Ass is the most complicated word

March 2, 2018 8:57 AM

The great difficulty of understanding the English language, as explained by Ismo.
posted by Pyrogenesis (7 comments total)

In case there are Finns here on metafilter (and there surely are?) here's another pretty good one which however may not translate as well.
posted by Pyrogenesis at 9:22 AM on March 2, 2018 [1 favorite]

The uploader has not made this video available in my country.
posted by Sys Rq at 9:47 AM on March 2, 2018

I’m the UK and can watch it. I’m also Finnish so I may have privileged access. (No niin, Pyrogenesis. No niin.)

I enjoyed the set but it’s basically a properly localised (rather than translated) version of the original Finnish bit.

I do miss the Finnish language for all its wild idiosyncrasies. It’s amazingly direct yet descriptive and versatile language. And to be more on topic as it relates to English, I’ve been reliably informed that learning and speaking bad English is relatively easy but speaking fluent English is amazingly difficult.
posted by slimepuppy at 12:19 PM on March 2, 2018

that was a good-ass routine.
posted by murphy slaw at 12:34 PM on March 2, 2018 [3 favorites]

That was a good ass routine
posted by The Whelk at 1:08 PM on March 2, 2018 [1 favorite]

I've seen this video come across my Facebook feed several times, but I couldn't be assed to watch it until today.
posted by drlith at 1:39 PM on March 2, 2018 [1 favorite]

He is a dope-ass comic. Which I believe he could have lots of fun incorporating into his kick-ass stand-up routine.
posted by tzikeh at 1:57 PM on March 2, 2018 [1 favorite]