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Stephen Fry on Planet Word, MIPCOM 2010
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- čas přidán 14. 08. 2024
- In this exclusive interview with MIPCOM daily News' Julian Newby, Stephen Fry discusses his new 5-part linguistic documentary series Planet Word, produced by Fry's company Sprout Pictures. It will screen on the UK's BBC2 late 2011.
uh boy, no matter what the topic is, I think Stephen can talk about it for days on end without repeating himself..
..and we are more than happy to listen!
Luckily I sat down in front oif the TV by accident last night and caught the first episode; fantastic series, I can't wait for next week!
it is because of this series that Stephen will have a cameo role in the Irish language 'Ros na Run'.
Language in Irish is 'Teanga', which means 'tongue'.
So excited about this new series.
Ah! Indeed. Thanks for the free proof-reading services. I appreciated it. We can now go to print! :)
Sorry that's my naughty little son! Great programme. Fascinating facts about pinyin man.
@YourFaceWillDie468 I think you misunderstood me. My point was that there is a larger vocabulary in German, meaning you have to say *less* than you would in English. Example: "Scotland has a climate that can have negative health impacts." German: "Schottland hat ein Belastungsklima."
Oh, this promises to be something marvelous! It's Stephen Fry's documentary, after all... :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Mr. Fry- I love your mind.
Fry has thought me more in sixteen minutes than any of my school teachers could teach me in a full day.
@FredericBayer As a speaker of both German and English, and also being student in lingustics, I'd say that there clearly is a large, not to say, huge vocabulary in German. Nevertheless, the impact all the different languages have had on English, have given it an advantage that German, at least in this case, can't really keep up with. Even though both basically are germanic languages, English has been under influence from everywhere,and that has always been the case,from the beginning of English.
OK couldn't help but giggle at this: at around 1:00 Fry is saying "there's chess and there's a game of chess...". He parodied himself as he is now a few decades ago on a bit of Fry and Laurie: watch?v=hHQ2756cyD8 (A Bit of Fry and Laurie segment in which he talks about language; it's at 1:40 in that video that he says the same thing about chess and in relation in language XD)
@FredericBayer Any language has an infinite number of potential words. The freedom with which German forms compounds does not mean every conceivable compound counts as an existing word. And if a compound is formed once just to express an idea spontaneously and then never used again, does it count as "a German word"? Then you'd also have to count every word that has ever been used in English, including Rich Hall's facetious "sniglets". Those must be existing "English words" as well.
Like the series, but a pity the Esperanto angle came across badly. Esperanto's ease of learning means it overcomes Babel *and* at the same time protects Babel. Most people naively assume *or*.
Greek for language - Glossa which means tongue - that fits for me!
@ashburnhouse yep - different-tongue!
@rabbitwho Actually, German pretty much has an infinite amount of words, because of the fact that words can be combined on the fly. Sure, at some point it just gets silly, but it's technically impossible for a language to have more words than German. I bet you can't find a word in English that doesn't have a German equivalent, but vice versa, try "Weltschmerz" ;-)
"They immediately went to the area of gend---er, things."
XD
*Taught*
@FredericBayer What I said was just a joke sprinkled with words of wisdom. I understand what you were saying, but I was just throwing out something fairly irrelevant.
fry and laurie, the modern pete and dud, one went to holywood, the other is interesting.
Ok
"we in English have a massive vocabulary" - I beg to differ, English almost seems to have but a rudimentary vocabulary if you compare it to German. Often times in English, one word can mean 5 different things, whereas often times in German, 5 words mean exactly the same thing.
1911-2011 :
Adaleide, Australia : "'The intention of Esperantists was not to think any less of their mother tongue, but to cultivate a general knowledge of a universal tongue, which would be of great assistance to all mankind.“ (Lewis Cohen, Mayor of Adelaide, 1911)
1996-2011 :
Prague Manifesto :
4. MULTILINGUALISM.
"We maintain that the speakers of all languages, large and small, should have a real chance of learning a second language to a high communicative level."
@FredericBayer It doesn't matter how much you say. It's how much meaning it has that count.
The English language just pwned the German language. XD
Stephen Fry and Danniel Dennet should get together.
stephen hates these comments .....lets stop
don't go in there; you have no right to say that; why?; stop it; that hurt: help! ... Marjory is dead...
fry as spokesperson for language! language, tiger, language is fry's bitch, and this series promises to be the foremost item in the back-catologue of this, our common human environment.
hope trefusis makes an appearance.
Whenever I hear protagonists for an international language to "become Esperantists" it does seem like they want people to join some sort of religion. This is unfortunate because the world does need a solution to the language problem worldwide.
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