I do agree that people have been butchering their own language but the evolution of language is due to that. Why is it that ye ol english from the middle ages is different from now? Hello is a proper word, but it is also supposed to be Hallo... which is supposed to be Hallo, Hallo to call for a ferry. Tons of proper words we used today are short versions of other words or slang from the past. So even though I do value proper grammar, there is no need for perfect grammar.
While I can appreciate his point to a certain extent this is just the natural evolution of language. Things change, language is organic, it is supposed to be organic. The rules are codes, no laws. We don't have to follow them, they just dictate what has already become an established trend. Look, before the invention of the printing press languages evolved slightly every couple of generations. Now, the evolution of language has slowed down. But does anyone really think the KJV sounds right?
Technichally you are wrong as the videos title is wrong, "video's" is a contraction of "video is"; therefore you are stating that "the video is title is wrong". Grammar is as important as spelling, you know.
English is always evolving, in the past people commented that, now great poets, were "destroying the english language" just because it wasnt traditionally spoken. The way shakespear wrote was first though horrible because of the fact that he used nouns as verbs.
English is probably deteriorating because no English speaker seems to have a clue about where the actual structure of their words come from. Instead, they make up all these random unrelated rules in an effort to make things easier. Which it doesn't.
Ok, that's not entirely true. It may make the handful of words that go into that rule easier to remember, but it screws you for ALL the other related words. It has less to do with laziness, than with a lack of proper education.
Wow, I can't believe the number of people who seem to have taken this so seriously, it's obviously meant for entertainment more then education. Yes language does change. This fact can be seen simply by how many languages find their base in the same roots.
lol wut? You feel badly? So you have trouble feeling emotions? I feel bad is correct. None of these are as bad as not knowing how to use the subjunctive tense...."If I was you...." ugh T_T
"Could care less", "between you and I", "heith" for height, or "this here" are my top peeves. How difficult is it to say it correctly? This crap about language evolving is true, but it never evolves to senseless, incorrect blathering. See what I'm sayin'? LOL. There are rules in grammar and just because a lot of people are lazy and sleep through English class is no excuse. That's why you'll find yourself in a college English class going over the differences between there, their, and they're.
Shut up... Language is always evolving, The dictionary needs to be abolished and you need to be slapped! There is no and wrong way to say something, just snobs like you that think so!
I feel that language is irrefutably deteriorating as opposed to evolving; we frequently use words incorrectly and shorten them due to a lack of devoting seconds more to the correct pronunciation.
However, I do understand that fabricating new words is not necessarily detrimental to language, though they tend to be much shorter than the original form, which, I believe, exemplifies a prevalent laziness.
There's one issue with this video: it implies that "I feel bad" is incorrect, but "I feel badly" means that the way with which you feel is malfunctioning; in effect, you are saying "I am bad" not "I am badly". In the same way, you wouldn't say "my hand feels badly" because that would imply that your hand's ability to feel is impaired. If you say "my hand feels bad", you are using "feel" as a linking verb to describe how it is.
It's funny, this issue is brought up in "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang".
Honestly we ought to reform American English and grammar rules anyways. We haven't have a language reform in over 200 years. I think our spelling is stupid and we should change the rules to make it easier for foreigners to learn our language.
Isn't this just how language develops? Every dialect and language was created by the compounding of small differences in the way people speak. Language is continually changing.
Language is just a uniform method of communication... As long as the message of the sentence is understood by both parties, there really isn't much of a problem.
That said, saying things like excape, fustrated and adver'ties'ment is rediculous. Please stop it.
I hate that most people pronounce PRO and PRE words as PER. For example, pertect, perscription. AND... I HATE when people pronounce "WHILE" as "WHALL" Uggggggh!
I'm one of the only (if not the only person) people others know that actually writes text messages like I speak normally. I spell everything correctly, and use punctuation as well as all that other good stuff. Drives some people nuts though.
I have 2 things to say. First is that WHO CARES? It is a very funny video, but what does knowing any of this help me with? Second is that, I think the problem is that many English words and phrases are derived from other languages which leads to all of the exceptions to spelling rules because in on language SCIENCE would be spelled"S-Y-A-N-S" or pronounced "S-K-EE-EN-K-E" since it doesn't fallow 'I before E except after C'. And what's with "TION" and "SION" saying shun?
Very funny. The only one that I think is incorrect is "feel badly," as PensLikeFire pointed out. To say one "feels badly" implies that the opposite is that one "feels well." To me, "feel well" means how one feels when one doesn't have gloves on, or something like that. I use, and consider correct, "feel bad" when I mean "feel sorry" or "I regret."
Actually, "feel" is a helping verb, and as such takes an adjective "bad" instead of the adverb "badly." If you say you "feel badly" you mean that you are a terrible feeler.
I love giving people a hard time who ask me if I'm capable of doing something when they actually want to ask me to do it for them. "Can you get me a fork?" To which I respond, "Yes," and then don't pass them one. Honestly people, think back to grade school, "Pass the butter please."
People from where I'm from add a 's' to the end of some words and we call sled riding "sledding". You know that someone is from the Greater Cincinnati area if they talk like that.
Linguistics fail. The argument is absurd. Many of the changes are perfectly predictable, and even beneficial. However, if the point is to highlight a lack of education and understanding, then the point is made, thought perhaps in spite of itself.
Very interesting video indeed and I actually learn a lot :). Sorry I'm not an American and I've only been to the US once, but aren't many of the words mentioned in this video have been saying by Americans since decades of years ago?
PLEASE tell me this is a joke. PLEASE tell me this is making fun of overly prescriptive Nazis who don't really know what they're talking about and you don't actually believe any of this nonsense.
Look, who cares who is right an who is wrong. To me, the point is this:
English had been a beautiful and expressive language of incredible power and subtlety. These days it seems, if popular culture prevails, that there will be no future need of English laiterature departments, because there will have been no meaningful contribution to the body of work from our generations. We will not be forgiven for slovenly usage of our language. Strive to do better. It matters.
@RudeHouseStudio Im quite sure that was intended. If I recall correctly, 'wrong' is an adjective, but it doesnt matter because that is the point that he was trying to make. My linguist friend and I had this very debate, and as is obvious, language is not set in stone. The perfect example of this is Old, Middle, and Modern English. The more that incorrect gramnar is used, the more correct it will become... sadly, by the way.
... yet another rant: the mis-matching of singular and plural verbs with singular and group nouns...for instance:
When making a statement about a company, such as:
"Microsoft ARE releasing a new operating system."
Common usage but WRONG!
Microsoft is a singular collective noun, therefore, it should be paired with a singular verb. That sentence should read: "Microsoft IS releasing a new operating system."
@OneEyedJacker If, on the other hand, you see Microsoft as a company of a group of people (which it actually is), you are allowed to use the verb in the plural form. Therefore, both are correct.
(Compare e.g.: "The police have arrested the serial killer")
Had you written: "Police have arrested the serial killer." I would agree with you.
But, when you made it "The police" the plural noun became a collective noun and the sentence should have been written: "The police has arrested the serial killer." I know it sounds awkward, but I believe it is correct.
...and I don't agree with your statement that "both are correct."
@OneEyedJacker Actually, the statement of "both are correct" is correct depending on usage. Americans usually treat collective nouns as single units, while Britons usually treat collective nouns as being plural.
i come down stairs and my mom is cooking, I ask "Whajamaican"
which means What are you making, i thought i was called to dinner and asked Dijacamee which means Did you call me? Sometimes I saw Wajawa? What did you want?
@OneEyedJacker I disagree in part. "verbing" is rather fun. Ha. I just "verbed" the noun "verb" by making the noun "verb" a verb. I "verbed" that verb!
Irrespective of who is right and who is wrong, the instant you open your mouth, others will judge you. You may not think it important, but it will cost you in the type of job you have, how much you make and who you get to screw.
The ironic thing is that the people making these mistakes are, for the most part, Americans themselves. I myself (Swedish citizen, lived one year in the U.S) found the "corrected" parts to be very apparent. Now when I think about it, a lot of people did say tooken when I lived in the U.S... Very strange, very strange.
@DennanX I'm sure if I learned Swedish and moved to Sweden, there'd be quite a bit of mistakes too. Also, I don't think this is restricted to America. Britain and Australia also make many of the same errors.
Grammar does have its importance because if you can't speak explicitly enough, nobody'll know what the hell you're talking about. In the end, words are just symbols of concepts we pass through the air or in text into other people's brains. Grammar is a consensus on a specific method of describing particular thoughts. That's why we have something called vocabulary too! You damn dirty ape haha jk
I don't think it is really that big of a deal... I was taught from an early age that the English language had so many fucking exceptions, I wouldn't stop learning it until the day I died. That's why I learn other languages. :3
u must read this.once u have started there is no turning back.a little
10 year old girl was raped and murdered in 1945.her body was not found until 1947.then a boy last week read this and did not copy and paste this message.the dead girl appeard in his room haunting him and killed him.if you do not copy and paste this onto 10 videos in 30 minutes the dead girl will appear in your room tonight and haunt you and kill you.well better start to copy and paste
@fungibles - It depends on what you are trying to say. "I feel bad" is correct if you want it to modify the subject "I." Adjectives cannot modify verbs like "feel" - for that, you need an adverb, "badly." So if you're trying to say how you feel, you must use the adverbial form. Likewise different/differently.
"I feel bad" is correct. In the sentence, "feel" is a linking verb, and "bad" is an adjective. "I feel badly" would mean that one's mechanism of touch is inferior. "Talk different" is also correct; "different" is functioning as a flat adverb. It's akin to the usage of "different" in Apple's "Think Different" ad campaign.
Perhaps you're right...but you'd still sound like a back woods hick talking like that. It seems to me he was confessing his poor groping technique. "Different," is an adjective not an adverb, so it has no business messing about with verbs like "think.". Flat adverbs, like flat girls, are things you don't "ly" with.
@fungibles Apple isn't the authority on English. It should be "Think Differently," even if it doesn't say that. Different is an adjective, which can't be used to describe a verb in command form, i.e. "Think." "Differently" is an adverb, and since it's attached to the verb, "think," it ought to be "differently."
That applies to "talk different," in which "different" ought to be "differently," and "talk" ought to be "speak." Speak differently.
@someonetough87 Well, you made statements on language based on how it should be used, rather than on how it is used, which is a prescriptivist thing to do.
The irony of the title is on purpose, people. This reminds me, I used to have a friend that always said "lusually" instead of "usually", drove me nuts! There's no "L" at the beginning of that word!! I love this, even though I am totally guilty of not adding "ly" to the end of my adverbs!!
Have you ever read the book "The tough coughs while his ploughs the dough?" Also, "I before E except after C and words that say "A" such as neighbor and weight" then you can add "unless it's weird" onto that.
Talking is called "Vernacular," but written, unless being quoted (even as fake dialogue), should always be correct.
There is nothing wrong with saying "I feel good". Feel is not an ACTION verb. Action verbs do require you to use an adverb with them, such as well or badly. "That baseball player HITS badly" for example. "That baseball player FIELDS well." Perfectly fine.
When dealing with verbs that are NOT action words, such as conjugations of the verb "to be", such as am, are, is, we use adjectives. I AM bad. He IS good.
Words that describe your condition, like FEEL, use adjectives. Thank you.
Ok, so...... Some things you said are correct, but some just represents potential evolution in our language. If language didn't evolve we'd still speak latin, or at the least Shakespeare's English.
Also, "Little Italy" is not a contraction. I'm not even sure why you said that, because while you jammed the words together, you still pronounced all of the vowels even in slight part.
Yaknow, when someone cares enough about someones grammar, it goes to show they just want to inflate their ego rather then be helpful. Because when we talk to another its to communicate then to be correct or perfect in every angle of speech. Its just arrogance going on about grammar mistakes or mispronunciations in the middle of a conversation. Its is different though on something like a document/essay. If you make yourself understandable, then you accomplished the reason for language. Its use.
2:36 - "i says" - can you say that? >.<
MusicNeardSasuke 13 hours ago
I do agree that people have been butchering their own language but the evolution of language is due to that. Why is it that ye ol english from the middle ages is different from now? Hello is a proper word, but it is also supposed to be Hallo... which is supposed to be Hallo, Hallo to call for a ferry. Tons of proper words we used today are short versions of other words or slang from the past. So even though I do value proper grammar, there is no need for perfect grammar.
sablesoul 1 day ago
This guy has never taken a linguistics course in his life, especially a sociolinguistics course!
derronsb 2 days ago
I thought "I could care less" was the right way of saying it? Because if you couldn't care less that means that you care a little. I'm confused.
p.s. Everything you know is wrong.
SpaceSamuraiKelsey 4 days ago
@SpaceSamuraiKelsey: If you care so little about something and there is not much less you could care about it, then you "couldn't care less".
tangoflash 1 day ago
While I can appreciate his point to a certain extent this is just the natural evolution of language. Things change, language is organic, it is supposed to be organic. The rules are codes, no laws. We don't have to follow them, they just dictate what has already become an established trend. Look, before the invention of the printing press languages evolved slightly every couple of generations. Now, the evolution of language has slowed down. But does anyone really think the KJV sounds right?
MobiusCoin 6 days ago
We say things?
TheRsktek 1 week ago
"down hill"? Last time I went skiing, I did it downhill, you know, down the hill, downward...
farmerchair 1 week ago
All you people have it all wrong.
Every issue with English comes from Idaho, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. Just draw a little lightning bolt across western US.
If you could hear the way I talk, you'd think I never went to elementary school. Gonna, could'a, I'mna, what're, etc...
Crick(creek), ma'in (mountain), hiw (hill), the list goes on.
SOJ277 1 week ago
I wanna whole nuther video like this one
NLHammerer 1 week ago
I don't mind the pronunciation differences, but spelling mistakes are what get me.
Satlam 1 week ago
This video is just wonderful :)
Inthehiddenland 2 weeks ago
@AdGarUK
Technichally you are wrong as the videos title is wrong, "video's" is a contraction of "video is"; therefore you are stating that "the video is title is wrong". Grammar is as important as spelling, you know.
DJ2500X 3 weeks ago
@DJ2500X no, apostrophes also are used to show possession. Video's can mean Video is OR something that belongs to the video.
rich1051414 2 weeks ago
@DJ2500X are you serious?. videos's is not video is, it is showing possesion
GalacticRaisinToast 1 week ago
@DJ2500X Please tell me that your joking/a troll.
Ever heard of possessive nouns?
e.g. Jenny's cat, doesn't have to mean "Jenny is cat". It means the cat belongs to Jenny.
-.-
AdGarUK 1 week ago
Technically, this video's title is wrong. It should be "Things We Say WrongLY"
:D
AdGarUK 3 weeks ago 2
@AdGarUK actually he got it right, if he were to add 'ly' it would have to be "Thing We Say Incorrectly." ;)
GalacticRaisinToast 1 week ago
@GalacticRaisinToast No, wrongly is actually a word.
Look it up in the dictionary or online :)
AdGarUK 1 week ago
@AdGarUK Ok, I didn't type that, nor was I on youtube 27 minutes ago. Um, freaky much?
GalacticRaisinToast 1 week ago
@GalacticRaisinToast Sure you weren't...
Covering up after our mistakes, are we? ;)
AdGarUK 1 week ago
@AdGarUK Mmm, no. It's really not an embarrassing mistake. Especially because I didn't type that(:
GalacticRaisinToast 6 days ago
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@GalacticRaisinToast Someone hack your account, bro? 0.o
AdGarUK 6 days ago
Watch this. If you dont believe me, search " Stephen fry kinetic typography - language"
JDGallus 3 weeks ago
English is always evolving, in the past people commented that, now great poets, were "destroying the english language" just because it wasnt traditionally spoken. The way shakespear wrote was first though horrible because of the fact that he used nouns as verbs.
JDGallus 3 weeks ago
English is probably deteriorating because no English speaker seems to have a clue about where the actual structure of their words come from. Instead, they make up all these random unrelated rules in an effort to make things easier. Which it doesn't.
Ok, that's not entirely true. It may make the handful of words that go into that rule easier to remember, but it screws you for ALL the other related words. It has less to do with laziness, than with a lack of proper education.
AulisVaara 3 weeks ago
Wow, I can't believe the number of people who seem to have taken this so seriously, it's obviously meant for entertainment more then education. Yes language does change. This fact can be seen simply by how many languages find their base in the same roots.
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dmueller22 4 weeks ago
lol wut? You feel badly? So you have trouble feeling emotions? I feel bad is correct. None of these are as bad as not knowing how to use the subjunctive tense...."If I was you...." ugh T_T
xiangchen0 4 weeks ago
"Could care less", "between you and I", "heith" for height, or "this here" are my top peeves. How difficult is it to say it correctly? This crap about language evolving is true, but it never evolves to senseless, incorrect blathering. See what I'm sayin'? LOL. There are rules in grammar and just because a lot of people are lazy and sleep through English class is no excuse. That's why you'll find yourself in a college English class going over the differences between there, their, and they're.
JulesAndVincent54 1 month ago
Shut up... Language is always evolving, The dictionary needs to be abolished and you need to be slapped! There is no and wrong way to say something, just snobs like you that think so!
killwize 1 month ago
@killwize You're a twit who has no respect for language. Language does evolve, but no by making it incomprehensible.
JulesAndVincent54 1 month ago
@killwize:
The problem?
I feel that language is irrefutably deteriorating as opposed to evolving; we frequently use words incorrectly and shorten them due to a lack of devoting seconds more to the correct pronunciation.
However, I do understand that fabricating new words is not necessarily detrimental to language, though they tend to be much shorter than the original form, which, I believe, exemplifies a prevalent laziness.
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There's one issue with this video: it implies that "I feel bad" is incorrect, but "I feel badly" means that the way with which you feel is malfunctioning; in effect, you are saying "I am bad" not "I am badly". In the same way, you wouldn't say "my hand feels badly" because that would imply that your hand's ability to feel is impaired. If you say "my hand feels bad", you are using "feel" as a linking verb to describe how it is.
It's funny, this issue is brought up in "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang".
FlopperCab 1 month ago 6
i hate saying words like "game magazine" because it always sounds like gay magazine lol
damn lazy accents!
DemoraX 1 month ago
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Idolsofwood 1 month ago 2
Wow, I'm stupid.
britsaboss 1 month ago
Honestly we ought to reform American English and grammar rules anyways. We haven't have a language reform in over 200 years. I think our spelling is stupid and we should change the rules to make it easier for foreigners to learn our language.
eponess 1 month ago
Biggest grammar nazi in the world.
TheChickenRiceBowl 1 month ago
You got the bad/badly thing wrong, but otherwise, funny!
ImJustSayin2014 1 month ago 11
my friend shared this on her facebook page and I had to come here and subscribe, :)
ChocolateSmurf2001 1 month ago
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Idolsofwood 1 month ago 2
Isn't this just how language develops? Every dialect and language was created by the compounding of small differences in the way people speak. Language is continually changing.
baxoot 1 month ago
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Idolsofwood 1 month ago
One that REALLY grinds my gears is when people say 'libary' instead of 'library'. Liberry? Never heard of a Liberry. Probably tastes nasty.
TenouHaruka0 1 month ago
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TheSuperflyingcarpet 1 month ago
stupid shit here little itally italiy ietly ilttle ittlay
fuck
frostedloops 1 month ago
oy wot da heck is all dis fussin about how wez humies talk.
Grom8P 1 month ago 2
Language is just a uniform method of communication... As long as the message of the sentence is understood by both parties, there really isn't much of a problem.
That said, saying things like excape, fustrated and adver'ties'ment is rediculous. Please stop it.
SQUIZZLER24 1 month ago
Without accents and dialects, everyone would sound like autistic robots. please shut up
Likety 1 month ago 30
@Likety i like technology
Fivefires24 3 weeks ago
@Likety *Please shut up!
ninjatiger95 2 weeks ago
@Likety Hey, not everyone who's autistic sounds like an 'autistic robot' asshole. :I
LennytheWicked 5 days ago
I hate that most people pronounce PRO and PRE words as PER. For example, pertect, perscription. AND... I HATE when people pronounce "WHILE" as "WHALL" Uggggggh!
pastor4themaster 1 month ago
I'm one of the only (if not the only person) people others know that actually writes text messages like I speak normally. I spell everything correctly, and use punctuation as well as all that other good stuff. Drives some people nuts though.
kl0525288 1 month ago
Wow dude you're so cool.
YanmegaPro 1 month ago
You make me feel bad about my bad
Regginyaga 1 month ago
I have 2 things to say. First is that WHO CARES? It is a very funny video, but what does knowing any of this help me with? Second is that, I think the problem is that many English words and phrases are derived from other languages which leads to all of the exceptions to spelling rules because in on language SCIENCE would be spelled"S-Y-A-N-S" or pronounced "S-K-EE-EN-K-E" since it doesn't fallow 'I before E except after C'. And what's with "TION" and "SION" saying shun?
Michaelmiddlename 1 month ago
Very funny. The only one that I think is incorrect is "feel badly," as PensLikeFire pointed out. To say one "feels badly" implies that the opposite is that one "feels well." To me, "feel well" means how one feels when one doesn't have gloves on, or something like that. I use, and consider correct, "feel bad" when I mean "feel sorry" or "I regret."
innertubez 1 month ago
Actually, "feel" is a helping verb, and as such takes an adjective "bad" instead of the adverb "badly." If you say you "feel badly" you mean that you are a terrible feeler.
PensLikeFire 1 month ago
Ha! "We WUZ walkin' down the street and I SEEN Santa Claus at NORDSTROMS!" Bwaaahahaha! Dad was an English major ...
BBSP61 1 month ago
Lol funny
Geydiish 1 month ago
Grammar Hitler
3rdArmySoldier 1 month ago
You said coupon wrong! You said qupon it should be coopon
MazzieLOVEjedward 1 month ago
LittleItaly! LittleItaly! LittleItaly!
SincerelySlim 1 month ago
@SincerelySlim literaly
KattenTheNeko 1 month ago
They should do a YOUOUGHTTOKNOW about the pronunciation of Feb-ru-ary and Wed-nes-day. That is how to pronounce them correctly.
reeves1982 1 month ago
I laughed pretty hard. I don't think he was trying to offend anyone, it was just an observation
obessedbookwormA2Z 1 month ago
Pissing off grammar Nazis is a art.
Cheeso33 1 month ago
I love giving people a hard time who ask me if I'm capable of doing something when they actually want to ask me to do it for them. "Can you get me a fork?" To which I respond, "Yes," and then don't pass them one. Honestly people, think back to grade school, "Pass the butter please."
Kenjuu 2 months ago
mmh i am very talented and open
94louMoncad2875 2 months ago
I get away with all of these by living in the South ;)
willpower101 2 months ago
You know the silent letters of the English language? They were actually pronounced once upon a time.
curlybob64 2 months ago
People from where I'm from add a 's' to the end of some words and we call sled riding "sledding". You know that someone is from the Greater Cincinnati area if they talk like that.
lilyandalyssatv 2 months ago
@lilyandalyssatv everyone calls it sledding.
97nachotv 1 month ago
....cause your NAME has to be RIGHT! hahaha
shimmershine78 2 months ago
Linguistics fail. The argument is absurd. Many of the changes are perfectly predictable, and even beneficial. However, if the point is to highlight a lack of education and understanding, then the point is made, thought perhaps in spite of itself.
JorMacDei 2 months ago
You remind me of myself, I correct everyone at school. They call me a grammar Nazi
DevinFilms66792 2 months ago
@DevinFilms66792
They're just ignorant and don't care about their language.
karlz3r 2 months ago
You forgot when people say reoccur. It's recur.
RunSwimVolleyPro 2 months ago
I mean the "incorrect examples" he mentioned.
yoshiallen8 2 months ago
Very interesting video indeed and I actually learn a lot :). Sorry I'm not an American and I've only been to the US once, but aren't many of the words mentioned in this video have been saying by Americans since decades of years ago?
yoshiallen8 2 months ago
PLEASE tell me this is a joke. PLEASE tell me this is making fun of overly prescriptive Nazis who don't really know what they're talking about and you don't actually believe any of this nonsense.
Katara447 2 months ago
so i am ur girl toy
KatinaMitzieam829 2 months ago
keep ressing 6 ...
danidadog6 2 months ago
Ultimate Grammar Nazi
Aaronnoraator 2 months ago
That's because you Yanks have basterdized the English language!
PeckerWoods101 2 months ago
@PeckerWoods101
bastardised. More yankie zees (zeds) instead of "s"
BenLCOTkdPkFr 2 months ago
Look, who cares who is right an who is wrong. To me, the point is this:
English had been a beautiful and expressive language of incredible power and subtlety. These days it seems, if popular culture prevails, that there will be no future need of English laiterature departments, because there will have been no meaningful contribution to the body of work from our generations. We will not be forgiven for slovenly usage of our language. Strive to do better. It matters.
OneEyedJacker 3 months ago
@RudeHouseStudio Im quite sure that was intended. If I recall correctly, 'wrong' is an adjective, but it doesnt matter because that is the point that he was trying to make. My linguist friend and I had this very debate, and as is obvious, language is not set in stone. The perfect example of this is Old, Middle, and Modern English. The more that incorrect gramnar is used, the more correct it will become... sadly, by the way.
Shadowmagyk 3 months ago
Brilliant! :~)
BinroWasRight 3 months ago
Shouldn't the title be "Things We Say Incorrectly"?
RudeHouseStudio 3 months ago 57
@RudeHouseStudio People whom don't use adverbs piss me off! e.g. "I did good" no... you did "well"
IfYouNeedLove 1 month ago
@IfYouNeedLove good is also an adverb ya know
yangyangf18 1 month ago
@RudeHouseStudio I think he knew that:). Lol.
LovesMusicandLife 1 month ago
@RudeHouseStudio It's an ironic joke. You probably wouldn't understand.
MagnumEvolved 1 month ago
FINALLY, SOMEBODY WHO UNDERSTANDS!!! ;U; This was refreshing. Thank you.
dappleback 3 months ago
"Wichadija"
Hey you didn't bring the truck wichadija?
-Foxworthy
koyunbaba73 3 months ago
Ok, I'm on a roll.
"It's" is a contraction of "it is"
The possessive is "its"
OneEyedJacker 3 months ago
... yet another rant: the mis-matching of singular and plural verbs with singular and group nouns...for instance:
When making a statement about a company, such as:
"Microsoft ARE releasing a new operating system."
Common usage but WRONG!
Microsoft is a singular collective noun, therefore, it should be paired with a singular verb. That sentence should read: "Microsoft IS releasing a new operating system."
Try to get this right kiddies!
OneEyedJacker 3 months ago
@OneEyedJacker If, on the other hand, you see Microsoft as a company of a group of people (which it actually is), you are allowed to use the verb in the plural form. Therefore, both are correct.
(Compare e.g.: "The police have arrested the serial killer")
Medinabasix 3 months ago
@Medinabasix
Nice try, but, I don't think so.
Had you written: "Police have arrested the serial killer." I would agree with you.
But, when you made it "The police" the plural noun became a collective noun and the sentence should have been written: "The police has arrested the serial killer." I know it sounds awkward, but I believe it is correct.
...and I don't agree with your statement that "both are correct."
OneEyedJacker 3 months ago
@OneEyedJacker Actually, the statement of "both are correct" is correct depending on usage. Americans usually treat collective nouns as single units, while Britons usually treat collective nouns as being plural.
surfingnhikingfan 3 months ago 3
i come down stairs and my mom is cooking, I ask "Whajamaican"
which means What are you making, i thought i was called to dinner and asked Dijacamee which means Did you call me? Sometimes I saw Wajawa? What did you want?
thepermman 3 months ago
CBS cares.
btj89 3 months ago
thumbs up if you tried "little italy"
Tazy50 3 months ago
And another thing...
Can we please, please, please stop turning nouns into verbs!
-"gifting," what''s wrong with gift giving?
-the new HR term: "onboarding" (comes from "on board" a preposition and noun) ...it just sounds stupid.
Or how about nouns to adjectives: "funner" - holy shit, how stupid do you have to be to say that?
OneEyedJacker 3 months ago
@OneEyedJacker I disagree in part. "verbing" is rather fun. Ha. I just "verbed" the noun "verb" by making the noun "verb" a verb. I "verbed" that verb!
danaisduhbom 3 months ago 8
Irrespective of who is right and who is wrong, the instant you open your mouth, others will judge you. You may not think it important, but it will cost you in the type of job you have, how much you make and who you get to screw.
OneEyedJacker 3 months ago
I failed the name portion of my S.A.T.
JonathanTopping 3 months ago
hihi i will help you to feel like you are in heaven
JoyceBreecq45 3 months ago
A:I could care less.
B:I think what you meant to say is "I coudlnt care less."
A:Ooops my bad.
B:Your bad? What are you talking about? There is no subject. Your toe your Iq?
A:Hey dont make me feel bad about the way I talk.
B:You feel bad like evil? I think you mean you feel badly.
A:Naw I just talk different than you.
B:Differenty...
A: ;(
josh18230 4 months ago
The ironic thing is that the people making these mistakes are, for the most part, Americans themselves. I myself (Swedish citizen, lived one year in the U.S) found the "corrected" parts to be very apparent. Now when I think about it, a lot of people did say tooken when I lived in the U.S... Very strange, very strange.
DennanX 4 months ago
@DennanX I'm sure if I learned Swedish and moved to Sweden, there'd be quite a bit of mistakes too. Also, I don't think this is restricted to America. Britain and Australia also make many of the same errors.
Zacccc51 3 months ago
I hate when people say irregardless.
josh18230 4 months ago
grammar Nazi
jhooty14 4 months ago
haha the whole "i could care less" thing always annoyed me. I always said "I couldnt care less" and people would stare like I was wrong....
and no Im not concerned about how many times i used improper grammar writing this....er.. typing this..
forget it.
3amrepmike3 4 months ago
Pronunciation = Grammar?
Theloveprophet 4 months ago
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grammer who needs it
pobhockle 4 months ago
Grammar does have its importance because if you can't speak explicitly enough, nobody'll know what the hell you're talking about. In the end, words are just symbols of concepts we pass through the air or in text into other people's brains. Grammar is a consensus on a specific method of describing particular thoughts. That's why we have something called vocabulary too! You damn dirty ape haha jk
iluvtheusa2300 4 months ago
I don't think it is really that big of a deal... I was taught from an early age that the English language had so many fucking exceptions, I wouldn't stop learning it until the day I died. That's why I learn other languages. :3
TheSalemW 4 months ago
nailed it! good video
th3tech 4 months ago
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vivifiable12 4 months ago
So basically having correct grammar is being British lol?
snapkin788 4 months ago
I watched this in my Language Class. This is pretty funny.
LifeSongLyrics 4 months ago
Here are a few that I say quite frequently:
Nuh-hu, No-kay and No-kee Dokee
Or if I'm eating something and someone asks how it is, my response is usually skood (it's good)
broalonzo 4 months ago
Grammar Nazis unite!
charzard1404 4 months ago
Who the hell cares my grammar teacher says "ight" as a short version of alright
maxaslagolis 4 months ago
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Just for the record, it's differently from, not to
stringerfamily 4 months ago
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stringerfamily 4 months ago
YES.
MaiTai108 4 months ago
LOL.
It's nice to know that I'm not the only American left who actually gives a rat's ass about using proper spelling and grammar.
If only people realized how uneducated they look when they are unable to tell the difference between the words "they're," "there" and "their."
Wake up, folks!
You cannot be taken seriously when you don't utilize your mother tongue in a decent manner.
GrammarNazi1988 4 months ago
Different *from*, dude. None of this US different *than* crap.
pageaff 4 months ago
i love this. it's so brilliant!
blairbearr92 4 months ago
One more reason I'm glad I'm Finnish, cause we say everything exactly the way it's written. That's why we don't have all that spelling bee stuff.
EliasJordan3 4 months ago
@fungibles - It depends on what you are trying to say. "I feel bad" is correct if you want it to modify the subject "I." Adjectives cannot modify verbs like "feel" - for that, you need an adverb, "badly." So if you're trying to say how you feel, you must use the adverbial form. Likewise different/differently.
kriscrocker1 4 months ago
One, tuh, three, fur.
TropicanaMorgana 5 months ago
You replace t with d
EarlRegent 5 months ago
What about you Americans not pronouncing your t's in general?
EarlRegent 5 months ago
@EarlRegent There are no t's in "general". XD
vertigoelectric 5 months ago 2
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@vertigoelectric What comes after S in the English alphabet?
EarlRegent 5 months ago
@vertigoelectric Love it!
racon2r 4 months ago
"I feel bad" is correct. In the sentence, "feel" is a linking verb, and "bad" is an adjective. "I feel badly" would mean that one's mechanism of touch is inferior. "Talk different" is also correct; "different" is functioning as a flat adverb. It's akin to the usage of "different" in Apple's "Think Different" ad campaign.
fungibles 5 months ago 57
@fungibles Uh, you are wrong actually..sorry.
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@fungibles
Perhaps you're right...but you'd still sound like a back woods hick talking like that. It seems to me he was confessing his poor groping technique. "Different," is an adjective not an adverb, so it has no business messing about with verbs like "think.". Flat adverbs, like flat girls, are things you don't "ly" with.
Irregardless, Apple don't make it right.
OneEyedJacker 3 months ago
@OneEyedJacker *regardless
Acrozius 3 months ago
@fungibles I thought I was the only one that had figured that out
apnwahoowa 3 months ago
@fungibles Apple isn't the authority on English. It should be "Think Differently," even if it doesn't say that. Different is an adjective, which can't be used to describe a verb in command form, i.e. "Think." "Differently" is an adverb, and since it's attached to the verb, "think," it ought to be "differently."
That applies to "talk different," in which "different" ought to be "differently," and "talk" ought to be "speak." Speak differently.
someonetough87 2 months ago
@someonetough87 Don't be such prescriptivist! Real study in linguistics is based on descriptivism.
surfingnhikingfan 2 months ago
@surfingnhikingfan You can't assume I'm prescriptivist based on my post, as it was not related to social commentary or political correctness.
someonetough87 2 months ago
@someonetough87 Well, you made statements on language based on how it should be used, rather than on how it is used, which is a prescriptivist thing to do.
surfingnhikingfan 2 months ago
LIDDILIDDILY!
EpicLawlFace 5 months ago
"I feel bad" is correct.
arkraiser 5 months ago 2
@whatyououghttoknow: The description should read "downhill." Snaps.
holystnicoley 5 months ago 3
Oh, and there should be a comma after "You know."
holystnicoley 5 months ago 3
u suck
TheWallo1234 5 months ago
i think the dictionary is right over this guy. and its called slang, it doesnt have to be right
OrangeSaint420 5 months ago 3
2:35 is the best part!!!
sirjonate 5 months ago
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sirjonate 5 months ago
The irony of the title is on purpose, people. This reminds me, I used to have a friend that always said "lusually" instead of "usually", drove me nuts! There's no "L" at the beginning of that word!! I love this, even though I am totally guilty of not adding "ly" to the end of my adverbs!!
satkins312 5 months ago
Ummmm...... "Things We Say *Incorrectly*"???
TheLloydChannel 5 months ago 4
I want to marry this man. Ugh, good grammar is so attractive in another.
stuffandstuff789 5 months ago
Have you ever read the book "The tough coughs while his ploughs the dough?" Also, "I before E except after C and words that say "A" such as neighbor and weight" then you can add "unless it's weird" onto that.
Talking is called "Vernacular," but written, unless being quoted (even as fake dialogue), should always be correct.
kagomeshuko 5 months ago
Shouldn't the title of this be "Things we say INCORRECTLY"? Are you saying that we speak wrong?
Ya gotta love irony! :P
chazcov08 5 months ago
There is nothing wrong with saying "I feel good". Feel is not an ACTION verb. Action verbs do require you to use an adverb with them, such as well or badly. "That baseball player HITS badly" for example. "That baseball player FIELDS well." Perfectly fine.
When dealing with verbs that are NOT action words, such as conjugations of the verb "to be", such as am, are, is, we use adjectives. I AM bad. He IS good.
Words that describe your condition, like FEEL, use adjectives. Thank you.
chazcov08 5 months ago
Ok, so...... Some things you said are correct, but some just represents potential evolution in our language. If language didn't evolve we'd still speak latin, or at the least Shakespeare's English.
Also, "Little Italy" is not a contraction. I'm not even sure why you said that, because while you jammed the words together, you still pronounced all of the vowels even in slight part.
deabruzo 5 months ago
lol! I would not want to be your friend, though!
deenalev 5 months ago
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a1chrisryan1a 5 months ago
I'm not a native english speaker, so your classes will help me so much!
AlineWenceslau 5 months ago
Yaknow, when someone cares enough about someones grammar, it goes to show they just want to inflate their ego rather then be helpful. Because when we talk to another its to communicate then to be correct or perfect in every angle of speech. Its just arrogance going on about grammar mistakes or mispronunciations in the middle of a conversation. Its is different though on something like a document/essay. If you make yourself understandable, then you accomplished the reason for language. Its use.
TehEneko 5 months ago 3
@TehEneko You know*
than*
another what? It's*
That second sentence didn't really even make sense.
It's or "it is" not "Its is"
Are you really going to make an "elaborate" argument with poor sentence structure skills like that?
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halo6842 5 months ago
@TehEneko In the written form, there is no excuse for using the worng words. Then doesn't equal than. It's = it is. Its = possessive form of it.
chazcov08 5 months ago