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Hi! Gen Z Southerner. People actively trying to rid themselves of their accent is absolutely correct and I’m proof of it. Anti-Southern bias (some unfounded, some founded) has caused me to actively work on ridding any drawl in my accent. I still say y’all and that’s about it. It’s mostly a thing that younger generations are subscribing to.

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"gods observe mortals in mirror like surfaces" I think they are referring to apple tablets.

7:40 Is language like a piece of kitchen towel?

4:11 Got you there, Erica - Scots and Geordies (Newcastle upon Tyne) will pronounce those as hoose and hoond.

In old English night was pronounced as nicht.

1:22 You sound like Lois Griffin.

A quick fix: punctuation.

PIE = *ghel gives us GELB in German.

Not all languages have the same words for colour = I'm a semanticist. Orange the fruit is first.

Like in all developed countries, folks move around a lot more, and so the "standard accents" are literally killing off regional dialects. This not just in America, but also very prevalent in Europe. In the 1950s nearly all old timers across rural England still pronounced the 'R' after a vowel.

0:47 The bird is the word!

They are the most aggressive zombies you nut bar. Walking dead zombies are easy pickings

this is way too detailed for a myth, whoever made this creature had a lot of fun 😅

my whole family call me by my nickname as you can see here, which is just a common name in my country, so not sure which category it belongs to 😅

So Jeffery Dhamer was a Zombie

It's pronounced very differently than you pronounce it... the gallick pronunciation is more like "two-ah-tha day da-non"... I have a lot of Irish friends and spent a lot of hours learning gallick pronunciation

Small kids were taught to communicate with sign language before being verbal.❤

I have spoken French for 28 years but cannot say the uvular R well enough.

Children and Jonathan Ross have rhotacism - pronounce R as W.

Erica, I'm a linguist and find this very interesting.

I have trouble finishing a sentence in the same language I started it in. I'll start in Spanish or English or French and end in Arabic or Romanian or French. Then I get all confused and can't remember what I was saying in the first place.

I'd like to hear you explore some of the Irish Epics.

lambchop!

How many times did you have to practice those names??

Bunyip's are not a myth A couple of decades ago i lived in the town Batchelor in the Northern Territory i loved going swimming at the Rum jungle Lake one particular day i was shocked what i saw it was not human it was tall thin jet black in colour had eyes on its face but i didn't see a mouth ears hair ect it had weird hands thumbs and flippers wish i had my camera with me so i could take a few photos not to prove to anyone what i saw but to keep for my self and to show my mates it was standing near a tree and close to the water it kept staring at me i wasn't scared of it just curious i went back many times for a swim but i never saw the creature again its taken me up to now to know what i actually saw i was told by the local indigenous people to be careful walking through the bush as the Devil is in the bush back then i believed in Aliens so that's what i thought i saw I'm so happy to finally find out what i actually saw was a Bunyip 👍

About 28 years ago, I had a College Algebra teacher who hailed from Georgia. She was very cute, but her deep Georgia accent made her very hot!

Sounds to me like that last one was more of an “eggcorn.”

As an Italian, there is also the fact that English is just easy as a language (for better or for worse), at least when compared to other languages we have here. When you mentioned the influence of pop culture I also want to add how much the internet and its americanization also influenced the spread of English in a faster and easier way for foreigners.

Try being trilingual

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Changed the zombie? He invented the undead corpse zombie. Before Romero there were voodoo zombies which aren’t actually dead and the mythological ghoul which were magical

Would 小妹妹 be a double diminutive? Due to chinese culture's focus on age meimei is more a specific phrase for younger sister, and the xiao is the only diminutive imo. Let me know what you think!

I bet that, if presented with the two words "familect" and "marriage language", and asked which one came from TikTok and which one is used by linguists, a lot of people would get it wrong.

What about a pair of boobies? Yes that’s the blue footed bird booby bird.

But Frank killed the new girl 🤔

my mom calls me tesorito <3

Dude from Fallout 76

Do you like Supernatural Series with Sam and Dean as hunters

I guess that’s why I call my son Frankie “Frankfurter” cuz he’s so cute I want to eat him up

Bullshit

Too bad you didn't told about Bassilisk of Warsaw, a legend from 15th century that tolds there is bassilisk in cellar at Wivked Wheel/Krzywe Koło street of Old Town

My husband has three main ones, Tall Man (used so often my mother uses it), Beardy Man, and Baldy. He is anything but bald but we once shaved all his hair off in support of his sister going through chemo and the name stuck. He calls me Moochy and I’m entered in his phone as “The Queen 1005 Sparkly Flowers” (yes really) which was a name our niece gave me once during a game of pretend like seven years ago. I refer to our niece and nephews as Monkey or Monk. My dad calls me Jester. My MIL still teasingly calls my husband Sweet Cheeks even well into his 30s. Everyone in the family refers to my BIL as Mr. Special. It is funny how these names stick from even the smallest things. I’m curious about couple names? Like Brangelina. Is that something new or something we’ve been doing for centuries or is it something new to the past few decades?

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In Korea, there's a tale of a troll or monster that steals children, leading to parents to give their children names like "개똥이," literally meaning "dog poo," or other unflattering names. This tradition aimed to make the children seem undesirable, thus deterring the trolls from believing there were children in the homes.

THE PRIEST OF APOLLO AND DIONYSUS AT DELPFI PLUTARCH   (AD 46 - AD 119) IN HIS BOOK ''ABOUT ISIS AND OSIRIS '' PROVES WITH SHOCKING ARGUMENTS AND EVIDENCE THAT BOTH ISIS AND OSIRIS AND THE RELIGIOUS TRADITION OF THE EGYPTIANS IS AT ITS BASE ABSOLUTE GREEK.

So the harmful, discriminatory way you speak of eastern thought of astrology? Seems pretty hypocritical coming from a western scientist, who operates in a capitalist market. Hmmm..wonder who I should believe

I've heard parallels drawn between the story of prometheus and that of luckier, which inspires in me reflective caution 🧐

A lot of French dishes are named after their place of invention, so you may not know their ingredients.

Fisk is the Danish for fish so it probably derives from Norse, not Anglo Saxon. I could be wrong.