Why Most People Speak English Wrong!

[@cecile436]

Ceux que je vois écrire "should of" / "could of", qui mélangent systématiquement there, they're et their, c'est 90% du temps des natifs. Parce que ceux qui apprennent l'anglais ils apprennent la grammaire aussi.

[@JeanLoupRSmith]

Oui mais certains d'entre eux sont dislexiques et ils ne le crient pas forcément sur tous les toits

[@lazulirondoudou]

Y’avait tellement une vanne à faire sur ça 👍

[@Mercure250]

Ça aide aussi que, dans les autres langues, "there", "they're" et "their", c'est trois mots/expressions très différents. Genre par exemple, en français, there = là, they're = ils/elles sont, their = leur(s). La langue est avant tout parlée, on apprend à parler avant d'apprendre à écrire, donc si t'es anglophone natif, c'est moins évident de séparer les trois homophones parce qu'ils sonnent pareil, alors que pour un francophone, vu que c'est complètement différent en français, easy peasy. Par contre, les homophones français, là, il peut y avoir de la difficulté, pour les francophones natifs (et potentiellement, apprendre une autre langue peut aider à ce niveau, je pense; j'ai déjà vu des gens dire qu'en apprenant une autre langue, on apprend sur sa propre langue).

[@Kamiyu97]

Oh là là oui ! Et ça me brûle les yeux à chaque fois ! Ils ne comprennent pas leur propre langue !

[@louispauly3824]

@@JeanLoupRSmith tgl avec ta dyslexie (écris le mot correctement déjà) et puis certains sont HPI, d'autres TDH, faudrait arrêter de se trouver des prétextes

[@cosmosspacecentertelevision]

la blague du jeune intermittent est une des meilleures blagues de standup que j'ai jamais entendue, c'est vraiment une dinguerie

[@paultaylorcomedy]

Thanks, I'll tell my wife 🤣

[@stickman_A]

Le pire c'est que j'étais en train de boire de l'eau, j'ai du le recracher dans la bouteille pour ne pas éclabousser mon ordinateur 🤣🤣🤣

[@dysob4119]

Bizarrement j’ai même pas esquissé un sourire

[@yoyoliu6240]

En tant qu'anglophone j'ai pas compris cette blague, quelqu'un peut l'expliquer?

[@jimlajungle4451]

​@@yoyoliu6240 jeûne (ne pas manger) et jeune (pas vieux) tout est dans l'accent circonflexe "^" et intermittent (de temps en temps) et intermittent (du spectacle : des travailleurs intermittents ) Ma femme se fait un jeûne intermittent = elle mange de temps en temps. Ma femme se fait un jeune intermittent = elle baise avec un travailleur du spectacle.

[@FranDandy53]

4:20 ''Papa, j'ai pas envie que tu me beat!'' LOL

[@GrowPatches]

Pole Télor

[@TryonixGaming]

pôle tailleur

[@neverending7949]

Pôle Taïlaur'

[@harmony5807]

Pole Telorrrr comme pôle emploi😂

[@KingofTheDarkestSprings]

Le mec il parle vraiment trop bien français c'est incroyable

[@eduardomarques91]

He was raised in France, he speaks like a native.

[@paultaylorcomedy]

Thanks, mais je triche un peu quand même!

[@KingofTheDarkestSprings]

@paultaylorcomedy UN PEU? UN PEUUUUU? C'est pas en trichant UN PEU qu'on arrive à ce niveau! Pour tricher c'est pas une antisèche que tu dois cacher pas un putain de Bécherel doublé d'un dictionnaire ! Seriously when I first heard you I was like: "Hmmm, he speaks English quite well for a french guy."

[@syndir0]

​@@paultaylorcomedy petit espace avant la ponctuation en français et c'est parfait

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Paul’s diatribe against Les immortels? Timeless classic.

[@jonistan9268]

There are also more people learning Irish than there are Irish native speakers, so this isn't just true for English.

[@tthaas]

Scottish Gaelic as well. In fact, the entire Celtic language tree is probably more learners than natives (how many people speak Cornish or Manx natively?)

[@jonistan9268]

@tthaas The last native speaker of Manx died in 1974, while the last native speaker of Cornish supposedly died in 1777. There is now a very limited number of new native speakers for both languages (less than 30 each) due to revival efforts, but the authenticity can be questioned, especially in the case of Cornish. There are also ancient languages with no native speakers that are still being taught and are therefore known by some people (myself included), but I'm not counting those. Apparently there is one native speaker of classical Latin. His parents did that as an experiment.

[@tthaas]

@jonistan9268 I'd argue that the revival speakers count as natives if they've been speaking it since birth, much like the native Classical Latin speaker (from that angle, Paul's daughter Louise would qualify as a native English speaker, too), or any number of bilingual speakers of other languages (ie, my daughter's friend who speaks perfect English outside the home, but who speaks perfect Spanish at home as his parents speak it as their mother tongue). The fact that the language as it's spoken today is very likely slightly different from (or is "less authentic than") the original Manx and Cornish matters little -- languages change over time, after all, any differences in the revival languages are just a very abrupt change in a short time -- in which case Manx and Cornish almost assuredly have more learners than natives.

[@jonistan9268]

@tthaas I do count them as native speakers of the Cornish and Manx they're speaking. I'm only questioning the authenticity of their native languages when comparing them to the languages that officially died out in 1777 and 1974 respectively. In theory, you could make up a language and make your child a native speaker of said language.

[@paultaylorcomedy]

True, I guess the article I wrote considered those languages as not important 😕

[@Feerome]

Hi Paul, what’s the problem with ”Jérôme ” ? 😊

[@Kanguruo]

And there are some languages where there aren't any native speakers at all (or nearly none) like Esperanto which really should be the international language as it is much easier to learn than English and enables communication on an equal footing. Nowadays native English speakers have a giant advantage, which is not fair at all.

[@Ven_de_Thiel]

There are native speakers of Esperanto…

[@audechermette7828]

Hey Paul. Moi c'est en inversé je suis française au Royaume-Uni. Et je suis fière car l'autre jour un de mes clients m'a demandé si un de mes parents était Northern car je parle avec French Yorkshire Twang. Mais du coup un prof d'anglais ici m'a fait la réflexion que je parle pas Anglais correctement mais Yorkshire... Je me retrouve bcp dans tes sketchs (les anglais croient que j'invente des mots,mais comme tu dis ils sont dans le dico mais y'avait que la Reine qui les utilisent 🤣)

[@juggernauthh9051]

belgium man! belgium! (quoting H2G2)

[@FrenchCrow]

Do all native english speakers speak English correctly?

[@gwaptiva]

Foreigner speaking English incorrectly? Two words: Noah Webster

[@tthaas]

Two slightly pedantic points. 1, there are languages where there's more people learning it as a secondary language than there are native speakers (defining "native speaker" as "someone who has spoken the language their entire life"); Scottish Gaelic and Irish immediately come to mind, and perhaps Welsh as well. 2, from 5:17 on, by this logic the game the EPL plays really IS properly called "soccer" (and it's originally a British slang term for "association" as in "association football") in the English-speaking world, since 335 million Americans, 40 million Canadians, 60 million South Africans, 26 million Australians and 5 million New Zealanders call it that, and that's the majority of the English-speaking world.

[@justlutra]

But what about all the other countries/languages that say Football? That's a wrong example because it is kind of international. But words such as lorry (truck) and trousers (pants, to not confuse with underwear) can follow your logic.

[@tthaas]

@@justlutra What other languages call a thing isn't relevant to the English name for it, unless English borrowed the name from another language; if they want to change the name of an English thing they borrow, that's on them. Since soccer is an invention of an English-speaking people, majority rules on the name in the English lexicon.

[@smokee1325]

incroyable!

[@SamXi1]

Parce que l’anglais n’est que du français mal prononcé et pis c’est tout 😅

[@marcmonnerat4850]

Et mal écrit, parce que _draught_ sérieux les gars 😂

[@SamXi1]

@ excellent 🤣

[@La_Cartouche_a_Tiphaine]

@@marcmonnerat4850 "L'extrême draught" 🤣🤣🤣

[@paultaylorcomedy]

Haha, great point

[@adelaidemcmillan9196]

Apparament, 40 % du vocabulaire anglophone est d'origine francaise donc t'as pas tort...

[@endlessemptyvoid]

Y a un stéréotype sur les Belges et leur supposé amour des enfants ? WTF ? On peut pas plutôt revenir aux blagounettes pas méchantes ? ;_;

[@juanfran579]

C'est vrai. C'est comme toujours associer les allemands avec Hitler.

[@KarimbmiraK]

🤣🤣

[@DevBoyjonauth]

MDR! 😅

[@domitiennegegou5967]

Sixty million people... What about Canada, Australia, New Zealand...?

[@can_pacis]

I don't think they are English

[@domitiennegegou5967]

@@can_pacis they're native English speakers.

[@can_pacis]

@@domitiennegegou5967 5:27

[@Lemonbowl1000]

@@domitiennegegou5967it’s cos we speak it like shit ❤️

[@Lemonbowl1000]

@@domitiennegegou5967but also on a genuine note he was talking about English people not English speakers

[@corinnelebret230]

60 million english speaking ppl ???? Where did you get that? Considering there are 300 odd million ppl in the US alone?

[@danlyle531]

60 million English people, not 60 million English speaking people. The population of England is roughly 60 million.

[@DadgeCity]

Maybe you should listen again.

[@corinnelebret230]

@@DadgeCity It has been explained to me already.

[@mmekalmashhadi5467]

More people also try to learn reading Arabic all over the globe then there are native Arabic speakers

[@747leonard]

the same for esperanto

[@muyymuyy9478]

That's wild, isn't arabic the main langage in more than 20 countries ?

[@mmekalmashhadi5467]

@@muyymuyy9478 there are almost 25 countries officially considered Arabic as their official language or sub official and almost all of the Muslims in this world tried to read Quran in Arabic so they learn how to read Arabic even if they cannot speak it

[@mmekalmashhadi5467]

@@747leonard never heard of it in which area is this language spoken???

[@kazazel1899]

L’importance de preciser la couleur de peau des mecs de l’académie française ?

[@FunnyParadox]

Car c'est un signe d'hauteur hierarchique dans la sociétée (et c'est beaucoup plus commun de parler de la couleur de peau en anglais que en français)

[@Jr21h30]

Y’a toujours un français con pour poser des questions connes comme ça.

[@samirbenabdallah9462]

Peace be upon you. Believe in ALLAH (God) and the judgement day and do good deeds. Don't drink alcohol that will be better for you in this life and the hereafter.