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What would an alien language look like?
Disappointed by the alien languages you see in movies? I have good news! There is a new branch of linguistics-Xenolinguistics-dedicated to imagining what an alien language might actually look like!
In this video, I want to explore the weirdness of the forms an alien language could take, using what we know about human language, animal communication, biology, and cognition.
Big thanks to my friend Maxwell Domanchich for helping me out with this video!
A new handbook on xenolinguistics was just published!
Xenolinguistics: Towards a science of extraterrestrial language.
Preview available here: doi.org/10.4324/9781003352174
0:00 - Xenolinguistics
2:04 - How weird is Klingon?
3:38 - Universal grammar
5:33 - The languages of Tlön
7:02 - Language and number
8:20 - Gestural language
10:29 - Chemical signaling
12:09 - Color changing and bioluminescence
15:17 - Electro-communication
17:23 - Magnetoreception
18:46 - How to make an alien language
19:59 - The languages of Star Wars
Sources
Borges (1940). Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.
Catania (2019). The astonishing behavior of electric eels.
Clarke (1973). Rendezvous with Rama.
Crook Baddeley & Osorio (2002). Identifying the structure in cuttlefish visual signals.
Evans & Levinson (2009). The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science.
Golston (2018). φ-features in animal cognition.
Ligon & McGraw (2018). A chorus of color: hierarchical and graded information content of rapid color change signals in chameleons.
Hanlon & Messenger (1988). Adaptive coloration in young cuttlefish (sepia officinalis l.): The morphology and development of body patterns and their relation to behaviour.
Holmer (2013). Greetings Earthlings! On possible features of exolanguage.
Hopkins (1999). Design features for electric communication.
Hunter (1775). An account of the Gymnotus Electricus.
Jackson & Ratnieks (2006). Communication in ants.
Jeanson et al. (2003). Pheromone trail decay rates on different substrates in the Pharaoh’s ant, Monomorium pharaonis.
Jones & Conner (2019). The jamming avoidance response in echolocating bats.
Mouritsen & Ritz (2005). Magnetoreception and its use in bird navigation.
Musso et al. (2003). Broca’s Area and the language instinct.
Osvath (2013). Astrocognition: A cognitive zoology approach to potential universal principles of intelligence.
Palmer et al. (2006). Response of female cuttlefish Sepia officinalis (Cephalopoda) to
mirrors and conspecifics: evidence for signaling in female cuttlefish.
Ross (2023). Modification as a universal property of intelligent communication.
Ross (2023). A linguistic perspective on the Drake equation.
Westby & Conselice (2020). The astrobiological Copernican weak and strong limits for intelligent life.
Williams et al. (2019). Dynamic pigmentary and structural coloration within cephalopod chromatophore organs.
Wiltschko & Wiltschko (2005). Magnetic orientation and magnetoreception in birds and other animals.
Clips:
Star Wars (1977)
Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan (1982)
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
Avatar (2009)
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Treasure Planet (2002)
Return of the Jedi (1983)
Johnny Moses - Winter Water Serpent Song: ua-cam.com/video/fDfMgUvhpBQ/v-deo.htmlsi=yE815VzG-TzYnIBJ
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  • @MatthewMcVeagh
    @MatthewMcVeagh День тому

    How do people get mass entertainment conlang gigs? Either they're David J. Peterson, or they're one of the few other people who've been hired in recent decades, possibly due to being members of the Language Creation Society and receiving notification of conlanging-for-hire jobs that get channelled through that. Either way they're lucky.

  • @user-kw5ro9ze2c
    @user-kw5ro9ze2c 3 дні тому

    Perhaps, hormones are universally equal the same hormones every animal on earth Have, are or could be universal two water types of by logical life that express some sort of rationalization, with that being said, hormones express feelings, One day our civilization might be able or might be condemned to share the same fellings in it's own community, as a survival feature to assure evolution and the species existence, when we are capable of transmit organic feelings , we will be capable to communicate with a visitor, assuming we pass the Great filter wich is Nihilism. Otherwise I don't know any visitor on human history that didn't try Force it's power over the visited, colonialism is universal, and the universe isn't democratic, but imperialist. But maybe Through transmit emotions to other life forms could be a start, or math, or music, or Color or sound, or Wave frequency, or anything all life have in common on earth.

  • @MatthewMcVeagh
    @MatthewMcVeagh 8 днів тому

    While there may be more SOV languages than SVO, and way more families, there are way more speakers of SVO languages than SOV. SVO includes English, Chinese, Spanish, etc. Incidentally to me the logical order is VSO. You set up what type of event it is, then who or what is responsible for it, then what it affects. Clearly the brain disagrees with me though.

    • @LanguageofMind
      @LanguageofMind 8 днів тому

      The really interesting thing about VSO is that it's the order for a lot of programming languages and also how sentences are represented by semanticists in lambda calculus. So there is a computational reason to prefer VSO! Which makes it odd that it's so rare in human languages--most likely for cognitive reasons.

  • @AnalishaMartin
    @AnalishaMartin 11 днів тому

    When he first put the audio and clip on, I heard "La" But once he explained, the effect worked on me, lol.

  • @valeriecarpentier6384
    @valeriecarpentier6384 16 днів тому

    If crows can solve problems and use tools, theres no way dinosaurs weren’t as smart or even way smarter than today’s birds. Dinosaurs had millions of years of reign! They must have developed intelligence.

  • @brendanfitzpatrick3824
    @brendanfitzpatrick3824 23 дні тому

    The brain edits when it renders experience all the time. Things like this are like opportunities when you can catch it in the act.

  • @badhabits1965
    @badhabits1965 24 дні тому

    I wanted to know how smart dinosaurs were relative to modern animals, and I found this video, and it answered my question.

  • @SandyDiVa
    @SandyDiVa 24 дні тому

    Yeah, but mandela effects are typically things we memorized like quotes & lyrics. Why would one line or one word, the same one for everyone, be different from what we remember? I remember phone numbers from 40 years ago and the lyrics to my fave songs. Yet some of those songs are different now. I saw so many new and old images of donald duck…yet he’s yellow sometimes and i never saw a yellow donald duck. Or pink daisy or yellow nephews for that matter, but they all exist. Someone said your tests were a good example but they arent, they are SHORT TERM MEMORY tests. Mandela effects are from our LONG TERM memory. So these tests are irrelevant. All of these experiments in memory ignore the long term. 9:49 thats the only argument that makes sense but we call these manscuses because most people didn’t see or hear the examples presented. I get that youre playing devils advocate here, but its not false memory. Its not inaccurate memory. Our memories are real. We have even seen things change, on air, in front of our eyes…with the chat seeing it, too.

  • @WriterScience
    @WriterScience 29 днів тому

    If you think a particular grammar represents a particular configuration of mind, then you have to think that the simpler grammars of more telepathic languages (eg Chinese, Korean) reflect less nuanced configurations of mind-ie, you’d have to think that Korean and Chinese speakers are kinda dull. Which is of course not true, because grammar is universal.

  • @erndogee
    @erndogee Місяць тому

    I have already tried this in a universe I have created. But it's nice to hear from someone else about it.

  • @spokeshave5415
    @spokeshave5415 Місяць тому

    Great video man!

  • @TheMistri
    @TheMistri Місяць тому

    This was very well thought out and executed! ❤ thank you for this. Just intellectual enough without being inaccessible.

    • @LanguageofMind
      @LanguageofMind Місяць тому

      Thanks! I will be making more videos like this, so consider subscribing if you like it!

  • @JKTCGMV13
    @JKTCGMV13 Місяць тому

    I’d love to see an analysis of what your diet and metabolism would need to be like to generate the energy required to power an antenna for routine communication

  • @JKTCGMV13
    @JKTCGMV13 Місяць тому

    I never knew the aliens were saying gibberish in Star Wars

    • @LanguageofMind
      @LanguageofMind Місяць тому

      Some of it is gibberish, and some of it is real human languages. But the subtitles definitely don't match what's being said!

  • @VaguelyMe
    @VaguelyMe Місяць тому

    I am writing a science fiction novel involving an alien race, I had planned to have them use a human language to communicate with humans but that leaves me with as many problems as it solves. If you have not already been flooded with people requesting alien languages and you would like to know more about my project let me know how to contact you. I would be happy to try and convince you it would be worth the effort.

    • @LanguageofMind
      @LanguageofMind Місяць тому

      Sure! Email me: ryan.rhodes (@) rutgers (dot) edu

  • @johndave91
    @johndave91 Місяць тому

    You mean "Sounds Like" not look like.

    • @LanguageofMind
      @LanguageofMind Місяць тому

      Well, not every language uses sound! Is there a better word for the perceived shape or structure of something that doesn't have an associated sensory modality?

    • @johndave91
      @johndave91 Місяць тому

      @@LanguageofMind When you say what a language look like it is like they are doing a body language/gestures/or like speech delivery when they're reciting a poem in a stage or if you're saying what it is "look like" you describes something a form of an object or a structure or a facial looks of what their appearance look like. But whereas when you say what a language sounds like it is like you're speaking a different language in terms of their accents/mother tongue using their mouth to speak. For example, What russian language sounds like when they're speaking that language in their accent.

  • @ghosttornado
    @ghosttornado Місяць тому

    Shocked this doesn't have like a million views or something

    • @LanguageofMind
      @LanguageofMind Місяць тому

      I'm kind of wondering if UA-cam doesn't like the fact that I used Star Wars music. Lol, whoops

  • @HomoPretelateris
    @HomoPretelateris Місяць тому

    Hi Ryan, are you a postdoctoral researcher or an associate professor?

    • @LanguageofMind
      @LanguageofMind Місяць тому

      I'm a teaching professor of cognitive science

    • @HomoPretelateris
      @HomoPretelateris Місяць тому

      @@LanguageofMind cool! I love your videos. Your “Big picture” approach is great

    • @LanguageofMind
      @LanguageofMind Місяць тому

      @@HomoPretelateris Thanks! I'm glad you're enjoying it. Let me know if there's anything you think I should cover!

    • @HomoPretelateris
      @HomoPretelateris Місяць тому

      @@LanguageofMind I am curious about languages of Southern Africa with clicking sounds. Why those clicking sounds disappeared as sapiens started spreading around the planet. Are there some other sounds which became obsolete

    • @LanguageofMind
      @LanguageofMind Місяць тому

      @@HomoPretelateris We don't know whether those sounds were present in the original human language (or really whether there was a single original language), or whether they were developed later only in a few language families. But they are super interesting! Lots to learn about them still

  • @HomoPretelateris
    @HomoPretelateris Місяць тому

    Are there the Swadesh list for the sign languages?

    • @LanguageofMind
      @LanguageofMind Місяць тому

      That's a great question! I'm going to ask around and get back to you.

    • @LanguageofMind
      @LanguageofMind Місяць тому

      Here you go! There is in fact a Swadesh list for signed languages, you should be able to see it here: www.researchgate.net/figure/Woodwards-vocabulary-list-for-sign-language-comparison_fig1_330764152

    • @HomoPretelateris
      @HomoPretelateris 20 днів тому

      @@LanguageofMind great! thanks a lot for this reference

  • @yeasr7781
    @yeasr7781 Місяць тому

    BRUMP

  • @misterx168
    @misterx168 Місяць тому

    Hot damn, the production quality has skyrocketed

  • @KushKiki
    @KushKiki Місяць тому

    I love learning about languages from this channel.

  • @PaulSpades
    @PaulSpades Місяць тому

    I'm sorry... what? Your whole body is a fractal antena. The neural system continuously moves electrons, as long as you're still breathing. How is any reasonably complex creature on earth missing an antena?

    • @LanguageofMind
      @LanguageofMind Місяць тому

      It is true that your nervous system generates a magnetic field, but it's extremely weak. It can be measured with MEG, but the signal doesn't travel far. I wouldn't consider the nervous system a dedicated organ for this purpose. I think we can design a better transmitter!

    • @PaulSpades
      @PaulSpades Місяць тому

      @@LanguageofMind Well, the hardware's there, we just need the software (conscious control). And how do we know that every other mammal besides us isn't using it as radio communication? We keep saying this and that furry animal can "smell fear" or sense distress. If trees can exchange chemical signals trough the mycelium networks in forests, how is this hard to believe? Biological radio comms is plausible in my book. Also, we've surrounded ourselves with modulated radio on a wide range of frequencies, what used to be a signal is now buried in the noise. As a receiver, we've hot hundreds of meters of wiring for all kinds of frequencies, mostly right under the skin. That's pretty impressive hardware even if it's ineficient and does triple duty.

    • @PaulSpades
      @PaulSpades Місяць тому

      @@LanguageofMind Look, light emitting diodes generate a whole lot of visible light (light is in the radio spectrum) and virtually no magnetic field. The size of the magnetic field generated by a radio emiter has no correlation to the power of other emissions. My wifi router also has a weak magnetic field. A candle flame generates no magnetic field effects but still puts out thermal and light radiation.

    • @LanguageofMind
      @LanguageofMind Місяць тому

      @@PaulSpades Neurons generate very, very weak signals in the radio range (lots of biological tissues will interact weakly in the radio spectrum). My expertise is in EEG, but I've never heard anyone claim the nervous system can generate radio signals of any appreciable strength. engineering.mit.edu/engage/ask-an-engineer/can-brain-waves-interfere-with-radio-waves/

    • @PaulSpades
      @PaulSpades Місяць тому

      @@LanguageofMind EEG only measures SLF. SLF waves have extremely long range and low bandwidth. But SLF can serve as a carrier wave for other signals - which are not studied in the medical field (it is assumed that modulation of SLF is natural variation and that's that). Everybody in the field seems satisfied with the single neuron 10hz model, from the textbooks. No proper measurements or attempts of decoding neural spikes in diverse situations(during sex, during injury, in life threatening danger) have been done. There is way more data gathering to be done. And analysis should include the madmen that hack satellite signals and reverse engineer network protocols for fun - not medical professionals. I'm not saying that you or I can communicate with GHz waves over 2 km. I just know that all EMF caries data. And we have the required hardware to receive (definitely) and possibly transmit some EMF beyond the EEG "brainwave" models.

  • @ryangibson7126
    @ryangibson7126 Місяць тому

    Love this. I used to write sci fi and fantasy as a teenager and have pages of notes full of (really simplistic) conlangs. If I ever got back into it I'd want to take into account all the possible weird and wonderful forms of articulation. There's just a balance to be had between communicating to the audience and being realistic which is often difficult to achieve.

    • @LanguageofMind
      @LanguageofMind Місяць тому

      You should develop more languages! And let me know what you come up with

  • @HomoPretelateris
    @HomoPretelateris Місяць тому

    Luminescence is a doable option. Visible light occupies 300 nanometers. If aliens have detectors distinguishing 10 nanometers, we can get 30 letters. The emmitting fluorescence must be fast switching though

    • @PaulSpades
      @PaulSpades Місяць тому

      Changing hue seems like a slow and inaccurate chemical process to me. I can see multiple light emitting organs covered by muscle, modulating amplitude. But you can also make patterns with a setup like this. We modulate our vocal chords, but speech is mostly controlled by throat and mouth movement - so it's a single emiter with multiple modulations applied (ignoring other gestures and facial expressions). Speech is really a rather complex stream of audio patterns. You can have a simple red led and modulate direction and amplitude to get the same bandwidth as speech. Direction is particularly useful, as shown by gesture languages.

  • @emilymiller7827
    @emilymiller7827 Місяць тому

    yo this might be my favorite video you've done yet Ryan you keep hitting them out of the park

  • @HomoPretelateris
    @HomoPretelateris Місяць тому

    I wonder how San-Ti language may sound like?

  • @SergioGonzalez-vv2ll
    @SergioGonzalez-vv2ll Місяць тому

    Really good! What a piece of nice work. Greetings from Colombia!

  • @user-vw4xp5nt9f
    @user-vw4xp5nt9f Місяць тому

    i love this video!!!!!!

  • @cortexcarvalho9423
    @cortexcarvalho9423 Місяць тому

    There are few works of fiction that address language as a central theme. It would be helpful if it were more common. Seeing the language from a different perspective would be interesting and a welcome stimulus to study. When trying to group this theme I saw that it is in many places, but never in a central place.

    • @LanguageofMind
      @LanguageofMind Місяць тому

      I was secretly hoping to get more recommendations for fiction with this theme in the comments ;)

    • @swim3936
      @swim3936 Місяць тому

      @@LanguageofMind Embassytown tackles the topic in a really creative way! Heaven's Vault is a fun game that centers around deciphering an alien language.

    • @cortexcarvalho9423
      @cortexcarvalho9423 Місяць тому

      ​@@LanguageofMind When I saw Spider Man spot for the first time I thought it was uninteresting (comics). But I really like portal, which is basically the power of spot. Douglas Ramsey (cipher), is unpopular. But the concept is incredible. Just like a portal, all that’s left is for someone to understand and do something incredible. Apart from that, there is the film Arrival, which is very focused on language. The 3-body problem has things in this interesting sense, although it is not the main theme. When it comes to language, finding out about something called semasiography really blew my mind and what I knew about language. Quipu "writing" is a good example of semasiography.

    • @LanguageofMind
      @LanguageofMind Місяць тому

      @@swim3936 I am currently halfway through Embassytown! Need to finish

    • @mickabyrneyo
      @mickabyrneyo Місяць тому

      @@LanguageofMind children of time novels got me obsessed with this topic

  • @jverart2106
    @jverart2106 Місяць тому

    What an amazing video, I was really looking forward to this one! Glad to have you back. I have seen some articles about animal and plant languages and even their translation through AI and other technologies and I find it fascinating. Whenever I ponder on the topic of the limits of the mind I always start through the possibility of creating a language of one. Perhaps I do it one day just for fun 😅 or perhaps it would be a way to visualise how my brain actually represents reality to itself? 🤔 Food for thought. Can't wait for the next video. Cheers from France :)

    • @LanguageofMind
      @LanguageofMind Місяць тому

      Thanks! I'm also really intrigued by plant (and other biological) communication. I've been doing some reading on this, maybe I'll make a video sometime!

  • @dadsonworldwide3238
    @dadsonworldwide3238 Місяць тому

    Humans are effortlessly plagerizing and correlating without even realizing it. In fact we project so much into nature that we just learned about it a few century's ago. Obviously, we use countless irrelevant metaphysics to form one word or idea that then goes on to be relevant and important .we kept building upon & improving over time to the point it ispires the evolution movement all together. Lol The most important thing I believe in aliens is shared in ASI would they reference a ground zero of reality, you need an eternal cosmos floor of reality or a spirit of God hovering over the waters of cosmos 0 to even begin with oreintation and direction to be built upon in language . A shares foundational corridenate point zero if you will . Cardinal direction like when the light came on in humanity, x,y,z = man made time hierarchy knowledge of Good and evil equations. Which brings the whole artificial intelligence into the question by asking if it did become super smart would it deem our languages valuable or would it locate a hidden Language of reality that would be like jibberish to us. Maybe it even wouldn't be valuable to us in anyway shape of form lol We plagiarize the past to correlate with the present to better convey ideas and teach ( less-ons) to one another. We have to have perception management mind dope or atleast a confirmation bias in place that everyone is familiar with like say how Newton upset the old world Deterministic platonic ordering categorizing system that was lost but Darwin dualistic revision created a familiar language & phylosphy to piggyback on those old world beliefs. So we get a situation where everyone is into nationalism and language study along with the search for roots of civilization and puts our alphabetical exodus front ans center buy it can't truly be separated from how teach ,talk learn or perception management. Aligoric, symbolic and esoteric alignment plus oreintation and direction are interdependent upon a tangled mess of correlations.

  • @roccovergoglini7670
    @roccovergoglini7670 Місяць тому

    Another terrifically well-written, researched, and produced video. Superb job Ryan! This channel -- and particularly this video's topic -- is right up my alley. And it should ultimately have 100s of thousands of subscribers. I hope to be part of that growth along the way. Thanks!

    • @LanguageofMind
      @LanguageofMind Місяць тому

      Thank you! This is a topic that really speaks to me too, so I'm happy that it's finally getting scholarly attention!

  • @elzbietabirgiel9314
    @elzbietabirgiel9314 Місяць тому

    So rich in information and fascinating.. what a topic, I absolutely love it! I instantly thought of His Master's Voice, by Stanislaw Lem and the message of aliens sent towards Earth, group of scientists from different fields trying to encode it

    • @LanguageofMind
      @LanguageofMind Місяць тому

      Ooh, good recommendation. I need to read this!

  • @cariyaputta
    @cariyaputta Місяць тому

    Probably just like spoken vulgar Sanskrit. A highly inflected language with 8 declensions (nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative, instrumental, and locative) to avoid loss of information in verbal transmission.

    • @swim3936
      @swim3936 Місяць тому

      Declension isn't the only way to avoid ambiguity. You can just as well have the information explicitly marked on the verb/prepositions, you can have fixed word order, you can have explicit scope marking (like parentheses/indentation in programming languages, but verbalized), you can use prosody etc.

  • @M_O.O_N
    @M_O.O_N Місяць тому

    You're back \(⁠・⁠◡⁠・⁠)⁠/

    • @LanguageofMind
      @LanguageofMind Місяць тому

      I'm back! This was a lot of work... need to improve my workflow. Lol

    • @Tmesis___19
      @Tmesis___19 Місяць тому

      I’m a little let down that you did not mention how the different nature of alien language would aeffect their thinking. I would enjoy more videos on semantics anyways

    • @LanguageofMind
      @LanguageofMind Місяць тому

      @@Tmesis___19 I really wanted to talk about semantics! But the video had gotten so long... Maybe I can revisit this topic.

  • @RicardoMlu-tw2ig
    @RicardoMlu-tw2ig Місяць тому

    this video deserve more view❤

  • @lolroflmaoization
    @lolroflmaoization Місяць тому

    there is a distinction between concsious awareness of these concepts and mere behavior that seems to require the distinction, i think it unlikely that ant has an experience of itself and an awareness of the separateness of others, i think it more likely that there is some simple computational machinery that allows the behavior without the consciousness, but i could be biased against ants :S

  • @sintiayc
    @sintiayc Місяць тому

    Thank you for this explanation :'D

  • @amyhogarten5038
    @amyhogarten5038 Місяць тому

    There is already an extremely precise means and method of communicating all types of information about parts of our world, yet it is hardly discussed: The architectural plan. In its most elemental presentation, the architectural plan is not "read" from right to left or from top to bottom. There is no "starting point" when one begins to "read" it. The whole is comprised of the parts and the parts inform the whole. The plan conveys information such as basic geometrical properties, the quality and quantity of light in a proposed space, the relationships to above and below the plans elevation datum, its material aspects and so on. The is no arrow of time in its construct, unlike spoken language where one is about to speak, speaking, and have spoken. There is no linearity to its construct.

  • @StrawmnMcPerson
    @StrawmnMcPerson Місяць тому

    I can't get past the misuse of hierarchical or the whteness of the boy making vast claims without any form of reference or explanation.

  • @sehbanomer8151
    @sehbanomer8151 Місяць тому

    Turkish has case markers, which makes it possible to have arbitrary word order

  • @Garfield_Minecraft
    @Garfield_Minecraft Місяць тому

    You know that reminds me of sign language it's some what similar 12:25 and uhm chinese word for months not actually like english because it's a number that's why faster! Lol like month 1 month 2 not january february

  • @statickaeder29
    @statickaeder29 Місяць тому

    I love Arrival. I love language in general, and wish I had a better idea about where the defining line between the Russian word for dark blue and light blue exist. My very favorite moment in Arrival is how the linguist was chosen. War = a desire for cows. I Love That!!!

  • @eddieretelj6409
    @eddieretelj6409 Місяць тому

    This is a remarkable point about current LLM's. I've tried the book on top of a teacup image and it is true. Are there other examples? A list perhaps of these cases?

  • @Joseph-js3mk
    @Joseph-js3mk Місяць тому

    👇 P R O M O S M

  • @DawnDavidson
    @DawnDavidson Місяць тому

    Nice! I’ve been interested in languages and linguistics for a very long time (back into my childhood, more than 50 years ago). You’ve done a great job of presenting some of the core concepts about language diversity and development in an entertaining and visually pleasing way. I found your channel recently and was surprised to see that it’s relatively new. I watched your video on your neurodiversity, and I was captivated by your clarity and vulnerability with such a challenging topic. As someone interested in communication and also neurodiverse myself, I really resonated. I subscribed immediately, which is not something I usually do. You are off to a great start, and I’m looking forward to watching more of your videos.

  • @hannahmitzicabaluna7646
    @hannahmitzicabaluna7646 2 місяці тому

    I discovered this channel just yesterday and immediately subscribed! Thank you for the videos

  • @lucianmaximus4741
    @lucianmaximus4741 2 місяці тому

    Gematria444:360=1.23*MONAD

  • @shyanneishot
    @shyanneishot 2 місяці тому

    I watched this movie while I was doing my linguistics degree and it made me fall in love with science friction