No exaggeration, but you could literally merge letters to any word to create new meanings in Sanskrit, then merge the newly formed words with pre-existing or each other and the process continues, theoretically there's no end. Ancient Sanskrit scriptures and even modern-day writings can and have already had sentences that are one-word long and there's no end. This language is so versatile that it's among the two candidates for the human and machine-mutual coding system being developed
given that machine code is just a chain of 1s and 0s, I find that hard to believe. Versatility is not a characteristic of machine code. you have to be precise and deterministic.
@@sam_vos No it doesn't you troglodyte. Sankrit doesn't have words for any objects, instead words are formed based on the characteristics of an object. But German just uses a lot of compund words, if that "wOrKs iN tHe eXaCt sAmE wAy", then a ton of languages would be just like Sanskrit.
Drew perfectly, representing the US in 1:10 by not knowing how currencies work. Edit: I checked, and he cut out the scene, didn't know that was possible until now. P.S. I'm a bit sad he cut out the scene.🥲
@@amieamie6268 Yes, I have to be honest there too, I also get sometimes confused with this. But it was just too perfect with the US ball not understanding how currencies work.
You can literally do the same in German that´s why the long words are a meme. You just but a bunch of words together and get a new one. But for everyday use it´s usually not important.
@@steirerbua5322 it's important in our life because those words make huge sense. The word daan means charity nd veer means great thus a danveer means a great philanthropist
The reason why Sanskrit has so many words is because there are 10 verb tenses for each verb plus a religious tense that is not used in normal speech or text. Each tense has 9 conjugations so each verb has 90 forms. Furthermore, there is a concept known as Samasam (not samosa) that joins multiple related words like subjects and adjectives. This makes it possible to create an infinite amount of words as combined words are treated as new full words.
i think the thing with Arabic is that they mark so much stuff in their Words with The Vowels for all kinds of Mood/Tens/etc that that number is SUPER high when you include all posible combos. but words alone, as in the Constonantal Roots they use, then the number is about average again. (Talking about Moastly Verbs)
I’m Canadian, and when we go into America for shopping at target, or literally any store in America, stuff that would cost 5 dollars CAD in Canada would cost 5 dollars USD in America, so stuff is more expensive there because 1 USD=1.37 CAD.
I think the reason why languages can have a lot of words, but be fairly easy to learn is because they use smallere words and put them together in differemt ways to make more words. Where as language like Hungarian or Danish are hard to learn, not because there is a lot of words, but because there is a lack of grammatic rules and because more words mean different things depending on context.
And in English we can call a girl cold and it means hot, or I haven't seen you in a minute but it means a while. For example, this is all misleading because there's an infinite number of things to say pretty much in any language and the native speakers only understand lol
They have grammatical rules, they're just more complex. And there're also grammatical rules governing how the words change its meaning when they're in certain contexts too.
danish... lack of grammar? ohhh you don't know how wrong you are. We litteraly have to take a 3 month mandatory grammar course and exam when we start in 11th grade (when everyone is usually 16 or 17 years old) just to make sure we aren't complete idiots. There is so much stupidly complicated grammar that setting a comma in danish can sometimes be more difficult than learning to kick yourself in the back of the head.
@@sheepketchup9059 Yeah, I don't mean that they don't have rules at all, I just mean that there's a lot of exceptions and no pattern or explanation for those exceptions. At least in Danish (my native language), I'm not certain on Hungarian gramatics. Also Danish has two different 'genders' for nouns, but there's no rules or pattern for what is what. You just gotta learn what things are, one at a time.
The coca-cola lake is really dark because of the huge concentration of iron and iodine that reacts with the nearby root’s pigments (it is surrounded by the atlantic forest). I think New Zealand has one of those too, but the reason is different
technically german has infinite words too since you can combine basically everything. that's how the Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz came to be.
Not really the german language is too predictable still. Having done language studies, Sanskrit has many rules for using "conjoint verbs" and "veda scripts". Cool language, I highly recommend you learn the various scripts, it's very intriguing.
If I am right, Umlaut in German is like Sandhi in Sanskrit. While Umlaut is only for German vowels, but there are Sandhi rules for all of the Sanskrit alphabets. Eg) 1) tathā + uktaṃ= tathoktaṃ (tathā= as per, uktaṃ= having told/ being told. Tathoktaṃ= as being told) 2)yad + śaktiḥ= yacchaktiḥ (yad= whose, śaktiḥ= energy. yacchaktiḥ= He, whose energy) --------------------------------------------------------------- And komposita in German is somewhat similar to samās of Sanskrit, except that in samās, there are specific rules and categories. But, Samās is more than just putting one word after another. Eg)1) kṛṣṇārjunau= Kṛṣṇaḥ ca Arjunaḥ ca (Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna) 2) Pitāmbaraḥ= Pitām baram yasya saḥ (one who has worn yellow clothes) 2) Saptadinaṃ= Saptanāṃ dinān samāhār iti (group of seven days) 3) Sītāpatiḥ= Sītāyāḥ patiḥ (husband of mother Sitā) 4) Haribhaktaḥ= harau bhaktaḥ (devotee of Lord Hari) 5) Pankajaḥ= Panke jāyate iti (Lotus- the one who is born from mud) 6)Khagaḥ= khe gacchati iti (bird- one who goes through the sky) ---------------------------------------------------------- What I said about German might be wrong, maybe you can correct me if it is wrong.
9:20 of course most languages have huge amount of loan words, for example about 30% of words in English came from French ;p Words like allowance, heritage, identity, illusion, facade, irony, energy, city (pretty much all words where 'c' is pronounce as 's' not 'k' came from French) and many many other words that most English speaker consider English are French loan words. And thats only French, other languages also influenced English to a high degree ;p
Counting words in a language is weird. For example, in the SAOB Swedish Dictionary, it has 500 000 words, but I'm not sure how they count, because compounds are grouped with the word they're a compound of. Like "fotboll" (foot-ball) has its own entry, but "skolår" (school-year) does not, and appears as a compound for "skola" (school) despite the previous also being a compound of "fot" (foot).
Despite this man doing videos about basically every country in the world, he still can’t tell the difference between Indonesia/Monaco 🇮🇩 and Poland 🇵🇱. 12:18
The cocaine coke mix up is a real thing. I asked for coke with my breakfast in czech land and the guy showed me a shop opposite where I could get some cocaine.
Hungarian technically doesn't have an upper word limit either thanks to the many ways to conjugate words, so it can be said that it also has infinite words in it
Well in German, it is theoretically possible to create more or less infinite words, due to the fact that you can put like every combination of Words with little modifications to the words, but most of them dont make that much sense. If you ever played minecraft in german you'll notice that almost no items do have a space in the name...
Compound words are used by a lot of languages! They're really useful for native speakers because they're so fast and unambiguous (or exact), but people trying to learn the language will have a lot of trouble and need to read or hear them slowly at first. Sorry for the paragraph and unnecessary explanation, I just think languages are really neat and thought maybe someone reading the comment could learn something or begin a discussion
@@SuLokify Admittedly, German is easier to some because of it. In western slavic languages, we usually have the exact same compounds being used in direct translation. But ultimately, compounding is in every language. The thing about Indian is probably that someone just decided to keep on adding new words into dictionary, bcs rules allow it -- whereas other languages made non-flexible standards trying to prevent further derail of dialects from each other. Mind you, Austrian and German are barely even inteligible, but they decided on single language standard to teach in school, but that also means, that for people outside Vienna(which likely already has a majority speaking german by now), they only learn in what is basically a foreign language. -- at the end that does not make those Sanskrit words actually used by real people though. In Real world, everyone there is probably speaking in some dialect and dont utter a single word present in that dictionary outside of public offices anyway - just like we have it in Europe.
If I am right, Umlaut in German is like Sandhi in Sanskrit. While Umlaut is only for German vowels, but there are Sandhi rules for all of the Sanskrit alphabets. Eg) 1) tathā + uktaṃ= tathoktaṃ (tathā= as per, uktaṃ= having told/ being told. Tathoktaṃ= as being told) 2)yad + śaktiḥ= yacchaktiḥ (yad= whose, śaktiḥ= energy. yacchaktiḥ= He, whose energy) --------------------------------------------------------------- And komposita in German is somewhat similar to samās of Sanskrit, except that in samās, there are specific rules and categories. But, Samās is more than just putting one word after another. Eg)1) kṛṣṇārjunau= Kṛṣṇaḥ ca Arjunaḥ ca (Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna) 2) Pitāmbaraḥ= Pitām baram yasya saḥ (one who has worn yellow clothes) 2) Saptadinaṃ= Saptanāṃ dinān samāhār iti (group of seven days) 3) Sītāpatiḥ= Sītāyāḥ patiḥ (husband of mother Sitā) 4) Haribhaktaḥ= harau bhaktaḥ (devotee of Lord Hari) 5) Pankajaḥ= Panke jāyate iti (Lotus- the one who is born from mud) 6)Khagaḥ= khe gacchati iti (bird- one who goes through the sky) ---------------------------------------------------------- What I said about German might be wrong, maybe you can correct me if it is wrong.
5:05 I didn't know it was standard to use corn syrup. So I made a quick search. Couldn't tell much, there aren't many useful resources. But it's likely coke in Western Europe contains sugar too. Corn syrup isn't in the ingredient list, and I found old forum posts mentioning isoglucose (another name for corn syrup) being present in Eastern European coke, with the distinction being made from west EU coke, it's likely for it to be the case. Explains why I like it so much.
11:12 Sanskrit is mostly used for religious scriptures and prayers. Also Sanskrit is the base language for a majority of Indian languages like Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati etc. so that kinda explains why it has so many words
As an indian i can guarantee sometimes i run out words in english while i have the same thing in my language in my head, but most of the youtube comment section doesnt know my language
That happens when you don't know a language well. English, like most languages, aren't restricted in how you can express yourself. You just express yourself differently. Don't be silly.
I'm commenting right now because of how much of an amazing person you are, you've inspired me to become a mapper and entertained me for years... No words can express my gratitude for you, Drew. You're truly a wonderful human
the question of how many words has a language is actually quite interesting all all languages that allow compound words will have more than the dictionary states. in german you can just slap words together and will get a new word and with kanji you can create new meaning by merging the right radicals and then also put the kanji next to another
Yeah, I mean for example while the English dictionary only has around 500,000 words, the number of English words is estimated to be over One Million, not to mention English is also pretty flexible so creating new words is kinda' easy.
Given that you know that language, may i ask, how to understand "infinte words"? Is it just combining two words to get a new one, like we do in german or is there a deeper system behind it?
@@p3chv0gel22 i live in India i did study sanskrit as a second language for 2 years i can assure you new words just keep popping up and it is a 100% hardest language to learn there and so many types of stuff in it's grammer
It's kinda making me sad seeing PWA not including Germany so often. Germany has over 5.3m words btw. I am still happy that they included Germany in a few of them.
Russia definetly doesn't have that many tanks anymore. I think we have photo evidence of somewhere between 1000 and 2000 destroyed tanks and Russia is now the single largest supplier of tanks to the Ukraine armed forces with something like over 600 captured and reintegrated into the Ukranian army. As that 12,000 number is highly improbable and even if it were true definetly more than half would be inoperable.
11:17 Hungarian words are made up from the same few root parts, often resulting in long compound words which makes learning the base vocabulary easy but learning it's logic can be difficult.
Would love to see Drew reacting to 'Countryballs explained' channel. It's my favourite Countryballs channel on UA-cam, along with PWA ofc 🏃🏻. It has some fantastic memes.
The number of words, it depends how exactly those words are counted up... Trouble with counting up unique words is that it may leave out a lot from one language while count in a lot by the same principles. Eg agglutination (eg: boatswain), clitics, cases, grammatical genders, declarations, etc... For my own language, this alone (still excluding agglutination for example) gives over 150 possible intuitive derivative words per each unique root word (mother → mother+ly)... Throw in words that are derived from agglutination, and potential for dictionary size explodes near infinite. It also matters if two words with similar appearance and sound are counted as same word with different (and even conflicting) definitions that have independent etymologies. A reason why such comparison can only be done properly be counting up those words by definitions (and one definition still can have multiple, even tens, matching words). On top of that, phonetics should supercede visual apparence - how it is pronounced has higher importance than how it happens to appear in writing... And then there is etymology, etc, ...
@@Velu0 sanskrit is an ancient language thus people just added words for every possible situation or describe a single thing with multiple loosely arranged definition words. Thus sanskrit is termed as language of Gods.
@@Velu0 You can understand with this example- 1) If I want to say, "He, who has worn yellow garments", I can say in a full sentence as "pītaṃ aṃbaraṃ yasya saḥ". If I want to say it in one word, I would say "pītāmbaraḥ" ✅ and not "PītaṃAṃbaraṃYasyaSaḥ" ❎. This is called samās. In this example, the type of samās used is bahuvṛīhi samās. 2) And then there is sandhi, which is somewhat similar to merging, but not exactly merging : tathā + uktaṃ ≠ tathāuktaṃ ❎ tathā + uktaṃ= tathoktaṃ ✅ (Tathā= as per, uktaṃ= having said/ being said. Tathoktaṃ= as being said) This is done to make pronounciation easier. The "ā" at the end of "tathā" is kaṇthya (meaning it is pronounce by blocking the air from your throat by pointing the tongue towards the vellum) and the "u" in the beginning of "uktaṃ" is oṣthya (meaning you pronounce it by passing the air from your throat directly through your lips). To transition, from kaṇthya to oṣthya, you need to pause. So to make pronounciation smoother, you combine the vowels a (ā= a + a) and u to form the compound vowel o.
8:19 Yeah England only has one, and many people here literally will not shut up about it. Pretty sure we named so many things after some of the players in that squad.
9:16 Drew, the average language is a lot of loan words + a bunch it isn‘t known where they come from loan words + some we have forgotten that they are loan words loan words + some proper words probably building on foreign language words + a handful proper proper words. One should also note that OG loan words have at least traversed so many languages that it is hard to know who produced it the first time or if they have been produced multiple times or who loaned from whom. Not to forget the ‚intra-language loaning‘ between ‚dialects‘ and the constant subtle changes of words and their meanings and the double-loaning and and and. One could say it is a big LOAN-party.
9:20 well yes and no, if a word in language A exists but in B doesn't and the word is copied in B to match A, then it's +1 word to both and B has a loan word.
No exaggeration, but you could literally merge letters to any word to create new meanings in Sanskrit, then merge the newly formed words with pre-existing or each other and the process continues, theoretically there's no end. Ancient Sanskrit scriptures and even modern-day writings can and have already had sentences that are one-word long and there's no end. This language is so versatile that it's among the two candidates for the human and machine-mutual coding system being developed
German works in the exact same way
given that machine code is just a chain of 1s and 0s, I find that hard to believe. Versatility is not a characteristic of machine code. you have to be precise and deterministic.
@@sam_vos Sanskrit is a distant ancestor so not surprising.
A whole new word can be made by using "Dhaatu"
@@sam_vos No it doesn't you troglodyte. Sankrit doesn't have words for any objects, instead words are formed based on the characteristics of an object. But German just uses a lot of compund words, if that "wOrKs iN tHe eXaCt sAmE wAy", then a ton of languages would be just like Sanskrit.
Canada: *has 83 tanks*
That ONE murican dude: *has 30 private tanks*
As a Mexican I can confirm there’s lakes and river of coke running through our country
Yes, there is, if you fall in one you just drink it, viva!
But it’s mostly in Chiapas
But it’s mostly in Chiapas
What about Nayarit? I drink like a big bottle of coca everu day.
you mean coca cola, right
Drew perfectly, representing the US in 1:10 by not knowing how currencies work.
Edit: I checked, and he cut out the scene, didn't know that was possible until now.
P.S. I'm a bit sad he cut out the scene.🥲
Honestly. I'm european it confuses me too sometimes; figuring out if it's less or more.
The dollar is pretty much the metric system but for currency.
Well those who aren't familiar with economics/geopolitics aren't going to know much about it.
@@amieamie6268 Yes, I have to be honest there too, I also get sometimes confused with this. But it was just too perfect with the US ball not understanding how currencies work.
Yeah right.
You can create new words in Sanskrit by merging 2 or more words, process is called Sandhi, also currently it has over 102.7 billion words.
You can literally do the same in German that´s why the long words are a meme. You just but a bunch of words together and get a new one. But for everyday use it´s usually not important.
@@steirerbua5322 it's important in our life because those words make huge sense. The word daan means charity nd veer means great thus a danveer means a great philanthropist
It's important in every language but if it makes you feel important, I'll give it to you. Go get some self confidence somewhere.
Oh wow
I speak Kurdish and we also have the same thing
1:20 Drew not understanding conversion exactly like US ball. You've come a long way, but American inside is still strong)
The reason why Sanskrit has so many words is because there are 10 verb tenses for each verb plus a religious tense that is not used in normal speech or text. Each tense has 9 conjugations so each verb has 90 forms. Furthermore, there is a concept known as Samasam (not samosa) that joins multiple related words like subjects and adjectives. This makes it possible to create an infinite amount of words as combined words are treated as new full words.
You have to respect
• vibhakti
• vachan
• purush
• lakar
Plus it also have so many prayavachi(similar meaning words)
Not samosa 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@arvinddixit5004 yeah
me when I saw the wordiest words:china
Not to forget so many types of samās:
1) avyayibhāva samās
2) karmadhāraya samās
3) tatpuruśa samās:
i) prathamā tatpuruṣa
ii) dvītiyā tatpuruṣa
iii) tṛtiya tatpuruṣa
iv) chaturthi tatpuruṣa
v) pañchami tatpuruṣa
vi) ṣaṣthi tatpuruṣa
vii) saptami tatpuruṣa
4) dvigu smās
5) Bahuvṛīhi samās
6) dvandva samās:
i) itaretar dvandva
ii) samāhāra dvandva
iii) ekaśeśa dvandva
7) nna samās
8) aluk samās
9) madhyampaḍlopi samās
(I don't know if I missed any)
I was punching myself everytime drew confused Poland and Indonesia
Same.
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1:34 The video made a pun on "knead", but Drew took it as a pun on "dough"
Heheehehe
i think the thing with Arabic is that they mark so much stuff in their Words with The Vowels for all kinds of Mood/Tens/etc that that number is SUPER high when you include all posible combos. but words alone, as in the Constonantal Roots they use, then the number is about average again.
(Talking about Moastly Verbs)
16:32 As an English person, I went to Scotland recently and the house prices were very cheap compared with England.
6:25 USA got to the semi-finals in the first ever World Cup in 1930
Drew's abuelo must love all the Argentine world cup wins
I’m Canadian, and when we go into America for shopping at target, or literally any store in America, stuff that would cost 5 dollars CAD in Canada would cost 5 dollars USD in America, so stuff is more expensive there because 1 USD=1.37 CAD.
4:19 “We had to nu…never mind… we had to finish WW2 before that.”
Drop the little boy on Nagasaki and fat man on Hiroshima
I think the reason why languages can have a lot of words, but be fairly easy to learn is because they use smallere words and put them together in differemt ways to make more words. Where as language like Hungarian or Danish are hard to learn, not because there is a lot of words, but because there is a lack of grammatic rules and because more words mean different things depending on context.
100% correct. I mean we all do it with English but most "English words" are slang and aren't considered words by dictionary definition.
And in English we can call a girl cold and it means hot, or I haven't seen you in a minute but it means a while. For example, this is all misleading because there's an infinite number of things to say pretty much in any language and the native speakers only understand lol
They have grammatical rules, they're just more complex.
And there're also grammatical rules governing how the words change its meaning when they're in certain contexts too.
danish... lack of grammar? ohhh you don't know how wrong you are. We litteraly have to take a 3 month mandatory grammar course and exam when we start in 11th grade (when everyone is usually 16 or 17 years old) just to make sure we aren't complete idiots. There is so much stupidly complicated grammar that setting a comma in danish can sometimes be more difficult than learning to kick yourself in the back of the head.
@@sheepketchup9059 Yeah, I don't mean that they don't have rules at all, I just mean that there's a lot of exceptions and no pattern or explanation for those exceptions. At least in Danish (my native language), I'm not certain on Hungarian gramatics. Also Danish has two different 'genders' for nouns, but there's no rules or pattern for what is what. You just gotta learn what things are, one at a time.
The coca-cola lake is really dark because of the huge concentration of iron and iodine that reacts with the nearby root’s pigments (it is surrounded by the atlantic forest). I think New Zealand has one of those too, but the reason is different
6:30 USA has actually made it to 3rd place in the first ever world cup
technically german has infinite words too since you can combine basically everything.
that's how the Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz came to be.
Not really the german language is too predictable still. Having done language studies, Sanskrit has many rules for using "conjoint verbs" and "veda scripts". Cool language, I highly recommend you learn the various scripts, it's very intriguing.
If I am right, Umlaut in German is like Sandhi in Sanskrit. While Umlaut is only for German vowels, but there are Sandhi rules for all of the Sanskrit alphabets.
Eg) 1) tathā + uktaṃ= tathoktaṃ (tathā= as per, uktaṃ= having told/ being told. Tathoktaṃ= as being told)
2)yad + śaktiḥ= yacchaktiḥ (yad= whose, śaktiḥ= energy. yacchaktiḥ= He, whose energy)
---------------------------------------------------------------
And komposita in German is somewhat similar to samās of Sanskrit, except that in samās, there are specific rules and categories. But, Samās is more than just putting one word after another.
Eg)1) kṛṣṇārjunau= Kṛṣṇaḥ ca Arjunaḥ ca
(Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna)
2) Pitāmbaraḥ= Pitām baram yasya saḥ
(one who has worn yellow clothes)
2) Saptadinaṃ= Saptanāṃ dinān samāhār iti
(group of seven days)
3) Sītāpatiḥ= Sītāyāḥ patiḥ
(husband of mother Sitā)
4) Haribhaktaḥ= harau bhaktaḥ
(devotee of Lord Hari)
5) Pankajaḥ= Panke jāyate iti
(Lotus- the one who is born from mud)
6)Khagaḥ= khe gacchati iti
(bird- one who goes through the sky)
----------------------------------------------------------
What I said about German might be wrong, maybe you can correct me if it is wrong.
As a Britannian I can confirm that we are living in bankruptcy
That's the price for having old people with fancy outfits.
Argentina now has 3 world cups, congrats to Messi 🎉🇦🇷
Random person: Says some random gibberish
Sanskrit speaker: Stop swearing!!
9:20 of course most languages have huge amount of loan words, for example about 30% of words in English came from French ;p Words like allowance, heritage, identity, illusion, facade, irony, energy, city (pretty much all words where 'c' is pronounce as 's' not 'k' came from French) and many many other words that most English speaker consider English are French loan words. And thats only French, other languages also influenced English to a high degree ;p
In English 30% words are from French, another 30% from Latin and about 4% from German
Counting words in a language is weird. For example, in the SAOB Swedish Dictionary, it has 500 000 words, but I'm not sure how they count, because compounds are grouped with the word they're a compound of. Like "fotboll" (foot-ball) has its own entry, but "skolår" (school-year) does not, and appears as a compound for "skola" (school) despite the previous also being a compound of "fot" (foot).
4:38 Not! The Araraquara lagoon in Brasil is clean, the dark color is due to the high concentration of iodine, iron, coal and reeds.
Despite this man doing videos about basically every country in the world, he still can’t tell the difference between Indonesia/Monaco 🇮🇩 and Poland 🇵🇱. 12:18
The cocaine coke mix up is a real thing. I asked for coke with my breakfast in czech land and the guy showed me a shop opposite where I could get some cocaine.
Cezch your coke
Hungarian technically doesn't have an upper word limit either thanks to the many ways to conjugate words, so it can be said that it also has infinite words in it
Exactly, as reference it says on google that Hungarian has 100.000 words in a BASIC dictionary.
Hungarian is same as European languages, nothing special about Hungarian
@@kk7420 definitely nothing going on in Ohio
yes you are right. As Turkish has same ability too.
That's just misleading, there's a finite ways to conjugate and decline, therefore, not infinite.
Unless Hungarian allows for infinite compounding.
Well in German, it is theoretically possible to create more or less infinite words, due to the fact that you can put like every combination of Words with little modifications to the words, but most of them dont make that much sense. If you ever played minecraft in german you'll notice that almost no items do have a space in the name...
Compound words are used by a lot of languages! They're really useful for native speakers because they're so fast and unambiguous (or exact), but people trying to learn the language will have a lot of trouble and need to read or hear them slowly at first.
Sorry for the paragraph and unnecessary explanation, I just think languages are really neat and thought maybe someone reading the comment could learn something or begin a discussion
@@SuLokify Admittedly, German is easier to some because of it. In western slavic languages, we usually have the exact same compounds being used in direct translation. But ultimately, compounding is in every language. The thing about Indian is probably that someone just decided to keep on adding new words into dictionary, bcs rules allow it -- whereas other languages made non-flexible standards trying to prevent further derail of dialects from each other. Mind you, Austrian and German are barely even inteligible, but they decided on single language standard to teach in school, but that also means, that for people outside Vienna(which likely already has a majority speaking german by now), they only learn in what is basically a foreign language. -- at the end that does not make those Sanskrit words actually used by real people though. In Real world, everyone there is probably speaking in some dialect and dont utter a single word present in that dictionary outside of public offices anyway - just like we have it in Europe.
@@SuLokify In theory you could just learn the core words meanings but then semantic shift(change in the meaning of the word) enters the chat
If I am right, Umlaut in German is like Sandhi in Sanskrit. While Umlaut is only for German vowels, but there are Sandhi rules for all of the Sanskrit alphabets.
Eg) 1) tathā + uktaṃ= tathoktaṃ (tathā= as per, uktaṃ= having told/ being told. Tathoktaṃ= as being told)
2)yad + śaktiḥ= yacchaktiḥ (yad= whose, śaktiḥ= energy. yacchaktiḥ= He, whose energy)
---------------------------------------------------------------
And komposita in German is somewhat similar to samās of Sanskrit, except that in samās, there are specific rules and categories. But, Samās is more than just putting one word after another.
Eg)1) kṛṣṇārjunau= Kṛṣṇaḥ ca Arjunaḥ ca
(Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna)
2) Pitāmbaraḥ= Pitām baram yasya saḥ
(one who has worn yellow clothes)
2) Saptadinaṃ= Saptanāṃ dinān samāhār iti
(group of seven days)
3) Sītāpatiḥ= Sītāyāḥ patiḥ
(husband of mother Sitā)
4) Haribhaktaḥ= harau bhaktaḥ
(devotee of Lord Hari)
5) Pankajaḥ= Panke jāyate iti
(Lotus- the one who is born from mud)
6)Khagaḥ= khe gacchati iti
(bird- one who goes through the sky)
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What I said about German might be wrong, maybe you can correct me if it is wrong.
5:05 I didn't know it was standard to use corn syrup. So I made a quick search. Couldn't tell much, there aren't many useful resources. But it's likely coke in Western Europe contains sugar too. Corn syrup isn't in the ingredient list, and I found old forum posts mentioning isoglucose (another name for corn syrup) being present in Eastern European coke, with the distinction being made from west EU coke, it's likely for it to be the case. Explains why I like it so much.
Fun fact: Sanskrit was the first ever language in written form. The world's first Book 'Rigveda' was written in Sanskrit as well.
It's a beautiful language ♥
It was? Wasn't the epic of Gilgamesh written earlier? And I thought both Sumerian Cuneiform and Egyptian Hieroglyphs predated Sanskrit by quite a bit.
@@NotASummoner Not really. The oldest language by date is Tamil and Sanskrit comes second, but in Written format, Sanskrit is the Oldest
11:12 Sanskrit is mostly used for religious scriptures and prayers. Also Sanskrit is the base language for a majority of Indian languages like Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati etc. so that kinda explains why it has so many words
Drews Video for Dinner always makes my Day Complete
Same here!!!
As an indian i can guarantee sometimes i run out words in english while i have the same thing in my language in my head, but most of the youtube comment section doesnt know my language
What sort of Indian?
That happens when you don't know a language well. English, like most languages, aren't restricted in how you can express yourself. You just express yourself differently. Don't be silly.
I'm commenting right now because of how much of an amazing person you are, you've inspired me to become a mapper and entertained me for years... No words can express my gratitude for you, Drew. You're truly a wonderful human
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@@wasserFREH yeah
@@wasserFREH no he said drew
0:05 the dollar Can still win if it was the strongest currency everyone else would be above 1 of their currency for a dollar
the question of how many words has a language is actually quite interesting all all languages that allow compound words will have more than the dictionary states. in german you can just slap words together and will get a new word and with kanji you can create new meaning by merging the right radicals and then also put the kanji next to another
Yeah, I mean for example while the English dictionary only has around 500,000 words, the number of English words is estimated to be over One Million, not to mention English is also pretty flexible so creating new words is kinda' easy.
House prices are (and all other prices) are based on supply and demand. The UK is apparently having a housing crisis. So low supply = high price.
did anyone notice how drew mistaked Poland for Indonesia
corn bread probably real cheap. Americans love corn especially Nebraska
Did he just said that the bread costs "point, uh. $1 and 23€"? 1:25
Lmao
7:50 Brazil would never call South America a continent, for us it's a subcontinent
I was just about to comment this exact thing
I love it when Drew calls the Pound Sterling symbol an euro.
Then again, their symbols are very similar.
He also called yuan a dollar
"Coke from Mexico is 100x better"
- Drew Durnil, 2022
Welp m proud to say that I know how to converse in Sanskrit 🍍✌️
@ರಾಮಾಯ卐卐卐 well m still studying skt even tho m in 9th :D
उत्तमः 👍👍
3:19 *Disintegrates*
well hungarian may not have that many individual words, but the words can have like 50 forms
Venezuela Iran and Japan all have the insanely inflated money
I am Indian myself so I know the language. It’s kind of hilarious to see Drew not knowing yet 🤣
Given that you know that language, may i ask, how to understand "infinte words"? Is it just combining two words to get a new one, like we do in german or is there a deeper system behind it?
@@p3chv0gel22 there are lot of words I leaned the language in my school, 100s of synonyms for one thing
@@p3chv0gel22 yeah thats the system
@@p3chv0gel22 i live in India i did study sanskrit as a second language for 2 years i can assure you new words just keep popping up and it is a 100% hardest language to learn there and so many types of stuff in it's grammer
@@p3chv0gel22 and the pronunciation is just crazy
2:45 **500 billion zimbabwe dollars is 1 USD**
2008 btw
6:58 Argentina vs France is the 2022 finals in the world cup
It's kinda making me sad seeing PWA not including Germany so often. Germany has over 5.3m words btw.
I am still happy that they included Germany in a few of them.
Same
It's the one of the most included countries
@@tonai Nope
Russia definetly doesn't have that many tanks anymore. I think we have photo evidence of somewhere between 1000 and 2000 destroyed tanks and Russia is now the single largest supplier of tanks to the Ukraine armed forces with something like over 600 captured and reintegrated into the Ukranian army. As that 12,000 number is highly improbable and even if it were true definetly more than half would be inoperable.
Asking Drew to put the flag of Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 on his wall
Day 9
11:17 Hungarian words are made up from the same few root parts, often resulting in long compound words which makes learning the base vocabulary easy but learning it's logic can be difficult.
5:23 sounds like a country's average is roughly my mums intake
Fun fact: brazil only has that much world cups because of pelè. He made the team win 3 world cups
Given that many soccer games only have one or two points per team scored, it isn't surprising that a single person could win games for a team.
Actually Germany won 6 world cups as Argentinian players are half German
Edit:Please get the joke
Germany have won 6 WCs if we count the womens cup too.
2:23 Pakistan: Look At our rupee
You were interpreting the graph incorrectly. The euro was worth more for the majority of the graph.
A few years ago the British pound was about 2 usd
Day 6 of asking drew to put Malaysia flag next to Qing China flag
How about a bit under it
Becas its more south
Argentina with 3 worldcup now
Would love to see Drew reacting to 'Countryballs explained' channel. It's my favourite Countryballs channel on UA-cam, along with PWA ofc 🏃🏻. It has some fantastic memes.
I already know 6 languages but I am learning 2 more languages Japanese and Sanskrit
Day 2 of asking Drew to put The Prussian Flag in the background
Realy good looking flag and a lot of history.
Geat choose 10/10 👍
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Whoa that words one was unexpected
4:47 Dang honestly
Pepsi is better
Drew called Indonesia Poland he needs to know that PWA doesn’t like to flip Poland’s flag
Daily Dose of Drew Received
Engage Happiness
him: talking and reading
Me who is still thinking what the Egypt country ball plush would look like:
Day 15 of telling drew to put the Austria Hungary flag in the background
11:17:India doesn’t speak Sanskrit(I think),but some Indian languages originated from sanskrit
India has a huge military! 4k tanks wow
Pls review scorpo
As a country knower i keeped screaming THATS INDONESIA
Day 447 what computer do u use drew
1:17 again exactly the opposite the euro was better than the USD then worse for a while this year and now better again
Petition for Drew To put up The Flag of Poland next to the Qing flag in the background [Day 17]
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Fun fact, the US actually has a 3rd place finish in the World Cup. They finished 3rd in the 1930 World Cup (the first ever World Cup).
Petition for Drew to put the flag of Yugoslavia in the background (day 13)
Petiton has been regected
No yet buddy
Any one here from a country that is not here any more
6:57 well we shall see on 18th December
Drew please I beg you to make some Latin American plushies 🙏🏼✝️
sanskrit is not difficult when you know how to join basic words
Day 696969696969 of asking to put the Philippines flag in the background
Nice
Fake is not plausible mate
@@amirshayanshariatCan you not take a joke mate?
That will be around 1909506019 years, more than 19.
So @jobellejao7350 you are _incorect_
The number of words, it depends how exactly those words are counted up...
Trouble with counting up unique words is that it may leave out a lot from one language while count in a lot by the same principles. Eg agglutination (eg: boatswain), clitics, cases, grammatical genders, declarations, etc...
For my own language, this alone (still excluding agglutination for example) gives over 150 possible intuitive derivative words per each unique root word (mother → mother+ly)... Throw in words that are derived from agglutination, and potential for dictionary size explodes near infinite.
It also matters if two words with similar appearance and sound are counted as same word with different (and even conflicting) definitions that have independent etymologies. A reason why such comparison can only be done properly be counting up those words by definitions (and one definition still can have multiple, even tens, matching words). On top of that, phonetics should supercede visual apparence - how it is pronounced has higher importance than how it happens to appear in writing... And then there is etymology, etc, ...
Im not first
6:54 make that 3 lol
Tbh sanskrit has infinite words fr
How?
@@Velu0 sanskrit is an ancient language thus people just added words for every possible situation or describe a single thing with multiple loosely arranged definition words. Thus sanskrit is termed as language of Gods.
@@Velu0 You can understand with this example-
1) If I want to say, "He, who has worn yellow garments", I can say in a full sentence as "pītaṃ aṃbaraṃ yasya saḥ".
If I want to say it in one word, I would say "pītāmbaraḥ" ✅
and not "PītaṃAṃbaraṃYasyaSaḥ" ❎. This is called samās. In this example, the type of samās used is bahuvṛīhi samās.
2) And then there is sandhi, which is somewhat similar to merging, but not exactly merging :
tathā + uktaṃ ≠ tathāuktaṃ ❎
tathā + uktaṃ= tathoktaṃ ✅
(Tathā= as per, uktaṃ= having said/ being said. Tathoktaṃ= as being said)
This is done to make pronounciation easier. The "ā" at the end of "tathā" is kaṇthya (meaning it is pronounce by blocking the air from your throat by pointing the tongue towards the vellum) and the "u" in the beginning of "uktaṃ" is oṣthya (meaning you pronounce it by passing the air from your throat directly through your lips).
To transition, from kaṇthya to oṣthya, you need to pause. So to make pronounciation smoother, you combine the vowels a (ā= a + a) and u to form the compound vowel o.
8:19 Yeah England only has one, and many people here literally will not shut up about it. Pretty sure we named so many things after some of the players in that squad.
I think it's because of a certain hand
9:16 Drew, the average language is a lot of loan words + a bunch it isn‘t known where they come from loan words + some we have forgotten that they are loan words loan words + some proper words probably building on foreign language words + a handful proper proper words. One should also note that OG loan words have at least traversed so many languages that it is hard to know who produced it the first time or if they have been produced multiple times or who loaned from whom. Not to forget the ‚intra-language loaning‘ between ‚dialects‘ and the constant subtle changes of words and their meanings and the double-loaning and and and.
One could say it is a big LOAN-party.
Your videos are literally all over my recommendations rn,
Even on new accounts.
Tanks 4,394
Armored Vehicles 10,000
Self-Propelled Guns 1,165
Towed Artillery 2,200
9:20 well yes and no, if a word in language A exists but in B doesn't and the word is copied in B to match A, then it's +1 word to both and B has a loan word.
In Sri Lanka 1USD = 367 Sri Lanka Rupees.
8:32 if you count before reunification , its 15 world cups won by germany
Bruh I’m drinking Coca Cola right now lol
Love from India 🇮🇳
Argentina now 3 WC
6:19 In the first ever world cup 1930 The USA got to the Semi-Final where they lost to Argentina 6-1.
"but not Canada cause he's a dork-"
*vanishes into the shadow realm*
"USA THAT'S MEAN SAY SORRY-"