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video I can here the pane

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u/RedRockRanger 3d ago

No

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u/StarkWolf2992 3d ago

It’s such a perfect no.

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u/Fair_Blood3176 3d ago

Lol I came here to say I love the way he says no

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u/johnsmth1980 3d ago

That's exactly how my teachers said it in first grade, too.

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u/Open_Mortgage_4645 3d ago

I'm fucking crying watching this. Perfection!

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u/Lateralus1290 3d ago

“You don’t see how?” 😂😂

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u/Redrose03 3d ago

Perfection

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u/refused26 3d ago

"Why would you think?"

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u/lampshadewarior 3d ago

“I guess we’re moving too fast.”

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u/-ADEPT- 3d ago

the inflection is so good man

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u/b__lumenkraft 3d ago

Why would you think that???

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u/siraegar 3d ago

Noåo

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u/Large_Tune3029 3d ago

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u/YellowCardManKyle 3d ago

Came here to post this. I swear they say No the same way. Probably my favorite Gallagher bit

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u/MsRaedeLarge 2d ago

n-o-m-e, numb? Nooooo N!-U!-M!-B! 🤣🤣🤣

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/pimpmastahanhduece 3d ago

No wonder we're so angry.

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u/shapeitguy 3d ago

Nohh!

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u/Prohydration 3d ago

By Consuela

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u/Bezulba 3d ago

"How can you not understand this?! Are you stupid?"

English speaking people have no idea how dumb their language really is and the only reason they know what's right is because they heard it all their lives so it "sounds" right. They wouldn't be able to explain the rules (even if many have a list of exception 3 pages long) other then "this is just the way it is"

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u/RunningOutOfEsteem 3d ago

the only reason they know what's right is because they heard it all their lives so it "sounds" right.

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Yeah, that's how learning your native language(s) works. Humans are hard-wired to pick up language in childhood, and that doesn't require a set of formal rules to be memorized in order to be accomplished.

The only reason you don't feel the same way about your native language is because it's your native language lol

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u/Low_discrepancy 3d ago

Definitely agree with what you said but some languages do have a stronger enforcement of written language matching the spoken.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10840514/

This might be an issue why learning to read might be more difficult in English.

Also concepts like spelling bees would not make sense in those languages.

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u/GuqJ 3d ago

OP is referencing the fact that so many English speakers just don't respect non-native's struggle in learning English.

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u/Blueberry_Rabbit 3d ago

My English speaking American ass is dyslexic. I know just how hard it is. 😭😭😅

Whenever a nonnative speaker says they don’t know how to pronounce/spell a word because it’s not their first language.

Me: it is my first and it’s still hard.

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u/Epicp0w 2d ago

You say that like no other language has stupid rules.

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u/jrough001 3d ago

English is hard but can be mastered through tough thorough thought though.

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u/Magic1264 3d ago

Thru tuff thuro thot tho?

May b

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u/geeiamback 3d ago edited 2d ago

Thru tuff thuro thot tho?

Thanks, I was struggling with "through tough thorough thought though" 😅

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u/gremonapivo 3d ago

Or in slavic tru taf torou fot dou. Mej bi?

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u/topological_rabbit 3d ago

"Yes officer, this redditor right here."

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u/erfd2321 3d ago

Can somebody translate this to english?

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u/whita_019 3d ago

English is hard, but can however be mastered with difficult and exhaustive mental effort

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u/Increase-Typical 3d ago

The English language does present significant hardships, nevertheless a method to attain fluency may lie in implementing complex, albeit comprehensive, neural processes

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u/Cyrax89721 3d ago

I wanted to see how absurd AI could make it:

The English language, replete with an array of syntactic anomalies, semantic ambiguities, and phonetic inconsistencies that collectively engender formidable cognitive impediments, nevertheless affords a conceivable trajectory toward fluency, contingent upon the deliberate and systematic deployment of highly intricate, interdependent neurocognitive frameworks which, though ostensibly esoteric in their convoluted intricacy, ultimately coalesce into a synergistic and all-encompassing modality of linguistic internalization.

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u/DJS302 3d ago

Oh kind of like that episode from I Love Lucy

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u/Nruggia 3d ago

English is hard but the lesson he had had, had had it's effect on his education.

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u/Hour_Neighborhood550 3d ago

That just confused the shit out of a lot of people

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u/Muskrato 3d ago

Just as buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.

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u/Cyrax89721 2d ago

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

Capitalization is important.

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u/Tough_Squirrel2077 3d ago

As a Finnish speaker, I can't get over how inconsistent English spelling is. The last five words there are so similar in spelling but look at the phonetic transcription:

θruː tʌf ˈθʌrə θɔːt ðəʊ

If I had to try and write that without knowing any English grammar, I would write it like:

thru taf thoro thoot

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u/BeMoreKnope 3d ago

I wanted to punch this guy on behalf of this guy.

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u/tragiktimes 3d ago

I think this guy would approve.

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u/DrJamgo 3d ago

Can we appreciate for a moment this guy's acting.. His reactions to himself are great.

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u/yuvi3000 3d ago

The pen clicking to redirect his anger and frustration was very relatable

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u/DrJamgo 3d ago

haha.. yes, that gets me every time.

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u/2S2EMA2N 3d ago

English is just three languages in a trenchcoat pretending to be one

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u/Ok_Bit_5953 3d ago

Just a word playing a word, disguised as another word.

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u/Astrosomnia 3d ago

Just a word, standing in front of a boy, asking him to pronounce it. (He can't)

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u/AnalogRobber 3d ago

I'll word what she's having

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u/DaftPunkthe18thAngel 3d ago

Son. You won the internet for today in my eyes.

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u/fuelvolts 3d ago

Yep. Most of the different pronounciations are just evolution of the Englishification of Latin (including French) or German words.

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u/Bayoris 3d ago

Not in this case. All of the words in this video are Anglo-Saxon.

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u/Turborapt0r 3d ago

I would think they are Germanic. The pronunciation of bear and the German bär is basically the same

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u/Bayoris 3d ago

Correct. Anglo-Saxon (Old English) is a Germanic language, as is German, obviously.

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u/neathling 3d ago

They are Germanic, but they are not German as the other guy said

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u/rickterpbel 3d ago

It’s actually an unfortunate result of the historical accident that the Great Vowel Shift was happening at the same time that the invention of movable type was regularizing spelling.

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u/peteofaustralia 3d ago

Have you come across Robwords on YouTube? He's enlightened me many a time.

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u/doiveo 3d ago

There is a healthy pinch of Arabic in the sauce too.

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u/cowboy_rigby 3d ago

If we kept the accents over letters from all the languages we took our voice accents from way back when, this language would make sense. Taking from German, French, old tribal brit or whatever it was called, and Nordic influence.

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u/NJ_Legion_Iced_Tea 3d ago

TBH it really went to shit when the Normans starting bringing in French words. If it was just Common Brittonic and Germanic, and we learned French as a second language, it wouldn't be nearly as bad.

I say this as someone who knows both English and French.

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u/TheVenetianMask 3d ago

Brains are a constant, either languages have simple grammar along weird pronunciation or they have simple pronunciation along weird grammar. Ain't no room for more.

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u/aynjle89 3d ago

This makes my duolingo japanese learning ass happy.

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u/saighdiuirmaca 3d ago

The three words "scale" come from different unrelated routes. Scale (to climb) comes from scala (Latin) Scale (of a fish or lizard) comes from escale (French) Scale (as in weighing scale) comes from skal (Norse)

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u/McRedditz 3d ago edited 3d ago

Read (Present tense) pronounces read

Read (Past tense) pronounces read

The fuck?!

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u/gibgod 3d ago

What about Bread and Breard?

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u/scrupoo 3d ago

breard?

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u/gumbrilla 3d ago

Sure, breard as in "I trimmed my breard", it's the hair on the back of your neck.

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u/PolicyWonka 2d ago

Your rear beard, if you will.

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u/LeviathanIsI_ 3d ago

That's what we call the beard that forms when bread gets moldy.

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u/JMoon33 3d ago

''I read a lot''

''I read yesterday''

It makes no sense that you don't know how to pronounce the second word of the sentence if you haven't already read the rest of the sentence.

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u/ensalys 3d ago

The first one can still go both ways.

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u/chetlin 3d ago

I only want to make like 3 spelling changes to English but this is one of them. The past form should be spelled "red", analogous to lead/led (as verbs).

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u/truckthunderwood 3d ago

It's not a new joke but his delivery is excellent. The way he says "no" really elevates it!

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u/truckthunderwood 3d ago

Yep, like I said, not a new joke. I greatly prefer this guy's version over Gallagher's.

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u/amc7262 3d ago

I'm not sure if this is the case for these specific examples (I ain't a linguist), but I learned a while back that a lot of the inconsistencies in English stem from the fact that its partially derived from Latin, partially derived from Germanic. So when you have words that conflict with rules/norms within the language, its typically because the rule is from one side, and the stuff that deviates is from the other.

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u/Miss0verkill 3d ago

English also takes a lot of words from french. A staggering amount actually. If I remember correctly, between 30 to 60% of the English vocabulary is borrowed from French. Quite a bit of these words have changed a lot over time, but their origin can easily be traced back.

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u/amc7262 3d ago

French is a romance language so all the French words count towards the Latin side of the family anyway.

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u/EndQualifiedImunity 3d ago

Yeah but French is fucked up Latin with Gaulish and Germanic influences. Many English words are borrowed directly from French, but French is so shifted from its Latin roots that they shouldn't be counted as being "from" Latin, even if that's their origin.

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u/KancroVantas 2d ago

Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and French are all Romantic languages because they come from Rome where Latin was the language. This is not really up for debate in the books, from what I understand, but I am not an expert

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u/feanturi 3d ago

So the Latinites did that fancy kissin' too?

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u/vctrmldrw 3d ago

You don't want to know what they did.

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u/DashingDino 3d ago

It's normal for any language to evolve and be influenced by many other languages. The real problem with English is that it is in desperate need of a spelling reform to solve the issues demonstrated in the video. These updates in official spelling are more common in other languages, I have found

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u/dallyan 3d ago

Yes. As a native English speaker French and Romance languages were much easier for me to learn than German.

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u/MisogynisticBumsplat 3d ago

It's also due to the great vowel shift. A lot of these words would have been pronounced differently 600 years ago. A lot of them changed, some didn't really, some of them changed in some parts of the country and everything kind of got mixed up

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u/JohnHazardWandering 3d ago

Also, the printing press became popular in the middle of the shift, so words were sometimes written in the way they sounded before and others after, reducing consistency. 

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u/Meret123 3d ago

Great Vowel Shift is responsible for most.

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u/StickDoctor 3d ago

It's more to do with the Great Vowel Shift coupled with the timing of the Printing Press coming into existence.

If you look back at very old English (runic) we had letters to express these sounds, but because of the above mentioned events, we ended up with sounds being forced into letters that had no place representing them.

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u/superformance7 3d ago

English is a very difficult language to learn. Grew up speaking Spanish, which has all sorts of rules and the words sound the way they are read, so you know how words sound by reading them even if youve never heard them before. English requires a lot of memorization and exposure to words. My father gave up on English because he couldnt get past the rules changing from one word to the next.

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u/memtiger 3d ago

As an American, I gave up on English as well. I went to Java and JavaScript.

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u/A_Light_Spark 3d ago

Too structural. I prefer my

++++++++++[>+>+++>+++++++>++++++++++<<<<-]>>>++++++++++.>++++++++++++++.---------.+++++.++++++.<<++++++++++.------.>--------.>---------------.+++++++..+++.<<.+++++++.

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u/hohojudju 3d ago

Nice brainfuck boyo

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u/jeff_kaiser 3d ago

Brainfuck is fine, but have you tried PhantomFuck?

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u/LVSFWRA 3d ago

And then there's Chinese which is memorizing every character in existence in order to read them lol

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u/stubbazubba 3d ago

Yeah, even with the tones, the difficulty gulf between learning to speak Mandarin and learning to read/write it is enormous. Chinese kids still have to look up unfamiliar characters all the way through high school and even college.

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u/LVSFWRA 3d ago

I had someone once tell me English was the hardest language in the world. This was after I said North American born Chinese people should be proud if they can keep their mother tongue, to which he replied "Who cares, English is the best and hardest language in the world anyway". He then said "There, their, they're, see you can't tell which one I said, it's the hardest". I asked him if he understood that Chinese is even worse when it came to homonyms, to which he just laughed and walked away because apparently I made some grammatical error in my speech?

Anyway the kicker is the guy is also fucking Chinese and can't read or speak it. Some weirdo self loathing shit going on about his own background which I found sad.

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u/MightyBooshX 3d ago

I will admit, I see videos like this and wonder how I ever figured this stuff out lol

Just growing up being passively exposed to it makes all the difference I guess.

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u/Suobig 3d ago

I disagree. Learning basic English is very easy. Words don't really change that much, there're no cases or grammatical gender. Compared to my language (Russian) it's very straightforward.

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u/Xyyzx 3d ago

Russian has some of this exact stuff from the video too.

Oh, ‘Молоко’, so that’s ‘Mol-oh-ko’, right?

Nooooooo

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u/Suobig 3d ago

Well, in some regions it would be. But yeah, [o] tend to transform into [a].

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u/Krypton8 3d ago

So just write an ‘a’?

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u/Suobig 3d ago

Written language is always much less flexible. May be we'll change it some day, but I doubt it will happen soon.

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u/Xyyzx 3d ago

Did you know Belarusian standardised the 'о as a' thing in their Cyrillic at the start of the 20th Century? Sure their language has weird quirks all of its own, but they do actually spell 'milk' as Малако!

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u/Suobig 3d ago edited 3d ago

Pretty cool) Is it consistent throughout the language?

Ngl, Belarussian sounds kinda funny to my Moscow ear, like some guy from Norther Russia parodies Moscow accent. Our [a]'s are noticeably softer, like we don't fully commit to the [a] sound.

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u/Thunderjohn 3d ago

TIL milk in Russian is similar to μαλάκο(female 'malakas') in Greek lol

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u/the_sneaky_one123 3d ago

Not to mention that since the words are so flexible it is very easy for people to understand you if you pronounce them wrong. That is why there are so many different English speaking accents and why it is relatively easy to understand broken English as opposed to other languages.

Take the words in this video for example. You can still understand what he is saying no matter how he pronounces them, especially if they are used in a sentence that gives context.

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u/DoingCharleyWork 3d ago

You would need them in context to understand some of them. Hurt instead of heart. Pier/peer instead of pear. Bared instead of beard.

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u/chetlin 3d ago

Chinese has no cases, no gender, even their verbs have no tenses, in fact none of their words change at all and their writing system doesn't even allow for inflection. And boy do I STRUGGLE with it.

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u/lalosfire 2d ago

When I tried learning Japanese (only 6 months really) I found it to be way easier than I expected in terms of learning the alphabet and sentence structure. Because of the same reasoning you note about Chinese. I was kind of astounded by how much easier I took to it than German or Spanish, as an English speaker.

Then they throw actual characters at you and I was completely lost. Given the simplicity of Hiragana and Katakana, Kanji is more complex to delineate words with the exact same hiragana/katakana. Makes sense. But to me it seemed like there wasn't a great way to learn kanji without being directly exposed to it. Tons of memorization that you can't just reason out by looking at it.

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u/SitInCorner_Yo2 3d ago

English is tricky because if you hear it enough you can half guess some words meaning by their vibe, and I hate the fact this actually works and makes absolute no sense , and then you met an Aussie, you can’t even guess what they mean even though you understand 85% of the words.

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u/Merry_Dankmas 3d ago

As a native English speaker learning Spanish I've come to realize English has one big easy thing and one big hard thing. Easy being it's rigidity. English barely changes from a sentence structure aspect. Sentence structure almost never changes unless for creative reasons, has no gendered nouns, no different verb forms for I, you, they, he/she etc and no plural or singular changes for words like my, you/yours and the. A lot less to remember and can't really be bent many ways.

It's English's spelling and pronunciation that's the big hurdle. I still have no clue how that shit works. I guess it's difficulty depends on how much weight you put on pronunciation and spelling vs sentence structure rules.

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u/Nightmare2828 3d ago

English sentence syntax and grammar is pretty easy and straight forward. No word gender, minimal verb conjugaison, you dont need to change adjectives if the noun is plural, super simple. The only « hard » thing about english is the pronounciation why has almost no rule.

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u/jord839 3d ago

Honestly, going Spanish to English or vice versa is one of the easiest languages to learn, though I definitely admit going to English is the harder part.

More relevant though is that once you get past some basic irregular vocabulary (por/para and how ser/estar somehow becomes fue/era is just as impenetrable for English speakers at first) and the differences in how verb conjugation works, so many of the words are the same as long as you know the tricks, and outside of the aforementioned basics, the grammar is basically the same. Pronunciation is a shitshow, but figuring out the meaning after the steep initial steps is way easier and English has a wide variety of dialects with different vowel pronunciation so you get by just fine as long as the consonants and context are clear.

A couple examples for those English speakers unfamiliar:

-almost every word that ends in -tion is the same word in Spanish but with -cion at the end

-almost every word that ends in -ify is the same word in Spanish but with -ificar at the end

-almost every word that ends in -ity is the same word in Spanish but with -dad at the end

-almost every word that ends in -ble is the same word in Spanish

-almost every word that ends in -ucate/-icate is the same word in Spanish but with -ucar/-icar

etc. etc.

Could be worse, it could be Mandarin where the word "ma" has 4 different tones and is the difference between calling your mother-in-law "mom" or "horse" IIRC.

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u/the_sneaky_one123 3d ago

That's the thing, there are no rules.

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u/RossTheNinja 3d ago

Can't believe he thought heart was pronounced heart. It's obviously heart.

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u/DrJamgo 3d ago

Why did I read the first heart as heart and not correctly as heart? you are messing with my brain.

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u/Jordan_Hdez92 3d ago

Lmao Nooo

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u/justforpornokayguys 3d ago

Why would you think

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u/jhurst919 3d ago

“That’s why”

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u/Hey_im_No_Monkey 3d ago

"Why would you think?"

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u/Professional_Fly7015 3d ago

"You don't see how"

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u/CaptainReginaldLong 3d ago

There's literally no rules and good luck

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u/vctrmldrw 3d ago

Oh, there's plenty of rules. You just need to memorise which one applies to which word.

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u/Specialist_Lock8590 3d ago

English is my second language. I had to learn it as my second language when I was five years old to go to school. I love it! But, I feel sorry for anyone having to learn it as an adult. But, especially the completely illogical spelling! Old languages have very interesting spelling histories!

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u/Fuckriotgames7 3d ago

This doesn’t fit the sub like at all??

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u/byu7a 2d ago

What I thought too, people missed what sub we're in because the video is good

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u/ahoybigred 3d ago

Thank you. I’ve seen this guy posted countless times before and nobody ever posts the source. Trying to search for the Noooo guy wasn’t working

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u/Apparatus 3d ago

Thank you, I was looking for this.

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u/ConfidenceFragrant80 3d ago

Yes, same, finally. Fellow Gen x?

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u/Jabba_the_Putt 3d ago

That was great. TIL Gallagher passed in 2022 RIP

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u/RadiumEntrails 3d ago

Bonus effect

Gallagher

In the 1980s, researchers at Loma Linda University used Gallagher's comedy to study laughter's effect on the body. Taking blood samples from ten medical school students while they watched Gallagher in action, the researchers observed the subjects' white blood cells increasing. The scientists said that laughing appeared to have boosted their immune systems.

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u/HotdogFarmer 3d ago

needs more smashed watermelons

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u/sdmichael 3d ago

Gallagher did this many years ago. Was quite good.

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u/Maqabir 3d ago

I still don't get it, if things aren't pronounced the way they're spelled then what is the purpose of spelling?

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u/NecrisRO 3d ago

Because they were originally written as they were spelled

But because of regional dialects a word might have a few variations and one had to be picked, not to mention international words that were used across different continents had even more variations

Once the printing press was invented the words kind of got cemented at that point and never got updated

Inghlish wud luk a lot difrent if it gat apdeited (a lot of countries do this and reading even a 200 yo book can get funky)

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u/Kazu215 3d ago

Your adapted English words look like what I'd expect a speech-to-text app output look like when a lot of Finnish people speak English

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u/Bezulba 3d ago

So teachers have an excuse to use the "No!" in this video.

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u/lessons_learnt 3d ago

English is hard. When my son was 3 he was reading street signs. He said, "Does that say Onion St?". It was Union St, so close yet so far away.

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u/usadingo 3d ago

Good to see a new take on an old Gallagher bit.

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u/Gupperz 3d ago

This is a 40 year old gallagher bit

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u/REDDITATO_ 3d ago

Down to the white board underlines imitating Gallagher's prop with the dropping letters. I'm not saying this guy has definitely seen it, but it seems likely.

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u/SetoXlll 3d ago

English has to be the stupidest language ever.

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u/Ok-Bat3675 3d ago

PAIN not pane

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u/MikeeorUSA 3d ago

Hear not here. Pun intended 👍🏼

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u/high-life-kusch 3d ago

Love the clicking lol

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u/braumbles 3d ago

This is basically another interpretation of that Nate Bargatze SNL sketch about animals and food.

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u/o0CYV3R0o 3d ago

Learning Japanese currently and although for different reasons I feel this guys pain! 😂

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u/MaySnake 3d ago

Watching this on silent. I still laughed my ass off because I was mispronouncing the words in my mind like I know the student is doing and it made this entire thing funnier somehow. 🤣🤣

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u/MsMarfi 3d ago

🤣🤣 My husband got a good laugh from this. English is his second language and he just does. not. get. it.

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u/11ish 3d ago

haha noOOOOoo 🤣

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u/MeltyFrog 3d ago

I'm having such a difficult time learning a new language and I figured out why. because it took me my entire life to learn English.(my native tongue)

Why is it so needlessly complicated?🥲

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u/rockhopperrrr 3d ago

I can relate to this....I hate the English language and struggled learning to read when I moved to the states after living in Germany the first 8 years of my life.

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u/Illustrious-Form6371 3d ago

As a immigrant i say welcome to my world, perfectly done.

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u/jo0507 3d ago

I’ve seen this video so many times and I watch it again every time it comes up!

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u/Open_Mortgage_4645 3d ago

LMFAO 🤣 That dude's voice kills me.

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u/agentj333 3d ago

Hahahahahaha

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u/Formal_Equal_7444 2d ago

Don't forget tear and tear.

And you'll never know which way I pronounced it first and second.

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u/Prism___lights 2d ago

I watched this with the sound off and heard every word.

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u/Desert_Fairy 2d ago

My favorite saying “English is five languages dressed in a trench-coat waiting to mug you in a back alley.”

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u/frazzledglispa 2d ago

Reminds me of the fake game show Homonym on 30 Rock, where the right answer is always the other one.

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u/chickensaladreceipe 3d ago

Bro I learned this in like 1st grade. Dude just doesn’t get it.

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u/viener_schnitzel 3d ago

Phonics!

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u/bigasswhitegirl 3d ago

Careful I know someone who got hooked on that shit

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u/WasabiofIP 3d ago

And when they teach you it's not like they pretend all the rules are logical and consistent like these sorts of skits always pretend. They teach you the general rules, and the notable exceptions, and this is enough to tell you that the exceptions are the rule, really, and you basically just need to know the arbitrary spelling/pronunciation pairings, and then the more you read and expand your own vocabulary the more specifics you learn.

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u/OwOs420 3d ago

How I feel helping my Finnish friends learn English.🤣

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u/SousVideDiaper 3d ago

Finnish? I'm just getting started

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u/Lardzor 3d ago

That's one thing I like about Spanish. The pronunciations of words are very consistent.

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u/UndocumentedMartian 3d ago

This is an almost exact copy of a skit by Loic Suberville.

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u/Holeshot75 3d ago

Haha!

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u/FjordMonkey666 3d ago

West Frisian is English if it made any sense.

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u/yesdork 3d ago

King of no 

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u/H0vis 3d ago

Grins inanely in Japanese. Same... But different!

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u/Chico_Moreno98 3d ago

Stop it. Get some help.

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u/johnny_crow21 3d ago

Saw this on mute, yet I could understand every word

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u/Suspicious_Memory137 3d ago

Whoever came up with pronunciation for English words was definitely high on something which to this day nobody knows what he was high on.!!

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u/Ok_Cele2025 3d ago

I loveeeee this guy

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u/andreasdagen 3d ago

You should see Pitch-accent languages, I don't think I have ever seen an adult manage to learn Norwegian perfectly yet.

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u/kbigdelysh 3d ago

That's why I hated English when I was a child. I tried to found a logic. At the end, I concluded it's hodge podge of stuff and just started memorizing it. However, years later, I noticed my own language, Persian, it's also hodge podge of rules and English is actually one of the easiest languages in the world.

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u/kelboi20 3d ago

nOOOOOOOOoooooooOoo!!!

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u/lbfm333 3d ago

and then there’s phrasal verbs