Laurie's exhausted capitulation toward the end of the first long scene, and in the last scene his naming of Kate Adie, also Fry's waistcoated space-invasion, and "the substance of which you exhibit a property must exist; where is it?" - just truly beautiful.
Happily I've seen all of this in my Philosophy of Language classes but to see it made comic is wonderful. He's just throwing away rich ideas as if they are nothing, it's fascinating to watch.
Stephen Fry is my own personal QED for the possibility of re-incarnation.
Oscar Wilde was taken from us before his time and like Socrates it was reasonable to expect that we would not soon see his like again. But the fates were kind and we got a second chance. Here he is.
Of course, re-incarnation, by its nature, is typically not into someone so similar and/or generally not quite so soon. But then, this is Wilde we're talking about here, of course he wouldn't do it the conventional way.
I totally agree with the comment below about Linguistics students. This clip would have made my Discourse Analysis all the more fascinating while keeping the hard work in perspective! Oh the utterances parsed and pored over! Wonderful video.
I find this to be utterly magnificent! It should be indeed included in all university linguistic courses as a kick-up for students, be it general linguistics, discourse analysis etc.
There are plenty of nutcase religious readers who use language to target the prejudices of other people in order to achieve demagoguery. What are they talking about?
Awesome to see Mr Fry is now doing a programme about language.....finally he has found his greatest strength AGAIN!!!! Stop with the crass shows and envelope openings please Stephen....this is your calling in life!
@LightxKira5643 One person, i.e. you, has clearly not understood my original post. And has wrongly assumed that I have a dick. Although if I did, I imagine I could 'get it wet' a great deal more than you, since I have the advantage of not being an idiot.
@LightxKira5643 Of course you are. That's why you responded to a post that you didn't understand with an uninformed insult about a stranger's sexual prowess. How intelligent. Bravo.
@Lucando It's not that I didn't understand it, I just came here with the point of trolling from the get go, only reason I'm here. Also your first comment wasn't to intelligent either btw.
@LightxKira5643 You clearly didn't grasp the reference. Besides which, admitting you're a troll removes any right you have to calling yourself 'smart'. Watch the video and you might learn something about both intelligence and humour.
@Lucando The true trolls, not the 12 year olds nowadays are smarter than you are simply put. They used to be highly educated people who were just stimulating conversation and starting things up to add comments to a video and or thread that they want to get immense popularity due to arguements. If they are good it will only take one quote and then they can go on their marry ol' way. I was to lazy to think of something overly clever so taking my time with it.
@Lucando Trolling used to be, nowadays 12 year olds come about it and people call them trolls. Real trolls as they were in the past, who used it to stimulate conversation were highly educated and clever. I love it when someone tries to put their words over the facts of history and life.
I think this is probably Fry and Laurie humour at its best, thrill at expounding words and their accompanying stupid sounds, as well as their use in over elaborate meanings and justifications, whilst at the same time containing ideas that actually do make you think about the subject. I actually had heard of the theory of abstract absolutes of collective ideas before, in fact it goes back to Plato, but it is brilliantly expressed here!
It half makes sense until the second sketch at which point I got totally lost. The irony is that as soon as you get into abstract conversations about what beauty means or what constitutes it, you often DO get into this sort of pseudo-babble. :-)
This clip has intrigued and taught me more than the five months I've spent studying linguistics at university. I wish my teachers were more like Stephen.
Genial, humorous about language and IN the language I deem as the best ever appeared on earth. English language, the best invention Britain has ever made, the least nonsense grammar I always wanted to see in my mother tongue or in other languages. English: the Latin of the modern age, the only idiom capable of unifying the planet linguistically. I love and respect this language to the point that when people ask me: do you speak English? I say: no I speak near-English! :-)
language in itself seems to be a form of psychological barrier. I feel like we are made to use languages which were developed to be flawed from the very beggining and only restrict us. Its seems they entrap us in one way of thinking.
These guys are so very good! In all fairness, it is sort of an awkward thing to use language to talk about language-- it's like trying to give yourself a backrub. When people try it, they're going to come out this froofy and squalubrious. Although the ugly hairdo may not be a requirement.
He recently made a podcast making many of the same points in a not too dissimilar style. He even uses the chess analogy and, if I remember correctly, refers to this sketch.
"Hold the news readers nose squarley waiter or friendly milk will countermand my trousers" - nearly passed out laughing. The Master at work. Wonderful clip.
I'm sure that in 400 years, people will speak of Stephen Fry as we speak of William Shakespeare today; a man who used language in a uniquely brilliant way in a popular medium. In Shakespeare's day it was the theatre, in ours it is television. I doubt there are many ages that can claim a similar talent.
This is one of my favourite sketches because it fulfills the seemingly impossible task of being both hilariously witty and unquestionably thought-provoking. I'm falling out of my chair laughing and at the same time pondering what precise characteristics define the concept of beauty.
I think Stephen is playing a character similar to the one he played in the Footlights sketch "Shakespeare Master Class", where he's listing all kinds of adjectives for no purpose other than to have a list. I love it when he goes pedantic at full tilt. He's a damn genius.
Science and thirtenetriht multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. — J. G. Ballard
this has to be one of my favourite Fry & Laurie moments of all time!
the phrase "Hold the newsreaders nose squarely waiter, or frindly milk will countermand [sic?] my trousers" has come to mind so many times when any discussion of langue is mentioned.
Or even sat on the bus, watching the dreary world go by ;)
hugh almost always ends up as the straight man in the sketch... but he does it so well! and he almost always manages to keep a straight face, which is in itself a very impressive task....
oh well, just keep telling that to yourself if it makes you feel better about not being able to speak English...I would, however, advise you not to say it out loud, because you're going to get laughed at if you're lucky and punched in the nose if you're not.
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Como bien dije, sois unos bárbaros, y tu amenaza (vía internet xDDD) así delata tu caracter bárbaro.
Yo no critico el inglés porque no lo sepa (entiendo algo y me encantaría entender más) sólo digo que es un idioma atrasado. Y si no me crees pregunta a cualquier linguista inglés de tu país, payaso. No tiene la flexibilidad del español ni su digna ascendencia del latín.
We get it 6Dark6Spirit6 (by the way, why the english nickname?) you think spanish is a language of nobler origins. I agree, but I also know that contemporary peninsular spanish sounds like vulgar latin with a very serious lisp. Of all spanish speakers, Mexicans are the only ones that approach the sound of medieval spanish, and italian is obviously the language that comes closest to latin. They don't complain on youtube though.
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Te equivocas en lo del ceceo. Es precisamente en suramerica (en España llamamos suramerica a todo lo que esté bajo USA, es decir, los paises con habitantes nativos americanos (erroneamente llamados latinos)). Donde S, C y Z se confunden. En España sólo se da en una región (Andalucía) donde el acento es muy diferente (y feo) al del resto de España.
Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, and the supposedly barbarian Germanic language all come from the same mother language, Indo-European. So, English does indeed have the ancestry of Latin. And if you did a little research, you'd find that Old English has all the flexibility of Spanish. It just lost its cases through centuries. So get off your high horse. Your language isn't any better than mine or anyone else's.
They have a common root, that is true. But English haven't Latin ancestry, some of his words come from Latin, but it is not a direct evolution from the Latin as it may be the Spanish or Italian.
I do not know Old English, so I do not know what is its flexibility. But I doubt that is the same as the Spanish. Then there is the matter of pronunciation, much less poetic, full of consonants, and so on.
Translating what 6Dark6Spirit6 said: "My ancestors spoke latin, but yours spoke a barbarian language. That's the reality, no need to be offended about it."
Never mind his words guys. That's just one of the reasons why we brazilians don't like spanish speaking people. They tend to make a hassle out of not being the most wide known language around. Plain stupid...
Not so close my friend. It was actually a grammar joke. Latins (I speak for myself too) have some trouble on pronouncing the "the". It's the only english sound we brazilians do not have on our own mother language, portuguese! So we usually try cheating the listener by saying "de" instead of it, which is somehow close anyway :D
Laurie's exhausted capitulation toward the end of the first long scene, and in the last scene his naming of Kate Adie, also Fry's waistcoated space-invasion, and "the substance of which you exhibit a property must exist; where is it?" - just truly beautiful.
Cheers for the steer, Romanstandrd.
vernonaicht 7 hours ago
"Language is a hulk of a charred Panzer." This, this will stay with me.
tommytigerpants 1 week ago
Happily I've seen all of this in my Philosophy of Language classes but to see it made comic is wonderful. He's just throwing away rich ideas as if they are nothing, it's fascinating to watch.
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I just adore Stephen Fry, this is a joy to watch - "The Master at Work". Bloody hilarious stuff.
Thereisonlythemoment 3 weeks ago
At 5:26, Stephen says 'Hush, tish and vibble.' He said that same thing once on QI, one of my favorite shows ever.
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I watch Stephen Fry's videos originally to learn something, but I end up being awed and have to watch the video again, that was 3 years ago.
umopap 1 month ago
I love you, don't go in there, get out, you have no right to say that, stop it, why should I, that hurt, help, Margery is dead.
XD
slashfilledmind 1 month ago
I lost Stephen near the end!
mspeter97 1 month ago
Stephen Fry is my own personal QED for the possibility of re-incarnation.
Oscar Wilde was taken from us before his time and like Socrates it was reasonable to expect that we would not soon see his like again. But the fates were kind and we got a second chance. Here he is.
Of course, re-incarnation, by its nature, is typically not into someone so similar and/or generally not quite so soon. But then, this is Wilde we're talking about here, of course he wouldn't do it the conventional way.
tangent272 1 month ago
Stephen could run any rapper into the ground.
MixMadMen 1 month ago 10
I can no longer say "extrinsically" a single time.
lyadmilo 1 month ago 3
aahhahaa awesome!!
makeiteasyable 1 month ago
Correctly correctington! Stephen Fry still says that on QI!
TWToxicity 2 months ago 4
Wow. Just... wow.
seikomaruhana 2 months ago
I totally agree with the comment below about Linguistics students. This clip would have made my Discourse Analysis all the more fascinating while keeping the hard work in perspective! Oh the utterances parsed and pored over! Wonderful video.
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Thereisonlythemoment 2 months ago
HOUSE!!!!
dijalamki 2 months ago
I find this to be utterly magnificent! It should be indeed included in all university linguistic courses as a kick-up for students, be it general linguistics, discourse analysis etc.
assasincz 2 months ago 4
why are all the related videos beer commercials with girls in bikinis in them?
puytqiggsgf 2 months ago
@puytqiggsgf - why ask?
TrollingAround 2 months ago
I think Wittgenstein said something similar.
danieljliversLXXXIX 3 months ago
Looks like Stephen Fry took some phet! LOL
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There are plenty of nutcase religious readers who use language to target the prejudices of other people in order to achieve demagoguery. What are they talking about?
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TheKeithelliott 3 months ago
Stephen Fry can make me orgasm by his voice alone.
BlackJokerLady 3 months ago 17
Whoops.
TheBeowulf19 3 months ago 2
They had me at vulva.
thirt33nVOICES 3 months ago 4
I love that he calls him Duncan, then Tommy, then Timothy. This is a fantastic sketch.
mollemollz 4 months ago 2
Listen to me, listen to me.
nanookthecrazyskulla 4 months ago
Awesome to see Mr Fry is now doing a programme about language.....finally he has found his greatest strength AGAIN!!!! Stop with the crass shows and envelope openings please Stephen....this is your calling in life!
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deirnoel 4 months ago
It's scary how I can sound almost exactly like Hugh here, if I try.
spyke4995 5 months ago
Is our language, English, Cabaubrubule.
MrJayCudmore 5 months ago
Majorie just won't leave them alone.
Aure217 5 months ago
My language is the universal whore that i must make into a virgin!
arunlweb 5 months ago 2
'Is our language, English, capwbwale'
XguitarrockerX 6 months ago 2
How I love Stephen Fry!
Kazzamouche 6 months ago 3
Seven people have never felt the warm, wet trusting touch of a leaking nappy.
Lucando 6 months ago 7
@Lucando One person has never got his dick wet. Ie: you
LightxKira5643 4 months ago
@LightxKira5643 One person, i.e. you, has clearly not understood my original post. And has wrongly assumed that I have a dick. Although if I did, I imagine I could 'get it wet' a great deal more than you, since I have the advantage of not being an idiot.
Lucando 4 months ago
@Lucando Idiots get laid, also the fact is that I get sex so it doesn't matter either way to me. But I'm smarter than most and I'm in college.
LightxKira5643 4 months ago
@LightxKira5643 Of course you are. That's why you responded to a post that you didn't understand with an uninformed insult about a stranger's sexual prowess. How intelligent. Bravo.
Lucando 4 months ago
@Lucando It's not that I didn't understand it, I just came here with the point of trolling from the get go, only reason I'm here. Also your first comment wasn't to intelligent either btw.
LightxKira5643 4 months ago
@LightxKira5643 You clearly didn't grasp the reference. Besides which, admitting you're a troll removes any right you have to calling yourself 'smart'. Watch the video and you might learn something about both intelligence and humour.
Lucando 4 months ago
@Lucando The true trolls, not the 12 year olds nowadays are smarter than you are simply put. They used to be highly educated people who were just stimulating conversation and starting things up to add comments to a video and or thread that they want to get immense popularity due to arguements. If they are good it will only take one quote and then they can go on their marry ol' way. I was to lazy to think of something overly clever so taking my time with it.
LightxKira5643 4 months ago
@LightxKira5643 Trolling is not intelligent, however you try to spin it. Particularly not the kind you indulge in. Good day, sir.
Lucando 4 months ago
@Lucando Trolling used to be, nowadays 12 year olds come about it and people call them trolls. Real trolls as they were in the past, who used it to stimulate conversation were highly educated and clever. I love it when someone tries to put their words over the facts of history and life.
LightxKira5643 4 months ago
I... think he said vulva
Foxx1981 6 months ago
Hugh Laurie's look @2:42 is brilliant
mondogoodtimes 6 months ago 2
@mondogoodtimes I also love what he does at 5:35
L33tImagination 6 months ago
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I'm afraid you're wrong fry, I have heard this being said before in the history of human communication... by you, 100 times.
L33tImagination 6 months ago
This was written by the Analytic tradition
HewManatee 7 months ago
"Mark the difference for me, Mark it, please."
illisanantexico 7 months ago
As I watch this, friendly milk is countermanding my trousers
MrA19A92 7 months ago 4
I wonder who wrote this. Absolutlely wonderful. It has Alan Bennett tune to it.
324wilson 7 months ago
I think this is probably Fry and Laurie humour at its best, thrill at expounding words and their accompanying stupid sounds, as well as their use in over elaborate meanings and justifications, whilst at the same time containing ideas that actually do make you think about the subject. I actually had heard of the theory of abstract absolutes of collective ideas before, in fact it goes back to Plato, but it is brilliantly expressed here!
BelatedCommiseration 8 months ago 5
"May I compartmentalise? I hate to but may I? May I?"
"Demagoguery? Demagoguery. And by demagoguery you mean? By demagoguery I mean demagoguery.."
Minimus1992 8 months ago 2
iv watched all of these. hilarious
TheSkullface912 9 months ago
It half makes sense until the second sketch at which point I got totally lost. The irony is that as soon as you get into abstract conversations about what beauty means or what constitutes it, you often DO get into this sort of pseudo-babble. :-)
flaze3 9 months ago
7 people have never proclaimed that Marjorie is dead
ihatethisgoddamnit 9 months ago
"I think he said vulva..." lol :)
kramalbion 10 months ago 5
..so i can say the following sentence and be utterly sure that nobody has ever said it before in the history of human comunication:
hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers.
perfectly ordinary words but never before put in that precise order: a unique child delivered of a unique mother.
RottenApple666 10 months ago
Beauty is duty and duty is beauty o.O
AnonymousComrade 10 months ago
It's like drowning in a poorly written philosophy text.
issyvoo2 10 months ago
capabbule :)
mecagoenlaleche98 11 months ago 2
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Thereisonlythemoment 11 months ago
hush tish vibble!
i find u beautiful but you are not beauty.. woops!!!
kingpoop69 11 months ago 3
This clip has intrigued and taught me more than the five months I've spent studying linguistics at university. I wish my teachers were more like Stephen.
snakesruleLMR 1 year ago 61
Mr. Dalliard, I've begun to talk drivel now!
joshaf26 1 year ago 7
Genial, humorous about language and IN the language I deem as the best ever appeared on earth. English language, the best invention Britain has ever made, the least nonsense grammar I always wanted to see in my mother tongue or in other languages. English: the Latin of the modern age, the only idiom capable of unifying the planet linguistically. I love and respect this language to the point that when people ask me: do you speak English? I say: no I speak near-English! :-)
blason33 1 year ago
Duncan >> Jeffrey >> Philip >> (Lovlet!) >> Anton >> Timothy >> Pure fun!
gamenorus 1 year ago 6
F as F.
dekekyo 1 year ago
language in itself seems to be a form of psychological barrier. I feel like we are made to use languages which were developed to be flawed from the very beggining and only restrict us. Its seems they entrap us in one way of thinking.
1982FMJ 1 year ago
poor marjorie :(
libluvsbiscuits 1 year ago 5
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MrTonyInchpractice 1 year ago
I was the first person to ever say "Purple Elephants grow Extringently under peanut trees in the fall" at the Grand Canyon.
DasGreenCow 1 year ago 7
These guys are so very good! In all fairness, it is sort of an awkward thing to use language to talk about language-- it's like trying to give yourself a backrub. When people try it, they're going to come out this froofy and squalubrious. Although the ugly hairdo may not be a requirement.
theRealPlaidRabbit 1 year ago
@theRealPlaidRabbit froofy and squalubrious :) That made me smile
gooseberryjaml 9 months ago
425 people were watching a conversation about language
7 people weren't getting a word of what they were saying
wietepiet 1 year ago 8
This must be one of their BEST and GENIUS sketches.
It's all so full of information and humor that You can just watch it.. forever.
I love them so much ♥
ZiggyPieHands 1 year ago 7
correctly correctington!!!!
EuskaltelEuskadi 1 year ago
'I think he said vulva...' XD
crippmeister 1 year ago 4
@MegaPepper123
He recently made a podcast making many of the same points in a not too dissimilar style. He even uses the chess analogy and, if I remember correctly, refers to this sketch.
towneslives 1 year ago
Listen to me Lovelet.
<3
hazelnuthill 1 year ago
"Hold the news readers nose squarley waiter or friendly milk will countermand my trousers" - nearly passed out laughing. The Master at work. Wonderful clip.
ScottishArtFan 1 year ago 3
i love how hugh gets slowly more and more uncomfortable
...
"I'm going to hold a thought now."
phemyda94 1 year ago 2
The way he says capable kills me every time.
BunnaySango 1 year ago 4
Words Fail me!!!! Behold the Master at Work. I have watched this clip over and over again and it never ceases to entertain and amaze me.
ScottishArtFan 1 year ago 4
Pretentiousness at it's finest! LOL
akhan727 1 year ago 2
frillions!!! i'm gonna use that word as often as possible =P atleast daily
SatoTM3 1 year ago
@SatoTM3 - I've used it three times today and it's only 10:20 a.m.
: )
CaledoniaJeanne 1 year ago
I think he said vuval! XD
KTcattProductions 1 year ago
Amazing. Fucking genius.
Dission 1 year ago
I think he said vulva.
stonefreeJMH 1 year ago 2
Of course it is, of course it is, of course it is, of course it is.
Haha, that was funny.
Brii92 1 year ago
I'm sure that in 400 years, people will speak of Stephen Fry as we speak of William Shakespeare today; a man who used language in a uniquely brilliant way in a popular medium. In Shakespeare's day it was the theatre, in ours it is television. I doubt there are many ages that can claim a similar talent.
polluxandcastor 1 year ago 11
OMG this is just how my father in law speaks.
MouseOfVirtue 1 year ago
Friendly milk may have just countermanded my trousers.
LordFalcar 1 year ago 3
@LordFalcar i doubt alot of people will get that. pure genius though
lamestguyintown 1 year ago
@lamestguyintown Glad someone approves =P
LordFalcar 1 year ago
Take note Horne and Corden. pure class
Pmonty3 1 year ago 4
That was brilliant!!! Sheer genius!
mechanism8 1 year ago
our language tiger, our language
LOL
madamefoster23 1 year ago 3
EX-trinsicly, EX-trinsicly! Oh, Stephen Fry, how brilliant you are...
Procrastimaster 1 year ago
marjorie is dead...
it is of course it is of course it is of course...
rimskykorsakov08 1 year ago
duncan? jeffrey? philip? anton? timothy?
gamenorus 1 year ago
"Hush, tish, vibble" Ha :D
dontsingtooloud 1 year ago
this has just brightened my day =)
floppetylove 1 year ago
Holy shit..and I thought I was a pretty sharp guy. I think watching these guys would boost your IQ.
Gonowo 1 year ago 5
Hahaha, this is just genius.
FeralCarrot 1 year ago
Hold the newsreaders nose squarely waiter or friendly milk will countermand my trousers... was that right?
MHenebury 1 year ago 2
I'm goingto hold a thought now...hahahaha
Lilliz91 1 year ago
"By demagoguery I mean demagoguery"
aliasdoctor 1 year ago 6
"...I ...think he said 'vulva'..."
MIB4u0 1 year ago 4
The finest sketch show ever conceived. In a class of its own.
JoyfulSorrows 1 year ago
This is one of my favourite sketches because it fulfills the seemingly impossible task of being both hilariously witty and unquestionably thought-provoking. I'm falling out of my chair laughing and at the same time pondering what precise characteristics define the concept of beauty.
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i think he said vulva. XD 7:00 got to love Hugh.
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makesmewonder007 1 year ago
"Marjorie is dead" as a common expression, naturally. ;)
Eleventy7even 1 year ago
if who had been british?
kgdsmile 2 years ago
@kgdsmile - Hitler
beatyourheartout91 1 year ago
Fry is an absolute genius!!! Only he can come up with something as brilliant as this!!!
afthefragile 2 years ago 9
I think Stephen is playing a character similar to the one he played in the Footlights sketch "Shakespeare Master Class", where he's listing all kinds of adjectives for no purpose other than to have a list. I love it when he goes pedantic at full tilt. He's a damn genius.
Flickerfly 2 years ago 2
It's like Stephen's doing a parody of himself. He's great at it!
xXpimpleXx 2 years ago 138
@xXpimpleXx
spot on, he's a genius.
kevboyle02 2 years ago 4
@xXpimpleXx when was he ever like that in the slightest?
Georgelangham 9 months ago
@Georgelangham Woah... die hard fan much? I love Stephen Fry! But have a bit of irony dude.
xXpimpleXx 9 months ago
Tiger, Duncan, Geoffrey, Lovelet, Tony, Timothy...
That, surely, is a thought to take out for a cream tea on a rainy sunny afternoon.
artvandelay13 2 years ago 11
They're genius!!! Love you, Hugh Laurie & Stephen Fry!! <3333333333333
SlashAndLanguages 2 years ago
Science and thirtenetriht multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. — J. G. Ballard
nathothan 2 years ago
This wonderful British humor certainly makes me wonder what they would have to say about thirtenetriht
nikotlalset 2 years ago
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nikotlalset 2 years ago
This is so funny. And I love that I have absolutely no idea what he's talking about, LOL
sannaols5582 2 years ago 2
I'm going to hold a thought now XD
MondayAddams 2 years ago
This is pretentiously funny. lol
akhan727 2 years ago
"a breath of fruit that drops from the bowels of my imagination"
artvandelay13 2 years ago 3
i think it was karl kraus, but it needn't have been, it needn't have been.
classicmold 2 years ago 3
this has to be one of my favourite Fry & Laurie moments of all time!
the phrase "Hold the newsreaders nose squarely waiter, or frindly milk will countermand [sic?] my trousers" has come to mind so many times when any discussion of langue is mentioned.
Or even sat on the bus, watching the dreary world go by ;)
lustreboy 2 years ago 8
Fry is Brilliant - no doubt about it.
whitejmw 2 years ago 8
... I think he said vulva.
*lol*
hapatus88 2 years ago
Damn Marjory!
plethora666 2 years ago
Beauty is Duty and Duty, Beauty.
xNikkaX3 2 years ago 4
hugh almost always ends up as the straight man in the sketch... but he does it so well! and he almost always manages to keep a straight face, which is in itself a very impressive task....
artvandelay13 2 years ago 6
haha this reminds me of one of my professors. We asked her if she got any valentines, and she said "grammar is my valentine."
apatheticemoticon 2 years ago 3
quine and russel would love these two:)))))))
ellipsis000 2 years ago
CapaBLe. Ahahaha. Never had there been a more plosive B.
splitter123123 2 years ago 5
lovley!
ucc360 2 years ago 2
"hold a thought jeffrey, i'm going to give you a thought and i'd like you to hold it for me, would you do that?"
" i'm going to hold a thought now"
MintLeavesAndPumpkin 2 years ago 3
So funnny!
podstawek99 2 years ago 5
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You learn a really language: You learn Spanish, and not that language of savages who you have.
6Dark6Spirit6 2 years ago
Learn to write proper English, then you can properly criticize it.
kolorfast 2 years ago 12
To 6Dark6Spirit6: Thethethethethethe.
distortingjack 2 years ago
mis acestros hablaban latin, vosotros un idioma barbaro. es la realidad, no hay por qué ofenderse.
6Dark6Spirit6 2 years ago
oh well, just keep telling that to yourself if it makes you feel better about not being able to speak English...I would, however, advise you not to say it out loud, because you're going to get laughed at if you're lucky and punched in the nose if you're not.
dosttemam 2 years ago 2
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Como bien dije, sois unos bárbaros, y tu amenaza (vía internet xDDD) así delata tu caracter bárbaro.
Yo no critico el inglés porque no lo sepa (entiendo algo y me encantaría entender más) sólo digo que es un idioma atrasado. Y si no me crees pregunta a cualquier linguista inglés de tu país, payaso. No tiene la flexibilidad del español ni su digna ascendencia del latín.
6Dark6Spirit6 2 years ago
We get it 6Dark6Spirit6 (by the way, why the english nickname?) you think spanish is a language of nobler origins. I agree, but I also know that contemporary peninsular spanish sounds like vulgar latin with a very serious lisp. Of all spanish speakers, Mexicans are the only ones that approach the sound of medieval spanish, and italian is obviously the language that comes closest to latin. They don't complain on youtube though.
distortingjack 2 years ago
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Te equivocas en lo del ceceo. Es precisamente en suramerica (en España llamamos suramerica a todo lo que esté bajo USA, es decir, los paises con habitantes nativos americanos (erroneamente llamados latinos)). Donde S, C y Z se confunden. En España sólo se da en una región (Andalucía) donde el acento es muy diferente (y feo) al del resto de España.
6Dark6Spirit6 2 years ago
FACISTA!
anthropographer 2 years ago
Con S de Simio. FaScista. Ahora mejor, Sherlock.
6Dark6Spirit6 2 years ago
jaja pero ke burro yo, bueno al menos me entendeis no? PZ!
anthropographer 2 years ago
Cinco votos negativos, y ni una sola respuesta diciendo que he dicho mal. ¿Estos son vuestros argumentos? Imagino que habrán sido panchitos.
6Dark6Spirit6 2 years ago
Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, and the supposedly barbarian Germanic language all come from the same mother language, Indo-European. So, English does indeed have the ancestry of Latin. And if you did a little research, you'd find that Old English has all the flexibility of Spanish. It just lost its cases through centuries. So get off your high horse. Your language isn't any better than mine or anyone else's.
CrappyMovieStudios 2 years ago 3
They have a common root, that is true. But English haven't Latin ancestry, some of his words come from Latin, but it is not a direct evolution from the Latin as it may be the Spanish or Italian.
I do not know Old English, so I do not know what is its flexibility. But I doubt that is the same as the Spanish. Then there is the matter of pronunciation, much less poetic, full of consonants, and so on.
6Dark6Spirit6 2 years ago
i took a class on proto-indo-european last year. i don't think i've ever been more confused in my life.
classicmold 2 years ago 2
Translating what 6Dark6Spirit6 said: "My ancestors spoke latin, but yours spoke a barbarian language. That's the reality, no need to be offended about it."
Never mind his words guys. That's just one of the reasons why we brazilians don't like spanish speaking people. They tend to make a hassle out of not being the most wide known language around. Plain stupid...
Oh, and thanks for the video!
gamenorus 2 years ago 2
Tu madre debe estar orgullosa de tu gran intelecto. :D
6Dark6Spirit6 2 years ago
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6Dark6Spirit6 2 years ago
Am I the only one that understood your joke? If you had typed "thethethethe is not dedede" they might have got it as well :)
gamenorus 2 years ago 2
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I can't be sure I get it, but somewhere in the back of my mind a bright orange flashing light is screaming 'Monty Python' at me. Am I close?
everyonedoesit2 2 years ago
@everyonedoesit2:
We are the knights who say THE! thethethethe!
Not so close my friend. It was actually a grammar joke. Latins (I speak for myself too) have some trouble on pronouncing the "the". It's the only english sound we brazilians do not have on our own mother language, portuguese! So we usually try cheating the listener by saying "de" instead of it, which is somehow close anyway :D
Got it, friend of the round table?
gamenorus 2 years ago 2
Aaaaah hehe. Okay, yeah I get it ^_^ Nice.
everyonedoesit2 2 years ago
I watched this episode a while back, and now it is all I can think of when I sit through my linguistic lectures...
these two are brilliant!!
celluloidHistory1 2 years ago 4
Absolutely brilliant! These two are comedic geniuses!
BassClar 2 years ago 5
these guys are brilliant!
becham100 2 years ago 5
it all makes perfect sense...
roachy333 2 years ago 4
I'd quite like to hear a non-comedy version of that discussion.
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inkstersco 2 years ago 6
That's the point, Fry and Laurie was the high point of clever British comedy which no-one's ever come close to emulating.
drattigan91 2 years ago