actually he doesnt, the sentence is wrong in that domum should actually be domi: The locative singular is supposed to be the same as the genitive singular.
during my high school time, we had such a passionate teacher of German language... everybody knew German. Including the bad guys. And we loved it because it was an ORDER !!! Ja!?!! oh and he was fired 3 months after the start of the school year for being too sadistic. However when I look back today I think, that harsh approach was actually needed and people really do prepared for lessons. At least he was fair, when you showed you are actually preparing he was normal.
we aren’t speaking Latin anymore because it was unanimously decided in the late 50’ that ancient Greek and Latin wouldn’t make part of the education… east and west as well…
@@brandywinebridget "EMH: You may have been unexpected, but, given time, I'm sure you'll make a fine addition to the crew. After all, you've got my mobile emitter driving your neocortex; so you're bound to make a dazzling impression, he, he, he... That's called a joke. One: Joke - a verbal comment or gesture, designed to provoke laughter. EMH: I see you've got your mother's sense of humor."
Life of Brian came out during, I think, my second year of Latin, giving me enough that every part of the scene was comprehensible to me. I would have laughed my ass off anyway, but it gave me another layer of appreciation.
DeadlyLazer I now feel kindof bad for correcting someone on something so minor. Though It helps to avoid confusion in the already unneccesary complicated field of sword classification
I went in to a Roman bar the other day and ordered a Martinus. The barman said, "don't you mean a Martini?" I said "look, if I want a double then I'll ask for a double!"
This is historically accurate as well as being hillarious. The various resistance groups in Judea at the time often spoke little to no Latin, so when they wrote graffiti such as the one referenced in the clip they often wrote it incorrectly, to the amusement of the Romans.
Except they wouldn't have even tried to write in Latin in the first place. The lingua franca in the Roman East was Ancient Greek (which Judea and Syria were very familiar with after 3 centuries of hellenization that didn't stop with the roman conquest), so both the local hebrews and the Roman soldiers posted there would be fluent in that language and would use it to interact with each other.
@@killian5570 The lingua franca among people and merchants. Imperial edict would be written in Latin and soldiers would be speaking Latin too anyway, all soldiers had to learn Latin, not just the one in the Western part. The laws were promulgated in Latin even in the Eastern Empire. The last emperor who spoke and wrote his laws in Latin was Justinian. The Justinian code is originally in Latin, even considering that it was written in Constantinople, at a time in which the Western empire was dead for almost 100 years. This is pretty obvious if you see the bronze diplomas that were given to legionnaires at the end of their service. It's in Latin, even when given to a person in Egypt or Syria.
Buffle Thweeb also because pretty much no one takes Latin anymore. Even in the 70s it was a bit of a dated reference, but older people would’ve all taken Latin in school, now it would fall flat with most people.
I took Latin for a few months (long story short, moved schools) and I can honestly say it was awesome. I love history and we always tried to combine the language with historical context and events so, lots of fun :)
Stephen M. Stouter yes it was a tad dated; I studied it at a grammar school in the 80's, which was probably the last time it was offered as an option. All those later generations missed out haha 😉
I have this Latin (with corrections) on a T-shirt. In three years, it’s only been recognized a few times, clearly by die-hard Python fans. Those were great reactions, too.
Thanks for posting this wonderful scene. Just one small error in the subtitles: the centurion says "this is motion towards, isn't it, boy?", not "isn't it, Brian?".
Thesloth sidd Also, there are no subtitles at the end So now, I, not a native English speaker, *CANT BLOODY UNDERSTAND A WORD THEYRE SAYING!!* Still, thanks for uploading that, it was mighty nice of you
I love how this scene tricks you into thinking the centurion is going to arrest him for vandalism, but then changes the subject into a Latin grammar correction
It’s not exactly vandalism, but the fact that the Centurion corrected the message’s grammar while ignoring the fact that the message itself is treason. It’s the equivalent of someone in the United States spray painting, "The South Will Rise Again," only for it to be spelled as "Southerners, once again, get up."
@@Daniel_Huffman I said the scene tricks you into thinking Brian will be arrested for vandalism. You assume at first that the Centurion will apprehend Brian for putting up graffiti, but then you're expectations are then subverted when the Centurion decides to lecture Brian on proper Latin grammar
It's an excellent use of the Rule of 3, too. The first subversion is when he makes it a grammar lesson, and the punchline is making him write it 100 times. Then when you think the joke is over, it subverts again by having a second set of guards stroll by and the punchline is that they DO go after him for vandalism. This kind of structure is one of the things that put Monty Python on another level.
The funny thing is, at Grammar Schools in the UK around when the Pythons would have been going to school, every Latin teacher really was exactly like that. Exactly. Save that they'd be beating the crap out of you with corporal punishment rather than holding a gladius to your throat.
That, in my opinion , was the last decent generation England produced. Since then, it went down hill.Most kids these days, can't even spell proper English. Which is a shame, since they aren't really capable of speaking any other language.
There's something to be said for that. Though these days a teacher can't even raise their voice to a child without risking complaints from parents and such. I have a relative who was a teacher who taught younger children not too long ago and one day in class one child picked up a compass and tried to stab another child with it. She acted on instinct and restrained the child with the compass, taking it off them. That was it. Yet you know what happened when the parents found out? They filed a complaint with the school calling it "assault" and she was disciplined. She kept her job but was given a warning about it. What was she supposed to do? Watch the the child get stabbed then hand it over to the authorities? That's the state of things in schools right now. It's no wonder kids don't learn anything when they know full well the teachers have no authority over them and thus they don't have to have any respect for them.
DiabolicalGenius Also proves that present day parents are an over-protective lot too who pamper their kids endlessly creating a generation of entitled brats who only yell about their rights but never about their *responsibilities* . Any responsible and good parents would have commended the teacher for having taken the compass from their child and would have had a serious discussion with it. The parents called it "assault" ?? They should introduce a law in which parents can be held accountable in case their allegations turn out to be false and be warned themselves. And speaking of assault, their brat nearly assaulted another pupil with a compass and the teacher prevented that. Given the circumstances her actions were perfectly understandable. As for these "warnings". I'd introduce a system to grade them. A formal warning shouldn't mean squat and only exist to appease impossible parents. No wonder nobody wants to become a teacher these days. Who wants a job in which you can be accused for every minor inconvenience? What's next, kids will accuse the teacher for "looking at them" or not remembering their "secret name" ? When I was in school we were all (secretly) grateful our teachers were our surrogate parents, adult role-models (realistic ones), judges, judicial system and coaches all into one. Heck, I'll admit most of my teachers understood children and how to teach them morals and good values better than my own parents who just repeated them like parrots. Britain made its name worldwide with its order, discipline and education. This is how it earned other people's respect and admiration. Funny how many former colonies and third world countries adapted this very system as a template and yet Britain itself has gradually distanced itself from it as if were fundamentally wrong. This scene works as an insight how times have changed. I wonder how Monty Python would have portrayed the present day schools had they appeared today. Ironically enough the schools today have become a Python-esque comedy in themselves.
@@brotherskeeper100 I'm someone you'd probably describe as "woke" and I found this scene funny. Nothing about this scene really is really "politically incorrect" so to speak
No, that one is silly for the sake of pure silliness. It's funny, but this one is really clever. Fitting in an impromptu Latin lesson in the midst of a silly misunderstanding is smart.
For me it competes with Brian telling the crowd "You're all different", the crowd uniformly confirms "YES! WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT" and then a single person shout "No, I'm not!". The level of absurd of this is just amazing.
I watched this scene at school years ago and I found it funny how the guard sat down to correct his grammar, even though I didn't know Latin. Now that I know what he's talking about, this scene has instantly become 10 times funnier
When I first saw this, I didn't get the joke, beyond a centurion correcting the grammar of graffiti. My dad, however, took Latin in University, as an elective, and he nearly shat himself laughing at this, because apparently, this is all accurate. I don't know Latin as well as he did, but considering John Cleese used to be a Latin teacher, I believe him.
“What’s this, then?” in any British accent always cracks me up. Titus Pullo (Ray Stevenson) said it once in “Rome” and I immediately thought of this LOL
Ah, but nationalities must be capitalised as they are proper nouns, so it becomes "common Roman soldiery". And the Romans are no more, are they? So, when refering to them, one must use the past tense. You must also add a determinant when referring to something you have had an interaction with; in this case, you must add "that". Another determinant you must add is "a" before you describe their understanding. You have also neglected the use of the determiner "the" when addressing the common Roman soldiery. Finally, the past participle of the verb "to meet" is "met". You must also specify the time frame in which you have met these people, and thus you would use "ever". Therefore, the correct sentence would be: "The common Roman soldiery had a better understanding of proper grammar than most people that I have ever met".
My middle school teacher was just as strict, although not as mean, when she taught my class Swedish grammar (I'm Swedish). But she used all of these Latin terms that most of us students didn't grasp. And when we failed in the excercises she gave us, we had to do them all over again until we learned them. Horrible.
@@marcossidoruk8033 That's because in English, we have a word order of "Subject, does an Action, to the Receiver." In languages that stem more from Latin, the word order can be very 'loose,' so there's an accusative case. In Esperanto, while the convention is "Subject, Action, Receiver", a sentence can be written in any form of the mix. "La Hundon ŝatas Knabo." and "Knabo ŝatas la Hundon." and "La Hundon Knabo ŝatas." are all the same sentence. "A boy likes the dog.
Remember watching the movie in 1979 in a small cinema (80 people) in Wageningen. The brilliant cherry on the cake of humour was: "and now you write this 100 times" - the whole audience collapsed from laughter. Going from joke to joke, we didn't get time to breathe.
Fun Fact: Domum would be correct as the Accusative because it means "To the home". Domus/Domi is the Locative and would be used instead of the Dative "Domui/Domo" for "At home". The Locative is usually used with city names, but domus is an exception.
1:47 The texting has missed a satirical point (ever so slightly) in that the centurion (John Cleese) never said "Brian". The actual word is "boy", like when a teacher would have addressed a Latin student in an authoritative manner like in an old-school classroom. Also, this is before the centurion learns of the name Brian, when Brian gets brought before Pontius Pilate.
My high school history teacher was a bit like that. He would read out Latin speeches from Roman Republic senators, etc, putting a lot of emotion into it. Fun times.
3:13 Sorry to have to tell you after all this time but the subtitle is wrong. He calls him "Boy" NOT "Brian". At this point in the movie his character had no idea who Brian was anyway.
I arrived at grammar school in England in 1965 fluent in Latin as taught in the better Trinidad secondary schools. Sadly Latin could not long withstand the onslaught of living languages and the opportunity for lively conversations with au pair girls from the continent. This skit reminds me of 'Dado" Davis our Latin teacher same tone of voice wringing your ear with one hand and downing a Victory V lozenge while correcting whatever error you made I am told it's all gone now,history,classics,stiff upper, not letting the side down, good form etc -sad.
That joke may well be an inside joke for the classically educated Monty Python members who learned Latin in school, but it's still funny for us with a lesser modern education.
When LOB was released, I was a college freshman taking Latin. Loved the movie but thus scene was(is) hysterically funny to me. I described it to my kind Latin professor but he didn't get it. Oh well.
The "Dative" Joke is so great because English HAS no "Dative Case", so it can be very hard for an English speaker to truly understand when Dative is used. Both Latin and German have Dative Case, so they're particularly tricky languages for EFL students to master.
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What makes this even greater is that John Cleese used to be a Latin teacher, so he knows exactly what he's talking about.
Perfect
now I wanna be a student of John Cleese, had he been alive and active.
@@ousamadearudesuwa he's alive dammit!
actually he doesnt, the sentence is wrong in that domum should actually be domi: The locative singular is supposed to be the same as the genitive singular.
@@hermesjonasson4838 man, I got myself wrong. Thanks
If every Latin teacher was that passionate, we’d still be speaking it today
during my high school time, we had such a passionate teacher of German language... everybody knew German. Including the bad guys. And we loved it because it was an ORDER !!! Ja!?!! oh and he was fired 3 months after the start of the school year for being too sadistic. However when I look back today I think, that harsh approach was actually needed and people really do prepared for lessons. At least he was fair, when you showed you are actually preparing he was normal.
we aren’t speaking Latin anymore because it was unanimously decided in the late 50’ that ancient Greek and Latin wouldn’t make part of the education… east and west as well…
@@Pajaa37 Joke (noun): a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, especially a story with a funny punchline. (Oxford Languages)
@@brandywinebridget
"EMH:
You may have been unexpected, but, given time, I'm sure you'll make a fine addition to the crew. After all, you've got my mobile emitter driving your neocortex; so you're bound to make a dazzling impression, he, he, he... That's called a joke.
One:
Joke - a verbal comment or gesture, designed to provoke laughter.
EMH:
I see you've got your mother's sense of humor."
How does one become a passionate latin teacher then? I guess it's about being a passionate student first
Knowing that John Cleese actually taught Latin makes this even better. Like that's how he really wanted to treat his students.
Eric Idol got A level Latin which he required or would not have had the entry requirements to study at Oxford University
@@richardoconnor8931
*Eric Idle
Life of Brian came out during, I think, my second year of Latin, giving me enough that every part of the scene was comprehensible to me. I would have laughed my ass off anyway, but it gave me another layer of appreciation.
Or maybe what he got from HIS teachers, when HE was learning Latin 😅
I have to admit, these Romans were better grammar teachers than any I had. They would always assume the previous teacher taught it.
Andrew Morris The Pythons were all Oxford lads if they didn't know the correct Latin then they'd have to give their diplomas
A Gladius to be correct
Jonas Linter right. Shame on me for being a New Vegas gamer and not knowing that
DeadlyLazer I now feel kindof bad for correcting someone on something so minor. Though It helps to avoid confusion in the already unneccesary complicated field of sword classification
very good at teaching grammar, very shit at teaching pronounciation.
Just wait 'til Biggus Dickus hears about this.
Croutonic and his wife incontinentia buttox
Pffftttt pffffttt *snickers*
CLA82529 Wight, that's it! Centuwion, take him away. I want him fighting wild wabid animals within the week!!
Biggus Dickus will give an Ejaculationus soon when he hears about ut
*Snicker's* Biggus Dickus 😄
Drawing the sword at, "Dative!" will never not be the funniest thing I've ever witnessed.
Agreed 😂
Imagine how much this man loves his language if he is completly ready and willing to cut Brian's throat over using the wrong kasus.
you are right!
And Brian’s finger pointing while saying “Dative”, like he was so sure in his answer.
Me too. To my mind, the best joke in the film and never fails to make me laugh every time.
2:14
"if it's not done by sunrise, then I'll cut your balls off"
- Roman Sun Tzu, Art Of Latin
Thank you sir- Brian
@@andreasderycke42Hail Caesar and everything, sir!
I went in to a Roman bar the other day and ordered a Martinus. The barman said, "don't you mean a Martini?" I said "look, if I want a double then I'll ask for a double!"
Classic ancient joke from Wayne and Schuster's "Rinse the Blood off my Toga".
So, 1 Empoli is Empolus? Tivoli is Tivolus and Monteriggioni is... ?
"I said Julie don’t go, don’t go I said. It’s the Ides of March, beware already…"
Martini is the possesive form, or for those who know Latin, the genetivus.
But Martini is actually genitive singular, because it's the surname of the inventor of the beverage, so it's correct to ask for a Martini.
This is historically accurate as well as being hillarious. The various resistance groups in Judea at the time often spoke little to no Latin, so when they wrote graffiti such as the one referenced in the clip they often wrote it incorrectly, to the amusement of the Romans.
Except they wouldn't have even tried to write in Latin in the first place. The lingua franca in the Roman East was Ancient Greek (which Judea and Syria were very familiar with after 3 centuries of hellenization that didn't stop with the roman conquest), so both the local hebrews and the Roman soldiers posted there would be fluent in that language and would use it to interact with each other.
@@killian5570 You mean to tell me the person you're responding to isn't a Professor Emiritus in Near Eastern Antiquities?
Well it certainly would've been Koine, wouldn't it?@@killian5570
Wrong didn't ask cope 🤡🤡💩💩
@@killian5570 The lingua franca among people and merchants. Imperial edict would be written in Latin and soldiers would be speaking Latin too anyway, all soldiers had to learn Latin, not just the one in the Western part. The laws were promulgated in Latin even in the Eastern Empire. The last emperor who spoke and wrote his laws in Latin was Justinian. The Justinian code is originally in Latin, even considering that it was written in Constantinople, at a time in which the Western empire was dead for almost 100 years.
This is pretty obvious if you see the bronze diplomas that were given to legionnaires at the end of their service. It's in Latin, even when given to a person in Egypt or Syria.
Dude went from 'romans go home' to 'hail caeser' within a minute
Romanization complet.....
Sword to the throat will do that XD
Considering good education those days were pretty hard to get, I'd say it makes sense
That what a Latin grammar lesson will do to you 😂
*the* *people* *called* *the* *romans* *they* *go* *the* *house*
ROMANES EUNT DOMUS!
They go the ‘ouse.
Early Google translate
they go H Y O U S E
It's Romani ite Domum
Hooray, it's been 22 years since I graduated from high school and I *finally* managed to use my Latin!
caveman Versace Words.. not as a written or spoken language.
This is spot-on and still funny. My Latin teacher was exactly like that; it's a cliché but 'They wouldn't get away with it these days..'
Buffle Thweeb also because pretty much no one takes Latin anymore. Even in the 70s it was a bit of a dated reference, but older people would’ve all taken Latin in school, now it would fall flat with most people.
I genuinely love Latin class as a junior in High School
I took Latin for a few months (long story short, moved schools) and I can honestly say it was awesome. I love history and we always tried to combine the language with historical context and events so, lots of fun :)
Did he use a sword?
Stephen M. Stouter yes it was a tad dated; I studied it at a grammar school in the 80's, which was probably the last time it was offered as an option. All those later generations missed out haha 😉
The moment when Brian says "Dative" and the legionnaire unsheathes his sword is just f---ing priceless 😂😂😂😂😂
*instant flashbacks to one of my latin teachers*
To be fair, its a true and tested teaching method :p
I have this Latin (with corrections) on a T-shirt. In three years, it’s only been recognized a few times, clearly by die-hard Python fans. Those were great reactions, too.
If you use the uncorrected version and visit a medieval festival, you might even get a sword pulled on you :p
Thanks for posting this wonderful scene. Just one small error in the subtitles: the centurion says "this is motion towards, isn't it, boy?", not "isn't it, Brian?".
Thank you
Sorry about the error ... I always though he said "Brian".
Is the graffiti man Michael palin? Sounds like his voice
Thesloth sidd Now write it one hundred times!
Andres Munoz No, it's Graham Chapman.
Thesloth sidd Also, there are no subtitles at the end
So now, I, not a native English speaker, *CANT BLOODY UNDERSTAND A WORD THEYRE SAYING!!*
Still, thanks for uploading that, it was mighty nice of you
Latin class in a nutshell.
only if the teachers were as good as john is
That's true!
I love how the first Romans weren't even mad they were told to go home. They were just mad because of the grammatical errors.
Kind of like how English speaking people find Engrish sp funny.
Love it how he says "but romans go home is an order, so you must use the.."
IMPERATIVE! I know my Grammar Rules! Thank you Esperanto!
I love how this scene tricks you into thinking the centurion is going to arrest him for vandalism, but then changes the subject into a Latin grammar correction
It’s not exactly vandalism, but the fact that the Centurion corrected the message’s grammar while ignoring the fact that the message itself is treason.
It’s the equivalent of someone in the United States spray painting, "The South Will Rise Again," only for it to be spelled as "Southerners, once again, get up."
@@Daniel_Huffman I said the scene tricks you into thinking Brian will be arrested for vandalism. You assume at first that the Centurion will apprehend Brian for putting up graffiti, but then you're expectations are then subverted when the Centurion decides to lecture Brian on proper Latin grammar
@@titan133760 I understood that; My comment details the humor I personally got from it, which is naturally different from yours, which is fine.
And then Brian gets chased for vandalism.
It's an excellent use of the Rule of 3, too.
The first subversion is when he makes it a grammar lesson, and the punchline is making him write it 100 times.
Then when you think the joke is over, it subverts again by having a second set of guards stroll by and the punchline is that they DO go after him for vandalism.
This kind of structure is one of the things that put Monty Python on another level.
The funny thing is, at Grammar Schools in the UK around when the Pythons would have been going to school, every Latin teacher really was exactly like that. Exactly. Save that they'd be beating the crap out of you with corporal punishment rather than holding a gladius to your throat.
That, in my opinion , was the last decent generation England produced. Since then, it went down hill.Most kids these days, can't even spell proper English. Which is a shame, since they aren't really capable of speaking any other language.
There's something to be said for that. Though these days a teacher can't even raise their voice to a child without risking complaints from parents and such. I have a relative who was a teacher who taught younger children not too long ago and one day in class one child picked up a compass and tried to stab another child with it. She acted on instinct and restrained the child with the compass, taking it off them. That was it. Yet you know what happened when the parents found out? They filed a complaint with the school calling it "assault" and she was disciplined. She kept her job but was given a warning about it. What was she supposed to do? Watch the the child get stabbed then hand it over to the authorities? That's the state of things in schools right now. It's no wonder kids don't learn anything when they know full well the teachers have no authority over them and thus they don't have to have any respect for them.
DiabolicalGenius Also proves that present day parents are an over-protective lot too who pamper their kids endlessly creating a generation of entitled brats who only yell about their rights but never about their *responsibilities* . Any responsible and good parents would have commended the teacher for having taken the compass from their child and would have had a serious discussion with it.
The parents called it "assault" ?? They should introduce a law in which parents can be held accountable in case their allegations turn out to be false and be warned themselves. And speaking of assault, their brat nearly assaulted another pupil with a compass and the teacher prevented that. Given the circumstances her actions were perfectly understandable.
As for these "warnings". I'd introduce a system to grade them. A formal warning shouldn't mean squat and only exist to appease impossible parents.
No wonder nobody wants to become a teacher these days. Who wants a job in which you can be accused for every minor inconvenience? What's next, kids will accuse the teacher for "looking at them" or not remembering their "secret name" ?
When I was in school we were all (secretly) grateful our teachers were our surrogate parents, adult role-models (realistic ones), judges, judicial system and coaches all into one. Heck, I'll admit most of my teachers understood children and how to teach them morals and good values better than my own parents who just repeated them like parrots.
Britain made its name worldwide with its order, discipline and education. This is how it earned other people's respect and admiration. Funny how many former colonies and third world countries adapted this very system as a template and yet Britain itself has gradually distanced itself from it as if were fundamentally wrong.
This scene works as an insight how times have changed. I wonder how Monty Python would have portrayed the present day schools had they appeared today. Ironically enough the schools today have become a Python-esque comedy in themselves.
In Spain our teachers have legal authority status if I recall correctly, just like physicians and cops.
The ‘how many Romans’ bit is especially fitting, heard it used by just about every language teacher at my school.
The fact the Romans somewhat helped Bryan of abolishing Roman rule makes it even funnier 😂
They just want to go home from this far away place xd
Well, nobody kicked Roman's ass better than roman
@@surmadisan8163 you are joking right?
@@user-vy5uy9fo8pi don’t think he is. Think about how many civil wars the Roman’s had. I agree with him honestly.
That guy reminds me of my Latin teacher.....everybody always prayed that they weren't picked for his question and answer sessions..
IIRC john cleese actually taught latin before becoming an actor
Before there were Grammar Nazis, there were Grammar Centurions.
I would try to make this a thing, but I'm afraid nobody other than die-hard MP fans would get it.
Why can't we have smart humor like this in more recent comedy?
I recommend you Foil Arms & Hog. In my opinion, they are the Monthy Pythons of these days.
Because the woke will rheeeeee.
@@brotherskeeper100 I'm someone you'd probably describe as "woke" and I found this scene funny. Nothing about this scene really is really "politically incorrect" so to speak
@@brotherskeeper100 and cause pp are dumb
@@brotherskeeper100 Before the wokeness, we have been getting trash. It has nothing to do with wokeness. Wokeness just makes trash's stench worse.
Rare footage of early Grammar Nazism
Republika ng Pilipinasball _ grammar roman, grammar protofascism
The thoughts of those last three guards: "Oh Gods, that Centurion's done it AGAIN." "We get so much more cleaning to be done thanks to him."
Almost like Spanish class, except my teacher isn't in full body armor
So he still used his Gladius
Too bad we don't have declensions and we speak vulgar latín actually, not the perfected Latin
@@Adrian-vy5vn I read latín and immediately thought of "Martííííííííín!"
@@Adrian-vy5vn You still have a complicated verbal morphology, though. Not to mention the preposition a, which may be considered a case marking.
It is even more hilarious that the Centurion is helping him with the Grammar. 😂😂😂
I remember a reference of this in Fallout New Vegas.
Sergeant Arch Dornan yeah in cottonwood cove
This is easily my favorite scene!
Not Biggus Dickus?
No, that one is silly for the sake of pure silliness. It's funny, but this one is really clever. Fitting in an impromptu Latin lesson in the midst of a silly misunderstanding is smart.
@@davidhoward2487 Biggus Dickus is +1000% extremely funny.
For me it competes with Brian telling the crowd "You're all different", the crowd uniformly confirms "YES! WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT" and then a single person shout "No, I'm not!". The level of absurd of this is just amazing.
Brian: Finiiished.
Guards: Right... Now DON'T do it again.
💀💀💀
The resemblance of Cleese's character to my high school latin teacher is uncanny.
Because he was a Latin teacher at one point
Always loved this scene. Probably one of my favorites of this entire brilliant movie! :D
Right.
Now don’t do it again.
This is what doing homework with your dad feels like
This scene is so genius. I always come back to it 😂
Yes, the sentence is correct. I liked the locative part. It remembers me my Latin lessons. I live in Italy
I watched this scene at school years ago and I found it funny how the guard sat down to correct his grammar, even though I didn't know Latin. Now that I know what he's talking about, this scene has instantly become 10 times funnier
Latin lessons by swordpoint. Gotta love it!
When I first saw this, I didn't get the joke, beyond a centurion correcting the grammar of graffiti. My dad, however, took Latin in University, as an elective, and he nearly shat himself laughing at this, because apparently, this is all accurate. I don't know Latin as well as he did, but considering John Cleese used to be a Latin teacher, I believe him.
This is almost completely filmed in one shot. Amazing acting.
Priceless & contextually courageous comedy
'HOW MANY Romans?' will never fail to make me laugh.
This is how you teach language back then, it's quite effective than now day education system.
This comment could make good use of a legionnaire grammar nazi to shape it up.
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First time I saw this, I thought it was hysterical. Then I studied Latin, actually understood it, and thought it was fucking brilliant and hilarious.
Also, thanks for posting. Their voices were too British to understand what they were saying!
Before grammar Nazis there were grammar Romans
This is freaking brilliant
Any other Latin students relate to Brian? I know I do!
It really helps to appreciate the ingenuity of this sketch if you were taught Latin in school.
the joys of learning latin summed up in three minutes. brilliant.
LOL it reminds me so much to my language, literature, history, chemistry and biology teachers in South America. 🤣😂🤣
"Hail Caesar and everything, sir" 😂
Graham Chapman was a fantastic actor.
The Latin memories of attending Catholic school from Pre K to 12th grade and Sister Marys classes
I can assure you that this movie is on par if not better in italian, some of the jokes are lost but some others are absolutely wonderful
“What’s this, then?” in any British accent always cracks me up. Titus Pullo (Ray Stevenson) said it once in “Rome” and I immediately thought of this LOL
You could get a lot of paint out of those buckets back in them days.
As a person who loves studying languages it was this scene that made me realize this was my new favorite movie.
Common roman soldiery have better understanding of proper grammar than most people I have meet.
Jorge Escobar woeman solderwy have better understanding of pwopper gwammer*
Latin was common everyday language in Roman Republic//Empire
Whoa whoa whoa. Cleeses character was no common soldier. Looked to be at least a centurian.
Jorge Escobar you mean met
Ah, but nationalities must be capitalised as they are proper nouns, so it becomes "common Roman soldiery".
And the Romans are no more, are they? So, when refering to them, one must use the past tense.
You must also add a determinant when referring to something you have had an interaction with; in this case, you must add "that". Another determinant you must add is "a" before you describe their understanding. You have also neglected the use of the determiner "the" when addressing the common Roman soldiery.
Finally, the past participle of the verb "to meet" is "met". You must also specify the time frame in which you have met these people, and thus you would use "ever".
Therefore, the correct sentence would be: "The common Roman soldiery had a better understanding of proper grammar than most people that I have ever met".
As someone who took 3 years of Latin in High School, this gave me awful flashbacks! lol
What a good teacher !!!
British humor at its best.
One person did it again
My middle school teacher was just as strict, although not as mean, when she taught my class Swedish grammar (I'm Swedish). But she used all of these Latin terms that most of us students didn't grasp. And when we failed in the excercises she gave us, we had to do them all over again until we learned them. Horrible.
I like that the soldier isn't upset by the graffiti or its message. Instead at the poor grammar.
Best comedy ever
(I hope I haven't made any grammatical error).
This is one of my all time favourites. Never grows old.
Thank you for the subtitles, although I do think 1:49 is "boy" and not "Brian".
? BC: Romani ite domum
2019 AD: Yankee go home
Yankee go house
The people called Yankee they go the house
It is funny because in english there is no fucking way of messing that sentence up, it is just noun verb noun.
Around 32 AD
@@marcossidoruk8033 That's because in English, we have a word order of "Subject, does an Action, to the Receiver." In languages that stem more from Latin, the word order can be very 'loose,' so there's an accusative case. In Esperanto, while the convention is "Subject, Action, Receiver", a sentence can be written in any form of the mix. "La Hundon ŝatas Knabo." and "Knabo ŝatas la Hundon." and "La Hundon Knabo ŝatas." are all the same sentence. "A boy likes the dog.
Remember watching the movie in 1979 in a small cinema (80 people) in Wageningen. The brilliant cherry on the cake of humour was: "and now you write this 100 times" - the whole audience collapsed from laughter. Going from joke to joke, we didn't get time to breathe.
Fun Fact: Domum would be correct as the Accusative because it means "To the home". Domus/Domi is the Locative and would be used instead of the Dative "Domui/Domo" for "At home".
The Locative is usually used with city names, but domus is an exception.
If it was accusative you would have to make it "ad domom" to indicate motion towards. Brian actually says this, but is corrected to use the locative.
@@ceruleancenturion You can use ad, but don't have to. The Locative isn't used in this case. That's an error in the movie.
This makes me want to refresh my Latin skills lol
This is like having German
Not The Joker omg so true
Seriously, Der die das dem demen, all that bullshit
German is way easier than Latin.
True
Der die des dem and all that... nightmare freshman year.
1:47 The texting has missed a satirical point (ever so slightly) in that the centurion (John Cleese) never said "Brian". The actual word is "boy", like when a teacher would have addressed a Latin student in an authoritative manner like in an old-school classroom. Also, this is before the centurion learns of the name Brian, when Brian gets brought before Pontius Pilate.
All latin courses should be introduced with this clip.
“It says, Romans go home!”
“ *No it doesn’t* “
My high school history teacher was a bit like that. He would read out Latin speeches from Roman Republic senators, etc, putting a lot of emotion into it. Fun times.
thanks to add the subtitle!
people called Romanes, they go the house?
It says " Romans, go home. "
@@seb99342 No it doesn't.
What's latin for "Roman"?
Literally how google translates.
As a Latin student I found this hilarious
This never gets old!
As someone who has learned Swedish, German, Spanish and French as an adult, this scene feels like personal experience.
I saw this painted on the wall in Cottonwood Cove in FNV, I burst out laughing when I saw it.
It's hilarious that at some point in his writing Brian decided he needed a BIGGER BRUSH.
3:13 Sorry to have to tell you after all this time but the subtitle is wrong. He calls him "Boy" NOT "Brian". At this point in the movie his character had no idea who Brian was anyway.
I will never forget you for what you have done.
Everything about this scene is perfect
This is, in my opinion, one of the best scenes in the entirety of monie history.
Now write it a hundred times lololololo
Im sending this to my english teacher
I arrived at grammar school in England in 1965 fluent in Latin as taught in the better Trinidad secondary schools. Sadly Latin could not long withstand the onslaught of living languages and the opportunity for lively conversations with au pair girls from the continent. This skit reminds me of 'Dado" Davis our Latin teacher same tone of voice wringing your ear with one hand and downing a Victory V lozenge while correcting whatever error you made I am told it's all gone now,history,classics,stiff upper, not letting the side down, good form etc -sad.
"I am told". Hearsay is not an argument.
That joke may well be an inside joke for the classically educated Monty Python members who learned Latin in school, but it's still funny for us with a lesser modern education.
Not at all inside. Anybody who took Latin or for that matter any language in school during a certain time in history can relate only too well.
I’d have to die. I don’t know enough about English or Latin to save my ass in this scenario lol
When you fail your latin this is what the duo lingo owl will do
Ah, the first Grammar Centurion!
When LOB was released, I was a college freshman taking Latin. Loved the movie but thus scene was(is) hysterically funny to me. I described it to my kind Latin professor but he didn't get it. Oh well.
The "Dative" Joke is so great because English HAS no "Dative Case", so it can be very hard for an English speaker to truly understand when Dative is used. Both Latin and German have Dative Case, so they're particularly tricky languages for EFL students to master.
When one considers the History of Monty Python comedy, it's pretty apparent that they're the originators of present day meme political commentary.