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[@joshjohncy9376]

" yo, isn't that Lightning Mcqueen?!" "I heard he's the rookie racist"

[@eugenepark7579]

Ya boi I laughed a little too hard at that.

[@TheJanvicgwaps]

Fuckin 'ell made me nose exhale

[@reenaojha1525]

That's actually accurate and true.

[@0rang91l4]

And there's analyst

[@sircire3848]

Kachigga

[@ayooo5812]

“English is difficult” The millions of bilingual/multilingual people: do you say so

[@Cacopr]

On god, English is the easiest language I have to laugh

[@Imezita]

@@Cacopr exactly Man, really, I'm trying to learn Italian and that's really hard; and I'm from Brazil, I speak Portuguese It's supposed to be easier because they are both Latin languages but it's not

[@Cacopr]

@@Imezita DUDE YES LMAO I speak Spanish and I've been trying to learn Italian and French tho Italian is easier but don't worry you'll get there I believe in you, oh I also wish to learn Portuguese but idk if I should

[@cazh666]

@@Cacopr Should I learn French?

[@Cacopr]

@@cazh666 you should learn anything you want, even if for me is the hardest romantic language out of all, I'd still love to learn it, also not everyone learns the same way, unless it's English, English is easy 🥵🤭

[@rapterlabs]

"English is confusing. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though."

[@elplaceholder]

AHHH MY EYES!!!!

[@jmurray1110]

Even with a decent grasp of the concept that sentence required a double take

[@zivlixtheprotogen]

I hate that this sentence is completely correct

[@MicyPie]

My brain just farted

[@DDoodles_]

Goodness that was hard to read

[@xNezrx]

As a polish person the "use chemicals to remove the polish" killed me

[@gordonfeetman2425]

In what way exactly ?

[@ultimategames78]

@@gordonfeetman2425 Chemically

[@danolantern6030]

@@gordonfeetman2425 Use chemicals to remove the polish (Nail Paint) Use chemicals to remove the Polish (Remove people from Poland,a “reference” to camps like Auswitchz)

[@MrManProduction]

Why did we have to know if you're polish or not

[@assassinunknown6664]

@@MrManProduction well you could be polished, or you could be the polish itself, or you could be polish.

[@valentino7149]

“It’s what it’s.” truer words have never been spoken.

[@Name_Nah00]

And hopefully, never will again. lol

[@RafaelValle12]

That was terrible XD I never wanna see it again

[@inktim]

That caught me off guard tho...

[@StexxHD]

@@inktim me too man i was like "wait.. what?" lol

[@oopweek7853]

It's awful because it is technically correct.

[@bene6681]

„What you do for a living?“ „Yeah I’m a racist”

[@supasf]

*and proud*

[@fenn_fren]

I'm the CEO of racisming.

[@spencerhockensmith4523]

How in the world to manage to get the quotation marks to be at the bottom of the words

[@satibel]

You know, I end races for a living.

[@COOLMCDEN]

manaquri sometimes I do it for fun though.

[@normalhuman9878]

“Don’t you dare” makes total sense But do not you dare expand the contraction

[@timothyjacksondrake4454]

There is a simple explanation. it becomes (You) do not dare expand the contraction. English is wierd, but sometimes weird.

[@v1rtu4l_marky39]

Do not you dare....

[@JeffreyOcaya]

The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish, Euro for short. In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20 per sent shorter. In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go. By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru.

[@ANANAS1K007]

zis information is akurate i sen say

[@vantabebs]

i think i'm going to have a stroke

[@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933]

I feel like being teleported into the far future where everyone speaks incomprehensible English

[@tornadodex1366]

THIS IS LITERALLY JUST GERMAN NOW LMFAO

[@faryjung1710]

Very few comments have made me laugh as much as this one right here.

[@Yesenn]

This is one of my favourites. *School bell rings* Ashley: "Finally" Ashleigh: "Finalleigh"

[@russeldustin7963]

Finna leave

[@rere11345]

I feel like finally should be spelt fineali... just me... ok.

[@aucheinyoutuber6066]

finally is pronounced as fine-ale while finale is pronounced fin-ally ??

[@Dr._Heinz_Doofenshmirtz]

ptoughknee is pronounced the same as tony

[@zaykka1470]

I read that as Ash-lay, not lee

[@rapidkai51423]

"I'm *up* for a challenge" and "I'm *down* for a challenge" both mean the same thing

[@drunown9756]

well yes but actually no

[@FMHikari]

Well no but actually yes

[@pokemonprojektczandrockruf2388]

O.o

[@catattack9575]

I'm in the middle for a challenge.

[@erensenatrakumru8511]

No. Just, no.

[@lynthir6323]

"English is a hard language" Meanwhile in Thai: Kao (ขาว) = While Kao (ข่าว) = News Kao (เขา) = Mountain Kao (เขา) = They / Them / He / She Kao (คาว) = Fishy Kao (เข่า) = Knee Kao (เข้า) = Enter Klai (ใกล้) = Near Klai (ไกล) = Far

[@foxtale8716]

Gosh… that’s a little hard on the eyes XD I was wondering, does Thai have the different intonations like in Chinese?

[@crypticlol]

​@@foxtale8716I just used Google Translate and all of them had the same intonation So probably not

[@foxtale8716]

@@crypticlol oh…then the kaos would be confusing to read/hear

[@foxtale8716]

@@crypticlol ig that’s why context is so important

[@crypticlol]

@@foxtale8716 fr

[@plasmakitten4261]

Fun fact: that "ghoti" fish spelling is just the actual Dutch word for fish. It's spelled like that and pronounced almost exactly like English. Dutch is English but it's somehow on even more drugs. The only thing keeping it sane is less French

[@snufkingstan]

that “it’s what it’s” made me so impossibly uncomfortable

[@Hellhound-bq8iv]

Same

[@galaxynova9276]

why? *It's* so simple

[@bitescratchkill6849]

TheDerpyMLG it's what it's

[@veridliley9722]

That sentence (phrase?). The possessive of “it” is its with no comma, while it’s is a contraction of it and is

[@StealerOfNS]

I will now forever try to say that instead of It is what it is

[@thedipcifican8302]

“Whats your profession?” “Oh, Im an amateur racist.”

[@shinydoritos0159]

*Bruh* 😂

[@blakablaka2709]

The Dipcifican 😂😂😂😂

[@49thjem64]

Lmfao

[@saharsh3610]

🤣🤣😀

[@anwardaud]

Kkk then

[@Staeve64]

“Here is an example of cargo space” “Car doesn’t go to space”

[@lajawi.]

00:00 Intro 00:39 English is a giant meme 00:43 Nouns 00:51 Verbs 00:57 Nouns & Verbs 01:42 Back to back words (That & Had) 02:31 Homonyms 03:11 Do they rhyme? 03:51 Phonetics 04:42 Ending -ough 05:35 Silent letters 06:14 Contractions 06:40 There, their, & they're 06:49 Your, & you're 06:54 Triple contractions 07:03 Expanding contractions 07:20 Contronyms 07:52 Commas 08:03 The Oxford Comma 08:56 Pronouns 09:09 Change things up (for the sake of being difficult) 09:39 It's what it's

[@Spectrythium]

Uhhh thanks?

[@ShajiaAfrin]

No one asked for this, but everyone loved it.

[@tessa1935]

"While playing football you use your hands, not your feet." Me, a british person: no.

[@sjs9698]

me, an englishman: indeed.

[@cortneywilkinson7417]

@@sjs9698 that's another way to say your British, I think you mean American man! Thx for reading!

[@snortcat]

@@cortneywilkinson7417 You're*

[@lapvona]

exactly

[@rosynimi]

That's why in french "football" means soccer

[@timschnitzel]

„English is a difficult language“ Germans: HALT MEIN BIER

[@King-mz8xe]

Hold my bear?

[@King-mz8xe]

Oh fuck...

[@evansecencefan1435]

More like POTRZYMAJ MI PIWO amiright

[@GTAmaniac1]

Latin: Amateurs

[@pakacha8999]

Japanese people: hold my sake

[@Julian21008]

You missed the: a word is made up of letters, but multiple words can also be a letter

[@thunderg4m3r98]

9:13 in spanish pineapple is called "piña", but a piña can also be a pinecone, in argentina is a punch, a punch in spain can also be called "ostia", but "ostia" can also be an expresion of surprise. I can go on with more expamples of how different words have different meanings in hispanic countries but it would take me a long time and I have homework to do so yeah.

[@shuhratkessikbayev8886]

"What is the point of silent letters?" *Nervous sweating in French*

[@marcsuministrado7132]

Mama mia

[@davidhood9712]

je suis une personne --> I am a person je suis une personne --> I follow a person ces: these c'est: this is sais: know sait: knows ses: his/her all pronounced the same

[@junebuart]

Marc Suministrado bro that’s Italian

[@marcsuministrado7132]

@@junebuart oof sorry

[@junebuart]

Marc Suministrado also it’s actually mamma mia lol

[@dgs9069]

"KID NAPPING= a stranger with your kid" "BABY SITTING= a stranger with your kid"

[@butterqueeen]

Then what is fetus standing

[@Sir_Isaac_Newton_]

@@butterqueeen Damn sis, you got the whole squad laughing. 😐

[@butterqueeen]

@@Sir_Isaac_Newton_ indeed I have

[@blendyboi5023]

@@butterqueeen you made my nose turn into a thruster

[@butterqueeen]

@@blendyboi5023 Say hi to Vector for me when you reach the moon

[@__B__L__A__N__K__]

Put a lock on a locket that has a picture of the loch ness monster in it and lock it to another locket then throw it into the loch ness lough.

[@MegaLokopo]

If there is an apostrophe they are different items, if there is no apostrophe they are the same item, that is the only logically consistent answer.

[@staffbox1811]

I can’t wait for this to be fixed in English 2

[@shadowfox1609]

English simulator patch notes: update 2.0.0 Alpha: added proper English speak, added southern English speak, added Canadian English speak, added Puerto Rico English speak, removed American speak, added broken angry other languages speak.

[@xRooze]

omg lmao I laughed so hard

[@mundane3809]

Bad news buddy...

[@cho9720]

4444

[@waldalwahsh7833]

ENGURISHI 2 WA SUDENI DOA NI SAWATEIRU KA YO

[@patrickbaker7014]

English: is a meme French: sweating nervously in oiseaux

[@thomasabell8630]

Fire Blade ouiseaux does the same thing just more unpronounceable letters

[@MrEpicbattlefan]

*oiseaux bruh

[@femboymadara]

oiseaux = waah so

[@ashthawley1766]

@@7.3gss it makes sense to us as in we understand it however that many letters for something is painful

[@kaila5555]

@@femboymadara waah zo*

[@That_Corner_Dude]

I can imagine someone deliberately speaks in the most unconventional and uncomfortable way just to disgust other

[@jennifermorrey7378]

Also, the reason why w wasn't called double v was because in the olden days, when w was invented, it was a double u. v was just the capital version of u! w used to be blend like th, and the way to make it was to put two u's together (which looked like v's).

[@smallandstressed2364]

The “had had” is a test of anger management for writers.

[@olfersisapotato8970]

It really is... I always do a double take when I come across it.

[@AEZAKM1]

“He had had a long night” like brother what

[@samiulhasanqwerty]

Aezakmi he'd endured

[@eri2591]

Basically.

[@wings8956]

I have this problem so much and I always have to fix my entire sentence to get it to make sense

[@TheErkis28]

"One of the dumbest things about English is how we use silent letters" *The French Language wants to know your location*

[@OatmealTheCrazy]

Those are consistent in which are silent

[@eri-mq4rq]

English speakers really think they are unique, uh? lmfao

[@TheErkis28]

@@OatmealTheCrazy They are, but it didn't sound like his complaint with that was inconsistency.

[@remyjarrett8863]

@@eri-mq4rq I've never heard a single person say that

[@engoodener]

Doux is pronounced "doo" so what the frick type of boomer made French

[@TordBot69]

silent letters arent specific to us, french has way to many silent letters to the point where "est" is "eh"

[@Irish_Enderman]

My favorite example of nouns also being verbs is "I saw a saw saw" especially since there's 2 verbs that are both 'saw'

[@user-wh4jc3wc4d]

When his voice is so clear that the auto generated captions are almost accurate

[@adminromeofrommcstorymodes2946]

wrong git got a word wrong

[@ihavetallbrains2011]

Yes

[@anbanian]

I also noticed that his voice is changing

[@JediPlays0309]

Oh shoot for real? I thought he typed the script into captions but now I’m seeing you right! Dang!

[@driveasandwich6734]

but the generated captions got a lot better recently

[@floory]

A queue is a q followed by a queue of "u"s and "e"s

[@khenai1862]

.

[@confused4321]

The word "queue" is just the letter "q" followed by 4 silent letters.

[@Tuberex]

A, ad, ah, am, as, at, aw, ay, shirt

[@confused4321]

@ELLIE DOUGLAS shit truee

[@bedrock30_]

Hold up-

[@DoggoDoesStuff1]

When something is bad, it not only sucks, but also blows

[@taffingtonboathouse5754]

Atleast football makes sense in the kingdom. You kick it with your foot towards a goal

[@average.possum.enjoyer]

“It’s what it’s” at the end technically isn’t wrong BUT I HATE IT.

[@richnlit9525]

Has nobody noticed this is a copied comment It may be a coincidence but yeah

[@ivangregoriomeza6178]

OMG 666 likes

[@trihexa3024]

@@richnlit9525 I noticed that your comment is copied

[@richnlit9525]

Trihexa I noticed that you're an inbred, and that I said 'but yeah' meaning I didn't give a shit.

[@ratedpending]

That is wrong, you can't use 'it's' in the object.

[@notkray8468]

"what do you want to be when you grow up?" "Doctor!" "Basketball player!" "Racist"

[@BlyndBlond]

See

[@notkray8468]

Welp I edited this now

[@BlyndBlond]

@@notkray8468 so did mine

[@notkray8468]

Got tricked when typing it was saying the word aloud so I wont forget it.

[@ndhdysu5933]

Basketballist!

[@echothefreak9396]

I love how a video about english needing to be presented in english leads to several different ways you can cleverly showcase just how broken it is WHILE you’re talking about how broken it is. My favorite is the “it’s what it’s” thrown in there lmao!

[@nytr]

I'm from Czechia and Czech is a phonetic language... it's so easier to read and spell things with it and you won't need most of the time two letters together, but since I've learned English since I was like 3 it seems natural together with my natural language.

[@kokorobanks3341]

I thought this dude was done roasting English and he hits us with “it’s what it’s”

[@glitchwolf1384]

it's visceral enough to contend with even some of the worst fake words, or word mashups. Like 'placebtree', like the 'placeb' from 'placebo' and the 'tree' from 'tree'. Try saying it out loud, it makes some people actively recoil.

[@SnowblindOtter]

Yes, but sadly the truth quite objectively stands to assert he entirely missed mentioning the most egregious and horrific manner in which the English language obstinately bastardizes any manner of transmitting information between two individuals via language at all, a manner in which this very sentence just so happens upon being written in the form of: *English Prime!*

[@blackhole28]

Kokoro Banks what happend to your like counter

[@waldalwahsh7833]

If english didnt exist japanese would take over英語は不可能です日本語は最高なんだ

[@kokorobanks3341]

Saifo Wahsh オレもそー思う. It’s funny because you said that and I’m half japanese

[@11Survivor]

"English is hard." France: *Laughs in having tenses for the tenses*

[@randomguy6680]

On the other hand, French prononciation is simpler. You just need to learn all the rules and their exceptions. It is a lot but still better than english's seemingly lack of rules.

[@oldrageface8706]

@@randomguy6680 This so much. I went to school in French (NOT in France, you grammar Nazi, I know what I'm saying) an got taught the whole nine yards of French grammar, and it made sense. I got taught English in both the French and the Swiss system, and it never seemed to have any kind of structure. For me, English is a mess of a language that you can only learn by speaking, and even then you're screwed if a word comes up that you never heard.

[@jorrit_trickz]

English comes from german and french, but they fucked with the rules... In German and French all this stuff exists but with rules for it

[@sanghata3534]

Jorrit Stoffers German ? I understand why you have the word "doppelgänger" now

[@zaraaziz4263]

Survivory Tube FRENCH BE HAVING MASQULINE AND FEMININE WORDS FOR NO FUCKING REASON

[@ultrio325]

if English is a huge meme then every English sentence is a shitpost

[@autotec-20]

This video is constnetly being recommended to me and I keep watchinf it every time.

[@iamnathanael2132]

"When cooking, crack open a window. When cooking crack, open a window."

[@dashling6721]

LMAOOOO

[@grazzi1571]

I laughed way too hard reading this..

[@leopardgeckogirl6506]

@@grazzi1571 lol same

[@nadiawu7664]

I'm wheezing- (not from the crack)

[@berengustav7714]

Lol!

[@kurtvincentfarinas5584]

"Don't you dare" sounds right, but "Do not you dare" sounds wrong

[@theoumber6604]

This sentence is a bad example, but I believe the correct contraction-less version would be "Do you not dare", but a better example would be "Why won't you come over?" and "Why will you not come over?"

[@SimF1e]

@@theoumber6604 both of your example sound right, the second one just sounds wordy

[@ragnot95]

Ok "Do not you dare" does sound weird. What about "Do not dare".

[@jo_nm9484]

@@theoumber6604 both ways sound correct

[@VanWingFive05]

You got a point...

[@RanmaSyaoranSaotome]

'The Chaos' by Gerard Nolst Trenité is a fun poem about this issue!

[@HamstyForever]

We have fingertips, but not toetips, but we can tiptoe, and not tipfinger.

[@quinndymond1749]

English grammar is just years of noticing patterns and going “nope that sounds wrong” but not being able to explain why

[@BaldDaddyCool]

How I passed my English first additional language exams

[@not_intrested]

Right! And it just feels stupid, like you must be lacking some knowledge that's why you don't know 'why'

[@BaldDaddyCool]

@@not_intrested As a non-native English speaker I can honestly say English was the easiest language to learn. What boggles me the most is that most native-English speaking people are mostly monolingual

[@BaldDaddyCool]

@@not_intrested Also. Why is it that a lot of people who use English a second language still write and speak better than native English speaking people, especially theircuse of grammar. (I'm willing to concede my grammar is piss poor but that's besides the point)

[@not_intrested]

@@BaldDaddyCool I also feel like English was easiest to learn but it was just because all my text books and teachers used it and that's how I came across a lot of words and phrases making their way to my subconscious and that's how I learnt their right usage... Also I have noticed that its not just with English but native speakers of most languages don't always use right grammar while speaking... It may be because they never take the pain to learn actual rules unlike their non native counterparts...

[@arimainente]

No one: Commas: "The panda eats shoots and leaves." "The panda eats, shoots, and leaves."

[@karamel3718]

ha

[@showfallen]

lmao

[@elementballs]

1st: nom 2nd: nom, pew, bye

[@skely4613]

It's what it's

[@Karmeon1982]

I was just playing doom and then watched this video and saw this comment covinceidence I think not

[@StockterBaxman]

Cleave is a contronym too, you can cleave something apart or together

[@Greenmoney22]

6:10 this is wrong since the letter V is never silent

[@nasiaccius578]

English is not a language. It is three languages in a trench coat that stalks other languages into back alleys knocks them unconscious and rifles through their pockets for loose grammar

[@celestewright4454]

And then sticks those bits into a blender and duct tapes those bits into a language barrier.

[@rafavazquez322]

this comment is great LMAO

[@Dachusblot]

Extraordinarily accurate.

[@Hackleton]

And then Dutch comes by and gather the rest

[@tenacity2633]

I've heard that one before.

[@kanegawatsuginori9336]

commas are literally funny. “Let’s eat children!” “Let’s eat, children!”

[@thedivingduckling4254]

WHOEVER INVENTED COMMAS THANK YOU

[@mitchib1440]

ayyyy exurb1a fan

[@mapleleaf8413]

the 1st sentence is the right one.

[@wedonteatbears]

Note that the intonation between the two sentences is different. First sentence: Low-low-high-low. Second sentences: Low-High-low-low.

[@peanutbutterBrisket99]

THE FISRT SENTENCE BRO IM DED XDDDDDD

[@dion789]

All of these things are part of what makes the English language interesting to me. Speaking as a Dutch person, I find English the most beautiful language in the world, with Irish and Scottish Gaelic close behind.

[@joshualeopior9019]

So shipment does not necessary mean that you drive it by car and cargo can also be transported in trucks,so? Cargo is the stuff and shipment the process.

[@tianahart9015]

I’m so mad that the phrase “It’s what it’s” makes sense but sounds so wrong

[@Storywalker4]

"It's" is never used at the end of a sentence for whatever reason. So, it sounds off.

[@lindsaymacgregorPNW]

@@BRAIN_BLASTActually it's the exact opposite. It's = it is, its = that belongs to it

[@defiantnight2668]

@@BRAIN_BLAST Not sure if you were using sarcasm, but you have it backwards.

[@rickydawn6313]

*When people text the lyrics of "Que Sera Sera"

[@Lyf4rMusic]

Also many people use the its and It's ..... so damn wrong !! > It's a good day > The Dog has its own food

[@imhakks]

“It’s what it’s” I want that on a t-shirt

[@SpankyDomDaddy]

i am Wearing one that says that right now.

[@SpankyDomDaddy]

instagram.com/p/Bznno47AIhe/

[@lloydfrost4872]

Mind blown 🤯🤯

[@bear-_-8784]

Yes

[@casperd2100]

PSA, "i'ma" is i'm about to, not i'm going to

[@xemmyQ]

3:03 bow on a ship is pronounced like "take a bow"

[@Marnige]

Fun fact: The word 'set' have 430 definitions. "You can set a set of dishes on the table set at a set time."... Probably when the sun sets.

[@Brindlebrother]

Run is another awful one. You can run, run up a bill, run a business, run for president, run the numbers, run into someone, ... lolol. You can even run sets or set the dishwasher to run.

[@nathancarver7179]

Sets set sets setting sets?

[@leevikv]

Has

[@nathancarver7179]

@@leevikv Nah, they meant "words". After all, there's 430 definitions according to them.

[@lordtoomas]

@@nathancarver7179 he's correcting Leo's spelling

[@fidashava]

Punctuation is important in English “Let’s eat kids” “Let’s eat, kids”

[@iv478]

In every language lol

[@tommyspringer3693]

i just wanna note these aren't mutually exclusive. Don't know why, I just wanted to.

[@fidashava]

Iv ಠೆ-ಠೆ lol

[@ladyartemis9288]

"Let's eat kids"? Sounds fun

[@Kim_Witt]

The former was kinda more appealing. It sounds and makes more sense I guess

[@interNETS-KING]

"Yalldven't better taken your stuff from from me, I'ma kill ya!Shut!Ja hear me?"

[@curllum]

The best way to sum up the English language is “Wing it and you’ll probably get it right”

[@planetsoy]

Everyone is out here mentioning their languages and I’m laughing at p i n e a p p l e

[@anaribeiro6615]

* Laughs in abacaxi *

[@jotardothegreat]

It cracked me up 😂

[@itsgenti8910]

Laughs in ananas

[@axehead45]

I am to

[@acracing4800]

This video was so serious and I just pissed laughing at this part

[@hamstershake]

“Don’t you dare” sounds completely normal, but “Do not you dare” sounds weird ➖👄➖

[@kateri7404]

Ikr

[@enbloop]

That's weird- Do not you dare to do it again 😀

[@grillygrilly]

"Do not you dare" would not be right, since the "not" would be shifted to after the word "you", which cannot happen if it is a clitic like in the word "don't". Thus, the unshortened sentence would be "Do you not dare".

[@hamstershake]

@@grillygrilly look, I’ll give you my lunch money or whatever but PLEASE. SPARE MY BRAINCELLS! IM TOO YOUNG TO UNDERSTAND THAT 💀🔫

[@grillygrilly]

​@@hamstershake Just saying, most of those who go around here in the comments yelling "DuRh EnGlISh So IrrEgUlar" know nothing about how languages work.

[@DiamondDrizzle]

This just made me question so many things about English...

[@isaaccole5968]

My HS French teacher didn't enjoy how English occasionally "verbs" nouns and vice versa, such as what I did with the word "verbs" and the fact I am making a comment [verb], in this case the comment [noun] in a comment section.

[@Maples8]

Everyone: "ananas" The English Language: *PINEAPPLE*

[@ilovebeingprecious]

Cryptic8 jokes on u, we call Pineapple “Piña”

[@thunderborn3231]

and if you take more then 4 seconds to google it the english language already uses the world ananas to describe the plant genus the pineapple belongs to which also includes the poisonous 'false pineapple'

[@djyppo]

In portuguese it's ABACAXI

[@yerayliloaiza9125]

PIÑA

[@heath6969]

It's ananas even in turkish lmao

[@kendry375_6]

“Are you sure English is broken?” “I’m” Edit: Sorry guys, It's what it's.

[@Terasal]

I am?

[@AgentRaphy]

@@Terasal no'nt

[@hollylolly2413]

Terasal I am sure English is broken. I’m sure English is broken. Basically the same thing

[@tasnim569]

@Terasal and @HollyLolly *r/wOoOsH*

[@thebreathless4935]

@@tasnim569 r/im14andthisiswoosh

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

Toilet the patient. Order a new toilet from the plumber. Get some toiletries from the store. I'm in debt, but the b is silent. My name is Joyce but my 'foreign' 'friends' spell it Joice or Joys, they aren't fiends though .Thanks for the informative video sir, some surprises after the sum total of the different points you brought out. I'm careful not to use bought here. Maybe English is one of the most confusing languages around. Even my last name is pronounced differently by English speakers. Looking forward to more from this channel.

[@jarvis6253]

English teachers when you ask if you can go to the bathroom: i don’t know CAN YOU?

[@mushroomsteve]

"You up for getting together tonight?" "Yeah, I'm down."

[@legohexman2858]

Based

[@beatrizxx7043]

@@legohexman2858 Can you just f()ck off

[@darkforge15]

Good example, dude.

[@Sir_Isaac_Newton_]

@@beatrizxx7043 Stfu.

[@stonefacewiththedrip3377]

@@beatrizxx7043 if you didnt know based is the opposite of cringe

[@katlybanieva2675]

The most confusing part about the English language to me is how Dick is actually short for Richard and Bill is short for William.

[@WillPhil290]

As a Bill and a William, I concur. Still having to explain this to everyone 35 years into my life has turned me into a real Richard...

[@nesmrtelnost5414]

My native language have that too: "Robert" is name and "robertek" (litte Robert) is word for dildo.

[@lucabralia5125]

another peculiarity is that in Italian William is "Guglielmo"

[@CaptainM792]

Isn’t Will short for William?

[@WillPhil290]

@@CaptainM792 most people named William go by Bill or Will. But never Billiam, oddly... Although people do refer to me that way at times. it's just a cute pet name that, if you warm my heart enough, I'll allow it. A William can also go by Billy... But if you're a Billy, you're most certainly NOT a Willy... And vice versa. I wish my parents gave my naming this much thought. It could be worse, I suppose... Perhaps they should have waiter until I was old enough to consent. I may have settled on Wilhelm... Or Veronica. It would have been MY choice...

[@265lgkp]

Thank you for this! 😆

[@LiamNoblet95]

“Can’t it wait?” is wrong, it would be “Can not it wait?”

[@couldntthinkofaname2403]

“It’s what it’s” im going to say that when my English teacher starts complaining about my bad grades

[@MineChitect]

the irishman

[@sloka8155]

Lol

[@xylotinlive]

👁👄👁

[@savitridevi2699]

I wish i could do that But i will have to intentionally fail a test for that sitch cuz seriously English in my grade is effin easy

[@kiarathemonarch]

Eet ees wad eet ees

[@bricknick6251]

Fun fact: He uses the example "in November" and "on Friday". This video was released on November 15th of 2019, which was a Friday

[@syan2240]

Hmmm interesting

[@DeJay7]

Hmmm interesting

[@shelby255]

Hmmm interesting

[@spicyhotdoritos]

Hmmm interesting

[@Assassin_Droid]

Hmmm interesting

[@ThunderlightDominatesGames]

5:59 possum and opossums are not the same thing, possums are in Australia, while opossums live in north and South America, while they’re similar and named after each other, they are not the same thing

[@TheAliceUwU]

bruh, there's so many times that I accidentally repeat the word "that" in a sentence

[@sanne_says_hi]

My favourite one from Vsauce: auto-antonyms, words that mean the opposite in the very same sentence. "The alarm went OFF, so we had to turn it OFF."

[@flipps8377]

I just watched that

[@mathewhale3581]

Then it fell off and began to smell off which was a turn off so we had to piss off

[@upseguest]

@@mathewhale3581 kinda weird but good example

[@lozodus7]

Auto-antonyms? Heard it was called oxymoron

[@dumbleking5172]

Does this share the same thing as.. Example: _Someone talking to you:_ "So you *didn't* do the thing?" If you respond with "yes" would it mean you agree with it or are you opposing it? Would the "yes" mean "yes, I didn't" or "yes, I did the thing"? It would still come around just the same if the your answer is switched to "no"; Would the "no" opposing the question? Like, "No, I did do the thing." And "No, I didn't do the thing." Is this the same thing as "auto-autonyms"? Edit: I encounter this problem much more frequently when I'm answer questions in chinese (I'm chinese) and I flipped it into english to see if it had the same effect. and it did.

[@Gvedder06]

The sentence “Before was was was, was was is,” is a real sentence.

[@paper2222]

ah, i get it was *was* *WAS* is

[@hafedmuharam966]

Ahhh,I get it

[@hafedmuharam966]

@Cambree Fowers I don't get this one

[@hafedmuharam966]

@Cambree Fowers ooooooohhhh TYSM ❤

[@hafedmuharam966]

@Cambree Fowers 😄

[@Ibert0318]

9:29 what you want us to say? "2-ty"? That's going to cause more confusion if you haven't known because what the heck?? 2-ty (yes. We're going to call it that wether you like it or not.) is what? Two cups of tea? A pupil of a tutor? That one Roman philosopher (I'm aware that it sounds a bit off but eh) named Petre Tutea? A third person singular present indicative? Second person singular imperative? (the name is now an inflection of tutear. Yes, this is Spanish now), the Tootea Café in Taguegarao City? A faucet? Nozzle? The book by Peter Ferrini? The TOOTEE TV created on March 2017 by Majid Khodabandehloo to provide like- additional support to teachers and parents? (helping kids learn) the West Indian slang for PP? That one medicine that acts as a tranquillizer for schizophrenia? /j

[@LiamNoblet95]

If the plural for mouse is mice why isn’t house’s plural hice, guess it would be confusing with Heist but remember you also have Bawl, Ball and Bowl.

[@pilo7224]

"What's the baby's name?" "Tony" "Ok, let me just write that down..." "PTOUGHNEIGH"

[@RickFrz]

this is underrated

[@ky23.01]

Here is an example on why English is stupid, I pronounced that “puh-tough-neigh”. Someone needs to stab the person who made English and another person needs to fix English

[@bbbb-ew9xy]

Wtoeneigh

[@lofised9588]

The written one should be ”TOUGHNEIGH”, the P doesn’t need to be there, english is a meme smh.

[@elwees2529]

THE P IS SLIENT 👌🏽😫

[@sambrown7033]

"It's What It's" I'm getting that on a shirt.

[@Space_Potat]

*I am* a native Russian speaker but I *do not* even know how to make this sentence in Russian language “I’manatrusspik’bidek’howtmaykdis’entncinruslang”

[@UmNoImNotGay]

@@Space_Potat cool nigga

[@guthetanuki256]

@Areegyol Not sure if you are trolling but it is basically saying, "It is what it is." I mean it might be technically correct but at the same time it kind of isn't since nobody really talks like that.

[@pootime4053]

Areegyol janbejwkjsn’wjhaja’mwkajakwk’kwjw stinkyyy

[@myinternetkindasucks]

I want one too

[@Polish-Phoenician]

2:46, when i heard polish being used here, i knew eventually 2:50 would appear,

[@igur_yes.8553]

i cracked up when he said ,,ya'll'd've'' and ,,you'dn't've'' XD

[@Katie-fi5zb]

“Football isn’t played with your feet” *Laughs in British*

[@ElHayki]

Laughs in every country except USA

[@rachelleblanc6111]

MuRtyZ and Canada

[@ahmeddistinctive8425]

and Saudi Arabia

[@berlinity3440]

And Brazil

[@mel4340]

Laughs in Brazil

[@jmo8192]

Video: English is a meme Comments: *Everyone trying to flex about how much harder their language is*

[@VatorXavier2208]

English is still hard, even for native speakers sometimes. It just doesn't always seem like it because we're so used to it everyday.

[@jmo8192]

@@VatorXavier2208 Exactly

[@ornsteintreed3969]

Oh fuk I just did this shit

[@pedrosobroza9988]

That's why you don't need to make portuguese classes almost every day

[@PedroHenrique-fj3ks]

@@pedrosobroza9988 (Translate if you want)só o "â" e o "ã" fazem muitos tremerem na base, o inglês é complicadinho mas a fonética presente na língua é comum, eles não fazem ginastica com a língua como algumas outras. alem do mais o vídeo esta em inglês e todo mundo aqui entendeu... e pra piorar se vc tentar traduzir oq eu disse, "língua" se repete 2 vezes mas uma é um órgão do corpo e a outra é referente a linguagem (linguagem também é traduzido como "língua") essas coisas vem com todas as línguas, o costume faz vc aprender tudo isso e por isso quando se para pra pensar vc acha difícil, mas a realidade é que todas as línguas depois que vc entende o básico e pratica fica fácil.

[@pipecleanermaster]

the many words back to back break my brain. i can only comprehend 3 at a time.

[@lous1103]

A colon can completely change the meaning of a sentence. For example: -Jane ate her friend’s sandwich. -Jane ate her friend’s colon.

[@mariomaker69420]

"English is difficult" Everyone: *_(recites their own language)_*

[@GeZz.]

MM69420 Spanish: Ñ English ppl: *screaming*

[@unknown-pj5ht]

@@GeZz. č ž š ć ś ź đ :')

[@NightlyCirrus]

polish : stól z powyłamywanymi nogami , wyrewolwerowany rewolwerowiec Japanese : 私はこの言語を真剣に話せませんが、この言語はひどいですが素晴らしいので、ここにそれを入れなければなりませんでした！

[@gamaxgbg]

@@GeZz. Portuguese: ã English and Spanish ppl: (silent)

[@ademera9058]

Russian: Zdravstvuyte.

[@danielgodin9921]

The number 99 English: Ninety Nine French: Four twenty ten nine

[@jaskaransinghsaund1699]

Deutsch people: nine and ninety

[@Asama7]

Korean: nine ten nine

[@jinruoo8679]

Mandarin: nine ten nine edit: some kind person told me its ninety nine, my madarin is pretty terible..... edit 2: bruh i don't know if its correct or it isn't

[@gzaf187]

At least the English got that right

[@RJeditors]

Japanese: nine ten nine

[@everstars.]

*"it's what it's"* amazing example

[@Madwhiterice]

I hate the word depot for words that have a silent letter because if I read “Home depot” I still pronounce it sometimes as “home de-pot” 😭

[@PETAAAGAMING]

"English is a difficult language." Also English: The

[@stella-tc9rj]

Spanish: el la los las

[@malimeeri3432]

German: der, die, das des, der, des dem, der, dem den, die, das And more ...

[@genesis209_gd]

@@malimeeri3432 ein, eine,einem, einer,eines,einer,

[@beans4prez948]

Shadey auch nicht Zahlwörter vergessen: ein, zwei, drei...

[@genesis209_gd]

@@beans4prez948 stimmt

[@ariestheram5693]

A coma can change the meaning of a sentence. For instance : "Dad is in a restaurant" "Dad is in a coma"

[@akgamer1825]

A comma can also have that effect. Ex: "I'm gonna go help my uncle, Jack, off a horse" vs "I'm gonna go help my uncle jack off a horse"

[@billcipher8787]

I didn't understand until I reread it

[@yeetusdeletus3282]

@@akgamer1825 I laughed so hard at that

[@samuellinn]

it took me so long to realise the joke omfg

[@spadeney3722]

@@akgamer1825 i got a first cousin once removed named jack and my cousins always pull that joke

[@Posh_Quack]

English is like a group project where everyone did something different and it was mashed together last minute.

[@theliteralocean]

I always add an Oxford comma to my sentences, and most people tell me, “You shouldn’t (should not) put a comma there. It doesn’t (does not) make sense.” The following sentence is grammatically correct. Yet some people could tell me otherwise, and I’d (I would) ignore them because I am most likely just flat-out more intelligent than the opposing person. 🤓

[@itsvnc]

“Piano players are pianists, but race car drivers are not called racist” *dead*

[@inybisinsulate]

Racer, may me murican...

[@strictlypineapple9308]

beserk wrong

[@traceyjacobsen8544]

Strictly Pineapple rasost

[@MoleculeXmolecule]

NASCAR drivers might be called racist. It's part of the demographic.

[@41-Haiku]

To be fair, most things are called racist.