What if English Only Used Romance Terminology?

[iGuessItsAzure]

His trial for English Premium ended mid video

[katamattyon]

Ah yes, Anglese. It has its own subreddit

[nurgleGurgell]

Pretty much every "fancy" english word is of french or latin origin.

[nameymcnameface]

This is kinda how VSauce Michael speaks

[TanookyTeneka]

I'm Spanish so fact checking if I could properly translate that into Spanish while keeping the words more less the same was pretty fun

[TheOwlOf]

People point out how words with romance origin words there are in english but never the somewhat surprisingly high amount of germanic words there are in french.

[FerShibli]

As a Brazilian, the romance part sounded so easy to process! It was so satisfying to hear 😂 😂 😂

[SurfTheSkyline]

I love the immediate payoff of the contrast between exclusively using Romance vs Germanic. The Romance sounds very unnatural with the sheer density of incredibly uncommon words that have to be used and feels incredibly strange even if it all makes perfect sense while the Germanic didn't even make me bat an eye.

[guney]

someone made a conlang called "Britannian" which is if English was a romance language

[dallNoki]

Why is this nerdiness so attractive to me…….

[snifey]

He became an antipodean for moments there

[-haclong]

As a Dutchman, Anglish seems like a variant of the same language. This is also the reason why Dutch people typically score the highest among non-native speakers (because it's a West Germanic language), while Danes are usually #2 (a North Germanic language, so there's more distance).

[Nifuruc]

Almost every word in English has a latin/french/germanic counterpart. Especially animals and tools which developed different semantically. "Cat" for example is the animal while "feline" refers to all cat-like animals. A stool (germanic) is a chair (french) without the rest.

So it's no wonder he can do what he's doing in the video. But he's absolutely right that all the prepositions and important grammatical lexems derived from germanic. Brilliant video!

[egcg]

I had a hypothesis that the more haughty dialects of English from England (the kind non-native English speakers would consider “proper” compared to American English) just has a higher amount of Latin origin words in it, whereas American dialects probably stuck closer to the Germanic heavy version. And due to social classes ideology that were prevalent in England, anything with Germanic origins sounds to be of more lower brow speaking versus the fancy multisyllabic Latin speak.

[FelixEvers]

I love the use of you snapping to distinguish between the two!

[binaryblade]

It just sounded like an academic paper.

[thecurdy]

Damn, you had me on the Anglic words bit

[SongBillong]

You're a bloody clever chap! Brilliant work

[EvanUnknown]

Dude the romance words only just sounds like Captain Holt

[braddo]

This is the best ive ever seen anybody pull this off 😂 we attempted this when studying english lit in highschool, was SUPER fun.