Is English just badly pronounced French?
Is English just badly pronounced French?
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In this video I respond to the claim that English does not exist, but is instead merely badly pronounced French. I…
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One of my favourites is how we sneeze in English – atishoo! People generally consider it an onomatopoeia for the sound of a sneeze. But could it be rather an approximation of some English person saying 'À tes souhaits' – being the blessing said in French after someone sneezes?
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Sorry fake news all modern languages including French is based mostly in Latin and Greek
English is the Christmas tree, French is just the baubles hanging from it.
Hôte, hôtel, hôtesse, Hôpital, château, mât, maître how about all the « s » that the French have dropped 🙂
English is a Scandinavian language with French pronunciation, IMHO.
Just cause you put a few bumper stickers (French loan words) on your Honda Civic doesn't change the fact that it's still a Honda Civic (Germanic language).
I oprefer the metaphor that is basically English is what happens when ancient German mugs Briton Gaelic, Danish and French in a dark alley and steals parts of their syntax and lexicon.
Nice job
This cant be because webster who made Webster dictionary said the english language was made from american indian language put together
German and English are the same Language
– Mr. X
I rest my case
French derived from creole… French doesnt sound like Deutsche…. we are reversing the lies… remember, when the pilgrims came to America they were greeted in English by Somerset…. the history of language is full of lies from Europeans
French is german latin, and english is latin german
Love your accent
Commencer ≠ Comencer
That was really interesting, and made me understand some things
Thank you for this video
English and French sound very different. British people come to france can't understand anything. I took my first french class. I could not understand anything. The textbook has no English translation at all
English is a dialect of French
All these languages are stratified in a cycling Torus electromagnetically. Some from right to center and some from left to center and some from top to center and all conform to a mosaic fishnet in the center where pulsrs of Gods Word in the center harmonizes them and then shoots them out the bottom in cycles.
All languages conform to the structure of the Torus, and the Laws it conforms to Torah and Mosaic Law. Rhe most dwfining thing in a language is its cadence. Timing is literally everything
You've got to look at the grammar to understand the breath of a language, I believe. English grammar is most similar to Norwegian and there is an argument for modern English being a Scandinavian language precisely because of its grammatical structures. This is why Norwegians learn English very easily, and most Brits don't know this, but Norwegian is the very easiest language for a native and monolingual English speaker to learn. The same isn't true of English and French. Brits struggle with French, and even the French struggle with English.
Conclusion: English = distorted French, French = distorted Latin 😂😂😂😂😂
No. English is primarily a German and Anglo-Norman language with heavy Latin influence.
A majority of the words we share with French are from the Latin root. You can claim we got the word from Old French, but the Old French word for the thing we claim our English word came from is almost never the root word we claim it to be.
For instance: library. Is from the Latin “librarium.” There was an Anglo Norman word “librarie” that roughly meant “collection of books.” But the French word for library doesn’t come from Latin. It comes from the Greek. Bibliothēkē (Greek) —> Bibliothèque (French).
In fact, all the Romance languages use the Greek root for “library” and the Latin root for “book,” whereas English uses the Latin root for “library” and the Old Norse/Germanic root for “book.”
There are thousands of examples of this. Where French and English took totally different paths to get to their current word usage.
The truth is that English is no more French than French is Greek. Anglo Norman was a Frankish/Old French language, and Anglo Norman is a mashup between Latin and several Germanic languages that resulted from modern France being part of the Roman Empire and then the center of the Holy Roman Empire after Charlemagne (who spoke Frankish and Latin – and who instituted compulsory education).
Anglo Norman French was the official language of the Royal Court in England from 1066 (when the Norman king William the Conquerer prevailed in taking England from the last Saxon king) to 1362 when parliament passed the Pleading in English Act, which made it a law that all acts and pleadings had to be posted in English (the common language of the people who did NOT understand Anglo-Norman French), and then recorded in Latin. That act alone shows that English ≠ French. And that the paths taken to getting to modern English and modern French are not the same, and have not been the same, ever.
I agree. Now if you could just be more attractive like them, and we'd have a winner. Lol JK,
I was always told that you can use a before a word that starts with a consonant, if the beginning of that word sounds like a vowel.
hey! I don't write comments on Youtube very often, but this video is stunning! I'm a linguist and I know English, Spanish, German and Russian languages, but after this video I'm thinking about taking French as the fifth :)) you really encouraged me with so many cognates from English, I hope it won't be terribly difficult and I can learn the basics of French, thank you Rob!
Conversely, when I was working on my doctorate, in Louisiana, a fellow doctoral candidate, a Cajun, nonetheless, once quipped "French, ( a language he knew from infancy) ain't nothing but prettified English" He also spoke Italian, Thai, and Mandarin Chinese. So I took his comments with some authority. I later made a similar observation about modern Italian.
Tout simplement passionnant.
Neat man
Monsieur , Guillaume de Normandie était Duc de la province normande en réalité il était le suzerain du Roi de France Phillippe 1er lors de la conquète de l'Angleterre , il y avait aussi le duc de Frandre duc de Bretagne et Guillaume de Poitier les français sont parti de Dives sur mer , de St valérysur Somme , et Bretagne les sources actuelle donne environs 14 000 a 20 000 français et 776 navires
Wasn't this influence ended because of the plague? So many died norman inclued that more english speaking people where in now in power. I saw a documentary saying that the international language might have been french without the plague.
“vocabular” ??? Really, Rob!
merci beaucoup c'était drôle. Thank you very much this was fun
French is the most badly pronounced language.
not really .how is word music a french ! every culture had the word mazika