You eat pork, you raise pigs. You eat chicken, you raise hens. You eat beef, you raise cows & steers. What you eat is germanic derived, what you raise is french derived.
Essentially, yes. Interestingly though, English is one of the few languages cross-linguistically that has distinct words for an animal, and the meat of that animal.
Bloody Normans!! How dare they make England french!? Because of them, we no longer speak the English language the way it is supposed to be spoken! Damn You Billy!
Surely, the last commenter can't be serious... Great video. I really your style of humor. You should keep using the background music from your Verner's Law videos, it adds to the whimsy.
Sorry...but that's not even close to a guernsey cow, which throws your whole exposition into question. Maybe you need to do a little more research about cows, and then most likely about some other things you assert as facts. Or maybe you just need a better (more informed) artist.
I'm so happy to watch this again. It was a great discovery as a special feature on Ari's comedy album.
Schalicto 1 month ago
Love this video
Roboteyetheater 1 month ago
You make some great videos, but can I ask if you will do one for the German Substrate hypothesis?
Norskal 5 months ago
You eat pork, you raise pigs. You eat chicken, you raise hens. You eat beef, you raise cows & steers. What you eat is germanic derived, what you raise is french derived.
metzger90 6 months ago
@metzger90
Essentially, yes. Interestingly though, English is one of the few languages cross-linguistically that has distinct words for an animal, and the meat of that animal.
Proxyy7 2 months ago
wow......huge amounts of win here!
gfhgtrdref 7 months ago
Bloody Normans!! How dare they make England french!? Because of them, we no longer speak the English language the way it is supposed to be spoken! Damn You Billy!
SubjectAlpha100 7 months ago
Surely, the last commenter can't be serious... Great video. I really your style of humor. You should keep using the background music from your Verner's Law videos, it adds to the whimsy.
dmaddock1 8 months ago
Sorry...but that's not even close to a guernsey cow, which throws your whole exposition into question. Maybe you need to do a little more research about cows, and then most likely about some other things you assert as facts. Or maybe you just need a better (more informed) artist.
CarolLin98 1 year ago
even during break there is always something to learn from herr hoptman
MrMajenta 1 year ago 2