Romans Go Home

[im2hot41995]

This is how they teach in the 1st world country's

[adamh9312]

I thought it was dative before I saw this...

[HouseMasterLoL]

One does not simply skip 480p.

[deezider]

What happened to J Cs 1st line in that scene ("your f*ckin nicked me old beauty")?

[BruceyBabyFilms]

The original Grammar Nazi

[aluisious]

Hail Kaisar.

I was kinda tickled when I figured out that it's supposed to be a hard C. I instantly figured out the etymology to all sorts of stuff I hadn't considered. Stupid Normans ruining our language.

[watzizname]

Pure genius..

One of my favorite moments in that film :)

[TanoBrati]

No! Not the dative!

[fauxmocracy]

Bring down the tyranny because the empire that has been built on the backs of slaves and foreign countries' Land and Resources. All the while fear was drummed up in the minds of it's own citizens by continuous war propaganda all the while keeping them entertained with stadiums and bath houses while also imprisoning them with continuous inflation and decreasing education, middle class, jobs, and ENCOURAGING discent and seizing power through politicians!!! whe are fucked

[Crusina]

Was playing a game called Fallout: New Vegas and saw this painted on the wall in the game XD

[MrSparkable]

The best part is near the end when they go "HE IS! HE IS THE MESSIAH!!" and Brian goes "Now, FUCK OFF!!"

[ceolphysis]

@MrSparkable How shall we fuck off oh lord?

[MrSparkable]

@ceolphysis "Oh just go away and leave me alone!" XD

Best film ever :P.

[jmachiela]

2:36 - Now don't do it again!

Love it... :)

[y8864]

this guy is like my teacher

[erikals2]

0:30 The first impending arrest for the crime of graffiti known to modern man.

[scottl4321]

The original Grammar Nazi

[Yabanko]

People call Romani they go to the house?! XD

[quila001]

Brings a whole new meaning to the term "grammar police" doesn't it?

[yippitydodah]

"go home?!? - this is motion towards, isn't it boy?"

[HobbsO]

"If it's not done by sunrise I'll cut your balls off" Brilliant!

[IntoTheDarkMist]

Watched this in Latin 1 class... This makes so much more sense now

[McKenzieDaae]

I'm sure that's how my sister feels when I try to teach her Latin.

[cloudykate]

that's what i felt like when answering questions in latin class

[unfukkkmee]

THE Britain IS ROMAN.

DEATH TO ANGLO-BARBARIANS

[Genesis3Chi]

I'm like that on Facebook...

Correcting spelling, punctuation and grammar

But i'm not a grammar Nazi, its not possible...

[Javariko]

@Genesis3Chi

Yes you are. ;) Welcome.

[Sumbodey07]

Lol this is a Easter egg on fallout new Vegas. BTW I loved this movie :)

[retromayz13]

My Latin teacher actually showed the class this clip.

[rattinox]

Yanks probably won't "get" this- the British educational system is and was vastly more effective, including Latin and Greek grammar. Getting your nuts cut off for a grammatical error is MILD with British Headmasters.................

[unfukkkmee]

@rattinox THE LATIN ALPHABET CREATED FROM THE GREEK ALPHABET

[Digityus]

i'm in latin right now..and this is exactly how you have to learn it..lol

[SneverusSnapers]

Brian is seriously good at grammar. At that point where the centurion gets the sword out, I'd have been killed :p --wouldn't have switched to the accusative :p

[Tw1St3DSt33L]

grammar romans?

[Alunamai]

I find this hysterical because in both my history classes /(western civ. and Middle Ages) we are covering the Romans... and right after those two classes in the day, I have Spanish... So I died!

[GaolisVideoLog]

@Alunamai The middle ages. Well, you should be done with the Romans quickly and then move on to the "Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nationen" which has nothing to do with Romans anymore, apart from the name.

[PoisenedBlade]

Romans were WAAAAY before Grammar Nazis

[MrLazyAzn]

And THIS, is why I am currently taking Latin.

[greedyman9D2]

26 people didn't conjugate the verb

[yippitydodah]

wots this then?

: )

conjugate the motion to go boy...

[ebloomify]

Sounds like my French class! :)

[yippitydodah]

02:55 LEG IT!!!

[yippitydodah]

that is motion towards, isn't it boy?

christ, I have always like Monty Python.

[Sumbodey07]

there is a easter egg of this on Fallout New Vegas, where a wall says exactly that

[HelenaVanCity]

Ahahahahah! That's what they should be doing to modern vandals!!

[Tinchen2704]

that Roman definitely reminds me of my old Latin teacher - the weird thing is: I liked my old Latin teacher :-D

[yippitydodah]

@Tinchen2704 Did you survive with your balls? I did, but it was touch and go at times. Declensions and conjugations are an excuse for latin teachers to fuck us over, in school. : )

[killroththehallow]

@Tinchen2704 Was the home work to translate everything correctly 100 times or he'll cut your balls off?

[Tinchen2704]

@killroththehallow Nooo - and I’m a girl so that wouldn’t be possible ;) - but he sometimes threw with things when students didn’t know the vocabulary they had to learn (not threw the things AT them of course!) and than they had to write it down five times…

[dav61474]

@Tinchen2704 yeah right, if you troll ytube I doubt it

[Zhuravliov]

Grammar Nazis angry!

[kevslf1]

"YOU'RE FUCKIN NICKED ME OLD BEAUTY!!!" HAHAHAHAHA

[DinochromeBrigade]

26 people had their balls cut off.

[Angdharagh]

And suddenly, I remember why I've not been able to pick up Latin...

[brohan914]

woefully esoteric, but great. brings me back to high school latin

[iv0r007]

Ceterum: I'm not sure about that, but I guess that that's how it is xD

[difabricius]

How 26 persons disliked this?How?Me Hercle!!!

[LeChatDeNoir13]

Romni Ite Domum

[MinisterKGB]

Reminds me of my german teacher

[Leviathan268]

@MinisterKGB Same

[Pavielpetrovich]

Locative is actually a case, only used with Domus, Rus, and the names of small islands and cities, if I remember correctly. I'm pretty sure, for example, that "Romae" means "in Rome," and "domi" means "at home."

But Brian was right; "domum" is accusative.

[iv0r007]

@Pavielpetrovich

I believe the locative has actually been a case, but in the later Latin (spoken by time of Caesar) it has become one of the uses of the accusative, because the endings had fallen together. So "Romam" means "in(to) Rome" and "domum" means "at/towards home" - both of them are accusatives, in the use of a locative.

Anyway, this is a brilliant piece of a brilliant movie!

[littleniyah]

@Pavielpetrovich I thought it was 'vocative'

[Metaldiabolic]

at around 1:54 he says "the locative" which doesn't exist in latin. latin has the ablative instead.. he should have been killed for that blasphemy :D

[Crossbowman]

XXVI homines suorum testiculi insecabantur.

[gabbstarrr]

ppffft 26 people are not educated >->

[wittylibrarian]

John Cleese taught Latin in days of yore. Half of his students didn't survive.

[dmc967]

if its not done by sunrise... I'll cut your balls off

[loqutor]

Si hoc legere scis, nimium eruditionis habes.

[TheAussieDoctor]

26 People translated "like" into latin wrong, and clicked the wrong button

[Number1557]

Ahhh the imperative... The bane of my existence.

[darkangelfinn9]

@Number1557 Please, the imperative really isn't that hard...it's participles that suck the most

[jecka1982]

@20centjes oh come on, have a sense of humour! after work i cant be asked to correct my english!!

[theeightsin]

hehe. What is latin for romans? Romanus? Goes like? Anus? Provocative verb of anus is? anii? haha great.

[bliston78]

my favorite scene hands down

[debluemonkey]

Epic!

[raerae1281]

Only Monty Python can make education so utterly hilarious. This whole movie is brilliantly written. I also love the PFJ meeting... "What did the Romans ever do for us?" and then they keep listing things, lmao.

[emphaticleech]

@raerae1281 PEACE? Fuck off!

[littleniyah]

@raerae1281 That always makes me think of China and Tibet, when people are always raving about the Dalai Lama and being down on the Chinese. What have the Chinese ever done for us? "The railway?" "What?" "The railway, through the Himalayas." "Oh yeah, there was that" "Sanitation?" "Liberation from serfdom?" "Education?" "Business opportunities?" "Tourism?" etc, etc

[jecka1982]

im an english teacher and it really makes me laugh with the imperative and 3rd person singular and everything!

[wasabimanic]

@jecka1982 You're an English teacher?! " im an english "?! No , : I 'm an English teacher.

Now write it out 100 times.

[EFDragon]

@wasabimanic

Now write it out 100 times or I'll cut your balls off.

Fixed it for you.

[Vinnieification]

26 people forgot to use the locative.

[Inasnum23]

''how many romans?''

x)

this one makes me laugh out loud all the time

John Cleese in one of his best!

[oneprizeonegoal]

Just like latin class, all the way down to the Roman armour

Come to think of it, my latin teacher was a strange man

[brienkmeehan]

Verbum matris tuae, domus!

[dbruin85]

@brienkmeehan LOL

[olliemad]

my dad loves this scene as he actually did latin in school and this is pretty much on the money how it was taught, haaa back in the day.

[clifjayshafer]

The first grammar nazis? xD

[ChibiVamp232]

@clifjayshafer Awww yeah.Heil spellcheck.

[SyntaxErrorification]

@dchari08 I already heard about the accusative form without preposition to indicate the direction as locativus directionalis. Though I would also say that its not a real locativus, so the centurios's correction is inappropriate.

Apart from that its a brilliant and well noticed parody because that is how Latin lessons are xD

[AdamsTeinz]

Now I know how to conjugate the verb to go. Thank you, monty python

[dchari08]

To say "to home", you wouldn't use the locative. The locative would be "domi", and it would mean "at home"; it signifies location. To indicate motion towards, you'd generally use "ad", which takes the accusative, except that with "domus" generally no preposition is used, so it would just be "domum". "Romani ite domum." The Latin is correct, but the explanation is wrong.

[Ludach123]

@dchari08 NERD! 

[LordLoco87]

@dchari08

... silly language. >.<

[UrbanDecae81]

@dchari08 Latin is dead because someone took it out back and shot it.

[kaindrg]

@UrbanDecae81 the spoken latin was much simpler one version dropped alot of its conjugations this version ecame portugese

[Ruudsosalsa]

The single best piece of comedy i have ever seen!

[ManyRegretsz]

26 people had to do it again.

[porcus123]

my portuguese teacher does me the same thing but sadly.........I failed

[CoolBasqueGuy]

latin is manipulated basque just like most languages....research it n ull see...

[McKenzieDaae]

@CoolBasqueGuy And that matters because?

What famous documents were written in Basque? (Come to that, what even vaguely important documents were written in Basque?) Was it considered the language of educated people for centuries? Did it contribute to over half of the words in the English language?

It's a FUNNY VIDEO. Please.

[SFallonMusic]

Funniest scene in motion picture history

[teniguafez]

26 people failed Latin

[awelcruiz]

@teniguafez Cut their balls off.

[mrsnubeh]

they catch him and give him a lessen he wont soon forget...

nice pun

[TheZombiesarepeople2]

26 people have no sense of humor. And yeah, I can totally picture my teacher with a legionaire's helmet XD

[minoshman1]

Latin is pisssss easy

This did help me though back when I started out and didn't understand cases :P

[CleverSchadenfreude]

My class is taking the National Latin Exam in 2 days. Our teacher told us to watch this as homework and that we'd all be castrated if we came back with anything less than a gold medal. Pretty good motivation, even if you lack the parts needed for a castration to take place.

[ChobinoftheFunk]

@CleverSchadenfreude You have no genitals?

[CzlowiekOto]

If you learn or have leraned Latin and the legionarii reminds you of your teacher, give a thump up.

[Baleur]

@CzlowiekOto Learned :D How ironic!

[wellpaidscientist]

@CzlowiekOto THAT'S THE JOKE

[4lligator]

@wellpaidscientist

You suck McBain!

[comoxvalleymassage]

@CzlowiekOto "Legionarii" is plural. You need subject-verb agreement, so it would be "remind", not "reminds". Also, although "thump" works, perhaps you meant "thumb"....

Yeah. Once you've been through it, it never leaves you and you do it to everyone else later in life.

[doraseal]

john cleese reminds me of my old latin teacher

[Kemmothar]

26 Romans didn't like this video

[Soilwar]

Imagine if Pontius Pilate would've read it out in front of the mob. I can hear Terry Jones' squeal of anger. xD

[97ieuan]

i would prefer them than my english teacher



[Wolstenholmie]

I goddamn hate learning Latin.

[randomface54]

26 people had their latin corrected. even people living 2000 years ago couldn't escape from the curse of the grammar nazis

[papnlockin]

Ancient day graffiti.

[Yulam24]

if you had Latin at school this makes a lot more sense

[Seriloin]

@Yulam24 Or any language with distinct cases

[dragonofdark727]

If you actually speak latin this makes alot more sense

[VeniUbique]

@RubberDuckie3999 at least here, you don't finish learning grammar until Latin 4. It makes sense that you don't get this...

[PhilWithCoffee]

In high school we watched this scene in my Latin class. Never gets old :-D

[saraj1999]

@RubberDuckie3999 Oh, arent we smart! Its a bloody comedy, not grammar lesson.

[FinalFreek]

@saraj1999 true. according to john he based this scene on his former latin teacher at school.

[Goliath260]

Right now dunt doit again!

[taitai907]

What the hell? This ain't funny! My mom did this to me whenever I made a grammatical error! :<

[therealblueninja]

26 people failed Latin

[TheAnimeAttorney]

Amo monty python!!! Optimus estis! Quam ego speculavi, ridebam!

[Pavielpetrovich]

@TheAnimeAttorney "Optimus estis?" A singular subject requires a singular verb. A plural subject requires a plural verb.

[wraitherman]

i failed my Latin class

[knoxklay11]

26 PEOPLE DISLIKED THIS VIDEO??! OHHH GOD.... what i wouldnt give to have somone dislike my videos!!! I hang from the walls of this dungeon DREAMING of the day that someone would dislike one of my videos! Good god your lucky!! NEXT THING THATLL HAPPEN IS THEYLL SPIT ON YOU!! THATS BLOODY FAVORITISM IT IS!!

[noelsoong777]

26 people where caught by the Grammar Legion.

[lamppostclimber]

Hail Ceasar and everything

[FairFerret]

DOMUN...! (writing on the wall) -UN. =´D

Epic sketch. Anyone who sufered latin lessons should sure rolf with this part of the movie.

PD: I want an english teacher like Mr. Cleese, I really think I need one.^^

[WeedFang]

Reminds me of my teacher

[eh923]

this is exactly how my latin classes play out. i laughed soooo hard at this!

[Miauriceful]

Romani ite domum, it's right.

[rjakobi]

And this is why I took AP Latin for two more years than I should. Thank you, Graham and John.

[Bubblingbrew]

Heil Ceasar, if it's not done by sunrise, I cut your bawls off.

[Pandaman5678]

Screw grammar nazis, grammar centurions are where it's at.

[OlaNaTungee6]

who are the other two soldiers?

[123wallRus]

26 people did not finish by sunrise.

[mariannaelgreco]

amazing!!!loved it :D

[NationalTsanggraphic]

26 people had their balls cut off

[Obelisk1990]

This is my favourite part of the film, as I did Latin :D

[theblazingraven]

i had an experience like this in my freshman latin class, except instead of a centurion it was a nun. i still cried though,,,,

[shutupu123]

Ave, True To Caesar...

[roadrunner7000]

And this is why you should pay attention in Latin

[skate4everandthensum]

Ave, true to Ceasar

[evilmick66]

Veni!

[psychomantis108]

well there you have it the ancient grammar nazi

[TheCockroach126]

if its not done by sunrise ill cut your balls off!!!!!!!

[slaphappy27]

This is how I'm studying for my Latin final tomorrow morning.

[OuroborosChoked]

If it wasn't for the threat of castration, I would've never passed Latin in high school...

[superknightHCHS]

This is what each of my Latin classes is like.

[solcario2]

hail ceasar

[TheScrabbleKing]

Viginti et sex stultus sunt.

[constenebricus]

@TheScrabbleKing Stultus? How many of them?

[SSTTEEAALLTTHH]

@TheScrabbleKing

Stultus? In plural? You can start from the beginning again.

[TheScrabbleKing]

@SSTTEEAALLTTHH Viginti et sex stulti sunt. Viginti et sex stulti sunt. Viginti et sex stulti sunt. Viginti et sex stulti sunt. Viginti et sex stulti sunt. Viginti et sex stulti sunt. Viginti et sex stulti sunt. Viginti et sex stulti sunt. Viginti et sex stulti sunt. Viginti et sex stulti sunt. Viginti et sex stulti sunt. Viginti et sex stulti sunt. Viginti et sex stulti sunt. (That's as many as I can do in one comment, please don't cut my balls off XD)

[constenebricus]

@TheScrabbleKing It's not over yet... Tell me, boy, when using 'et', which part of a numeral goes first?

[TheScrabbleKing]

@constenebricus In this case, the single-digit lesser value...and sex < viginti, thus...

"Sex et viginti stulti sunt."

[constenebricus]

@TheScrabbleKing Hail Caesar.

[TheScrabbleKing]

@constenebricus Yes sir. Hail Caesar and everything.