@@SolaroidSF wow i didnt think anyone would see that comment lmfao my friend was at my house and he dared me to find a random comment and just smash my head into my keyboard in the reply section
Farnsworth: "I'm sorry Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all!" Fry: "Oh. What's it called now?" Farnsworth: "Urectum."
As a kid I learned Your-anus, like everyone I suppose. But day one of my Astronomy classes the teacher said, |It's pronounced Yur-in-us.". And a whole class of teenagers adjusted our pronunciation pretty much instantly. Decades later I still call it Yur-in-us. Though I'm really liking that Greek pronunciation. Yoo-ra-us is nice.
In Spanish there is a similar problem, the greek letter Theta (θ), its pronunciation means "boob", so most math teachers on high school have to pronounce it like "theeta" ("títa" in Spanish pronunciation). And there is a double problem, as the Spanish word for sine is "seno", that is exactly the same word for "breast"; so, imagine our trigonometry classes on high school when you have to calculate the breast of boob: sin(θ)
It's so interesting to me that this was put out around 5 years prior to New Horizons reaching Pluto. The images of Pluto used in this video-so blurry and pixelated-were the absolute best that were available prior to New Horizon's 2015 fly-by.
@@imvine In German Ur- is also a prefix to indicate how ancient, thorough or original the word it's attached to is. So we've got a rich source of semi-mature jokes here as well. However you have to make an effort to come up with cringy jokes about Uranus in German, while they come along as a natural byproduct when you simply talk about the Planet in English.
@@YatzeeWillWearAGreenHat Yeah, but it's pronounced U-ranus rather than Ur-anus. Thus, as Martin said, such jokes don't occur naturally, but you have to bend your speach to achieve them.
As an elementary science teacher with a penchant for both accuracy and propriety, I have chosen to teach the pronunciation as the Greeks would have:"Oo-ron-ohs", the way he describes it fleetingly at 3:14. It seems the easiest way to avoid the uncomfortable banter that follows the other ones. And it is historically accurate.
Considering that the other planets are all Latin deities, we could just change Uranus to Caelus, his Latin counterpart. Or we could go the other way and make all of them Greek: Hermes, Aphrodite, Earth (Gaia?), Ares, Zeus, Kronos, Ouranos and Poseidon, plus our favourite dwarf Hades and the other dwarf will be Demeter
@@leysont This would be the best version ever, as the Greeks were the ones who brought astronomy to Europe, not the Romans. Greek naming would be amazing
Well ... As a Portuguese speaker who had never spoken Uranos aloud in English before, I chose to say it casually in an online game and everyone started laughing at me, it took me a solid minute to understand why
@Enzo Rafael Souza Silva sim. os caras se acham tanto que querem mudar o nome do planeta só porque na língua deles soa zoado. so falta mudar pra teucu.
Yh, I also learned the names in French and only learned years later that English speakers were dealing with this the whole time lmao (Also hi from Québec :P)
"Just don't make me smell Uranus!" "...I don't get it." "I'm sorry Fry, but scientists renamed that planet in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all." "Oh. So what's it called now?" "Urectum!"
People, people, please. We could simply pronunce it “Ur-highness” so we don’t even have to change the way it’s spelled, and still reference king George. I know, I know, you can send me the nobel prize by mail :)
To be honest, the joke flew over my head for a long time. Not that I don't know the word anus, but for some reason, I never saw the word Uranus that way. Even now, I still don't see Uranus that way, unless I really try to.
Diamond umm I’m pretty sure it matters if little kids are using the internet. You think the parents of those kids getting raped and murdered from meeting people on the internet knew about their activity? Besides, there’s a lot of stuff on the web that is definitely not PG, and that’s why there are filters for people below a certain age.
Gunja Fury Eh not in the beginning. They were definitely distinct religions, but then Rome conquered Greece and then so much syncretism happened to the point where they were practically the same
Thanks thanks finally someone out there who notices that Uranus besides Earth is the only planet named from Greek mythology despite that LIKE EVERY OTHER PLANET is named from ROMAN gods. Uranus IS an unusual name (4:06) and I also want it to be named Caelus. We need a reform.
Why not that Greek pronunciation (oo-RON-ohs)? It sounds epic. *There may be discrepancy between your phonetic spelling and mine, but we both know how it’s said. He said it in the video at 3:15.
My Latin teacher used to crack “Always put the em-PHA-sis on the right syl-LA-ble,” to remind us that Latin usually puts the stress on the next to last syllable, but Greek usually puts it two before the last. (Emphasis and syllable both being words derived from Greek.)
Well they translated anus to ano, urANO, we call that espanglish here, but yeah the dude/dudes that did that job were really lazy and probably did it because of the pronunciation. And the pronunciation given by google in CornerrecordZ's link is similar, like really just ignore the "s".
OmuBunta Uranus is called Urano in Spanish because it is the translation of the name of god Uranus from Roman Mythology. Like Neptuno to Neptune, Saturno to Saturn or Mercurio to Mercury. And "ur" in Spanish (that is pronounced /ur/ not /iur/) doesn't have any meaning. (Nota: El mensaje lo pongo a tu nombre proque va como respuesta al tuyo aunque supongo que la amyoría ya deberías saberlo. El objetivo es informar a aquellos cuya lengua madre no es el castellano)
I've learned greek mythology back in korea and Uranus(The titan, not the planet) is pronounced "oo rah nos", based off the original version. So when I came to the US and learned that the planet was named after the titan, I pronounced it Ouranos, and were confused why everyone was saying "Your anus"
Uranus is the Latin spelling (like how all the other planets are named after Roman equivalents of Greek gods), and the Latin pronunciation was likely somewhere in between the Greek and the modern English. Maybe something like oo-RA-noos
If all the other planets are named after Roman gods, why wasn't Uranus named after its Roman equivalent, "Caelus." I prefer to call the seventh planet Caelus.
The Greeks call the planets by their Greek mythological counterpart, not their Roman name. For example, Mars is called Ares (A - rees). Venus is called Aphrodite (A - fro - thee - tee), etc . . . Thats how I learned the planets' names growing up, and it confused me when all other countries used both Roman and Greek names.
Caelus. Good idea. Forgot about that. I think of "Uranus" as the Latin name. While it is the Latin spelling, it was a borrowing from the Greek, Ouranos.
This is how I naturally pronounce the planet's name. I'm not sure how I picked it up, but because of this, I almost never get Uranus jokes that I see in writing.
***** Yeah, it's worse now. They do this all the time, but recently they made a video called "would headlights work at lightspeed?" and then completely snubbed the question and went on to talk about other shit.
***** I think that's what draws people to Vsauce videos. The fact that he can relate many things to one topic. The different discussions are not completely far off from the topic, they all relate to each other in some way. Of course there are people who do not like this format and rather one topic one discussion. It's definitely easier to follow. Vsauce is not for everyone :/
I'm french and this never came to my mind so I guess this problem might be for English speakers only so don't change anything. We won't change something only for a reason like that and if we have to do that for all languages it may convey many changes.
I think I pronounced it differently before someone in my year 5 class told me. I was wondering for about 5 to 10 minutes why everyone was laughing, now I wish I had kept my pronunciation of it.
Fun facts about Uranus: Uranus has the exact same population as Mercury Uranus is so big you can fit two entire football fields on it Uranus has not 1 single fox on it Uranus has one of the lowest risks of shark attacks in the solar system Uranus is more than twice the size of Germany
LARAUJO It's called that because when it was "discovered", people thought it was the only moon in the universe, so they didn't give it an official name. It stuck
As a science teacher I pronounce it "Ur-an-us". Yes, I get lots of laughs, but I just use it as an excuse to tell the kids that other teachers are cowards for not using that pronunciation. I also tell them I am always eager to hear a new joke about it... and use it as a 2-minute lesson that the kids are not as original as they might think... at which point they realise it is as good as a dad-joke. And no kid likes thinking their jokes are as bad as their dad's.
When I was in middle school the teacher has inflatable versions of the planet set up as the solar system. We kept getting in trouble for slapping Uranus. There was also plenty of Uranus jokes to go around believe me
