The history of English (combined)
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2024
- Take a look at the history of the English language (this is a combination of all 10 parts of the series into one video)
(All parts - combined)
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"BY THAT POINT NO ONE COULD COUNT ANY HIGHER IN FRENCH" Jesus Christ this is so amazing
Can you not just say that
deez
nuts
"Clitoris was still a source of confusion" Amen brother.
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LMAOo
My old Irish father, RIP, used to say that the sun never set on the British Empire because Christ couldn't trust them in the dark.
I little bit heavy, isn't it?
I laughed 🤭 😂
I'm British and I find that hilarious, thanks for sharing!
Yep, that sounds Irish alright.
Hahahaha
Nothing beats animation for us simpletons.
The Bible: "Let there be light reading."
Ha! Ha! That was precious!
here in 2022 mate
Never was learning more fun! This really both entertained me and informed me. Well done!
"and the Italians arrived with the Pizza, their Pasta, and their Mafia."
I'm dying.
+ShiroiKage009 Just like Mama use to make.
i'm italian and it's even funnier
8:19
Ofc you must be a lvl 1 crook...
ma stroncatelo ni culo
Students of History of the English Language will love this! Thanks.
as a linguists, I find this video very helpful for any historian, student, or even a person who is into History.
thank you for uploading such.
"As a linguists"
+Bel-Shamharoth He's is not a professional typer, he just knows shit about language. Get over it fam.
+Adam Moer It's still a little funny ^.^
I'm not into history but damn this explains a lot
Except the French words did not come from the Normen. They come from the Plantagenet (royal family of Anjou, France) who held the English throne from 1154 to 1485.
This is the interesting part of my degree in a nutshell! LOVE IT!
"Their Pizza, Their Pasta, and their Mafia. Just like Mama used to make"
English is a language which not only "borrows" words from other languages, it will actually chase them down dark alleys, hit them over the head, and then go through their pockets, looking for words.
“And then the Italians arrived with their pizza, pasta, and mafia. Just like mama used to make.” I love The Godfather reference with the horse head!
Watching this was the most fun I've had all day.
You should get an explainity Oscar! I think after watching this 4 times I finally got all the information and will pass my test 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
I'm just enjoying this conversation about linguistics and grammar, almost as much as I enjoy these videos. Thanks for posting them, and thanks for talking about such an interesting subject on here! Kudos to you both! :)
"American English, or not English, but somewhere in the ballpark." Hilarious!!
Whoever wrote this script, genius. So entertaining and “punny”.
There´s also "Denglisch" which is a ironic German term for the many anglicisms and pseudo-anglicisms in contemporary German language like "handy" for cell phones, "checken" for "to understand" or "to check", "date" for "romantic appointment", etc.
I think I've watched this about 5 times. Funny and informative!
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Let’s admit honestly,this is the most powerful video i’ve ever seen! Love the animation,the accent,literally everything…Keep up the good work❤️
8:22 and their mafia, just like Mama used to make! lol
The horse's head reference is awesome by the way.
I remember this video from a lesson in uni, 10 years ago!! I still come back to it every other time because I simply love it!!
Hey bro do you have the summarize of the chapters?
This was linked to my french/literacy lesson for today and it is by far the most entertaining thing that has happened
The sun never sets on the English language
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... and "if we're honest a life threatening accident was pretty hilarious" simply became FAIL.
Oh my goodness, this is a fantastic last minute overview of language change for my A2 English Language exam tomorrow! THANK YOU
This 15 min history lesson should be voted best youtube educational video!
This video pretty much covers everything I need to know for tomorrows exam in Global English. Awesome
greetings everyone! welcome to another episode of "where quarantine has lead me today!"
I'm glad I asked the question. I never knew videos could be slowed down in the options. Thanks for helping me be a better teacher with technology!
be well
this video makes the history of English so interesting....it really helped in my project work I had to do
Helpful, informative and amusing. Well done!
Fantastic! Witty and accurate and hugely entertaining. Thank you OU!
I did not know how English had developed throughout history. This job is fantastic!
I was born and raised there and wish I could have learned about England like this when I was at school!
I just love this well told historical spot
Many years later and I'm still looking this up for a 12th grade project
Another excellent 'History Of' from the Open University. Please keep them coming!
It is very important for Greek people to be mentioned for their offer to European Civilization, especially this period that we get a lot of negative publicity due to economic problems. It is not a matter of narcissism of the Greeks, but a matter of self-awareness for European people themselves. Please support my comments as I did for yours. "History", "European", "period", "economic", "problem", "narcissism" are all Greek words.
Very amusing AND educational - the best kind! Thanks so much!
Excellent.
For a similarly acessible and informative tale on the history of the English Language, try Bill Bryson's book 'Mother Tongue'.
NHS Dental Care, lol
I watch a lot of RUclips videos, I think that this is one of the best that I have ever seen !
Whether its Germanic or Latin doesn't matter, what matters is how beautiful this was presented and how it teaches people how languages not only grow but evolve and steal and/or adopt from other languages. All and all English is English. Whatever its true bases doesn't matter.
There should be a reference to ancient Greek language influence in the science chapter. Most scientific terms and names are in Greek. Every medical direction, every dinosaur name and many other words as well are Greek. Some of them are: idea, policie, method, episode, enthusiasm, dialogue, organization, economic, dogma, analyzed and synthesized, critical, problem, agony, melancholy, phenomenon, characteristic, thesis, dynamic, practice, chaos,catastrophe, parallel, synergy, harmony, democratic, climate, basic, apology, eccentric, monologue, emphasize, gastronomy symposia, strategy, philanthropy, magic, monopolies, antagonism, orthological, logic, academic, acme, prognostics, tyranny, phrase, epilogue, cosmos and many more...
I would like to add: chronos, rythm, music, astronaut, cosmonaut, physics, mass, energy, chemistry, mathematics, geometry, pathos, pathology, eros.
Let me add a few Greek words by picking up some from the comments:
Some of my own : theater, philosophy,
From the tittle of the video and Saundz Evove, Bend Marketing Group, Cristiana Coblis - translator, reviewer, copywriter, dlwatib and almost every one else : HISTORY!
From siddhi palande : trigonometry, (trigono - triangle), (metry - the science of counting), (trigonometry - the science of counting triangles there for other geometrical shapes as well). Just because this words exist in every language it doesn't mean that they generated from all over... They where integrated in the western civilizations vocabulary from ancient Greek documents that where the the spark for putting behind the dark medieval age in Europe. If you read Aristotel (a philosopher and teacher of Alexander the Great) you will find it in his writings.
Jeromepsy001 : music
Gina Drayer and JuanDVene : grammar
Beryl Boanerges : genesis
John Moore : logical
The English Centre Spain : idioma
Mel Dixon : criticise
David Means : codes
The London School of English : comic
Christine Dargan : basis
lumach68i : stereotypical
Ana-Maria Deliu : lexicology
DareSunnyClimate ManLee :
narcissistic, autism, ethnocentric, music, parasitic, logic, and hypocritical
NKA23 : pseydo (means fake)
Anders Hass : anarchy
St. Overcome : basic
Alex Meyer : you are the ancient Greek God of vocabulary...
and finally I got bored...
What I did here is not a matter of narcissism of the Greeks, but a matter of self-awareness for European people themselves...
It's all about who was doing the discovery in science. Look at how many stars have Arabic names. Despite current standing, the Middle East was once a center for knowledge, science and culture. And at that time, they happened to have these new things called telescopes.
Almost every scientific term in English, German or French language, has a Greek root, because European people of science and art, found inspiration from Greek history, art, science and philosophy during the Renaissance and the enlightenment. I don't sea any relation between Greece and middle eastern countries, other than the fact that Greece was always the first European country that was on the way of some of these nations, when they where on their peak and where trying to expand towards the west, in Europe. During the Greek-Persian war or the ascent of Arabic or the Ottoman civilisation many years later, Greece stood firm to defend Europe and what became later the common European cultural identity, based on the ideals of democracy and freedom of self education. These ideals are ignored today in the so called civilised western countries and specially in the States, as I see in many occasions.
doesntfitinatag I agree with the last part, fascism seems to have shrouded itself in the flag and sunk its claws in deep.
Actually, texting and writing small blurbs like comments use our spoken language brain, not our written language brain. As such, they are not extensions are written language, so shorthand is more than appropriate.
+Neceros Shorthand is Germanic and means the same as abbreviate which is French.
+The Major
True, but many of todays "germanic" people say things like _förkortning_ or _kortform_ (kort=short).
I had really fun listening to it and found out things I probably kind of could have been taught before Thanks !
brilliant genius who made this video
These are great videos about the English language from the Open University. Very informative while being very entertaining.
I teach English as a second language. My focus is on speaking and listening. My students can not understand this, even though one of them lived in England for 2 years while reading his master's degree.
Try slowing down the video speed. It is quite fast, ostensibly to stay within the 10-minute requirement.
Highly entertaining and educational. I very thoroughly enjoyed watching this video. Bravo!
I'm writing a story that takes place over a thousand years in the future and I'm trying to imagine how english will have changed by then.
lots of tech speech?
They might have finally overhauled their spelling the whay it sometimes happens on the internet, with "hi" for "high", but that would be hard to put into writing.
As the video showed: either words are important from an influential culture, or newly developped technologies spawn new words.
"Will Save The Galaxy For Food" has an interesting twist on how new expressions happen, too.
English language is unique and beautiful. Germanic with a touch of Latin to smooth it out.
finalfrontier001 At least 40% of english vocabulary derives from Latin (directly or via French),so it's a really BIG touch..:)
Johnny Handegg Wrong 30%.....
finalfrontier001 I still would choose a full Germanic english.
monkeytrollu You can learn it it's almost the same as English watch videos on it it's very similar to German too.
finalfrontier001 Do you think it would be easier to learn Anglish (Germanic English) and then German or just go straight to modern German?
Also, what about Anglish vs other Germanic languages like the Scandinavian languages.
This is brilliant! It's fun and informative and gave me a lot of inspiration for my final essay!
I'm actually learning for my lexicology exam using this video.
Thank god for this video, without it I wouldn't have been able to write my essay
um... no, much of science terminology was not 'invented'. it was adopted from the greeks.
So the ancient Greeks had television? Scientific terminology in English has not been, generally speaking, 'adopted' from Greek or Latin, but, yes, invented using Greek/Latin roots. You can talk about a word being 'adopted' when it's taken from a language to refer to something for which English has no suitable word, such as 'chocolate' or 'pyjamas'. Television might easily have been called something like 'electric-viewer', as it is in Chinese.
Phil Bowler what are you going on about? of course they didn't have television, which is a word created from greek -- and latin -- roots, but they most certainly had science and philosophy, and words were directly adopted.
try mathematics, astronomy, geology, biology, zoology, hydraulics.
oh, google it.
helen sotiriadis Yes, many words have been adopted from other languages; your point does not refute what I said about "invention".
Think about these: Aeronautics, Automobile, Ergonomics, Spectroscopy, Telephone, Telegraph, Radium, Electronics, Electricity, Cinematography, Archeology, Dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus, Antibiotic, Elevator, Escalator. In particular, go the Wikipedia page on the escalator and read how the inventor of the moving staircase also *invented* the word to use for it. Do please let me have any references to these items in classical literature: I'm always keen to learn.
if by 'invented' you mean stringing together Greek words to create compound words, and if also you mean conveniently forgetting the sciences which had already been practiced by the greeks, and which i already mentioned, and you think that this is reason enough to omit mentioning their Greek origins, then by golly you must be right.
*****
Oh FFS
Most people in the US speak the English Slanguage.
This here is an amazing, utterly remarkable video.
On September 26, 1957 and October 2, 1959 in Washington, as part of the World Bank Annual Meetings, Mr. Xenophon Zolotas, a famous and highly educated Greek, delivered two speeches in English using (exclusively) Greek words.
Not ancient ..... but words used by the Greeks, as they are, from Antiquity until today, in their daily lives and not only!!!
Mr. Zolotas was a great Economist, who at the age of 24 became a University Professor, for a number of years Governor of the Bank of Greece and Prime Minister. who by many has now been accepted as one of the most important personalities of the last century).
The special element was that he used throughout his speech words that were of Greek origin and are used in English.
The audience watching the IMF meeting was speechless and Zolotas's speech became historic with him and his wife making headlines in the NYT and "Washington Post".
(Somebody must be fluent in English and Greek to be able to write two such speeches. I will quote you the first one.)
The speech was:
''Kyrie, I eulogize the archons of the Panethnic Numismatic Thesaurus and the Ecumenical Trapeza for the orthodoxy of their axioms, methods and policies, although there is an episode of cacophony of the Trapeza with Hellas.
With enthusiasm we dialogue and synagonize at the synods of our didymous Organizations in which polymorphous economic ideas and dogmas are analyzed and synthesized. Our critical problems such as the numismatic plethora generate some agony and melancholy.
This phenomenon is characteristic of our epoch. But, to my thesis, we have the dynamism to program therapeutic practices as a prophylaxis from chaos and catastrophe. In parallel, a panethnic unhypocritical economic synergy and harmonization in a democratic climate is basic. I apologize for my eccentric monologue. I emphasize my eucharistia to you Kyrie, to the eugenic and generous American Ethnos and to the organizers and protagonists of this Amphictyony and the gastronomic symposia. Η δεύτερη ομιλία στις 2 Οκτωβρίου 1959: Kyrie, It is Zeus’ anathema on our epoch for the dynamism of our economies and the heresy of our economic methods and policies that we should agonise between the Scylla of numismatic plethora and the Charybdis of economic anaemia. It is not my idiosyncrasy to be ironic or sarcastic but my diagnosis would be that politicians are rather cryptoplethorists. Although they emphatically stigmatize numismatic plethora, energize it through their tactics and practices.
Our policies have to be based more on economic and less on political criteria.Our gnomon has to be a metron between political, strategic and philanthropic scopes. Political magic has always been antieconomic. In an epoch characterised by monopolies, oligopolies, menopsonies, monopolistic antagonism and polymorphous inelasticities, our policies have to be more orthological. But this should not be metamorphosed into plethorophobia which is endemic among academic economists. Numismatic symmetry should not antagonize economic acme. A greater harmonization between the practices of the economic and numismatic archons is basic.
Parallel to this, we have to synchronize and harmonize more and more our economic and numismatic policies panethnically.
These scopes are more practical now, when the prognostics of the political and economic barometer are halcyonic. The history of our didymous organisations in this sphere has been didactic and their gnostic practices will always be a tonic to the polyonymous and idiomorphous ethnical economics.
The genesis of the programmed organisations will dynamize these policies. I sympathise, therefore, with the aposties and the hierarchy of our organisations in their zeal to programme orthodox economic and numismatic policies, although I have some logomachy with them. I apologize for having tyrannized you with my hellenic phraseology. In my epilogue, I emphasize my eulogy to the philoxenous autochthons of this cosmopolitan metropolis and my encomium to you, Kyrie, and the stenographers.''
Excellent, but NO CREDITS?!?! Who wrote and drew it? Or doesn't that matter? (And, yes, we all recognise Clive Anderson, but I'm sure he doesn't want to take all the credit).
I thought it sounded more like Stephen Briggs, who narrates the Discworld audiobooks.
This is terrific. Entertaining and interesting. Thank you! What DID happen to the Jutes?
no one knows
Our best guess is that they got wiped out or assimilated by the surrounding Saxons.
Though I am russian, I love english language and fins this information very useful and entertaining. Thank you for you work and appreciation of good humor and animation! :)
This video sumed up my college book. Thank you so much
This is beautiful. Thank you, so much for uploading this.
Isn't a firewall something you put in buildings in between flats to stop fires from spreading, or something you put in welding tanks to stop burning gas from travelling to the tank?
No, it's a software that protects viruses from entering a network or server. It is a virtual wall of fire that keeps bad stuff outside your computer.
JuanDVene I don't mean this as an insult, but really..? The term firewall doesn't ring any bells that it might be a term used in a previous era, before computers were ever invented?
Lauri Hirn I'm guessing that IT devs borrowed the term as an analogy to fire resistant walls intalled in buildings. Firewalls in networks act as a way for keeping out unwanted communication from a computer and allows only previously defined "safe" applications to send and receive information externally i.e. Internet Browsers and email.
The video says 'burnt wallpaper' so it must have known and meant the term was there prior but not as popular.
I actually took a course on this in College. It was alternatally the most interesting and deadly dull class I ever took! Would much rather have watched this video.
And you young folks today have no idea how lucky you are to have the Oxford English Dictionary on CD-rom. I had to use my Dad's hard copy...the print was so tiny it came with it's own magnifying glass! And wow, looking up and documenting history of words for the Language class (also for my Chaucer class)! Oy! The stuff of nightmares!
The speaker of this video explains it with full of wit,humor and sarcasm.
awesome video - love the animation makes it easy to follow :)
You all forgot Spanglish. Latinos in the US all speak both Spanish and English in a cluster of strange dialog.
Yeah, but you people don't matter.
quien te registra, papá? :v
say goodybye to your account, lince
Riveting Rosie I agree but actually its not only the latinos that speak spanglish many people in america actually tend to use spanish words like nada, ya and many other words just with a more english pronunciation
They didn’t about forget it. They weren’t going to mention ALL English varieties.
Simply wonderful.
Thank you, Vocabulogic, for sending me here!
Funny seeing all the people arguing that such-and-such word obviously came from their (other related) language. Some are borrowings, especially where the two cultures overlapped (eg. Norman French words in English) but in other cases, the reason words are similar is that most languages spoken in Europe, India and inbetween evolved from an even older language called Proto-Indo-European.
+Ian Pulsford And that older language is Sanskrit
No it is not, Sanskrit is a decendant of Proto-Indo-European. Sanskrit is a sibling of Ancient Greek, Latin, Proto-Germanic, Old Persian etc., not the parent. Go read up on some linguistics.
+Ian Pulsford Fun fact: The "Atlantean" language in the animated film "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" is a full conlang based around PIE.
+Declan Miller
Computer simply means calculator. Both the scandinavian _dator_ and the french _ordinateur_ are more descriptive of what a modern _data machine_ is used for.
loooool
"How to read with gravity"
Very informative ! , i didn't really know a lot about the history of the English language ,Thanks
Wao, a creative way of teaching or informing about the history of English. I really liked and enjoyed it. I'm sure my students will love it too. Thanks for sharing!
Brilliantly done!
Shut up
Great fun. And informative.
Watched this video roughly 4 years ago at school, and just today I realised there was an anagram pun in that "Up your caesars" part. Omg.
Could you make this for french? I'd love to know about it's evolution
facts you don't know about The English language
very interesting video.However,there is a mistake because most of the scientific words and medical jargon come from greek words which pre-existed
Greetings from the Philippines!
The Jutes joined forces with the Saxons in 415 AD.
Jute - n, referring to a citizen of the Jutland Peninsula in Northern Europe. Thus, keeping two thirds of the peninsula as a part of Denmark, of course. Why? Because the other third belongs to the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which also formerly speaks Saxon.
This is a very unusual approach to covering the history of the English Language.
Almost all of my ancestors contributed to English in some way. On my dad's side, I'm English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh, but also part German, a la the Germanic tribes. On my mom's side I'm French, like the Normans (my middle name is Norman in fact), and Scandinavian, I'm one quarter Norwegian and Swedish to be exact, and those cultures can be traced back to the vikings. It's like I'm speaking the language I was meant to speak. And it's the most widely spoken in the world! I'm so proud!
Well, many English words adopted from Latin but the majority of Latin words adopted from Ancient Greek language and those who know about glossology can prove it. Oops glossology sounds Greek: glossa (γλώσσα) means language. And if you are not sure if Ancient Greek civilization is one of the oldest, then just refer to history as there are enough evidences about this.
Hello my fellow Greek citizen. Let's support each other to make the truth glow. You can like my comment as I did for yours. Our point will be more obvious if we unite on one comment and make it the most popular, so that it will be the first for everyone to see.
Wow, so much self-masturbating ethnicentric bullshit.
Guys, I get where you are coming from but in Great Britain, they had their scientific papers, books and manuals in Latin, not in Greek.Of course, it is true that a lot of words used in Latin came from Greek, but the Brits didn't have a direct influence from the Greek language. I know it's frustrating that many people forgot the importance of ancient civilizations, like Ancient Greece, Babylon, Persia etc, but it makes perfect sense that this video doesn't mention the Greek connection for it's not a direct one.
lots to ponder here. thanks for sharing.
We watched this in our English lesson yesterday. It was a pretty good lesson! XD
"Watch out for that man with the enormous axe!"
Epic voice!
This is a beautiful peice of artwork. I should show this on the day my daughter is to be married
hah that is amazing!
thank you so much.
me and my group have to do a presentation on the history of English in class and I'm gonna send the link to them now ;)
Where was 'Clockwork Orange English'?
Welly welly welly welly well
It was called Nadsat I believe.
viddy well
You mean Russian with the English alphabet?
good video! Neverethess It is sad that the authors do not mention how many greek words English contains
Watching the butthurt autistic Greek comments it's good thing they don't, it serves you well.
@@autumnleaves6661 pure gold
very entertaining....and essentially, we learn more quickly while focused on being entertained....our attention is 'held between'...entretenir...
Amazing, interesting and useful!
Thank u very much )))
Simplistic, incomplete, inaccurate at some parts but I really liked the animation.
Outcome: The Open University has good animators and bad historians
5:11 Electricity: "Invented by the English". Really?
5:17 Pendulum: "Invented by the English". Really?
5:22 Cardiac: "Invented by the English". Really?
5:25 Sternum: "Invented by the English". Really?
5:31 Clitoris. You are right. This could not have been invented by the English.
You missed the point entirely, genius. The dates refer to the words, not the things themselves, and nowhere does it say 'invented by the English'
only an Englishman would come up with a word like "snuffbumble" :)
learned a lot.. thank you!!
this is so funny yet educational i'M CRYING