What If English Were Phonetically Consistent?

[oliviamarie]

apparently pirates have been speaking the most proper english of all

[awilix]

innocent viewer in the beginning: "why are there captions?"

same viewer at the end: "oh..."

[donnaroe]

I’m not only impressed by the research and editing of the video, but the absolute dedication to record the script progressively more phonetically consistent one vowel at a time is CRAZY impressive. I know this video is old now but awesome job on this and the follow up!! :)

[Hortondlfn]

I can never make it through this video without crying with laughter. It is BRILLIANTLY funny!

[booboodadfool]

At a certain point you just sounded like you were giving the dragonborn a quest.

[jairusmislang]

so basically... the sims had a perfect consistent phonetic english all this time

[notchpoodles]

The dedication and practice this guy must’ve done in order to be able to mispronounce these words so well is impressive

[xavigr]

As a native Spanish speaker, this would save us years of learning English, since we always pronounce the vowels the same way. It's amazing to see how easy it sounds and how easily it's understood at first glance - at least for me - the final part.

[smekneil]

When he started speaking in sim I felt that

[thelegend]

This sounds like a combination of Chinese and German spoken by a pirate.

[stevencooper]

At one point, it actually began to sound like a very ancient language; very interesting.

[AlexKubacki]

I was really really really hoping this video was going to take a certain path, and it ABSOLUTELY DID. I can only imagine each vowel took exponentially more takes :D

[mozzie]

This is how google sounds trying to pronounce foreign names

[OpelKadett]

"What If English Were Phonetically Consistent?"

**cries in Old English**

[tomashrazdira]

In Czech Republic we also pronounce everything with phonetic consistency. When you see a word written on a paper you automatically know how to pronounce it.

It is so natural to me, that at the end it was very easy for me to follow the Shakespeare's Hamlet and predict in my head how you'll say it just from the text.
Funny how brain works.

[Your-Average-Nerd]

I didn’t realize until “I” that he was applying the consistency and it scared me

[peterayoub]

Can we just appreciate the fact that this guy had to unlearn english to make this video?

[zur]

1:55 he Englished so hard he started speaking French.

[meghansullivan]

i used to think accent marks were simply added confusion to languages, especially w so many like in french, but now i realize how much theyre actually helping us by literally LETTING US KNOW what sound to make!!!!

[JfromUK_]

That was an outstanding effort to read that with only five vowel sounds!

I'm inclined to point out that other languages have more vowel sounds, but denote them using accents (and I'm studying Hungarian, which is ruthlessly phonetic by comparison), but English seems to be allergic to those. Last year I had a go at developing an accent system for English... it got quite messy.