Overview
Fry's Planet Word sees Stephen Fry finding out more about linguistic achievements and how our skills for the spoken word have changed. He dissects language in many of its guises.
| Original Air Dates: | — |
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| Country: | UK |
| Genre: | Lifestyle |
| Network: | BBC TWO |
| Watched by: | 243 996 671 |
| Total running time: | 5 hours |
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| Episodes: | 5 |
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The mini-series is notable for its extremely interesting and extensive theme. For all the familiarity and naturalness of language, it is difficult to overestimate its role in human evolution and in the progress of mankind. It is useful and entertaining to discuss the causes and conditions of language, the biological and social mechanisms of its development, to talk about its various aspects, such as taboo vocabulary, the variability and mutual influence of different languages, the origin and function of writing, to assess its significance and prospects, to trace the path from ancient storytellers and myths to modern literature and poetry.
However, in my opinion, the potential of this undoubtedly rich topic is hardly half realized. There are a lot of fairly obvious things, although some observations and facts are very interesting, informative and inexhaustible. It's a bit haphazard, sometimes overly detailed, but more often unreasonably superficial. It's too popular for my taste. Nevertheless, I do not regret at all that I watched it, some expansion of knowledge is always useful, especially on such non-abstract and everyday phenomena as language and the word. After all, language is not only a means of communication, but the basis of thinking and the essence of culture, that is, in fact, the foundation of civilization))
Language. With Fry, everything is clear, he has, as usual, perfect speech, but others speak in a very diverse way. And accents are not weak, and the vocabulary is often complicated. And one noisy and unrestrained bearded man (Brian Blessed, OBE) gives out such sonorous remarks - generally a guard)) It's not easy to understand, but it's interesting. I recommend subtitles.