Paulien Cornelisse: Maar Ondertussen | movie | 2016 | Official Clip - video Dailymotion

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2016 recording of the show by Dutch comedian Paulien Cornelisse. In this performance Cornelisse is concerned with all th | dG1fX2hYY0duVTQydHc

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00:00 What I can be very happy about is the idea that the language should have existed.

00:09 So logically, it should be possible to bring it back.

00:12 There should have been one person who looked around and thought,

00:19 "Well, I'll say something."

00:24 And what was that?

00:27 I would have a lot to say about that, to know what that first person was, what was said.

00:32 We don't know that, we don't know. There were no tape recorders yet.

00:36 It would have been very coincidental if just then someone, and on play and on rack at the same time...

00:42 No, of course not. No, we don't know that.

00:46 Fortunately, research has been done on what was likely.

00:49 The first thing that was said, research done by myself.

00:55 What was likely was an old man who forbids his child something.

00:58 Because that sounds very ancient-like and you don't have to do anything about it.

01:03 Letters or something, that's not in there yet.

01:05 It sounds like this, right?

01:07 You hear, it's very easy. It goes straight from the throat.

01:12 And it can also easily be altered to a real word.

01:16 And then of course millennia go by, but I'll do it quickly.

01:20 So this is alteration.

01:24 No.

01:25 I'm not a scientist, but I sometimes think, why not?

01:31 And because it's such a simple sound, it never really had to change.

01:36 I think that's nice. It just always stayed there.

01:39 That sound has always been there.

01:41 So I'm sure the Greeks and the Romans said that too.

01:44 And in the Middle Ages too.

01:46 And the Renaissance.

01:47 And the Baroque.

01:48 The Rococo.

01:49 Or vice versa, I don't know exactly.

01:51 Rococo, I don't know.

01:53 Industrial Revolution.

01:55 First World War.

01:56 Second World War.

01:57 No!

01:58 So even now, you hear it everywhere, in a shop.

02:03 It's a kind of pronunciation, and I call it, from my expertise,

02:07 the "Varens" of our language.

02:10 Paulien, explain.

02:16 Yes, please.

02:17 Once, during the dinosaur era, there were also ampharens.

02:22 And those ampharens were exactly like they are now.

02:25 They're just those rolled up green plants,

02:27 that at some point think, this is my moment.

02:30 And those ampharens, we thought then,

02:34 while everyone is busy with evolution, and bigger, better and faster,

02:37 we thought those ampharens were like...

02:39 I'm fine like this.

02:43 I like it, nice color, green.

02:46 Yes, no, we're standing over there.

02:48 No, we'll leave it like this.

02:51 Through all that history,

02:53 all those difficult things in the Middle Ages,

02:55 with body properties, and phases, and so on.

02:57 And also, ta-da! An ampharen, I like that.

03:00 Through all those wars,

03:02 you can now walk into the intra-garden, and ta-da!

03:05 There they are again, our friends from the Pleistocene.

03:09 And you should see it like this.

03:13 It's actually the same.

03:15 There are more of those sounds, by the way.

03:18 I know for sure that those primitive people,

03:20 that there was always someone who said...

03:23 And that they intuitively knew,

03:27 "Now, don't say anything."

03:29 "We can't say anything else, so it's relatively easy."

03:36 "It's about the ideas."

03:38 Or that there was someone who...

03:40 "Stop it, sorry."

03:42 "Sorry" didn't exist yet.

03:44 The word "sorry" wasn't there yet.

03:46 You know, there were often mistakes,

03:49 with those bumps, like "Bam!"

03:51 "Oh, wrong one!"

03:53 Sorry gesture.

03:55 This is what you see a lot in cave paintings.

03:58 The early examples of the "sorry" gesture.

04:00 Or in Egypt.

04:02 But anyway, cultural differences.

04:04 Okay, there's another sound,

04:06 also a sound that's so simple,

04:08 that it never had to change, and it never will.

04:11 That's just a powerful sound.

04:13 So I want to say it,

04:15 and I want to ask you,

04:17 if you want to deal with it with policy.

04:20 Because with power comes responsibility.

04:23 It's a sound, yes, what does it do?

04:27 It's a sound with which you can destroy everything post-rock.

04:31 So someone says something, you think, "Hey, that sounds fun."

04:34 But then another person makes that sound,

04:36 and you think, "Oh, that didn't sound fun at all."

04:38 So that's what it does.

04:40 It's a very, very, very kind of power.

04:42 I'll make that sound, and we'll know what we're talking about.

04:45 This is a...

04:47 Very powerful.

04:50 You can really throw away family dinners with it.

04:53 Or imagine how history could have gone differently.

04:57 "I have a dream that we as one people will go to that mountain."

05:01 Yeah, okay, well, screw it.

05:04 Or the first man on the moon.

05:06 "This is a small step for a man, but a giant leap for mankind."

05:10 And then the second man on the moon, Buzz Aldrin,

05:13 he also takes the intercom and says...

05:16 Historical moments, huh?

Paulien Cornelisse: Maar Ondertussen | movie | 2016 | Official Clip

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