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What Was the Great Vowel Shift?
Another good one from Simon Roper.
someone: *tries to speak in elizabethan/"ye olde english"*
me, immediately:
Person A: 'And I wuid wauk five hoondred moiles and I wuid wauk five hoondred moor, teh be the mahn whuid---'
Person B: Ugh, cut it out with that cringey Scottish accent impression!
Person A: Huh? Scottish? I thought I was doing a 16th century London accent??? (the one YouTube linguist Simon Roper believes they had anyway!)
This is probably so obscure that no one who sees this will get it and those who’d get it won’t see it
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It's always nice seeing Simon Roper's videos doing analyses of historical and contemporary English phonology. The bit starting at 15:45, where he elicits examples from a native speaker of a dialect of English similar to his of the Mary/merry contrast is striking to me - his interlocutor audibly laughs at the idea of wishing someone a "Mary christmas". Whereas for me as an American who merges all of marry/merry/Mary, I can barely hear the vowel contrast he's going for when I'm paying attention to it, and I find his production of his dialect's "Mary christmas" to be completely unexceptional.
Simon Roper does a great job of breaking down what Chat GPT is actually doing and how a 'niche' research topic can reveal its limitations.
If you want just the excellent final analysis, it begins around 22:20. (If you want the excellent deep dive, watch the whole thing. It's only about 31 minutes long.)
Really, really interesting thoughts.
Simon Roper most often does videos on linguistics, especially old English/middle English, but once in a while he does one of these amazing videos pondering various things about humans and existence