He said that in the video.

Wasn’t Latin that has well until 1100 years ago?

@@Dave102693 French was the new latin.

@@human7491 English was the language of business throughout the British empire and French was the language of diplomacy. Not Eurocentrîc.

Until the 1931 Statute of Westminster where the Yanks basically pulled rank, insisting on English first. (I think I have that right.) The USA basically had more influence after stepping in and ending WWI.

Except for French and latin it was more forced upon the anglo-saxon than borrowed or stolen .

"English and humble" in the same sentence...what a joke 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂

It tends to follow other languages into a back alley and mug them for their loose vocabulary... billabong, kangaroo...we'll take those...you can keep your jumbuck...

Já o português, que tem três letras a menos que o inglês (em português não tem as letras K, W e Y), tem umas três vezes mais palavras que o inglês além dos substantivos terem gênero masculino ou feminino. Os tempos e os modos verbais em português são um verdadeiro terror para quem tenta aprender português.

I just tell my students it's a mess! LOL... Don't bother with grammar terms because half the rules you have to ignore half the time. It's a mutt. But that makes it flexible and good for detailed and nuanced uses.

Ouais enfin c’est du clemenceau mdr

Il avait le sens de la punchline comme on dit à présent. C'est quand même le type qui aurait dit à une belle, chez qui il toquait à la porte, et qui ne voulait pas lui ouvrir : "Si vous saviez avec quoi je frappe !". 😆

So, USA is the former colony of a former colony of France? :-)

Italy is a Greek colony that turned wrong, France is a Roman colony that turned wrong, England is a French colony that turned wrong, the US is an English colony that turned wrong. And so goes History of mankind. ;)

@@Clery75019 Excellent !

Salut Eglantine . L'anglais n'est pas une langue germanique . C'est une langue hybride . Autant latine que germanique . La raison pour laquelle les anglais disent que leur langue est une langue germanique est pour un motif d'appartenance éthnique et culturelle . Les anglais , blonds aux yeux bleus , se sentant plus proches des peuples européens du Nord , eux germaniques et blonds aux yeux bleus comme eux . C'est un affichage identitaire . Pour en tirer un prestige , selon la thèse de supériorité aryenne ou germanique sur le reste de la race humaine ... La logique veut qu'une langue qui n'a qu'un mot sur trois de sa langue , de racines germaniques , rien que par la statistique , ne peut se revendiquer comme langue germanique . Les anglais ont le droit de dire que leur langue est germanique , mais nous ne sommes pas obligés d'adhérer à leurs fantasmes d'appartenance identitaire . Nommons l'anglais pour ce qu'il est , rationnellement , c'est une langue hybride germano-latine , une langue indo-européenne ...

@@christopherfreeman1340 The langage spoken prior to the Norman invasion can't be called english in my point of view , since what is now the english langage a build up of that existing langage in the Isle of Britain with french langage .

@@christopherfreeman1340 Normans like William or Guillaume not only were French but were French culturally too especially after 6 generations marrying and having children with the local Franks

You're all speaking as if the French were ZULUS FROM sOUTH aFRICA... The French were originally a mix of Celts and Franks. Franks were a a Germanic tribe

@@faroukabdellah4216 The English are a Celtic people and not a Germanic people. A handful of Germanic took control of the country and their language imposed itself. About 25% of English people have Germanic origins but that does not mean that these 25% of people are 100% Germanic.

That would be rather 56%, because besides French, there is a direct Latin input.

@@tatianaes3354 you are 100% right I should have said that and it is a fact!

Many words in Italian are similar to English because of other reasons too. Many words are similar between many European languages due to other influences. For example, sugar and zucchero: one of many Arabic loanwords. Similar: orange versus arancia, giraf versus giraffa, ... Arabic loanwords.

Hey and you guys owe some reparations payments for your invasion from 43 to 410 AD . Seriously , Romans brought urbanization - Londinium - Christianity - Bricks and Mortar , mosaic tiling , Roman Baths and most famously Roman Roads , to Britain . Parts of the Roman Wall still exist in London . Currency was already in use before the Romans invaded . Also , the Anglo Saxons were not Protestants - as the false stereotype goes . They originally were Pagans and converted to Christianity ( Catholicism ) . They went on Pilgrimages to Rome - which is why there is a Saxonia in Rome . .

Because Italian comes from Vulgar Latin, French Ecclesiastics worked a lot to make it language and influence a lot on the pronunciation and also using the regional language and incorporate it... even Italians who were part of the French dominion were influenced by the French Latin.

In fact French is not French! It is 28% Latin, 25% Germanic, ONLY 28.2% old French (Gaulish), 5.32% Greek and the rest a mixture of 8 other Euro languages! PhD Evolutionary Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley and Univ of Chicago.

@@vintageguitarz1 - Gaulish is not at all Old French. France didn't exist at that time. There are maybe 150 words of Gaulish origin in standard French. The Gaulish language is a Celtic language, which was spoken before the Romans came and conquered the area in the 2nd and 1st centuries before Christ. That put an end to the Gaulish language and the reason why French became a Romance language - it’s because they were forced to speak in the way the Romans speak. Latin became the dominant language in the region and was a requirement if people wanted to rise up the social ranks. The Gaulish language was eliminated, leaving only about 150 words that were included in the French vocabulary. Today, around 70 of those words became the origin of some of the French words today, such as battu, which became ”battre” meaning to beat or batter and artuas that evolved into ”ardoise,” a color that is close to slate or purplish gray.

@@vintageguitarz1 That's wrong. Gaulish isn't french. There were tons of french languages. The french language was refined by absolute literacy genius and France has the highest number of geniuses concerning literature etc.

@@vintageguitarz1 25 % d'origine germanique ? Si ça fait 10 %, c'est beaucoup. Par contre, l'origine latine est bien plus élevée que 28 % 🙃, sans doute autour de 85 %. Par exemple, tous les mots des 2 phrases qui précèdent sont d'origine latine. Et cette dernière phrase, aussi... à part le mot phrase (dont l'étymologie est grecque).

Tu es une quiche mec. Le français du 15ème et 16ème est très largement compréhensible pour un français du 21ème.

Je pense que ça a plus avoir avec corporatisme et corporation, "prendre/donner corps". Le "corps militaire" vient à mon avis plus de la "corporation militaire" que véritablement un corps humain. Même si en latin l'éthymologie est la même.

@@trorisk C'est chouette de donner des leçons de français, mais tu veux peut-être parler "d'étymologie" ? 🙄

Varying success, I agree, depending on the distance from Québec and level of education.

Words taken recently from French keep the French pronunciation like bidet, ballet, and bouquet but older words become anglicized like banquet. 'Chef' is interesting...it became anglicized as "chief" for the boss, except in the kitchen where it kept its French pronunciation "chef".

Francophone Canada can't even pronounce French expressions correctly so you're good

@@lawtraf8008 Could you elaborate on this point?

​@lawtraf8008 Agreed! The French spoken in Quebec is based on an old form of French from centuries ago. To speakers of standard Parisian-style French, the sound of Canadian French, particularly the French spoken in Montréal, is harsh, sloppy and full of vulgar slang. To the non-Canadian francophone world it is an abomination to the mother tongue.

hej bror jag alttför swenska🎇🎆

😂

R u not ashamed of ur country?

Or just return alley haha.

In french we say "impasse" instead of "cul de sac", which has another meaning : situation of which it can't be done to get away

He stayed 4 month in England in his all life if i'm remember.

Volbound1700, the reason for this of course is because in 911 the king of France Charles III the simple gave Rolon, the Viking chief, the duchy of Normandy and one of his daughters in marriage in exchange for his loyalty. Rolon also had to be baptised. Guillaume le Conquérant (William the conqueror), heir to Rolon was also Duke of Normandy as were all his successors. Many wars between the two kingdoms and also within the kingdoms were a consequence of this decision by the king of France in 911.

Volbound1700 richard coeur de lion spent 2 months in england and spoke only french. English kings where french, from anjou ( plantagenets). Have a nice day

@@nicolashommerin7729 thanks for further explanation of my point. I remember it was a very short time.

@@yvespetit je suis normande et j'adore écouter les histoires qui ont fondé ma region telle que je la connais 😌

I think that’s what it means in English too.

This would not have a reason to exist without this particular need Litterally reason to exist and often the only one.

Everything from the « English culture » comes in fact from French culture, even the hat of your royal guard comes from France

Yep, except troubadours' languague isn't french but occitan

@@sampi2082 And trouvadours from Galicia/Northern Spain

King Arthur is Welsh.

@@123Andersonev Actually he's from brittany. The welsh version came later.

intéressante : adjectif verbal au féminin

​​@@marcclassic True but he was speaking Frenglish so gender is not that important while mixing languages.

INTERESSANT, LOL !!

3 languages, c'est classe ! Courage !

Bonne chance mon ami, I wish you good luck in learning French

*miscellaneous

Le mot "miscellanée" existe en Français, même si son emploi est devenu rare. Je suppose que le mot anglais vient de là, car cela a le même sens de "choses diverses".

@@guzy1971 Oui je pense aussi, car j'ai vu ensuite que ce mot a des racines latines ... [early 17th century: from Latin miscellaneus (from miscellus ‘mixed’, from miscere ‘to mix’) + -ous]

@@gabor6259 mischief :)

C'est normal. Moi, en tant qu'anglophone, j'adore certains mots français ... "inéluctable, crépuscule, époustouflant, gésir, certes" parmi certains autres.

In England we say 'The cream of the cream'.

In Australia we used to say the cream of the crop. Not used much now by younger folk.

@@sunisbest1234 Another expression we use here in England is: "The Cream always rises to the top."

@@mikeoglen6848 same here.

@Real Aiglon don't what?

I wonder if "double entendre" is an old usage that in modern French has been displaced by "double sens."

I am French as well, I would only say "le gratin" to talk about the elite ("le XVIème arrondissement est le quartier du gratin parisien"), same as "le haut du panier". I wouldn’t use these expressions to describe something as being the best. I would say either "le top du top" or something like "c’est le haut podium"

@@OceanChild75 Americans say "au gratin" for sprinkled with cheese and or breadcrumbs.

La crême de la crême plus personne ne dit ça , ça fait ringuard

@@Lostouille Ah bon? Qui l'a décrété? Il y a une liste quelque part des mots qu'on peut utiliser et ceux qu'on ne peut pas? Sur tik tok peut-être?

¿Y aprendiste algo siempre? Avez-vous appris quelque chose? Und hast du etwas Spanisch gelernt oder nicht?

English is like a house that's been built by a German, but has been given a makeover by a French interior designer. It's a sort of Esperanto, but with terrible spelling.

Then warum do you have bloody russia in your symbols?

@@josevilas4927 sorry for the late and English reply. Somehow, youtube didn't notify me of any responses until today. I had Spanish for 6 years at school and even became a foreign language correspondence clerk (Staatlich geprüfter kaufmännischer Assistent für Fremdsprachen) for commercial English and Spanish in 1995 but I never worked in that field and completely lost my Spanish since I never got to use it.

@@PUARockstar because I don't think that Russian people or culture can be blamed for what's currently going on. Instead of the hate for everything Russian I show love for ordinary Russians who didn't want this war either but are suffering from being subjected to hate like athletes (just look at how badly Russian tennis players are treated at the Australian open or other tournaments), dancers and musicians (ballet dancers and orchestra conductors lost their jobs simply for being Russian), Russian plays and concerts have been cancelled, Russian monuments have been vandalised. I don't support that behaviour at all therefore I stand with the other side. You didn't see that behaviour when Yugoslavia or Iraq were bombed even after it was revealed that those attacks were based on lies and illegal. When Georgia attacked those two regions in 2008 and Russia fought them back everybody was quick to blame Russia. People still blame Russia for the war in Georgia in 2008 to this day even though the European Union released a statement in 2013 that Georgia started the aggression. People blame Russia for things Russia had no influence over. Russia's official stance on Ukraine has been to settle the conflict peacefully since 2014 to 2022. Even though today we know today from people like Poroshenko, Merkel and Hollande that Ukraine never had the intention to resolve the conflict, Russia still gets the blame. But remember, it takes two to tango. So if you want to blame Russia, fine. But you should at least look at the entire picture and realise that Russia might not have had another option anymore because all other attempts to settle the conflict were exhausted. For 8 years since 2014, 9 years now, people have died in Eastern Ukraine, women and children, old folks who survived WW2, killed by their own government in Kiev. Their only "crime" was that they spoke Russian and did not support the unconstitutional, thus illegal coup d'état in Kiev in 2014. Don't get me wrong, I am against war. When I was 18, military service was still mandatory for men in Germany at the time. I, however, did my duty volunteering for the Red Cross, helping sick and injured people, regardless of their nationality, ethnicity, religion, language. If I was still working for the Red Cross I would have to be neutral, help both Ukrainians and Russians and be impartial. The Red Cross worldwide operates based on 7 fundamental principles. Neutrality and Impartiality are two of them. The first principle, however, is Humanity. The way I understand Humanity is that you don't blame the general population for actions of their government. You take action when you see suffering. We observed suffering and killing in the Donbass since 2014. Russia could have stood by and watch another 8 years or they could decide to try and end the war. Particularly since we know now, as mentioned before, neither France and Germany nor Ukraine had the intention to end it. On the contrary, they signed the Minsk Accords in 2014 and 2015 to give Ukraine the time to prepare for a war with Russia. It should have been France's and Germany's tasks as well as the EU's tasks as a Nobel peace prize laureate to prevent this war. They didn't, for 8 years they let it happen and even helped Ukraine to escalate.

Yes, indeed lots of Greek words in English. I think especially in science and medicine

Or Greek via French (or maybe Latin, not sure) such as "ecclesiastical" (ἐκκλησία = originally meaning 'assembly', then 'congregation' and eventually 'church'), which is the example at 10:32.

Ignore him Begnis this complete fake is talking the usual rubbish he insists on inflicting on UKposts.

In science and math Greek had an influence on most European languages. Often it would enter Latin vocabulary, then spread around Europe and then enter various local languages when latin stopped being the language of instruction at universities.

This has been noted by people for centuries but notice how there is no mention of it in this video. So English is mostly a synthesis of French and Greek. Hey, the French and Greek tend to have the most Neanderthal genes in Europe. Nowadays most "scientists" seek to obscure, not to clarify.

@Fenris De Guyenne - "...En suite" Not used, no equivalence..." C'est une salle de bain attenant à une chambre à coucher adjectif (d'une salle de bains) attenant immédiatement à une chambre et faisant partie d'un même ensemble de pièces. "toutes les chambres ont une salle de bain attenante" adverbe (en référence à une salle de bain) de manière à faire partie du même ensemble de pièces qu'une chambre à coucher. "chaque chambre a une petite salle de bain +en suite+" nom une salle de bains qui jouxte immédiatement une chambre et fait partie du même ensemble de pièces. "la salle de bain est entièrement carrelée en noir et blanc et dispose d'une double douche"

We see "Ensuite" advertised all over Ireland and I am sure that it must greatly intrigue French tourists. It means that you have a bathroom adjacent to (or in) your room!

"French"!

It’s say espirit de corps is equal to “morale”, used on a more defined group of people like a military organisation. Morale is again from the Latin omance language group.

I believe when Peter the 1st wanted to uniform Russian, he did so and imported a lot of french vocabulary.

​@@charlesleninja yes and Russians used much more Frech words in the 18-th century than now. Also, our aristocracy knew and used French in everyday life. We abandoned a lot of French words since that time but it influenced us greatly. There are a lot of French words in our language.

In 18/19th century French was a bit what English is today (before it was Latin).

Lingua franca was the language of diplomacy but now English is lingua franca. At least 41%

Yeah, too much.

You'll have to fault Joan of Arc for saving the English language.

@@kaewakoyangi8071 You are right: if England had won the 100-year war, the french language was still the language in England

Lol. Looking at the influence the English achieved in the world compared to the French, it's clear that he was indeed a silly old duffer - almost as bad as the nauseating de Gaulle!

Every single french colony turned out bad, as in neglected. but that's colonialism for the most part.

As Clemenceau said : "English? It's just badly pronounced French."

I think this is ok for British English but American English probably has a large chunk of Spanish influence.

Absolutely! In your comment alone, aside from the words you pointed out, "similar" is "similaire" in French, "vocabulary" is "vocabulaire", "romance" is the same for both languages, and oh "language" is "langage" or "langue" in French.

Si, yo también me di cuenta hace un tiempo la cantidad de palabras que comparten el inglés y el francés

Combination doesn’t exist in French, use the word « combinaison » instead.

combination doesn't mean anything in french , the correct word is : combinaison

a journey = jornee en ancien français (c'est-à-dire le voyage qu'on fait dans sa journée) etc.

This is one aspect of Japanese that makes it hard to understand because in Chinese many similar sounding words are differentiated by tones. Which Japanese doesn't have so when these words came into Japanese they sounded the same (but written differently in Kanji of course). So, in the spoken sense you have to go by context.

Exact ! ;-)

Serge de Nîmes. The fabric is actual just another serge - which had great durability (‘serge’ refers to the diagonal weave in the fabric which makes tear resistant)

Levi's invented denim

@@ThanxBeToGod Levi Strauss invented blue jeans with rivets at stress points. Nimes fabric houses created 'denim' which Strauss used for his pant.

@@fsinjin60 i know, I'm just trolling for laughs

I heared dutch people saying that English sounds like "a drunk Frisian trying to speak French" 😆

@@casinoheimdall9328 That's interesting, linguisticly, the Frisian dialect is the closest match to English of the Germanic languages.

@@casinoheimdall9328 Lol he has a point !

It s a creole language,you express yourself better in English than in German

English is no German it s not even close to the similarities between Dutch and German which is indeed closer.I study German now and grammar ist somehow dificult

As a french Canadian, I agree with your comment !

French language is the basis, c'est la vie 🤩

I think french speaking countries away from France have a tendency to stick with an older version of the french language, where france's french evolves much more. I've read it's the same with south American spanish compared with spain's spanish.

but do you use coup de grace?

@@Joe-ij6of No, we don't use coup de grace!

But there were quite a few in the history of Japan, are they called differently? Maybe always referred to by single name for the events?

@@rhbb8796 Wow, you know a lot about the history of Japan! Sure Japan had many occurrences of violent uprising or rebellions, and I think those that happened before Edo era (before Japan as a nation was established) are called differently like "muhon(謀反)" as you pointed out. There may be some other words as well which are used for events back in olden days. After that, they are called coup d'etat, like the one that Yukio Mishima planned. But don't quote me on this. This is my personal opinion😀

@@chipmunkforest Haha no, I actually don't have much detailed/in-depth knowledge, just a general overview. But nice to know. Here in German we'd also still nowadays rather say something like "Umsturz" (literally "overthrow"), "Putsch" (of onomatopoeic origin) or "Staatsstreich" ("state trick") but "coup d'état" would be understood by most

Exactement !

Indeed. Many french words imported during the time after the Norman Conquest when many landholders in England held lands also in France.

Je savais pas

Fitz means also illegitimate for instance Fitzpatrick means illegitimate Patrick’s son.

French was also language of aristocracy in Russia before revolution. And there are many words of French origin: душ, багаж, билет, капюшон, библиотека etc. and one word Шаромыжник or beggar has rather sad origin. When frozen napoleon solders we’re knocking Russian peasant doors and begging Cher Ami which became sharomiznik or beggar

For sure. I speak Spanish natively. I could understand spoken and written Portuguese and Italian very well without previous knowledge of these languages. With French, it's another story. I could understand much more written than spoken French. I have studied these languages and now I can understand them without trouble but French was the hardest of them all.

@@mep6302n

@@estaymaxime6010 Il suffi de changer le "W" Anglais par "Gu" pour retrouver le mot Français ainsi William devient Guillame, soit Guillaume. Passionné de Moyen âge, j'ai référencé un millier de mots qui ont les mêmes origines. Un autre exemple, l'accent est tardif en Français, un "s" était placé après la voyelle et cette dernière disparaîtra souvent en langue Anglaise. Ainsi "school", vient de l'ancien Français "Escole" aujourd'hui "école", le surf de Surflot (la dernière syllabe disparaît). Après il y a l'écriture à la "sms", le basket vient de la Basse-quête", un panier percé utilisé lors de la quête à l'Eglise, pour les plus pauvres qui pouvait récupérer la pièce donnée, un moyen de donner l'impression de participer. Le plus marrant ce sont les "comiques" , une case de bas relief d'une église et un ensemble qui racontait une histoire s'appelait une "merveille". Elles étaient peintes de couleurs vivent et les saints présents étaient souvent représentés d'une plus grande taille tout comme le malin. Vous avez l'origine des BD US soit les Comics (Comiques) de Marvel (Merveille) et Spiderman, Superman ne sont que de Saints ce dernier est vêtu d'une braie (culotte), de Chausses (des collants) et d'un manteau (la cape). Pour donner une idée : facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1534087069936631&set=pb.100000060574925.-2207520000.&type=3

it's true the French language is Latin, but also with Celtic roots and Germanic influences

@@mep6302 Probably French is so hard because it is the less pure of all the Latin languages (or the more mixed language): mostly Latin but also Gaulish (Celtic) and Germanic.

@TheClassicalSymphonyit's a matter of taste

@TheClassicalSymphony I'm hiding nothing but my superior French which is far better than your average English.

@@Soclean07 Plutôt par jalousie. Le français est la plus brillante langue.

@TheClassicalSymphony bruh the first three are the good sounding ones 💀

​@@vincentlefebvre9255 si brillante qu' elle s'éteint peut-être due à son arrogeance étouffante?😂😂

It's a passion of mine. Many thanks.

I totally agree. This explanation of the origins of the English language was great.

I liked it very much, too. I think it was informative and educational.

dido!

In German "Tier" just means animal, but sounds very familiar to "deer". In another video someone pointed out that the English "fee" (monetary) and the German "Vieh" (cattle /livestock) are cognates from a time people paid their debts with some cows or pigs.

@@henningbartels6245 Yes, there are lots of interesting etymological backgrounds like that. One related is that salary was once payment in actual grains of salt(!), which I guess must have been expensive to produce in the Roman empire.

@The505Guys More because so many people confuse it with the English term for Tyskland, Deutschland, l’Allemagne.

@@henningbartels6245 In Dutch animal is 'dier'. And livestock is 'vee'. Yet pig is 'varken'. We use 'zwijn' for boar.

Tierchen (little animal) has been used as a non-specifc term for insect/bug. e.g. Es gibt Tierchen im Schlafsack. "There are bugs in the sleeping bag."

It's like Italian influencing Latin makes no difference since they shared vocabulary.

@@arolemaprarath6615 what do you say ? Simply, latin is the mother of Italian, french, spanish, Portuguese, Rumanian... languages

They call him William the bastard... they didn't know that bastard is a french word too

@@fabs8498 bâtard, qui vient du latin bastardus... le français est juste une évolution locale du latin (vulgaire, essentiellement)

'Chum' is an english too

Much appreciate your comments. Yes, believe or not, I like working with Jon. He always has an interesting take. I like making history videos, there is a lot more to talk about on the subject of the Anglo-Saxons, the Vikings etc. Stay tuned.

@@LetThemTalkTV I have no doubts Jon is great. I will stay turned

Interesting thanks I always wondered where that expression came from

Black beast

@@kevin080592 oui je parle francais

"Cease and desist" is from Latin/French. Also, it is unclear if "battery" and "abet" are native English words, or if they are loanwords from French. But, if they are loanwords from French, then those words were loanwords into French from Germanic languages. "Battery" is cognate with the English word "beat" and "batter", and "abet" is cognate with "bite" and "bait", either in the sense that if you are "abetting" someone you are helping them, or *feeding* them, or in the opposite sense that you are *inciting* a crime by "setting you dogs" on someone, thus *feeding* your dogs

Not quite. I'm not sure about the etymology of "abet", but in several of these cases, both terms are actually derived from the French and have slightly different but complementary meanings (e.g. "assault" is identical to the French and "battery" is derived from "battre" and has the specific legal meaning of an assault that succeeds in making physical contact). The same is true of "cease" (from "cesser": same meaning in French) and "desist" which in French is a reflexive verb, "se désister", that means "refrain from", just like in English. The first obviously means to stop doing something, the second to not doing it in the future.

@@tjstarr2960 To beat a person in french is battre une personne. Battre and battery are obviously related.

Assault and battery are both clearly French words, and they mean different things. Assault is to jump towards (ad saltare) someone in a threatening manner, and battery is from the French via the Latin battuere, to beat

This is all piffle, squire. Evidently, you've lapsed into old habits. Cease and desist from this Ginger Beer malarkey, with its inebriated snail-in-the-bottle. I'm shocked and stunned at your behaviour in cyberspace. Who needs further and better details, so try inhaling one of Carlill's carbolic smoke balls. That should sober you up, squire...

C'est vrai mais "has-been" devient un peu "has-been".

But I'm pretty sure we pronounce "coup" as "koo", as they do in French, no? Not "Q"... Phonetically, we say a "military koo", not a "military Q", no?

In English, ‘Double entendre’ should break theFrancophone rule and be pronounced as ‘dubble entendre’. It clarifies that one means ‘the second interpretation should taken as being sexually risqué’ not just the ‘two meanings’ of « dooblay sens ». The use of French in English is fraught with connotation added to the French words based on the English bigoted view of the French.

Thus « bon mot » does not mean a good word or even the proper diplomatic way of putting forth an idea, but brings in the feeling that it is not exactly true. Flattery, if you will.

If you think that makes little sense you should hear the French spoken in Quèbec Canada.

@@buckodonnghaile4309 I listen to WNYC where the French evening show alternates between Caribbean and Canadian. (Mostly Caribe though). It is hard to understand either and it doesn’t help with Poitevin where my belle-sœur has a home. Parisian is the only accent I can understand clearly. Damn Berlitz and British French training.

@@Gally-Leo QUOI???

war criminal scum

"Perhaps, that is what makes the British Army so effective?" Just by this phrase of self-praise, we understood that you were British...😆

wow never knew this

Absurdité. Lorsque la reine Victoria s'est disputée avec Albert, son mari, ils se sont criés dessus en allemand.

@@klauskruger6187 ja, Victoria kunde inte låta bli, hon kunde inte svenska, franska och knappt tyska... Hon var inte riktigt "klokt"...

@@felixlafleurie7856 Det är synd att jag inte pratar svenska. Då kunde jag förstå dig och skriva till dig att drottning Victoria talade tyska och franska mycket bra.

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The "pour parler" scene in Pirate of the Carribean is hilarious, Jack stutters over the words

Better Bag-End than Bell-End.

@@lohphat Dead-end. The literal translation of cul-de-sac is ass of bag.

@@sylviemanson9761 «Coup de grâce !»

Merci beaucoup et buon Natale

@@LetThemTalkTVThanks, Merry Christmas to you all🌲🎅✨

good idea

Same thing in french

I believe that those "Germanic words in English" essentially belong to the "33% Native English" group. In the food-animal table in the video, I would like to have seen an extra column listing the Dutch name for the food; thus kalfsvlees, schapenvlees, varkensvlees etc. for veal, mutton, pork etc. (with Dutch vlees being cognate with English flesh, kalf with calf, shaap with sheep etc.). Learning French and Dutch would cover 41% + 33% = 74% of English. Together with much overlap between the 15% of Latin words and modern French (the latter having descended from vulgar Latin), that might cover some 89% of English! Even the spelling of Dutch gives insight (inzicht) into the nowadays incomprehensible spelling of English, harking back to more Germanic days; thus: enough (genoeg), light (licht) etc. Saying these English words of Germanic origin as they are actually written brings them close to their counterparts in (their cousin language) Dutch.

@@posfr292 - At university in Canada, on our year-end exam in our required English Literature class, we had to translate a long passage from Chaucer (1340 -1400 AD) into modern English, and speaking Dutch and French made it a cinch.

@@posfr292 is Dutch a language or a dialect of German? lowen Deutsch? Lowland German.

Isn’t Dutch really Anglo-Saxon’s parent tongue? (Or cousin or bastard uncle?)

How similar is Dutch and Frisian?

lol. That is what Google Translate says if you put the words in separately.

You're much more likely to find a "cul-de-sac" street sign in an English-speaking country than in France (where I only ever remember having seen "impasse" on signsduring my extensive walks across the country). Here in Canada, I have seen "cul-de-sac" used as the single bilingual term on street signs (in those provinces that have bilingual English/French signage), but I'm not certain what sign is used in Québec (where signs are typically unilingual in French).

An excellent method.

@The505Guys Well as a french, though I can't speak latin, I understand of these words in latin. Because we have a latin language. Only 50% according to weird numbers. But greek, gaulish and especially latin are our roots.

@The505Guys Do you not think it could be said that it's a pretty wide assertion that "almost no-one knows the meaning" of the words you chose? English has the widest vocab of any other language - but a large part of our vocabulary is only used in specialist disciplines. e.g. I both know & use the words above, but the minute an IT expert starts talking to me I have no idea what most of what they are saying means. And "Business English" is becoming almost a second language, where existing words are assigned totally different meanings. So perhaps there are people who don't know what some of these words mean: but to educators, writers, actors, Lit. students, politicians, translators, avid readers etc. they hold no mystery. Whereas a lot of the words used by statisticians, lawyers, designers, mechanics, - even gardeners - have me scratching my head and begging for understanding! That, to me, is one of the joys of English (I do speak a couple of other languages)- no matter what you do, or who you are, there is always a word which means exactly what you want to say. So you never stop learning. :)

@The505Guys I agree that the words you listed are not common, or - apart from peripatetic - even 'Standard English'. But my point was that with the vast store of English words available to us, the more of them we know, the better we can express exactly what we want to say clearly & with an accuracy that allows for no "wriggle room" or misunderstanding. And the better we can understand what it is others down the ages have said to us. People know far more words than they actually use in casual conversation - in a casual conversation with one's doctor, vet, chemist they aren't going to lay any of their vast store of technical words on us.(Tho' often a person who isn't a native speaker will understand a term if its of Latin derivation : it will be the same in their language.) I speak French and my favourite language of all to speak - Melanesian Pidgin where there often aren't actual words for things, one has to describe them! I spoke enough Mandarin in China and Afrikaans in South Africa to get by - and understood more Zulu than I could actually speak. As what I do concerns the English language, I also speak & understand Middle English - but my Old English is rather rusty, as I discovered only last week! Cheers.

Yes ,im french and speaking a little German , and it s obvious English'' speaking '' has more germanic influence than french one .

DOUBLE SENS....almost contrary to a cul de sac...almost.

great !

Voili voilou

@@fiz2659 😆

Voilà is literally vois + là = see + there

Voila - there it is; Voici - here it is. Something I remember from French class decades ago (in Michigan, USA). Always thought it was funny only "voila" was common in English.

@@asonetuh6094 Absolutely! Memory works in mysterious ways :) Voici is also less common in French, especially in spoken language. Voilà has largely taken over; as it's often the case, the ease of use has won against the added precision.

If you don't mind me asking which company did you use to check your ancestral DNA? My daughter is very curious and her birthday is coming up.

I am French. From Brittany (West Part of France). Generations after generations. We are the celtic part of France. So I did a DNA test, for fun too. And boy, we can say we are cousins : I am ... 15% french only. For the rest : 55% Scotland, 13% Ireland, 10% England and 7% Wales. So a total of 85% UK/Ireland After all, "Bretagne" ("Brittany" in EN), and we call Great Britain in French "Grande Bretagne". Makes sense ;-)

@@buckodonnghaile4309 - apparently, I can't give you the names of companies (I tried and they took down my first reply). I used the largest and most heavily advertised company for my 'basic' DNA analysis.

Spot-on. Usage frequency and essentiality are the important parameters. It's all but impossible to make a sentence without English words because the basic building blocks of the language are all from OE. Most French input is in the form of synonyms for objects. They give more flexibility but don't have more credence purely by their numbers.

@@Westwoodii... In your sentences there is 14 french words, try to reformulate your sentences without these words if it's possible.

@Jmcc159...french didn't influence Welsh because french was spoken only among the ruling class, who put the rules and laws and lead the army, not by the people, cos the french didn't create a colony with french people, like the previous invaders (Saxons) that merged with th locals. But there's an important thing brought by the french to the Welch: the myth of King Arthur (who never existed).

Hello. Laisser faire, force majeure and savoir vivre are very common in France. En route has a different meaning (En route pour Londres !). Double entendre is double sens or sous-entendu in French.

it's because we say "double sens", "double entendre" mean nothing

Double entendre ? We don't use it in France

The English name of the flower pansy comes from pensée - 'thought.'

Dent de lion = lion's tooth

Thanks for your comments. If you'd won the battle of Stamford Bridge we'd be communicating in Norse now (which would be the international language).

@@LetThemTalkTV Surely no connection with Chelsea's ground... 😄

No

@@soundscape26 nope.😅 Sheer history.👍

@@ejlufpedersen742 I figured so... interesting to read that historical tidbit, thanks.

It makes the pronunciation a mess though. Words that a similar are pronounced very different. For those who haven't grown up with the language that makes it very difficult.

Beallucas!

I do agree with you !

Yes, corps in "esprit de corps" has nothing sense about the body. Corps is a part of the army. So that mean the strong feeling of being part of this corps : We call esprit de corps the loyalty that we give to our peers in relation to society, to the nation, or to beliefs. Concretely, this requires having lived common experiences (positive or negative) which give the feeling of being "apart". Subsequently, when the survival, or simply the interests of the group are threatened, its members will mobilize more in its favor: they "unite".

More to the point French speakers should use the French word with ‘German’ pronunciation (hard consonants) to get an English listener to comprehend. Quartier => kwa rter, pour example.

I think he said "top du top" (c'est le top du top ce truc) et je t'assure l'entendre très souvent (I often hear it in France)

@@astree214 Yes Top du top belongs to modern French (TV language)

We still use cul-de-sac...

Indeed.

We simply love using French words when we want to sound posh!

'veneson' is the old French spelling of venaison

French/latin origin words extracted from your comment ;) : - Material => Matériel - Aired => Air (dans les airs) - Decent => Décent - Classification => Classification (all the words ending with "tion" come from the french : Constitution, Declaration, etc...) - Length => Derivated from "Long/Longueur" - Piece => Pièce - Examples => Exemples ("e" instead of "a" or vice-versa) - Covered => Couvert - List => Liste - Identified => Identifié - Long => Long - Point => Point - Resources => Ressources (with 2 "s") - Recommend => Recommande

@@Rilcy2003 very clever!

Cul-de-sac in the UK is universally known as a place where there is a bulbous dead end with houses surrounding it. Without the houses it's usually just a dead end or a turning circle.

In French, un cul de sac, is the dead end of a street or a road. Not meaning what size has this end.

In the USA city design house ring the circle and it has to be big enough for Fire Trucks use it like a roundabout. It's the layout that is the Cul de sac the dead end is just a feature.

This was Tolkien’s first etymological joke in the Hobbit. Bilbo was a lowly hobbit so he lived in Bag End not in a fancy cul-de-sac.

Beyond what was already said, a cul de sac has become has become a classy feature for a home location in the USA, which costs more (because of no traffic.) Cul de sac was no doubt selected by real estate developers for its name because it sounds French, even if you don't know French. French implies something classy in style. (The creme de la creme of real estate locations!) The cul de sac's not far from me were not impeded from continuing by anything. You would in fact get into the rest of the neighborhood much easier with a few more feet of road. People that miss the correct turn to get into the rest of one neighborhood evidently turn down the next streets (which are cul de sacs), logically thinking that works, so they have put up signs saying "DEAD END," to reduce traffic. OTOH people are not exact about what exactly a dead end is. Unlike every other major road, one of them near here stops at a T, where they have never built a bridge over the wide stream, and the road picks up again the other side. People generally say it's a dead end, even though there is this T where you can turn and proceed. (There are steel barricades there, which have to be periodically replaced, when yet another car slams into them. That's besides the stop sign and the giant "ROAD ENDS" sign.) Of course there are lots of streets that seem to end in a T, but jog over about a block, and it continues with the same name, and people don't call it a dead end.

"French speaker"?

​@Real Aiglon I'm french, i know that entendre means "hearing", when "hearing" is a subject or an object in a sentence. Entendre is the infinitive in french, yes, but you should know that a french infinitive does not equal to the infinite in english. OBJ : Il a du mal à entendre → He has trouble hearing. SUB : Entendre est devenu difficile avec l'âge → Hearing has become difficult with age. You wouldn't say "He has trouble to hear" or "To hear has become difficult" When you use "double entendre" it's never used as a verb. So it shouldn't be translated as one. You need to differentiate names and functions.