oh that reminds me that the way i learned the "ghoti" thing was even better - it was that you could spell "fish" as "fucking ghoti" for two reasons, one because people often don't read out written curse words aloud in certain situations, and two because every single letter in "fucking" can be silent. I don't remember the exact examples but they were something like: f - fi _f_ th u - g _u_ itar c - s _c_ ience k - _k_ night i - fru _i_ t n - autum _n_ g - si _g_ n
@@WolfgangDoW hide your vocabs, hide your verbs. Hide you adjectives and hide in your tolot. For English is coming, it will be here soon. in the dark alley, under the moon. It riffles and trifles, steals and plunders. Tis the language, spoken down under. English is coming, it will be here soon. English is coming, it’s coming for you.
I feel like Ghoti doesn’t work, because isn’t ti only pronounced “sh” when it’s tion And maybe same with t being “ch”, because it only really does that when it’s ctu, since ch is easier to pronounce that ctu Maybe I’m wrong though
Spelling things like this could literally be like their own type of cipher, because it’s not hard to decode once you know what it is, but if you don’t know what it is, then it’s gonna be incomprehensible
@PURGE It is a unnatural being from the stars of the cosmos. Its intelligence is too strong for us mere mortals to comprehend. We must bow before the VSauce, for he knows all and will guide us into the future.
There is something kinda close. Spoken accents transcribed by phonetics instead of the proper English words. A few older books did it like Finnigan's Wake and Paradise but it's making a comeback with memes about mumble rappers, politicians, and some other stuff where the target's lack of proper pronunciation is transcribed as the phonetics.
Monstrous!! (That's the first M in mnemonic, the second O in chocolate, the N in damn! the S in apropos the TR is true the OU in coup the S in bourgeois)
"Well, considering that cannibalism is known to cause problems, and newborns would be lacking in nutritional value, the answer is, of course, no... HOWEVER..."
@@gri.0 "... is it really cannibalism if all it's eating is itself. Which begs the question: 'am I a cannibal if I chew my nails?' How about, if I chew YOUR nails? Just what are nails anyway? The earliest known nails were not made of metal, but were wooden dowels used..." Meanwhile we're sitting here both 🧐 "Mmmhmm. Yes, I see." and 😵💫 "Whaaaa...???"
My favorite thing to come out of the Norman conquest is that "peasant" meat like chicken is just called chicken, while we *still* use French terms for things like beef because of the Norman nobility
@@gwen9642 He already made a video so many years ago explaining why a flat disk with the mass and density of a whole planet would be physically impossible, the laws of physics would just cause that mass to collapse on into itself, creating a spheroid.
As a non native english speaker I have to tell you that when you learn english it is in your best interest to not question why some word is pronounced the way it is
English is an Amalgamation of other languages, that is why it is the most descriptive, because you can express words whose meanings were formed in nearly every place that thought exists. That is also why it doesn’t seem to have a simple phonetic scheme.
@@matthewwaller8784 I wouldn't call english the most descriptive language but I get what you are saying. My native language is Polish and I can assure you there are much more grammar rules, diminutives and forms of verbs than in english. Sometimes you have over 30 variations of the same verb which may be also very confusing, but we don't write and speak in two different ways.
Everybody that learns english as 2nd or 3rd language knows its a fucked up language. An i say this with swiss german as first and french as second language.
@@rorysmith1709 Usually a reform happens when the letters written are no longer the letters spoken, so a reform brings them back to how it should be so each letter in a word sound like the local speaker pronounces them.
@@rorysmith1709 You basically take every word in the language and give them new, consistent spellings. You find them in languages that have a central authority, like French. English doesn't have a central authority. We had some partial spelling reforms in the 1800s in the United States. As dictionaries became more common, some publishers changed the way words were spelled to make things more consistent/similar.... like removing u from colour to make color
@@rorysmith1709 it's when America changed colour" to "color," "centre" to "center," "defence" to "defense," "plough" to "plow," "draught" to "draft" and "gaol" to "jail." Webster's became different from Oxford's.
I need an entire language crafted out of this sort of insanity. It sounds like perfectly fine English when spoken, but when written, it looks like a code even Alan Turing couldn't've cracked
There are rules, you just have to know the origin of the word. We copy whatever spelling rules the word comes from, but kind of like how Chinese has various dialects but set in stone writing, pronounciation varies depending on where/when you are from. Good language for empire building, make sure everyone can read the rules, no need to get too annoyed over how it's said
There are rules. There’s about 150 of them. I know because I had to learn them to learn how to write English. It’s a deep orthography where the placement of the syllable is extremely important. It also depends on the context of the letters around it. For instance “a” makes three different sounds depending if it comes at the beginning or end or if it’s in the middle or if it is followed by two consonants and how the syllable structure is split. It only seems like there’s no rules because the education system in native English countries is really bad at teaching the rules but you do learn them if you learn English as a second language. This is not unique to English. In Japanese a lot of the characters are taught by just memorizing them. People born in Japan are not taught why the characters are the way they are often times. But if you learn it as a second language from somebody that learned it as a second language they’ll tell you the origins of the characters and it makes more conceptual sense. Sometimes you need an outside perspective to understand the language better.
As the obsessive nerd I am, I decided I had to come up with a cursed way to spell "chestnut" and came up with "scieopsedgnoued." "conSCIent," (although some pronounce that as /sh/) "jEOpardy," "PSychologist," "crackED," "GNome," "hiccOUgh," and "crackEd" again. "Fortnite" (or "fortnight") can be spelt as "ghooredknict." "LauGH," "dOOR," "crackED," "KNight," and "indICT."
@@ericburton1244incorrect. We can use clocks to perceive time, see time pass us by via days/weeks/months/years but not centuries and longer. 4th Dimensional entities can see *and* control time itself. They can easily move themselves from the beginning of the starting line to the finish line in what we would see as less than a second while we are still running along the track, like we would if we had the technology to break into lower dimensions.
