In jews opinion, humans are forbidden from disagreeing with jews . In jews opinion, jews are forbidden from agreeing to disagree with non-jews. In jews opinion, non-jews are human-cattle. In jews opinion, jews being proven lyers regarding human soap and lampshades, mass-electrocusions, shrunken heads, baby kindling and the 6 million figure, doesn't effect peoples faith in holocostianity one bit.
Well BCE and CE are now standard in all American schools. It's not a big deal. Students that have attended grade school since the new millenium will naturally be familiar with the terms Common Era. I'm confident the Catholic church alone will be suffice preserve the use of Anno Domini and Before Christ.
@iMaDeMoN2012 The majority of the western world not brought up in a system of brainwashing such as the Catholic Church or American public school system just use BC and AD without a thought as to what the letters stand for. They are as devoid of great significance as AM and PM, i.e and e.g.
@MartinJWillett I'm not really concerned with preserving historical usage, I'm more interested in function. The days of the calendar are track our journey around the sun relative to earth rotations. Hours track the rotation of a particular point on the earth relative to the sun. Here hours are not like days, days keep time, hours keep position. To track time we should use a UT everywhere and have a non-time related terminology to indicate relative position like morning, noon, night.
@iMaDeMoN2012 Preserving historical usages allows us to understand the past. Changing the language, spelling and usage every five years or so to mark a new arsey uppity generation coming along vying for power and status is an incredibly bad idea which will rapidly divorce us from our culture and roots. The young need to be savagely slapped down to stop them destroying their own heritage before they get to inherit it.
Part of me thinks the current convention is fine as a point of historical fiction...a myth...a legend if you will. Another part of me thinks we should start the calender from a more provable event: the first bomb at Hiroshima, the Battle of Tours or Vienna, the invention of anti-biotics. The problem is which event do we choose as the new benchmark which will be acceptable to most nations so we're not changing it again in the future?
@Hereticalable There is no obvious date everybody will be happy with so just go with tradition and the line of least resistance. Most books with dates in them are using the current BC AD convention, anybody reading anything else already knows they are into something foreign or ancient or both.
You are quite correct my friend. I like to worship Odin on the Sabbath, though, with my voodoo beads..... unless it's the thirteenth in which case I go to the pub and drink to Jupiter and Mars.....the planets not the gods. I've got it all written down somewhere so it's quite likely to catch on when I've taken the last comet hidden spaceship to Nibiru....The end is coming!!! Right after these brief words from our sponsors... I'm rambling......appologies.... Beam me up Scotty...Scotty?.....Jebus?
French NEEDS an academy to clarify/decide how things are written/said because there are so many illogical, usually historically based exceptions to all rules its nearly impossible for a single person to learn them all by hearth...
yeah, BC it is. I couldn't care less, even when thinking hard about it I do not feel the slightest upset about it. It wouldn't matter if it was BK(before Krishna) or BM(before Muhammed) it's just a freakin reference point, like Sol.
@indignant99 Yes, how quaint. Many of the differences between British English and American English are about the retention of different anachronisms and the developing of new trends separately. Many modern American forms sound quite seventeenth century to English ears and I'm sure the opposite is also the case. The great thing about English is that neither can prove that they are right and the other wrong. Long may it continue so people in the future will still be able to read what we write now.
@jollyradical I didn't say English has always been the best language, the point is that it is now, because it is the language of industry, engineering, science, America, Australia, Hollywood and the internet. It is the de facto language of man, the universal lingua franca and it is that because it is the only language that could handle a sentence with those imported words without feeling slighted or belittled. It is because it is the language of America AND Britain, nobody owns it outright.
I am at odds whether I take this as an incentive to change what can be changed and insist on BCE and CE.
Language changes, so my take is that it's not a matter of weeding out wrong expressions or anything based on historic events but adapting to the current environment.
@StopSpamming1 In fifty years time I bet you people will need to be taught what BCE means and they will smile wryly like people do when they hear about French Revolutionary metric time and revolutionary calendar.
@BarryGormley2010 Really? There are more people learning English than live in Britain and North America combined. How many non-Japanese have learned the language?
@MartinJWillett Doesn't mean anything. Mandarin Chinese alone has much more people speaking it than English - and it's an insane, inefficient, shitty language.
English is just popular because of English colonialism and American technological advances.
"Better" is just a matter of taste, obviously. I think Spanish is the one that makes the most sense to me.
I adore the powerful emotional sound of Japanese, but reading it is an absolute chore.
If were gonna change anything it should be the names of the planets. Personally I think it would make astrology a lot more popular if the ringed planet pokemon and microsoft were in existence. The moon should also be named after me cause I'm white and full of craters and have no oxygen on my surface.
@ThomasRowsell Of course it makes sense. If instead you were concentrating on Middle Eastern history it might make more sense to use BCE and CE, but if all your source material, primary sources, secondary sources, tertiary sources and scribbles on the back of your hand use AD then why change to be PC? In fifty years will people know what CE means? I bet they will know what AD means.
@MartinJWillett It seems to be coming out of certain quarters of American politically correct academia, this sort of thing, so I guess that means its the Jews. I commend the job they've done bringing Hebrew back from the grave, but I do wish they'd leave English alone.
By the title i was expecting a pisstake on arabic language and how it is creeping in and propagated by muslims, even though every arabic word they use has perfect English equivalent (or even better). Anyway, if there is a god then English would be it's native language, like The Almighty Spaghetti Monster, or what have you.
@Gnomefro Oh nice one. No, it doesn't. What it means is that we don't have to recall and pulp all the books published in the last thousand years or so. It's a legacy of older thinking, like the highly irrational (now) QWERTY keyboard and the row of buttons on a jacket sleeve which were (as legend has it) originally placed there to stop young midshipmen from wiping their noses on the King's uniform.
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In jews opinion, humans are forbidden from disagreeing with jews . In jews opinion, jews are forbidden from agreeing to disagree with non-jews. In jews opinion, non-jews are human-cattle. In jews opinion, jews being proven lyers regarding human soap and lampshades, mass-electrocusions, shrunken heads, baby kindling and the 6 million figure, doesn't effect peoples faith in holocostianity one bit.
oveid 3 months ago
Well BCE and CE are now standard in all American schools. It's not a big deal. Students that have attended grade school since the new millenium will naturally be familiar with the terms Common Era. I'm confident the Catholic church alone will be suffice preserve the use of Anno Domini and Before Christ.
iMaDeMoN2012 3 months ago
@iMaDeMoN2012 The majority of the western world not brought up in a system of brainwashing such as the Catholic Church or American public school system just use BC and AD without a thought as to what the letters stand for. They are as devoid of great significance as AM and PM, i.e and e.g.
MartinJWillett 3 months ago
@MartinJWillett I'm not really concerned with preserving historical usage, I'm more interested in function. The days of the calendar are track our journey around the sun relative to earth rotations. Hours track the rotation of a particular point on the earth relative to the sun. Here hours are not like days, days keep time, hours keep position. To track time we should use a UT everywhere and have a non-time related terminology to indicate relative position like morning, noon, night.
iMaDeMoN2012 3 months ago
@iMaDeMoN2012 Preserving historical usages allows us to understand the past. Changing the language, spelling and usage every five years or so to mark a new arsey uppity generation coming along vying for power and status is an incredibly bad idea which will rapidly divorce us from our culture and roots. The young need to be savagely slapped down to stop them destroying their own heritage before they get to inherit it.
MartinJWillett 3 months ago
Part of me thinks the current convention is fine as a point of historical fiction...a myth...a legend if you will. Another part of me thinks we should start the calender from a more provable event: the first bomb at Hiroshima, the Battle of Tours or Vienna, the invention of anti-biotics. The problem is which event do we choose as the new benchmark which will be acceptable to most nations so we're not changing it again in the future?
Hereticalable 4 months ago
@Hereticalable There is no obvious date everybody will be happy with so just go with tradition and the line of least resistance. Most books with dates in them are using the current BC AD convention, anybody reading anything else already knows they are into something foreign or ancient or both.
MartinJWillett 4 months ago
Only Wizards and Chimney Sweeps speak english, I speak American!
A1R5N1P3R 4 months ago
You are quite correct my friend. I like to worship Odin on the Sabbath, though, with my voodoo beads..... unless it's the thirteenth in which case I go to the pub and drink to Jupiter and Mars.....the planets not the gods. I've got it all written down somewhere so it's quite likely to catch on when I've taken the last comet hidden spaceship to Nibiru....The end is coming!!! Right after these brief words from our sponsors... I'm rambling......appologies.... Beam me up Scotty...Scotty?.....Jebus?
mydogbanjo 4 months ago
French NEEDS an academy to clarify/decide how things are written/said because there are so many illogical, usually historically based exceptions to all rules its nearly impossible for a single person to learn them all by hearth...
toulouse666 4 months ago
I've been waiting for someone to say that.
bishop8000 4 months ago
I think we should outlaw the word English itself - i mean, it's kind of offensive to all the non-English English speaking people...
Joniversity 4 months ago
yeah, BC it is. I couldn't care less, even when thinking hard about it I do not feel the slightest upset about it. It wouldn't matter if it was BK(before Krishna) or BM(before Muhammed) it's just a freakin reference point, like Sol.
Paxmax 4 months ago
I don't say "clah-k" nor "cluh-k." I clearly enunciate the GODDAMN "R."
indignant99 4 months ago
@indignant99 Yes, how quaint. Many of the differences between British English and American English are about the retention of different anachronisms and the developing of new trends separately. Many modern American forms sound quite seventeenth century to English ears and I'm sure the opposite is also the case. The great thing about English is that neither can prove that they are right and the other wrong. Long may it continue so people in the future will still be able to read what we write now.
MartinJWillett 4 months ago
@BarryGormley2010 No, Casablanca is a better movie because more people pretend they have seen it.
MartinJWillett 4 months ago
"I speak French to my women, Italian in the court, Spanish to the troops and English to my dogs and horses." - Charles V
jollyradical 4 months ago
@jollyradical I didn't say English has always been the best language, the point is that it is now, because it is the language of industry, engineering, science, America, Australia, Hollywood and the internet. It is the de facto language of man, the universal lingua franca and it is that because it is the only language that could handle a sentence with those imported words without feeling slighted or belittled. It is because it is the language of America AND Britain, nobody owns it outright.
MartinJWillett 4 months ago
@MartinJWillett NO! Mexican SPANISH is the language of America! ;o)
DMSProduktions 4 months ago
@MartinJWillett Actually I'm just being an ass. I agree with you 100%.
jollyradical 4 months ago
I am at odds whether I take this as an incentive to change what can be changed and insist on BCE and CE.
Language changes, so my take is that it's not a matter of weeding out wrong expressions or anything based on historic events but adapting to the current environment.
When was the last time I used "crikey Moses"?
StopSpamming1 4 months ago
@StopSpamming1 In fifty years time I bet you people will need to be taught what BCE means and they will smile wryly like people do when they hear about French Revolutionary metric time and revolutionary calendar.
Martin Willett,
Quintidi, 5 Brumaire CCXX
MartinJWillett 4 months ago
@MartinJWillett
You know, you could be right there. Shall we keep this exchange and compare notes in 2061? :)
StopSpamming1 4 months ago
@StopSpamming1 Fool
Slacktoo 3 weeks ago
@BarryGormley2010 Really? There are more people learning English than live in Britain and North America combined. How many non-Japanese have learned the language?
MartinJWillett 4 months ago
@MartinJWillett Doesn't mean anything. Mandarin Chinese alone has much more people speaking it than English - and it's an insane, inefficient, shitty language.
English is just popular because of English colonialism and American technological advances.
"Better" is just a matter of taste, obviously. I think Spanish is the one that makes the most sense to me.
I adore the powerful emotional sound of Japanese, but reading it is an absolute chore.
ikisdragonfist 4 months ago
@ikisdragonfist It is better. This is my channel, that is my opinion. There is nothing to add.
MartinJWillett 4 months ago
If were gonna change anything it should be the names of the planets. Personally I think it would make astrology a lot more popular if the ringed planet pokemon and microsoft were in existence. The moon should also be named after me cause I'm white and full of craters and have no oxygen on my surface.
MsReefmaster 4 months ago
it's fine by me 4 numbers is enough for a year date not writing year 69,000000 or something daft waste on the room on sheet work.
BahamutDKing 4 months ago
English is just Germans party Bitch ;)
quatroseven 4 months ago
i am an atheist doing an MA in medieval history. I prefer to use AD and BC and so do most lecturers it seems, regardless of faith
ThomasRowsell 4 months ago
@ThomasRowsell Of course it makes sense. If instead you were concentrating on Middle Eastern history it might make more sense to use BCE and CE, but if all your source material, primary sources, secondary sources, tertiary sources and scribbles on the back of your hand use AD then why change to be PC? In fifty years will people know what CE means? I bet they will know what AD means.
MartinJWillett 4 months ago
@MartinJWillett actually islamic scholars don't use CE either! they use the islamic calendar, so instead of AD they use AH (anno hegirae)
ThomasRowsell 4 months ago
@ThomasRowsell So who does use it? Atheist Zionists? Oi vey!
MartinJWillett 4 months ago
@MartinJWillett It seems to be coming out of certain quarters of American politically correct academia, this sort of thing, so I guess that means its the Jews. I commend the job they've done bringing Hebrew back from the grave, but I do wish they'd leave English alone.
rahotep101 4 months ago
Great vid, Martin.
yoshobbit 4 months ago
Yes, thank you!
rahotep101 4 months ago
By the title i was expecting a pisstake on arabic language and how it is creeping in and propagated by muslims, even though every arabic word they use has perfect English equivalent (or even better). Anyway, if there is a god then English would be it's native language, like The Almighty Spaghetti Monster, or what have you.
unitasetmagus 4 months ago
@unitasetmagus Maybe I will get around to that particular pisstake one day, Insha'Allah.
MartinJWillett 4 months ago
Excellent, as always
crewmannumber7 4 months ago
So.. you're saying that AD doesn't mean Atheistic Date? =)
Gnomefro 4 months ago
@Gnomefro Oh nice one. No, it doesn't. What it means is that we don't have to recall and pulp all the books published in the last thousand years or so. It's a legacy of older thinking, like the highly irrational (now) QWERTY keyboard and the row of buttons on a jacket sleeve which were (as legend has it) originally placed there to stop young midshipmen from wiping their noses on the King's uniform.
MartinJWillett 4 months ago
I always thought the use of BCE and CE was kinda juvenile and unnecessary.
fringeelements 4 months ago
Strong words - good points.
calmreason 4 months ago