English and Empire - The History of English (6/10)

[ShiroKage009]

That "Game Over" looked like SEGA's logo :P

[SCIENCEisWISDOM]

When it said we went on tour for resources, didn't we get tea from India and coffee from Africa?

Just wondering because it did not mention them and I thought it was important to our history. After all we are a nation who love to drink tea and coffee!

[deathbysvent]

@AMockTurtle Oh, I thought that Egypt primarily spoke Arabic. I wonder what other countries this video conveniently forgot. (raises eyebrow) =P

[NovaScotiaChick]

Excellent creative work! Worth a few laughs too.

[Scoinsoffaterocks]

Doesn't the word zombie come from some Hatian Creole.

[steevmac]

@Scoinsoffaterocks Haitian Creole itself is a mixture of French and several West African languages. Originally, the word "zombie" is from either Kikongo "zumbi" or Kimbundu "nzambi" both spoken in modern Angola and the Congos.

[Scoinsoffaterocks]

@steevmac

OH...

[awesomelightning]

The last one still has me laughing.

[MrJhooow1]

I can't watch those videos! They're so funny, I only pay attention to the cartoon, and not to the narration... lol

[Millhouse013]

What the hell? By splitting it up into 10 videos, you make people load 10 pages instead of one, sit through 10 intros instead of one. All in all, watching this takes 5 minutes on moderate internet connections because you thought a few more video views are more important than actually informing people.

[nicolebmoviesFTW2]

@Millhouse013 Get less shitty Internet.

[Millhouse013]

@nicolebmoviesFTW2 What kind of an answer is that? Even with 100Mbit per second, splitting a 10 minute video up into 10 parts if a stupid thing to do. Nobody would only watch parts 5-10 of 7-10, so splitting it up serves no other purpose than to give the youtube account more video views.

You weren't responding to my issue with this at all.

[nicolebmoviesFTW2]

@Millhouse013 I agree that it'd be better in just one, big part, but I doubt it takes five whole minutes more unless you have VERY shitty Internet, and people with very shitty Internet, I don't feel sorry for.

[Millhouse013]

Then we agree. Whether you feel sorry for people who have a bad connection or not is besides the point. Uploading this as one big video lasting 10 minutes would have been a better decision, and that's that.

[nicolebmoviesFTW2]

@Millhouse013 AWWW! You're so CUTE! ^_^

[GabYaMarO]

@Millhouse013 Perhaps they didn't make the videos all at the same time, so they were uploading them as they were finishing them. I'm not sure if that's the case, I haven't checked the dates the videos were uploaded

[beany900]

you forgot japan on the map

[juicysensei]

@beany900 I'm guessing you meant China. Japan was never colonized by any nation. They have been occupied but that isn't the same thing as colonization.

The map at the end was also missing India but whatever it's free learning and you get what you pay for. Still this was an entertaining series of videos.

[deathbysvent]

Why isn't America eaten? ... or at least the east coast of America...

[TheSirPrise]

@deathbysvent High in fat.

[AMockTurtle]

@deathbysvent It should also have eaten Egypt, but yeh.

[NerdyLiberal]

@deathbysvent

Cause we rebelled before 1914.... I guess....

[nadskilove]

tumblr sent me here lol



[conorucd]

seriously - Ireland is even left out of the map ffs

[InsanityTechie]

@conorucd no it isn't, it's eaten by Great Britain. Because Britain conquered Ireland, so it was part of the Empire.

[conorucd]

@InsanityTechie from 1800 to 1921 yes this would be ok but all throughout these videos ireland is not on the map but northern ireland always is.

[conorucd]

@InsanityTechie ah perhaps this wasnt the best video to post on - but all the other videos ireland is not on the map throughout all the time periods when it was only part of the uk or bg and ire from 1800/1-1920/1

[gilmcgillivary]

I love the historical ditties & especially Britain as the Pac-man gobbling up property propagating the Empire. Wonder if the Crown still respects Crown Patents it so freely gave out to my ancestor Hon. William McGillivray in Canada, they do for Hudson Bay Company? hmm...can anybody address her Majesty?

[chrissomerry]

@TamarGirl Perhaps it was on vacation?

[P2J3M4]

The word "Cannibal" actually came from the pacific islands; not the carribean, on Captain`s Cooks Travels. But an entertaining video none the less.

[Ynysmydwr]

@P2J3M4 > The word "Cannibal" actually came from the pacific islands... <

Oh no it didn't!

Cannibal: 1550s, from Sp. canibal "a savage, cannibal," from Caniba, Christopher Columbus' rendition of the Caribs' name for themselves (see Caribbean). [Onine Etymology Dictionary]

[P2J3M4]

@Ynysmydwr - Thanks for replying. But sorry for deceiving you, this was a test for a communications class, where we were testing if people take comments seriously and if they corrected people or not. But regardless it's good to know that there are smart and intelligent people commenting out there.