Re:English is Stupid

[malvelus]

ingliskek ast em gunguer en ufstalek glompë en schaleit!!! jajajaja

[foedraal]

AHHH CLOCK TOWER 3 IS EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (play the game to understand my comment)

[arthegor]

owned what an idiot

[Andy205ro]

WTF

[plyrgheorghe]

Please feel free to put your impression in the bank. See how your impression doesn't help me with anything. If it were my video, I would have started deleting your comments a long time ago, but this is YouTube, and Vyckro does what he wants. Please stop replying to my comments, I promise it is my last one.

[plyrgheorghe]

The only logic is that this is YOUtube. He can make any video he wants, if you don't like it, give it a 1 star rating, piss on it and leave. But you don't leave, because this is YOUtube and you do what you please. The "English is stupid" guy was just a pretext to upload this poem, but whatever, this is YOUtube, you can go on and on endlessly about anything.

[wwwggxcom]

So this is your only logic ? No wonder you don't make any sense. Exactly, this is Youtube and anyone can upload anything under any pretext... just as we are free to judge it or to judge the pretext. It's not the content of the vid that made me comment, it's the pretext. I could've cared less about his motives, however, he claims this is a video response "to that guy video" which quite frankly doesn't make any damn sense !

[wwwggxcom]

I haven't rated it yet and i don't think it deserves "1star rating" but that's not the point. About the fact it went on endessly... isn't it because of you that i had to explain myself countless times ? Aren't you the one that misinterpreted or interpreted whatever pleased you throughout this discussion ? As i already said (read some of my first comments on this vid) this video response was a pretext to post this. It still doesn't change the fact it has no logic to have been responded to

[wwwggxcom]

the original. Now, you left me the first impression of an intelligent person -although i'm starting to doubt that- and a reasonable one as well. Why don't you save that impression and end this already ?

[plyrgheorghe]

For me this is a tribute to the Romance people and languages. You may not agree with the poem, but it is logical for a speaker of a Romance language, such as Vyckro, to make this video, with a poem written by a poet who wrote in a Romance language (originally the poem is in Romanian, not Latin). I don't see why you have to write so many comments, when you could just go to a video which does not praise Romance languages at all.

[wwwggxcom]

You're kinda slow, aren't you ? It's not about agreeing or disagreeing with the poem, it's about ENGLISH GRAMMAR. Do i need to spell it for you ? I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH ANY TRIBUTE TO ANY LANGUAGE, even less to the tribute to my own language. You keep on your assumptions and it's getting annoying. It makes me think of two options: 1) you're not very clever, to put it respectfully; 2) you want by any means to piss me off, and it starts working.

[wwwggxcom]

The fact is, this video is completelly out of context. It doesn't make much sense. Actually, it doesn't make any sense. Tributes to any languages are damn fine with me. But this tribute happens to be a response to "this guy video", which is absurd. I think i know what got him doing this vid: 1:27 - 1:34 ! It sounds a little rude of him speaking on that tone about romanian, still you must take into consideration what are the circumstance. Which is what lead me to my conclusion.

[wwwggxcom]

You're missing the point. It might be a tribute, but being a response to such a vid makes it simply preposterous... The author of the original vid was correcting a grammar mistake (noteven his) of an english speaker, happening to be romanian. Victor wouldn't have made this as a response if the original was addressed to, let's say, a german, or an italian. It's as simple as that. If even now you still cannot understand what i'm saying then you have the same faulty logic of the person you defend.

[plyrgheorghe]

If bread is not really a substance, and English treats it as if it were, and Romanian does not, then Romanian is superior to English in this respect, as far as logic and fidelity towards reality are concerned, Romanian being a language derived from Latin. Since the poem in the video is a tribute to the "Latin family", written by the Romanian poet Vasile Alecsandri, it all adds up. Make a video praising the English language, and let this video be.

[wwwggxcom]

Look, you can't judge and conclude a language is superior to another on the basis of a single characteristic. Ever considered that romanian uses the same grammatical constructions even in this sense ? Although not in this particular case. Let's take for example "zahar" (sugar). Even in romanian you can't say "o sa pun 1 zahar/2 zahar(/i) la reteta" [(i'll add a sugar/2 sugar(/s) to the recipe]. Another example is "sare" (salt). Can a substance be countable ?

[wwwggxcom]

As a sidenote, please bear in mind that "sugar", the final product of the industrial processes is not really a pure substance either.

[wwwggxcom]

You can't conclude on the basis of a single particularity that one language is superior to another because, If you'd analyze these two languages by comparison, an overall view would lead you to the conclusion that the grammar of english is easier than that of the romanian language therefore being more... -how should i put it ?- pragmatic. Now don't get me wrong (as you already did). I did not implied, by any means, that one would be superior to another... by any basis or rationale.

[wwwggxcom]

I'm just static the facts. So would you please stop with this "make a video praising the English language", "you can make a tribute to the English if you want" nonsense ? I'm not praising english here, DO YOU UNDERSTAND ? I'm just as proud with my Latin inheritage (though i'm prouder with my dacic one) as you or Victor are. Don't just assume what pleases you. You're doing a great job taking his side nonetheless.

[wwwggxcom]

*stating*

[wwwggxcom]

Once more, i'll ask, do you now understand why it doesn't make any sense to make a tribute as a response "to this guy" video ?

[wwwggxcom]

Now about your statement saying that english has many words of Latin origin... First of all, we we're talking about grammar here, not vocabulary, and second... the English language doesn't have that many words of Latin origin as you make it to be. By comparison, they don't have even half of what we do, most of which being of french origin. And also, there's no need to read the description as i already knew the poem.

[plyrgheorghe]

I will grant you that many words in English are of French origin, if you grant me that French is a language derived from Latin.

[wwwggxcom]

Umm... where is that statement (belonging to me) saying french is not a romanic language ? Did i ever say that ? Once again, it seems you just assume things, without supporting your statements on my assertions. I was pointing out the fact that english has those latin words from a romanic language, not directly from the romans, not from one of their common ancestors like the french language. Ok ?

[plyrgheorghe]

*tribute to the English language, which by the way, has many words of Latin origin. If you read the translation of the poem into English (in the video description), you will better understand the video.

[wwwggxcom]

So your point is ...? That doesn't explain a thing. It's just as you mentioned, a pretext to put your poem here (not written by him, just uploaded). It only makes sense if you admit you want to stand up as a "man of culture", the way you consider yourself to be. And YES ! In english, if you may not know, bread really is grammatical category, just like in english we use "it" for objects and "him/her" for persons.

[wwwggxcom]

It would have been correct "a loaf of bread" (o paine) or a "slice of bread" (o felie, mai mare sau mai mica).

[plyrgheorghe]

His point is that bread is not really a substance !!! (although languages can describe reality in different ways, but in the real world bread is not a substance). This video is not a tribute to the English language, but to Latin people and languages. You can make a tribute to the English if you want.

[wwwggxcom]

No shit, Sherlock Holmes ! Fantastic ! Who would've guessed that ? I didn't know that bread isn't a substance... Hell, i think not even the native english speakers knew that. That is a brilliant deduction, Sir ! So i ask again, what is the connection with that "guy video"(proof of how much of the english language he understands)? Does those statements make any sense to you if it's a "tribute to the Latin people and languages" ?

[wwwggxcom]

As much as i hate to repeat myself : indeed, in english bread really is a grammatical category, the category of substances, just like there is a category of persons and living creatures. This is why it would be grammatically incorrect to say, for instance, "i'll go buy a bread for you and two bread(/s) for me". Understood it now ? I don't know how to put it in plainer english. It's as schematic as it can be.

[coslegionar]

5*****

[CodrulCXI]

P.S. Cool poem.

[mbnp1701]

er... what is your point? this does not make any sense. and bread IS a substance in english - grammatically! that's why you don't say "i'll eat a bread" but "i'll eat bread" or "i'll eat a slice of bread". you may be well-versed in latin (though not well-pronounced, i might add), but you seriously should look up something before making fun of it - otherwise, it might backfire...

[plyrgheorghe]

Why the heck should bread be a substance ? It being a countable item is much more logical, although on the other hand, languages are not always logical. Anyway, the poem is a tribute to the "Latin family", written by the Romanian poet Vasile Alecsandri (19 century).

[VyckRo]

Bread is a substance that is funny for anyone who is part of the Latin family of languages

[CodrulCXI]

That doesn't mean English is "wrong" just because it does things differently.

[CodrulCXI]

Actually nvm. English might not be stupid, but that idiot's explanation sure was. How can he compare a slice of bread to an atom? Water and oxygen are homogeneous and composed of only one molecule. Bread is a man-made... item. I think you should be able to say "one bread".

[plyrgheorghe]

While I like the poem in Latin, it would have helped to know who wrote it, why it was written, and what it actually means in English.

[CreationistsWON]

Great one Vyckro, all though i didn't understand some of the last parts LOL. You have a beautiful language. I was in Romania a few years ago, someone told something in Romanian, the word Curios i did understand, funny how some things are the same. This person obviously asked me why i looked so curious AhAhahahHA. Because i have the same looks as most people there, but i'm not Romanian.

Just wanted to share that with you brother. Blessings to you, 5 stars ofcourse :)

[VyckRo]

Thanks, is not Romanian, is latin.;-) here still we learn Latin in school, the poem speaks about the spirit and culture of the latin

[CreationistsWON]

AAhhhhhh, interesting ! I wish they would do that here in Holland too..... is it because there was a province in Italy that was called Romania ? Is that the reason why they still learn Latin in Romanian schools ?

[VyckRo]

Is Consider that our ancestors are traciens and romans.Dacia was conquered by the Romans,(101-106) and colonized.

Our language is 70% Latin that is more than Italian. The grammar of our language is the same as that of Latin

[CreationistsWON]

AHHHhhhh, thanks for clearing that up !!! 70% Latin ?! Wow, more than i expected, it does sound almost the same, that's why i thought it was Romanian...

[VyckRo]

We are the only nation latio-Orthodox in the world

[VyckRo]

the poem ends with the judged day , when Latin language she is brought before God.

And God asks

Why did you do in this world

she responds:

I represented, you my lord

[CreationistsWON]

Beautiful ! I hope i can say that one day :)))