Omni-Lingual

[MrDys]

Awe. Some.

[Unclever title]

Well I'll be a bit critical on the ending where everyone knows quite clearly by the end that Matt had been dicking around with them the whole time so that they can flip the bird in unison, (hilariously enough NOT a universal symbol as the video almost seems to suggest but still pretty dern funny) I can understand that it might have interrupted the flow a bit however I think you missed a great opportunity for Matt to tell them he didn't have a car in essentially every Language they had asked him questions in, perhaps including interpretive dance.

That in my mind would have made it better, but it was still a great sketch and one of your better videos.

I too love Matt walking right in looking straigt at Graham and then ringing the bell.

Edit: And no Swahili? I must say I'm a bit disappointed, though I understand.

[Tim]

Were you tempted to add a bit in Tolkienian Elvish?

I think doing one fictional-universe language was enough, and Klingon was the right choice.

Though Quenyan and/or Sindarin (Tolkien's two Elvish languages) would've been fun.

[Cade Antilles]

Well done, gentlemen! Well done!
Goed uitgevoerde heren! Goed uitgevoerd!
¡Caballeros bien hechos! ¡Bien hecho!
Gut gemachte Herren! Gut gemacht!
QaQ ta'pu' ghotpu! QaQ ta'pu'!


(edit: I couldn't get a good word for "gentlemen" in Klingon that would re-translate back into English properly. So I substituted it with "people".)

[nizno]

Well, no offense to the Dutch, but Dutch and German can sound very similar to non-native speakers. For example, I thought Graham was speaking in German when he said "Zeer göd." (Hoping that's how it's spelled)

It's ''zeer goed''. But your right it sounds similar for non-native speakers but there is a huge difference. Maybe i will record a clip a let you here the difference.

It is a stupid language anyway. I'm dyslectic and Dutch but i got better grades for English than for Dutch.

Edit: Forget it I'm taking this way to serious. Loved the video

[Unclever title]

I Just realized the joke at the very, very end.

"Thank you", after the binary "Pee?".

Graham your expression is absolutely perfectt right there!

[Evil Jim]

Just pointing out int he Graham/Matt Closeup Graham forgot his glasses. Small continuity. Great vid none the less

If you watch the video again you can see Graham's character remove his glasses while talking & hang them on his coat pocket. He puts them back on again during the interpretive dance.

[Yaxley]

Nice stinger.

Also, it seems like things are loading faster from YouTube than from previous hosts, and I like that.

[Wonko]

QaQ ta'pu'!

I love how this can be translated as either "good accomplishment(s)" or "good emperors".

[Casandro]

Actually I don't like the 'binary' thing that much. It's overdone and after all, the interpretation of binary is not to well defined. It could stand for just about anything. I'd have used something less often used like morse-code:
dit daw daw dit
dit
dit

Or in the long version:
dit dit

dit daw daw
dit daw
daw dit
daw dit
dit daw

dit daw daw dit
dit
dit

Or in the German version:
dit daw daw
daw daw daw

dit dit
dit dit dit
daw

daw dit dit
dit daw
dit dit dit

daw dit daw
dit daw dit dit
daw daw daw

[Cmdt_Carpenter]

Well, no offense to the Dutch, but Dutch and German can sound very similar to non-native speakers. For example, I thought Graham was speaking in German when he said "Zeer göd." (Hoping that's how it's spelled)

It's ''zeer goed''. But your right it sounds similar for non-native speakers but there is a huge difference. Maybe i will record a clip a let you here the difference.

It is a stupid language anyway. I'm dyslectic and Dutch but i got better grades for English than for Dutch.

Damn. It was translated as zeer goed and I figured, "Oh. Babelfish has no umlaut letters?"

Oh you crazy Dutch and your somehow ambiguous spellings of cognates.

[Graham]

Just pointing out int he Graham/Matt Closeup Graham forgot his glasses. Small continuity. Great vid none the less

If you watch the video again you can see Graham's character remove his glasses while talking & hang them on his coat pocket. He puts them back on again during the interpretive dance.

Actually I put them back on before the dance, but there's no direct cuts to the closeup, so I could have easily taken them off between shots.

:lol:
I Just realized the joke at the very, very end.

It's subtle, I'm glad you noticed!

[Daco]

It is a stupid language anyway. I'm dyslectic and Dutch but i got better grades for English than for Dutch.

let me second this >_>


loved the video & the binary

nice job

[ecocd]

Easily my favorite "short" sketch this year and excluding the Rapidfire videos, my favorite since I SAW What You Did There. It really hits on every single character and really every single line so major props to Graham on the script.

I find it especially amusing that in a sketch all about talking, Morgan (who has had only 1 line in 2 months of "shorts") gets the interpretative dance role.

[theDreamer]

I don't know if this is just me, but, speaking as a Canadian, I do enjoy exploiting our country's bilingual status. I have gone in and introduced myself in french at the ministry of health, only to tell them that I don't, in fact, SPEAK french when they replied. That's as far as I've gone though. I'm too nice a person to do otherwise.

Epic video though. And am I the only one who noticed that the "what have we learned from THIS video" is like almost always the last post on the first page?

Matt was also by far the most perfect person for that role. By far.

[gryffinp]

This video was FANTASTIC, but I'm going to limit my comment to one thing in particular.


The timing on the "Jamaican Patois" line was absolutely perfect, because there was JUST enough time for me to go "Wait, wha-" before Graham started in.

Also Morgan's dance.

[RAIC]

Honestly when I first saw this vid, I was afraid you guys would screw this vid up, by trying too talk Dutch. Because in every movie where people talk "Dutch" they just talk German and call it Dutch... Which always fails horribly.
Ok, the Dutch kind of failed, but atleast you actually tried to talk the correct language (and it could have been much worse), so props for that. Also the rest of the vid really made up for the tiny fail in pronounciation.
I loved it, especially the little things, like morgan flippin' the bird with a very dancy-move, the charades, and the fact that the middle-finger is pretty much a universal language in it's own.

Well, no offense to the Dutch, but Dutch and German can sound very similar to non-native speakers. For example, I thought Graham was speaking in German when he said "Zeer göd." (Hoping that's how it's spelled)

Well, I thought Graham was speaking German too, even though I'm Dutch myself.
The pronounciation sounded German, but that's also because we don't really use that phrase in that context, the Germans do (not entirely sure about that though).

(P.S. it's spelled "Zeer goed." in Dutch and "Sehr gut." in German. )

[birdman911]

AWSOME VIDEO GUYS!
And it just goes to further prove that Matt is an asshole! (we still love you tho) This video was really well done and gotta give you guys props for attempting the laguages! Loved the sean connery joke, as i am a big sean connery joke fan, nice job with the fliping the bird at the end. Also well done having the binary actuly say something that made sense too!

[iEatNinjaZ]

Wow the ending is epic!

[iEatNinjaZ]

Wow the ending is epic!

[Fox]

i really like the fact that you pulled out binary at the end. i was going to go "what the nerds and geeks you are and you didn't use binary?!?! WTF?" but again you pulled it out of the fire at the end. as another note but a bit more loose you could have had jer communicate in some sort of DnD slang or could have had gram referenced a pig latin book from the vest guy OR there could have been a 1337 speek one with lots of pownzor lolololol kind of thing. i dont know just some other loose ideas

But excellent job!!!

Fox

[Matt]

And it just goes to further prove that Matt is an asshole!

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-m

[Master Gunner]

You pull it off well Matt, and that's not always easy. Most people can do the ignorant/arrogant asshole, but you do the more classy asshole (although not necessarily to black-hat-guy-styled classhole standards) who knows exactly what he's doing, and is proud of messing with others so much. Mix into that your small undertones of bitterness and anger problems that come to the front in the "roommate" videos, and it's a winning combination of an interesting, assholish, character.

Also, you also pull off far more sympathetic roles quite well too (see, well, your avatar for one example).

[Matt]

You pull it off well Matt, and that's not always easy. Besides, you also pull off far more sympathetic roles quite well too (see, well, your avatar for one example).

I'm not actually a brain surgeon, I just play one on TV!

-m

[ecocd]

I have to agree with Master Gunner that Matt plays a great classy asshole. That said, I think it's about time Matt writes, directs and stars in a video of him helping little old ladies across the street and getting kitty cats out of trees called, "Matt's Not An Asshole." At least that video thread shouldn't have people calling him an asshole.