I don't care what words people use. As long as they don't use "your" when "you're", and "there" when "they're". You know what I mean. As long as the sentence makes sense. I proudly use words (or bastardized initials) like "lulz" to express humour.
I love him for this. He's pointing out and using more or less the exact same arguments as I have when someone gets snobby about languages. I absolutely love languages, everything about it. Dialects, sociolects, accents, slang, old, new, sound, writing system, history etc. It's all wonderful.
This is what I hate about Fry. He's a middleclass, prep-school and Cambridge educated middle-aged white guy with a middleclass English accent and a vocabulary as if he had swallowed the Oxford Dictionary - not to mention the millions in the bank - telling the audience how wonderful people who 'evolve the language' are, overlooking the fact that people who converse solely in the lingua franca of the street will never be accepted at Cambridge nor find employment beyond flipping burgers.
@Smallpotato1965 You don't have to be accepted to Cambridge to listen to someone speak. If someone is poor, that doesn't automatically mean that he or she is a moron.
@BocajFreedman Who said anything about being poor? My poor, workingclass grandparents, who had to leave school at twelve, knew more about grammar and spelling and had a larger vocabulary than most modern comprehensive schoolteachers.
Those who think that spelling or grammar 'don't matter' are deluded, arrogant or - worse! - want to keep the poor man 'in his place'.
What a wonderful human being.
drdisarper 1 month ago
*looks at the dislike bar*
Yes! I knew nobody could ever, ever dislike Stephen Fry!
Isteinier 1 month ago
Stephen Fry is so book!
LitwinOnTour 1 month ago
I don't care what words people use. As long as they don't use "your" when "you're", and "there" when "they're". You know what I mean. As long as the sentence makes sense. I proudly use words (or bastardized initials) like "lulz" to express humour.
sinbysin666 2 months ago
I love him for this. He's pointing out and using more or less the exact same arguments as I have when someone gets snobby about languages. I absolutely love languages, everything about it. Dialects, sociolects, accents, slang, old, new, sound, writing system, history etc. It's all wonderful.
TheCarlScharnberg 2 months ago
This is what I hate about Fry. He's a middleclass, prep-school and Cambridge educated middle-aged white guy with a middleclass English accent and a vocabulary as if he had swallowed the Oxford Dictionary - not to mention the millions in the bank - telling the audience how wonderful people who 'evolve the language' are, overlooking the fact that people who converse solely in the lingua franca of the street will never be accepted at Cambridge nor find employment beyond flipping burgers.
Smallpotato1965 2 months ago
@Smallpotato1965 You don't have to be accepted to Cambridge to listen to someone speak. If someone is poor, that doesn't automatically mean that he or she is a moron.
BocajFreedman 1 month ago
@BocajFreedman Who said anything about being poor? My poor, workingclass grandparents, who had to leave school at twelve, knew more about grammar and spelling and had a larger vocabulary than most modern comprehensive schoolteachers.
Those who think that spelling or grammar 'don't matter' are deluded, arrogant or - worse! - want to keep the poor man 'in his place'.
David Mitchell said it best: /watch?v=kge9ZzjsfW8
Smallpotato1965 1 month ago
my dad just critisised me for using the word "safe" to mean hello... i broke out this video,,, argument won ;)
metalsinani 3 months ago 3
@metalsinani Stephen Fry.....the ultimate weapon.
Smithpolly 2 months ago
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MrBuch169169 3 months ago
Haha, I like how he bursts Jonathan's bubble.
Also loving the adoption of the word book to mean cool, and why it's happened. Two key presses! Who does have the time!? :)
I'm going to start using it. I'll be so book...
Good clip, thanks for uploading.
sphoney 3 months ago 2
i love stephen i wish he was my uncle
SC1337 4 months ago 11
Mr. Fry is such a wise man!!!
RipMK747 6 months ago