Comments by "Liam" (@1495978707) on "TED-Ed" channel.

  1. Well, English was derived from a tribe of Germans that went to England (the Angles and Saxons, Angleland), after which it changed due to isolation, the Norse, and the Vikings. So it technically did split off, because the germans just stayed in germany.
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  2. +KVonnegut You're very right. Many people don't achieve great things largely because they give up because they feel that they couldn't ever do anything of consequence, and then it becomes true.
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  3. I apologize for my mistake. You are right, Computer belongs to the class of nouns with an unchanged plural. But my point stands, German still maintains some of the intricacies of old english as described in this video.
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  4. What is the name of the music? I'd like to learn it
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  5. German modifies the insides of its words (the last vowel) sometimes, as well as adding endings. "die Wort" word, "die Wörter" words. But it also sometimes just adds an 's', especially if it came from english, "der Computer" "die Computers" "das T-Shirt" "die T-Shirts".
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  6. By the way, the plural of Nummer is Nummern. I knew that there was an exception somewhere, but shame on me for my mistake. And you're right, but 4-5 is pretty hard for your average english speaker to deal with. And apparently also too hard for the Vikings.
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  7. It’s because we don’t get sunlight as children, which would signal our eyeballs to stop growing longer
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