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Yo creds for the Lincoln/Washington series, that shit is hilarious. My friends and I watch it while we smoke, since we finished black mirror. 10/10 replacement
Awfully bold of you to assume that I'd ever be capable of learning a whole language in 3 weeks. I spent years learning French and still couldn't read a page of French text.
Since no one has done it to my knowledge, here are the actual definitions of each word: 1) a - 1. Used when referring to someone or something for the first time in a conversation. 2. Used to indicate membership of a class of people or things 2) abscond - leave hurriedly and secretly, typically to avoid detection of or arrest for an unlawful action such as theft. Also provided: (of a person of bail) fail to surrender oneself for custody at an appointed time; (of a person kept in detention or under supervision) escape 3)achieve - successfully bring about or reach (a desired objective, level, or result) by effort, skill, or courage. 4)bad - 1. Of poor quality or a low standard. 2. Not such as to be hoped for or desired; unpleasant or unwelcome 5)blarney - (noun) talk that aims to charm, pleasantly flatter, or persuade. (Verb) influence or persuade using charm and pleasant flattery 6) demystify - make (a difficult or esoteric subject) clearer and easier to understand 7) frolic - 1. (Adj.) Full of fun 2. (Verb) to amuse oneself: make merry; to play and run about happily. 3. (Noun) a playful or mischievous action; an occasion or scene of fun. 8) grin - (verb) smile broadly, especially in an unrestrained manner and with the mouth open. (noun) a broad smile. 9) injustice - 1. lack of fairness or justice 2. An unjust act of occurrence. 10) Left (provided in the video, yes actually, but also…) 2. Relating to or denoting a person or group favoring left-wing views; progressive 3. (Adv) on or to the left side. 4. (Noun) the left hand part-side or direction; same as #2 11) Love - 1. (Noun) An intense feeling of deep affection. 2. a great interest and pleasure in something. 3. (Verb) feel deep affection for. 4. Like or enjoy very much. 5. (My version)- baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me no more 12)millennium has two n’s 13) mystify- 1. Utterly bewilder or perplex. 2. Make obscure or mysterious. 14) place - I’m summarizing here bc it goes on for a page, 1. (Noun) A particular position or point in space. 2. A portion of space available or designated for or being used by someone. 3. A position in a sequence or series, typically one ordered on the basis of merit. 4. (Verb) put in a particular position. 5. Find a home or employment for. 6. Identify or classify as being of a specified type or as holding a specified position in a sequence or hierarchy 15) serendipity - the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way. 16) sesquipedalian - 1. (Of a word) polysyllabic; long. 2) characterized by long words 17) sybaritic - fond of sensuous luxury or pleasure; self indulgent 18)tintinnabulation - a ringing or tinkling sound 19) uxorious - having or showing an excessive or submissive fondness for one’s wife (low key dig at the other guy lmao) 20) verisimilitude - the appearance of being true or real 21) widdershins - in a direction contrary to the sun’s course, considered as unlucky; counterclockwise 22)zygomatic - (adj) of or relating to the cheek region of the face; (noun) one of a pair of bones on each upper side of the face that forms the cheek and part of the eye socket. 23)zyzzyva - an American weevil or small beetle Zach certainly has an impressive vocabulary lol
A dictionary is only good to fluent speakers of a language to learn next level words, but literal building block words are absolute hell to describe and/or understand and/or comprehend.
"clock - an intricate apparatus, whether fashioned through meticulous craftsmanship or advanced electronic engineering, meticulously designed to delineate and exhibit the relentless march of temporal intervals, delineating them into meticulously calibrated units such as seconds, minutes, and hours. It accomplishes this feat through a labyrinth of complex mechanisms, adept at transmuting physical motions or electromagnetic impulses into discernible and comprehensible manifestations, thereby embodying humanity's perpetual quest to quantify and apprehend the ethereal concept of time within the confines of our perceptual realm."
ESL here, to use dictionary you don't have to be fluent, in many cases basic understanding in enough to understand majority of commonly used words in English.
When I was a kid my school forced me to look up words in the dictionary daily. Supposedly to give us a better vocabulary. It always took no less than 10 minutes because we were children and didn't understand how that sort of thing worked. If these two had written the dictionary we had to look things up in it would have been a much more enjoyable experience.
Bro same. I got to the point where I knew so many words that I could answer without looking them, all because I read them while searching for the word they had us looking up. This would have made it much more entertaining.
When I was in high school, I made up a word called "Impostulance" The definition was "It means whatever you want within the context of the sentence" So whenever I couldn't think of the right word to use, I would use "Impostulance" as a placeholder and would hope that my teachers didn't notice. They all noticed.
From the "comedy skit" side of UA-cam all the way to the "talking to yourself for 5-10 minutes" side of UA-cam and more, Zach Star videos are my favorite way of spending my day.
That shit has so many rules and exceptions it can not be defined even in a few sentences Like dictionary just gotta send straight to the rulesbook on that one
Guet-apens is directly borrowed from French just like rendez-vous or déjà vu so it may not be a good fit here, but I respect your knowledge of the word :)
@@Earenda I only mentioned it, since he has another video doing a spelling B with that exact word, hence making it a running joke since it would have fit in here.
Isn't he? I guess everyone can petition something like SNL to give him a writing job. Still, he writes comedy for money and is, probably, making a living doing so. Consistently sponsored as well. Like SNLs commercials.
Honestly i love his work exactly as it is. The simplicity of alot of the props and costumes just helps sell it so much, especially when some of the plots are so out there and indepth. The contrast between those aspects is pure gold
Should've added this exchange: "Wait, I'm pretty sure what you just said is not even a word, I think you just made that word up to score political points or something, you can't just go around making words up!" "Uh, aren't ALL words just made up?" "..." "..." "..." "..." "Good point, moving on."
This is one of many great videos that leads to a great break in to one of the best sponsorship ad when it’s placed into a video! Why can’t more UA-camrs do something more like this!? 😂
i think it's important to note just how many definitions for "a" there are. in the mirriam webster dictionary, there's 13 different sections and within those sections are 18 abbreviations, 5 prefixes, 1 suffix, 1 combining form (basically a prefix or suffix, but in the middle of the word), 3 prepositions, 4 indefinite articles (as well as a sub-sub-category with 9 variations), and 7 ways for it to be a noun. edit: there's also a whole thing on a vs an but that isnt counted as one of the 13 sections
Should have had a section at the end where the guy writing it all down says, "Well, that's the dictionary done but honestly I have some qualms." "Like what?" "Some of these spellings dude. Like 'colour'? Why is there a 'u'?" "Then go make your own damn dictionary Webster!" "Alright Oxford."
It is a word used to describe someone who excessively seeks luxurious things and pleasures or to describe a luxurious lifestyle. The sybaritic lifestyle of the supreme leader causes all of his people to suffer from poverty.
pretty funny idea. It would be pretty the same if u make the situation of google Street view: like they have to drive at every street in the world. Just an idea for u
In Poland there's a pretty famous case of a dude called Benedict Chmielowski - who decided to write an encyclopedia, which for the most part was exactly on the level of this skit. It's been hundreds of years, yet to this day people are having a laugh at : "Horse - as it is, everyone sees." My phone actually auto suggested the phrase
The "Left" one is interesting because there are languages with absolute directions and you use North, East, West, and South to say which direction you're talking about. Yes, it'll be difficult to communicate if they don't know where North is. Tom Scott made a video about it in his linguistic series.
I don't blame some people for thinking we live in a simulation, because being in a society in wich dictionaries already existed it's madness to think that someone tought of it and probably a group of people decided to include almost EVERY SINGLE DAMN WORD, it was probably made over time but still is impressive.
so, regarding "left", what if i am laying on my back, but facing North. what if my BODY is aimed East, but i am FACING North. does that definition hold up?
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Yo creds for the Lincoln/Washington series, that shit is hilarious. My friends and I watch it while we smoke, since we finished black mirror. 10/10 replacement
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Sounds like you had a cold making this video
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Awfully bold of you to assume that I'd ever be capable of learning a whole language in 3 weeks. I spent years learning French and still couldn't read a page of French text.
Still waiting for "The day negative numbers were invented"
Then, logically, we need rationals, irrationals, imaginary and complex, then quaternions that are all the square root of -1. Would be fun
And after that, he should do imaginary numbers. That be interesting to explain to someone the first time in history 😂
What else do we have confusing in maths? Maybe the concept of infinity and that there are different kinds of it?
Maybe exponents would be cool too. If it makes you sound like a scammer or a crackhead, Zach will make it sound like both
"you owe me 4 money, how much money do you have"
"0"
"so 0-4 moneys"
Zach's ability and willingness to travel back in time to these noteworthy events is commendable.
Yeah zachs channel is underated for the only human on the planet to build a working time machine that has never seemed to fail
Hes not traveling back to these events. Is going back and creating the events themselves. All for our benefit.
I think the subscribers being willing and able to keep this bit going is amazing.
@@treanmunt1420Ryan George has one too
@@letsrock12345r/woosh
Since no one has done it to my knowledge, here are the actual definitions of each word:
1) a - 1. Used when referring to someone or something for the first time in a conversation. 2. Used to indicate membership of a class of people or things
2) abscond - leave hurriedly and secretly, typically to avoid detection of or arrest for an unlawful action such as theft. Also provided: (of a person of bail) fail to surrender oneself for custody at an appointed time; (of a person kept in detention or under supervision) escape
3)achieve - successfully bring about or reach (a desired objective, level, or result) by effort, skill, or courage.
4)bad - 1. Of poor quality or a low standard. 2. Not such as to be hoped for or desired; unpleasant or unwelcome
5)blarney - (noun) talk that aims to charm, pleasantly flatter, or persuade. (Verb) influence or persuade using charm and pleasant flattery
6) demystify - make (a difficult or esoteric subject) clearer and easier to understand
7) frolic - 1. (Adj.) Full of fun 2. (Verb) to amuse oneself: make merry; to play and run about happily. 3. (Noun) a playful or mischievous action; an occasion or scene of fun.
8) grin - (verb) smile broadly, especially in an unrestrained manner and with the mouth open. (noun) a broad smile.
9) injustice - 1. lack of fairness or justice 2. An unjust act of occurrence.
10) Left (provided in the video, yes actually, but also…) 2. Relating to or denoting a person or group favoring left-wing views; progressive 3. (Adv) on or to the left side. 4. (Noun) the left hand part-side or direction; same as #2
11) Love - 1. (Noun) An intense feeling of deep affection. 2. a great interest and pleasure in something. 3. (Verb) feel deep affection for. 4. Like or enjoy very much. 5. (My version)- baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me no more
12)millennium has two n’s
13) mystify- 1. Utterly bewilder or perplex. 2. Make obscure or mysterious.
14) place - I’m summarizing here bc it goes on for a page, 1. (Noun) A particular position or point in space. 2. A portion of space available or designated for or being used by someone. 3. A position in a sequence or series, typically one ordered on the basis of merit. 4. (Verb) put in a particular position. 5. Find a home or employment for. 6. Identify or classify as being of a specified type or as holding a specified position in a sequence or hierarchy
15) serendipity - the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
16) sesquipedalian - 1. (Of a word) polysyllabic; long. 2) characterized by long words
17) sybaritic - fond of sensuous luxury or pleasure; self indulgent
18)tintinnabulation - a ringing or tinkling sound
19) uxorious - having or showing an excessive or submissive fondness for one’s wife (low key dig at the other guy lmao)
20) verisimilitude - the appearance of being true or real
21) widdershins - in a direction contrary to the sun’s course, considered as unlucky; counterclockwise
22)zygomatic - (adj) of or relating to the cheek region of the face; (noun) one of a pair of bones on each upper side of the face that forms the cheek and part of the eye socket.
23)zyzzyva - an American weevil or small beetle
Zach certainly has an impressive vocabulary lol
...Take my like for this underrated comment.
The fact that #12 is actually in there made a comment already worthy of an award, absolutely legendary. You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.
Verisimilitude was a vocab word I had in high school english once
Dam it take my like and leave
So, does it mean that left-wing viewers have to be facing north?
A dictionary is only good to fluent speakers of a language to learn next level words, but literal building block words are absolute hell to describe and/or understand and/or comprehend.
"weary - to make or become weary"
It's like describing smells or tastes to someone with no sense of smell or taste.
@@MyHandleIsGood Why not go for the blind example? Describing sights to a blind person
"clock - an intricate apparatus, whether fashioned through meticulous craftsmanship or advanced electronic engineering, meticulously designed to delineate and exhibit the relentless march of temporal intervals, delineating them into meticulously calibrated units such as seconds, minutes, and hours. It accomplishes this feat through a labyrinth of complex mechanisms, adept at transmuting physical motions or electromagnetic impulses into discernible and comprehensible manifestations, thereby embodying humanity's perpetual quest to quantify and apprehend the ethereal concept of time within the confines of our perceptual realm."
ESL here, to use dictionary you don't have to be fluent, in many cases basic understanding in enough to understand majority of commonly used words in English.
“We haven’t talked in two hours” said Zach to his imaginary friend
Said his imaginary friend to Zach!
When I was a kid my school forced me to look up words in the dictionary daily. Supposedly to give us a better vocabulary. It always took no less than 10 minutes because we were children and didn't understand how that sort of thing worked. If these two had written the dictionary we had to look things up in it would have been a much more enjoyable experience.
Bro same. I got to the point where I knew so many words that I could answer without looking them, all because I read them while searching for the word they had us looking up. This would have made it much more entertaining.
Me who just goes about my day and then googles a random ass word: *Hippity, hoppity, this word is now my property.*
I was one of those autistic kids who liked reading dictionaries. Looking back, I can see why I had no friends.
@@wilhelmbuzzkyll We would have been friends ha. I always liked the "odd" people as they were called back then.
Yer
The demystify definition was too accurate
The mystify one was even better.
I like that “A” had the most detailed definition and then every definition after that was just thrown together. Kind of like how I do my homework.
"Should we define mystify here then?"
"No, fuck 'em. They can look it up in the M section"
the actual realism is scary
“From tree to forest” lol
A couch or a sofa😂
At least he didn't say "from river to sea"
@@venturer9400 At least he didn't say "march to the sea".
He couldn't see the forest for the trees.
@@josephpostma1787at least he didn't say "race to the sea". (Iykyk.)
zach becoming more insane everyday, and im here for it.
When I was in high school, I made up a word called "Impostulance"
The definition was "It means whatever you want within the context of the sentence"
So whenever I couldn't think of the right word to use, I would use "Impostulance" as a placeholder and would hope that my teachers didn't notice.
They all noticed.
😂you’re amazing!
The "sell me this pen" variants in your videos will never get old!
"Are u high?"
"Yeah"😂
I am so grateful that someone was willing and able to make a dictionary
Dude...did you write this ENTIRE sketch around the idea that it would serve as a segue for an ad for Babel!?
Nice!!!
The mystify/demystify duo were great
4:05 this is literally the only reason this video exists 😂
“What if e-sports games where played like sports games”
Same energy as "Let's make a book with 1 million digits of pi" or something.
From the "comedy skit" side of UA-cam all the way to the "talking to yourself for 5-10 minutes" side of UA-cam and more, Zach Star videos are my favorite way of spending my day.
Don't forget his other channel where he explains math concepts that I'll never fully understand but I watch anyway.
I wish get-a-paw was there
Wtf is that mean
@@opera9946 guetapens
I swear to God one of my first thoughts were "is this a sequel?"
It would have been hilarious 😂.
@@opera9946 it's a reference to the spelling bee video
Alright, I'm going to to start saying "An Uniform" "An University" "An Universe" "An Unicycle "😂😂😂
That shit has so many rules and exceptions it can not be defined even in a few sentences
Like dictionary just gotta send straight to the rulesbook on that one
New skit idea:
When you travel back in time to Hawking's party but you're 10 years early.
Jill went for Eminem but little did he know, Eminem read his dictionary for fun.
The brothers Grimm, circa 1830:
Only zach can make a skit idea about dictionaries so freaking funny
The day the urban dictionary was invented...
The anachronisms in these kinds of skits ironically fit very well
I thought that was the word we used when there’s no government…
@@wesleymclain9146that's anarchy
@@wesleymclain9146 look it up in the dictionary dude 🙄
I am surprised guetapens didn't make an appearance in this piece as a running joke.
Guet-apens is directly borrowed from French just like rendez-vous or déjà vu so it may not be a good fit here, but I respect your knowledge of the word :)
@@Earenda I only mentioned it, since he has another video doing a spelling B with that exact word, hence making it a running joke since it would have fit in here.
7:05 "i use it more than deodorant"
ooh Jill must've left him for the guy from "When you Google a word you don't know"
This man should be a professional comedian
Isn't he?
I guess everyone can petition something like SNL to give him a writing job. Still, he writes comedy for money and is, probably, making a living doing so. Consistently sponsored as well. Like SNLs commercials.
Honestly i love his work exactly as it is.
The simplicity of alot of the props and costumes just helps sell it so much, especially when some of the plots are so out there and indepth. The contrast between those aspects is pure gold
Idk. It fits him more to do those videos
Fr😂😂😂
Video idea: being in a long distance relationship be like
If Daniel Thrasher and Zach were willing and able to collab, it would officially be the most unhinged video in the history of UA-cam.
Zach's descent into madness is amazing
Zach read the definition of Left and got pissed off enough to make this entire video
Verisimilitude is literally my favorite word. Consider yourself activated!
1:04 “supply and demand” 😂😂😂
This video is unequivocally delectable
The “sell me this pen” is seriously so well incorporated better than Jordan Belford ever thought it could.
"invented by two friends: Dic and Tionary" made me snort out loud
5:52 I advocate for this definition
Did anyone else ever mix up dictionary and thesaurus even though they aren’t alike at all when they were younger or was it just me?
Non-Zach God giving two random people Babbel would be the coolest origin story to Babbel’s existence ever made
Abscond - what that guy did with your girlfriend.
I'm so glad Zach is both willing and able.
Should've added this exchange:
"Wait, I'm pretty sure what you just said is not even a word, I think you just made that word up to score political points or something, you can't just go around making words up!"
"Uh, aren't ALL words just made up?"
"..."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"Good point, moving on."
This is one of many great videos that leads to a great break in to one of the best sponsorship ad when it’s placed into a video! Why can’t more UA-camrs do something more like this!? 😂
I want the Zach Star Dictionary
Zach saying “I can say anything I want” was lowkey a flex to a lot of other countries, I paused the video to point that out, back to it
He mystified the word mystify 😮😂
Thank you, Dick and Tionary………… you’re the HEROES that we never knew that we needed…………… ❤
Bro have you seen the revamp done by Ford and Ox?
Interesting history lesson on the origin of the dictionary
Love your content keep up the great work
So many good jokes here. This is probably my new go-to video if I were to recommend this channel to someone.
i think it's important to note just how many definitions for "a" there are. in the mirriam webster dictionary, there's 13 different sections and within those sections are 18 abbreviations, 5 prefixes, 1 suffix, 1 combining form (basically a prefix or suffix, but in the middle of the word), 3 prepositions, 4 indefinite articles (as well as a sub-sub-category with 9 variations), and 7 ways for it to be a noun.
edit: there's also a whole thing on a vs an but that isnt counted as one of the 13 sections
I love the blank stare and "What?". Such a Zach Star classic!
The pen drop was an excellent reference LMAO!
Should have had a section at the end where the guy writing it all down says, "Well, that's the dictionary done but honestly I have some qualms." "Like what?" "Some of these spellings dude. Like 'colour'? Why is there a 'u'?" "Then go make your own damn dictionary Webster!" "Alright Oxford."
best definition from an old polish dictionary: "Horse" - everyone knows what a horse is
The first ever dictionary defined a horse as everyone knows what a horse is
So much work was put on this one!
I love how he shows his small vocabulary by picking similar words😂
"Sybaritic! Definition: You say this, you're probably a douchebag! 'Cause who the FUCK knows what that means!"
It is a word used to describe someone who excessively seeks luxurious things and pleasures or to describe a luxurious lifestyle. The sybaritic lifestyle of the supreme leader causes all of his people to suffer from poverty.
Gets sued, goes to prison.
mystifying
Next up, "The guy who invented sarcasm" 😂
I'd genuinly buy this dictionary
pretty funny idea. It would be pretty the same if u make the situation of google Street view:
like they have to drive at every street in the world. Just an idea for u
In Poland there's a pretty famous case of a dude called Benedict Chmielowski - who decided to write an encyclopedia, which for the most part was exactly on the level of this skit.
It's been hundreds of years, yet to this day people are having a laugh at : "Horse - as it is, everyone sees." My phone actually auto suggested the phrase
I would have liked guetapaw (?) to appear somewhere in there.
You just activated one of my neurons from high school in like 2017 😂
@@yellowwinner1 How ist that?:-)
get a pen
@@zahhym no it’s from his spelling contest video.
@@ascanius398 ik just pointing out w instead of n
I feel like the definition of left is what led Zach to make this video
So Babel will keep you out of jail, but if you're IN jail will it teach you prison slang?
I just checked my dictionary to make sure it has an entry for dictionary. Who the hell goes to a dictionary to find out what a dictionary is?
Greatest ad slide in ever. Genuinely did not see it coming at all.
Him making words mean anything he wants because their just words and he can is actually half the secret to how the news channels are still around
Zygomatic is a chill word
Honestly this video finally helped me understand where weat is
i’m mildly humoured by the implication that there’s a book with every word without the definition
As a big Babbel fan, I was frothing for the ad intro in this vid. Zach’s segways are always lit. 🔥 👍
Your left is apparently not your left if your facing north upside down
The "Left" one is interesting because there are languages with absolute directions and you use North, East, West, and South to say which direction you're talking about. Yes, it'll be difficult to communicate if they don't know where North is. Tom Scott made a video about it in his linguistic series.
Hilarious how describing something simple is the most complicated task 😮
I love how you showed a screenshot of the definition of left, because no one would believe you that that's the real definition otherwise
Eugh I remember my 6th grade English teacher LOVED verisimilitude. Like she expected us all to use it regularly. Hated it. I hope she's doing well.
The left definition killed me 😭😭🤣🤣
A is just an indefinite article before nouns or descriptors unless they start with a hard vowel, with the exception to an being soft vowels.
I don't blame some people for thinking we live in a simulation, because being in a society in wich dictionaries already existed it's madness to think that someone tought of it and probably a group of people decided to include almost EVERY SINGLE DAMN WORD, it was probably made over time but still is impressive.
so, regarding "left", what if i am laying on my back, but facing North.
what if my BODY is aimed East, but i am FACING North. does that definition hold up?
I love the fact that it's not even mentioned how they got the full alphabetical list of all words they don't even know the definitions of
Truly an historic event worth a thousand words (in alphabetical order)
Something I always found strange was just how late in history it took for someone to come up with the dictionary.
This is incredibly creative in so many ways.
Fun fact, one of the first dictionaries definition of a horse was ‘everyone knows what a horse is’
Can't wait for Dictionary 2 to drop
A "Blarney" was hilarious.
Disappointed my favorite word, “Rigamarole” didn’t make an appearance.
7:30 not the AI generated picture 💀😭
there was a movie about people writing a dictionary. it's ridiculously difficult, main character got mad or something