Baba Brinkman & Professor Elemental - What's Your English?

[faviobeckerweb]

My English is of course the proper one. ;)

[vsmaster123]

@kosland2000

YES

[MBVidGuy]

If it wasn't for How I Met Your Mother, I wouldn't even know what the Canucks are...

[kittyemcee]

meoar?



[Skedarking85]

Two rappers I admire and respect working together, can't beat it :)

[EmerinZoriginal]

fantastic!

[SanekDemon]

I! HATE!! BRITISH!!! ACCENT!!!!

[Anonkyou]

@SanekDemon Girls love it though ;D

[SanekDemon]

@Anonkyou And what about russian, heh?

[leapoffaith20]

@SanekDemon Well you're a fucking moron then, aren't you old chap?

[SanekDemon]

@leapoffaith20 Lol U stupid pidoras =D

[leapoffaith20]

@SanekDemon Is that truly your best shot? You fail sir!

[TheSquirrelMeister92]

@SanekDemon Well, old chap, you really do need to go and jump off of a great height.

[SanekDemon]

@TheSquirrelMeister92 O RLY?

[TheSquirrelMeister92]

@SanekDemon Yes, my good sir, really.

[msbabc]

@SanekDemon Please, PLEASE, let me know what a British accent is. Estuary, Scouse, Midlands, Welsh, Manc, Cockney, RP, Geordie, various Scottish, etc, etc... all British accents and could scarcely be more varied.

[slapshot37GNR]

Why the FUCK am I watching this? Oh, yeah. I'm in English class...

[TetsugakuSan]

TOP BANANA :)

search for Prof Elemental Vs Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer here!

[largo875]

english dominates the globe, thats kinda true .

[Zazie370]

leóf, þú ácræfte englisc úre searu? þes sy sóþ englisc, ne sum giedd

now that is real english

[iBundangbear]

Wicked pissah.

Like seeing your bird's Allen's for the first time.

But seriously, thank you English language for providing me with jobs all over the world and the chance to see 36 countries.

[iBundangbear]

@iBundangbear C'est une langue, et c'est toute, et moi aussi, mes racines sont québécoises, donc, je dis Vive le Québec libre, mais j’enseigne l;'anglais...j'ai fait le tour du monde, 36 payes avec la lange anglaise, donc, qu'est-ce qu'on peut faire, mec? @Tupperfan

[Tupperfan]

Colonies? And Quebec is right in there? Hey, love you, but my genetic material says...fuck you!

[wittleghoul]

This is SO nerdy. ... Love it.

[leapoffaith20]

It's not tomato it's tomarto,

Why?

Because I say so.

[Willis2992]

American variation of English is one of the biggest stains on humanity!

[scotstylefilms]

@Willis2992 why do you say that?

[badgerattoadhall]

@Willis2992 you meen the old version of english

[BettOegO]

Wot the shit were they talikin' abt? Hahaha it was so funny 'cuz I didnt understand 'em! :-P

[MrLimeyBob]

What's your English is brilliant! Mr B has a long way to go to better this!

[Shery016]

oh man, I don't know anything about slang... I could't understand half of what they were saying. But I guess that's excusable since I don't live in an english speaking country, right? Right?

[leapoffaith20]

@Shery016 Don't worry I had to listen through a couple of times :)

Bloody good though, eh eh?

[Shery016]

@leapoffaith20 yeah, I've always loved rap battles.

[fsmrb2]

most everything canuck said is american slang. nice try though.

[briandee]

@fsmrb2

Canadian and American English is basically one in the same, except for slight differences in vowel pronunciation and the whole "eh?" thing, so I wouldn't really separate them that much. Language is not a country-boundaries-based thing, it is more a regionally based thing, so you need to look at it like that.

[WasAbiRASP]

@briandee Exactly. The "eh" thing is even regional. Many of my Canadian friends don't use it. The main differences are things like "oot and "aboot" (vowel pronunciation like you said--the Canadian raise). Of course, the US isn't monotonous either. Just compare one from New Jersey or Chicago with one from the deep south (southern drawl).

[eissacm]

@WasAbiRASP The trend to not using "eh" may have to do with being inundated by American tv and films. Though interestingly, if you watch Ameican shows and movies pre-60s, they use eh, not huh. Not sure when :huh" came into common usage in the Sates. Speaking of regionalism, people from Minnisota and Wisconsin often use Hey instead, (sounding a lot like eh.)

I don't say oot and aboot to rhyme with boot. We just don't expand on those vowels as much as some Americans regions.

[beanodonnell]

canadian slang more like american slang we let u use 

[TheDreamHazard]

words cannot express my love for this video. It's beautiful. 

[steampunkstan]

Bloody marvellous, eh?

[TechyTreckyNerd]

@techytreckynerd chk this chic out she has a way with words but she needs a beat though

[marbballz]

The queen just insulted brummies at 0:41..... nothing wrong with the birmingham accent, its the black country accent we get confused with

[TheSpankymonkey]

I absolutely love this.

[JonnyBGoode44]

A lot of the Canadian slang was borrowed from the Yanks...

That was an odd explanation for "Whistling Dixie" in the video. The term actually comes from the song, "I wish I was in Dixie", popular during the Civil War and often whistled by Confederate troops. Dixie, a slang term for the South, comes from Jeremiah Dixon, one of the surveyors of the Mason-Dixon line, the symbolic boundary between the North and the South.

[kosland2000]

wait... Margaret Thatcher is still alive?

[monkeytail2002]

@kosland2000 Unfortunately

[leapoffaith20]

@kosland2000 yes, sadly.

[omega7stone]

Right proper blast boys extremely eloquent. two thumbs up.

[SuitandTieFilms]

SICK SICK SICK. I love it.

[ZDoggMD]

Elemental, my dear Brinkman. I just had a nerdgasm in me pants. Fo' Shizzle.

[KANMistry]

Beautiful.

[AP07H30515]

"I actually don't have an accent. This is just how words sound when pronounced properly" -Jimmy Carr

[evenstar0]

I just died from the awesomeness. forget your brain on charlie sheen, your brain on professor elemental is a billion times more epic.

[SketchSepahi]

- Your verbal conservatism died with Margaret Thatcher - She's still alive! - Whatever.

[leoboiko]

@SketchSepahi not politically.

[SketchSepahi]

@leoboiko I was quoting the video. None of those were my own words.

[EzySqueeze]

Chuffed to bits, I really am.

[kcnumbernine]

informative.....also funny

[scottydog47]

@msbabc anyone that talks even a little bit Geordie wins in my book!

[missfairtomiddling]

It's pronounced 'pro-NUN-ciation' in Received Pronunciation, not 'pro-NOUN-ciation'. Shoddy indeed! Tut tut...

[oaktowner]

Hilariously written and hilariously performed. Especially funny is the fact that the "Canadian" slang was nearly all American.

[BloodOfTheLamb1]

Oh, oh, oh... but where's the valley girl?

[thuggedout2DAmax]

This is some proper sick shit, I met you at Glastonbury 2 years ago Baba, doubt you can remember though man. And as for you professor i have yet to see you peform..... sick shit though keep it up, and yeh the Yankees need to take notes from this tune!!! innabit

[EgoEroTergum]

CANADIEN!?!?!

[sigmus90]

This video and song are both amazing.

[thestranger333]

I declare my undying worship to Professor Elemental.

[Bobaklives]

"she's still alive!" LOL

[delirieuse]

@ryantbrighton: If your language is the "true" English, why can't you spell "you" or capitalise correctly?

[weaponEX]

Teach them the Professor's ready!!

[megatrinity]

Oh my, look at all the butthurt in the comments

[Dastompinata]

Where can I download this track

[ryantbrighton]

my english is true english, yanks and canadians and that just butcher OUR language. and why is it that most of the world call it a football, because u play it with ur feet, and american football is played with your hands mainly so dont say shit abouit what u dont know and if u dislike the english and OUR language then speak french instead!!!

[TerradudeV2]

@ryantbrighton Someone's a little too touchy. ;D

[YooZherName]

@ryantbrighton Easy, there. I'm pretty sure my folks (from Yorkshire) sound nothing like y'all down in Brighton. I promise to say nothing 'abouit' your completely hosed punctuation. ;-)

[msbabc]

@ryantbrighton Dude, your English looks pretty much fucked; I counted twenty-two errors in your pathetic rant. Get back to the EDL march you wandered away from.

[HighlandAxeKlub]

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[lithiacat]

Professor Elemental is very attractive.

[ElreniaGreenleaf]

lmao, anyone spot the 'badger, badger, badger, mushroom' note at 0.26? XD

[davidsmountford]

She's still alive!

So's Gordon. I'd love to hear him say that xD

[HighlandAxeKlub]

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[adavies42]

@HighlandAxeKlub you're missing a 00100000 in the last line

[adavies42]

@HighlandAxeKlub you're missing a 00100000 in the last line

[Bhugerie]

Margaret thatchers not dead..

[Ceruleanst]

This just perpetuates the myth that UK English as it is spoken and written today is the "original" which North American English "changed". Most of the differences were invented concurrently.

Ugh, and they both say "pronounciation" which is not correct anywhere.

[BastardJack]

Rapping Brits & Canadians are the best.

[jawdance]

Come and see Prof. Elemental perform at Soho Theatre, Wed 9 March.

[scottieseattle]

This is fantastic.

[telemikus]

What I don't get is that when Britsh people with strong regional accents appear on American TV they get subtitled, but when French Canadian people are on Amercian TV, no subs... What gives?

[bijmagnet]

Like a really twee version of 'you say tomato...'

[vinedad]

The thing about the British accent is that there isn't one; there are hundreds. People living just a few miles apart would have different ways of speaking. Professor Henry Higgins may be Shaw's creation but his language location theories hold up well.

Oh and Bearded Broccoli, the US accent is largely a result of the ethnic mix of the early settlers from all parts of Europe, notably Britain and the Netherlands.

[themilkmister]

DARE YE SLANDER THY SCOTTISH YA WEE WANKERS OR ILL FUCKING SHANK YA

[msbabc]

Also, the word soccer came from England. It's shortened from Association Football; the full name of our beautiful game.

[msbabc]

The funniest thing is that there's probably more variation within 'UK English' than between the many nations where English is widely used.

Now ay up, mate, gerrout t'road, I'm gan the toon, pet.

[cassiecorr704]

@msbabc talking like it was invented there sheesh ;)

[Gothtecdotcom]

@msbabc Hello there good sir! Please can you let me pass? I am traveling into town!

[beetlejuicePerson]

@msbabc they gots not a fakin igloo how we chatter lol

[TheSpankymonkey]

@msbabc - Shut up and get awwwff my land.

[marbballz]

@msbabc

Is it wrong I understood that positively northern excuse for english XD

[AnnatarYoung]

@msbabc This is very true. I know hundreds upon hundreds of words that were alien to the friends I made in America but I knew everything they were saying.

[TheSpankymonkey]

@msbabc - Nah, the English is the same, it's the bollocks that changes ;-)

[beardedbroccoli]

Are you sure the "hard R" is the original British pronunciation? I know the "silent H" used in some modern English speakers is not original, that is to say did not exist in the early colonies. Interestingly enough at that time accents were more close to the modern American accent than to the commonly stereotyped (and often filmed 'historically') southern English accent.

[TheKilak]

This conversation is tired.

[Amzizizooza]

Chuffed to bits, I really am!

[shoseki]

So basically, Canadian is just English with Americanisms thrown in...

[quatroportte]

yes foot ball(hitting the ball with your foot) is wrong?...i have no idea whrere u get soccer came from?

[bastardcrunch]

no one likes canada

[xxVIKxx100]

@bastardcrunch Nobody likes USA.

LURN TO GRAMMAR U FUCKING TARD

[Canaustrians]

@xxVIKxx100 [The] USA, it requires an article. Do not use all capitals, it is inexcusable in all cases save abbreviations and memo titles--emphasis requires italics; U is not a word; to properly contract or shorten a word, an apostrophe is require (Retard contracts to [ ' ]Tard) and learn is spelled with an ea, not u. You forgot a period at the end of your last sentence, but I feel an exclamation mark would be more appropriate.

[xxVIKxx100]

@Canaustrians Holy shit are you a robot or retarded?

Using all capital letters was poking fun at his grammar along with a nonsense statement like. "nobody likes [insert country]"

WHOOOOSH you fail.

[Canaustrians]

@xxVIKxx100 Robot.

[TheBeatleboy64]

@Canaustrians *Required.

[creamypouf8]

YouTube sent me.

[ChurchHatesTucker]

This is awesome, but for serious throwdown you should have an American, or possibly an Aussie.

[doofercall]

arseome

[atfreema]

I didn't know "fo shizzle" was Canadian.

[drunkck]

@atfreema I'm pretty sure it isn't.

[xxVIKxx100]

@drunkck he missed the point, it was simply all English variations versus UK English, since the British Empire left its mark around the world in the form of a good language lol.

[xxVIKxx100]

@atfreema WHOOOOOOOOOOOOSH

You missed the point of the video dummy, it was about all English variations versus UK English. herr durr

[atfreema]

@xxVIKxx100

:16 Canada is highlighted while the US, which if you didn't know is home a few English speakers, isn't.

1:56 "Canadian slang"

Go die.

[xxVIKxx100]

@atfreema Canadian slang did not follow the shizzle comment it followed actual Canadian slang. You missed the point about England being the birth place of the language many countries speak, and how over time it has changed from the original. You stupid fucking Americans need everything spelled out for you. And snoop Dogg was the creator not "America". I know you pseudo patriots like to nit pick but the intelligent do not associate by nation first and for most. Go die.

[atfreema]

@xxVIKxx100 You didn't follow my advice and die, too bad, I seriously suggest you try it.

Before you do, spell it out to dumb American me, if the video was about English in general why wasn't the USA highlighted at 0:15? It's widely spoken here.

[sharla8]

@atfreema I think the only reason the US wasn't highlighted was because when Received Pronunciation (which was long considered the only "proper" English in England until the Beatles showed up with their Liverpool accents and revolutionized everything) was first described, the Thirteen Colonies had already revolted. Meaning, the "British" English that these two are arguing about had nothing to do with the US, since it had already split by then and was no longer a colony.

[sharla8]

@atfreema the US is highlighted in the last map, because English IS widely spoken there.

Also, don't think I'm siding with @xxVIKxx100 (he's been unbelieveably rude), but as a Canadian with some linguistic knowledge, I thought I'd answer your (good) question.

[atfreema]

@xxVIKxx100 You wrote "you stupid fucking Americans" then later "the intelligent do not associate by nation first"

You associated my joke with Americans in general, proving by your own standards that you're not intelligent.

[Evilmike42]

@atfreema I didn't know Canadians were 'gangsta'.

:)

[DrewministryofManip]

Fo Shizzle, that was Spiffing.

[skaramunga7]

Splendid once again!

[Mishellkaaa]

great!

[roryravendotcom]

Can't. Stop. Watching.

[Impresamccabe]

I did enjoy this. Thank you good sir's. It definitely WAS cricket.

[TomAWells]

What a duo. BOSH!

[katekamikaze]

Ace.

[jlware5000]

rule.

[hopper395]

this is great

[MECLondon]

This is really wowed us. Really clever.

[pikifriends]

Excellent stuff!

[claralupi]

Clever - great animations!

[VictoriaLucky]

Work in Macmillan Ukraine. It`s a really cool thing U did! Thanks :) It`d be great to have lyrics !

[Duessa2000]

Any chance you might put up the full lyrics?