Comments by "Guinness" (@GuinessOriginal) on "RobWords" channel.

  1. I take it it’s not mongeese then? 😂 mongooses?
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  2. These videos are absolutely brilliant. Wish I’d had a language teacher like you, it would have been far more interesting and a helluva lot easier, more like cracking a code then learning a language.
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  3. I don’t understand why this isn’t the first thing they teach in German lessons in school. As a kid I always felt German was like English but in code, and we were never taught the key. Instead it was listen by repetition and wrote, and I hated it. If I’d been taught this, and the reason behind it, it would have been so much easier and more interesting.
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  4.  @RobWords  there’s a comment above the explains link in even more detail, check it out
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  5.  @philipppaasch8929  that have I would 20 years ago needed
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  6. Hold on a moment. We had perfectly good letters for them 500 years ago until you Europeans forced your printing press and alphabet on us without our consent, meaning we had to lose them. We’ve finally developed an alternative that we all know and love, and you want to come and impose your foreign alphabet on us once again, with all those funny squiggles and wavy lines? No, no, a thousand times no! They’re not English, it wouldn’t be British, it’s just not cricket. We’re not in Europe anymore, when is Johnny Foreigner going to get it into his head that we don’t like being told what to do. It’s bad enough when it’s a southerner trying to do it, or even worse a Scot, but when it’s a foreigner, and trying to tell us to change our language, it’s just not bleeding on! 😭
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  7.  @Sindraug25  the french really screwed with our language as well as our country
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  8.  @moonhunter9993  makes so much more sense. Explain what the words mean that and how they’re related and people can work it out for themselves
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  9.  @saba1030  I knew that about the Welsh but had completely forgotten! It wasn’t what the romans or Bretons called them and it’s not what the Welsh call themselves either, so it makes sense
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  10.  @rogink  Nippon is almost a pallendrome, although probably not when written in Japanese
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  11.  @moonhunter9993  makes it a lot easier and more interesting, and you learn rules that you can apply and work out what words are and mean without leaving them specifically
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  12.  @aivismeijers1447  well, that’s a very good reason not to do it! 😂
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  13.  @SingularlyNaked what’s that, South?
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  14.  @gessie I think that might have something to do with the old German habit of invading and brutally occupying it’s neighbours - you know, the same reason half the world can’t stand America these days. Football supporters hate the club across the city never mind anyone else as a matter off course so blaming the national pastime of hating each other on them is a bit trite. They will continue the tradition of course, but it’s a bit bigger than them
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  15.  @I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music  lazy french trying to be different from the English
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  16.  @leroyjean-michel4423  the academie de fransiaseb is the worst idea in the world. The idea of trying to ‘fix’ a language. Languages are about ideas and expressing them, so they’re basically trying thought control. It’s a incredibly bourgeois, snobbish and ultimately futile pursuit, and merely serves to perpetuate the class system that was inserted to replace the nobility that french dispensed with. You only have to look at how french presidents act and the deference in Erich they are treated to realise they have to all intents and purposes replaced the french monarchy with their disdain for the peasantry. I admire the french enormously for their tradition of not taking crap from their government but they could learn a thing or two from the British about not putting their political leaders on a pedestal and not being afraid to criticise, satirise and get rid of them. Admittedly, British politicians have an admirable habit of assisting them greatly in this regard, but my point still stands.
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  17.  @franc9111  all words in English about power and authority and the class system and subjugating the working class are from the Norman (french)
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  18.  @leroyjean-michel4423  no politics except nationalism then 😂 do me a favour son. “Preserve” the french language, because what, it’s about to die out unless the rich white upper class privately educated academic french stop the foreign influence of non french words from creeping in? Tell me what word/phrase you have for a VDU again please? It’s pathetic. It is absolutely about fixing language and it’s dog whistle politics. It’s also the reason French will never become an international language, no matter how much the french attempt to promote it. What’s funny it that in french pop culture and the songs sung in french that reach international audiences all contain french slang and international french words that the academie de francaise has deemed not french. So it doesn’t actually work or stop people using them, it’s just a snobbish racist nationalistic reaction to modernisation and the chickens of empire coming home to roost in the internationalisation of influence of french. One thing I’ve noticed about my Gallic cousins, whom I love btw, is that they’re very touchy whenever anything about their country is criticised. You could do with taking a leaf out of the British abs Irish books and being more self deprecating
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  19.  @leroyjean-michel4423  there you go, being touchy about it as predicted! Keep the foreign influence out of France as all costs! French for the french! Except for your football team, don’t mind those foreign influences. Please keep being touchy, it’s so Gallic of you. Is that part of your culture that is being fixed and preserved too? It’s so funny 😂 I do love my Gallic cousins, they provide us with endless amusement and of course good food and wine. Not so much good footballers, not fixed preserved french footballers anyway, mainly only international foreign imported french footballers, the kind of footballers the academie de francaise would ban 😂
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  20.  @leroyjean-michel4423  what’s even funnier is that you don’t like me criticising the thing you also criticise simply because I am not french! So small minded, so parochial, so petite bourgeoisie, so very french of you! Je t’aime, mon frère, je t’aime
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  21.  @leroyjean-michel4423  really? So why did Le Pen come such a narrow second then? How many of those authors are non white, non privately educated? French cuisine isn’t the best in the world, it is very good yes but it is not objectively the best. Nor does it have the international influence other countries does. The french are incredibly snobbish and parochial about their cuisine, and I say this as someone who loves France and french food. Your french really don’t like criticising from anyone foreign do you, even when they criticise the same things as you
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  22.  @leroyjean-michel4423  ah whataboutism. Another french invention I believe. That certainly absolves your nation of any nationalistic tendencies because, of course, what about others? Tell me the % of the vote any national party has ever got in the UK? We have our fair share of problems and I, unlike you, am happy to hear anyone criticise us, foreign or otherwise, but one problem we don’t have and have never had is one of nationalism, and certainly nowhere near as much as France. Why do you french react so negatively to valid constructive criticism when it comes from foreigners? If you really want to talk about fascism you need to talk about Ukraine, but I suspect you just repeat the approved narrative there. I have no argument with you or France, I love you both equally very much. We both share the opinion that the academie de francaise can be critiqued, however you are of the opinion that as a foreigner, I cannot be allowed to critique France in any way. Do the french as a nation suffer from a national character flaw of insecurity? If I can gently remind you that my ancestors fought and died to free you from German occupation twice, and if it hadn’t been for Churchill de Gaulle would never have got to power in France, in fact a great many resistance fighters who fought valiantly for France during the occupation, while de Gaulle fled and hid in Britain, were quietly disappeared after the war as de Gaulle tightened and cemented his grip on power, with the help of the British oss, I am ashamed to say. They did a similar thing in my ancestors country of Ireland. I repeat, I have no argument with you or your beautiful country, as i love you both equally very much, however that does not mean either of you are above criticism, which you unfortunately seem to think you are.
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  23.  @leroyjean-michel4423  be mean to foreigners? You must be a millennial or gen z to be such a snowflake ! Mean indeed. Man up. The Gauls would never have been this wimpy. I haven’t been mean at all, on the contrary I love beautiful France, the french and french culture. You should learn to accept a bit of constructive criticism from time to time. Nationalism is so out of favour here it is still seen as boorish and uncouth to fly the Union Jack or god forbid, the flag of st George. Even with the World Cup on there are hardly any England flags flying, in fact there are far more Ukraine flags. Pray tell me mon ami, is there many tricolours flying in Paris? The idea that brexit was nationalism is a European folly. It was democracy, and the whole of Europe showed its true colours when it was aghast that a country could be democratic. Ireland, Denmark, Italy and Greece all voted to leave to the EU and all were prevented from doing so. Italy actually had their democratically elected president deposed and an unelected eu appointed technocrat took his place for two years. That’s what the eu thinks of democracy, and that is why Britain said no. That and because when we first tried to join in the early 70s, de Gaulle, the man the British took in and sheltered and gave our lives to free his country and the man Churchill put upon the french throne, that man said “Non!” to Britain joining. And ever since then, eurosceptism was born in Britain, an construct entirely of the France’s, and de Gaulle’s specifically, building.
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  24.  @leroyjean-michel4423  by the way, I’m Irish ☘️
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  25.  @mellownchill2748  strange isn’t it? On the one hand, you have a huge number of french and a big movement in France to ‘keep things french’ they are against all ‘foreign’ influences on their food, language, culture etc, and of course many french do not see immigrants or the descendants of immigrants as French b at all. However, when a team full of them win a World Cup for France, then they are French. Just not the people living in the Paris or Marseille suburb they grew up in.
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  26.  @MegaJohn144  are neuter and non neuter genders in the trans sense too? Or is just in the language
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  27. There’s a clue in the name Anglo Saxon
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  28. So it’s phonetic?
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  29.  @murkotron  what does that mean? Sounds awful
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  30.  @Notacet  isn’t Finnish a completely unique language and totally different from all the other languages around it?
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  31. I like the u coming after q, it’s comforting. Besides, we’d have to change how you spell Quebec, and there’ no way the french would like that
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  32.  @glennbabic5954  depends which dialect and which era of the extinct language you’re talking about
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