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ahahahahahahahahahahaha. This one thinks english was ever consistent. Consider that the culture of the british Angles was a conquering tribe from Germany, taking over the romans. The angles had a germanic history born from the gaulic celts of france, the romans, and the norse danes. It was a brew of many tongues, even back then.
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i used to think accent marks were simply added confusion to languages, especially w so many like in french, but now i realize how much theyre actually helping us by literally LETTING US KNOW what sound to make!!!!
Oh 10000000% bro. Those are incredibly helpful in Spanish and Portuguese. Every time I work towards learning Portuguese especially I’m thankful for accent marks. That’s what convinced me that English would be greatly improved by them! You just chose French, which is automatically gonna be a confusing written language to read as a non speaker lol Their rules are also insane to me.
@@sans_hw187 trust me when I say the way you stress the sounds in a word can be very important to pronunciation. Knowing to stress a sound more or less in a word is valuable information. Although best example I’ve experienced is still Portuguese. I will stick with the fact that Portuguese’s accent marks are twice as helpful to a language learner than I would claim for Spanish lol.
@@_indigo_inked of course stress is important, but in Spanish the (‘) doesn’t make any difference in “letting us know what sound to make” to quote the original comment. The phoneme stays the same with or without it. In Portuguese however accent marks indicate both pronunciation and stress (and in French only pronunciation since there is no stress), so you’re right for this I was just pointing out the special case of Spanish
Dhis iz mi propózal for an Inglish spelling Refórm: a vejtabel iz a plaant or part ov a plaant dhat iz eeten az food. Potátoez, beenz and unnyonz ar aul vejtabelz.
Since he used some IPA symbols in the video, my guess is that he probably just learned phonetic transcription in IPA (before the idea to make this video), wrote down what he needs to say in IPA symbols and then just read it out loud, which is pretty easy if you knew how to write it, because IPA couldn't possibly get more phonetically consistent.
Sounds like a Germanic French Pirate attempting an Irish accent but ends up doing an English accent that half way gives up and turns into a Swedish accent.
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If you think about the evolution of England it's a Celtic pronunciation of a small mix of German, a handful of Latin a lot of French and ideas that it's stole.
I'm not a native speaker, but to me it sounded definitely like a german trying to speak latin (or vice-versa)! Awesome (and pretty funny) results, btw!
@@bfurquim A German wouldn't have a hard time pronouncing Latin though as they are basically phonetically identical. An "A" makes an "a" sound, an "E" makes an "e" sound and so on. "ae" is a somewhat controversal topic but the generally accepted standard is that it's ponounced like the German additional vowel "ä", which also happens to be alternatively written as "ae" if, for example, your typing on an international keyboard that doesn't have these additional vowels. The most unintuitive things a German might find in Latin I'd say is the lack of the letter "k" and the use of "c" instead and, if one is looking at original texts, the fact that "u" and "v" were both written as "v" making Gajus Julius Caesar look like that: Gaivs Ivlivs Caesar.
When your Mom is Half German and French and your Dad is half Finnish and Thai. And you were raised up in Saudi Arabia for 10 years until you moved to Mexico for 2 years and then you tried to study english
Actually, accents are due to English having different phonemes (sound libraries) than their native language and having to substitute the closest equivalent.
Codeine Cowboy I realized how messed up English was when I was learning Spanish... Spanish has consistent rules and is a very well organized language. English is just all over the place with sometimes rules and sometimes other rules... it’s ridiculous.
I don’t know if anyone mentioned this already, but the soundtrack and audio quality greatly enhance this video. I didn’t expect to laugh this much. Brilliant!
Actually it was probably rather the Great Vowel Shift that did this. It's just that the author has chosen different vowel pronounciation than it used to be before the shift.
@@omeragca2702 not at all lol, maybe if english is ur first language and u dont remember how each letter is pronounced in the consistent language ur ur learning
bro just sounded like he was speaking early-middle english by the end. insane how many sounds in our language have mushed together and mutated through the centuries
@Oke Ihenacho We all had to memorize and recite the introduction to The Canterbury Tales in the original Chaucerian English in my High School English class. I can still recite part of it today -- more than 40 years later.
Its just three languages in a trench coat that hangs out in dark alleys. Hits other languages with a lead pipe. Then digs in their pockets for loose grammer.
This is the best version of this, though I'd say it's closer to five or six languages - Welsh, Germanic (Anglo-Saxon invasion), French (William of Normandy), with both ancient and liturgical Latin and scientific Greek for flavour.
Welcome to Finland - our language is phonetically consistent. However, we compensate the easiness of pronouncing by having a totally irrational and random grammar.
They had a phonetically consistent language, which is actually commonplace. English is unique in it nonsensical pronunciations, which is why towards the end, it sounds like a combination of almost all other western languages.
@@mchagnon7 i think the real problem is that each english alphabet has different functions and pronunciations in certain circumstances while other languages only designate one specific sound for each alphabet or vowel
If you want a variation of that feeling, look up Scots. It’s just similar enough that there’s some mutual intelligibility, but it’s always off and a language you don’t speak. Unless you do speak Scots
@@piratecandy6310 there's absolutely some Jamaican inflection on some of the vowels. It's more Scottish than Jamaican, but it comes through a good amount still.
@@AudreysKitchen no. I may not speak Patois but my parents speak it. It doesn't sound like Patois. I've grew up with English Creole. When I say it doesn't sound like it. It doesn't.
@@rexor8527, I don't think I ever got a take all the way through without laughing. Audio engineering to the rescue! I just had to get a clear take of each line. :)
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@@gray5105 hhhhhhmmmmmm idk, I mean か and え individually are "ka" and "eh" sounds. Put them together かえ and you get a "kai" pronunciation e.g. in かえる. Just started learning hiragana and discovered this 😃
@@bladepanthera Judging from translate's pronounciation feature, I'd say it's still pronounced exactly as you would expect :/ and while a lot can be said about translate, I think it's generally pretty good with pronounciation for major languages.
From the brief amount of time I’ve been learning spanish I appreciate the consistent pronunciation of letters so much. I still find myself screwing up english words because it’s impossible to know how they sound just by looking at them, or the other way around, spelling them based on how they sound.
Mahaut Guermonprez Yeah we all have the « exception qui confirme la règle » or in English « the exception which confirm the rule » and it’s a huge mess lmao
@@vagabondwastrel2361 Norse is what I wanted to say but I figured someone would correct me by saying it's just German or something. But that general area with some French influence seems to be the general consensus on what phonetically consistent english sounds like.
It sounds dumb because you're not used to it. My accent probably doesn't sound all that different, even though I know how words are supposed to be pronounced. So in both cases it's just different from what you may be used to.
@@TheHiroClaw123 in my personal experience I don't think so, if you just don't think of the actual words and focus on the IPA it's pretty easy. I'm not saying it's not impressive, it's just not that difficult if you're someone like him who took the time to learn IPA.
@@AllieDuguid100 you'll have to learn the IPA, but also figure out what all the words sound like, find the vowels, practice the sentences, and start over after a mistake. Granted it's not hard, but it's time consuming since this video's only 3 minutes long
Modern English derived from French and Germanic languages, as well as Latin. There might even have been some Scandinavian influence when the vikings invaded. In fact, the word 'Enlgish' has origins from the Old English word 'Englisc', it came from Germanic settlers in the 5th Century. It's no surprise you found a mix of these languages.
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If it was spelt to make it easier to pronounce then yea. But if it was spelt properly (and he somehow managed to remember all of the the different pronunciations in each word) then there wouldn’t be any difference since it will all be spelt the same bc it’s only supposed to sound different so the sound remains consistent
Somewhere between the sounds of Danish, French and a stroke.
A bit of German, too
And a spanish chocking on his food
Danish, German, French, Dutch and stroke
Sounded like a forced Chinese accent until he got to "O". Then it sounded like a terrible Swedish accent.
Felt a bit like Latin at times too.
This is how google sounds trying to pronounce foreign names
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0:52 starts here
@@tookiecar1 starts at 0:48 actually
apparently pirates have been speaking the most proper english of all
That pirate "like" speaking is 100% fake. It was made for some English movie.
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How English was pronounced circa 1600!
Yarrrr. Had my facebook language on Pirate English for 2 years
To me it sounded vaguely Irish...
I was thinking the same thing XD
"What If English Were Phonetically Consistent?"
**cries in Old English**
*Early Modern English. Shakespeare was Early Modern. Middle English and Old English was much weirder
@@willhendrix3140 the joke was about how it sounded, not what was read. But I agree that it doesn't sound like Old Enlglish, maybe Middle English?
ahahahahahahahahahahaha. This one thinks english was ever consistent. Consider that the culture of the british Angles was a conquering tribe from Germany, taking over the romans. The angles had a germanic history born from the gaulic celts of france, the romans, and the norse danes. It was a brew of many tongues, even back then.
@@Metrion77 you're trying too hard dawg. He was just making a joke.
@@LittleGoblinBoi it sounds a lot like Middle English.
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same viewer at the end: "oh..."
lol, I need captions no matter what...
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i classify as a guilty viewer.
What ;-;
Change “same viewer” to “awoken viewer” lol
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@@volactic5240 what does that even mean?
1:55 he Englished so hard he started speaking French.
*Englished*
Yea
lol
@@josep9016
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As a French person, I can only agree to this. It’s definitely French.
it sounds like he has literally every accent of every part of the world
Except mine.
Especially mine
Makes sense, since the English language is made up of various different parts of other languages
especially nine
Sounds like a new language, and he hasn’t even touched the silent consonants.
oh god
oh fuck
oh crap
oh shit
Oh dear
i used to think accent marks were simply added confusion to languages, especially w so many like in french, but now i realize how much theyre actually helping us by literally LETTING US KNOW what sound to make!!!!
Oh 10000000% bro. Those are incredibly helpful in Spanish and Portuguese. Every time I work towards learning Portuguese especially I’m thankful for accent marks. That’s what convinced me that English would be greatly improved by them! You just chose French, which is automatically gonna be a confusing written language to read as a non speaker lol Their rules are also insane to me.
@@_indigo_inked accent marks in Spanish only indicate stress, they don’t indicate pronunciation. He was right to give French as an example.
@@sans_hw187 trust me when I say the way you stress the sounds in a word can be very important to pronunciation. Knowing to stress a sound more or less in a word is valuable information.
Although best example I’ve experienced is still Portuguese. I will stick with the fact that Portuguese’s accent marks are twice as helpful to a language learner than I would claim for Spanish lol.
@@_indigo_inked of course stress is important, but in Spanish the (‘) doesn’t make any difference in “letting us know what sound to make” to quote the original comment. The phoneme stays the same with or without it. In Portuguese however accent marks indicate both pronunciation and stress (and in French only pronunciation since there is no stress), so you’re right for this I was just pointing out the special case of Spanish
Dhis iz mi propózal for an Inglish spelling Refórm: a vejtabel iz a plaant or part ov a plaant dhat iz eeten az food. Potátoez, beenz and unnyonz ar aul vejtabelz.
Straight into it after “A”:
“CombinAHtion sounds”
Me: wait wut
Yeetum OMG WAIT I THOUGH HAHAHAHAHAH
Thought I’m dumb dumb
I got suspicious as soon as he kawn (can)
I replayed that part so many times 😂😂😂
I THOUGHT HE SUDDENLY TURNED BRITISH OR SOMETHING I WAS SO CONFUSED
Can we just appreciate the fact that this guy had to unlearn english to make this video?
LMAOOO
100th like wow this is funny
Since he used some IPA symbols in the video, my guess is that he probably just learned phonetic transcription in IPA (before the idea to make this video), wrote down what he needs to say in IPA symbols and then just read it out loud, which is pretty easy if you knew how to write it, because IPA couldn't possibly get more phonetically consistent.
Kristian Kumpula it’s a joke
@@KristianKumpula nah man I'm pretty sure he just uninstalled English
At a certain point you just sounded like you were giving the dragonborn a quest.
Do you mind logging off for me?
The Thu'um! He speaks with the Thu'um!
beer battered buckshot lok thu’um dovahkiin
1:53 this point to be exactly
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@@AaronAlondamn bro is still responding to comments
Sounds like a Germanic French Pirate attempting an Irish accent but ends up doing an English accent that half way gives up and turns into a Swedish accent.
Exactly
That’s basically what English is: a melting pot of all the languages that invaded the British isles :/
so accurate
@@preasidium13 yep
Nooo, sound like a brazilian trying to talk english *Spoiler: Look like me*
I wasn’t really paying attention and when he started phonetically pronouncing the words I thought it was his accent
Sameeee 😂😂😂
I thought it too.
Omg same lol
Same
@@elliotthill7008 he has an American accent
This man seriously just started having the slowest stroke in history
r/ihadaslowstroke
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Lol 😂😂
I can just imagine him finishing the video and collapsing to the ground
I mean if you speed it up by 2...
I love the effort put into making all the letters sound the same in this video
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Okay but I'm impressed that this guy was even able to talk like he was on the verge of a stroke so perfectly
I got lost on “of corsi” )
This guy's name is Aaron Alon, i'm sure he's well trained
Dont say he was on a stroke
I mean the video was edited (not live) so there were probably many takes.
It sounds like a French person trying to imitate Irish accent
yeah
If you think about the evolution of England it's a Celtic pronunciation of a small mix of German, a handful of Latin a lot of French and ideas that it's stole.
I'm not a native speaker, but to me it sounded definitely like a german trying to speak latin (or vice-versa)! Awesome (and pretty funny) results, btw!
@@bfurquim
A German wouldn't have a hard time pronouncing Latin though as they are basically phonetically identical. An "A" makes an "a" sound, an "E" makes an "e" sound and so on. "ae" is a somewhat controversal topic but the generally accepted standard is that it's ponounced like the German additional vowel "ä", which also happens to be alternatively written as "ae" if, for example, your typing on an international keyboard that doesn't have these additional vowels.
The most unintuitive things a German might find in Latin I'd say is the lack of the letter "k" and the use of "c" instead and, if one is looking at original texts, the fact that "u" and "v" were both written as "v" making Gajus Julius Caesar look like that: Gaivs Ivlivs Caesar.
@@BurgerCroissant based
Impressive he managed to keep on talking for 4 whole minutes while having a stroke.
I know, he must have practice this speech so much.
editing mate xDDDD
Hard working man
Bold of you to assume that this is not just him having a stroke.
you don't know that
it sure sounded like he was having one
1:53 Turns French
I’m surprised that he didn’t accidentally summon a demon while making this.
Well, of course, he didn't even sacrifice anything *_sufficient._*
@@RuyVuusen he sacrificed our brain cells, that's sufficient
@@kaiharris120 But it's not *_sufficient._*
BAHAHA I BURST LAUGHING AT THIS
@Kai Harris how can you be so sure that he didn't summon a demon?
When your Mom is Half German and French and your Dad is half Finnish and Thai. And you were raised up in Saudi Arabia for 10 years until you moved to Mexico for 2 years and then you tried to study english
r/oddlyspecific
ive lived in saudi my entire life and im not saudi- everyones been trying to convert me lately
Dang. Senior inteernaateeoenaal
oh i thought you were gonna end that with "so I got confused and fucked the hamster" or something idk
weird flex but ok
1:39 "combainashayan" is the most hilarious one.
We cAn stIll gEt A...
That one killed me!!
3:12 conssumahshyon hahaha
Sounds like a dope anime lol
2:29 "Shahkeespeerayan"
2:30 i laughed horribly 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It sounds like he has the strongest accent on the world.
*in not on
@@1a2b3c4d_ probably a typo
Technically everyone has just as much as an accent, so there's no "strongest" accent.
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Not true, you should hear slavic people who've never seen English try and read English.
"Tobby, or not Tobby, that ais the queestaion"
- Shakeespeeairee
"NOOO, GOD! NO, GOD, PLEASE, NO! NO! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
- Michael Scott
So yeah I noticed that after a few changes it started to sound like OP
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Suddenly a lot of non-native speakers' accents make _so much_ sense
Ikr lol
Actually, accents are due to English having different phonemes (sound libraries) than their native language and having to substitute the closest equivalent.
It’s us Americans that speak a butchered language
Right? I could hear the different accents coming out as he change the sounds.
Codeine Cowboy I realized how messed up English was when I was learning Spanish... Spanish has consistent rules and is a very well organized language. English is just all over the place with sometimes rules and sometimes other rules... it’s ridiculous.
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When your mum's Scottish, your dad's German, you were born in France, and you're learning English
Love the avatar, haven't seen that one since I was in highschool....need it on a shirt.
So, exactly like English language came to be. Some Germanic, some Celtic, some Romance languages mixed together and stewed for couple of centuries.
"...bit of a nasty shock for him when he found out"
-Seamus Finnigan
Yes. Agreed.
Learning English while in Russia
This sounds like an irishman who speaks French trying to learn German
Well for the French speaker that I am it sounded more likee an English speaker trying to get non English speakers confused xD
Oh god that description is accurate XD
It sounds like Americans speaking Dutch
Nordic vs Europe
Goldmegaman1000 that's exactly what I thought!Like spot on what I thought
Sounds like a German, Scottish and Irish Viking trying to speak french
LOL omg tru
This is the farthest from french you could possible imagine.
@@sephyrartcore9523 I think that's the point
Nathan Robitaille r/woosh
It actually sounds like a German, Scottish and Irish speaking... English funnily enough
thought i was having a stroke around 0:54
U just accidentally summoned a dragon with that Shakespeare's quote
basically latin
Who says it was accidental
Haha
Bambam ,😂😂😂
You rang?
He sounds like hes speaking five different accents at the same time
Yeah
prouhnaunsiashion
I get French, German and a little bit of Spanish vibes
I just kept hearing irish
French, Irish and Scottish
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Am I the only one who thinks he sounds like a pirate trying not to sound like a pirate
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I never heard a pirate trying not to sound like a pirate before but I totally agree
i never heard a pirate language before too :D
I say French ish
@@ba-tobartc.6230 watch pirates of the Caribbean
Phonetically consistent English sounds a lot more like Old English.
Holy shit you're right! Maybe it _was_ phonetically consistent back then!!
@@robenkhoury7079 We all used to talk with a west country like accent, I quite like it.
interesting, guys
Actually it was probably rather the Great Vowel Shift that did this. It's just that the author has chosen different vowel pronounciation than it used to be before the shift.
true
Everyone is gangsta until the word "combination" comes up
till 'selection' comes up
1:40
@@musicaldoodles9615 thank you
@@musicaldoodles9615 i haven't even ask, but thank you
1:16 i js realized he's actually doing it now
I think most of us native english speakers just memorized the pronunciations of words instead of the letters lol
I'm not native, but I have been watching so many minecraft that I probably too
That's actually how every language works, even those that are phonetically consistent.
As a non native speaker yeah that's pretty much how we learn english as well.
As a native speaker, that's pretty much how English is
@@omeragca2702 not at all lol, maybe if english is ur first language and u dont remember how each letter is pronounced in the consistent language ur ur learning
“Pro-non-see-awe-shuns”.
Also this hurts my brain. I feel like something broke
I'm broke
Yeah, for me too, and I'm not even a native English-speaker. But hearing English treated like this... I feel like I just chewed aluminium foil.
I'm broke as well, but in a different way lol
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lmao it's not even possible to write that phonetically because of "sh"
bro just sounded like he was speaking early-middle english by the end. insane how many sounds in our language have mushed together and mutated through the centuries
yeah that's what I thought too
That makes me wonder how different old/Middle English compares to modern English in terms of phonetics…
@Oke Ihenacho We all had to memorize and recite the introduction to The Canterbury Tales in the original Chaucerian English in my High School English class. I can still recite part of it today -- more than 40 years later.
Outstanding Aaron! This is extremely important but on an entirely different level!
Its just three languages in a trench coat that hangs out in dark alleys. Hits other languages with a lead pipe. Then digs in their pockets for loose grammer.
Underrated. Best analogy ever.
Very underrated
I just choked on air I laughed so hard!!! Best. Comment. Ever! 🤣💜
Lol this is brilliant
This is the best version of this, though I'd say it's closer to five or six languages - Welsh, Germanic (Anglo-Saxon invasion), French (William of Normandy), with both ancient and liturgical Latin and scientific Greek for flavour.
Welcome to Finland - our language is phonetically consistent. However, we compensate the easiness of pronouncing by having a totally irrational and random grammar.
Same in poland and 95% of european countries
Perkele
Same in all slavics languages
@@АлександрФедоренко-б7ч but russian is not phonetically consistent, especially vowels
Also In Estonia
There's a Scott, a German and a Frenchman. Who do you want to be?
Aaron: *YES*
Luise Naa firstly, *Scot, but also **Irishman
What happens when Medic, Spy, and Demo fuse and attempt to speak English
He's also wakandan
Then he veered a little into Chinese
Don’t forget Jamaican
I took a spanish class in sophomore year, and i really appreciated that the vowels almost never changed their sound
Guyss relax... he's just teaching us the language of Sims.
Woohoo!
Ahh, yibs.
Putting - putaing
Dag dag
Wooblooo! Yippee!
This man is having an aneurysm and nobody’s helping him
😂
I laughed so hard alone at home because of this 😂😂 Thanks
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Lmao as im studying medicine it really made me laugh
Wow wut a world we live in
It sounds like an Irish person who once lived in France for five years trying to speak German.
😂
😹😹😹😂Yes.. Yes It Does Sound Like That...😹😹😹
That, along with a few other things thrown in the mix, is basically how English evolved.
I mean... That's pretty much what English is when you look at the history of the language.
Das ist eine Verunglimpfung der deutschen Sprache!
“you probably haven’t heard the “a” sound, (as in father) in a long time, since he left a long time ago.”
This sounds like a combination of Chinese and German spoken by a pirate.
wow that's true, also like a French pirate in there somewhere.
@@madlad_don2387 Maybe a little sprinkle of Indian pirate on top as well.
I mean he pronounced the vowels, like you do it whilst speaking German
@@viviane04 yeah kinda hahah I am bawling omg, especially the a
French. it calls French accent.
so basically... the sims had a perfect consistent phonetic english all this time
Soosoo!
Best comment ever XD
@@MeltingMellons Sul sul**
They had a phonetically consistent language, which is actually commonplace. English is unique in it nonsensical pronunciations, which is why towards the end, it sounds like a combination of almost all other western languages.
@@mchagnon7 i think the real problem is that each english alphabet has different functions and pronunciations in certain circumstances while other languages only designate one specific sound for each alphabet or vowel
This is so weird, it’s like hearing a language you don’t speak but understanding the words
If you think about it literally, it's the exact opposite of what you just said xD hearing a language you speak but not understanding the words.
Basically any other slavic language for russian speakers
@@enternamehere3310 Any other slavic language for any slav. It works in both ways.
Enter Name Here lmao
If you want a variation of that feeling, look up Scots. It’s just similar enough that there’s some mutual intelligibility, but it’s always off and a language you don’t speak. Unless you do speak Scots
This video progressed like anesthesia kicking in
He turned into a Jamaican Scotsman by the end of this.
That's exactly the combo I was thinking of! LOL
That’s what I was thinking lmao
He sounds nothing like a Jamaican. He sounds like he comes from Scotland or speaking Old English.
@@piratecandy6310 there's absolutely some Jamaican inflection on some of the vowels. It's more Scottish than Jamaican, but it comes through a good amount still.
@@AudreysKitchen no. I may not speak Patois but my parents speak it. It doesn't sound like Patois. I've grew up with English Creole. When I say it doesn't sound like it. It doesn't.
He sounds like a Scandinavian Irish German Jamaican Frenchman living in Scotland
"YU CAN CACH AUR LIV BUT NEVER STIL AUR FRIDOM!" Wiliam Wallass
Who grew up in a Chinese family
And happens to be very drunk
So... basically a normal Scot. (I'm from Inverness, I can say that)
You're forgetting Canadian
i refuse to believe this man recorded the audio with a straight face
I definitely didn't. :)
@@AaronAlon
how many takes do you think it took? to get it all correct and without cracking up part way through?
@@rexor8527, I don't think I ever got a take all the way through without laughing. Audio engineering to the rescue! I just had to get a clear take of each line. :)
@@AaronAlon thats what i thought lol
@@AaronAlon This video is legendary...can't even tell you how many times I've come back to this just because I hadn't thought about it in a while and it came to bless my thoughts 😂
0:15 Who says hiccoughed lol
people who lost the revolutionary war
@@FatWhataburgerGuy *treachery war
i didnt even notice it was spelt like that
Bri'ish people
Polyglots speaking English again after a year of speaking every other language:
@Alison Estrada - CEM Student BRO YOU JUST REIGNITED MY CHILDHOOD-
but there’s a chance it wasn’t, they exist outside of that universe.
that’s the first place my mind goes though.
dam i haven’t read the most recent book huh.... last i remember sophitz (which, now that i’ve aged, ew, but following shannon’s patterns, the next book was probably sokeefe oriented anyway) was a thing and she couldn’t be matched
@@sparksy6273 almost a decade ago man. freaking 2012. God i feel so old. they’re still coming out though, i think one releases every year or so.
My face when polyglot just means a person who can speak other languages
@@callmeobsequious ikr it sound like it’s either a shape or some kinda threesome
Now I'm just imagining Sophie when she's mad or sad slipping into different languages, not on purpose HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Now I understand why it's so hard to make computer voices sound real.
*cries in Vocaloid*
@@acridsama japanese doesn’t have phonetic inconsistencies
@@gray5105 I use the English voice banks :(
@@gray5105 hhhhhhmmmmmm idk, I mean か and え individually are "ka" and "eh" sounds. Put them together かえ and you get a "kai" pronunciation e.g. in かえる. Just started learning hiragana and discovered this 😃
@@bladepanthera Judging from translate's pronounciation feature, I'd say it's still pronounced exactly as you would expect :/ and while a lot can be said about translate, I think it's generally pretty good with pronounciation for major languages.
I like how all of a sudden he isnt just explaining the phonetic differences, he is using them. I didnt even notice at first
Every time he adds one he uses it
Yup
I noticed, but I thought it was an accident at first.
I realized he was speaking funny then I wondered why... then I realized
I started cackling at 0:50, gasping at 1:35 and then I wheezed thru Shakespeare until the end. The man slew me 😅😆😂💀
From the brief amount of time I’ve been learning spanish I appreciate the consistent pronunciation of letters so much. I still find myself screwing up english words because it’s impossible to know how they sound just by looking at them, or the other way around, spelling them based on how they sound.
This sounds almost like middle English. Which was probably more phonetically consistent than modern English anyway
*Ye* means *the*
I read this in modern English
In forget if it was Middle English or Old English, but there was a time when the letters Y and J were interchangeable
@@TheBluePhoenix008 No, it doens't.
@@jaredgarbo3679 yes it does
He sounds like he's doing every European accent, at once, *in cursive*
Not at all.
@@lukacerar5215 it really does sounds european
@Olalamio No reason for name calling out of the gate.
@Olalamio Nice one, Dick head.
Raghu Vamsi Krishna calm down, dickhead
English is like the linguistic embodiment of the “well yes but actaully no” meme
Have you ever seen french my friend 😂
@@ViscanPikamine oh god please no french is the father of English when it comes to well yes but actually no
@@anupratee3058 we're the final boss of the well yes but actually no game
Huh, try 'Yes no, maybe' one XD
Mahaut Guermonprez Yeah we all have the « exception qui confirme la règle » or in English « the exception which confirm the rule » and it’s a huge mess lmao
2:34 toby, or not toby: that eyes the quiz tie on
Ironically, this sounds almost exactly like Middle English.
That was my first thought.
Same just sprinkled with a little Norse as well
@@jimimac168 Norse spoken with an italian accent
damn were u there?
@@DeeDee-ye5qe Yes, actually I was. And as you were not, it cannot be proven wrong.
So basically, it would sound like we were all Irish-German pirates.
Or Japanese Jamaicans
You nailed it
I hear the Swedish Chef (minus the Borks, of course)
Underrated comment
Yep, it definitely sounded like a mix of German with something else.
This sounds like sim characters talking to themselves
Ikr
Yes
666 like
True
It does lmao🤣
This sounds more fun than trying to get English right all the time.
How was this only four minutes, I feel like i had a stroke.
💀😭
Actually was about to write this lmao
I felt the same way 🤣👏
Also like a stroke
Maybe he did and we're all here just commenting lol oh shit! What's the number for 911!?!
When learning english remember these rules:
Their our know rules
This physically hurt me to read. :D
Eye- know thanks✨
Ummm sry can u explain urself
(No offence tho)
@@sua4419 there are no rules, if you say it out loud, it sounds the same
This took me a sec, and made me even more disappointed in English
His speech slowly turns into Doctors handwriting throughout the video
This is such an underrated comment xD
A doctor's handwriting, or the Doctor's handwriting?
I broke my laugh at this
This is a good comment
@@werelemur1138 it's stereotyped that doctors have unlegable handwriting, so they're referring to an actual doctor not The Doctor :)
This video is a pearl that should never be lost.
If this is to be a new language, I'd name it something like: *English: Collectors Edition*
Severely underrated
Language of the Year edition
@BEST *English uncut*
English: Deleted Scene
english: 1.21 grammar patch
my husband taught himself English. I think ill show him this to finally just send him over the edge
You monster...
What's his first language
That's true love right there.
well im selft taught too, and it did do exactly that to me as well LOL
Satan: I'd just like to say that I'm a huge fan...
sounds like you can't decide between an irish and a german accent
I was thinking French or something near German.
I was hearing some norse.
@@vagabondwastrel2361 Norse is what I wanted to say but I figured someone would correct me by saying it's just German or something. But that general area with some French influence seems to be the general consensus on what phonetically consistent english sounds like.
M7 S4i5l8v2a sounds a lot more like a Scottish accent
Nah dude, thats just perfect welsh
He’s speaking the language of all time.!.!
This sounds so sophisticated and so dumb at the same time
I choose 2nd one
I choose 1st one
On point
That's the fun of language my friend
It sounds dumb because you're not used to it. My accent probably doesn't sound all that different, even though I know how words are supposed to be pronounced. So in both cases it's just different from what you may be used to.
This sounds like an Italian, a German, and a French man who all have never even heard of English before teaming together to try to speak it.
thats basically what english is lol
@@jonathanmangum4347 Basically, English is what happens when Vikings learn Latin and use it to shout at Germans.
It is that, but what each language donated has been reversed, so it sounds ridiculous
I thought of Brazilian Portuguese, German and French natives😂
It sounded very Hungarian to me in the middle but definitely German in the end.
i'm Brazilian, and phonetically consistent english sounds like my dad trying to speak english
same
Verdade kkkkkkk
Same, but if my dad was french and german at the same time.
Parece mais um irlandês kkk brasileiro fala inglês com a fonética do português
I'm chilean, but SAME.
Thank you fur laeseinying! 🙋♂️🙋♂️
I like how he gets progressively more Irish and French at the same time
It's clearly a mix of Dutch and Cornish 😂
Dutch..? I myself have not heard a single Dutch speaker speak English like this, though.
I likey hoe he geats progreesaiveelai morey Iraysh und freanch utt thee sahmey taymee
@@bspringermahn thaht hert mi bran tu red
Its a mix of Patois, Irish, and somewhat German...
As a non-native speaker this is mostly what I was hearing in my head when writing in English for the first 6-8 years of learning.
Exactly! 😂 English spelling has been making less sense for me the more words I learned
As evidenced by your sentence structure, nicely done!
I still do this when trying to spell out words. It makes it easier.
Native speaker here, and I do it too for words I have to think about how to spell.
@@Flumsycat aw man they deleted it. Did you get a chance to read it? I was kinda proud of that one.
“Toby, or not Toby: that ass is the questianon”
- me choosing the best spider man
Pizza time
Michael Scott would say not Toby for thee lovee of God.
Penis parker
I understood that reference
That was absolutely brilliant 😊
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His words slowly turned into what sounded like a different language
@@HBKnowItAll i was about to say that
@@HBKnowItAll Absolutely!
Nobody is talking about how hard this must have been to say.
I'm assuming he did it by writing out the script in IPA and then reading that. It makes this drastically easier lol
@@AllieDuguid100 still, it must've taken a while to get used to talking like that tho
@@TheHiroClaw123 in my personal experience I don't think so, if you just don't think of the actual words and focus on the IPA it's pretty easy. I'm not saying it's not impressive, it's just not that difficult if you're someone like him who took the time to learn IPA.
@@AllieDuguid100 you'll have to learn the IPA, but also figure out what all the words sound like, find the vowels, practice the sentences, and start over after a mistake. Granted it's not hard, but it's time consuming since this video's only 3 minutes long
HiroClaw id say that if he put all this effort into making the video like this, he probably already has at least a passing interest in linguistics lol
Guy; _speaks English in a phonetically consistent dialect_
His mouth; _so you have chosen _*_Europe_*
Iuroupii?
@@erik19borgnia this took me a WHOLE minute
@@hufflepufflez3293 Hahaha whin you doun't ixpict ait, ait's daiffaicult (oh god that was horrible)
French: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahàhahaha *oui oui baguette*
@gapple * same for me, I'm italian, literally everything in Italian is phonetically consistent
time traveller kicks a rock the timeline's english pronouncation (listen to his voice) 1:22
Time Traveller was watching the video in real time
This vo- wheel can produ- see th- easy sounds
Sounds like a Scottish person speaking Germ-glish who has lived in Jamica for the last couple of years
I was thinking of Robert the Bruce from civ 6
Strangely, Jamaican accent does indeed come out!
kabenitezguy spot on
More like a american who moved to France
Jay Tjon well in Germany it's actually called Denglis(c)h (Deutsch and Englis(c)h)
It sounds like you’re trying to do a French and Scandinavian accent at the same time.
Just sounds Japanese honestly. Just without the accent
Some word sound irish
That’s what the English language is.
To me Irish, German, and Scandinavian
@@Petro250 i mean English is just irish and german smashed together with a bit of french on top
You switched between Gaelic, Swedish, French, German, Latin and Italian just by making English consistent... crazy
uP
Considering English has roots in the Gaelic, Germanic, and Latin languages, makes sense
Modern English derived from French and Germanic languages, as well as Latin. There might even have been some Scandinavian influence when the vikings invaded. In fact, the word 'Enlgish' has origins from the Old English word 'Englisc', it came from Germanic settlers in the 5th Century. It's no surprise you found a mix of these languages.
Wait, which one sounds german? XD
I'm german, but I'm terrible at judging accents
Interestingly enough, those languages ARE phonetically consistent
Such a well crafted video, congrats!
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I want to see the script for this video. The spelling towards the end must be an absolute brain meltdown
I reread theese comeent pheoneteeceely
If it was spelt to make it easier to pronounce then yea. But if it was spelt properly (and he somehow managed to remember all of the the different pronunciations in each word) then there wouldn’t be any difference since it will all be spelt the same bc it’s only supposed to sound different so the sound remains consistent
I was thinking of that! How long it took to make, how many retakes! Lmao!
Toe beeeeeeee oer note toe beeeeeeee
Big brain