Ismo: Ass Is The Most Complicated Word In The English Language | CONAN on TBS

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nvader · 2024-10 · Joke / meme

For the curious, I suspect this was Ismo. I love his with on pointing out the incongruities in surface level features of English. [VIDEO]

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PrimeDirective · 2022-05 · Joke / meme

There's a Finnish stand-up comedian who also pondered on the many possibilities of the English word "ass". This is him on Conan's talk show: [VIDEO] Funny enough, he mentions the same things the article does, especially the end of it.

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biztos · 2021-05 · Joke / meme

I'm a native English speaker who's lived in other countries a lot and speaks three languages, now trying to learn a fourth. The weirdness of "English" is something I think about often. For starters, you have to live in it before you can really speak it. And our spelling is the least rational, least consistent thing I've ever seen. In addition to the weird way we spell a lot of things, many of the sounds are not pronounced at all, or pronounced differently, in different countries. And there are dialects that are pretty much incomprehensible to people who grew up in the mainstream dialect (true of many other languages as well) but then we add weird things like Americans hearing race in accent and dialect, while the British can hear class but for the most part the opposite is not true. I think simple English is one of the easiest languages to learn, because of its ubiquity and in most places the material advantage of speaking some; while good English is one of the hardest. Thanks to the magic of the innernets I have recently discovered a Finnish comedian named Ismo who talks about this: [VIDEO] (Arguably NSFW if you work in a kindergarten.)

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