The bucket: we’re all going to kick it eventually. Well, you are, I’m– “You’re not an undead warlock.” I SAW ROME BUILT. But enough about it actually taking two days, this is a video from Overwords, a segment from PBS’s Storied featuring Dr. Erica Brozovsky taking us on a tour
Of course Yoda isn’t a person at all, he’s an alien, so he shouldn’t be expected to talk like a human, let alone whatever a ‘normal’ one is. That said, these are two videos of Yoda edited with more traditional English speech patterns. It’s a little unsettling to listen to.
This is a video of a sign language interpreter giving the interpretation of a lifetime during a performance of Megan Thee Stallion’s very NSFW ‘WAP’ at Lollapalooza. Now I didn’t watch the video with the sound on, but I didn’t need to, those signs made it perfectly clear what was
This is a short clip from an interview with Olympic gold medalist swimmers Tom Dean (left) and Matt Richard (right) of Great Britain when sports broadcaster Clare Balding mentions that Matt’s third leg in the recent race ‘was just phenomenal.’ Obviously, she was referring to the third leg of the
This is a video of a bride who secretly learned some Spanish using online lessons over the course of the six months leading up to her wedding so she could address her husband and their friends and family in Spanish. She says she took the lessons while her fiancé played
This is a video of Gracie Scullion demonstrating a very clever delayed/lagging voice trick that basically involves mouthing the words you’re going to say, then saying them a moment later ventriloquist style. She recommends starting with words that don’t involve your lips needing to touch in order to pronounce, so
This is a delightful video of Russian man Dan Sheekoz giving a tour of the $100/month studio (living room is bedroom) home he shares with his wife (~$130 – $160 with all bills depending on summer/winter weather), all while he practices the English he’s learning on Youtube. He mentions at
This is a video of a new mother trying to teach her daughter Amy to say ‘mama’ when Oswald (Ozzy) the two-year old, 150-pound Colorado Rottweiler joins the lesson by repeating it himself. Most impressive. Also, I like the baby’s ‘Don’t Wake Me, I Drank Too Much Last Night’ shirt.