Northernlion on the German language

[@KamisKapi]

American when their smoothie doesn't have dookie dust and toe nails

[@SuppleandMoist]

+2

[@SimonDoer]

Amerikaner, wenn ihr smoothie kein Dookie Staub oder Zehnnägel enthält.

[@frumpyglint]

@@SimonDoer plus twee

[@thomasprovitt1806]

*Picture of an Elephant Trunk* "What do you call this?" "A Carrymancer" *Picture of Car Truck* "and this?" "A Carrymancer"

[@Roi985]

holy shit habe gestern schon so hart über den Eis-Thread gelacht und jetzt sehe ich, dass es bis in die NL-Bubble gekommen ist, danke Bibliothekar

[@MrInsideEye]

I'm learning german, is this translation correct? "Yesterday i had already laughed so hard at the joke about the ice cream and now i see that it has entered the NL bubble. Thank you librarian"

[@mightyboole]

​@@MrInsideEyeyour translation is good. if we really wanted to nitpick, we could say that you should have said "have laughed" instead of "had laughed" because the comment you translated used the perfect tense (ich habe gelacht) and not the past perfect tense (ich hatte gelacht) but nice job :D

[@LightTheMars]

@@mightyboole Germans when the grammar isn't perfectly accurate (the Tempus was Plusquamperfekt)

[@AKIMBOKNOWS]

@@MrInsideEyewhy didn’t you just check the translation?

[@MrInsideEye]

@@AKIMBOKNOWS i don't see any translation option on my ui. Also i like to have human feedback :3

[@roguewarrior6463]

Germans when NL goes “pog verrückt“: Los geeehts!!!

[@drsherifff]

WAS DIE HÖLLE?

[@zankaa8031]

I love that you can just kind of vaguely read German if you know english

[@martinkaufmann5205]

If you learn both, they kind of throw Dutch in for free.

[@teemuaho4807]

​@@martinkaufmann5205if you also learn swedish you've mastered the whole northwestern quarter of europe

[@joshuaanson5939]

​@@martinkaufmann5205 yeah i can read Dutch no problem, i cant understand a word of spoken dutch though

[@durikodurien1056]

modern german is very much influenced by english tbh. Most younger people watch american/international youtube and movies in english and pick up speech mannerisms from there.

[@sleep5778]

First word with an Umlaut and native english speakers crumble tho.

[@spevenpave5669]

Germans when NL makes fun of grammarphiles: es ist so vorbei Germans when NL reveals he is one: wir sind so zurück

[@SemiIocon]

Interesting that NL didn't recognise Nikocado Avocado in that pic and I immediately did. I need to rethink my life.

[@brandonmeens]

What about now

[@filipsichrovsky]

I am disappointed no one told him to get ready to learn Chinese, buddy when he was discussing making a language universal

[@mike-yd4py]

It hurts to speak the truth.

[@SimonDoer]

As a german, I don't understand when people say german sounds aggressive. To me it sounds hella dorky. Good to know Eiervater shares my opinion.

[@AcmeMonkeyCompany]

I think those people primarily know German from Medal of Honor: Frontline for the Playstation 2

[@Gefo__]

Eiervater LMAO had to Google that one

[@MildChunkySalsa]

This has been my experience when learning German, it sounds less aggressive but kinda goofy in a way. Also Eiervater or Eierkopf?

[@osgrace3341]

@@MildChunkySalsa fun fact eiermann is actually the title of people who used to go around from house to house and sell eggs 😂

[@MildChunkySalsa]

@@osgrace3341 that’s pretty funny 😅

[@HathawaySamurai]

Amerikaner when the regenbogenstreusel

[@tim..indeed]

I mean the tweet was actively phrased humorously. Those aren't everyday German words at all lol.

[@Thornskade]

Not really, it's just that those are product names, the rest of the sentence itself is nothing unusual

[@AcmeMonkeyCompany]

2:15 Librarian: I'll throw a fiver out there for rangensprogenshmootzel, thanks

[@csguy3223]

German is funny. When you read it it sounds silly. When they scream it at you dressed in a Hugo Boss suit it sounds scary.

[@Thornskade]

Probably because you're mispronouncing it lol

[@SemiIocon]

That Antibabypille thing is technically true, but Germans would understand if you just said "Pille" in context. You don't need to add the "antibaby" part every time.

[@zankaa8031]

It's the same in America, we call it "the pill" lol

[@Eval999]

lol but in English its a birth control pill in full. antibabypille sounds goofed

[@MF-fd2ug]

one day NL will learn to pronounce Streusel

[@cday0075]

He won’t. All Americans assume it’s the same as strudel

[@Octolio]

Yeah because most Americans don't speak german dummy. They default to the shit they know, english or maybe spanish

[@B2Roland]

​@@cday0075 no one cares

[@Yotanido]

@@B2Roland about your opinion? ye, you're right

[@Thornskade]

When you learn it's pronounced like destroy it's suddenly a lot less funny, isn't it

[@TheMarkoSeke]

Reminds me of Karl Pilkington's take on words in the English language. He's on the Mt Rushmore of bald people, but not necessarily someone you want to be on the same side of an argument with.

[@Ther3tr0]

Gesegneter Eiervater

[@jroemling]

Half of the fun that Americans seem to have with German are the compound nouns, and then they will say that there is a German word for EVERYTHING. Yeah, we can just combine whatever parts we need to make any word we want. Hence Regenbogenstreussel or Sozialversicherungsgesellschaftszweigstellenleiter. Even if you never heard the word before you know what it means because it is just a compound noun that is combined from simple parts to describe the thing perfectly, a thing that especially French can't do, and that is why French sounds funny to us.

[@ironicfa1389]

good comment

[@rybread9574]

the french class bit is the most true thing i’ve ever heard in my life. you got a class full of year 4 kids who can only say il y a un chien over and over

[@TheLucidChiba]

No idea how to speak any French but I can sing Frere Jackes pretty well.

[@cxayse]

me llamo ryan, *dies* is so fucking funny to me

[@Corrupted]

germans when someone makes fun of our language: hochverrat germans when someone tries their candy and snacks: dichter und denker

[@GaiusQuintus]

This is an all-time NL rant. Holy shit I'm dying. Thanks Librarian.

[@tylerbeckley5452]

Me llamo Ryan *dies* was actually incredible I’m dying💀💀

[@edford3354]

Librarian thumbail game on fire, i cackled in public when i saw it. Dont worry I directed all the odd looks your way!

[@TheLibraryofLetourneau]

this is my cross to bear

[@anonymouskowala6389]

NL makes a case for forcing descriptive laguage into preprective langauage

[@Xzhh_]

"Irregardless" is worse than "on accident" 😠

[@tychoazrephet3794]

Monkeys paw scenario where NL wakes up in a world where everyone only speaks Korean

[@badmemesanddeaddreams3396]

Ist es Over für mich?

[@MajorProps]

ITT: Every German or German adjacent NL viewer.

[@TheLibraryofLetourneau]

and im living for it

[@engagementcomment9705]

Shoutout to the two seconds in acknowledgement that "would of" usage fucking sucks 😩

[@yessirge]

i get where he's coming from but he pronounced regenbogenstreusel like its dutch (goofy language). if you pronounced "rainbow sprinkle" like that it would be unserious too

[@TheMasterMakarov]

Nördlicher Löwes Reaktion wenn ich ihm erzähle Englisch ist eine germanische Sprache : Neeeeein das ist Unmöglich du Lügst Ich : Erkunde deine Gefühle Ryan ich bin deine Lasagne

[@shai4129]

wait until he finds out about dutch

[@RoxxorzYourBoxxorz]

dutch is literally just English spelled badly

[@Octolio]

He was on a roll with this one

[@NolenJacobson]

In my experience all that was true about Canadian french classes and on top of that they're so short on french teachers that you end up getting taught by a math teacher who doesn't speak a word of the language.

[@Jinanwoys]

11:31 97 year old Ryan still dies the old-fashioned way

[@theronerdithas2944]

Me llamo Ryan. * dies *

[@NikELbErGErBergel]

americans when they hear another language: WHaaaoo tthis sounds diffrent!???

[@sarakatelyn8923]

As a Canadian who learned German living in Austria this is exactly the content I need

[@BeansEnjoyer911]

Librarian is a national treasure. Thanks for the great compilations

[@jacobwumbo827]

I’m am pogged to the gills with the idea of language-philes going around arguing for more reasonable and useful language rules and word definitions. Fuck grammar Nazis, we need a progressive language not a reactionary one.

[@plan3teris]

took a german class in uni this spring its easily the most cartoon ass language on earth edit: except maybe dutch

[@marrychrismas5993]

2000 words of Spanish is enough to follow most conversations. This would take NL 3 years if learining 2 words per day.

[@jackl8025]

What about grammar

[@lautaroescarlon7501]

That doesn't sound right

[@Biosquid239]

NL going to Brazil in 3 years?!

[@filipsichrovsky]

​@@Biosquid239to Madrid. Brazilians don't even speak Spanish

[@Biosquid239]

@@filipsichrovsky thats true, thats pretty true.

[@ljlk8583]

I think the reason for english having so many homonyms has to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis. Analyzing the 4 provided meanings for the word "trunk": 1) the stem of a tree 2) the nose of an elephant 3) a large hinged box 4) the back of a car We can tell from etymologies, meaning 4 comes from meaning 3 as luggage trunks were originally put on the back of carriages and these eventually developed into the modern day car trunk. Looking more into the etymology of meaning 3, it looks like it originally comes from a French word that means both the stem of a tree and a luggage trunk. Most likely, this is because luggage trunks were primarily wooden and quite large, possibly made from the trunks of trees. As for an elephant's trunk.... it gets more complicated. It apparently originally comes from the 16th century and it's not entirely known exactly why it was coined, but speculation indicates that it may be due to the word 'trunk' meaning a long, hollow wooden tube around this time (again originating from a tree's trunk). So really, all the meanings of trunk come back to the stem of a tree ALSO: 'balance changes' already happen and constantly happen! The english language is constantly changing and evolving (this is actually what my thesis was about). Many colloquialisms of today wouldn't have made any sense or worked 100, 200 years ago or more. It constantly changes and updates.

[@Roi985]

patching language is a high tier bit +2

[@Dafoodmaster]

is it funny in dutch? i'll try to translate: amerikanen wanneer hun ijs geen metrische ton reeses' pindakaas cups, karamelsaus, stukjes chocolade, regenbooghagelslag en oreo-krokantjes bevat.

[@real9270]

YIPPEE

[@Krackerjax]

This video was terrible it didnt even have regenbogenstreusel und oreo crunshies. smh my head

[@GoldudeMK]

Im german an ambulance is called "Krankenwagen" and hospital is "Krankenhaus"

[@rhysdenno5993]

They're ice cream toppings, not scientific terms. Of course they sound silly

[@loggersviii1228]

you say this like scientific terms don’t sound silly

[@zankaa8031]

you say that as if he didn't literally bring up antibabypillen

[@lbgstzockt8493]

And half of them are terms coined by english companies

[@RetroCandyArt]

librarian has the opportunity to upload the funniest bit of all time

[@astreinerboi]

Regenbogenstreusel is pretty fun, but "oreo crunchies" is just a word taken from English. Why would that sound strange?

[@chocopieaddict9792]

wdym, oreo crunchies doesnt sound funny to u? what about marshmellow? s’mores?

[@FizzyCape]

Because “crunchies” isn’t something a person would say in english.

[@Smurrei]

It's such a good meme

[@styxrakash4639]

That thumbnail was cursed asf

[@silafim]

oh! the outro has etho! cool

[@galappy]

11:28 this 97 year old streamer still dies in Madrid the old fashioned way

[@MrSlizzard]

Me llano Ryan…dies

[@cineblazer]

"grammarphiles but in the opposite direction" we exist!! my favorite name for our kind is "descriptivists" - basically we believe that language defined by how people use it, and all the rules and systems people make up to "govern" language are really just shorthand/approximations. This is in contrast to your "grammarphiles", who I'd call "PREscriptivists."

[@TheLucidChiba]

How does this extend to people mixing up lose/loose or rogue/rouge? Like do those just become accepted spellings for one another?

[@Kadarin187]

Funnily enough, the german language has "language updates" or at least grammar updates as in, 1996 the way many words were written was overhauled and now they are written differently. It's called "Rechtschreibreform" in german.

[@iannsinger5760]

I have a degree in linguistics, I know I’m kinda late. English has a million different words with divergent definitions bc it’s just such a freak language. In short at least. It’s like you mixed Latin and ancient Celtic, then ferment for 800 years, then add medieval Saxon, then add French (itself a weird derivative of Latin), then ferment like 500 years, then send it across the entire globe like a virus grafting itself onto every other language that might be of strategic importance to the British or later US government. All of those colonized languages inevitably leave their mark on the English language, even if they themselves become destroyed. All of this is not to mention its relatively recent status as the global lingua franca, which more or less forces everyone everywhere to have some knowledge of English. Good thing too, I wouldn’t have a job otherwise lol. But yea English really is a weird mixed up freak language, it’s kinda bound to be less structured and orderly than German or French or Chinese. Because those languages don’t have the same history.

[@jackl8025]

schokochips und oreo crunshies 💀

[@bruceusername]

+2 outro

[@HenryGuckes]

every linguist in nls chat when he rediscovers descriptivism:

[@jamesmccomb9525]

Our xenophobic king 👑

[@RoxxorzYourBoxxorz]

my brother as a kid was the opposite, he'd accuse you of doing stuff "by purpose"

[@tonytralalala]

11:05 Sounds like a Karl Pilkington bit

[@PlutoDarknight]

I can forgive your preconception of us. We Germans take our humour very seriously. It's no laughing matter

[@abdulrahimss]

I mean it sounds funny to him since English itself is a germanic language (originally! I know that it got updated with alotta norse and french but the base is germanic) so it's understandable that he finds variants lf the same words he uses in English goofy sounding. Like for example regen=rain and so on. But that grammarphile take is an L to me. I think languages are amazing.

[@dogdjinn]

languages are amazing but you can let them change

[@heckoff7904]

Norse is a Germanic language. Also, the loan words are usually higher register words (ie theyre the words known by people who know lots of words), if you look at the distribution of words in actual use, you'd still find a lot more germanic. Not to mention the grammar is much more Germanic.

[@Larryboy2701]

I’m absolutely a reverse grammerphile. Who gives a shit? We know what people mean because of context even when they say a “fake” word.

[@KevinPhilipsBong1]

Urge to kill: rising!

[@NicholasW943]

English has so many vastly different definitions for the exact same word to keep poets and playwrights employed. Row meaning paddling or intense argument is literally a psyop to keep the word knowers salaried.

[@Stanheights]

Am I missing something or does he just throw out a random hannibal reference at 2:13

[@mkrv]

Would it be any comfort to NL to know that Merriam-Webster has had 'irregardless' as a word since like, 2020?

[@mkrv]

Actually I'll be honest I'm dense enough to not be sure if he's pro or anti 'irregardless'

[@bensomeone]

As someone with an actual linguistics degree +2

[@zebteched]

Back bacon is Canadian bacon I think

[@dracula7779]

Danke bibliotekar

[@babyyodar3426]

if you don't want to double up on words we can have a total of 1.6772593e+21 amount of words in the standard english language if we assume that a standard word is equal to or below 15 letters. We done goofed on homonyms, they really shouldn't exist.

[@badaboum2]

My firend who has kids: "you don't get it, I have no free time for anything". Also my friend who has kids: leaves them to his wife to spend 12 hours a week watching football and getting drunk.

[@Tagbadger3]

My school Spanish was exactly like NL's French. We would have a class maybe 1 quarter of each year, and just repeat the same lessons each year. Why even bother?

[@fybso3057]

Rain (regen) bow (bogen) Literal translation

[@mantidream8179]

Germans, how do you manage the absolute barrage of syllables that is your language?

[@percocetthirty]

As soon as the bit starts there’s just a huge influx of passive aggressive Germans commenting in chat hahaha

[@Eval999]

oreo crunshies funny af

[@MrTrollo2]

i mean it's the joke to translate the stupid english name to German, then seeing someone joking about the German is funny

[@deur]

the og ussr ice cream is goated what do you mean...

[@ScarletKomi]

9:50 -2, the international language has to have no native speakers specifically because the disaster that is english as the somewhat of the international language. It is so fucking infuriating that all americans if you speak english assume that you are also american, the fact that all "international" communities in English devolve into "american communities" with some non americans ( heck it can be split 50% americans 10% other native english speaker 40% non native e.s. and the discussion is still gonna be from the assumed american perspective). English as de-facto language of the international internet is a complete disaster

[@jackl8025]

Sanest KZbin comment

[@clement9ne]

also even if everyone was mind-beamed with a new global language we'd all change it in our own ways in our own communities - esp if we all remember our old languages/cultures, idk why people act like diversity of language is such an awful thing!! its art and expression!! im livid

[@user6122]

@@jackl8025 no let him cook

[@sophiaoconnell1927]

Germans when people make fun of German: waß ist sö funny of how we talk where is da humoǔr locæted Germans when making fun of Americans: ja i find da slaughtêr of die kiddos in their center of learning to be quite entertaining in fact

[@nickolasmazzara127]

Yippeee!

[@zaklesiou]

French is a banger, faut reviser mon gars

[@Justin-ee1mv]

LULW

[@SchadenfreudeUY]

I love how you can read German and Dutch without knowing a single thing about those languages

[@philskill8149]

That's it. I'm cancelling my subscription!

[@jasonbraun127]

I get that German can be funny sometimes but "oreo crunchies" is definitely not German.

[@erato4362]

NL talking about the problem with anglos learning new languages as adults is the most Aware clip moment I seen recently.

[@DASding148]

Half those words were English

[@Thornskade]

Stroosle sounds silly, but it's not pronounced like that. It's pronounced Stroisel which sounds more serious, so there you go

[@mattymerr701]

English is a Germanic language. That's why there are so many similar looking words

[@catie33336]

english is the language of a world full of borders and unacquainted neighbours!! instead of bringing nations and cultures together it keeps them separate and retains america's power over the world!!

[@michaualtington]

why does he get mad about on accident? they literally patched it in because it makes more sense and is WAY healthier for the metagame, is it on purpose or by purpose???

[@Vario69]

NL and librarian are in a relationship?

[@8BitsOfFun1323]

English is a germanic language btw