Blackadder 4: Goodbyeee 4.6 [1/2] (Final)

Original Air Date: 2 November 1989
Finally, this time for sure, Blackadder and his friends are going into battle. Baldrick suggests to Blackadder that he pretends to go mad by putting undies on his head and shoving two pencils up his nose, like in the Sudan. Once this fails, Baldrick comes up with another plan that could definitely get Blackadder out of the trenches for sure.

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[P1votG33k]

"Why, look at him! He's as sane as I am. BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

Awesome line.

[TFormerGuy]

"Cluck cluck, gibber gibber, my old man's a mushroom!"

[IAmCaptainMarvel]

@GeorgeW88

Damn, you speak German fluently as well? Was it particularly hard to learn?

Personally I've been having a go at learning Italian and I believe I'm doing quite well, and I had a few looks at German as perhaps one to study on the side, but the most difficult part for me is the pronounciation of certain words. My German speaking German accent is incredibly bad and I was discouraged by this.

[sillybabybunnies]

Black Adder makes learning history FUN!

YAY!

[Clone683]

how did you record this? fraps?

[GeorgeW88]

@IAmCaptainMarvel

Afrikaans for instance is based on 17/18th century Dutch, but I have more trouble with understanding it than with German.

Dutch is based on the Holland-dialect and German (Hochdeutsch) is from Niedersachsen in the NW of Germany, close to NL. And it's funny to see that German follows Dutch in its evolution. Many German words are similar to old-Dutch words that we don't use anymore. And the Genitiv has disappeared from Dutch long ago and the Germans will follow.

[GeorgeW88]

@IAmCaptainMarvel

True! Both my English and German are very good (or 'rather excellent' as R. Atkinson would say), but it's fairly easy for the Dutch to learn them. I've been told numerous times how much Dutch is a mix between English and German. An Irish friend of mine called it 'the most made up language ever'.

I'm not a language expert, but I think it's a mix between evolution and geographical factors.

[StoneColdChewy]

"It was bollocks".

[nabster85]

I remember watching this at school ! brilliant!

[IAmCaptainMarvel]

@GeorgeW88

It's strange, the West Germanic languages seem similar, yet different. It's all based on evolution though, isn't it? English spans from the Ingvaeonic branch, Dutch the Istavaeonic branch, and German Erminonic branch. As a result, some sentences can be easily understood amongst the three. (Afrikaans is even easier for me to understand).

I mean, let's test.

Nederlands - Hallo, mijn naam is George

Deutsch - Hallo, mein Name ist George

English - Hello, my name is George

[IAmCaptainMarvel]

@GeorgeW88

I've been told this by other Europeans as well, specifically a German person who I once spoke to told me this. He said he chose to write in our form, but universities chose the American form. But our form is consistent with England's history.

For example, spelling "armour" with a U, has been around since the Norman invasion of England (in Ænglisc it's a completely different looking word altogether).

In the end it's just consistency vs deliberate alterations.

[GeorgeW88]

@IAmCaptainMarvel

I've learned British English at school and I hung out a lot with British people. Nothing beats British slang imo. But my uni forces me to write American English. I have to admit that American spelling often makes more sense to me. It's more like Dutch I reckon. But if I have to choose to speak like Rowan Atkinson and David Mitchell, or like George Bush, the choice isn't hard :)