I am from Yorkshire and your accents are not very good, are they? Good job for trying. BTW I do not speak with a Northern accent as not everyone does... 'up our way' :-)
In my opinion , british language is much better and clear than american. Sorry to say this . But you can hear it by ur own . This video sucks , but the REAL BRITISH language is really2 good. I'm malaysian , we learnt british-english languages , and I can see that the difference btween british and american is too far
Change the title to Home English because that is what it is - it began life in Merrie Old England. The Welsh, Cornish and Scottish languages are THOUSAND OF YEARS OLD. Some people, though, refer to Welsh as The British Language because of how old it is. So, in futute, this is Home English or, if you prefer, English English! BUT NOT BRITISH LANGUAGE. There isn't one. YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT ALREADY!!
I'm British and I am totally bloody sexy. My British accent is so damned sexy that American women in grocery stores hit on me as soon as they hear me speak. Turns their legs to jelly, apparently. BTW, round our way they call their cell phones "moby's".
i'm not even british and i get what you mean...hahaha..loved this video...espcially words like pants :P...i seriously do picture ppl in boxers when someone says i'm going to go change my pants or something like that :P...hahahahah...well done girl...two thumbs up
@IchabodNarf no no no thats the point! i needed 2 watch several british shows and videos and make my own cheezy version of an accent. (my character was supposed to be made fun of for his accent)
@Vamp61616 ireland is not british. britain is the land mass incorporating england, wales and scotland. the uk is britain and northern ireland. ireland is a republic.
British/Britain is a political entity - it does NOT have its own language. The language spoken is ENGLISH! Also it is NOT a Brythonic language, it is a Germanic language - 80+% is still etymologically Anglo Saxon!
@Crecybowman More sensible people good to see. There are British citizens all over the world who don't even speak English as their first language, some who barely speak English..
Totally misleading title! English is NOT British. British is a celtic language (Britonic). English is a West-Germanic language which was brought by the Angles and Saxons from Germany to England around 500 AC. Check next time Wikipedia before you create such titles.
@hjengels It's been said, I'm aware, and I was aware before I posted the video as well; Celtic history is actually one of my favourite things, and I do know that Britonic dialects =! English dialects. The issue with that being that the video is about "the British language" in that it's about the language used by British people, as distinct from that used by, say, Americans, Canadians, Australians, South Africans...
Also, check next time your sentence structure before you lecture me on semantics.
@hjengels That's not true. Scots dialect is a variation of Anglo-Saxon, people in the North of England speak a similar dialect. Evidenced by the extra spoken 'vowel' Scots possess which makes it easier for a Scot to learn German. The Brythonic language is pretty much lost, except that it was a dialect of Welsh spoken up as far as Edinburgh. 'English' is just a general term for the language, there are a great many Scots words in the English dictionary. Play a Scot at Scrabble, he'll win.
@hjengels so how many people came to this video looking for information on britonic (a language that I for one have never heard of and doubt if it even is used any more) and how many people came looking for information on 'british' in its the more common usage of the word as a substitute for 'english' which is one of the most common languages in the world? My guesses are the numbers are very much in favour of the latter, in this case the title is not misleading at all.
@sarge727 I'm sowwy, but until my gf pointed it out to me, I had no idea I dwopped my Rs. Honestly, I still don't hear it. I mean, I've tried to pick it up, but I genuinely can't hear the difference between my Rs and anybody else's; to me, they just sound like Rs. Makes it very very difficult to fix a pronunciation problem when you can't hear what you're doing wrong.
@SuperAbraham1234 There are, and if I spoke them, I'd probably have mentioned them in the video. Sadly, despite my best efforts, I don't speak a word of Gaelic or Cornish, and all I can do in Welsh is swear. Badly.
lol this video makes me laugh xD well done xD I'm american who's totally obsessed with European culture and such, and people who write fanfics drive me crazy! They can't get anything right! And whenever anyone tries to imitate an accent, it's sooooo overdone, like really cockney. It makes me want to punch something lol xD anyway, amusing video :)
@CrystalSparks007 I'm glad you liked it. :) To be honest, I can live with bad Britpicking in fanfiction, mostly because I don't read a whole lot of it - I was persuaded to make this by my girlfriend, who is Canadian and otherwise exactly like you just described yourself.
What actually really gets my goat is published fiction with bad Britpicking. Like... I love Stephen King to bits, but he should never try to write British characters.
@TranceExplosion ...Okay, I'm sorry if I'm picking on you, but you're like the nth person to say that, and I have to get this out there...
SERIOUSLY YOU GUYS. SERIOUSLY I AM NOT SERIOUS. I do not think there's a British language. I know that we speak English here, and I know that the "British" languages are English, Welsh, Cornish, technically Manx I think, and two flavours of Gaelic. You can keep telling me so as many times as you like, and I will not know it any more than I already do.
@redcoatsrule English is a language spoken in Britain, and in its current form originating in Britain. In my book, that makes it a British language, even if etymologically it's a mixture of West Germanic and Romantic.
Mmm, it is sort of an okay video, but North Americans tend to hear MOST of the many English accents as being "English", regardless of discriminating amongst them. This is true, and it pretty well wipes out the major premise of this video. A Canadian might not have a clue whether the dialect represents Manchester or London, but he will know it's British. The more likely mistake a North American MIGHT make is to confuse a New Zealand accent with a British accent.
@sushiigoats Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, England, and the Isle of Man. Everyone forgets the Isle of Man. There aren't six, but there are five. I misspoke on the "like five other" though, because apparently I can't count.
@GoonerGirl08 In my experience (speaking as a born Northerner brought up by Southern parents... well, southern mum, my dad's from Blackpool), most people aren't serious about it, but there IS a class divide between the north and south of England, and that tends to mean Northerners see Southerners as posh gits. I mean, I don't know about Manchester or wherever, but where I live, in total fairness, a lot of the southerners we get are tourists, who can kinda be bratty dicks about the whole thing.
the title is somewhat of a fail as theres no british language,there is an english language spoken with different accents. ie:english accent,scottish accent,welsh accent,irish accent,american accent etc etc
@nazskyne I want to learn British languages instead of European. :p Gaelic and Welsh would be fucking useless, but damned if I don't want to learn them anyway.
What us brits call crisps, americans call chips, and what we call chips, americans call fries...
I honestly think it's quite irritating that americans don't have a single clue about our language, and just assume they know what we say, and that we say the same things as them. You want to know why? Americans are self-obsessed bus wankers! Gosh, I think i've been watching to many episodes of the inbetweeners lately^^
@Starr4101 I forgot a lot of things. Trunk/boot, cookie/biscuit/cobbler, how to swear, how to compliment someone, what a loo is... It's impossible to fit everything in ten minutes. ^.~
And, to be completely fair, I know there's a certain hypocrisy to this, because while I'm aware that there are many American accents and slang terms (as I'm sure most Americans know about Britain in theory), I'm pretty clueless about them.
Just putting that out there. I know I suck too. :p
@Triviumswords I'm sorry, I think I must have forgotten the part where autism is that easily recognisable.
On the other hand, congratulations. You've succeeded in gaining from ten minutes of audio what usually takes years of tests to diagnose. Clearly, psychiatrists everywhere could benefit from your knowledge and expertise.
@IchabodNarf Forgot to mention Britains(England`s) ancient history of the Britons(like the legacy King Arthur to give you a clue). and the ancient language the Britons spoke(that is the ancestor of modern Welsh).
wazz that chav ment to be a northen accent or just a manchester one coz im from manchester and i do talk like that and i do say init but that dunt mean im a chav fuckin southen wanker we say bath and laugh like normal people you say it like barth and laurth but is not so fuck off.
@sweetbeth09 I did say I was lousy at accents. Anyway, the chav was actually meant to be souf London. And if anything, given my exposure to chav, I'm pretty sure it's more likely to be Bish(op Auckland)
Also, don't start the bahth/bath thing. I live in the North, honey, I've been teased for that since I was five. You're not the first to comment, you won't be the last, and honestly, you might as well not bother. It's a bit more effective spoken, you see.
@jenniemalfoy You know, YouTube has a wonderful thing called "pause" and your keyboard has a magical backspace key. Careful application of the two will miraculously stop me from talking.
You forgot to explain the term "Cunt" That word has a TOTALLY different meaning in both countries. And Americans are not scared to play "Rugby" without pads you ass. American football is a "Full contact" sport. That really pissed me off.
@Xcalibar34 If I put in every word that was different, I'd be here for years. And that's without even starting on the idioms. I recently spent a month in the US with 16 Americans and 17 other Europeans, and the amount of time we spent explaining what the hell we meant to each other was INCREDIBLE. Two countries divided by a common language, indeed.
And I'll believe that when I see Americans playing rugby. :p Also, I have to admit I stole that snark from somewhere... can't remember where, though
I have many friends who are from around various parts of the United Kingdom, so, I have a few of the different regional accents nailed after talking to them often.
so I always do get frustrated when someone asks of me to impersonate someone from the UK, because I have to explain to them, that there are MANY different accents they could be referring to.
and it irks me when people insist that someone must say bloody every other word, it's quite ridiculous, really.
And if you have the accents nailed, you're way ahead of me. Hell, I've been living in the North for my entire life, but I'm damned if I can even start imitating a Durham accent...
@IchabodNarf ermm we have nice people and nasty people and sometimes the weathers nice so fuck off u wanker this video is shit it say nout about how english people talk its just posh twats saying a bunch of shit england and america are the same we both speak english and they might say soccer insted football and what is bascily rugby american football and they have different ways of spelling and they have different words for different things but were bascily the same
@sweetbeth09 Twat. Singular. There's only one of me.
And I speak as I find, hon, and I find as someone who lives in England. If I was going to get into all the vagueries of Up North, hell, just the Dales would take like twenty minutes each to cover.
My experience of America is that the people are nicer but less polite (IN GENERAL), the weather is sunnier and warmer (again in general) and the toilets are minging. Hyperbole. Learn you some.
@TrilogyofC Ahaha, LOL. Still, though some people may suck, we shouldn't generalize. :P It wouldn't be fair to the really nice people... :l Like, for example, HUGH LAURIE! :D He's AMAZING! AND DARN YOU IF YOU DO NOT AGREE!!! DARRRRNNNN YOUUUUUU!!! lol Just kidding! XD But seriously, though. O_O Hugh Laurie's awesome.... WOW, sudden change of topic... Just ignore me. I'll shut up. lol :P
@JustHereForComedy your right... every country has people that suck and every country has really nice people...lets not generalise I give everyone a chance. Nice comment by the way!
The country you keep referring to as 'Britain' Is in fact 'The United Kingdom' (that's Scotland, Wales,Northern Ireland & England).'Britain' includes all of our overseas holdings,such as the Falkland Islands,Gibraltar etc.You know, the bits of 'Empire' that we managed to keep a hold of,to this day. And because I have room left I'll also point out that 'Britannia' is the name of the Island made up of England, Scotland and Wales.
erm , just a quick note - you have used the 'Union Jack' to represent England on several occasions - this is not the English flag - it is the flag of the 'United Kingdom', think 'union jack' - 'united'. The English flag is the St. Georges' Cross, which we stole from Georgia (it's in southern/eastern Europe, look at a map), because Richard III (Yep, the 'Lionheart') thought it looked nice when he was on his way back from murdering people in the middle east. TBC..
@IMQuazimodo Get a grip whoever you are, the Cross of St George IS NOT THE FLAG OF ENGLAND. The true English Flag is a White Dragon on a Red background, not to be confused with the 'Red' Dragon of Wales.
@scyrley sorry what ? That's nonsense. What do you mean 'true English flag' ? The English flag is the St George's cross, since Richard I, I assure you. The patron saint of England is not St. George however, as most believe - but St Edmund. And the point of my original post still stands.
@IMQuazimodo Sorry mate! Dick 1 was a Frenchie! the TRUE flag of the English nation Is the white Wyrm/Dragon. Carried by Harold Godwinson - the Last King of England - at Senlac hill. Everything after that is, I'm afraid, a Norman French bastardisation. You are, however, correct in your assumption of St Edmund being our saint - George (A turk) is/was a depiction of a Norman knight killing a dragon (the English!) - Propaganda of the highest order! Werian se Angelcynn.
@scyrley Surely you mean it was the flag of Wessex as the kings of England were the kings of Wessex and that was a gold wyvern on a red background. But flags change - the current flag of England is the Red Cross on a Silver background.
@deanofantastico True. That was more by way of a feeble attempt to get out of doing a Northern Irish accent, which (EVEN MORE than my other attempts) is an affront both to the Northern Irish and to everyone else's ears too.
3:12 IS incredibly amusing. Mmm, Jack Harkness in pants. Yes. Re: the comments, yeah, you do sound like Rick-- or Pilate if you prefer-- (the accent/speech impediment AND the ranting). It's entertaining.
@IchabodNarf lol sorry its the "r"s! its funny :) how old r u cuz u sound about 12...and you would be vyvyan if you were a bit more vicious XD I am so vyvyan apparently...but thats cuz i nom people and stuff so yer
@im8teennow I live just a little further north than Yorkshire (and always have), but my family's from Cambridge, hence the very definitely non-Northern accent.
This is true. The world are now proudly using the American new words and accents to be the most popular language, for the new gernerations.
I am an african,all these multiple languages and changes, things are be coming difficult and worse.
amatyable 1 day ago
I am from Yorkshire and your accents are not very good, are they? Good job for trying. BTW I do not speak with a Northern accent as not everyone does... 'up our way' :-)
BestEstateSales 2 days ago
Thumbs up for Harry Potter, Torchwood and Doctor Who.
sheleftmalfoy 5 days ago
In my opinion , british language is much better and clear than american. Sorry to say this . But you can hear it by ur own . This video sucks , but the REAL BRITISH language is really2 good. I'm malaysian , we learnt british-english languages , and I can see that the difference btween british and american is too far
HanysFynee 5 days ago
at the start this sounds like them ladies on a british airoplane informing everyone about the flight and serving them food xD
melanieHaynes123 3 weeks ago
OMG!So bad this video...I would never get a ``class´´ from this girl...She sucks.I´m not even native English trololol
asrsego 3 weeks ago 2
shit USA
shevoo22 1 month ago
HEY! if someone wants o practise with my englis add please! I want to improve my english!
MsCarlatube 1 month ago
I say gotten and got depending on the sense of the sentence.
nichotto 2 months ago
Change the title to Home English because that is what it is - it began life in Merrie Old England. The Welsh, Cornish and Scottish languages are THOUSAND OF YEARS OLD. Some people, though, refer to Welsh as The British Language because of how old it is. So, in futute, this is Home English or, if you prefer, English English! BUT NOT BRITISH LANGUAGE. There isn't one. YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT ALREADY!!
HAPPY 2012.
squirell1952 2 months ago
5 other countries in Britain besides England??? There's 4 including England...
Hennerz632 2 months ago
@Hennerz632 5 including England. Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Isle of Man. I thought there was another one, but I was doing it on the fly, so.
IchabodNarf 2 months ago
@Hennerz632 No there's only 3 countries in Britain - Scotland, Wales & England.
Where as the UK has 4............ The United Kingdom of 'Great Britain & Northern Ireland'
Coppertunes 1 month ago 3
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Hennerz632 1 month ago
@Hennerz632 You just said exactly what I just told you !!!!
And I never said anything about Great Britain being different from Britain ?? Where did you get that from ??
Coppertunes 1 month ago
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Hennerz632 1 month ago
In Cornwall you dont say Tractor, its Trackkor
VerticalProduction 2 months ago
you could at least change the titles to British English
PPKproductions3 2 months ago
I'm British and I am totally bloody sexy. My British accent is so damned sexy that American women in grocery stores hit on me as soon as they hear me speak. Turns their legs to jelly, apparently. BTW, round our way they call their cell phones "moby's".
yehrightify 3 months ago
Look this whole video is total bollocks and shit. And as an actual British person I would like to say this lady's bloody looney!! Bahahaha
WOWfactorproductions 3 months ago 7
@WOWfactorproductions Agreed, I definitely am.
IchabodNarf 2 months ago
Britain is not the standardised word for an English speaking person...ENGLISH is
psychoticjanie 3 months ago 17
love the way you say "bwitish" :D<3
xillaish 3 months ago
for any americans listening (watching), her accents are awful! just stop watching now
11FruitCake11 3 months ago
@11FruitCake11 then how do you suppose we can learn them?
raylovesacting12 3 months ago
Plus there are other, Celtic, languages. The british are celts. English are German invaders
MacDonaldSeumas 4 months ago
!:44 Royal Family <3
BrandNewShoe 4 months ago
0:22 The British!
BrandNewShoe 4 months ago
i'm not even british and i get what you mean...hahaha..loved this video...espcially words like pants :P...i seriously do picture ppl in boxers when someone says i'm going to go change my pants or something like that :P...hahahahah...well done girl...two thumbs up
TheDemoleez 4 months ago
Americans : boobs
Australians : boobs mate
British : boobie
Indians : hey boob :))
Muslims : jihad :(
Bhanudagr8 4 months ago
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Bhanudagr8 4 months ago
13 dislikes, 13 people from Glasgow
catmanraspen 4 months ago
THANK YOU!! i am representing a man with a british accent for my drama class and this helped!!!
MegaBrook101 4 months ago
@MegaBrook101 OH GOD NO DO NOT IMITATE MY ACCENTS YOU WILL CRASH AND BURN.
IchabodNarf 2 months ago
@IchabodNarf no no no thats the point! i needed 2 watch several british shows and videos and make my own cheezy version of an accent. (my character was supposed to be made fun of for his accent)
MegaBrook101 2 months ago
@MegaBrook101 mate it shouldn't of have it's a load of bollocks ;)
353gunsandroses 1 month ago
What's bwitish?
ArchhereticK 6 months ago
i love you "bloooooody"
papagena1991 6 months ago
Ireland is part of Britain. NORTHERN Ireland is part of the UK, and the whole of Ireland is British.
Vamp61616 7 months ago
@Vamp61616 ireland is not british. britain is the land mass incorporating england, wales and scotland. the uk is britain and northern ireland. ireland is a republic.
terrortorn 5 months ago
Ichabod you are a sad lefty cow. Naff off you are an embarrassment!
beowulfsword08 7 months ago
@beowulfsword08 You say lefty like it's a bad thing. And embarrassment like I didn't know that.
IchabodNarf 2 months ago
British/Britain is a political entity - it does NOT have its own language. The language spoken is ENGLISH! Also it is NOT a Brythonic language, it is a Germanic language - 80+% is still etymologically Anglo Saxon!
Crecybowman 7 months ago 51
@Crecybowman More sensible people good to see. There are British citizens all over the world who don't even speak English as their first language, some who barely speak English..
IMQuazimodo 7 months ago
ITS ENGLISH NOT BRITISH BRITISH IS A LANGUAGE
mariogamersidequest 7 months ago 4
You Mean Scottish? :L Only joking Ya fat wee cunt!
caleynutter 7 months ago
Totally misleading title! English is NOT British. British is a celtic language (Britonic). English is a West-Germanic language which was brought by the Angles and Saxons from Germany to England around 500 AC. Check next time Wikipedia before you create such titles.
hjengels 7 months ago 46
@hjengels It's been said, I'm aware, and I was aware before I posted the video as well; Celtic history is actually one of my favourite things, and I do know that Britonic dialects =! English dialects. The issue with that being that the video is about "the British language" in that it's about the language used by British people, as distinct from that used by, say, Americans, Canadians, Australians, South Africans...
Also, check next time your sentence structure before you lecture me on semantics.
IchabodNarf 7 months ago
@IchabodNarf I think people shouldn't rely on wikipedia too much.
smallcherri 3 months ago
@hjengels That's not true. Scots dialect is a variation of Anglo-Saxon, people in the North of England speak a similar dialect. Evidenced by the extra spoken 'vowel' Scots possess which makes it easier for a Scot to learn German. The Brythonic language is pretty much lost, except that it was a dialect of Welsh spoken up as far as Edinburgh. 'English' is just a general term for the language, there are a great many Scots words in the English dictionary. Play a Scot at Scrabble, he'll win.
yehrightify 3 months ago
@hjengels so how many people came to this video looking for information on britonic (a language that I for one have never heard of and doubt if it even is used any more) and how many people came looking for information on 'british' in its the more common usage of the word as a substitute for 'english' which is one of the most common languages in the world? My guesses are the numbers are very much in favour of the latter, in this case the title is not misleading at all.
dadeskr 3 months ago
Aha! Your muffin is in fact a crumpet. Shame on you :P
dadeskr 3 months ago
Learn to pronounce your R's, hearing you irritates the shit out of me.
sarge727 8 months ago
@sarge727 I'm sowwy, but until my gf pointed it out to me, I had no idea I dwopped my Rs. Honestly, I still don't hear it. I mean, I've tried to pick it up, but I genuinely can't hear the difference between my Rs and anybody else's; to me, they just sound like Rs. Makes it very very difficult to fix a pronunciation problem when you can't hear what you're doing wrong.
IchabodNarf 7 months ago
@IchabodNarf lol, i didnt mean that to sound so ...wanker-ish, but yah. Welliant Wobbin.
sarge727 7 months ago
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smallcherri 3 months ago
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smallcherri 3 months ago
@sarge727 The best thing to do is to stop watching it
smallcherri 3 months ago
Weliant Wobbin
sarge727 8 months ago
Ohh man, I loved this! hahaha!! -o-
I literally LOL'ed ( I hate acronyms -.- ) burly seriously I laughed OUT LOUD my brother was giving me weird looks.
anyway yeahh, I liked the video(:
SuicideSue21 9 months ago
@SuicideSue21 Thanks! :) I'm glad you approve, and I'm glad it made you laugh, because that was, after all, the point.
Sorry for freaking out your brother, too, I guess. ^-^
IchabodNarf 9 months ago
there are also different languages welsh and gaelic as well as cornish
SuperAbraham1234 9 months ago
@SuperAbraham1234 There are, and if I spoke them, I'd probably have mentioned them in the video. Sadly, despite my best efforts, I don't speak a word of Gaelic or Cornish, and all I can do in Welsh is swear. Badly.
IchabodNarf 9 months ago
you sound horrible
tabithastudios 10 months ago
@tabithastudios Don't worry, I am horrible.
IchabodNarf 9 months ago
lol this video makes me laugh xD well done xD I'm american who's totally obsessed with European culture and such, and people who write fanfics drive me crazy! They can't get anything right! And whenever anyone tries to imitate an accent, it's sooooo overdone, like really cockney. It makes me want to punch something lol xD anyway, amusing video :)
CrystalSparks007 10 months ago
@CrystalSparks007 I'm glad you liked it. :) To be honest, I can live with bad Britpicking in fanfiction, mostly because I don't read a whole lot of it - I was persuaded to make this by my girlfriend, who is Canadian and otherwise exactly like you just described yourself.
What actually really gets my goat is published fiction with bad Britpicking. Like... I love Stephen King to bits, but he should never try to write British characters.
SO YES GLAD YOU LIKE IT.
IchabodNarf 9 months ago
Maybe he is an autistic.
ChetniciSeverBBRS 10 months ago
@ChetniciSeverBBRS ...Are you referring to me?
Because I may or may not be autistic, but I'm not a he. At least, I wasn't the last time I checked.
IchabodNarf 9 months ago
British or English most of lier crock and thieves . saying one thing and mean
completely other ,
you dirty lier all of you helping arab support Palestinian terrorist and Muslim terrorist ,
you deserve to get some bomb in London from Arab . teach what the all about .
you are same lier as american borrowing money . from everyone and wasting .
most British man are gay as monty .
good soccer , i am out
greenfeld meir
greenfeld5 10 months ago
@greenfeld5 ...I want to respond to this comment, but I honestly have nothing.
IchabodNarf 9 months ago
@IchabodNarf i just kidding . but in general . you hypocrate. say one thing mean other .
good video liked
greenfeld5 9 months ago
@greenfeld5 I like hypocrate as a word. I'm going to use that one more often.
Joking aside, glad you liked it, and for the record, I'm not a man but I am gay as Monty, if that helps? :p
IchabodNarf 9 months ago
rlwkjrhlkwjhrlkw jrwkh JIMMY
ThisAsianKidd 11 months ago
british is not a language but scotish[which i am] is and english irish and welsh are to.
TheCaptaincrumble 11 months ago
British isn't a language
TranceExplosion 1 year ago 9
@TranceExplosion ...Okay, I'm sorry if I'm picking on you, but you're like the nth person to say that, and I have to get this out there...
SERIOUSLY YOU GUYS. SERIOUSLY I AM NOT SERIOUS. I do not think there's a British language. I know that we speak English here, and I know that the "British" languages are English, Welsh, Cornish, technically Manx I think, and two flavours of Gaelic. You can keep telling me so as many times as you like, and I will not know it any more than I already do.
IchabodNarf 9 months ago
@IchabodNarf English isn't a british language its is west germanic. british(Brythonic) languages are welsh and cornish and breton.
redcoatsrule 9 months ago 7
@redcoatsrule English is a language spoken in Britain, and in its current form originating in Britain. In my book, that makes it a British language, even if etymologically it's a mixture of West Germanic and Romantic.
IchabodNarf 9 months ago
@IchabodNarf i know what English is i don't need you to tell me and it's not a brythonic language so that makes it not british in my book.
redcoatsrule 9 months ago
Mmm, it is sort of an okay video, but North Americans tend to hear MOST of the many English accents as being "English", regardless of discriminating amongst them. This is true, and it pretty well wipes out the major premise of this video. A Canadian might not have a clue whether the dialect represents Manchester or London, but he will know it's British. The more likely mistake a North American MIGHT make is to confuse a New Zealand accent with a British accent.
Grroocx 1 year ago
"5 other countries in Britain" ... so that makes 6???
Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England... = FOUR COUNTRIES
sushiigoats 1 year ago 3
@sushiigoats Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, England, and the Isle of Man. Everyone forgets the Isle of Man. There aren't six, but there are five. I misspoke on the "like five other" though, because apparently I can't count.
IchabodNarf 9 months ago
Wow
SolidSnake013Duds 1 year ago
@GoonerGirl08 In my experience (speaking as a born Northerner brought up by Southern parents... well, southern mum, my dad's from Blackpool), most people aren't serious about it, but there IS a class divide between the north and south of England, and that tends to mean Northerners see Southerners as posh gits. I mean, I don't know about Manchester or wherever, but where I live, in total fairness, a lot of the southerners we get are tourists, who can kinda be bratty dicks about the whole thing.
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
You go girl on the subject about football!
iiNGRiiDPA0LA 1 year ago
@iiNGRiiDPA0LA May be a slight bugbear of mine. XD
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
@IchabodNarf hahaha! i think you did excellent ;D
iiNGRiiDPA0LA 1 year ago
@iiNGRiiDPA0LA Thank you. :)
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
the title is somewhat of a fail as theres no british language,there is an english language spoken with different accents. ie:english accent,scottish accent,welsh accent,irish accent,american accent etc etc
gamer1st 1 year ago
@gamer1st I know, but in fairness, I never claimed this to be anything but tongue-in-cheek.
And talking to Americans - hell, talking to other Brits - it can sometimes -FEEL- like another language.
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
WHAT THE FUCKK!!?
zombieeshay 1 year ago
@zombieeshay Like I've said before. It's a video. :3
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
@GoonerGirl08 southern WANKER!!! just fuck off i havent replied because i was being the smart one oh by the the way its bath not barth u cunt
sweetbeth09 1 year ago
@sweetbeth09 I've said it before and I'll say it again; every English dictionary in the country has "bɑːθ" as the pronunciation.
That means the A is long.
Just putting that out there. :3
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
it is true that the british n american have the different language
jacky6053 1 year ago
Is rather i learned British languages then American. nope i didn't mean anything. just wants to tell you and that's it
nazskyne 1 year ago
@nazskyne I want to learn British languages instead of European. :p Gaelic and Welsh would be fucking useless, but damned if I don't want to learn them anyway.
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
Oh, you forgot one thing in your video.
What us brits call crisps, americans call chips, and what we call chips, americans call fries...
I honestly think it's quite irritating that americans don't have a single clue about our language, and just assume they know what we say, and that we say the same things as them. You want to know why? Americans are self-obsessed bus wankers! Gosh, I think i've been watching to many episodes of the inbetweeners lately^^
I am british, but I live in America now
Starr4101 1 year ago
@Starr4101 I forgot a lot of things. Trunk/boot, cookie/biscuit/cobbler, how to swear, how to compliment someone, what a loo is... It's impossible to fit everything in ten minutes. ^.~
And, to be completely fair, I know there's a certain hypocrisy to this, because while I'm aware that there are many American accents and slang terms (as I'm sure most Americans know about Britain in theory), I'm pretty clueless about them.
Just putting that out there. I know I suck too. :p
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
YEAH, REALLY? YOU SOUND LIKE A FUCKING AUTISTIC DID YOU KNOW THAT?
Triviumswords 1 year ago 4
@Triviumswords I'm sorry, I think I must have forgotten the part where autism is that easily recognisable.
On the other hand, congratulations. You've succeeded in gaining from ten minutes of audio what usually takes years of tests to diagnose. Clearly, psychiatrists everywhere could benefit from your knowledge and expertise.
IchabodNarf 1 year ago 12
@IchabodNarf Forgot to mention Britains(England`s) ancient history of the Britons(like the legacy King Arthur to give you a clue). and the ancient language the Britons spoke(that is the ancestor of modern Welsh).
That would teach a deluded yank a thing or two.
samluke8121 1 year ago
wazz that chav ment to be a northen accent or just a manchester one coz im from manchester and i do talk like that and i do say init but that dunt mean im a chav fuckin southen wanker we say bath and laugh like normal people you say it like barth and laurth but is not so fuck off.
sweetbeth09 1 year ago
@sweetbeth09 I did say I was lousy at accents. Anyway, the chav was actually meant to be souf London. And if anything, given my exposure to chav, I'm pretty sure it's more likely to be Bish(op Auckland)
Also, don't start the bahth/bath thing. I live in the North, honey, I've been teased for that since I was five. You're not the first to comment, you won't be the last, and honestly, you might as well not bother. It's a bit more effective spoken, you see.
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
haha love the Yorkshire accent you did!
Your better than me attempting the accents!
TrilogyofC 1 year ago
@TrilogyofC Yeah, sure... I still say it's funny how I can live so close to Yorkshire and still be incapable of the accent...
:3 I SHALL TAKE YOUR WORD FOR IT.
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
BWITISH
TrilogyofC 1 year ago
@TrilogyofC Shh. I have a speech impediment. It's called "Recieved Pronunciation", and it afflicts a number of people in today's Britain.
NO-ONE MUST KNOW.
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
omg... please stop talking!
jenniemalfoy 1 year ago
@jenniemalfoy You know, YouTube has a wonderful thing called "pause" and your keyboard has a magical backspace key. Careful application of the two will miraculously stop me from talking.
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
"Really ticks me off when it's used wrong."
Language fail :P
Dyslexicbadger 1 year ago
@Dyslexicbadger How so? 0.o
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
oh, please STOP. you're embarassing yourself.
thekatieand 1 year ago
@thekatieand Au contraire. I'm thoroughly shameless; don't you tell me whether I'm embarrassed. *shakefist*
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
An interesting video, thanks.
billyboy385 1 year ago
@billyboy385 Cheers. I'm glad you thought so.
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
You forgot to explain the term "Cunt" That word has a TOTALLY different meaning in both countries. And Americans are not scared to play "Rugby" without pads you ass. American football is a "Full contact" sport. That really pissed me off.
Xcalibar34 1 year ago
@Xcalibar34 If I put in every word that was different, I'd be here for years. And that's without even starting on the idioms. I recently spent a month in the US with 16 Americans and 17 other Europeans, and the amount of time we spent explaining what the hell we meant to each other was INCREDIBLE. Two countries divided by a common language, indeed.
And I'll believe that when I see Americans playing rugby. :p Also, I have to admit I stole that snark from somewhere... can't remember where, though
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
I have many friends who are from around various parts of the United Kingdom, so, I have a few of the different regional accents nailed after talking to them often.
so I always do get frustrated when someone asks of me to impersonate someone from the UK, because I have to explain to them, that there are MANY different accents they could be referring to.
and it irks me when people insist that someone must say bloody every other word, it's quite ridiculous, really.
oJinxx 1 year ago
@oJinxx Bloody ridiculous, indeed. Simple bloody poppycock! :p
And if you have the accents nailed, you're way ahead of me. Hell, I've been living in the North for my entire life, but I'm damned if I can even start imitating a Durham accent...
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
@IchabodNarf not ALL the accents, but a few.
like I have a friend from Cumbria, a friend from Derry a friend from Yorkshire, one from London, and one from Glasgow. (:
just people from a few different areas of the United Kingdom.
oJinxx 1 year ago
@oJinxx No Welsh? I'm shocked. Shocked and surprised. XD
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
thubs up for American english!
MrPatrickzen 1 year ago
Lol this kid's voice is annoying, but hell he makes some valid points...
Lizaa84 1 year ago
@Lizaa84 Um...
...
...I'm a girl.
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
@IchabodNarf So... what's Britain like? :)
JustHereForComedy 1 year ago
@JustHereForComedy
Kinda like America. Only smaller, and the people aren't as nice. Nor's the weather.
But we do have more history and about as much culture. And we're very snobby about it, for a tiny little spit of land. XD
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
@IchabodNarf ermm we have nice people and nasty people and sometimes the weathers nice so fuck off u wanker this video is shit it say nout about how english people talk its just posh twats saying a bunch of shit england and america are the same we both speak english and they might say soccer insted football and what is bascily rugby american football and they have different ways of spelling and they have different words for different things but were bascily the same
sweetbeth09 1 year ago
@sweetbeth09 Twat. Singular. There's only one of me.
And I speak as I find, hon, and I find as someone who lives in England. If I was going to get into all the vagueries of Up North, hell, just the Dales would take like twenty minutes each to cover.
My experience of America is that the people are nicer but less polite (IN GENERAL), the weather is sunnier and warmer (again in general) and the toilets are minging. Hyperbole. Learn you some.
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
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TrilogyofC 1 year ago
@TrilogyofC Ahaha, LOL. Still, though some people may suck, we shouldn't generalize. :P It wouldn't be fair to the really nice people... :l Like, for example, HUGH LAURIE! :D He's AMAZING! AND DARN YOU IF YOU DO NOT AGREE!!! DARRRRNNNN YOUUUUUU!!! lol Just kidding! XD But seriously, though. O_O Hugh Laurie's awesome.... WOW, sudden change of topic... Just ignore me. I'll shut up. lol :P
JustHereForComedy 1 year ago
@JustHereForComedy your right... every country has people that suck and every country has really nice people...lets not generalise I give everyone a chance. Nice comment by the way!
TrilogyofC 1 year ago
@TrilogyofC Hehe, thanks. :3
JustHereForComedy 1 year ago
@JustHereForComedy Seconded. TO INFINITY.
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
WHAT THE FUCK???
Triviumswords 1 year ago 4
@Triviumswords I believe it's generally known as a video.
IchabodNarf 1 year ago 2
* Richard I was the lionheart - damn my stoner short term memory
IMQuazimodo 1 year ago
The country you keep referring to as 'Britain' Is in fact 'The United Kingdom' (that's Scotland, Wales,Northern Ireland & England).'Britain' includes all of our overseas holdings,such as the Falkland Islands,Gibraltar etc.You know, the bits of 'Empire' that we managed to keep a hold of,to this day. And because I have room left I'll also point out that 'Britannia' is the name of the Island made up of England, Scotland and Wales.
IMQuazimodo 1 year ago
erm , just a quick note - you have used the 'Union Jack' to represent England on several occasions - this is not the English flag - it is the flag of the 'United Kingdom', think 'union jack' - 'united'. The English flag is the St. Georges' Cross, which we stole from Georgia (it's in southern/eastern Europe, look at a map), because Richard III (Yep, the 'Lionheart') thought it looked nice when he was on his way back from murdering people in the middle east. TBC..
IMQuazimodo 1 year ago
@IMQuazimodo Get a grip whoever you are, the Cross of St George IS NOT THE FLAG OF ENGLAND. The true English Flag is a White Dragon on a Red background, not to be confused with the 'Red' Dragon of Wales.
scyrley 7 months ago
@scyrley sorry what ? That's nonsense. What do you mean 'true English flag' ? The English flag is the St George's cross, since Richard I, I assure you. The patron saint of England is not St. George however, as most believe - but St Edmund. And the point of my original post still stands.
IMQuazimodo 7 months ago
@IMQuazimodo Sorry mate! Dick 1 was a Frenchie! the TRUE flag of the English nation Is the white Wyrm/Dragon. Carried by Harold Godwinson - the Last King of England - at Senlac hill. Everything after that is, I'm afraid, a Norman French bastardisation. You are, however, correct in your assumption of St Edmund being our saint - George (A turk) is/was a depiction of a Norman knight killing a dragon (the English!) - Propaganda of the highest order! Werian se Angelcynn.
Crecybowman 6 months ago
@scyrley Ahhh! A TRUE believer! Waes hael min brothor!
Crecybowman 6 months ago
@scyrley Surely you mean it was the flag of Wessex as the kings of England were the kings of Wessex and that was a gold wyvern on a red background. But flags change - the current flag of England is the Red Cross on a Silver background.
balderdashandpiffle 4 months ago
northern ireland is a part of britain mate
deanofantastico 1 year ago
@deanofantastico True. That was more by way of a feeble attempt to get out of doing a Northern Irish accent, which (EVEN MORE than my other attempts) is an affront both to the Northern Irish and to everyone else's ears too.
I'm really not a great mimic.
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
Fandom is like femdom? Whats this about?
pk5887 1 year ago
@pk5887 Fandom like fanfiction, fanart, fan discussions...
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
*dies laughing at the Glasgow part*
hannahf983 1 year ago
@hannahf983 My voice isn't low and growly enough to be Glaswegian.
Because all Glaswegians are baritones. Even the women. It is a SCIENTIFIC FACT.
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
@IchabodNarf XD Science FTW!
hannahf983 1 year ago
awesome video
27mlc 1 year ago
@27mlc Thanks! Glad you like it.
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
3:12 IS incredibly amusing. Mmm, Jack Harkness in pants. Yes. Re: the comments, yeah, you do sound like Rick-- or Pilate if you prefer-- (the accent/speech impediment AND the ranting). It's entertaining.
PeaceOut2U07 1 year ago
@PeaceOut2U07 Jack Harkness in pants is ALWAYS good. The only thing better is Jack Harkness NOT in pants... WAIT I MEAN WHAT? *shifty eyes*
I want to become famous just so Rick can sound like me. :p
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
hehehh u remind me of Rick from The Young Ones because of the way you say your "R"'s LMAO
Jessmo198 1 year ago
@Jessmo198
...OF ALL THE PEOPLE FROM THE YOUNG ONES...
...i wanted to be vyvyan... *sulks*
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
@IchabodNarf lol sorry its the "r"s! its funny :) how old r u cuz u sound about 12...and you would be vyvyan if you were a bit more vicious XD I am so vyvyan apparently...but thats cuz i nom people and stuff so yer
Jessmo198 1 year ago
@Jessmo198
...Dude. I'm seventeen. Was sixteen when I posted this. =<
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
@Jessmo198 sorryyyyyyyyyyy
Jessmo198 1 year ago
@Jessmo198 XD No worries, I'm having a go. I sound twelve, but I look twenty, and that's what counts to get into bars, right? ^.~
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
@IchabodNarf true! haha
Jessmo198 1 year ago
you forgot
c*nt
tosser
minge
twat
prat
knobhead and
munter
Im from California did I miss anything?
im8teennow 1 year ago
@im8teennow
I am planning to do a specific video for swearing. I suspect more than one video may be required for comprehensive coverage of the subject, though...
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
@IchabodNarf do it :D
ps where in england are you from?
im8teennow 1 year ago
@im8teennow I live just a little further north than Yorkshire (and always have), but my family's from Cambridge, hence the very definitely non-Northern accent.
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
@IchabodNarf cool beans.
im from orange county unfortunately
im8teennow 1 year ago
@im8teennow Uh.... California? <--- shows off TOTALLY ACCURATE knowledge of non-British geography
IchabodNarf 1 year ago
@IchabodNarf how did you do that? the link i mean
im8teennow 1 year ago