Rhys Nelson I want to like this comment, but I show respect to the 420 🤏🏻😑🤏🏻
@TheOriginalLooney
4 жыл бұрын
@@coleyamos 15 people didn't show the same respect that you did
@jennylord9911
4 жыл бұрын
Fry
@danielschneider5804
7 жыл бұрын
It's such a refreshing change that Eddie just assumes his audience is smart enough and quick enough to pick up on the word plays and little jokes he puts into everything and doesn't feel the need to explain them.
@flukislucas
5 жыл бұрын
I hated conjugating during Latin Class... this was AMAZING
@kshandra5150
5 жыл бұрын
His true genius is that you can still follow along, even if you don't have a clue. My husband and I saw him on the Force Majeure tour, where he told an entire joke in German - in San Francisco, which I assure you doesn't have THAT many speakers auf Deutsch - and we were all laughing our fool heads off at it.
@customcartoons
5 жыл бұрын
Yes. Exactly.
@agodinho64
5 жыл бұрын
Humor for inteligent people, that pay attention!
@willkoestner242
5 жыл бұрын
@@customcartoons Agreed. I've always wanted to enjoy Eddie, and I really think I'm coming around lately. I've always thought highly of him as an entertainer, a guy; it's been hard to navigate around his default combination of material and lack of faith in his audience. It's taken a great deal of time for me to understand he's not exactly as pretentious as he seems at first glance. I think his humor is kinda simple, and he tries a bit too hard not to be misunderstood. It's an easy thing to get used to when you want people to hear what ya say
@Smurfaliscous
9 жыл бұрын
The amount of German in his "gibberish" is hysterical
@patrickdowney2778
9 жыл бұрын
+Brian Ford Hannibal arriveratus, mein Herr. Mitt soldatis.
@ghenulo
7 жыл бұрын
"I'd rather decline two beers than on German adjective." - Mark Twain
@Zsnakeistaken
6 жыл бұрын
the bits of German make me laugh the most. "UND!"
@umutemrealp4873
6 жыл бұрын
Also some french
@thats_so_laven
5 жыл бұрын
@ifyouwantbochin Fair
@ronansensei4
9 жыл бұрын
"It is masculine, feminine or neuter, the apple?" "It's a fucking apple! Stop fucking around!"
@seronymus
8 жыл бұрын
Fuck you
@ghenulo
7 жыл бұрын
A lot of languages don't have grammatical gender. Though, English does still have the vestigial he/she/it distinction, for some reason, which makes the SJWs want to add more personal pronouns. Ugh!
@woopert7
7 жыл бұрын
ghenulo You can't just 'add' pronouns. Languages develop organically, not by political agendas.
@finncullen
2 ай бұрын
Surprised Graham Linehan hasn't popped up in the comments to start screeching about that line.
@BellaBlue
4 жыл бұрын
As a person who is/has been studying Latin for three-ish years now, this skit is both entirely accurate, and also an accurate portrayal of my feelings on the subject. It's silly, but I love it.
@morpheos111
10 жыл бұрын
I love that there is a comedian who, not only is very funny, but takes the time to write about language intelligently. The time and dedication it takes to hone the material to not only be funny, but funny to so many diverse audiences.
@Gandalf_the_Black_
7 жыл бұрын
morpheos111 It's a shame that the subtitles kind of butcher it. Whoever wrote them is clearly illiterate, and doesn't know that German or French exist.
@ZenFox0
6 жыл бұрын
morpheos111 Eddie Izzard is certainly one of the most erudite comedians I've seen since Monty Python, and with great physical comedy and slapstick to boot.
@jamesvanderhoorn1117
6 жыл бұрын
Intelligently? Maybe. Still, parroting the notion that English 'has taken off' as a world language because of its simplicity is not very smart.
@blackmore4
5 жыл бұрын
Odd how the word "diverse" often leads to trouble these days.
@heatherwillis-kershner1973
4 жыл бұрын
Vivamus Izzard deus hominibus
@tinnitusthenight5545
6 жыл бұрын
The one language you can just brutally ridicule without ever even offending anyone, that's kinda brilliant in itself.
@Buffycomics
9 жыл бұрын
As Heinrich Heine once said, "If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world."
@MysteriousFuture
7 жыл бұрын
That's why most Romans spoke Vulgar Latin to avoid such issues.
@brandonmoreau3025
5 жыл бұрын
Lol the Romans did no latin they were just beaten as kids until they got it.
@janethockey9070
5 жыл бұрын
Ruined by the Catholic church
@grmpf
5 жыл бұрын
Interesting, the same thing would be true for German.
@meandmymotorcycle9351
5 жыл бұрын
@@janethockey9070 Hmmm... wasn't the Roman Empire around centuries before the Catholic church?
@efabrigmail
12 жыл бұрын
That's why John Cleese called him the "Lost Python"
@jennyhughes4474
4 жыл бұрын
I think he outshines the pythons (which I loved when I was young & went with my brother to see their movie when it came out): he moved comedy along. Brilliant man!
@sergarlantyrell7847
3 жыл бұрын
Well, he does like dressing up like women... He could've replaced Terry Jones.
@PrincessPeriodFart
3 жыл бұрын
@@sergarlantyrell7847 But does he like to hang around in bars?
@kathyeubanks5524
3 жыл бұрын
@@PrincessPeriodFart 🤣🤣🤣
@sjs9698
3 жыл бұрын
@@jennyhughes4474 love him, love them :D afaik he learnt a lot from them; standing on the shoulders of giants ^^
@ieyke
9 жыл бұрын
He's not speaking gibberish. He's speaking German mashed with mock Latin and bits of French.
@kukalakana
8 жыл бұрын
He's speaking like Salvatore from "The Name of the Rose" lol.
@nodataFYI
8 жыл бұрын
+TEC Still gibberish, with a few actual words here and there..
@nodataFYI
8 жыл бұрын
***** I see it as gibberish because, especially in the beginning of his act and throughout, he's making most shit up. Which is not a bad thing, but I think you can't say "he's just speaking 3 mashed up languages", when in reality he's mostly using latin-sounding fantasy-words (even though they are based on real words they _are_ made up) and drops a few actual german and english words or sentences here and there.. There's definitely a gibberish-quality to his talk, which is the reason it's funny in the first place. ^^ I mean "Infinitatis soldatis mathemalaticus impossibulatis." C'mon
@nodataFYI
8 жыл бұрын
nelly smith *you're
@mrvocabulary6794
8 жыл бұрын
+nelly smith maybe he is, but from linguistic standpoint he is perfectly accurate.
@deniseross2590
2 жыл бұрын
For those of you who don't speak them, Eddie's actually mixing five different languages into this bit, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin. At 2:57 he says, tres mauvais, which means, very bad in French. Veni, Vidi, Vici, which is what Caesar said of Gaul when he was there as a general, I came, I saw, I conquered. Impressive.
@TNT-km2eg
Жыл бұрын
Say what !
@Anjalena
11 жыл бұрын
I just lost it at "QUAD The Fuck?!" Hilarious!
@PedroMachadoPT
3 жыл бұрын
Just vulgar.
@Anjalena
3 жыл бұрын
@@PedroMachadoPT I'm American. I love vulgarity. 😁😝
@PedroMachadoPT
3 жыл бұрын
@@Anjalena It makes sense.
@Anjalena
3 жыл бұрын
@@PedroMachadoPT 😳🤷🤣
@rdyt0
9 күн бұрын
Quod, the Latin "what". Neuter singular nominative of course :)
@neurofire
5 жыл бұрын
All time best explanation of Latin - period. The guy deserves all the ticks, nods and applauds he gets.
@dcmastermindfirst9418
Жыл бұрын
It's FULL STOP. Not period. Go learn proper English, American.
@budbin
9 жыл бұрын
the fuckus subtitletatus are not exactutatus
@misterlizard
8 жыл бұрын
+Aaron Bud and are distracticus
@zenith8417
8 жыл бұрын
Goodus eyeacus
@AgentLector
8 жыл бұрын
+Aaron Bud Instead of "gibberish" he speaks german a bit.
@lauradeheij-joon1474
8 жыл бұрын
+Paweł Proniczew And French :)
@Nok_Sul
8 жыл бұрын
Whoever wrote them was stultissmus.
@missnicki75
Жыл бұрын
Eddie Izzard is brilliant. He reads history books to comb out pure gold. No on has ever acheived his ability. So grateful for stumbling across this. I need to write this man a letter!
@samcan9953
2 жыл бұрын
A genius of comedy with his own, unique view of the world. Love him. So glad that guy exists.
@Vsmovies100
9 жыл бұрын
The person behind the subtitles obviously did not know German or Latin.
@kokoshneta
8 жыл бұрын
+Viktor Suuta Or English.
@ghenulo
7 жыл бұрын
I'm taking it that Izzard doesn't know Latin either.
@ursaltydog
6 жыл бұрын
Actually, did pretty well considering.. I took 4 years of Latin.. but it's the audience I felt sorry for.. LOL
@OliverJWeber
6 жыл бұрын
Or French.
@OliverJWeber
6 жыл бұрын
They still teach Latin and Greek at Bede's today so I reckon he does know his Latin. Which is pretty obvious when you watch the part where he conjugates the verbs. The person who did the subtitles on the other hand must be one of the fine products of comprehensive education.
@keffypoo
5 жыл бұрын
'English has become the lingua franca' - that's just brilliant.
@robinviden9148
3 жыл бұрын
And here I thought it was pretty much the other way around. 😄
@advickprosankto
3 жыл бұрын
@@robinviden9148 French became the English language ?
@robinviden9148
3 жыл бұрын
@@advickprosankto Not really, no. But English was heavily influenced by Norman French during the Middle Ages. So much so that some people have argued that English is more or less a creole language.
@soup_god463
2 жыл бұрын
@@robinviden9148 But that’s not what lingua franca means
@robinviden9148
2 жыл бұрын
@@soup_god463 I am well aware what lingual franca means, but literally it means Frankish tongue, so I took the liberty to reinterpret it to French language to make a joke.
@abigailvanderslice4428
8 жыл бұрын
"Pi?" "Oh, thanks man." Lmao, oh he's brilliant.
@rondremolo5052
8 жыл бұрын
fav part
@ghenulo
7 жыл бұрын
Though, of course, pi comes from Greek.
@camilogarciaylasaari1857
7 жыл бұрын
ghenulo yeah but the Romans did what they always do: stole the bakeries and claimed THEY were the ones who came up with pi
@MickeyCuervo36
6 жыл бұрын
And they did so with the cunning use of flags.
@nikhilreddy8550
5 жыл бұрын
@@MickeyCuervo36 The effin Brits had us Indians over there. 😣
@ReneeC43
5 жыл бұрын
The duck joke is an underappreciated one haha
@littlemouse7066
3 жыл бұрын
He trusts his audience to be well read enough and intelligent enough to understand his jokes and it's great.
@barnbersonol
3 жыл бұрын
No, he knows his monoglot audience is so ignorant of other languages that they regard his BS as authoritive.
@AlbaFlavius
9 жыл бұрын
Quad the fuck?!
@ld3354
8 жыл бұрын
I diiiiieeeeddd
@EterPuralis
7 жыл бұрын
Alex? Is that you?
@jemert96
7 жыл бұрын
AlbaFlavius *Quod
@theoneandonlyandyman
10 жыл бұрын
I love how the subtitles give up for a while in the middle
@mikeggg5671
9 ай бұрын
Eddie is an awesome comedian. I do love him. He has always made me laugh at loud, and his comedy is intellectual, too. He is a gift to us, and we should be thankful for him.
@cheyb5619
6 жыл бұрын
"Quad the Fuck!" .... is my new wtf ~ Never gets old lmao! Eddie Izzard on Latin is my all time fav
@js6874
5 жыл бұрын
If you ever get the chance to see him live you absolutely have to. I’ve seen him twice and he’s easily the best comedian out there! Clever, funny and so fast!
@jennyhughes4474
4 жыл бұрын
Dear Eddie: such an amazingly brilliant creative man!
@TamsinConway
12 жыл бұрын
Languages with many cases and grammatical gender are, naturally, very easy for their native speakers, since you don't really think in terms of bases and morphemes, but larger units. The same kind of joke could be made about the English articles, and definitely English spelling. But Izzard totally delivers this skit with style. The part about Roman numerals had me in stitches.
@JBG1968
4 ай бұрын
English spelling issues are largely do to all the borrowed words from other languages . It killed any chance of a standard
@lunestiacrescent827
5 жыл бұрын
There are three types of people in the comments: 1: The subtilter should be shot. 2: Poor subtitles, they were trying their best. 3: This schtick is hilarious!!!
@Mirandorl
4 жыл бұрын
4. "I resent the entire english speaking world and this man for criticising latin"
@Richard_Jones
4 жыл бұрын
"Romanes eunt domus - People called the Romans, they go the house?"
@heatherwillis-kershner1973
4 жыл бұрын
"In our roman house?"
@thepieman4398
4 жыл бұрын
"Romani Ite Domum! Now write it out a thousand times and if it's not done by sunrise I'll cut your balls off"
@hannahwight7437
10 жыл бұрын
"Speaking Gibberish" - always when he starts with some German >.
@juarezcastelo
10 жыл бұрын
It's not German, it's English with a Latin accent, or a mix of both, like in 2:44 he says something like: "I'm messangarium et careere at heree, from a long way awayee. Portare news and bring ove..."
@Haki7Hikari
10 жыл бұрын
Edgar Manuel Juarez Actually I do agree with Hannah that he also uses German, of course with a mix of other languages (Most of it is English and I thinks there's also French in it) with a latin accent and probably some real latin. Your example at 2:44. (german in capital letters) I'm pretty sure he doesn't say 'Im messengarium...' but 'ICH BIN messangarium, ICH careere NACH heree, from long way away, portare ... ( then a word I can't really make out what it is, but it's probably 'news' like you said, and then I think he ends in French) très mauvais. (very ugly/very bad, so he probably sais that the news is very bad) I also think he says a few times 'MEIN HERR' (My lord in German) e.g. 3:16, 3:27 Also at 3:33 : MIT soldatus (mit is German for 'with'), WIE VIEL soldatus (wie viel is German for how many) 4:40 'UND, UND MEIN HERR' (German for: and, and, my Lord) 5:03 the gibberish was 'portari pink pajamas', portari looks similar to the French word 'Porter' (to wear', so he asked, '(does he) wear pink pajamas?'. 5:07 UND, ER KOMMT MIT elefantein (German: And he comes with elephants). 5:19: Elefantein très dangereus. (French for The elephants very dangerous, well the elephant part was not in French) It's basically a huge soup of languages that he mixed together with some strange latin endings (or latin sounding endings, I never had latin so I have no clue how exactly the end of words sound like) Anyway I think it was really funny, I like languages very much and I love him for playing around with it.
@juarezcastelo
10 жыл бұрын
Haki7Hikari Thank you my friend, you explained it a whole lot better than me, I don't know German nor French so I inferred it was Latin, either way, like you said it is a really funny and clever piece of comedy. ***** is the best!
@Haki7Hikari
10 жыл бұрын
Edgar Manuel Juarez Your welcome! I learned French in school and eventhough I barely had any German, my mothertongue is Dutch (Dutch and German resemble a lot) so it was easy to distinguish those parts out of what you thought was Latin. If he would have used a lot of Spanish or Italian, I would probably have had the exact same problem. I really love his humor. And his voice too.
@BennySalto
2 жыл бұрын
@@juarezcastelo "I don't know german" Why are you commenting on it then.
@egogtz
4 жыл бұрын
The guy in charge of the subtitles: "I surrender "
@Vasileski88
8 жыл бұрын
OMG I was out of breath from that quod the fuck.
@vic_tim7956
2 жыл бұрын
I think I've learned more about Latin (the language) than I ever grasped in three years of school. Amazing and funny too.
@conejito9128
10 жыл бұрын
Hannibal venit. Hannibal? quo cum? milites. quot? multi. quidquam aliud? elephanti. qui sunt? porci et sciuri. fugite!
@amdnovello
10 жыл бұрын
is it that simple? lol
@MicahZale
10 жыл бұрын
Et intravi ad! Run a feris!
@CRlocoman1989
9 жыл бұрын
U missedus the jokeus.
@conejito9128
9 жыл бұрын
Of course, my friend Master Purveyor of All Things Risible.
@sadekgheidan
5 жыл бұрын
I haven't studied Latin but im gonna guess the translation, let me know how right or wrong I am. Hannibal is coming. Habbibal? With whom? Soldiers/Army. How many? Many. How are they coming? Elephants. /qui sunt?/ /porci et sciuri./ Hurry/Act!
@Dalroi1
8 жыл бұрын
Subtitles are garbage, someone should get the sack. Only once in a while does he resort to actual gibberish, the rest is a mostly mixture of English colloquialisms plus French and German. All pretty clear.
@TomRNZ
8 жыл бұрын
Plus I saw "w" pop up quite a few times even though there is no "w" in the Latin alphabet.
@lanefamily0508
8 жыл бұрын
+PacificRimNZ Correct...but in Classical Latin, the V was pronounced as W. So Salve was spoken as "Salwe".
@TomRNZ
8 жыл бұрын
lanefamily0508 Yes I know, but why not write the actual Latin words? They did with some of them.
@QuixoticCowboy
8 жыл бұрын
There is some latin in there too i guess
@WalterLiddy
7 жыл бұрын
Was about to say the same thing. If I understand what he's saying, you know it's in common phrases because I don't know shit about those languages, yet the subtitles say 'gibberish'. Even the stuff that is is plays on the latin-sounds, and if spelled phonetically would get the joke across better.
@MrFantasnick
7 жыл бұрын
"Latin is silly!" Says the guy whose language can pronounce "ought" in 8 different ways.
@olivercuenca4109
7 жыл бұрын
GentlemanlyNinja What? No there isn't! There's only one way of saying it. And dialects don't count.
@Luciffrit
7 жыл бұрын
I think he means as part of a word. Like Fought and Drought.
@leopold7562
5 жыл бұрын
You think "ought" is bad? You should try "ough". You have bough (bau), cough (koff), through (thru), borough (burruh) and though (tho). Slough has two pronunciations, either the noun (slau) or the verb (sluff). And not to mention the town of Loughborough (luffbruh). I remember hearing a story about an African who came to the UK to go to university and spent hours asking people how he could get to Loogaborooga!
@ToxicEmperor
5 жыл бұрын
Perhaps you're forgetting that it's comedy, not a Latin language history class.
@Teeb2023
5 жыл бұрын
_"Perhaps you're forgetting that it's comedy, not a Latin language history class."_ This ^
@ghenulo
7 жыл бұрын
"English is simple". The funniest line in this skit!
@JBG1968
4 ай бұрын
Well as he said . At its base it is very simple . No gendered nouns , simple verb conjugation, and understandable even if spoken incorrectly . Now spelling and pronunciation are a different story but that’s every other languages fault for loans us to many words
@OwlsoccergoalieLL14
10 жыл бұрын
This is so accurate and funny. It is how I felt in Latin class all the time
@camerongillespie9980
3 жыл бұрын
May we always have access to brilliance Thank you Mr Izzard
@grmpf
5 жыл бұрын
"portare newsum très mauvais" This whole thing is just amazing. :'D
@valerius610
5 жыл бұрын
Tenho saudades deste tipo dr comedia inteligente. Love the comedian
@mancebo7
4 жыл бұрын
Best stand up comedian in the world, if you ask me. Brilliant!
@snifferdogxsnifferdogx5977
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant! I speak serbian - which has got lots of the declensions, like Latin - so this was hilarious! Also loved how he chucked in bits of german and french in there - genius!
@kmaassociates7999
6 жыл бұрын
I can't believe my family here in America didn't find out about this Artist until 2015. What A Hoot ! He makes me ashamed that I didn't stick with French and Latin in school.
@kimberlypelfrey2279
5 жыл бұрын
I love that he is a historically influenced comedian. I love history!
@jemappellebibo
5 жыл бұрын
I am head over heels after listening to Eddie. He is so clever and smart and ready to share with the rest of us his unbelievable thoughts on languages and history. I've just met him tonight. Asking myself were was I all this time?
@ajrwilde14
5 жыл бұрын
It gets better the more I watch it!!
@marinusdijkhuizen7629
8 жыл бұрын
Caecilius still lives on in our hearts...
@felikso
8 жыл бұрын
+Marinus Dijkhuizen Too soon... too soon. :'(
@Gandalf_the_Black_
7 жыл бұрын
Marinus Dijkhuizen What if Caecilius is actually dead... in his garden?
@elizabethcairns4730
6 жыл бұрын
CAECILIUS EST IN HORTO IN HEAVEN!
@christinab.3695
6 жыл бұрын
Caecilius non est in hosto... but in our hearts.
@joshuawesbroom5054
6 жыл бұрын
You cant do this to me man... caecilius est mortu
@AtlasBlizzard
6 жыл бұрын
The subtitles just give up around the middle, lol, I love it.
@Terminator5618
11 жыл бұрын
Being able to speak German and having learnt Latin this is probably the funniest take on any language I've seen so far XD
@SuperSoccerchick1
11 жыл бұрын
Got shown this video in Latin club one day... It was so funny to have my Latin teacher show us this!!!
@MisterLeeSuper
9 жыл бұрын
Talked about Hannibal and later eaten by Hannibal
@berilo.8044
5 жыл бұрын
Oh my God, I knew I saw his face in a tv production before. Thank you!
@austentrue7807
4 жыл бұрын
You’re right. He did eat him. Great show.
@michaeldenny6851
4 жыл бұрын
Yes, and Eddie showed some real acting talent
@jgilgorri
8 жыл бұрын
I love that he's mixing english, german, and french to fake his latin rofl
@princeofcupspoc9073
3 жыл бұрын
Sid Caesar was the master.
@SarahJonestoo
11 жыл бұрын
Genius routine from Eddie Izzard
@heliotropezzz333
11 жыл бұрын
Latin is complicated with all its different endings but because of that it is very succinct. It takes fewer words to express things.
@iberius9937
Жыл бұрын
Exactly! Something Mr. Izzard seems to fail to comprehend.
@mrentropius
7 жыл бұрын
Just one thing: if you can't understand something that's doesn't mean it's gibberish
@BloodofPatriots
5 жыл бұрын
It meas we should kill it with fire.
@hippylegs
12 жыл бұрын
Quad the fuck? XD
@idk-db6jt
5 жыл бұрын
*quid
@Somnogenesis
4 жыл бұрын
@@idk-db6jt *quod
@angietucker302
6 жыл бұрын
This man is totally awesome. As a woman I adore his wonderful eye makeup
@canimakeamill
10 жыл бұрын
Just a personal opinion: I've learned 7 languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Latin, French and German), of those 7, English is easily the most simple to become conversationally useful in.
@jweilan1
10 жыл бұрын
nobody cares.
@jweilan1
10 жыл бұрын
***** nope.
@cygil1
10 жыл бұрын
Hard to read though. (Hard tue reed thoe.)
@zennteo3115
10 жыл бұрын
learn chinese have fun
@johnhegren501
10 жыл бұрын
Only Indo European language....to many half wits in this world who have no clue what linguistics are like when comparing features objectively.
@Ontarioku77
13 жыл бұрын
i just dropped a latin class and this just makes me feel so much better
@yourpalcraig
2 жыл бұрын
I've learned more in 24 minutes of Eddie izzard than I ever learned in history class.
@danwic
3 жыл бұрын
Love Eddie lol brilliant comedian
@antoniodragonheart8965
8 жыл бұрын
Quare tantum Latino odiuntur? Bellissima lingua quidem est.
@SightForMemories
6 жыл бұрын
Get out!1!
@mokemohaveer1
5 жыл бұрын
Homines quem intellegere non possunt saepe odiunt
@bloodsucker1186
5 жыл бұрын
Quod in orbe pacis vivebamus!
@CharlieKehoe
5 жыл бұрын
lol
@bvm3925
5 жыл бұрын
Isthay is unnyfay uffstay.
@IrregularPineapples
11 жыл бұрын
"It's a fucking apple! Stop fucking around!" :D
@markwrenn8569
9 жыл бұрын
0:26 Eddie comments on Latin grammar: "It has a nominative, a vocative, an accusative, a genitive, a dative and an ablative. F*** OFF!" In that case, what would he make of Finnish? Compared to Latin's 6 cases, Finnish has 15!
@jeanroger4738
9 жыл бұрын
Mark Wrenn there is so much more each nom, gen, dat, acc and abl is used to translate 5 declensions. The there is just a whole bunch of other shit too future, imperfect, pluperfect, past tense, and a tons more just bundled together. It is the worst trying to conjugate verbs, nouns, and any other thing!
@einundsiebenziger5488
3 жыл бұрын
Finnish has 16 cases, Basque has 28.
@elainaswanson4364
3 жыл бұрын
Eddie really is just out there turning language and history into genius comedy
@princeofcupspoc9073
3 жыл бұрын
And remember, being dyslexic, he doesn't use a script. He's memorized the important bits, and just free styles from there. I saw him in Silicon Valley at an outdoor theater, and he spent a good 15 minutes just talking about the birds swooping over the stage.
@ExVeritateLibertas
9 жыл бұрын
Don't think it's possible to speak a language fluently with 6 cases and no articles? Russians do it every day. In fact, grammatically the Slavic languages are much closer to Latin than Romance languages are.
@Igor-ug1uo
9 жыл бұрын
Yep, every day. :) It is fascinating how close Latin and Russian are grammatically. I feel bad for my English speaking fellows. It's hard for me to comprehend how difficult it must be for an English speaker to learn Latin or some Slavic language.
@ExVeritateLibertas
9 жыл бұрын
Igor Arutiunian It's comparable to, but more difficult than (IMO), learning articles, "to be" in present tense, word order of the sentence, and phrasal verbs when learning English as a Russian speaker. (I teach English to Russian speakers.) :)
@Igor-ug1uo
9 жыл бұрын
ExVeritateLibertas Indeed. It took me quite a while to learn English, and the only reason I actually learned it was that I moved to the US. I know some people who have spent more than 20 years in the English speaking environment and are still having problems with all the things you mentioned. (I'm not even sure whether my last sentence was grammatically correct) :D Is English your native? :)
@ExVeritateLibertas
9 жыл бұрын
Igor Arutiunian I am. But I still had to edit my last comment for mistakes. :) I have met a few people who speak English like native speakers (just a slight accent), who have never been to an English speaking country. Usually they started watching English-language TV and movies from an early age. But for the most part, I think immersion in a country where the language is spoken is usually necessary to reach an advanced level. I was able to learn German well only by living in Germany for 2 years. I had studied it many years before that.
@roysuttie5847
9 жыл бұрын
ExVeritateLibertas Finnish has like more than 10 cases... even worse
@yamanmustafa
8 жыл бұрын
6:14 "It has taken off because on it's [sic] basic level, it is terribly simple". Does anybody else find it massively ironic that the person uploading this struggles with the English language and basic grammar?
@rufuscoppertop330
8 жыл бұрын
+yamanmustafa He certainly hasn't said anything even remotely meaningful about the actual language he presumes to mock.
@yamanmustafa
8 жыл бұрын
+nelly smith Subtitles written by an illiterate.
@Gandalf_the_Black_
7 жыл бұрын
yamanmustafa "sawe". Yup. Much salve. Very right.
@columbus8myhw
9 жыл бұрын
The subtitles... they do nothing
@scipioafricanus5871
5 жыл бұрын
sub-par titles.
@lonnwy
5 жыл бұрын
I learnt Latin in the same primary school as Eddie izzard, so I have great sympathy for him, lmao, xx
@MUDSWAT
3 жыл бұрын
How he writes and remembers a skit like that is fascinating!
@usedx115x
11 жыл бұрын
The funniest joke in his routine was "English is a simple language".
@herrbonk3635
4 жыл бұрын
Pretty simple grammar, horrendous spelling. But yeah, even the grammar could well be further simplified without loss of precision. (Just look at the closely related scandinavian languages.)
@usedx115x
4 жыл бұрын
@@herrbonk3635 True, although the tense system can be hard for 2nd language learners, and it would be nice if the vocabulary wasnt doubled by invented words most natives dont understand.
@luisalmeida1391
4 жыл бұрын
It is, in comparison to other languages. Quite simple. It doesn't mean you can't express beautifully.
@williams.5952
4 жыл бұрын
People who think English is a particularly complex language are usually monoglots. What's challenging about the tense system? And what on Earth do you mean by "invented words most natives don't understand"?
@usedx115x
4 жыл бұрын
@@williams.5952 For example "lascivious" a transparently non-English word that has been Anglified into an invented word most natives wont understand. English is full of words like this, often I will heard a new English word that I transparently understand in Latin yet have no idea what it means in English.
@GermanConquistador08
13 жыл бұрын
I love how he starts speaking German half way through.
@t.r.luxx1311
5 жыл бұрын
I took 4 years of Latin in Highschool....I'd forgotten most of it until I watched this 😂😂😂 I remember having to memorize all those things
@Nadals1209
3 жыл бұрын
Bravo.... it has been a while since I had such laugh 😂
@Godzilla52
9 жыл бұрын
Eddie must have attended Sid Caesar gibberish school
@Myzelfa
8 жыл бұрын
If anyone's curious, the reason the Romans accomplished so much with a silly language is that they spoke Greek most of the time.
@EmperorNero
8 жыл бұрын
+Generality Greek is also a silly billy language just so we're clear
@Stroopwafe1
8 жыл бұрын
+Emperor Nero Ugh, I dropped ancient greek last year, so glad it's gone. But why would Romans speak Greek? They did speak a little Greek but why not the language that they grew up with? LATIN! Latinus est. Et non dificilis est.
@EmperorNero
8 жыл бұрын
***** Because pretty much everything Rome had culturally was Greek. The turn is Rome conquered Greece physically,but Greece conquered Rome culturally.
@PhysicsGuy46
8 жыл бұрын
+Emperor Nero That's not remotely true. The Romans dominated the Greeks, culturally as well as militarily. This is evident throughout the eastern Mediterranean with the Greek adaptions of Roman norms, most notably in architecture, city planning, government, system of magistrates, and social organization. Indeed, with the fall of the Western Empire in 476 A.D., the Eastern Empire, which historians have decided to relabel Byzantine, endured for another 1000 years, ruled by an Augustus, who was advised by a Senate and defended by Roman legions, all of whom would continue to call themselves "Romaioi," "Roman" in the Greek language. The belief that Greek civilization begat Roman civilization is an artifact of the Protestant, Algo-Germanic cultural agenda to remove all things "Latin" from their cultural and historical legacy, in an effort to, among other things, reduce the influence of the Roman Church with its Pope, and, by extension, any rival claim to authority. This led to a 19th century romanticized belief in the cultural hegemony of ancient Greece over ancient Italy, a belief which persists to this day. In point of fact, while there was considerable cultural and technological exchange between the Greek and Roman worlds, the truth is that these two civilizations were contemporaneous.
@PhysicsGuy46
8 жыл бұрын
+Generality Not even close. The Romans spoke Latin most of the time because that was their language. And they took their language everywhere, which is why we have Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, Romanian, Sicilian, Sardinian, Corsican, and so on. Now, Greek was the lingua franca in SOME places, but that was restricted mostly to the eastern Empire, Illyria, Asia Minor, Palestine, etc. In the western provinces, the lingua franca was, without question, Latin. Interestingly, if you were in southern Italy, for example, Lucania (modern day Basilicata and Southern Campania), the common tongue was Oscan, not Latin (though Latin was very well understood). Check out the inscriptions at Pompei. You'll find that a good many, if not most, are written in Oscan, with the balance in Latin.
@pamsciambarella2284
3 жыл бұрын
Sì, mein Herr. 😂 I do love the mix of English, pigeon Latin and Italian with German thrown in. 💖
@L8rCloud
Жыл бұрын
We had 20 in our Latin Class. The lowest mark was ~75% and I missed out on the top result with 97% for my last year. Latin enabled me to learn and understand French very rapidly (After 3 months I was dreaming in French). It enabled me to understand my first language, English, better than ever AND better than most. It enabled me to create new words based on sound reasoning and language structure for both French AND English that wasn’t just gibberish like what people do today in Social Media.
@rkoff5744
3 жыл бұрын
Now that's genius comedy!🤣
@floatingsara
3 жыл бұрын
"Quod the fuck" I am keeping that ! Loved it
@Raven135
3 жыл бұрын
One of the funniest humans on the planet! Absolutely LOVE him! Brilliant! Bravo!! Anyone John Cleese finds funny is Gold!😄🎶🇺🇸🌹🌹🌹
@AdamBechtol
4 жыл бұрын
ooof! Such cleverness, such wit.
@eviloatmeal98
13 жыл бұрын
the way he says "pandas" was just too funny xD
@logicquicks5549
9 жыл бұрын
whoever wrote the subtitles doesn't know latin.Many pronounce 'Salve' - Salwe. i.e the V is proounced like a W.
@StrawberryAqua
9 жыл бұрын
My professor describes it as "W with a buzz."
@logicquicks5549
9 жыл бұрын
like ...sal..zz-wee?
@StrawberryAqua
9 жыл бұрын
More of a subtle v-sound.
@Tairneanach
9 жыл бұрын
LogicQuicks Whoever wrote those subtitles didn't know what they were doing in general. They start out subtitling the salve stuff, but then just gave up, making everyone relying on subtitles miss the later jokes entirely. And Panthagoratus? Really? The name Pythagoras should be common knowledge, really, even if Izzard adds a -tus.
@LyonizosdEuclide
7 жыл бұрын
u
@nyalltimothy
3 жыл бұрын
Utter brilliance!
@lonnwy
5 жыл бұрын
I agree with Eddie Izzard a completely about Latin, because I had to learn it in school as well, but a long time after he was in the same primary school as me, xxxx
@slothfromthegoonies8201
9 жыл бұрын
Latin sounds badass in an English accent.
@anandadaquino3604
9 жыл бұрын
Sloth from The Goonies really?
@slothfromthegoonies8201
9 жыл бұрын
Ananda D'Aquino Yeah, I have no idea why.
@anandadaquino3604
9 жыл бұрын
Sloth from The Goonies I thought it was sexy :(
@slothfromthegoonies8201
9 жыл бұрын
Ananda D'Aquino "Badass" is a good thing! It means "cool".
@anandadaquino3604
9 жыл бұрын
Sloth from The Goonies yeah, but russian accent is badass hahahahaha
@Hairmetallurgist
7 жыл бұрын
Old English (Anglo Saxon) was fraught with many of the declension complexities of Latin. It has, over the millennia, eliminated declension through case endings, and has replaced it with word order and prepositions to show the relationship of nouns and pronouns in the sentence.
@bicyclist2
5 жыл бұрын
I LOVE IT! This is so cool! I laughed so hard. This should be shown in history class. Thank you.
@JeannetteK2
2 жыл бұрын
brilliant. absolutely brilliant.
@Suralin0
11 жыл бұрын
This is even funnier for those who've studied Latin XD
@cicerofranklin
8 жыл бұрын
Who can ever have thought it would improve this clip to add subtitles? Why not add "[laugh here, this is a funny bit]" while they were at it?
@eleSDSU
3 жыл бұрын
Not everyone speaks English, French, German and Latin, they at least tried.
@garyschermer5463
4 жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed this. My sister is a single mom who home schools her children. Her children both speak and write Latin and found this skit very humors.
@threethymes
4 жыл бұрын
Izzard on history is sublime.
@4331550686
7 жыл бұрын
latina lingua pulchra est !!! optima semper est !!
@larapalma3744
5 жыл бұрын
Meh it's ok
@Guitcad1
9 жыл бұрын
The captions are really distracting.
@StrawberryAqua
9 жыл бұрын
And incorrect. "Sawe" = "salve."
@MonotoneCreeper
9 жыл бұрын
Guitcad1 [speaking gibberish] No, that's latin.
@catherinegatefin116
3 жыл бұрын
so wonderful , edutainment at it's best
@barnbersonol
3 жыл бұрын
"Its best" Not "it's". Tut Tut. Language guru Eddie would be SO disappointed!
@UbiMortus
11 жыл бұрын
"FUCK... OFF..." How does he do that?!? He has the best "fuck off"s ever.
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