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  • Опубліковано 20 бер 2018
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  • @guinabernardes
    @guinabernardes 5 років тому +3021

    Michael: dies
    Family: he was a good man
    Michael: Or was I?

    • @anthonyjanthonycrowley6072
      @anthonyjanthonycrowley6072 4 роки тому +146

      I just imagined either everyone around the coffin saying their goodbyes to him and someone says "he was a good man" so he opens his eyes, sits up says "or was I?" and the music plays in real life; or, alternately, someone's saying a funeral speech (I don't really know what they're called) and then a projector turns on and plays a video he prepared for after he died.

    • @rebeccavickerstaff541
      @rebeccavickerstaff541 4 роки тому +38

      Family: demonic screaming

    • @thecomfycryptid
      @thecomfycryptid 4 роки тому +25

      Anthony Janthony Crowley I think the word you’re looking for is “eulogy”

    • @mahir7261
      @mahir7261 4 роки тому +2

      Guilherme Bernardes underrated

    • @WasiMaster
      @WasiMaster 4 роки тому +16

      Miachel died
      Or did he
      Hey vsauce miachel here

  • @meaninglesscommenter8457
    @meaninglesscommenter8457 5 років тому +3899

    I once read this masterpiece:
    Unlockable could have two meanings:
    1.The ability to be unlocked
    2.The inability to be locked

    • @Zoova
      @Zoova 5 років тому +220

      @@kanupandit1683 You tried so hard to make a joke that it killed my internal being.

    • @kanupandit1683
      @kanupandit1683 5 років тому +30

      @@Zoova oh wait I just realized something

    • @kanupandit1683
      @kanupandit1683 5 років тому +44

      How does unlockable mean the inability to be locked? For something to be unlockable it must be locked. Therefore an unlockable thing has the ability to be locked

    • @ralphy1054
      @ralphy1054 5 років тому +55

      @@kanupandit1683 and you could also say that the ability to be unlocked has two different meanings
      "The ability to be able to unlock it"
      Or
      "The ability to not be locked"

    • @meaninglesscommenter8457
      @meaninglesscommenter8457 5 років тому +186

      Kanu Pandit un-lockable vs unlock-able
      That’s simply the idea

  • @joshuazhong2520
    @joshuazhong2520 3 роки тому +1060

    Internet: They're called homonyms
    Michael: Here's 11 minutes of reasons why you're wrong

    • @user-pl1xi8my2d
      @user-pl1xi8my2d 2 місяці тому +1

      11 and a half*
      still tho i find this comment funny af

  • @Fafuchess
    @Fafuchess Рік тому +97

    Not gonna lie when Micheal spellt it "barbaque" I immeadiatly went "oh damn I guess I was wrong my whole life".
    Pure information authority

    • @Verbindungsfehle
      @Verbindungsfehle 8 місяців тому +6

      then there is me who paused the video to make sure he actually made a mistake, only to then continue the video to see him correct himself lol

  • @yen7955
    @yen7955 5 років тому +3709

    a few people: yeah yeah, they're called homonyms
    michael: im bouta end this man's whole career

  • @asmodeusmogart5941
    @asmodeusmogart5941 5 років тому +3760

    Michael: *gets caught selling drugs*
    Police Officer: "You’re under arrest!"
    Michael: "Or am I?"

    • @spencerfuller149
      @spencerfuller149 5 років тому +59

      You're*

    • @asmodeusmogart5941
      @asmodeusmogart5941 5 років тому +53

      Is Mayonnaise an Instrument? Thank you

    • @SuperXzm
      @SuperXzm 5 років тому +62

      *Cue Vsauce music

    • @dianathenerd5640
      @dianathenerd5640 5 років тому +1

      @@spencerfuller149 check this out ua-cam.com/video/Ldnecyy0FDU/v-deo.html

    • @Merahki3863
      @Merahki3863 5 років тому +44

      Proceeds to bamboozle and fascinate the officers. Then runs away concluding his argument.

  • @MisterNohbdy
    @MisterNohbdy 3 роки тому +80

    Michael: "I'm an adult."
    *DOUBT*

  • @aishaMa_
    @aishaMa_ Рік тому +81

    Michael: explains why homonyms isn’t the correct term
    Me, who used homophones to begin with: *signature look of superiority*

  • @angelofdeth94
    @angelofdeth94 5 років тому +1096

    You: buys things
    Me, an intellectual: purchases things

  • @deajiven6159
    @deajiven6159 4 роки тому +1646

    "it's not spelled the way it sounds"
    *laughs in French*

    • @druhu4590
      @druhu4590 4 роки тому +82

      Hon hon hon

    • @jamesyjables
      @jamesyjables 4 роки тому +34

      *laughs in welsh*

    • @mcvibing2785
      @mcvibing2785 4 роки тому +25

      Oiseau

    • @benthomason3307
      @benthomason3307 4 роки тому +109

      french: "you have ten letters. you pronounce four of them."

    • @Gia1911Logous
      @Gia1911Logous 4 роки тому +33

      English has this as well... and a lot
      Eg water, train, bicycle, pseudoscientific, blue, one etc
      Instead of woter, trein, baisikl, soodossaientifik, bloo, wan

  • @cobalt8187
    @cobalt8187 3 роки тому +413

    "Rock (Stone)" "Rock (Music Genre)" "Rock (To Move)"
    PPL also reminded me of "Rock (The Rock)" and "Rock (Amazing or Exclamation)" Thanks ya'll

    • @hamidan7069
      @hamidan7069 3 роки тому +8

      Nice

    • @twitchycorpse4378
      @twitchycorpse4378 3 роки тому +6

      CAN YOU SMEELLLLLLLL

    • @khazychan
      @khazychan 3 роки тому +54

      The Rock (Dwayne Johnson)

    • @theantimatter
      @theantimatter 3 роки тому +14

      It gets even more interesting when you consider that the music genre started its journey as a derivation from the verb (rock'n'roll) but ended having the sense of the noun (hard rock).

    • @madkirk7431
      @madkirk7431 3 роки тому +4

      And "Rock" (amasing)

  • @gril250
    @gril250 4 роки тому +178

    My parents when I ask them why they always take my New Years money:
    1:23

    • @assassin947
      @assassin947 3 роки тому +6

      hehehe... cuz I’m an adult

    • @kingduckie9135
      @kingduckie9135 3 роки тому +9

      Just steal their retirement funds and you'll be even.

    • @onezerosevensix
      @onezerosevensix 3 роки тому +5

      grandma didnt stand a chance!

  • @aaryanbhardwaj40
    @aaryanbhardwaj40 6 років тому +313

    "You guys get it, you guys are smart."
    I finally have the mental capability to be able to comprehend the fact that running out of room to write a word does not change its meaning.

    • @jord19100
      @jord19100 6 років тому +4

      The Delusionist And His Demons r/iamverysmart

    • @JA-nv4zb
      @JA-nv4zb 6 років тому +4

      Jordan
      That was the wrong usage of the subreddit.
      More like r/buttmarker

    • @NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache
      @NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache 10 місяців тому

      @@JA-nv4zb wth is that subreddit? I can't find it on reddit anymore, did it get hit by the addons blackout protest or smth?

  • @pratishtha1437
    @pratishtha1437 6 років тому +939

    You wouldn't go get a loan from a river bank and you wouldn't go fish in a financial bank..
    *OR WOULD YOU*

    • @pratishtha1437
      @pratishtha1437 6 років тому +3

      André Martins well ok haha

    • @KyleCorbeau
      @KyleCorbeau 6 років тому +14

      You may not got to fish at a financial bank but some would try to phish at one.

    • @thewhitefalcon8539
      @thewhitefalcon8539 6 років тому +7

      You could phish in a financial bank.

    • @greensteve9307
      @greensteve9307 6 років тому +3

      On the internet, bank fishes you.

    • @Skystrike70
      @Skystrike70 6 років тому +2

      Honestly expected him to go on a tangent there

  • @mixup2216
    @mixup2216 4 роки тому +56

    4:17 “But is cereal soup?” *vsauce music starts

    • @ferociousmaliciousghost
      @ferociousmaliciousghost 3 роки тому

      *(Insert the "Is Cereal Soup?" script)*

    • @miticobr173
      @miticobr173 3 роки тому +5

      Hey, Vsauce. Michael here.
      Take a look at this.
      Simple enough, right?
      But watch what happens next.
      Okay, what the heck is this thing?
      Mostly people eat it like a soup,
      out of a bowl with a spoon.
      But is it a soup?
      The word 'soup' comes from words that originally meant
      "to absorb liquid", which dry cereal left in milk too long will do.
      But words change.
      What if cereal is actually a type of salad?
      And milk is just a dressing?
      Or maybe, dry cereal is the actual meal and
      milk is just a condiment or a coating.
      Adding milk to dry cereal might be like adding
      ketchup to french fries, or icing a cake.
      Honestly, there is no real answer. The answer
      is whatever we agree the answer should be.
      We make up the words and we make up the categories.
      If you ask me, cereal is soup, but it's not soup soup.
      Cereal is also salad, but it's not
      salad salad.
      What I just did there is called reduplication.
      We do it all the time
      but usually for emphasis. For example,
      "I like you" but I also like like you.
      Tomorrow's event is fancy, but it's not fancy fancy.
      When I say "soup soup" or "salad salad", I
      am using reduplication in a way that is known as Contrastive focus reduplication. I am reduplicating
      a word to express a focus on prototypical types of that word,
      in contrast to French types.
      A Caesar or vegetable are more prototypical
      types of salad than, say, potato, taco, fruit, or a bowl of cereal with milk.
      The increasing progress of technology forces us to contrastively focus reduplicate more
      and more often.
      For example, now when talking about a book,
      you might need to clarify whether it is an e-book or a book book.
      The original physical paper type.
      The phrase paper book is a retronym.
      A modification to an old word made necessary by the advent and popularisation of something
      new.
      Before movies with sound came along,
      silent movies were just called movies.
      Before voicemail and e-mail, snail mail was just mail.
      And before mobile phones, your landline or home phone was simply a phone.
      Or in many cases just the phone.
      This is Morse code for a smiley face emoticon.
      It's a happy beat.
      The eyes of the emoticon are a colon,
      which up until as recently as the middle of the 1900s was often used with a dash
      to represent a pause.
      It was an especially helpful direction to
      people reading text out loud.
      It was used all over the place.
      In personal letters and
      all over America's Declaration of Independence.
      You may also notice that it looks a little
      bit
      anatomical.
      The Oxford English Dictionary has a name for
      this punctuation mark
      and that name is
      "the dog's bollocks".
      In other words, dog balls.
      Although other emoticons were definitely used
      earlier, as far as official dictionary entries are concerned, the very first emoticon with
      an official name was an emoticon for a willy.
      This also means that America's Declaration
      of Independence is,
      punctuation-wise,
      covered in dog wieners.
      Nine of them, to be exact.
      What I'm about to do is called drawing.
      When I am finished,
      what I have created is called
      a drawing.
      But it's finished. Shouldn't it be called "a drawn"?
      A similar version of this problem is often attributed to Steven Wright.
      Why are they called buildings if they are finished?
      Shouldn't they be called "builds"?
      What's really going on here is a phenomenon
      known as 'verbal nouns'.
      A noun formed from a verb.
      It's often easier to "noun-ify" a verb than to just use lots of words.
      Why call this a structure resulting from the active of building, when you could just call
      it a building?
      Where does the word 'nickname' come from?
      Did a guy name Nicholas one day decided everyone could call him Nick and in doing so create
      a literal nickname?
      No.
      Nickname is a product of rebracketing.
      A process in which speakers, often unknowingly, create
      new words by moving sounds from one word to another.
      For instance, the English word alligator is a corruption of the Spanish "el lagarto" -
      the lizard.
      El lagarto, el lagarto, el, alligator.
      Eke used to mean "also",
      as in you could have a name,
      and you could have another name that
      was also your name.
      Your "eke name".
      Eke name. Eke name. Ni, ni, nickname.
      Here's another funny thing about language.
      If you're noisy in class, you're disrupting class.
      But if you sit around silently paying attention,
      are you
      rupting class?
      You can be disgruntled, but can you ever be gruntled?
      Words that would seem to have a related word but actually do not are called unpaired words.
      Maybe they were in a pair at one point in history, or maybe through a fluke of etymology
      they only seem to have one, but what you think it would be isn't in any dictionary.
      Some definitions like "soup" and "salad" are so vague their borders are almost hilariously
      fuzzy.
      Other words, well, they're just plain silly.
      For example, the sun does not rise every morning.
      The Earth actually just turns you toward it,
      but yet our word for that phenomenon is sunrise.
      Languages are full of expressions like that.
      George Steiner wrote colourfully about this, saying "The accelerando of the sciences, and
      of technology, have beggared both the reach and veracity of natural language.
      In consequence,
      the commonplace relations of language to phenomenon to our daily context have become virtually
      infantile.
      They are a bric-a-brac of inner metaphors, of whory fictions and handy falsifications.
      From the perspective of the theoretical and exact sciences, we speak a kind of neanderthal
      babble."
      Whether spoken or typed or tabbed or felt
      or signalled,
      language may be inevitably full of idiomatic expressions and expressions that are
      incomplete.
      And categories
      that are fuzzy.
      But hey,
      at least it's our fuzz, and at least
      fuzz is entertaining.
      It would be nice to just know everything and have absolutely nothing
      to explain or demonstrate to anyone else.
      But then again,
      as Emily Dickinson once said,
      "a letter is a joy of earth. It is denied the Gods".
      If we were all omniscient, we'd have no reason to write letter to one another, there wouldn't
      be anything new you had to tell someone else. We would have no reason to debate the soupiness
      or saladness of cereal.
      No reason to wonder, no reason to read, or
      to watch.
      I'd have no reason to say and as always,
      thanks for watching.

    • @miticobr173
      @miticobr173 3 роки тому +3

      @@ferociousmaliciousghost there u go

    • @sanyogoo6017
      @sanyogoo6017 3 роки тому +1

      @@miticobr173 what the....... , i see you re man culture as well

    • @brayanxd4547
      @brayanxd4547 2 роки тому +1

      @@miticobr173 Isso devia ter mais likee

  • @Mick_92
    @Mick_92 3 роки тому +188

    I remember having a lot of trouble with "throw", "though", "thought", "tough", "through" and "thorough" when learning english. Not exactly homonyms (I think some would be heretographs though), but pretty damn confusing for a non-native speaker.

    • @bluthemeth
      @bluthemeth 2 роки тому +12

      “Ough” is also different in hiccough.
      Also good luck with learning English. (I’m kinda late tho Ldol)

    • @basedyoshi7253
      @basedyoshi7253 2 роки тому +4

      Those were tough when I was learning spelling in early life too. I used to get "tough" and "thorough" mixed up.

    • @dismalthoughts
      @dismalthoughts 2 роки тому +1

      I was homeschooled and took crazy amounts of phonics/grammar growing up; my english skills were on point. Aaand now ~20 years later I found myself typing without really thinking about it too much and *frequently* get homophones mixed up D:

    • @catlover7015
      @catlover7015 2 роки тому +9

      “A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.”

    • @jennifermorrey7378
      @jennifermorrey7378 2 роки тому +1

      even though i speak english natively i feel you

  • @TriburosOnline
    @TriburosOnline 6 років тому +3113

    Michael is a slightly scary egg person who wants us to watch him play with his toys but that's okay

    • @Snardvark25
      @Snardvark25 6 років тому +39

      Triburos it's more than ok. It's gosh darn alright!

    • @aaronmartinez8383
      @aaronmartinez8383 6 років тому +31

      You mean he's becoming Northernlion.

    • @masterchaoss
      @masterchaoss 6 років тому +1

      Aaron Martinez that's exactly what I thought when I read this comment.

    • @Starman256
      @Starman256 6 років тому +13

      Hes a bearded egg, nothing more nothing less

    • @robocu4
      @robocu4 6 років тому +19

      He isn't an egg :(

  • @hasifahmed1065
    @hasifahmed1065 5 років тому +2316

    THIS BLUE MY MIND.

  • @smoceany9478
    @smoceany9478 4 роки тому +193

    actually air, aire, are, ayre, ere, err, eyre and heir is an octuplet

    • @ThorHC11
      @ThorHC11 4 роки тому +33

      Unless there's another meaning for "are" that causes it to be pronounced like that, I'm pretty sure "air" and "are" are said differently.

    • @smoceany9478
      @smoceany9478 4 роки тому +11

      @@ThorHC11 their is another form of are

    • @ThorHC11
      @ThorHC11 4 роки тому +24

      @@smoceany9478 Yep, you're right. Should have figured that a hectare could be divided into ares. Touché.

    • @bardcore7660
      @bardcore7660 4 роки тому +3

      @@ThorHC11 varies on accent

    • @GoogleUser-ms6hr
      @GoogleUser-ms6hr 3 роки тому

      What about Eire? (Ireland)

  • @mateusporawski5347
    @mateusporawski5347 4 роки тому +47

    9:35 i think it was "pat, man , bell"

  • @MrMindwavess
    @MrMindwavess 6 років тому +398

    No "micheal here"?
    This is truly the darkest timeline.

    • @sam23squires
      @sam23squires 6 років тому +4

      Here I made you a felt goatee until you can grow your own

    • @DJxDJ1997
      @DJxDJ1997 6 років тому +2

      It's not vsauce

    • @garchamayne4515
      @garchamayne4515 6 років тому +7

      Diego Ordoñez And yet, Michael is here

    • @eliarbogast
      @eliarbogast 6 років тому

      Community reference nice

    • @Nilguiri
      @Nilguiri 6 років тому

      Who is Micheal? Is he from Isreal?

  • @MaeveFirstborn
    @MaeveFirstborn 6 років тому +141

    "I hope you have your noses strapped on."
    I have ***SEVERAL*** questions.

    • @explodyz
      @explodyz 6 років тому

      Matthew BPbuds look up Chris fehn mask. He has a strapped on nose

    • @volbla
      @volbla 6 років тому +6

      I have ***SEVERAL*** noses >:D

  • @FG-dh6pr
    @FG-dh6pr 3 роки тому +23

    The way the mood shifts after “Or are they?” and after he shifts from being goofy to serious was funny. I love this channel and also Vsause(1).

  • @FrankieTeardrop1998
    @FrankieTeardrop1998 Рік тому +6

    "Let's look at three ways"
    -Michael Stevens

  • @KrpticUnknown
    @KrpticUnknown 6 років тому +5123

    wish i had michael as a teacher

    • @111Malefic
      @111Malefic 6 років тому +149

      I really think you don't. Michael isn't a teacher, he said it himself. He's just some guy that likes science and wanna share it, he cannot teach you anything. Don't mistake vulgarizators for teachers. He's here to give you some life facts or just to stimulate your curiosity. A teacher is someone whose job is to make your learn something durably, with a method and practice. You don't get that here.

    • @JakeLovesSteak
      @JakeLovesSteak 6 років тому +116

      He is a teacher, in a sense.

    • @dandanthedandan7558
      @dandanthedandan7558 6 років тому +40

      I wish I had Koro-Sensei as my teacher...

    • @priyanshupradhan4388
      @priyanshupradhan4388 6 років тому +12

      DANDAN THE DANDAN yeah me too, what can be better than killing your own teacher

    • @ahmedmagdy-qg3tb
      @ahmedmagdy-qg3tb 6 років тому +9

      control your emotions kid

  • @willc236
    @willc236 5 років тому +495

    The “thanks for watching” is always so sincere. The same staggering level of sincerity at the end of every D!NG video.

  • @kirk-careem
    @kirk-careem Рік тому +4

    One of the smoothest sign offs in UA-cam history, a special treat for those who watched to the end. And as always, thank you for presenting

  • @Frudge
    @Frudge 3 роки тому +5

    “If you tear something I love, you might cause me to shed a tear.”
    *I’D LIKE TO SEE THEM TRY.*

  • @to9100
    @to9100 6 років тому +686

    1. Pet
    2. Bell
    3. Men

  • @derekholland7956
    @derekholland7956 5 років тому +767

    Michael is the only guy who can state the most obvious thing (ex. The sky is blue) and then give the OR IS IT face and we actually listen and believe him.

    • @Max-kv1xm
      @Max-kv1xm 5 років тому +30

      Well yeah, it isn't. It's pretty transparent. We only see it as blue because of how light works and eye works

    • @southerndude9516
      @southerndude9516 5 років тому +2

      Miserabilis r/woooooosh

    • @Euclase
      @Euclase 5 років тому +8

      *OR IS HE?*

    • @fufutg9543
      @fufutg9543 5 років тому +13

      @@Max-kv1xm "because of how light works and eye works" but... "how light works and eye works" is what color is. So it's blue.

    • @someyeeterontheblock2421
      @someyeeterontheblock2421 5 років тому

      @@fufutg9543 the sky is not blue.

  • @ryanvandermerwe5587
    @ryanvandermerwe5587 4 роки тому +13

    Teacher: Blew and Blue are homonyms
    Me: I'm bouta end this man's whole career

  • @Ad0rak
    @Ad0rak 10 місяців тому +2

    I was so excited for him to get to the middle part. I was thoroughly underwhelmed.

  • @justarchie6081
    @justarchie6081 6 років тому +604

    PET, BELL, MEN.

  • @jacko7755
    @jacko7755 6 років тому +272

    That last section reminded me of how the phrases “I’m up for that” and “I’m down for that” mean the same thing even though they use antonyms

    • @travellcriner6849
      @travellcriner6849 6 років тому +8

      How about the fact that when you were first born, you were *new* to the world (that was you when you were new). but now you're the *new* you.

    • @TERMINATOR3900
      @TERMINATOR3900 6 років тому +4

      Actually I think the usage of **new** in both of those cases is the same. I.e. you were **new** to the world when you were born, but now you've made some change in your life so you are acting like a **new** person.

    • @travellcriner6849
      @travellcriner6849 6 років тому +4

      Correct. However, the point is this *new* you only comes about because you become more *old* .

    • @DarkMoonDroid
      @DarkMoonDroid 6 років тому +7

      "Up for" and "down for" are actually slightly different.
      "Up", in the sense meant here, is the kind of up that a man experiences with an erection. It's meant to convey that one want's to participate in a very enthusiastic way.
      "Down", in the way it's said here, is the kind of down that a gang wanna-be has to stay down in order to endure the ordeal of being "jumped-in" to a gang. You have to allow the gang members to beat you up and you have to "stay down" for it. In this case, it means that you want it bad enuf to make a sacrifice for it.
      These meanings are similar but different.

    • @travellcriner6849
      @travellcriner6849 6 років тому +3

      Very insightful, Jennifer. Thanks.

  • @brianhitchcox5530
    @brianhitchcox5530 8 місяців тому

    I love watching these videos so much.

  • @EggShellGames
    @EggShellGames Рік тому +1

    I’ve recently be thinking of creative homonyms myself and my two favorite are: Throne and thrown, Greece and grease

  • @nzubechukwu
    @nzubechukwu 4 роки тому +500

    UA-cam: Demonetizes Michael’s videos
    “You’re demonetized!”
    Michael: Or am I?

    • @lenka1444
      @lenka1444 4 роки тому +14

      Michael: *Goes through a 10 minute explanation*

    • @derikr
      @derikr 4 роки тому +15

      *_First we need to know what exactly it means to be demonetized_*

  • @ZippedZipFile
    @ZippedZipFile 5 років тому +45

    One of my favourite examples of homonyms at work is: "War does not determine who is right, only who is left"

    • @seanwilkinson7431
      @seanwilkinson7431 10 місяців тому +4

      Gallagher: "If Pro is the opposite of Con, then Congress is the opposite of Progress."
      Me: "That rule doesn't work for Constitution and Prostitution!" (Or Confessional and Professional, unless you get stuck with a novice priest in the booth).
      There are also so many words that start with Pro and don't have a Con variant and vice-versa, like Convention, Prolapse (I wouldn't want to be diagnosed with a Conlapsed Rectum...😮), Congregate, Proper, and Constipation (there is technically a Prostipation, but we just call that Diarrh[o]ea).

  • @inself7367
    @inself7367 2 роки тому +4

    it really helps me. wow. thank you!
    your video does kill two birds with one stone for people like me.
    I was wondering what the heck is the differences among all the terms, saying so what?
    and you're here to make it clear. so happy for having this ❤

  • @doctortrouserpants1387
    @doctortrouserpants1387 3 роки тому +5

    "Elephant Juice" is a viseme for "I love you"

  • @girlsinredtrenchcoat1169
    @girlsinredtrenchcoat1169 5 років тому +565

    Michael: You wouldn’t go fish in a financial bank
    God I hope not
    Michael: pauses for a minute
    I swear to whatever hellborn force that controls my perception of reality if he says “or would you”
    Michael: skate
    SWEET RESPITE OH LORDY

    • @darpanpatel8023
      @darpanpatel8023 5 років тому +5

      AHAHAHAHAHAHHAH

    • @W.H.V.
      @W.H.V. 5 років тому +8

      I thought he was gonna say it, I swear.

    • @vuice6601
      @vuice6601 5 років тому +2

      And that’s how I met your mother

    • @miserysluvr
      @miserysluvr 5 років тому +3

      Hahahahahahhahahahaha, you made my day😂

    • @vibe3d
      @vibe3d 5 років тому +3

      Hold my beer.

  • @shanedonahoo7704
    @shanedonahoo7704 6 років тому +298

    This show should just be called “Educational Memes”

    • @user-ft4pb5vb3e
      @user-ft4pb5vb3e 6 років тому +10

      DONG is better. 'Cause, like, DONG.

    • @MM-co3gl
      @MM-co3gl 6 років тому +7

      the perfect show for special kids

    • @nanowhit
      @nanowhit 6 років тому +4

      i disliked your reply

    • @Kihidokid
      @Kihidokid 6 років тому +1

      I let my kids watch dongs all night

    • @keetrandling4530
      @keetrandling4530 6 років тому

      +

  • @pohjanvanamo
    @pohjanvanamo Рік тому +3

    Ok. This was more complicated than what I knew before, so learned something new 👍
    (In Finnish the spelling and pronunciation usually go the same way, so we were just taught that words that are written the same way are homonyms. 😅)
    And now, few homonyms to cheer up the day:
    Kuusi/kuusi = six/spruce
    Lakka/lakka = lacquer/cloudberry
    Viini/viini = wine/(arrow)quiver
    Häntä/häntä = tail / of him/her

  • @mikeayia8819
    @mikeayia8819 4 роки тому +1

    Very educational great job Michael Stevens and love the way you end all your episodes with almost a sad good bye

  • @lucasprem1618
    @lucasprem1618 5 років тому +952

    I want Michael to host meme review.

  • @PaleozoicProductions
    @PaleozoicProductions 6 років тому +401

    0:00 - 0:06
    How I greet people

  • @zkiller195
    @zkiller195 9 місяців тому

    Michael, love the video and all your content (long time subscriber)
    It would be awesome to see content on words that mean the opposite of what they appear. Words like inflammable (in many instances, the prefix in- means not) or factoid (the suffix -oid typically means resembling or similar to)

  • @AlexPies1
    @AlexPies1 11 місяців тому +1

    I was absolutely floored when you said people tried to tell you those were homonyms. maybe it's just because homophones were driled into my brain at such a young age, but I don't think I could ever get those mixed up

    • @NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache
      @NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache 10 місяців тому

      Fr, we were taught the difference between homophones, homonyms, synonyms, antonyms, etc in 1st grade! And I live in like, a 3rd world country (granted I'm in a fairly big city and that was a small-ish but still private school, but still the guys replying I'm almost 90% certain are Americans)

  • @PenisGabber
    @PenisGabber 6 років тому +143

    dongonyms

  • @whereeveritgoes
    @whereeveritgoes 6 років тому +111

    Me: Wanna go out?
    Girl1: "I'm down."
    Girl2: "I'm up."
    Girl3: "I'm in."
    Girl4: "I'm on."

    • @bryceduyvewaardt8136
      @bryceduyvewaardt8136 6 років тому +25

      *wana go *OOT*?

    • @szhzs6121
      @szhzs6121 6 років тому +63

      me: wanna go out?
      girl1: "no"
      girl2: "nope"
      girl3: "nah"
      girl4: "nay"

    • @the_red_ditto2426
      @the_red_ditto2426 6 років тому +6

      Girl5:"no"

    • @x-daveonpc
      @x-daveonpc 6 років тому +2

      but can you be inside both of them ?

    • @keithode1737
      @keithode1737 6 років тому +13

      "but can you be inside both of them ?" Only with extra-dimensional DONGs.

  • @girlinagale
    @girlinagale 4 роки тому

    I'm still reverberating from your morse code exploration I watched at 6am this morning.

  • @creativeoj
    @creativeoj 4 роки тому +4

    My favorite autoantonym is "Cleave," which has two definitions: to hold tightly to, and to spilt apart from. However the English language produced two words that look the same, and sound the same but have such drastically different meanings, I'll never know.

    • @KarasuInaiga
      @KarasuInaiga Рік тому

      Yes you will, just look it up in Wiktionary!

  • @ChrisOrillia
    @ChrisOrillia 5 років тому +380

    Will, will Will will Will Will's will?
    wiki: Will (a person), will (future tense helping verb) Will (a second person)
    will (bequeath) [to] Will (a third person) Will's (the second person)
    will (a document)? (Someone asked Will 1 directly if Will 2 plans to
    bequeath his own will, the document, to Will 3.

    • @moonsaer
      @moonsaer 5 років тому +28

      I AM SHOOKETH

    • @jad3415
      @jad3415 5 років тому +10

      There's another example like that with the word "buffalo"
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

    • @chewedgum3001
      @chewedgum3001 5 років тому +4

      yes

    • @qewdascz1839
      @qewdascz1839 5 років тому +5

      I’m so confused but I love this XD

    • @noelbus4536
      @noelbus4536 5 років тому +2

      Name the named naming name "name" to rename name name.

  • @guillermo63785
    @guillermo63785 6 років тому +448

    Do
    On a sheet of paper
    Now,
    Guys

  • @ellafant9424
    @ellafant9424 4 роки тому +4

    I’ve also heard autoantonyms be called Janus words. Very fascinating!

  • @donlimoncelli6108
    @donlimoncelli6108 Рік тому +1

    The rancher with three offspring named his homestead "Focus" because it's where the sons raise meat.

  • @losingluke
    @losingluke 5 років тому +149

    When you make an entire UA-cam video to prove some people wrong
    Dong: 100

    • @mabus4910
      @mabus4910 5 років тому +6

      ...and then say "I don't care how you say it"

  • @DadSkool
    @DadSkool 6 років тому +166

    but you may 'phish' in a financial bank

    • @DanKeehner
      @DanKeehner 6 років тому +6

      Johnny James Take my like, you made my morning.

    • @ReneePrower
      @ReneePrower 6 років тому +2

      Once again, the day is saved thanks to homophones.

  • @dentistrider3874
    @dentistrider3874 11 місяців тому

    Bro really said "Descriptionist" instead of "Descripivist" 😂 Great way to visualize these concepts!

  • @LuizBHMG
    @LuizBHMG 3 роки тому +3

    Autoantonym: in Portuguese there is a fun one: "relevar". It is a verb that has two meanings: to make something relevant or important. Or… to forget something, don't think about something.

  • @123_king_me9
    @123_king_me9 6 років тому +78

    When Michael forgets his other channel’s password

  • @spinnyb9998
    @spinnyb9998 5 років тому +646

    pet, bell, men

  • @andrewoliver7069
    @andrewoliver7069 4 роки тому

    Love the art in the background.

  • @amperage3457
    @amperage3457 3 місяці тому

    The shuffle on this playlist literally played lenzs law before this and I ended the episode where he was holding a copper pipe. Absolutely blew me away when I saw the intro to this episode 😂

  • @austinbagnall1990
    @austinbagnall1990 5 років тому +715

    Antonym is the Antonym of Synonym, but Synonym isn't the Synonym of Antonym.

  • @LimitedWard
    @LimitedWard 6 років тому +430

    Vsauce and DONG are synonyms now I guess.

    • @lucianrex1528
      @lucianrex1528 6 років тому +19

      i'm fine with this

    • @Azide_zx
      @Azide_zx 6 років тому +80

      in that case i have a big vsauce

    • @rockLuca14
      @rockLuca14 6 років тому +1

      Alpha Good one m8.

    • @mathenthusiast6635
      @mathenthusiast6635 6 років тому +17

      I think Michael uses Vsauce only for complex/broad topics that can be connected to several other topics. Homonyms, however, is a specific topic that doesn't really wrap around different subjects.

    • @Ari-hc1vr
      @Ari-hc1vr 6 років тому +3

      no, the aren't. they don't mean the same thing.

  • @demarcuscousinsthe65th
    @demarcuscousinsthe65th 2 роки тому

    "If you tear apart something I love, you might cause me to shed a tear"
    -Michael

  • @WilliamJohnston
    @WilliamJohnston 3 роки тому +1

    So many good nuggets of info here, it’ll definitely several watches to fully appreciate. An example of an autoantonym that’s always confused me (in the UK anyway, or maybe just my family using the word wrong) is the word ‘doubt’. I hear people say ‘I doubt it’ to mean ‘unlikely’, yet I also hear them say it in an affirming response to people ‘yes, I doubt it’, meaning ‘probably so’… anyone found the same thing?

  • @DeanBaileyPhotography
    @DeanBaileyPhotography 6 років тому +206

    You may phish in a financial bank though...

  • @FruityBasket99
    @FruityBasket99 5 років тому +236

    After the 'bank' joke I went to like the video, but to my disappointment realised I already had, like damn.

  • @toxicnukem
    @toxicnukem Рік тому

    that end was as smooth as butter

  • @80cardcolumn
    @80cardcolumn 2 роки тому +1

    “Mean” can mean (among other things):
    - Below average, poor, inferior quality. The mean streets of .
    - Average, the middle position. The mean test score was 75.
    - Above average, excellent. He plays a mean guitar.

  • @FUMoonMoney
    @FUMoonMoney 4 роки тому +631

    Did literally nobody do the “Pet, Bell, Men” thing?...

    • @rodgertaubsr7567
      @rodgertaubsr7567 4 роки тому +91

      Im sure some people did but their messages were covered up because people comment before watching the full video

    • @unboy
      @unboy 4 роки тому +31

      A helpful UA-cam creator, after suggesting viewers comment on a specific aspect of the video, should pin as the top comment the one which best addresses that suggestion.

    • @chorusTaurus
      @chorusTaurus 4 роки тому +67

      I thought it was men, bell, pet

    • @felixroux
      @felixroux 4 роки тому +40

      I thought he said it in that order. Looked like that, and knowing Michael it probably was.

    • @damamoot2291
      @damamoot2291 4 роки тому +18

      @@felixroux I agree, I think he said pet first cuz he opened his mouth more on that one and for the others it's a 50/50 pretty much but yeah, Michael would do that.

  • @ABaumstumpf
    @ABaumstumpf 6 років тому +473

    "you are tearing me apart Lisa."
    And the saddest addition to autoantonyms:
    "literally"

    • @voxelfusion9894
      @voxelfusion9894 6 років тому +34

      The way people use literally in the current year is literally the worst.

    • @cornekeetels5293
      @cornekeetels5293 6 років тому +17

      Stijn Broekhuis doesn’t everyone using it the wrong way turn it into everybody saying it correctly. Language is the way we make it to be.🤔🤔 (my attempt at sounding deep)

    • @me3333
      @me3333 6 років тому +2

      So many people use "literally" and "theoretically" incorrectly that they probably should change the definitions in the dictionary.

    • @voxelfusion9894
      @voxelfusion9894 6 років тому +8

      me3333 I think that most people haven't heard of the word "figuratively" and use literally to sound hyperbolic.

    • @kaizov2940
      @kaizov2940 6 років тому +14

      Literally literally does not mean what literally used to literally mean.

  • @haroldwhitney6130
    @haroldwhitney6130 7 місяців тому

    Very very thorough.

  • @MikeLCF
    @MikeLCF Рік тому

    The eerie music makes this very surreal

  • @seto007
    @seto007 6 років тому +103

    This was like Vsauce lite. It would light up my day if you made more videos like this.

  • @DullFiction
    @DullFiction 6 років тому +166

    Michael's laugh
    0:05
    1:22
    1:35
    6:12

  • @chrismanuel9768
    @chrismanuel9768 Рік тому

    Usually these videos are things I already know that I watch for entertainment.
    This one? All new information

  • @Adambenhmida0000
    @Adambenhmida0000 Рік тому +3

    11:04 the way he says that outro man

  • @shubhamraj25
    @shubhamraj25 6 років тому +77

    0:33 *VSAUSE TRADEMARK*

  • @Depleted-Uranium
    @Depleted-Uranium 5 років тому +116

    Or Are They?
    *vsauce theme doesn't play

  • @Stu_1977_SEmelb
    @Stu_1977_SEmelb Рік тому

    Very nice video, thanks. Viseme was one with which I was unfamiliar. Always great to learn something new.
    One thing you did miss though is that "heteronym" is a synonym for "heterophone" (in fact, its use is far more commonplace than that of 'heterophone'). Why it aligns with speech rather than writing (heteronym does not mean heterograph) is probably due to the fact written communication was for a long time a very exclusive and privileged thing, reserved for the wealthier and more prestigious classes.

    • @angelmendez-rivera351
      @angelmendez-rivera351 Рік тому +1

      Do you have a study that proves that 'heteronym' is more commonly used than 'heterophone'?

  • @Rev_Erser
    @Rev_Erser Рік тому

    the and the (haha can't tell) are used for when the next word starts with either a consonant sound or a vowel sound

  • @4xdblack
    @4xdblack 6 років тому +60

    I'm loving these special Michael sessions, where it's just the two of us.

    • @gristCollector
      @gristCollector 6 років тому +3

      4xdblack Just Michael.

    • @4xdblack
      @4xdblack 6 років тому +3

      Whatever you do, don't delete his character file.

    • @lukas9150
      @lukas9150 6 років тому

      Or should you say, joust the two of you?

  • @LiamClowMusic
    @LiamClowMusic 5 років тому +88

    MIchael: "We gotta wind up, we are out of time"
    me: Huh cool autoantonym
    Michael: "And as always.. Thanks for watching"
    me: Wait NO no NOOO

  • @QuitebrokeN
    @QuitebrokeN 3 роки тому

    "we gotta wind up...we're out of time.."
    that sounded so depressed it made me frown

  • @daphne1065
    @daphne1065 3 роки тому +1

    Poecilia Reticulata is the Latin name for guppy and translated it's: Several Colours. We just learned Poecilonym means several words. It blows my mind how an ancient language is so persistent in existing :)

  • @wave3308
    @wave3308 6 років тому +225

    Did VSauce just move to the DONG channel?

    • @Leo-zk9rd
      @Leo-zk9rd 6 років тому +18

      Wave that's what I'm wondering

    • @nofanfelani6924
      @nofanfelani6924 6 років тому +51

      perhaps Vsauce and Dong are homonym

    • @Nohfegea
      @Nohfegea 6 років тому +40

      He said on the Vsauce subreddit that DONG now is where he explains themes that are too small for a full video or just fun facts, whereas the official Vsauce channel is for big (>20 min long) videos with a lot of research or something like that.
      www.reddit.com/r/vsauce/comments/86a49b/can_anyone_tell_me_why_the_vsauce_videos_of/

    • @wave3308
      @wave3308 6 років тому +3

      Nohfegea makes so much sense now! Thanks for the info

    • @sanyammishra1263
      @sanyammishra1263 6 років тому +9

      He probably would have forgotten the password of Vsauce account

  • @HIROX13
    @HIROX13 4 роки тому

    I like the work "Set". loads of meanings

  • @yusufcoskun7914
    @yusufcoskun7914 3 роки тому

    The first five seconds is gold value

  • @TheJaredtheJaredlong
    @TheJaredtheJaredlong 6 років тому +26

    I like how he says "today's episode" as if Vsauce has any semblence of a regular upload schedule.

  • @andrewfullerton1379
    @andrewfullerton1379 6 років тому +40

    My favourite example of odd synomous language is that people can be both "up for this" and "down for this" at the same time, as both antonyms have the same meaning in this case.

    • @agaetisbyrjun
      @agaetisbyrjun 6 років тому +4

      inflammable and flammable, inhabitable and habitable

    • @bradygiacopelli9003
      @bradygiacopelli9003 6 років тому +1

      Bro that trick was so clean! Bro that trick was so dirty! Mean the same

  • @eduardogutierrez2920
    @eduardogutierrez2920 3 роки тому +1

    Im not sure if it counts bc one is a phrase but a set of visemes that always comes to mind is "colorful" and "I love you"

  • @alangrant5278
    @alangrant5278 11 місяців тому

    This wound me up
    In more ways than won

  • @singhanmolpreet5935
    @singhanmolpreet5935 6 років тому +309

    OR ARE THEY?

  • @1stuart1
    @1stuart1 6 років тому +64

    I feel like if Michael took his sweater off in the middle of the video, we might not even notice.

    • @NickRoman
      @NickRoman 6 років тому +1

      He did. lol Yes, I'm kidding.

    • @cammarc
      @cammarc 6 років тому

      Stu A
      You just made me go check he didn’t

  • @uoweme8780
    @uoweme8780 3 роки тому

    This video taught me more about language than school ever did

  • @jeffreyburrows9157
    @jeffreyburrows9157 2 роки тому

    Michael out of context: "Diarrhea. Perfect. Diarrhea is a great example of what might fit into this intersection in our Venn diagram."

  • @Catslug
    @Catslug 6 років тому +532

    ...soup