Gaston Dorren - What Languages Don't Want You To Know

All languages, big and small, have their embarrassing secrets. Gaston Dorren, linguistic muckraker and author of Lingo, will reveal them mercilessly. He will show you how inefficient Spanish is, how immature French and how confused Dutch. He will explain why Norwegian was unneeded and German unlikely. There’s just one that he’ll praise, spoken by Europe’s most polyglot nation and not taken too seriously even by them.
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[@languageservices8723]

Very knowledgeable, informative and above all entertaining speaker. One of the best presentations at the entire conference.

[@irmalair1]

Entertaining and Informative! 🤣loved it!

[@novikmish]

Really interesting talk. Thanks for sharing.

[@cosmiccomrade3108]

This guy is great!

[@Hamsterzilla1349]

Although the circumflex in "château" does have etymological value, its first purpose is actually phonological and indicates vowel length. The A in that case is slightly longer than a regular one as an effect of the phonetic reduction. It's more obvious in "âne" compared to the name Anne.

[@TheMaskedUnicorn]

Just took a big swig of water before "I wouldn't want to traumatize any Americans" I died:)

[@dlwatib]

As an American: Thank you! We've seen nursing mothers before, but not nursing teenagers, and I'd really not want to have to look at that.

[@squaretriangle9208]

Now I understand why I find French so easy having learned Latin in school, the guy is funny and I guess there are not many wokes among polyglots otherwise he would have been cancelled And now I understand Macron, too😂😂😂

[@enoch8604]

Is he tensed or something?

[@alexeltroll]

Lol he said exactly what I think about french.

[@Eruptor1000]

Why didn't we shit on the English language?

[@marcusjager5304]

Terribly nervous speaker.

[@chetosco]

A bunch of boring deeply rooted bullshit. Not a single word about the Kartvelian origin of the world's etymologies. French - Gaelic, blablabla... What about the Basque endings in every second French toponym? Don't waste your time.