You can tell David Mitchell is just itching to say "but carrots *aren't* blunt, they're pointy!"
@oliverclarke9891
6 жыл бұрын
“It is a form of ono-as-you-rightly-say-mato-as-you-pointed-out-poeia” I lost it at that lmao
@tomwoodthorpe5790
8 жыл бұрын
I like how for quite a while Mitchell is desperately trying to object to them calling the carrot blunt when it's basically a big spike.
@shamikchakrabarti
6 жыл бұрын
Rob is rather kiki and Johnny is undeniably bouba.
@ElmerVSworld
8 жыл бұрын
The same thing goes for Simon and Garfunkel. If someone doesn't know who Simon and Garfunkel are and you would show them a picture, I'm 100% sure they would point them out correctly. Because I don't know what a "Garfunkel" might be, but I'm pretty sure it would look something like Art Garfunkel.
@Allyosaugh
7 жыл бұрын
funny you should say that, i actually got it completely the wrong way around when i was trying to guess which was which
@ElmerVSworld
7 жыл бұрын
Really? :( So my theory isn't a 100% valid? What a shame
@Allyosaugh
7 жыл бұрын
i thought that garfunkel would be the goofy-looking short guy with a weird haircut
@victorcheng1544
7 жыл бұрын
ElmerVSworld if
@gQuaresma07
6 жыл бұрын
Not true. I would say that Simon is a name of a ginger head ....
@RathVantas
12 жыл бұрын
This reminds me of the monty python episode where they talk about whether different words are "woody" or "tinny" xD
@iMentieth
11 жыл бұрын
I love the moment when David realizes, and his face shows, "everyone around me is idiotic."
@JimmySteller
10 жыл бұрын
0:53 My favourite Johnny Vegas moment. I now want a tv series about Wolfgang Kurler the Pirate.
@WarDragon72345
9 жыл бұрын
Same here XD
@MissGrapeNehi
12 жыл бұрын
"Desss-K! T-in, T-in, T-in! Boooooook!" ROFL Rob Brydon is such a nut.
@Shindai
11 жыл бұрын
"I like the fact you leave me alone when I go quiet." Aww, I'm laughing my ass off but I just wanna hug him and tell him everything will be ok lol
@CorrosionAudio
11 жыл бұрын
"It kind of is a form of ONO as you rightly say MATO as you pointed out POEIA"
@lenaevess
7 жыл бұрын
Morot is swedish for carrot, there might be a connection :D
@IAlreadyHaveAKey
11 жыл бұрын
It kind of is a form of ono - as you rightly say - mato - as you pointed out - poeia! Stephen Fry is brilliant.
@kuisti-panu
9 жыл бұрын
The 'morot' comes from Scandinavian languages, for example in Swedish its 'morot' ([muuruut], long 'o's as in 'root'). And in that 'rot' means a root. So the name probably came with the vikings, representing a vegetable that grows underground.
@SunnyBear
6 жыл бұрын
I would have loved to hear a David Mitchell rant about this, you could see his mind going off there.
@Gormathius
10 жыл бұрын
The first time I saw this episode I said something along the lines of "Rob's eyes look a bit more flirty." and then just seconds after David came with the prostitution comment... XD
@user-ht4gb2fw4e
10 жыл бұрын
This show is pure genius!
@MrThorFr
8 жыл бұрын
Frye simply loves Johnny Vegas' humor :)
@roldoxc2094
6 жыл бұрын
Probably doesn't , actually
@RFC3514
9 жыл бұрын
"Mama" and "papa" (or "dada", or "tata", etc.) has nothing to do with "over here" or "over there". It just happens that "ma" is the first proper syllable that almost any baby makes, after simple vowels (because all you need to do is exhale while opening and closing your lips), so most cultures associate that with the person typically closer to the baby (i.e., the mother). The next one after that is usually "da", "ta" or "pa", done by blocking the airflow at the start (using the tongue or lips), so it's generally adopted to mean the next person in line (i.e., the father, or a grandparent). Sometimes just "pa", sometimes "papa", "da da", "ta-ta", "atata", etc. Babies don't "learn" to say those words, nor do they _mean_ anything by them. They're just learning to use their mouth to produce sounds, and start with the simplest ones. It was adults that picked the meaning of those "words" based on the fact that babies make those sounds. Eventually babies they figure out that certain people react more to certain sounds (and start to understand concepts like names, etc.), but that comes much later in their development. So the next time your baby says "ma ma ma", remember: he's really just being lazy. ;-)
@alwinpriven2400
7 жыл бұрын
well not most. I'm sure that American tribes have different words. while Indo-Europeans have Ma, Pa (or something similar). In Inuktitut for example, mother is anaana and father is ataata
@roylandmaines299
7 жыл бұрын
Alwin Priven it is still the exact same concept. m and n are both nasals. and OP gave atata as an example for fatherly name. b and t, v and b, b and p, p and f are easily switchable
@mow184
7 жыл бұрын
Royland Maines That example may have been wrong but try this one on for size. In Marathi, an Indian language spoken by a few tens of millions, the word for mother is "aai". No m or n sounds. No use of lips at all actually. Or tongue. Also no resemblance to any other Indian language. Which is not to say that I disagree with OP's overall point. I think OP is right. I just don't think it is a universal thing.
@RFC3514
7 жыл бұрын
"aai" is another sound that every baby makes naturally in the first weeks of its life (in most languages that wouldn't even be seen as a proper "word"). It's another example of adults attributing a convenient meaning to a sound that occurs naturally, not of babies _learning_ to say "mother" (let alone trying to encode any complex meaning like "over there" and "over here").
@imokin86
4 жыл бұрын
It's the other way round in Georgian, mama is father and deda is mother. While the Turkic words are much the same as the Inuktitut ones. Ana and ata. But the OP's point stands, it's about what sounds are easier to make physically.
@z3r0t0l3r4ns
12 жыл бұрын
indeed and now i must watch it again, and again and again
@maikeru01
13 жыл бұрын
Japanese also. Circle is Maru, the ma sound is very smooth and soft. triangle is sankakuke. its so staccato and sharp. ...Words like "bulbous" vs."prickle." I like the whole subject :)
@zoeemery2863
8 жыл бұрын
I believe in Georgian, deda is mum and mama is dad
@Mekfal
8 жыл бұрын
You're quite right.
@Bearsca
9 жыл бұрын
There's nothing written on the green flash screen at 1:13, it's just a plain, dark green frame that only appears for a split second.
@Szaam
12 жыл бұрын
Johnny Vegas is the strangest kind of genius I have ever encountered.
@MushiePuppet17
10 жыл бұрын
Jesus, every second of that clip was brilliant.
@LGIndustriplat
11 жыл бұрын
The Welch got it from the Saxons "moru", who got it from the Vikings "morot" (Swedish), who got it from Russia "mорковь". The English got it from the Romans "carōta", who got it from the Greek "karōton", who got it from some proto Indo-European language. Carrots originates from Iran/Afghanistan.
@athull08
12 жыл бұрын
There was an extra bit at 4:54, which was shown in the XL version. JV: I've given them different names SF: What names have you given them? JV: Mr Sneeze, and Gonorrhea SF: Whoa! RB: He DOES look like Mr Sneeze actually, but I've never seen Mr. Gonorrhea in the series, with Arthur Lowe's voice!
@Tjalve70
5 жыл бұрын
2:06 The Swedish word for carrot is "morot". So it may sound like the Welsh got their word from Swedish.
@LongStripyScarf
13 жыл бұрын
@Ansuzie I taste colours. Pale yellows and green are sherbet, electric blue is tuna, karki is rain water and mud and pink red is orange. I've been able to do that for most colours for as long as I remember. I too have been considered weird as I thought everyone did it. Oh and white for some strange reason doesn't taste of anything. Texture also plays a part because it depends on how the light is reflected off the surface of something. Someone else who has something similar. WOW!!!
@ZumbaMarx
13 жыл бұрын
This is one of the most amusing exchanges I've seen in QI.
@GredOrForge
13 жыл бұрын
"what about onion rings?" shiiiit almost spat water all over the computer
@ZeeboonInc
13 жыл бұрын
@Ansuzie I see 5 as 'O' and blue, and 6 as 'A' and red. 4 is green and 2 is yellow. 3 is Brown/orange and 8 is purple. Sometimes I even accidentaly say the Number instead of the vowel or the other way around.
@javahab
12 жыл бұрын
@Ansuzie what the silence i have heard of it from somewhere but i can't seem to remeber
@Fcutdlady
3 жыл бұрын
A definition of Onomatopoeia is missing the toilet bowl
@SuzyS85
13 жыл бұрын
@Ansuzie That's called Synesthesia. It's where two (or more?) senses overlap when you experience them. Yours is called colour-grapheme. You have others, like colour-sound, and even sound-taste. So, you're not weird ;)
@madamepampadour
6 жыл бұрын
The first sounds a baby can make apart from vowels, without their teeth, are nasals and bilabials (m, n, p, b). Next in line come the alveolars (t, d, n) because still no teeth.
@Chebab-Chebab
3 жыл бұрын
Kiki begins with K, so, pointy. Bobo begins with B, so, rounded.
@2pacsrevenge
13 жыл бұрын
@coruscantplanet I salute you, good sir, for your fine choice of comedy. That is by far my favourite Python bit.
@krystofhanzlik7592
9 жыл бұрын
GOOOOOOOOONE
@henrikhyrup3995
8 жыл бұрын
+Kryštof Hanzlík Quite a tinny word isn't it?
@docdaneeka3424
8 жыл бұрын
Yes I do enjoy a good, WOODY, word.
@KidsWithGuns1992
13 жыл бұрын
Reminds me a whole lot of a Monty Python sketch where they're describing words as either woody or tinny. "Gooooooooooooone... much better than newspaper or litter bin. Terrible tinny words."
@irishgodfatherchris
13 жыл бұрын
@ImNotHere92 they don't just see colours, they can see shapes and so on even tastes when they hear certain words
@BravoOscar100
11 жыл бұрын
what's with the random green frame?
@221b
13 жыл бұрын
@Ansuzie Were those the colours of the magnetic letters and numbers that you had on your refrigerator as a kid?
@thelostpiranha
11 жыл бұрын
The difference between Rob and Johnny's 'soft eyes' look is that Rob's got eyes that say carrot (crunchy!), while Johnny Vegas has eyes that say moron.
@waqqas_the_wicked
11 жыл бұрын
The word for mother typically contains 'M' because a baby can easily make the M sound by pressing its lips together.
@Katanalikeskittens
12 жыл бұрын
@rocketmik65 What's what from?
@Katanalikeskittens
12 жыл бұрын
@urshoeonhead I haven't been contacted by anyone about the legality of this clip, so I'm not too worried. If the copyright holder contacted me asking to take it down, i would. I just posted it because I love this show and want to introduce it to others. :)
@Tarotprincess
11 жыл бұрын
I just love Rob Brydon. what a lovely human being.:D
@jjpower6769
Жыл бұрын
Any chance of subtitles.
@Aerandir09
13 жыл бұрын
@Ansuzie Actually this is popular in people. Either relating color to letters and numbers or color to music. It has to do something in the outer lobes of the brain that deal with color, sound, language, ect. actually get some what tangled in their wiring and both parts fire. Of course the later part of the brain not directly associated with the current mental task plays but a small role in the background. They find that people who share this tend to associate the same colors and letters.
@Faronadriel
13 жыл бұрын
@Ansuzie Theres actually people who have a condition called synesthesia i believe where the brain mixes up nerve signals so they will actually see sound, and theres versions of synesthesia of almost any of the senses mixing up, Sight/touch, sound/taste, etc.
@IoEstasCedonta
13 жыл бұрын
@LinguistDan I suddenly realize how much Rob looks like Hugh.
@Thewolf1818
7 жыл бұрын
Actually, about the words for parents, it's funny that the Norwegian name for dad is "far". Of course there's also "father" which is quite close to "farther", so it'd work in English as well.
@Asidders
6 жыл бұрын
Actually, no one says "far", everyone says "pappa".
@91YEHNAH
5 жыл бұрын
@Nullik That can vary a whole lot from person to person, and region to region. ...
@rageloveszephyr
14 жыл бұрын
God I love this section so much. BOOOOOOOOK.
@slightlyinsaneFTW
12 жыл бұрын
I love how both the top comments are by the uploader.
@seabury
12 жыл бұрын
david looks so concerned
@rocketmik65
12 жыл бұрын
@Katanalikeskittens Whats that from again?
@elephantasmic
10 жыл бұрын
Guess I'm one of the 2% who thought that thought chunchooikit was the fish and mowat was the bird(excuse spelling)
@Jimbobiscuit
12 жыл бұрын
its funny how you see davids face all the way through waiting for his time to explode haha :D
@TheMikeyReilly
13 жыл бұрын
Love the Monty Python references there.
@DinkyKeyChain
13 жыл бұрын
I like that I can laugh and learn at the same time whilst watching this show. Wish it was on air in the US.
@OgrimMetal
13 жыл бұрын
@Ansuzie Hope you liked the documentary. :) Epilepsy being the cause of what you experience seems quite plausable to me, I just red synesthesia has been tied to Temporal lobe epilepsy. But ofcourse the brain is incredibly complex and no 2 brains work exactly the same so this could have any number of causes. :)
@barbarakirk7964
11 жыл бұрын
He also reminded me of Sheldon Cooper doing his vocal exercises to find the sweet aural spot in the cinema on Big Bang Theory with this!
@rocketmik65
12 жыл бұрын
@Katanalikeskittens I remember that being from a movie......I CANT REMEMBER.
@HarcMad
13 жыл бұрын
It sounds like Ansuzie is just associating letters and numbers with colours, not that they actually see those colours when they read them. I can associate letters with colours, but I don't have synesthesia.
@Katanalikeskittens
12 жыл бұрын
I LOVE Scissor Sisters.
@LucasTheGreat1
11 жыл бұрын
''It kind of is a form of Ona-as your rightly say-mato-as you pointed out-poeia!''
@Mexicanseafooduk
12 жыл бұрын
David wanted to say something at 2:42. He never gets to say it...
@AllGrowing
10 жыл бұрын
The audience laughing is so loud I can't hear everything they say.
@veeramakela4890
12 жыл бұрын
Someone has probably already pointed it out, but in Swedish a carrot is morot, so there's probably some old common root word for that, maybe in Old Norse?
@Skeew1
13 жыл бұрын
@LinguistDan doesnt it sound like he stole that from one of his old fry and laurie sketches?
@spackhollogay
13 жыл бұрын
@Ansuzie Synesthesia, that's called. Me and my mum both have it.
@HappyPotat
9 жыл бұрын
Tell me more about how a potato should be called a moron in welsh...
@shauna9401
9 жыл бұрын
TheHappy_P0tat0 we potato in welsh is tatan and moron is carrot. I have no idea why its called moron but it sounds cool
@laggrenade863
9 жыл бұрын
Shauna Firth It does in fact come form Greek as Stephen Fry mentions in the clip
@claeshenriksson5702
7 жыл бұрын
It's called almost the same in swedish: "morot"
@xonxt
7 жыл бұрын
And "Möhre" in German, which is also very similar.
@amaliac.2741
11 жыл бұрын
Yes.
@RemusChocolade
13 жыл бұрын
While we're on the topic of synesthesia, I attach colours and shapes to writing styles. Really hard to explain, especially when I always remember the words I want to use in another language than the one I'm speaking. For instance, the part of the book I'm reading now is yellow and narrow. That does in no way means there's a narrow use of language. Most of the Harry Potter-books are kind of coarse, without being what you normally think of as coarse. As I said, really hard to explain.
@retteretter
13 жыл бұрын
@Ansuzie Synesthesia?
@EnoVarma
Жыл бұрын
There's "well-spoken" and then there's Stephen at 1:33.
@HaniiPuppy
12 жыл бұрын
Johnny's adorable xD
@cyanmanta
11 жыл бұрын
Yes, Johnny, they're Mr. Men. Mister Serial Slasher is the kiki, and Mister Explosive Diarrhea is the boba...
@LeBubblesSan
12 жыл бұрын
This was practically a crossover! I wouldn't mind seeing an episode with this panel, but Lee Mack instead of Johnny. Especially if Lee and David are on the same side of the desk.
@crazytosh1
13 жыл бұрын
@MrNinjaSpartan Carrot's a frightfully tinny word if you ask me.
@jaxroam
13 жыл бұрын
@Ansuzie Check "Synesthesia" in Wikipedia (especially "Links with other areas of study")
@LGIndustriplat
11 жыл бұрын
Actually I got it from the Wikipedia article for carrots. Looking in the left column for the links for article in other languages. You can see the spelling. For example, there are many Slavic languages that have spelling similar to Russian. I don't know if they adopted the Russian word, or if it was the other way around. I know that Swedish Vikings travelled far into Russia. It could be that the Vikings brought the name with them, who knows?
@cuckoo61
13 жыл бұрын
@Ansuzie it's called synaesthesia (i think that's how it's spelled, since my mother tongue isn't english :P) and i also see letters and numbers of a certain color. to me c is bright green, but n is dark blue, and y is a soft pink, etc. I find it very useful 'cause it helps me remember how to write difficult words, plus i love linguistics mainly because of that :D
@TheTuttle99
2 жыл бұрын
Mmhm sure you do
@RFC3514
9 жыл бұрын
Rob was kind of channelling the Monty Python "Woody vs. tinny words" sketch, there. kzitem.info/news/bejne/jp2tvn6pkHqmo5w
@FreedomWolf353
12 жыл бұрын
It is true! If you hit a desk it dose actually sound like desk! My hand has gone sore from hitting my desk now. xD
@tommymech
12 жыл бұрын
@JustAnotherHumanist If you listen to S Fry 1st pronounces the Greek word for blunt (moron) at around 2:27 (very short 'o' sounds and a rolling 'r' sound) you'll hear roughly how the word is pronounced in Welsh - not as Brydon says it (I'm assuming you can distinguish between how S Fry says the Greek word 'moron' and how English word is pronounced). Brydon makes a thing about the Welsh word for a carrot whilst not knowing how to pronounce it - he is known (cont....)
@kokoshneta
11 жыл бұрын
Oops, didn’t see your post there. Sorry! (The Germanic *murhon- is naturally a perfectly regular -ōn- expansion of the zero grade: *mr̥k-ōn- => *murhon-. The Welsh would still have to be a loan from Germanic at some stage, though, or it would have retained the velar, à la †morch or †mwrch or something.)
@GoblinXXX
12 жыл бұрын
@Katanalikeskittens Maybe so, but there's a lot less of it. (Just like we all know, deep down, that 100 pounds of feathers weighs just a LITTLE BIT LESS than 100 pounds of lead!)
@supermanlypunch
13 жыл бұрын
I love this show, I wish they'd air it over here in the US. Maybe the calming presence of Stephen Fry on our airwaves will bump the Average IQ up a bit.
@Ingestedbanjo
10 жыл бұрын
How are carrots blunt??? If I was gonna draw a carrot simply, it'd be a long, orange triangle. You could stab someone with a carrot.
@ItsOttis
12 жыл бұрын
Who let Jonny Vegas on Q.I? And why did the audience laugh with him?
@AMPATL
12 жыл бұрын
@cymruisrael Yes! Sounds like a woody kind of word....
@supertown12
12 жыл бұрын
3:20 to 3:30 is brilliant!
@brightonborscht
12 жыл бұрын
free :oscopy at Dr. 4ceps....right?
@leod-sigefast
6 жыл бұрын
Interesting about the Welsh word for carrot (carrot is a borrowing from Greek, ultimately), moron (don't know how it is spelt) but in Old English the word for carrot was 'more'. Pronounced mor'eh'. I wonder if the Welsh borrowed it from the Anglo-Saxons, or vice versa, or if it goes back to mutual origin in Indo-European?
@miriambe7150
5 жыл бұрын
German for carrot is either Karotte or Möhre and the latter is basically pronounced the same as the Old English 'more'.
@jaxroam
13 жыл бұрын
@Ansuzie Check Synesthesia in Wikipedia (especially "Links with other areas of study")
@kokoshneta
11 жыл бұрын
Indirectly, yes. Not Old Norse, but earlier. There is a Common Germanic noun *murhon- meaning ‘root (of a tree)’, which gives among others Old English ‘more’ (meaning ‘root’), German ‘Möhre’, and the first part of Old Norse ‘mor(a)rót’ => Swedish ‘morot’, a ‘more-root’. I would guess the Welsh ‘moron’ is simply an early loan from Germanic into Celtic. Would have to be very early, though, for the n to be kept intact …
@IceMetalPunk
10 жыл бұрын
"Aiti" is also a pretty "round" sounding word as well. Of course, the Finnish for "dad" is "isa" (or isi), which is also pretty round, so...yeah.
@gulllars
11 жыл бұрын
Speaking of Onomatopoeia. A freudian enterpretation would be that "ma" or "mama" could be a variation of "om nom" or "nam"... Like mom. The baby noms on his mom XD
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