The more I learn about Japanese, the more deeply I understand this sentiment... Okay, I’m not a proper linguist, but I am a long-time language enthusiast/nerd
@@jan_Masewin What I thought was particularly interesting here was how Tom pointed out that _even in English_ “what a word is” isn’t really always all that clear or helpful, much less very different languages
@@TheFettuck because "it" is a combination of letters with no spaces or apostrophes, and with a meaning that can be classified in a subgroup, in this case pronouns.
"What if I ended this video with a smiley face?" Video ends, Tom Scott's profile picture--which is him smiling--pops up right in the middle. Artistic perfection.
@@firytwig if you're wondering, you can type ☺ on a pc by holding alt and pressing 1 on the number pad (numbers above the letters don't work for that). different numbers result in different characters. google "alt codes" to see which ones.
The fact that you managed to spell out "hrrkrkrkrwpfrbrbrbrlablblblblblblblwhitoo'ap" impresses me far more than anything in the world. And yes, I had to type that manually too.
@@firefish111 I'm willing to wager it was made up in the video, with the script saying something like "insert gibberish word here", and the editor typed an approximation.
@@Supermarine-Spitfire-mk-IX i had to hunt down the funny video i saw but any video i watch involving mediashare always seems to involve: Cheeto, many bruno powsfhaej ,ce.fge classics, and some other stuff, its all the same content so
@@LeeNashMusic Strictly speaking, it's an agglutinative language or, as Tom would say, a synthetic language. What that means is that it's what you do to the root word that conveys meaning and context. An example: 'talo' is 'house'. To say 'in the house' (and 'in a house'; Finnish has no real definite article, and the lack of an indefinite article usually implies its use - although more people nowadays will use 'se', or 'it' as a make-do definite article), there is a specific case ending that you stick onto the end ... these two things, root word and case ending - when put together - form a new word with a very different meaning. Hence synthetic (putting together) or agglutinative (sticking/gluing together). The best way to think of Finnish is a two-part way: 1- it is linguistic Lego (you can actually use Lego to teach it!) 2- it is a system for making new words up (it is neologistic: 'new word -ish'). 'In the house' then, is a synthesis or agglutination of two words or, more correctly, a word and a particle: 'talo' (house) and '--ssa' (in; for vowels a/o/u, '-ssa' is used and for ä/ö/y - and, yes, 'y' is a vowel in Finnish and it corresponds to ü from German and Estonian - '-ssä) is used; 'e' and 'i' are over-ruled by the other vowels in this decision). Put them together: 'talossa' - in a/the house The plural form is, in this case, given by adding a 't' to signify a definite article or 'ja' to signify the indefinite article: talot - the houses taloja - (some) houses Coupled with a case ending such as '-ssa', though, pluralisation is done differently: taloissa - 'in a/the houses' ... no article is used or inferred: context is the determinant in this situation. Once you get that system, Finnish is incredibly easy. It's just learning that system that is a bit (lot!) of a bastard. I'm not even going to go into compound words! But I _will_ say that I invented a new Finnish verb and it gained a little - albeit humorous - local usage. This I should maybe do a video about. I hope this helps.
On the emoji one, I would classify them as punctuation, similar to how some non-English languages use "¡" and "¿" to convey the start of an exclamatory statement or inquiry.
@@jamsistired !?? Seems fine to me, but I'm being facetious. I agree with you on that. It may just be that emoji have so many different emotions available.
If you were talking about how the captions are exactly titled with what was on the screen when he was talking, then thanks! It took about 5 minutes to be able to do it. Before my contribution it was just [incoherent sounds] for 20 seconds, then return to the regular captions.
"imma" is a contraction of 2 contractions, I'm, and gonna, so originally you would write "I am going to" then it got shortened to "I'm gonna" and now it's "imma", but it is technically 1 word, which is fascinating, that we consistently try to find ways to shorten what we say/write
Normal writing : imma get lunch Writing essay: today noon i intend to walk gracefully outside to see if i can go and buy some lunch to satisfy my everlasting hunger
Today, which is a Wednesday, and happens to be the 18th of November, two thousand and twenty, at approximately twelve o'clock PM, I intend to make my way into the larger world from within my domicile. I will complete this task with the set goal of providing myself a meal, or purchasing a meal for myself from a local vendor, in order to satiate my seemingly unquenchable hunger.
On this our score and 4 hours of life, on approximately the 13th hour, I in my schedule intend to traverse this our world in search for a vendor of afternoon consumables, that which may nourish and fulfill my in both body and mind, completing the cycle, until that which comes the setting of the star and the rise of our natural satellite, signifying the hour of evening dine.
Today, this day, being the day that is the day of today, today's day and date, the date of which is the date today, I myself, me, only me by myself and of myself, being myself on this day, today, fully intend, as is my intention on this day, today, the day that I, myself, intend to to get lunch, do intend to fully completely, with a full completeness today get a meal, a noon time meal, for that is the time today, the day that is today's date at the time that is now, which is not later nor earlier, but rather now today, at this time, in this moment, in which I, myself, shall consume, as one would consumes l consume a meal, such as lunch, a meal I, myself, have yet today, this date and day, to myself, me personally, have eaten by the time that this time, now, becomes a time that is not this time now but a different, later time, later today, after consuming, by way of eating, by mastication, the meal, the noon time meal, which is the meal whose time has now come, with which I, myself, shall feed myself. Steamed hams.
@@chrismanuel9768 Today, this day, being the day that is the day of today, today's day and date, the date of which is the date today, the calendar day of this year, Two Thousand Twenty One, I myself, me, only me by myself and of myself, being myself on this day, today, being the day that is the day of today, today's day and date, the date of which is the date today, the calendar day of this year, Two Thousand Twenty One, fully intend, as is my intention on this day, today, being the day that is the day of today, today's day and date, the date of which is the date today, the calendar day of this year, Two Thousand Twenty One, the day that I, myself, me, only me by myself and of myself, being myself intend to to get lunch, do intend to fully completely, with a full completeness today get a meal, a noon time meal, for that is the time today, this day, being the day that is the day of today, today's day and date, the date of which is the date today, the calendar day of this year, Two Thousand Twenty One, the day that is today's date at the time that is now, which is not later nor earlier, but rather now today, this day, being the day that is the day of today, today's day and date, the date of which is the date today, the calendar day of this year, Two Thousand Twenty One, at this time, in this moment, in which I, myself, shall consume, as one would consumes l consume a meal, such as lunch, a meal I, myself, have yet today, this day, being the day that is the day of today, today's day and date, the date of which is the date today, the calendar day of this year, Two Thousand Twenty One, this date and day, to myself, me personally, have eaten by the time that this time, now, becomes a time that is not this time now but a different, later time, later today, this day, being the day that is the day of today, today's day and date, the date of which is the date today, the calendar day of this year, Two Thousand Twenty One, after consuming, by way of eating, by mastication, the meal, the noon time meal, which is the meal whose time has now come, with which I, myself, shall feed myself.
Noel Earl Watson Well, no, not quite. The closest you can easily get in swedish to "I'm in pain" is "jag har ont" (litterally "I have pain"). The swedish "aj" on the other hand is the equivalent of the english "ouch," at least on a basic level, as "aj" can also be drawn out and shouted in ways that sound quite silly if you try them with "ouch," these drawn out and louder "aj"s would more closely equal an incoherent scream of pain than any word I can think of in english.
I put this into google translate and it decided it was Hindi that translated into "ajjaj" in English, which is apparently pronounced like a toddler trying to pronounce "ostrich."
2:25 in german yes. Thats how words like "Schweinefleischettickitierungsüberwachungsgesetz" become a thing (yes thats a word. It describes the law of survailancing the labeling of porkchop)
"aj" means ouch, but aaaaaaaaajjjjjjjjj would have to mean ooooooooouuuuuuuuuuch, but that doesn't make sense to count it as a word. It's just expressing the word differently
I'd argue that emojis aren't words because you can't pronounce them. You can only describe them. Oddly similar to when cartoon characters swear. "!%#$*@!!!" That's not a word, just a stand-in for one. An emoji is basically just including a tiny photo of your expression at the moment.
But what about places like twitch and discord, were emojis have names Saying Kappa is the most obvious example of how this has made some of them integrated into the verbal language, or written language outside the platform
I once had two roommates, one from the US and one from Germany. When the German guy would sneeze, he would utter distinctly the word, "atschee". The American guy remarked that the German didn't have to say, "atschee" every time he sneezed, to which the German replied, "Yes I do. It's the natural thing that comes out when anyone sneezes." My only contribution to the discussion was that it might be more pleasant not talking about what naturally comes out when one sneezes.
For typing speed purposes, to calculate your Words Per Minute (WPM) typed, a word is 5 keypresses. Everything counts--spaces, punctuation, numbers, and letters. The one exception is usually Enter/Return, since even the most advanced typing speed tests provide the spoken/written sample as one paragraph.
The Swedish language allows you to put words together (for example, dinner table is called "matbord", mat=food, bord=table); creating lovely words such as: nordvästersjökustartilleriflygspaningssimulatoranläggningsmaterielunderhållsuppföljningssystemdiskussionsinläggsförberedelsearbeten
The same in Danish, German, Norwegian, Finnish and so many other languages. Konfirmationsforberedelseslokaleudlejningsfirmakantinerabatordningudvalgsformandsunderskrift :D
If anyone's wondering what that says, I decided to be the guy to put it through google translate. Northwest Coast Artillery Air Reconnaissance Simulator Facility Equipment Maintenance Follow-up System Discussion Post Preparatory Work
@@knutolavbjrgaas1069Neither does O'ahu, Hawai'i, yet locals all call it the North Shore. More pithy than "North-Northwest Extra-Thicc Peninsula Plus Surrounding Shorelines."
Random fact: In Chinese, there are no significant spacing between words (punctuation doesn't count). For instance, "在中文里，词语之间并没有明显的间隔". For a fluent speaker, it is very obvious to tell which combinations of characters are words regardless the length. It doesn't comply with the rule of saying "word is a combination of letters surrounded by blank space". Hence we calculate the amount of characters in word documents.
@@EriniusT Characters I would argue are not morphemes for two reasons. Take the character 语 can be divided into 讠,五 and 口. All of which can convey meaning either on the meaning of the word or the pronunciation. 语 means language, and that is partially signified by the radical 讠which inidcates the character has to do with speech. 五 helps with pronunciation as 五 is pronounced wu3 and 语 is pronounced yu3. Every character is a word, but may not always be acing as one. 中 is a word meaning center (among other things), but 中文 means chinese. It's all somewhat complicated.
Korean has this sort of thing going on as well. As a matter of fact, there's different spacing rules in both the North and the South. from Wikipedia: "In the South, the rules of spacing are not very clear-cut, but in the North, these are very precise. In general, compared to the North, the writing in the South tends to include more spacing. One likely explanation is that the North remains closer to the Sinitic orthographical heritage, where spacing is less of an issue than with a syllabary or alphabet such as Hangul."
I think emoji’s are punctuation. They’re generally placed at the end of phrases to indicate tone like periods, exclamation points, or question marks. Sometimes they go at the beginning of phrases but so does the Spanish “¿”. Also, they are used standalone sometimes, but in the same way that punctuation is used standalone sometimes. A question mark alone indicates confusion or an ask for more information. “…” “?” Are also used standalone. Also, emojis come from emoticons that were literally made up of punctuation marks ;) 🤷🏻♂️ that’s my opinion 🤘🏻
my new favourite sentence: "If you accept the definition that a word is just some letters surrounded by a gap, then xnopyt AAAAAAAJJJJJJJJJ and hrrkrkwpfrbrbrbrlablblblblblblwhitoo'ap are all words."
German: Rindfleischettiketierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz (Its a real word, and in the dictionary) English: Beef Labeling Supervision Transfers Law
"lågtryckskvicksilverångurladdningsanordning" was used in a patent for a fluorescent lamp. "nordostersjokustartilleriflygspaningssimulatoranlaggningsmaterielunderhallsuppfoljningssystemdiskussionsinlaggsforberedelsearbeten" is often repeated as being a long word too, but no source is given for where it has been used. Swedish, like German and other Germanic languages, as well as other language families; can in theory construct infinite long and meaningless words.
I want to work out what the new word count of my dissertation is given this revelation On a sidenote, an anecdote from my lecturer: "Words don't count if you put them in a table"
@@Ben_R4mZ One day I was very sad, then someone stepped on my eyes to cheer me up, and I was so happy that I crashed my sedan into a building, but not having a vehicle made me kind of annoyed, so I called my electric company and said "****** you", but I yelled so loud that I threw up, and I decided to find my car and drive back to my house.
Tom is so underrated on UA-cam. Really interesting videos and even if you don't watch his main series' there's loads of little funny bits here and there. Keep it up, Tom! :D
Estonian has some great compound words that become one word, though they’re almost all silly. My favorite is Õueaiaääres which roughly translates to “At the edge of the outside garden.” Though it probably is more likely to mean “In the yard.” Though in my 2 years there not a single person ever said it.
Also: putting some random characters with spaces in between, using the same colour as the background will be counted as words by the word processor, despite those words not existing to the human eye, and changing a space to a character of the same colour as the background will make something appear as 2 words even though the word processor will count it as one.
I love that if you turn on closed captioning, the "written version" of this video indeed ends with a smiley face. :) ...except now that I notice, it says subtitles are auto-generated! How did it know, then! I swear the speech to text algoryhms are getting frightfully smarter by the day!
1:50 "Ima" [my chosen spelling of the word] is my favorite contraction. Yes, I classify it as a contraction. And it is superb because it replaces "I am going to" with three letters and no punctuation. It is the most efficient and clear contraction in the English language and I absolutely love this word. There are some great acronyms too, and some controversial ones like AF; but "Ima" is a damn good word and Ima make that clear.
Tom I just wanted to say that I really appreciate the quality of your videos and the constant flow of content each week. You have interested me in linguistics for some time now and I have decided to do a degree linguistics as well as economics. Also when will there be more "Citation Needed"? I loved the seasons you made they were hilarious.
Jeffery Liggett haha, took me a little while to get that. I always say "jonna" for "do you want to". I also say "sha" as in "sha-yeet now olay-e?" (Shall I eat now or later?). It's strange seeing the language you speak all the time written down how you say it - makes it seem more like a cryptic message, or a foreign language, when it's actually closer to what you say than the actual written words, haha.
Re: emoticons, I feel it's worth distinguishing words from pictures. Pictures are also used to communicate meaning, after all, and I don't think anyone would argue that a map is a word, so what's the dividing line? Words are, almost without exception, not automorphic. The literal shape of it does not convey its meaning, which is why 'big' is smaller than 'small.' (The most famous exception in written English is bed, which kind of looks like a bed, though that's incidental.) Emoticons represent literal, visible features. Therefore: pictures. Not words.
Thiefree No - what you need to make a difference between is basic and complex means of communication. One representation for one piece of information is a basic combination, and is what language uses. One representation for multiple pieces of information, (or vice-versa) is not, although language can form part of such a complex means of communication itself. Language is not defined by the representations used - they are merely inherent to communication that language uses/involves. It is defined by the rules governing the information (applied semantics) that causes the sequential use of such representations (irrespective of what they might be) (applied syntactics), because of the type of concept such pieces of information belong to. It is entirely possible to have a language where the representations are not systematically related to each other except by the medium they use. (Some 'primitive' forms of sign language function this way - which we currently have problems truly recognising and understanding as language because we're not focusing on what matters...)
gasdive I'll confess my ignorance on this one! I was writing from a monolingual English perspective. Are Chinese words representative of physical objects? I don't know how that breaks down into their alphabet, despite it being substantially larger than mine/ours. Phillippa Tryndal I get the impression we're getting into morphemes there, and I suspect there are as many examples that break those rules as there are those that adhere to them (re: basic and complex communication and the information we convey with either). I loved your point about sign language though. There's still so much I have to learn on all of this! Thanks for your comment!
Emoticons don't count as a word because a word is a stand in for something spoken. An emoticon of any kind is usually a stand in for a facial expression or a feeling, which is a part of body language rather than spoken language.
You know words counts are pointless when you bring languages that can run words together into it. For example: English: St Mary's Church in the Hollow of the White Hazel near to the Rapid Whirlpool of Saint Tysilio of the Red Cave Welsh: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgochgerychwryndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
I still use the word "pwnd" every Friday and Saturday. How else would I portray that an enemy player has been devastated above the level of "owned" or "rekt?" Of course, the spelling has reverted back to "pwned" but still.
TheGuardian163 It was derived from a misspelling of the word "owned" (meaning to get beaten significantly) as p is next to o on the keyboard. It later evolved to mean a stage above owned - to be utterly destroyed.
Fun fact, you can increase your word count by alternating spaces and the character U+2800. It’s invisible in a document, but most programs will treat the blank characters as their own words, increasing your word count
1:34 "I'm-a let you finish." Is it wrong that my mind went straight to an interaction where a person interrupts someone talking to let them know that they're going to let them finish?
In 1:25 you mentioned do they count as more than one word, wait until you see this. In Turkish You can have a whole sentence in a word: _"Çekoslovakyalılaştıramadıklarımızdanmışsınız."_ which stands for: "You are reportedly one of those that we could not make Czechoslovakian".(Although they no longer exist.) Does that count as a "word"? Here is a digest: _Çekoslovakya_ Czechoslovakia _Çekoslovakya-lı_ Czechoslovakia*n* _Çekoslovakya-lı-laş(mak¹)_ to *become* Czechoslovakian _Çekoslovakya-lı-laş-tır(mak¹)_ to *make one* Czechoslovakian _Çekoslovakya-lı-laş-tır-(a²)bil(mek¹)_ to *be able to* make one Czechoslovakian _Çekoslovakya-lı-laş-tır-(a²)ma(mak¹)_ to *not* be able to make one Czechoslovakian ¹ defines a verb, just like "to" ² a extra letter to make the word easier to say UA-cam disabling copy paste has made very hard to do, but I hope you get the point.
The strangest thing is that xnopyt looks like a proper word now that i've seen it a few times
[insert agreement here]
It seems like a latin or greek word
Looks Russian but with English characters
yes
Xnopyt - a word that has no meaning.
‘Words don’t have much use to linguists’ is a sentence i never thought i’d hear
The more you know, Nat.
F to words
The more I learn about Japanese, the more deeply I understand this sentiment...
Okay, I’m not a proper linguist, but I am a long-time language enthusiast/nerd
Even the most seemingly basic concepts are not universal. That’s the funnest part of linguistics imo
@@jan_Masewin
What I thought was particularly interesting here was how Tom pointed out that _even in English_ “what a word is” isn’t really always all that clear or helpful, much less very different languages
the video is literally:
- "What counts as a word?"
- "That doesn't matter."
No actually. Essentially, here’s my interpretation of his answer.
A word is an abstraction of a grammatical unit in any given language
xnopyt... AHHHHHHHHHH
@@kaylons ah, yes "🅱️", my favourite word
@Kaylon But that would be a morpheme, and words can (and most words do) contain several morphemes.
@@PC_Simo If that's the case (well it is), is "imma" one morpheme or can it be broken down into "i am go-ing to"?
the fact that tom said hrrkrkrkrwpfrbrbrbrlablblblblblblblwhitoo'ap in a professional way without any signs of laughter amazes me to this day
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@@MarloTheBlueberry bot.
@@MarloTheBlueberry sod off mate
why was L from Death Note watching this?
bro think he angry bird
"hrrkrkrkrwpfrbrbrbrlablblblblblblwhitoo'ap!"
"Now we hear the mating call of the wild Tom Scott..."
edderiofer xdxdxdd
Well that's why there's just one.
KASA kasa wow...
Who cares.
i was trying to fall asleep and then that came on
yikes™
Fhdjejdjfjisjsbsbfbwhito'djsjajsj
yes, "what" does count as a word.
Thomas Mygind you clever bastard
no
Just no.
Why does "it" count as a word?
@@TheFettuck because "it" is a combination of letters with no spaces or apostrophes, and with a meaning that can be classified in a subgroup, in this case pronouns.
Xnopyt should be a word I like it. We need more "X" words.
Okay but what does it mean
@@FixTheWi-Fi Xnopyt is a word that describes false words created out of thin air.
@@vaporwavevocap Meta,
@SQ38 I say who using the voiceless velar Fricative
like the /x/ sound? God I wish we had sounds like that in english the closes we have is basivally only in the word 'hue'
"What if I ended this video with a smiley face?"
Video ends, Tom Scott's profile picture--which is him smiling--pops up right in the middle.
Artistic perfection.
It’s also an emoji in the captions
@@firytwig if you're wondering, you can type ☺ on a pc by holding alt and pressing 1 on the number pad (numbers above the letters don't work for that). different numbers result in different characters. google "alt codes" to see which ones.
I would argue that emojis are punctuation since they convey tone/emotion
The fact that you managed to spell out "hrrkrkrkrwpfrbrbrbrlablblblblblblblwhitoo'ap" impresses me far more than anything in the world.
And yes, I had to type that manually too.
That's exactly what I felt like when I had to caption it xD
I expected him to just put up a caption of "????".
Timothy McLean that's what it said previously, just "[incoherent sounds]"
Just imagine how many takes took.
@@firefish111 I'm willing to wager it was made up in the video, with the script saying something like "insert gibberish word here", and the editor typed an approximation.
"if a word is some letters surrounded by a gap, then 'xnopyt' AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
"*insert "cats at 3am" scream*" for the full meme.♡
yes
and hrrkrkrkwpfrbrbrbrlablblblblblbwhitoo'ap are all words
@@samuelculy655 😳 did you ctrl+c or type that
@@Supermarine-Spitfire-mk-IX i had to hunt down the funny video i saw but any video i watch involving mediashare always seems to involve: Cheeto, many bruno powsfhaej ,ce.fge classics, and some other stuff, its all the same content so
My favorite finnish word: Viuhahtelisinkohan
It means: "I wonder if I should run around aimlessly while naked."
r/meirl
I'll start using that word from now on
ye finnsh is some diffrent kind of language...
Mietin, pitäisikö minun juoksua tavoitteettomasti alasti ollessani ;)
@@alejrandom6592 älä ainakaan ulkona jollet halua olla pidätetty ;)
@@LeeNashMusic
Strictly speaking, it's an agglutinative language or, as Tom would say, a synthetic language. What that means is that it's what you do to the root word that conveys meaning and context. An example:
'talo' is 'house'.
To say 'in the house' (and 'in a house'; Finnish has no real definite article, and the lack of an indefinite article usually implies its use - although more people nowadays will use 'se', or 'it' as a make-do definite article), there is a specific case ending that you stick onto the end ... these two things, root word and case ending - when put together - form a new word with a very different meaning. Hence synthetic (putting together) or agglutinative (sticking/gluing together).
The best way to think of Finnish is a two-part way:
1- it is linguistic Lego (you can actually use Lego to teach it!)
2- it is a system for making new words up (it is neologistic: 'new word -ish').
'In the house' then, is a synthesis or agglutination of two words or, more correctly, a word and a particle: 'talo' (house) and '--ssa' (in; for vowels a/o/u, '-ssa' is used and for ä/ö/y - and, yes, 'y' is a vowel in Finnish and it corresponds to ü from German and Estonian - '-ssä) is used; 'e' and 'i' are over-ruled by the other vowels in this decision).
Put them together:
'talossa' - in a/the house
The plural form is, in this case, given by adding a 't' to signify a definite article or 'ja' to signify the indefinite article:
talot - the houses
taloja - (some) houses
Coupled with a case ending such as '-ssa', though, pluralisation is done differently:
taloissa - 'in a/the houses' ... no article is used or inferred: context is the determinant in this situation.
Once you get that system, Finnish is incredibly easy. It's just learning that system that is a bit (lot!) of a bastard.
I'm not even going to go into compound words! But I _will_ say that I invented a new Finnish verb and it gained a little - albeit humorous - local usage. This I should maybe do a video about.
I hope this helps.
0:35 and here, the wild Tom Scott practices its powerful mating call
[A million computer nerds and linguists immediately flock to Britain]
hrrkrkrkrwpfrbrbrbrlablblblblblblwhitoo'ap
0:35
“Xnopyt,”
*proceeds to have a stroke*
disentigrates
@@KingLoof lmao I just came from that video
@@jacobwigent1931 same
Same
@@jacobwigent1931 Sameeee haha
If a word is some letters surrounded by a gap, then xnopyt
*A*
and hrrkrkrkrwpfrbrbrlablblblblblblwhitoo'ap
and *BIRD NOISES*
amogus
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@@unholycrusader69 *HOOLIGAN*
AAAAAaAaAAAAJjJJjJjJjJj
"then, xnopyt..."
_starts unleashing the warcries of the dead_
😅
Also, random out-takes from Monty Python skits.
Yes
On the emoji one, I would classify them as punctuation, similar to how some non-English languages use "¡" and "¿" to convey the start of an exclamatory statement or inquiry.
but unlike punctuation, you can convey an entire, somewhat cohesive message only using emojis and emoticons
@@jamsistired !??
Seems fine to me, but I'm being facetious. I agree with you on that. It may just be that emoji have so many different emotions available.
Only Spanish ngl.
I would argue that emojis are *gestures*. They have coherent meanings, but are not words, just like physical gestures.
@@rudymartin8583 I like that explanation!
Me: What's the password for the Wi-Fi?
My friend: It's on the back of the router
The back of the router: 0:38
underrated
Magic what’s underrated?
Mate your profile pic is just a shade too dark
Joey Brandybuck uhh what? Oh the original commenter ye i see
😂😂
0:39 ladies and gentlemen I present to you one of the smartest minds on youtube.
that was not what i thought that led too.
If you were talking about how the captions are exactly titled with what was on the screen when he was talking, then thanks! It took about 5 minutes to be able to do it. Before my contribution it was just [incoherent sounds] for 20 seconds, then return to the regular captions.
Took, like, 3 minutes xD
And if you don't know, that's a while for captioning. 3 minutes is enough to do a minute and a half of captions with correct timing.
an even better representation of his intellect
0:37
It's been 5 years and I'm still waiting for the second part called 'What counts as a PowerPoint?'
That took me a sec but *oh my gosh that was too good*
underrated
You guys waiting for that? I'm waiting for 'What Counts as an Excel?'
I didn't know I needed this, but thanks. Genuinely
next slide please
If you accept that the definition of a word is a bunch of letters surrounded by gaps, then xnopyt
A-
*disintegrates*
0:38 and here we see the very rare creature, the Tom Scott, in its natural habitat as it calls for a mate.
DarkLordScottie Some say that its calls are fruitless, as it is the only one in the known universe. What a shame...
It bothers me to no end that the android app won't let me correct habit to habitat.
DarkLordScottie Try doing it in the G+ app. It should work there.
jazzpi You're a lifesaver!
DarkLordScottie It's pretty much the only thing G+ is good for.
The poor person who had to type out Tom’s random “words” 🤣🤣
Probably himself
The legend who typed out "Xnopyt", "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ" and "hrrkrkrkwpfrbrbrbrlablblblblblbwhitoo'ap"
I like to think that was just keyboard smashing and Tom had to actually read it out
@@nickyecen PFFFFTTT that’s amazing XD
It’s Tom Scott, so I imagine they’re scripted
In my language of Sehvin, xnopyt means "hello my canine friend" or in simpler terms, "updog".
What’s up dog?
@@carnage9536 idk, what is up dog?
@@carnage9536 nothing much, what's up w/ you?
Wait, is it a real language or do tou mean it's your language as in you made it up?
@@mozarteanchaos I thought u said up dog meant hello my canine friend
"imma" is a contraction of 2 contractions, I'm, and gonna, so originally you would write "I am going to" then it got shortened to "I'm gonna" and now it's "imma", but it is technically 1 word, which is fascinating, that we consistently try to find ways to shorten what we say/write
I had to check to make sure this wasn't an old comment of mine.
Normal writing : imma get lunch
Writing essay: today noon i intend to walk gracefully outside to see if i can go and buy some lunch to satisfy my everlasting hunger
Today, which is a Wednesday, and happens to be the 18th of November, two thousand and twenty, at approximately twelve o'clock PM, I intend to make my way into the larger world from within my domicile. I will complete this task with the set goal of providing myself a meal, or purchasing a meal for myself from a local vendor, in order to satiate my seemingly unquenchable hunger.
honestly, sounds like how Yoshikage Kira, anime serial killer, would talk
On this our score and 4 hours of life, on approximately the 13th hour, I in my schedule intend to traverse this our world in search for a vendor of afternoon consumables, that which may nourish and fulfill my in both body and mind, completing the cycle, until that which comes the setting of the star and the rise of our natural satellite, signifying the hour of evening dine.
Today, this day, being the day that is the day of today, today's day and date, the date of which is the date today, I myself, me, only me by myself and of myself, being myself on this day, today, fully intend, as is my intention on this day, today, the day that I, myself, intend to to get lunch, do intend to fully completely, with a full completeness today get a meal, a noon time meal, for that is the time today, the day that is today's date at the time that is now, which is not later nor earlier, but rather now today, at this time, in this moment, in which I, myself, shall consume, as one would consumes l consume a meal, such as lunch, a meal I, myself, have yet today, this date and day, to myself, me personally, have eaten by the time that this time, now, becomes a time that is not this time now but a different, later time, later today, after consuming, by way of eating, by mastication, the meal, the noon time meal, which is the meal whose time has now come, with which I, myself, shall feed myself.
Steamed hams.
@@chrismanuel9768
Today, this day, being the day that is the day of today, today's day and date, the date of which is the date today, the calendar day of this year, Two Thousand Twenty One, I myself, me, only me by myself and of myself, being myself on this day, today, being the day that is the day of today, today's day and date, the date of which is the date today, the calendar day of this year, Two Thousand Twenty One, fully intend, as is my intention on this day, today, being the day that is the day of today, today's day and date, the date of which is the date today, the calendar day of this year, Two Thousand Twenty One, the day that I, myself, me, only me by myself and of myself, being myself intend to to get lunch, do intend to fully completely, with a full completeness today get a meal, a noon time meal, for that is the time today, this day, being the day that is the day of today, today's day and date, the date of which is the date today, the calendar day of this year, Two Thousand Twenty One, the day that is today's date at the time that is now, which is not later nor earlier, but rather now today, this day, being the day that is the day of today, today's day and date, the date of which is the date today, the calendar day of this year, Two Thousand Twenty One, at this time, in this moment, in which I, myself, shall consume, as one would consumes l consume a meal, such as lunch, a meal I, myself, have yet today, this day, being the day that is the day of today, today's day and date, the date of which is the date today, the calendar day of this year, Two Thousand Twenty One, this date and day, to myself, me personally, have eaten by the time that this time, now, becomes a time that is not this time now but a different, later time, later today, this day, being the day that is the day of today, today's day and date, the date of which is the date today, the calendar day of this year, Two Thousand Twenty One, after consuming, by way of eating, by mastication, the meal, the noon time meal, which is the meal whose time has now come, with which I, myself, shall feed myself.
"It doesn't make sense to use words to divide English, instead we should use morphenes or phrases."
*Words together strong*
Damnbuggerblast !
Word s to gether strong
If phrases are used: *Words together strong*
If morphemes are used: *Words scrambled strong*
In swedish aaajjj means "i am in pain"
Psyche
+TheJman0205 exactly
Noel Earl Watson
Well, no, not quite. The closest you can easily get in swedish to "I'm in pain" is "jag har ont" (litterally "I have pain"). The swedish "aj" on the other hand is the equivalent of the english "ouch," at least on a basic level, as "aj" can also be drawn out and shouted in ways that sound quite silly if you try them with "ouch," these drawn out and louder "aj"s would more closely equal an incoherent scream of pain than any word I can think of in english.
/watch?v=NqTovcBhdj8
I put this into google translate and it decided it was Hindi that translated into "ajjaj" in English, which is apparently pronounced like a toddler trying to pronounce "ostrich."
This video: Some actually interesting information on english
Everyone else’s view on it: xnopyt AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
You just went full Vsauce
+Anthony Brusca tru dat
+Anthony Brusca you always have to go full vsauce
*Pops up from the bottom of the screen*
ALWAYS go full Vsauce.
Not a bad thing.
But what is.... a word? *music cue* Webster's defines a word as...
0:37
Yes Tom, that is Geonosian for "I love the idea of shoving my ambulance inside your fridge"
?????
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who heard that and immediately thought of Geonosians
@@BlizzardFrost2021 ...the letter spasm
Nice one
I vote Tom Scott for #1 yodeler in the UK. :P
side2sideful xD
Nice pic
i vote Mason Ramsey
2:25 in german yes. Thats how words like "Schweinefleischettickitierungsüberwachungsgesetz" become a thing (yes thats a word. It describes the law of survailancing the labeling of porkchop)
Well, "aaaaaaajjjjjjjjj" means "ouch" in Swedish so I'd say that counts as a word, no?
Onomatopoeias are words as well though. Besides, that expression changes from language to language.
Dojan5 Except that it's just "aj."
Markus When spelled correctly, yes.
Have you never seen an exaggeration before? I mean, they're *sooooooo* uncommon.
English isn't Swedish
"aj" means ouch, but aaaaaaaaajjjjjjjjj would have to mean ooooooooouuuuuuuuuuch, but that doesn't make sense to count it as a word. It's just expressing the word differently
_Hey!_ Vsauce. *Michael* here.
_What_ are *_words?_*
* _What are... words?_
... :|
They should really team up
What words
How much does a... Word... Weigh?
Teacher: Your essay didn't reach the minimum word count!
Me:
Vadosity genius comment
underrated comment
Pro tip: in a pickle if you handwite essays I guarantee noone will pull you up on specific word count
Did you write Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaajjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj enough?
0:36 the part we're here for
0:49
What's "updog"?
Wait...
Joel Graber ---->what's up dog?
Ceca Siahaan r/wooosh
Garrett Thompson r/youareaddictedtoreddit
I still prefer the joke in its original form -- in a comical strip with animals talking about "snoo."
@@PvblivsAelivs i wont fall for this one... I wont fall for this one.. i wont...
What's snoo?
If anyone was wondering, yes: the captions do end with a legit smiley face. Thank you, Tom Scott.
I was wondering if someone else would notice that
I'd argue that emojis aren't words because you can't pronounce them. You can only describe them. Oddly similar to when cartoon characters swear. "!%#$*@!!!" That's not a word, just a stand-in for one. An emoji is basically just including a tiny photo of your expression at the moment.
I'd argue that Emojis are a kind of punctuation marks used to convey emotions
Dogmod
That works. That makes a lot more sense than calling them words.
AlexReynard 🍪
But what about places like twitch and discord, were emojis have names
Saying Kappa is the most obvious example of how this has made some of them integrated into the verbal language, or written language outside the platform
Contrarily, are such emotes ever used as a proper word, and if they are do they still count as one when they are replaced by the picture?
I like the smiley face in the subtitles at 3:22
I once had two roommates, one from the US and one from Germany. When the German guy would sneeze, he would utter distinctly the word, "atschee". The American guy remarked that the German didn't have to say, "atschee" every time he sneezed, to which the German replied, "Yes I do. It's the natural thing that comes out when anyone sneezes."
My only contribution to the discussion was that it might be more pleasant not talking about what naturally comes out when one sneezes.
3:16 ooo, I wonder.
wait.
[turns on captions.]
....well played.
Ooh I see it now XD
what?
If I were to end this sentence with just a smiley face, would that count as a word?
😊
😊
☺️ acc
For typing speed purposes, to calculate your Words Per Minute (WPM) typed, a word is 5 keypresses. Everything counts--spaces, punctuation, numbers, and letters. The one exception is usually Enter/Return, since even the most advanced typing speed tests provide the spoken/written sample as one paragraph.
The Swedish language allows you to put words together (for example, dinner table is called "matbord", mat=food, bord=table); creating lovely words such as: nordvästersjökustartilleriflygspaningssimulatoranläggningsmaterielunderhållsuppföljningssystemdiskussionsinläggsförberedelsearbeten
The same in Danish, German, Norwegian, Finnish and so many other languages.
Konfirmationsforberedelseslokaleudlejningsfirmakantinerabatordningudvalgsformandsunderskrift
:D
If anyone's wondering what that says, I decided to be the guy to put it through google translate.
Northwest Coast Artillery Air Reconnaissance Simulator Facility Equipment Maintenance Follow-up System Discussion Post Preparatory Work
Ironically, sweden doesnt really have a northwestern coast 💁♂️
@@knutolavbjrgaas1069Neither does O'ahu, Hawai'i, yet locals all call it the North Shore. More pithy than "North-Northwest Extra-Thicc Peninsula Plus Surrounding Shorelines."
@@henrikhyrup3995I agree we do that a lot in German
Random fact: In Chinese, there are no significant spacing between words (punctuation doesn't count). For instance, "在中文里，词语之间并没有明显的间隔". For a fluent speaker, it is very obvious to tell which combinations of characters are words regardless the length. It doesn't comply with the rule of saying "word is a combination of letters surrounded by blank space". Hence we calculate the amount of characters in word documents.
I'd say Chinese characters are words in themselves.
@@shambhav9534 They all are morphemes in themselves but arguably not words
@@EriniusT Characters I would argue are not morphemes for two reasons. Take the character 语 can be divided into 讠,五 and 口. All of which can convey meaning either on the meaning of the word or the pronunciation. 语 means language, and that is partially signified by the radical 讠which inidcates the character has to do with speech. 五 helps with pronunciation as 五 is pronounced wu3 and 语 is pronounced yu3. Every character is a word, but may not always be acing as one. 中 is a word meaning center (among other things), but 中文 means chinese. It's all somewhat complicated.
Korean has this sort of thing going on as well. As a matter of fact, there's different spacing rules in both the North and the South.
from Wikipedia: "In the South, the rules of spacing are not very clear-cut, but in the North, these are very precise. In general, compared to the North, the writing in the South tends to include more spacing. One likely explanation is that the North remains closer to the Sinitic orthographical heritage, where spacing is less of an issue than with a syllabary or alphabet such as Hangul."
If someone says “That’s a made-up word” to you, just respond with “All words are made-up”
I ain't gonna stand fer et
@@kaldo_kaldotechnically he's right tho
You’re just saying that because yut aspend snit wequat 🤔
All words *start as* made-up. They become words when they gain a common accepted meaning.
I think emoji’s are punctuation. They’re generally placed at the end of phrases to indicate tone like periods, exclamation points, or question marks. Sometimes they go at the beginning of phrases but so does the Spanish “¿”. Also, they are used standalone sometimes, but in the same way that punctuation is used standalone sometimes. A question mark alone indicates confusion or an ask for more information. “…” “?” Are also used standalone. Also, emojis come from emoticons that were literally made up of punctuation marks ;) 🤷🏻♂️ that’s my opinion 🤘🏻
my new favourite sentence:
"If you accept the definition that a word is just some letters surrounded by a gap, then xnopyt AAAAAAAJJJJJJJJJ and hrrkrkwpfrbrbrbrlablblblblblblwhitoo'ap are all words."
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
The subtitles do, in fact, end with a smiley face.
In russian "Э, а я? Я и в а и в б." is two sentences, consisting of letters/words
Even funnier if you're Russian
smth, a ya
Google translate says "Eh, and me? I and in a and b." Would someone care to do a better job translating?
"E, a ja? Ja i v a i v b."
@@haydenbye i can roughly translate it as "hey, what about me? I'm both in A) and in B)"
This video single headedly gave me exactly what I needed for my English Language A level coursework. Thankyou Tom Scott
Esperanto: komencopaleontologiokonservatoriaĉestriĝontajn
English: about to begin to become the leader of a contemptible palaeontology conservatory
German:
Rindfleischettiketierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
(Its a real word, and in the dictionary)
English:
Beef Labeling Supervision Transfers Law
The *leaders; "-ajn" ends a PLURAL adjective.
"lågtryckskvicksilverångurladdningsanordning" was used in a patent for a fluorescent lamp.
"nordostersjokustartilleriflygspaningssimulatoranlaggningsmaterielunderhallsuppfoljningssystemdiskussionsinlaggsforberedelsearbeten" is often repeated as being a long word too, but no source is given for where it has been used.
Swedish, like German and other Germanic languages, as well as other language families; can in theory construct infinite long and meaningless words.
@@jana31415 *Rindfleischetikettierungsaufgabenübertragungsüberwachungsgesetz . You got the "übertragungs" at the wrong place 😉
That sounds like lemony snicket
Turkish: "Çıkamazsınız"
Translation: "You guys can't go out(side)."
ohhhnoyadont, in English
Isaac G. *y'all'n't
Japanese: 食べさせられなかった (tabe-sase-rare-na-katta) - "I haven't been made to eat" (can mean either "haven't been allowed to" or "haven't been forced to").
Isaac G. It has a lot of other meanings too
Korean: "세웠던가요?"
Translation: "Had one built it up when you saw it?"
I would argue that an emoticon is a picture, and a picture is worth a thousand words.
😢👀👣🤗😊🚗🏢😑😒☎️🔌🖕🤮🚗🏠
there's my 15,000 word submission for your creative writing class Mr. Scott.
I want to work out what the new word count of my dissertation is given this revelation
On a sidenote, an anecdote from my lecturer: "Words don't count if you put them in a table"
@@Ben_R4mZ One day I was very sad, then someone stepped on my eyes to cheer me up, and I was so happy that I crashed my sedan into a building, but not having a vehicle made me kind of annoyed, so I called my electric company and said "****** you", but I yelled so loud that I threw up, and I decided to find my car and drive back to my house.
but a jpeg can be worth a million words in terms of storage space
@@arandomsupra Epic
I love the attention to detail in subtitles
2:19
> [Insert that really long Welsh town name]
> [Then insert the even longer New Zealand town name]
>[Insert synthetic words]
>then they combine into one super word
You mean Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?
> [Then insert every single Icelandic town name]
You mean Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu?
Also its a hill, not a town
Tom is so underrated on UA-cam. Really interesting videos and even if you don't watch his main series' there's loads of little funny bits here and there.
Keep it up, Tom! :D
1.4 million subscribers and flew with the Red Arrows. Not underated anymore i think!
4.78 million subscribers - probably approaching overrated. How life changes :D
So glad he found the success he deserved!
Count smileys as their own thing, so the result is like this:
Words: 152
Smileys: 15
Total symbols: 167
Aren't symbols letters and not a string of letters
Estonian has some great compound words that become one word, though they’re almost all silly. My favorite is Õueaiaääres which roughly translates to “At the edge of the outside garden.” Though it probably is more likely to mean “In the yard.” Though in my 2 years there not a single person ever said it.
0:49 What's updog?
Jake Looney Not much, what's up with you?
Nothing much.
It worked!
+Jake Looney nothing much, how about you?
Prince Dumb
well done, you just repeated the ops comment
0:26 Cue Vsauce music.
YESS
Da Da Bummm
0:52 Hey Tom, I still pwn n00bs on the daily!
I love how that actually sounds like old-timey English now.
+Firstname Lastname Tru dat.
It's all about gettin rekt these days
+Firstname Lastname
brother....
L4wl I R l33t sp34k3r
tom's delivery of "aaaaaaajjjjjjjjj" was FLAWLESS
"If you accept the definition that words are just letters, surrounded by a gap, then, xnopyt"
*AAAAAAAAAAAAAA*
Actually the funniest thing to grace the planet
Timestamp pleaze
@@counterstrike508
It's about 25 seconds in, seriously though just watch the whole video, it's only 3½ minutes long.
I was wearing headphones and this destroyed my ears
AAAAAAAAJJJJJ
I love that you actually did add an emoji at the end of the subtitles.
Bamboozled.
What about the word splrya?
When you realize that "a" is a word in english.
i never thought of it like that
Omg
When you realise “I” is a word in English.
@@acinggames8422 am*
E
0:31. Doesn’t cost likes, but it’s greatly appreciated.
Also: putting some random characters with spaces in between, using the same colour as the background will be counted as words by the word processor, despite those words not existing to the human eye, and changing a space to a character of the same colour as the background will make something appear as 2 words even though the word processor will count it as one.
Careful. The path you’re headed down, someone may decide you’re too dangerous to be left alive
werid
Dude you’re the originator of millions of memes and hacks based on this single discovery
I love that if you turn on closed captioning, the "written version" of this video indeed ends with a smiley face. :)
...except now that I notice, it says subtitles are auto-generated! How did it know, then!
I swear the speech to text algoryhms are getting frightfully smarter by the day!
"If you accept the definition that a word is a few letters surrounded by a gap, then "xnopyt",
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
1:50 "Ima" [my chosen spelling of the word] is my favorite contraction. Yes, I classify it as a contraction. And it is superb because it replaces "I am going to" with three letters and no punctuation. It is the most efficient and clear contraction in the English language and I absolutely love this word.
There are some great acronyms too, and some controversial ones like AF; but "Ima" is a damn good word and Ima make that clear.
Imma leave you with your weirdass spelling
I will forever read "af" as "as foretold"
@@jlco i am so cool af
Tom I just wanted to say that I really appreciate the quality of your videos and the constant flow of content each week. You have interested me in linguistics for some time now and I have decided to do a degree linguistics as well as economics.
Also when will there be more "Citation Needed"? I loved the seasons you made they were hilarious.
I love how the last subtitle in this video is, as promised, a smiley face
I'm reminded of an old Jeff Foxworthy comedy routine.
Man 1: Jeet yet?
Man 2: naw
Man 1: yunt to?
Man 2: aite
Jeffery Liggett took me a while. Brilliant!
Jeffery Liggett So I'm guessing that's:
Have you eaten yet? No. Are you going to? All right.
Yikak4
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Man 1: Did you eat yet?
Man 2: No
Man 1: Do you want to?
Man 2: Alright
Jeffery Liggett haha, took me a little while to get that. I always say "jonna" for "do you want to". I also say "sha" as in "sha-yeet now olay-e?" (Shall I eat now or later?). It's strange seeing the language you speak all the time written down how you say it - makes it seem more like a cryptic message, or a foreign language, when it's actually closer to what you say than the actual written words, haha.
Jeffery Liggett I'm from the good ole south. So I got this immediately. Though it's less funny when it seems normal to you.
0:37 woah i never thought of that. that is a truly amazing concept.
I think his channel name is supposed to be called "vsauce 4"
No, that is an actual channel, go look it up.
Vsauce 5 then.
Smakyak Productions it’s a comedy channel.
Tom is cool enough to be Tom
I love thatz the video captions ended with a smiley face.
If a word is letters surrounded by a gap then, xnopyt *proceeds to pixilate into nothing while screaming in terror*
I was very disappointed when the captions did not have a smiley face at the end.
and Hebrew and Spanish
Glad I wasn't the only one who checked for that :P
Now they do.
OMG THEY ACTUALLY DID IT! I wonder whether he saw this comment.
:)
Re: emoticons, I feel it's worth distinguishing words from pictures. Pictures are also used to communicate meaning, after all, and I don't think anyone would argue that a map is a word, so what's the dividing line?
Words are, almost without exception, not automorphic. The literal shape of it does not convey its meaning, which is why 'big' is smaller than 'small.' (The most famous exception in written English is bed, which kind of looks like a bed, though that's incidental.)
Emoticons represent literal, visible features. Therefore: pictures. Not words.
Thiefree
No - what you need to make a difference between is basic and complex means of communication. One representation for one piece of information is a basic combination, and is what language uses. One representation for multiple pieces of information, (or vice-versa) is not, although language can form part of such a complex means of communication itself.
Language is not defined by the representations used - they are merely inherent to communication that language uses/involves. It is defined by the rules governing the information (applied semantics) that causes the sequential use of such representations (irrespective of what they might be) (applied syntactics), because of the type of concept such pieces of information belong to.
It is entirely possible to have a language where the representations are not systematically related to each other except by the medium they use. (Some 'primitive' forms of sign language function this way - which we currently have problems truly recognising and understanding as language because we're not focusing on what matters...)
Phillippa Tryndal Wait... What is the scientific relevance of finding out whether an emoticon should be counted as a word or not?
What's the scientific relevance of language, communication and semiosis/semiotics? :p
Thiefree Therefore there are no Chinese words.
gasdive I'll confess my ignorance on this one! I was writing from a monolingual English perspective. Are Chinese words representative of physical objects? I don't know how that breaks down into their alphabet, despite it being substantially larger than mine/ours.
Phillippa Tryndal I get the impression we're getting into morphemes there, and I suspect there are as many examples that break those rules as there are those that adhere to them (re: basic and complex communication and the information we convey with either). I loved your point about sign language though. There's still so much I have to learn on all of this! Thanks for your comment!
Emoticons don't count as a word because a word is a stand in for something spoken. An emoticon of any kind is usually a stand in for a facial expression or a feeling, which is a part of body language rather than spoken language.
0:50 updog? What's updog? ;)
No one I know uses "updog".
Not much. How about you?
probably a british thing
You don't get it? It was a pun, "What's up, dog?"
I don't know if British people use puns
KelixKatzStreams yeah, only Brits can say puns
0:36
compile these in "out of context tom scott"
Raymund Jay Pabalat oh my gods, yes
You know words counts are pointless when you bring languages that can run words together into it.
For example:
English:
St Mary's Church in the Hollow of the White Hazel near to the Rapid Whirlpool of Saint Tysilio of the Red Cave
Welsh:
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgochgerychwryndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
I hope to visit there someday, and perhaps try to pronounce it on a national weather broadcast.
i’ve been waiting for this to appear in my recommendations
0:41 that reminds me of that super long named welsh place
Llanfairpwllgwyngychgogeryhwyrndrobwllllantisiliogogogoch?
I still use the word "pwnd" every Friday and Saturday. How else would I portray that an enemy player has been devastated above the level of "owned" or "rekt?" Of course, the spelling has reverted back to "pwned" but still.
aListers After rekt you move up to Tyrannosaurus REKT.
aListers It's still used every day in Dota 2, it's still used in the killspam.
+aListers what word does pwned come from?
TheGuardian163 It was derived from a misspelling of the word "owned" (meaning to get beaten significantly) as p is next to o on the keyboard. It later evolved to mean a stage above owned - to be utterly destroyed.
aListers what about just R E K?
The captions actually end on a smiley. Well played 👏
"An entire sentence's worth of meaning into one long string of characters..." so, German then?
Fun fact, you can increase your word count by alternating spaces and the character U+2800. It’s invisible in a document, but most programs will treat the blank characters as their own words, increasing your word count
I'm sorry to see Language files go; I hope to see a third season. It's one of my favorite UA-cam series.
the third season is here
I know everyone's talking about xnopyt, but can we take a moment to appreciate that someone wrote out that third example?
2:30 yes that’s the German language
1:34 "I'm-a let you finish."
Is it wrong that my mind went straight to an interaction where a person interrupts someone talking to let them know that they're going to let them finish?
No... Much better
2009 vmas
Ye the 🐐 no 🧢
Ding dong!
YO TAYLOR
Can we take a moment to appreciate him pronouncing "hrrkrkrwpfrbrbrbrlablnlnlnlnlwhitoo'ap"
And before you ask, yes I had to type that all out.
dfvhxgehgsgvdhxt gsjha
I swear the only pronouncable part of that to us mortals is the "whitoo'ap" part
There are no n's in that word, genious
''Can we take a moment to appre-'' Oh, shut up.
In 1:25 you mentioned do they count as more than one word, wait until you see this. In Turkish You can have a whole sentence in a word:
_"Çekoslovakyalılaştıramadıklarımızdanmışsınız."_ which stands for: "You are reportedly one of those that we could not make Czechoslovakian".(Although they no longer exist.) Does that count as a "word"?
Here is a digest:
_Çekoslovakya_ Czechoslovakia
_Çekoslovakya-lı_ Czechoslovakia*n*
_Çekoslovakya-lı-laş(mak¹)_ to *become* Czechoslovakian
_Çekoslovakya-lı-laş-tır(mak¹)_ to *make one* Czechoslovakian
_Çekoslovakya-lı-laş-tır-(a²)bil(mek¹)_ to *be able to* make one Czechoslovakian
_Çekoslovakya-lı-laş-tır-(a²)ma(mak¹)_ to *not* be able to make one Czechoslovakian
¹ defines a verb, just like "to"
² a extra letter to make the word easier to say
UA-cam disabling copy paste has made very hard to do, but I hope you get the point.
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Sure
Secret smiley face in the captions! Amazing!!! :)
Make more linguistics pls