Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Future Monarchs of Europe" video.

@bernardmcavoy1864 Language is about communication exactly how people choose to express themselves as long as it is understandable is non of yours or anyone elses business. What you consider "vulgar" is every bit as valid as anything you can possibly ever say yourself. Indeed every single word you're using was at some point in time or other considered vulgar or wrong. Simply because languages *change*. It's the nature of language. Indeed language is a exercise in direct democracy where people vote on what words means what through their use. If you have your own preferences you're of course free to choose to talk however you like. But somehow assuming that it's better then someone else, especially if they remain consistent in the rules they apply is just being ignorant of the nature of languages and language history. Not to mention, your behavior was extremely rude. I prefer to not use abbreviations and will request that people abstain from them while talking with me. But that doesn't make those inferior to the l long form of the words we use. It's simply a preference and a request that they are free to disregard if they wish. And I usually phrase such a request as respectfully as I can. We had to fight hard against your kind of language oppression in my country, hence why there's no spoken language standard for my language anymore since all the dialects and sociolects are considered to be of equal value now, respecting the different historical backgrounds of peoples from different areas and social backgrounds in my country, and the different languages that has had a impact on them there. And the media is required by law to have different dialects etc represented here. We have achieved spoken linguistic freedom. There's some rules for our written language, although there's several offically recognized variations of it.
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@bernardmcavoy1864 "I have not got round to answering this person yet. But I shall. No, I do not have an English degree, because I have no need for one. I am at least a native English-speaker." A) That's a poor excuse. There's plenty of non-native speakers that use "better" English then any native English speaker (better in this context being more "accurate" according to the standards used in England, but like you've probably noticed by now I reject the concept of there being any such thing as "better" English to begin with). B) Non-British English speakers are more important in defining how English is spoken then UK nationals are, and they have been for a while. You can even see traces of this in the English language within Britain right now, with many changes that you're most likely using yourself already being defined outside of Britain and now being considered correct within Britain. C) If you had a English degree (or any other linguistic degree) you'd probably be aware that linguists have stepped away from the prescriptive approach to languages in favour of the descriptive approach. In essence the English language just like all languages known to man is and has always been changing according to the way people choose to use them. There's nothing about English in England in its current state that makes it empirically superior to English in the past or future. And since language change is a exercise in direct democracy in action it's hard to determine what future changes will be made or who will make them. D) English is not defined by the upper classes even if they may have some influence on the language. If it was you'd all be speaking essentially French now instead of only a few French words within a vocabulary that mixes French, Anglo-Saxon, Latin, Greek, Old Norse, Breton and so one and so forth, including some words from essentially every language in the world.
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@bernardmcavoy1864 For the record Britain no longer have ownership of the English language nor its development. The people of England is such a small percentage of the total English speaking world that the country simply has lost the definition power of the language. There's over a billion English speakers in the world, England has a population of roughly fiftyfive million. Even if we're just talking native speakers of English the people of England still makes up a minority since the total number of native speakers of English is about three hundred and seventy million native English speakers, only about fiftyfive million of those in actual England...
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@bernardmcavoy1864 "Chicago ghetto". In other words you're suggesting that African-American Venacular English is somehow inferior to your own dialect or accent, whatever that may be? What accent or dialect do you speak anyway? Oxford English? Or something else?
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@bernardmcavoy1864 Thank you, I hope that it gave you a new perspective of the nature of the language. Because your initial attitude definitively rubs people the wrong way.
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@bernardmcavoy1864 Well, given the current server prices I can pretty much gurantee that this site is not hosted in the UK. So, no. This isn't "here" in England. Quite the opposite. You are here on a youtube channel that most likely is hosted in Germany since that's where Google host most of their European stuff...
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@Dablooner Because that's how Norway works. Our leaders are only first among *equals*. You'll see our prime ministers driving themselves and their kids to daycare (no private chauffeur here), go to the grocery store themselves and cook food for visiting dignitaries in their own kitchen in their own homes. Likewise, our kings/queens etc are down to Earth people representing a people who look down on anyone thinking they're better then others. Yes, in Norway acting as you're better then someone else automatically makes you worse then anyone else. It's a taboo.
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@dialovesramen Yeah, if people like him ruled people would probably still be using what you can find in the Anglo-Saxon wiki or some such... That or just French, since that was the upper class language for a while...
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@fernandostagl5541 You're assuming that the way they're speaking is wrong. However if you actually have a look at their speech you'll see that there's strict rules to how African-American Vernacular English is spoken. And it's a result of different language influences. Just like how Scots and English has developed differently despite both decending from the same language due to different linguistic influences.
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@smeraldyparra888 Excuse me?
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@Prince Talleyrand I might be wrong, but I don't believe he'd be a king if he married her. He'd most likely be a prince consort instead.
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@iamwolfeia Thank you for bringing that up. I've made a similar response myself prior to seeing this message of yours.
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@bernardmcavoy1864 There's over a billion speakers, but only about a third of them are native speakers. For the rest it's a second or third language.
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@bernardmcavoy1864 Your physical body might be. But "here" isn't the same location as your body is. "Here" is most likely in Germany since that's where Google host most of their European stuff. I live in Norway, but in this context we're both in Germany, not England or Norway.
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@dialovesramen How is a row of numbers "formal"? I'm confused.
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@dialovesramen Who are you referring to at the moment if I may ask? And what posts?
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