Linguist reacts to Loïc Suberville & funny language skits!

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intro: 00:00 – 01:19
my linguistic background: 01:19 – 02:20
embarrassed vs embarazada: 02:20 – 05:19
greek i: 05:19 – 07:07
pain de mie vs pandemic: 07:07 – 08:28
april fish: 08:28 – 1

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[hahym]

Something funny about your trouble with preservative, in french (préservatif) it is use for both. You can use it for extending the life of food, but also to protect against pregnancy. An other word use for preservatif, against pregnancy, is condom.

[livethaipol]

Me too, as a linguist, like his shows soooo much.

[samaelreidrev]

Heya ! French person here to talk about Pandémie/Pain de mie and April's fish :

So, I never thought people could confuse the two but it's quite evident hearing it^^ So of course Pain and Pan aren't pronounced the same, Pain is kind of prononced like the english Pain but you forget about the N, but the biggest tell is de/dé : De is pronounced Deuh and Dé is pronounced liek Day but you forget the greek I.

For April's fish I do not know the originin, like at all, and it ain't really a hollyday, there's no "celebration" kind of like Valentine ? It's just a day for pranks (especially when we're little) for example my Brother cut and hid the "ticket" sewn to a cloth that make malls detector ring. He hid in one of my vestmany pockets and it took me several weeks before I found what was going on.
And Yes, there was a little fish drawn onto the ticket.

[saraaranel]

Danes mi je YT priporočil en tvoj video in, glej, brskam naprej po tvojem kanalu. Luštne vsebine! Sama prav tako rada pogledam Loicove prispevke in mi je tak humor izredno zabaven. Verjetno je v tem nekaj geekovske dušice. 🙂
Naj dodam še dve jezikovni stvari:
- Poljaki prav tako ipsilonu rečejo ygrek. Hvala, da si mi razjasnila, od kod prihaja to poimenovanje, saj mi med učenjem poljščine ni bilo jasno.
- Še en klasični medjezicni zatik: utrujena in trudna v hrvaščini (trudna=noseča)
Veliko navdiha pri ustvarjanju vsebin ti želim!

[AtheosAtheos]

5:23 > He did a little mistake here, it's "i grec" and not "i grecque". Because i is considered as masculine.

[williamcarr]

Your videos are brilliant as always, Lana. Keep up the great work.

[genio]

Native Spanish speaker here.
To be fair, Embarazado(a) does mean embarrassed, but it is pretty much never used, usually opting for avergonzado or apenado. What is used though is embarazoso (adjective for embarrassing), which is still sometimes used.
That being said, don't go and said you're embarazado because people will think you're pregnant (and maybe crazy)

And also, in Spanish we say both I griega & Ye, and also we call the normal i I latina, when we want to differenciate between the two.

[Flippotycoon]

I really like his videos my sister actually introduced me to his channel.

[APOLLOPATRIOT]

I always enjoy your stuff ya woman of culture 🗿🏆 keep on dat grind have a God blessed day 🍻 !

[thomasruhm]

When I first learnt the word «pregnant» I thought it was like German «prägnant». And I thought it means that the woman mentioned in the example was annoying or something.

[vjtkjwi]

We have the same thing in Portuguese (from Portugal) about the "Y", we say igrego, and we also have ipslon

[smallsignals]

HAHAHA when I walked the Camino the number of times I apologised by for the bad Spanish by stating that I was very pregnant is impossible to count. This made me feel mildly less stupid (thankfully, I'm not embarrassed about it anymore as I realised halfway through the trip. I'm over it now.)

[Kynos]

in canada its normal the paper fish. in french canada anyway. my wife is a master on pranking me.

[lisaroper]

As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints our memebers go on long missions all over the world, and the number of hilarious word mixups is huge! And hilarious.

[lukescanlon]

I speak 7 languages and I don't consider myself a polyglot.

The magic 2 digit number starting at 10 is where subjectivity I believe one can be considered a polyglot.

Though people do claim me to be a polyglot I believe that I won't achieve this until I add 3 more languages. I start Connacht Gaelic today coincidentally which is the language of my fathers heritage.

I plan to also learn Catalan which I understand but only speak a limited amount of but is an easy achieve because of its mutually intelligibility with Spanish. Also Galician is an easy achieve with Portuguese which is basically Portuguese with a Spanish pronunciation.

Also I plan to learn Sicilian which is similar to my language from Italy, Uaštaréule. Being this language is also mixed with Spanish I do understand quite an amount of Sicilian.

I'm 38 years old so I am hoping by the time I am in my 60's I speak 15+ languages.

[ΜαριοςΜπεικος-ρη]

hey, native greek here. quick correction: the greek y sounds closer to the slovanian than the german. its the letter "ύψιλον" where both ύ & ι are pronounced the same (with the first one being stressed, like the spanish accent mark/tidle ) the sound they make its a clean "ee" as in keep. the letter ψ makes the ps sound like when you want to get the attention of a cat (pspsps) 😂😅. the rest of the letters are λ, o & ν which make the l (L), o & n (a clean "o" and an "n" as in the word on ). for those who can read spanish the pronounciation would be "ípsilon" .

[bebbization]

I think the video is a bit overexposed or maybe it's the contrast that's a bit high, but it's nice to test out and try out lighting and scenery. The light gives a nice depth though.

[HitsujiMamoru]

The thing to do on the Poisson d’Avril holiday for the last few years has been hoaxes. And I got tricked by that more than I care to admit lol —I’m extremely cautious now: if the news is proven right on April 2, then I believe it lol

[edwardpaddock]

Yeah, English is roughly 1/2 French, and 1/2 German.

[didgerihorn]

The German meaning of Präservativ is the same as the Slovenian