Phil talking about LINGUISTICS! - compilation

A compilation of all the times I know of where Phil has mentioned linguistics!! The love of my life! Sources: The Weakest Link -    • AmazingPhil on The Weakest Link (2007)   Phil's Video Blog - 27th March 2006 -    • Phil's Video Blog - 27th March 2006   Phil’s 22 December 2012 liveshow -    • Dan Howell - YouNow July 30, 2013   Phil’s 2 August 2015 liveshow -    • AmazingPhil younow - August 2nd, 2015   TABINOF audiobook - “Phil’s University Life” Phil’s 16 March 2017 liveshow “HOW TO GET AN INSTANT SIX PACK with Phil” -    • HOW TO GET AN INSTANT SIX PACK with Phil   Transcriptions: Ann Robinson: Where are you studying? Phil: York University. Ann: And what are you studying? Phil: English Language and Linguistics. Ann: I didn’t think you were studying hairdressing. Phil: [laughs] Do you not like it, Ann? Ann: Otherwise we’d need a refund, wouldn’t we? ‘Cause I suppose we’re all paying for you. Phil: Yep. Ann: Yeah. Okay, and what are you going to do with the English degree? Phil: I’m not going to use it. Ann: No, of course not. - “Erm, today… what have I been doing today? I’ve been doing my exam. Which has been the most boring thing ever. Er, I’ll read you a question, just to show you how terrible it is. Er: “Provide an orthographic and an allophonic transcription of the word/phrase in which the phenomena occurs in regressive place assimilation and regressive voicing assimilation.’ Excitement.” - Phil: That’s the difference between north and south England. We say things differently. Do you want a little lesson? Dan: I made a video about it. Phil: Dan made a video about it! “Attercup.” Dan: [laughs] Yes. Said by Bilbo. Phil: We all say that, honest. Erm, yeah. In the north you say [kʊp]. In the south you say [kʌp]. It’s a small difference, but you can tell. Another lesson: erm, [gɹæs]? The southerners say [gɹɑːs]. “I was going for a walk on the [gɹæs]. I was going for a walk on the [gɹɑːs].” I think northerners are a bit more American in a way, ‘cause they— ‘cause like, [gɹæəs]! They wouldn’t say [gɹɑːəs]. Dan: No, ‘cause [grɛːs] or [gɹɑːs] or [gɹæs]. Phil: [gɹæs]! Well I’m a mix. I— I’m a half-breed so I— I can’t be a true northerner. I’m sorry. Like, if you heard my friends talking, you’d be like, “Oh, okay, I get it.” But if I’ve been there for like, a couple of weeks, you’ll notice I’ll— Dan: It absorbs into you! Phil: I do absorb it. My mum is the worst for that. If she speaks to someone on the phone, she just becomes that person; it’s really funny. I learnt about that in English. What’s that called? Convergence. It’s when you change your accent, which means— to the person that you’re talking to, so they will accept you more. There you go. - “After hanging out with loads of Americans I did find myself Americanizing a bit. I was doing a few like “[nɛvəɹ].” “Don’t go [ðɛɹ].” “[noʊ weɪ̯]!” You just absorb accents, I guess. I think, if I moved there, I would have an American accent in like a year. I’m very...accent fluid. Which is not the word. I did linguistics; I should know the word. But you know what I mean. I just...here we go, I like to converge. It’s a thing where you mimic someone’s voice so they like you more.” - Studying: Oops I never actually said what I was doing at university. That's kinda the whole point you are there right? I was studying English Language and Linguistics after loving English Language at school and having a genuine interest in languages. I'll be honest that 50 per cent of my degree was a confusing waffle-fest of 3-hour lectures and near-impossible homework. The exams were hard too. Rocket science hard. I think I chewed through so many pens in one exam that the biro police were launching a serial killer inquiry. I actually scraped through my first year and somehow a light switched on in my brain and I did pretty well in years 2 and 3! - “‘Hey Phil, what did you do at university?’ — Erm, at university, I did English Language with Linguistics for my Bachelor of Arts, which was a three year course, half split between English Language and half split between Linguistics, which is the science of language. It was quite scientific and it was very hard. I liked to think while I was doing my A-levels that I was quite good at work and exams and stuff like that. But, doing linguistics was kind of like throwing me into the deep end because it was a completely new concept to me and there was so many different parts of it. I was good at some parts of it; I was good at the child language acquisition thing, and also things with essays but there was a lot of science-based analyzing language, er, using the IPA chart and formants and loads of stuff like that, and that was hard. And also, I think I could have tried harder in my lectures. I think going back, I would have listened a bit more, because... I had lots of late nights. And then didn’t listen the next day, which is not the point. But anyway, I passed it! I got a degree, yay!