Language Simp ENGLISH LANGUAGE REVIEW - Metatron Reacts

[@justguy-4630]

Fish = Singular/Plural/One species Fishes = Multiple fish species

[@arnijulian6241]

what of a Shoaling/schooling of fish? Fish shoal/fish school is much more applicable to the plural though ''fishs'' or ''fish'' both can be inferred even if technical not specific to the plural as shoal/school is. Hyena clan, ape troop or even human troop are pedantically a group or plural of the respective creature only as a group mind. Hyena mind in the technical is Hyenae is the plural as in many Hyena while Hyenas is the many species of Hyaenidae family. The same suffix's apply to any taxonomical family. So take homo as in humans: Hominidae=family of many types of homo/human. Homindae=plural of humans not necessarily in a group. Hominids=plural of homo/human species. mind the lament would just say human or humans which even human can be plural or singular as much of common place English is contextual in the sentence unless you want to be exceedingly specific so no misinterpretation might occur as this might required for legal or scientific reasons as clarity is of the up most importance. English is very unusual to most languages as lament, technical, aristocratic & more have their own jargon for clarity which seem pedantic to outsiders of said walk of life's/fields but all serve a purpose!

[@greypsyche5255]

Like people and peoples.

[@MrVvulf]

Fishes is also (and to my mind more frequently) used for individuals - The heron fishes to survive. Brenda fishes for compliments.

[@aldobonaso3481]

@@MrVvulf what you described is fish being used as a verb

[@Dowlphin]

I would call that "types of fish", though. "Fishes" seems like the worst of both worlds to me, so to speak.

[@jesusisking288]

big respect to metatron for skipping the betterhelp add!!!

[@willyb7353]

Yeah I've heard such horror stories. Better to just talk to your family, a significant other, or good friends when you have a tough time with life, that's my perspective.

[@celine9322]

@@willyb7353what if you don’t have a family significant others or friends

[@PC_Simo]

Indeed 👍🏻.

[@joelb8653]

The "normal American accent " is Columbus Ohio. News stations and Hollywood used to send people to Columbus to learn the neutral accent.

[@DarkFiber23]

"BBW. I don't know what that is." You're gonna learn something today! lol"

[@xneapolisx]

😂😂😂

[@Varelinski]

It stands for big beautiful women

[@Circaman8]

Wait till he finds out about BBC

[@NicolasMiari]

14:43 It has to be LOL with a schwa at the end, as Italian phonology demands! 😂

[@tdoran616]

@@Circaman8mutts law

[@TomRNZ]

Greetings, Metatron, from the empty void off the coast of Australia 😁.

[@me0101001000]

I have looked through several maps. There's nothing there. Are you Tasmanian? /j

[@Zayphar]

This is the country that had a PM with teething problems? No, wait! Middle Earth! You are from Middle Earth!!!!

[@avoig_3219]

Poor kiwis. I really like eating them.

[@metatronacademy]

Yay a Kiwi!

[@TheOtherCaleb]

I cannot stand his open disdain for European (especially British Isles) history as if literally every other group wasn’t also colonial and in many ways brutal to foreigners. Language Simp is evidently historically inept.

[@aramisone7198]

The only colonial powers in Europe were England,Spain,France ,the Dutch, Portugal, Germany had one colony in Africa later in history that i know of Sweden had one in North America but the Swedes believed in fair trade .

[@orangemirror-jy3ok]

@@aramisone7198 And to be fair to Britain, the others started colonising before the British. The Portuguese started the West African slave trade for example. The British simply realised that if they didn't join in on plundering the world then the other European nations would become immensely rich and powerful and inevitably colonise Britain as well. It just turned out that the British were much better at it.

[@andrewhoneycutt7427]

English is the modern Lingua Franca

[@Glassandcandy]

Unfortunately

[@belle_pomme]

Dogwater

[@jakubsedlak2173]

No. It's just a modern world's pidgin.

[@shadowtrell9961]

Metatron, your pronunciation of "thourough" is like how people down in the Southeast US say it. Not wrong, just Southern.

[@rnnelvll2]

it's also a feature of some accents in Britain, where he learned English! :)

[@shadowtrell9961]

@@rnnelvll2 Oh, that's really cool! I've never had the opportunity or the money to travel, so I had no idea.

[@gcewing]

Also in the void off the coast of Australia.

[@MarcAupiais]

He uses British received English as his baseline. That is the RP pronunciation. I pronounce it likewise.

[@shadowtrell9961]

@@MarcAupiais That's cool. I've never had the money nor opportunity to travel outside the US, so I was unaware.

[@Merro959]

You are right, RP is quite different to a full on posh accent. A royal/ aristocratic ‘posh’ accent has a lot of antiquated pronunciation which sound really strange to most Brits

[@saqualiousfinglenut5426]

6:51 as a creole person who has multiple relatives in Louisiana I can confirm they sound exactly like that🤣

[@teresamerkel7161]

I'm in my seventh decade as an American I have never heard of "yinz" but then I've not been to Pennsylvania.

[@OatmealGrillBlazer]

That word is specific to Western Pennsylvania especially in the Pittsburgh area

[@sluggo206]

Most Americans have never heard of it.

[@デヴィン]

Im from Pennsylvania, I can confirm that "yinz" is just Amish propaganda

[@Glassandcandy]

It’s very regional and very rural. It’s not like y’all which is known to everyone through cultural osmosis even if they don’t use it.

[@famemolto]

Also said in parts of SE Ohio. I always thought it was short for “you ones.”

[@SidheKnight]

12:37 GHOTI -> FISH is probably what you're thinking about

[@metatronacademy]

YES!

[@ostsan8598]

Fish is only possible to write that way if you ignore the spelling conventions that do exist in English, despite what the memes say.

[@SidheKnight]

@@ostsan8598 That's the point of the meme I believe

[@PC_Simo]

My thoughts, exactly 🎯.

[@roberth3449]

Same. I felt like a Gigachad when I got back to Missouri and spoke better German than my grandpa. German should be in the top tier.

[@CallmeFrancco]

English a god-tier language obviously.

[@SurfTheSkyline]

I wrote up this earlier this year in reference to the absurd variety in how to use got and its forms. You can get by in English without getting around to getting into the more obscure phrasal verbs so no need to get down on yourself if you don't always get them, but once you get through the early stages (hopefully without letting the stranger ones get to you) and get over initial points of confusion (like how it is that I can get away with get getting used so often in this comment) you'll get to get a load of the reactions that others will have to your new "get" at get togethers with native speakers who may have gotten used to you not using phrasal verbs. Maybe you'll even get along with them better because you'll have gotten more confident and outgoing! What I am getting at is getting ahead on phrasal verbs is something to get in on before time gets away from you that you will get a lot out of. You'll be glad you did once you have gotten past it.

[@BlackHoleSpain]

Spaniard here. The first time I went to Paris, a museum guide got really mad at me when I tried to use English, because he knew Spanish (how could I have known?) and my English 34 years ago was very very basic, but French was completely unknown to me. Well, written French sometimes could be understood because it's a romance language like mine... but spoken French, my friend, it's another level with their strange phonemes inherited from germanic Frankish 😅

[@EnzoRossi-g4v]

The Spanish also with Arabic 😂😂

[@davidbraun6209]

In New York and New Jersey there are those people who use that expression "sleep with the fishes."

[@KarlKarsnark]

Tomb. Comb. Bomb.

[@Prata304]

Moon, blood, floor More than a few letters different but still all different vowel sounds

[@sweetiespoon5150]

Look up the classic skit of Lucille Ball & Desi Arnez... the one where Desi is reading a storybook with "ough" word endings. 😂

[@user-ix8ft5rs6y]

Wow it never was about written text cause speech was way earlier

[@iambadatcomingupwithcomeba2060]

I pronounce all these the same and so does everyone from where I live

[@Prata304]

@@iambadatcomingupwithcomeba2060 Scotland?

[@ldmtag]

I'm russkistani, and we have formal/informal you distinction. So to avoid confusion, whenever I write the first message on a dating app, I write it in English if the girl mentions languages in her interest tags or when she writes something in her profile in English! It's so much easier!😮😮😮

[@module79l28]

5:00 - Southern European countries except for Portugal. We've always been good at speaking foreign languages because every foreign TV program was subtitled instead of dubbed like in Spain, France or Italy. I started learning English from 5th grade (1975-1976) up until the 12th grade and simultaneously I had 3 years of French in the 7th, 8th and 9th grades. Even then, everyone started to learn a foreign language, either English or French, that early.

[@reinsaxony4623]

I guess I'l post my comment here as well: Yes but not quite. English is a Germanic tongue and it shows even in its word stock. While indeed around 80% of English words are loans, most are from French, Latin and Greek, most linked to technical things, not words that are very often used. When we get down to every day English ( the most used words ), the bulk of it comes from Old English, and some others from other Germanic tongues like Old Norse ( like in the words Sky and Horse ). Just take a look at what I'm saying here, every word I've used so far are Germanic, the outliers being the words "Technical", and "Germanic" and "Latin", funny enough. And I wasn't even seeking hard to only use Germanic words, "word stock" instead of "vocabulary" aside. The truth is that over 80 or 85% of everyday English words are Germanic.

[@DynamicFortitude]

You need four articles: a, an, ðə, ðɪ. Everyone forgets about preconsonantal "the" , just because both are written just "the". Compare the start vs. the end.

[@Shadefinder1]

I started saying sorry like a Canadian and I'm American just for the fun of it

[@niiru4336]

You were correct about fishes. From a Brit struggling with Japanese

[@brorelien8447]

21:30 When I was in Finland, at some point I wanted to learn Finnish, because I wanted to feel fully integrated. But most of the time people were replying in English. Afterward, when I came back to France, I continued learning Finnish on my own. And then, the last time I flew to Finland, people were speaking Finnish to me. Later, when people weren't replying in English anymore, I learned that the magical sentence was "Mä en puhu englantii"

[@Ricamros]

As a Finn I want to apologize for our habit of doing that. At my work I would constantly interact with foreign workers with different levels of interest in learning Finnish, so here's a secret I learned of myself. When a foreigner comes to me with a beautifully crafted question all in Finnish, here's what happens inside my brain: "Oh shit, I have no idea how to make you understand what I need to tell you in Finnish. Do I use spoken or written form? I need to find shorter synonyms, drop the fillers, make it slower, forget the dialect... Ah fuck it" Sometimes I would reply in the clearest Finnish I could muster and still get a ".... I have no idea what you just said", lol

[@thomashaapalainen4108]

I speak both Finnish and English . I'd say English is my first language, and finnish is my 1.5st language. My family came to the u.s. after a disagreement over territory with our neighbors in the 1930s ... anyways the one time I did go to Finland, I would speak the "finnish," I knew and was shocked when almost everyone responded in English. Granted, I have an American accent when I speak Finnish, but I can roll my Rs . Also my family speaks Karelian, so there is a dialectal barrier. But I assume it was the locals looking for a chance to practice there English with a native speaker. So I spent those few weeks speaking nothing but finnish (except with my American mother) and I was about 50 percent of the time responded to in English that sounded like my grandmother. Yes yes some will argue Karelian is a different language but apart from a few words my 7 year old brain at the time had no problem understanding and vise versa.

[@thomashaapalainen4108]

​@@Ricamrosno niin 😂

[@himmel-erdeundzuruck5682]

The funniest thing in finnish in my opinion is, that they conjugate the "not" - I'm notting do that - I'm not doing that.

[@thomashaapalainen4108]

@himmel-erdeundzuruck5682 I've never thought of that. But to be fair not in English is sort of the same as noed or noing but exists in its modern form as a left over of old English case system and not just happened to be easier to pronounce than the more modern takes that obviously never stood a chance of catching on.

[@notuxnobux]

4:00 Yeah same here in sweden. When I was a kid small children didn't know any english. We only learned english properly in our teenage years. Now I see many 4-6 year olds here speaking fluent english. I think it also has to do with the fact that parents now are the first generation to properly speak english so the parents are speaking english with the children.

[@klaatoris]

I doubt that is the reason. If both parents speak Swedish, why would they speak English with their children? I think it's much more a KZbin effect.

[@noneatall9060]

He pronounces the t in often... I consider people that do this in the same category as those that say "I could care less", but somewhat higher than those that transpose sk/ks.

[@lred1383]

my takeaway from this is that you're very forgiving towards the "could care less" people. I'd have them down with the "asteriks" people, if not below them

[@MultiMoomoo2]

In england, our accents change not just by region but by towns. 15/20 minute drive to the next town and they have a slightly different accent. I live in great harwood, the next town over, burnley, pronounce er sounding words completely different to us. Its like that in pretty much the whole of england. Even liverpool, depending on which part u live in sound slightly different, some easier to understand than those in the cemtre of liverpool. There must be 100's of different accents across our tiny island.

[@htwtrbg1]

I've never been this early to a video in my entire life! Holy.

[@catwithaneyepatch]

Man I want you to react to the Arabic language one I want to see your attempt at pronouncing the letters that he could not.

[@ldmtag]

Neil DeGrasse Tyson confirmed "fishes" to be a double plural exactly the way Raf described it: when we're talking about many kinds of fish.

[@BramVanhooydonck]

Lol is an actual word in Dutch long before the acronym and it means fun.

[@Dowlphin]

To be precise, lark. Fun seems to be plezier.

[@BramVanhooydonck]

@Dowlphin it's a more common synonym yes

[@PC_Simo]

1:00 Because the green, from the Brazilian flag, rubbed off on it 🇧🇷.

[@PC_Simo]

15:18 I would read the 1st syllable, like you, Metatron; and the 2nd syllable, like Language Simp. So, ”THAH-row”. 😅

[@MichHa-g2r]

17:00 for small children and talking to children in the US, there is "fishies" like, "look at all those little fishies down there." This plural form goes away, rather than being replaced, for adults though

[@AAA-fh5kd]

Yinz, Yuns , Youns, You ones, you anes, ye anes, y'ins' Scotch-Irish/Scots

[@shirl6135]

Youse, yer, yer know, chiCKen, laa Scouse English 😊

[@AAA-fh5kd]

@@shirl6135 Nocht wrang wae sum Liverpool/Scouse dialeck naithers. Guid stuff.

[@AAA-fh5kd]

@@shirl6135 The eastern half of PA (U.S.) got a bit more of the Hiberno-English (as Liverpool/Glasgow/Tyne(?) did while the western half of PA would've had a foundation of Scots/Scotch"Irish"/Northern dialect this is why there is a sort of "Pittsburgh/Philly, west/east" dichotomy... some terms certainly bled over west with more latter 1800/1900's Irish immigration but the core dialect features retain a northern English/Scots lexical/grammar affinity.. We end up with 'Ye aw'(you all/y'all) and "you un/ye ane" and "youse". You all/ye aw being, historically attested a bit further back.

[@shirl6135]

@@AAA-fh5kd Scouse or its original name ‘liverpoolian’ is a mix of Irish, Lancashire, maybe Welsh ? Over half of Liverpool are descendants of Irish, Caribbean and have the biggest Chinese community and China town in UK. I’ve got English, Irish and one great grandfather who was from Barbados

[@shirl6135]

@ north east aka Newcastle etc would be closer as Liverpool is nearer to Ireland

[@fatcatpatdat]

The "Ecolinguist" channel has some interesting "mutual intelligibility" experiments between old and new languages. It would be interesting to see your reactions to those.

[@slimyone42]

2:40 oh that explains it, pretty new viewer so I was wondering why an italian man sounds hella british

[@eyeofthasky]

12:33 do u think of "gh o ti" = fish ? humm 🤔 he used gh for p ... when does the ---- aaah! must be hiccough, no?

[@jackofmosttrades9127]

Fish plural describes a group of fish. Fishes describes multiple individual fish. Same applies to people and persons.

[@zach367]

A player from my favorite (American) football team is from South Carolina and his accent is so heavy I can barely understand him. I’m from Michigan. Here the people in the upper half of the state have a different accent from the lower part of the state. The upper peninsula (UP or yoopers as we call them) have an accent that is like a Midwest/Canadian hybrid. Pretty similar to Minnesota.

[@klaatoris]

Yet another Swede here. I wouldn't say we were "always" good at English, but we were perhaps a generation ahead of Italy. My grandparents hardly knew any English at all, but my parents are good at it, and dare I say my generation is a little bit better still. I think I was an outlier for not knowing any English at all at 9 years old (when we started learning English in school). But now, my 5 year old niece can hold entire conversations in English, thanks to KZbin.

[@mrlaine1666]

I credit Börje Salming with that. The language of the NHL is English, so if you were going to be sending all your best players to the NHL, and follow their progress, then English had to be learned, I suppose. :)

[@klaatoris]

@@mrlaine1666 I think that is giving Salming a little too much credit. :D I'd rather say a combination of a decent educational system and the fact that we subtitle foreign movies and TV instead of dubbing them (except for preschool kids stuff).

[@futatsushiri]

I am English and live in Japan. My Japanese isn't good, but I want to practice. Most of the time, people don't speak English so I can practice, but if people do speak English, often they'll just speak English. At first, I would just go with English, but now I don't want that, so I ask if they speak German.... then they immediately switch back to Japanese, and I can practice again! haha My German is bad, I have A1 level, but the chance of a Japanese person knowing English AND German is so low that it's worth the risk!

[@ewaldgering6459]

Technically English still has the genitive which they tend to call "possesive s".

[@PhansiKhongoloza]

Since when could Americans speak English???

[@ProdbyNaz934]

Yeah, we speak American???

[@PhansiKhongoloza]

@ProdbyNaz934 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ryankramer8779]

Excellent question. We don't can 😂

[@dragonsman4733]

"there is English, and then there are mistakes" -queen Elizabeth when refering to American English (rip)

[@sazji]

Do you think English in England is the same as it was when the first English set out for the Americas?

[@ryantannar5301]

English is Germanic because all 50 of the most used words are Germanic, as are 97 of the 100 most used words. More words come from other languages, but they're usually less used words

[@sluggo206]

And the grammar.

[@TomRNZ]

Exactly. It's difficult to speak English without using any Latin and French words, but it's impossible to speak English without using any Germanic words.

[@caesarxi1303]

Most of the words I look up in the dictionary are from both Latin and French (60% seems pretty reasonable). You may be correct about the frequency of use though.

[@TomRNZ]

@@caesarxi1303 There's no doubt about it that Germanic words are more frequent in English. In your post for example, the only words not of Germanic origin are: "dictionary", "Latin", "percent", "reasonable", "correct", "frequency" and "use". That's seven words out of the thirty-one you used (I'm including "60" and "%" as words).

[@ryantannar5301]

@@caesarxi1303 my exact numbers may be a bit off, though it's roughly that and certainly close enough to convey the same point

[@eyeofthasky]

16:15 that is how ketchup was historically written --- and btw. it originally refered NOT to a sauce made of purreed tomatos but MUSHROOMS 😱 .. still wanna try that somewhere

[@pleappleappleap]

Your own accent in English. Am I imagining it, or do I hear a bit of Multicultural London English in there? A bit of Cockney, a bit of Jamaica, and a bit of South Asia, perhaps?

[@someonesdad5986]

If you happen to move to Georgia(USA), Raff, just learn the letters "FTMF". It's our current motto at the University of Georgia. It used to be "GATA", and was briefly "ATD", but now, thanks to Kirby Smart, it is "FTMF".

[@CityLights-v6u]

It's interesting seeing and hearing English slang being used in other languages. I frequently watch French videos to learn the language and the gaming channels seem to like "let's go".

[@cadian101st]

A lot of ‘irregular’ verbs are part of a paradigm that was once considered regular but is no longer for whatever reason. Verbs like ‘to be’ really are irregular tho lmao

[@PC_Simo]

12:38 I think it’s ”Fish”, a.k.a. ”Ghoti”.

[@oddglorfindel1106]

Btw Metatron love your channel and would love to see you react to Rob Words channel who talks about historical English like Middle English, Old English and etymology of English place names etc also the channel History with Hilbert is great especially his comtent on Frisian

[@shirl6135]

@@oddglorfindel1106 and the Anglish one, that variation sounds weird!

[@eiderseek]

20:40 Why did he erase Italy too?🤔

[@AFVEH]

Barely nobody knows English here in Spain. Italians know way more English than Spaniards.

[@aldobonaso3481]

haha he misspelled "thorough" 15:08 (not sure if it was intentional, as he has an odd sense of humour, which I do enjoy haha) but your pronunciation of it is 100% correct.

[@ButtonXD]

22:30 it in fact, wasn't. I found it in the side recommendation though

[@ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΊΑΜΟΙΡΑ]

Hi Metatron I must say that my daughter is married to Barcelona Spain and I couldn't find someone to speak English because besides Greek my native language I have studied English so I felt kind of stupid!In the end I found the solution of all us southern people which is sigh language!I love these series about languages . It's Great!Thanks!

[@RJ-or8bw]

16:57 Fishes are multiple species in the US too

[@DannyCool2001]

I'm Scottish so the fun thing over here is we use Scots words with English and also like to just mess around with the vowel sounds. For instance "naw I'm no gonny dae that am just gonny go hame" instead of "No I'm not going to do that I'll just go home"

[@sweiland75]

That's not a Canadian accent. That'd a Minnesota accent.

[@gcewing]

Another word with an interesting plural situation is "water". Most of the time it only has a singular form -- except when speaking poetically about water from a particular source, e.g. "the waters of the Nile". Which is weird, since it's still singular -- it's not like you get different kinds of water from the Nile, it's all the same stuff. But somehow "the water of the Nile" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

[@janetmackinnon3411]

I think the waters of the Nile" includes the tributaries.

[@janetmackinnon3411]

"waters of the Nile" would include the tributaries.

[@shbsuri]

You are correct. Fishes is for when there are more than one type of fish in the group.

[@PabloNeves26]

When you can translate videogame lines of dialogues and Yu-Gi-Oh! card texts you're like a demigod to your friends.

[@faiqsabih3215]

Yes those four words are from Urdu (and Colloquial Hindi), with Mogul (and the word Urdu itself) being a loanword from Mongolian via Classical Turkic. . The meanings change a little though. Thug means Scammer Loot is means being Robbed Bandana means to tie but there might be a similar word meaning something closer to Bandana. Mogul comes from Mughal in Urdu meaning something royal or the aristocracy of imperial decent of most of precolonial South Asia (Mughal Empire), which comes from Classical Turkic meaning someone of Mongolian stock or descent from Mongolian Royalty. Majority of South Asia was officially The Mongolian Sultanate at the advent of Colonialism. Like how Byzantine Empire was officially the Roman Empire. This is because the progenitor of Mughal Empire in South Asia, Babur, was a Central Asian prince descended from Central Asian Turkic people, Commoners of the sole Tartar tribe of the 5 original tribes of Genghis Khan's Horde, and Mongol Royalty; with his maternal grandfather being the Khan of Mughlistan(roughly present day Xinjiang) and the Chagatai branch of the by then defunct Mongol Empire; and with his father being the heir of Timurid Empire (Tamerlane fancied himself the heir to Genghis Khan as well, something that was reinforced over time).

[@WeKnowYouWell]

Meta you score a solid A in American English. Thanks for sharing this guy.

[@sir_no_name1478]

Ngl, that the color changed is something I immediately noticed

[@anthonyoer4778]

15:35...oh sweet child

[@justguy-4630]

Why does Metatron keep pausing him at an unfortunate time? The facial expressions are k*lling me!

[@searchanddiscover]

Lol I imagine its sometimes hard when learning another language because the native speakers of those countries want to practice their English too.

[@CityLights-v6u]

I literally thought I made up "yous" and I don't know how to feel about it being an actual thing

[@Robwolf28]

Just found the channel so subscribed.

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

AFAIK The 'fishes' thing is not just a British thing. It's just an academic convention to avoid having to say 'species' after everything that has a null-plural like we do in other languages... I don't know if they do it with moose, sheep, and shrimp, though, but cladistically two out of three of those are fishes, and it's not the ones that live underwater... So, yeah. Academics...

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

ps. I think I know why now... Species is another null plural, so it doesn't help to add it at all 😂😂

[@MrVvulf]

I learned on the Evolution sub-Reddit that "Humans are fish, if we’re defining taxa correctly as monophyletic groups." If you wanna fight somebody about it, you'll have to take it over there, it's beyond my scope.

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

​@@MrVvulf yeah, I hear you. My personal take is that we should stop using the term "fish" like that. People have too many associations along form and function about what a "fish" is to make it not-confusing. Just replace "bony fishes" with "bone animals" and "cartilaginous fishes" with "cartilage animals" and we would be golden. That way we could just call ray-finned fishes "true fishes" and I think everyone would be happier for it.

[@AAA-fh5kd]

also appalachian (Scotch-Irish american english)>> fishes, bears, trouts etc. when plurals lose an s in standard english it's kept in Scotch-Irish.

[@AAA-fh5kd]

Mooses, Sheeps, shrimps...

[@brianlewis5692]

He spelt 'THOROUGH' wrong

[@exploatores]

I think my favorit English Acronym is Fish and Chips. It´s a bit of English dark humor. Let´s see if someone know what it is.

[@Pdor_figlio_di_Kmer]

What has boosted the need to learn English ever since the nineties is... dramatic pause... THE INTERNET, because of which the lingua franca is now instead the lingua albionica. Personally a powerful step ahead in my English (written and read) was given by the books of The Wheel of Time that I read when an Italian translation was long yet to come (and when it came, I HATED IT, and stil now I HATE IT) and fanfictions, while my spoken English was rectified passively by Mythbusters, Top Gear, Q.I. and other BBC and US programmes downloaded from THE INTERNET! (native speakers say I have a reasonably good pronounce and I am solidly on a conversational level with it. Not fluent. I'd need a year or so in the UK or any other English speaking country for fluency).

[@johnbones261]

I think it was Brendan Behan who said, 'the english are a polite people who never quite got the hang of their own language'.

[@gazlator]

Your "thorough" sounds perfectly acceptable in UK English, Raff - may be less so in American English?? You also seem to enunciate the final "e" in "squirrel" as you would in the UK, whereas I've heard some Americans pronounce the word almost as "squirl". And I imagine prepositions are a minefield in any language!

[@PC_Simo]

15:45 Probably, because ”Kurwa bobr” 😅.

[@raidenartworks7191]

Funniest difference in accents for me was going to Kentucky from California, and their pronounciation of fire, is fur. Legit during an emergency the person yelled "Its a fur! A FUR!"

[@KarlKarsnark]

It's a Tree Beaver! "LOL!"

[@EngineerOfChaos]

Yinz? That means he's from Pittsburgh. On the other COOLER side of the state, we use "youse" for plural you.

[@EngineerOfChaos]

Also, I would love to see Metatron reacting to Philadelphians using "jawn" as a potential replacement for every single word and how it just works.

[@stefankane852]

Fishes is also used in USA to refer to different kinds of fish

[@fabianenunes6605]

La lingua brasiliana è molto migliore della versione americana Il Brasile ogni accento è molto diverso Il Brasile ha troppi accenti slang troppe parole possibili per dire la stessa cosa troppe espressioni

[@martindeviantxiii]

Alright der la! Native Scouser here an you pronounced 'thourough' ferzakerly da same as I do, ya know warra mean like la. Cushty ya big brown bear ya 🖤

[@sluggo206]

You can say "There are different fishes in the sea" in American, it's just less common than "kinds of fish", and would be perceived as either academic terminology or uneducated. (Funny how those are opposite.) But if the distinction is honored by both the speaker and listener, "different fishes" would be multiple species/varieties, while "different fish" would be different individuals (which may or may not all be the same species).

[@hugoleroux4460]

Waiting for the French video to finish the romance languages.

[@Bren3669]

what were the other two countries he named that have English as a second language? i know India but not the other two

[@Bonjairno]

English is Gigachad

[@AllenGarvin]

I did love the "Beaver. Beaver. I don't know why I said beaver I meant skwir-url". That's our shibboleth. The one word to reveal any furriner.

[@aotoplug9725]

Waiting for your on reaction on "20 craziest letters" by language simp

[@noneofyourbusiness7965]

Fish and fishes are both correct plural uses.

[@woutvanostaden1299]

Fun fact lol is Dutch for fun. So when I first saw the acronym, I understood from context what it meant and only later found out that it was an acronym. 😅😊

[@booqueefious2230]

I've gotten into some (friendly) arguments with a friend from Scotland. His assertion was that British English was the "true" English, and us Americans were getting it "wrong" Turns out, he's wrong. He's right, in a way. But American English in 1776 would have been indistinguishable from British English, (of course there would be regional variants) Some American accents preserve more closely the pronunciations of the original settlers. Particularly the New England accents, in a broad sense (Bostonian, Rhode Island) and also some more esoteric accents like Smith Island Maryland or the Outer Banks in North Carolina And yeah, I have some relatives and friends from Scandinavian countries. They all just automatically speak English, cause they're usually happy to do so, knowing its basically the lingua franca now

[@wagncarv]

Here in Brazil is very hard to find someone that speaks English. According to statistics, only 1% are fluent and 5% have some knowledge of the language. In numbers, 1% = ~20,000 (twenty thousand) 5% ~ 100.000 (one hundred thousand)

[@Iantrypsk]

The french got fucked with that strong localization machine, they need to study to unlock English not just play video games like everyone else

[@TrebleMaker1]

As someone from Louisiana, I couldn't agree more

[@jeroenjager8064]

Colonel in dutch is the same and pronounced as written.

[@urusledge]

I think he expressed the appreciation Americans have for non-natives speaking English a bit shallowly. While Americans won’t be shocked or even surprised, most do at least recognize the effort and I think a decent percentage love most foreign accents as long as the English is understandable.

[@dougjardine8545]

16:20 misspelled "thorough"