mean the people from the Anime called Shameless or something?!

[@Senpaik]

@JP__JP you mean the people from the Anime called Shameless or something?!

[@guyonthecouch007]

This was a better English lesson than most.

[@Americansikkunt]

A good lesson for Ebonics….

[@lovesgibson]

What’s the lesson? That none of it makes sense?

[@Toxicflow90]

@@lovesgibson English is a mixture of other languages all coming together over the years .

[@ghastlydreamer]

pov: the crackhead behind arbys teaches you english

[@DH-wm8pd]

I can't think of nothing but Dave Chappelle when I see this😂😂😂😂😂 black Gallagher

[@Frilson]

The dumbest part about it all is elementary school teachers telling kids to “sound it out”

[@booner69d]

My sis at the ripe age of 26ish was callin me to ask what a word was, i told her to sound it out, she did, and i JUST STR8 DIED ROTFLMMFAO, the word was abdominals, not that bad, and sounding 8t out ALMOST GETS U THER, but to only HEAR it sounded out, 🤣🤣🤣🤣 "AB- DOE- MINN- UH-LS" I SAID WTF R U ....SPELL IT OUT TO ME, she didn't get the whole word spelled out before i sounded stupid with my confusion on HOW SHE EFFED IT UP, i said do u mean ABDOMINALS, how how HOW N THE F DID U and i just hung up while wipin the tears from my eyes

[@rainydaylady6596]

My dad always used to say that. 😂🤣😂🖖💕. I love Gallagher.

[@Berryations]

This!!!

[@ShadowFanGirl237]

No lie this led to me calling Chicago "Chick-a-go" for my first three years of speaking cuz I didn't know Ch could also be Sh.

[@NoriMori1992]

Truly the most ridiculous phrase in the English language. The sheer AUDACITY of telling anyone to "sound it out" in THIS LANGUAGE.

[@Hooman-nf1bq]

We need English teachers like this This dude is a genius

[@Tooamazin]

I don't think the goal of teaching English is to confuse people lol

[@brucebangeman8627]

I believe he was a second grade teacher.

[@Mistakeainttyt]

It's confusing

[@Mezianix]

Average garbage gacha life pfp take

[@ashutoshranjan4644]

Yes to realise students that English is this piece of shit.

[@MF_Loomy]

This should be in every English 101 class

[@phylvalen9991]

I watch this every time it comes around, very cleverly done 😂😂

[@VivianMClark-ub4lr]

As a teacher for 29 years, this is priceless.😂

[@tophernuttle420]

Gonna hit that 90 anytime soon?? Asking for whats left of your sanity..

[@deadbrav]

@@tophernuttle420 the guy who worked as a shipping assistant at a textile company in brazil for 84 years:

[@yurmotha]

Most teachers I’ve met find their own jokepriceless even though there directed to the students in a mean way

[@deadbrav]

@@yurmotha true for a mod named pablo

[@jacksonbrown2692]

@@tophernuttle420They seem a lot more sane than you. What an odd thing to ask someone you weirdo.

[@Jemppu]

Props for the prop maker. That final half an E covering B was especially 👌

[@zachariah1991]

That would have been Gallagher. 😂

[@elizabethsedai854]

Awww my late father was on stage with Gallagher back in the 90's. He used to have to travel to Las Vegas for work a lot and he would sometimes have time for some fun whilst there and he and his colleague went to see Gallagher there and he pulled my dad on stage to smash watermelons I think! He loved it so much! I don't know if it was recorded or not, but if it was, it would be so cool to find that! Love Gallagher so much!

[@TheSmothersBrothersShow]

What an experience for your father 🍉

[@JosephWeatherford]

Some homies just have the gift

[@justinpaul7158]

None of us first language English speakers truly understand how lucky we are to be born learning this language growing up. I couldnt imagine learning it as an adult

[@Megadriver]

At least English is an easy language to learn... it's everywhere and it's designed to be fairly easy. If you want a challenge, try learning a slavic language, or chinese, japanese, or arabic. Different alphabet, different rules, different everything. English at least shares some fundamentals with other Western European languages. So if you know English, you can grasp basic stuff from another western language, even if you don't speak it. Because a lot of words have some similarities in different languages, or are straight-up borrowed from another language. But try to find any logic in this: Не хванеш ли спатиите на един език, отиде коня у ряката. This was a sentence in my native language - Bulgarian. And it's written in such a way that no translation tool can translate this correctly. Try it... What this sentence actually says is: If you don't grasp the essence of a language, you will be effed.

[@Unagam1GD]

@@Megadriver Here's how google translate translated it "If you do not catch the clubs in one tongue, the horse goes to the rare one." 😂😂💀😂😂💀🤣🤣

[@awildsnorlax3075]

@@Unagam1GD For me, it was "If you don't catch the spats in one language, the horse has gone to the river".

[@professorracc.9780]

No English isn't any harder than any other language you're being ignorant calling us lucky

[@vanxthenecron3059]

Its not that bad really

[@dylanmackiewicz5506]

"If that's T-O-M-B: TOMB then that's BOOM, the BOMB's over" Hahaha

[@howtorooms3621]

And then we will be in a tomb

[@a1pwn]

Im about to explode

[@HonkyEatsVegan]

Everyone watch the short.

[@stopDsign0]

i didnt even realize till halfway through that this was a smaller channel you did great with this

[@lathamarea1437]

one of my favorite with friends memories, three couples going to see Gallagher then dancing..

[@mockingbird187]

While teaching my daughter to read, my most common explanation to her questions of spelling is, "because English is stupid."

[@mattkennedy9308]

English is three languages in a trenchcoat.

[@akiraikura]

A confused language...taken from languages all around the world

[@totallynotchar]

The answer is “Because Normans”

[@thisisntthewholesomefuture649]

Making it the world language made it stupid..

[@poppoopoper]

@@thisisntthewholesomefuture649 sure

[@kmegan]

his personality is the secret ingredient

[@jerma_fan]

crazy this came up while im on a train

[@debleary3241]

Saw him live. Stomach hurt for days laughed so hard 🎉

[@lmoore3rd]

I feel blessed to have met this kind man during my lifetime.

[@tylerwayne3378]

Explain now

[@ruthlessgaming3869]

Yeah you can’t just say that and then not tell us what happened

[@ordinaryopinion4081]

Who is he? He seems funny lol

[@PollosHermanos1]

@@ordinaryopinion4081Gallagher, a famous comedian in the 80’s.

[@ordinaryopinion4081]

@@PollosHermanos1 ah that would explain his funny energy

[@kzoll3546]

I saw Gallagher perform, and no I did not sit in the first four rows and get hit by flying fruit. LOL I miss him.

[@AmandaInMourning]

I was lucky to see him when I was in high school... He was definitely one of a kind!

[@kevadams1964]

Got to see him twice. Best show ever. The man never stopped. Miss him too.

[@nowheelspin]

Is he still around?

[@AmandaInMourning]

@@nowheelspin no, he passed away on November 11th 2022

[@nowheelspin]

@@AmandaInMourning damn!

[@Scoodee17]

Must admit I’d of got all confused with flipping that board over no matter how many times I practiced it 😂

[@Simon_Sez]

I’ve seen this clip several times and never knew it was Gallagher lol

[@user-db5lo8cu3p]

Man imagine having this guy as an English teacher I would not sleep a millisecond while in his class

[@GOD5392.]

same

[@wht240sxka]

You have a bright future to look forward to. See if your parents can buy you a tent and a ticket to dc so you don’t have to panhandle for it later.

[@1KINGLOVE1]

You wouldn't have been able to or you would have gotten splashed😂

[@shrekiscool4743]

​@@wht240sxka huh? All he was saying is that this guy would be a good English teacher Does wanting good teachers make you poor or?

[@wht240sxka]

@@shrekiscool4743 Way over your head. But I’ll give you a hint, it’s about the sleeping part…

[@brandon1349]

Good stuff for an 80’s kid…He’ll always be one of my favorites

[@NotAli10]

No reply let me fix it Here we go 😊

[@daviddavis1322]

Absolutely

[@vancerodewalt1710]

Charles, you got it!!

[@datnguyen1615]

He is the best Enlish teacher ever

[@shawnpickering3084]

A real entertainer! So grateful I got to see him live and sit front row in the splash zone. What an experience. Rest in peace Gallagher

[@RBMT]

May I know what year did you see (see/saw/watch?) him live?

[@doge9139]

Did he die?

[@spaced35]

​@@doge9139Yeah, November last year.

[@Coda6766]

He was so clever with his comedy. Best part was when he smashed the watermelons. People sitting in the front row of his shows had to cover up with plastic to avoid getting soaked.

[@lillyspops]

@@Coda6766the Sledge-O-Matic was epic!! My dad and I saw him at the Santa Clara County Fair grounds back in 1994 and it was the best show ever! 🍉🔨

[@Johnny-adamser]

This is why Spanish speakers feel so proud about our mostly-phonetic, language

[@jeer0920]

I’ve always told people that don’t speak Spanish that it’s easier to learn Spanish than English because we don’t have this kinda sorcery lol I grew up speaking Spanish and learned English as a kid at like 3-4 but no one taught me how to read in Spanish not even my parents. That’ll tell you how easy Spanish is!

[@faustraz]

Español y japonés suenan igual execto por los acentos, pero para acentos ya existe el chino 😅

[@patrickwillis13]

@@jeer0920 speaking and reading are very different imo

[@callmeidiot8164]

You mean that?

[@ahjushi87]

​@jeer0920 but then y'all messed it up with conjugations

[@viralium104]

The fact that he custom built that flipchart is *chef's kiss*

[@ivangomez1288]

The way he smacks his lips at the end.

[@Mement0MoRi-]

"The bombs over" has me dyin😭

[@ChevyZ28K10]

I always loved watching him as a kid. Now that im an adult, trying to teach my toddler how to sound out words im finding myself coming back to this bit over and over again.

[@user-sv2oj5um1q]

My language is so brainless and I love it

[@LordOfAllVikings]

That gallagher is remembered only for his hammer routine is an insult to the man's incredible versatility and skill.

[@TheSmothersBrothersShow]

Well said!

[@audreygimpel2193]

Gallagher was brilliant, I'm so glad I had the opportunity to see him in concert.

[@nedraleggett6837]

I saw him on either HBO or Showtime. So funny.

[@MV-qx3ju]

What city an when?

[@audreygimpel2193]

​@MV-qx3ju At Universal Studios Amphitheater, Los Angeles, I'm guessing late 70s.

[@MV-qx3ju]

@@audreygimpel2193 right at his prime, that's badass!!

[@CalebBohanon]

.....c...concert?

[@user-vt9iv5mm9z]

Genuinely genius. I remember him . He was funny back in 70s and early 80s

[@wok138]

My english teacher once said to us, a class of non-English speaking students in an english speaking country, "English is a lot of guessing language, if you guessed right, memorize that answer." Perfectly summarized! 😂

[@shourya2408]

Fr man I've never read grammar to learn english

[@TopThree___]

Самая большая глупость которую я слышал за сегодня

[@haiminhle5393]

That's how i study for my English exams, grinding mock tests until i have met all the pattern, which is 90% of the test, the last part is reading a random blog and answer questions

[@merlinious01]

See english is actually a dozen languages wearing a trench coat

[@kobeyashi6981]

As someone currently taking a major in english, ima steal that

[@LukasDoepke]

Ok but why does this guy actually rock that goofy haircut 😂

[@BobBuilder-vn4ux]

I had some cool science guy that said something like this. Basically talking about how science makes more sense, ect. I honestly thought about that dude the other day. Had no idea he got it from Gal

[@jacedesbff]

English doesn't borrow from other languages. It knocks them out, drags them into an alley, and goes through their pockets for spare grammar.

[@christinaeldridge2623]

😂😂 English is three languages dressed in a trenchcoat.

[@cREaTedaRtYesterday]

now try chinese where u can tell a story only using a single type if sound

[@l.a.1477]

That really made me laugh 😄

[@Needs_Tzel]

@@cREaTedaRtYesterdaythere’s no continuity tho

[@hanslim4031]

@@cREaTedaRtYesterdayat least pronunciation is just pure memorisation of characters and not mind games like English 😂

[@SpecialNeedsChamp999]

This man should have been our first grade teacher he's good he could literally teach us something Edit ty guys i never got this much rather it's my first time ever getting 1k likes :) Mom I'm famous now hope ur proud.

[@DarkDomain0001]

DONT READ MY NAME!!!! 😭

[@helghannationalist9798]

Not really

[@Susancreamwood]

No

[@SpecialNeedsChamp999]

@@helghannationalist9798 why not really he could teach the kindergarteners at least a little something about how to spell and how to pronounce it.

[@SpecialNeedsChamp999]

@@Susancreamwood well this video for me was a sign that it was fun and that I think this man could go to many schools to help children pronounce things this one really helped me pronounce something since I'm intellectual and can't speak that much and don't know how to pronounce everything

[@user-uh9pp7gu3m]

This is the best thing I’ve seen in 2024

[@cgrizz33]

As a parent of a first grader, this absolutely hits

[@dylusional419]

A literal genius

[@dotcom2463]

How is this genius

[@crackedoutuser]

@@dotcom2463 giving you the benefit of the doubt that is a serious question, the OP meant a play on words insinuating the man in the video was a “literal genius” this is a play on the words “literally” and “literacy” with which both words may be inferred him being a a genius. the common term “he is a literal genius” describes the remarkable intelligence one may show in a situation. similarly, the term “he is a literal genius” may be inferred as him being a literary genius ( though more correct may sound something along “he is a literary genius” but that takes away from the joke). hope this answers your question!

[@nathanduke5323]

He was a lot of fun when I met him. A real down to Earth and humble guy.

[@mitzo4526]

Also a mega racist

[@TieSyndicate]

as a kid i would always watch his show and it is a core memory i hold dear to this day

[@ianthompson6288]

Everybody .EVERYBODY ! .I met him😑🤭

[@nathanduke5323]

@@ianthompson6288 so what did you think of him?

[@warrenmcelroy4718]

@@TieSyndicateaww man he was awesome and thanks to my mother he was a big part of my childhood as well, I’ll forever have burned in my brain images of super tall stilts, giant couches, that hat he always wore and dude smashing the hell out of some Watermelons!! Miss him for sure

[@Zorhorn_Man]

Imagine watching this on a plane at full volume

[@dwalker7013]

The inconsistency is immeasurable 😂

[@sinanmazi5037]

“ *the teacher we never asked for but the teacher we needed* “ " *DaD iM fAmOuS* ' oh wait, hes already gone.

[@tclanjtopsom4846]

I guess if English isn't your first language 😂

[@MRakshay-fb2mu]

​@@tclanjtopsom4846i know it's hurts if someone call your mother tongue Dumb buddy just cope with it.

[@zarrowthehorse]

Unfunny

[@christinamathews7012]

Mom,why are America's so aggressively lame?...Mom...?🤣🤣🤣

[@ChEn-jk6nc]

his

[@2497iscool]

This made me really appreciate english being my primary language. 😂

[@Travis66421]

Trying to learn Spanish from English is a struggle for me

[@myersbob7517]

​@@Travis66421it's not that bad after a little I'm taking Spanish in school and it gets easier

[@scream9973]

@@Travis66421find someone to speak spanish who also knows english to help you 😊

[@thatguyap_]

@@scream9973 mike solos

[@Lucasaurusss]

Same

[@RC_Engineering]

Good one! Galager is such a classic

[@vKross]

just open 2-3 tabs of this at the same time and you'll get it!

[@firewaterbydesign]

*I miss Gallagher!!! I was fortunate enough to see him in person TWICE and he was GREAT!!!*

[@dherman0001]

My parents took me to see him in Vegas the summer of 87 before i shipped off to the Army.

[@luckyduck6921]

He has a brother that looks really similar and does the same material

[@TsukiRaiki]

i’m way too tired cause i read this as you met him twice in PRISON 😂

[@firewaterbydesign]

@@TsukiRaiki 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@oddborofiend]

I was only fortunate enough for one show, but he was truly great. Seems like a dope dude to hang out with.

[@mcqueen10.]

This man is better than any English teacher. No questions.

[@josephhodges9819]

Not even close.

[@markfox3083]

Obviously because if you have any kind of talent whatsoever you won’t become a low paid teacher

[@brianbrinkman7964]

@@markfox3083 So it would seem.

[@Simon...........]

Up to the point where he said pome (poem) It's pronounced "po-im" not "pome"

[@itsshifty3259]

Lol no question…are you sure about that

[@nab-88]

This is a high level english and grammar lesson.

[@brentcowell5776]

this makes so much sense

[@noorainmahmood2529]

My dyslexia has never been so understood

[@Ellias31773]

I feel you, man. But trust me you can do it, I've been through this dyslexia sh1t myself and english is my 3rd language

[@noorainmahmood2529]

@@Ellias31773 thanks for the support hope you get through it I get it English is my 2nd laguage

[@Ellias31773]

@@noorainmahmood2529 as the time goes by, everything is ok now for me. I am 34 yo with 3 kids, wish you all the best in life.

[@noorainmahmood2529]

@@Ellias31773 thanks honestly your so lucky I’m still in school u don’t want to Know what kids call me even teachers sometimes

[@Ellias31773]

@@noorainmahmood2529 focus only on yourself, believe that you can get through this. I drop out from school when I was 15 due to financial issues, still I never gave up learning english from tv. Honestly numbers are still can be tricky in my eyes so I have to be very careful, as for english/alphabets all are memorized so they didn't confused me anymore. Take your time, everything's going to be alright.

[@zaksinclair1587]

Can’t get past him pronouncing “poem” as “pome” 😂

[@Twi_543]

Idk abt in us but it is pronounced poh-ihm in uk

[@toshibam]

I do suppose that's how it is pronounced

[@johnxina7496]

​@@toshibamit's pronounced po-um

[@marki7661]

Think he had to make poem a bit of a stretch to find a way to end up with dumb. Still pretty on the money tho.

[@stephenwaldron2748]

People pronounce it differently in different places. With just the long O: pō͜em /poːm/ "pohm" With long O and the E unstressed: pōe̩m /poːəm/ "POH-um" With long O and a short E: pōem /poːɛm/ "POH-ehm" With long O and a short E relaxed: pōè̩m /poːɪm/ "POH-ihm” etc. There's no right or wrong really.

[@clark4797]

Good luck finding a Staples store able to put one of those together!

[@tric5122]

I was so young when he was big I had forgotten he was more then just smashing watermelons. I need to relook up some of his stuff.

[@ncwordman]

I didn't realize how much I missed Gallagher. Thank you!

[@thrasher121]

Thousand likes and no comments? Lemme fix that

[@Fuzz32]

“If T O M B is Tomb that’s boom the bomb’s over.” Pure genius. 😂😂😂

[@LoriFry-dp8mi]

Man was an educator without knowing it.😅😂😅😂.

[@Miawallce80]

As an 43 yo ADHDER with a high , I say bless this man! Because I took the " sound it out" technique as it was. I was made to right "They" 200 time once.... 😂😂😂