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Talk about Seychelles! So much there! The stone of possesion, the multiple coup attempts... including the one wear South African special forces came disguised as a Rugby team but never made it out of the airport, having to hijack a plane home 😂
Hayden Perrine wait no 100 years you would be making something like 150k that’s possible R u homeless cuz that’s 375 a year *still more than I have* lol
@@hobbswindrod ur off by a factor of 10, 150 mil over 100 years would be 1.5 mil a year, ur thinking 1000. In this context 4000 years isn't actually too far off
One of my teachers told us a similar story about a coding job he had. Him and a coworker were designing something fun for themselves, independent of work. They showed it to their boss, and he asked them if they could pitch it to one of the higher-ups in the company. They agreed, but their boss would be the one to give the presentation. The boss had a history of taking others ideas for his own, so they changed it a bit if they weren’t the ones to present. The gave a bugged version to their boss, with a singular semicolon missing. It broke the whole code, and the boss couldn’t do the presentation for “his” idea. My teacher quit a while after, and I believe they still have the code
the best one is this: ";". sprinkle a few of these bad boys into someone's code, and they will start crying very quickly. you might think, "whats the big deal, its just a semicolon". well, no, ; is different to ; . One is a greek question mark, the other is a semicolon. have fun
Matthew Shaw fuck You mean there’s two in programming? I’m learning JavaScript right now and more often than not, I’m always forget one stupid character
@@Joonbhee Homoglyphs (characters that look like other characters) are a bane of parsers, security experts, and programmers. The Greek question mark is a classic example, but there are others. An en-dash can, depending on the font, look very similar to a hyphen. There are any number of dots in Unicode. And of course you can do all kinds of fun things with whitespace (look up JSON, intended to be a javascript subset, but actually not because of some Unicode whitespace characters).
2:58 "The cost of the mistake only 150,000,000 dollars,that's more than an american makes a year". Yeah i only make about 100,000,000 million a year, you got me there mate.
@@LassBisharp Neither is incorrect, but the first is treating the nouns as a list of three, while the second suggests that Mary and God are his parents.
@Fmono • 38 years ago • Updated it is a joke because it's exagerrated (like, way over the top). No regular American would make even close to $100 thousand dollars a year, especially after taxes.
@@AkariInskoim gonna be honest with you, whenever I made this comment I have no idea what I was thinking because this makes zero sense to the video so uh
One time in the future, there will be an article that Jeff Besos is now bankrupt, BUT it was Jef Bezo.this will cause Amazon to burn down again and Amazon lo rapidly start loosing money.
Rendezvous On Memory Lane A mean is the total divided by the sample size, it’s literally an average. A median is a measure of how much a person in the middle of the spectrum is making.
@MrMarmalad also counting millionars is important.here's some potentially wrong head math.there's like 800 billionaire in the us and if we say they average at like 5 bill per that's 4 trillion added ,there's about 400 mil people so that's a added 10k to the networth of ye average person,which is far off how much income they may have extra of so doing the math yah your right lol.did the math while writing
A bit more than just a missing comma, but Arkansas had a similar issue with one of their laws in 1945. § 8 of “An Act to Authorize and Permit Cities of First and Second Class and Incorporated Towns to Vacate Public Streets and Alleys in the Public Interest” stated that "All laws and parts of laws, and particularly Act 311 of the Acts of 1941, are hereby repealed.” By a strict reading of this law, all other laws of Arkansas were repealed. The state supreme court eventually ruled on it and clarified that: "No doubt the legislature meant to repeal all laws in conflict with that act, and, by error of the author or the typist, left out the usual words ‘in conflict herewith,’ which we will imply by necessary construction.”
Got into an argument with another engineer over the need for an Oxford Comma, and he just didn't get it. I rephrased it as a SQL expression, and it made perfect sense to him and he used them forever afterward. So, there's an option: teach SQL/T-SQL before English in school!
Both Taylor and Son, and Taylor and Sons were never "Inc." as this is a US term ... PLC, or Ltd is the UK equivalent ... so the Logo is neither companies...
Felixkeeg depends where you are from, if an African, the first would be grammatically correct, while the second will be grammatically wrong, since there is no food and if there is you wouldn't share it would you? While for other people, the second one is grammatically correct.
This is why i use Grammarly. Grammarly is an extension to chrome that lets you know when you make a mistake. When Grammarly detects a mistake it will give you either a fix and tell you what is wrong or an alternative word. What makes Grammarly also so great is that it is an entirely free extension. Now Grammarly is paring up and is in beta with Google Docs. so that your grammar mistakes will go away. Use Grammarly today to sound so professional, your piers won’t believe it.
@@mikatu So that's why that rule is moronic. It's one of those rule the U.S. came up with, probably just to be different. Good thing I've never followed it because I prefer clarity over arbitrary rules.
@@timoteorider1697 You do realise that he didn't say otherwise, and that your comment doesn't do anything but add unessesary explanation to a good point.
German law actually contains stuff like "if you fulfill condition A *and* fulfill condition B", where the interpretation by courts is "if you fulfill condition A *or* if you fulfill condition B". That's why lawyers have to study years.
My publisher removed my Oxford commas from my history book, very upset since it changes the context of things but I wasn't allowed to go back and change things.
"$150'000'000. That's more than the average American makes in a year." I literally laughed until I had tears in my eyes. Instant sub with a little bell as well (third channel I've ever clicked the bell). Keep up the more than average work!
Guys... I'm sorry I spoke too soon. With Biden in office it appears that $1'5,0'0,0'0,0'0,0'.0.0 per year might be a possibility. Thank you mister a̶l̶z̶h̶e̶i̶m̶e̶r̶'̶s̶ president for fearlessly showing the world that it is okay to kiss your granddaughter on the lips, to boldly sniff things that should never be sniffed, and to demonstrate how imploding your own economy is somehow a good thing. God bless America! (And thank f*ck I don't live there!)
The capital J in Jack is the important part. It's the difference between a noun and a verb. The comma in the first example is misplaced because it splits a single clause.
In Ireland, where the national language (therefore all legal language) is Irish, but almost all people speak English as a first language, had a similar mistake. After the Irish public voted to legalize same sex marriages, the wording of the law (which was in Irish and therefore went under the radar) technically legalized same sex marriage, but outlawed heterosexual marriages. It resulted in a scramble to fix the huge legal issue. We also accidentally legalized recreational drugs for one day.
This reminds me of an old programmer joke. So i went to the store, while there my wife texted me: "bring a gallon of milk and if they have apples, bring 5" I grabed a gallon of milk, passed by the produce section saw they had apples so i turned around and picked 4 more gallons of milk.
This is why grammar and spelling matters. So many people get it wrong and, if you point it out, you're insulted and told it doesn't matter. It DOES matter. It can be the difference in getting a job or not, a decent mark in an exam, it can affect your salary and your opportunities. If you know how to use your language properly, you will reap huge benefits.
5:07 is it me or why does it seem so predictable when exactly the “promotion” stuff begins to happen? This time it was a little more subtle, as it usually seems to transition from the video content to “But what if you could ? With , you get free months of .”
True Story: When I bought my house I was a little short on the closing costs. The seller who was getting $28k for the house agreed to pay up to $2000 in closing costs to the bank to make sure the deal went through. In the end all the closing costs had been paid, however the document did not say "The seller agrees to pay up to $2000" instead it was typed "The seller agrees to pay $2000". So the day I got my house, I also got a $2000 check from the person I sold it to. Even though I paid 28k, I got 2k back. Which was nice because I had to fix a lot of things in the house. Bank error in your favor, receive $2000.
its interesting how in English, sometimes punctuation makes the meaning different (which wouldnt be heard in spoken language), and sometimes tone/emphasis makes it different (which cant be signaled in written language - except for italic or underlining)
The Oxford comma is only optional if you don't care about getting any consistent meaning accross to your readers. So basically anyone who cares enough to use any commas must use the Oxford comma where applicable
Another example is Decca's accidental use of a comma in the title of The Rolling Stones song 'Paint it Black', they printed it as 'Paint it, Black' which is incorrect. Although a seemingly harmless mistake, it caused quite the controversy over a possible racial interpretation. In future printings, the title was changed to the grammatically correct print.
I feel very bad for Taylor & Sons, they bankrupted because of someone who couldn't spell the company name. Hope they have another business & who made the mispelling is unemployed for a WHILE.
How things can change all of these sentences have different meanings: "I" didn't say he stole my bag I DIDN'T say he stole my bag I didn't SAY he stole my bag I didn't say HE stole my bag I didn't say he STOLE my bag I didn't say he stole MY bag I didn't say he stole my BAG
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Talk about Seychelles! So much there! The stone of possesion, the multiple coup attempts... including the one wear South African special forces came disguised as a Rugby team but never made it out of the airport, having to hijack a plane home 😂
"$150 million - that's more than the average American makes in a year"
Why yes. Yes it is.
I was looking for this Comment
I'm with this guy!
@@MovedErmOk is that not less than 150m?
@@detectiveafterdeath595 They might've responded to @Corey Fisher
MrFoxyDev uh. that means the average American makes like 440k a year.
imagine if this was a grammarly sponsor instead of brilliant
Grammarly spreads like a disease more than the actual UA-cam video sponsoring, so no please
@@IABITVpresents stop the grammarly invasion
@@kalifern Ikr, it's seems like it's getting worse.
That would have been *brilliant*
IABI TV bruh you hate grammarly more than raid?
2:55 *"150 Million dollars, thats more than the average American makes in a year"*
Ah yes, the floor is made out of floor.
jjekess he shoulda said 10 years or 100 years lol
@@hobbswindrod or 4000 years bud.
Hayden Perrine yeah lol
Hayden Perrine wait no 100 years you would be making something like 150k that’s possible
R u homeless cuz that’s 375 a year
*still more than I have* lol
@@hobbswindrod ur off by a factor of 10, 150 mil over 100 years would be 1.5 mil a year, ur thinking 1000. In this context 4000 years isn't actually too far off
comma can literally change the whole meaning of sentence... For ex:
-Ben is in hurry
-Ben is in comma
Lol lmao
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roflolmao
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4:06 That is the single most disgusting stock footage I’ve ever seen in my life.
Everyone one talking about the 150,000,000$ but no one ☝️ s talking about this
Lmao... I was thinking about that
small text: lol who is this stock footage even for? - The Animator
glub
why are people so sensitive about the human anatomy i can just see a naked beating heart and wont be disgusted lmao
One of my teachers told us a similar story about a coding job he had. Him and a coworker were designing something fun for themselves, independent of work. They showed it to their boss, and he asked them if they could pitch it to one of the higher-ups in the company. They agreed, but their boss would be the one to give the presentation. The boss had a history of taking others ideas for his own, so they changed it a bit if they weren’t the ones to present. The gave a bugged version to their boss, with a singular semicolon missing. It broke the whole code, and the boss couldn’t do the presentation for “his” idea. My teacher quit a while after, and I believe they still have the code
I love your deadpan jokes of technically accurate facts. $150,000,000, "more than the average American makes in a year."
Me too
I think its a shit example to compare the scale of money lost.
Paused it immediately and thought: "Well, you're not wrong.."
I thought he would say a lifetime
@@tomcuzick6520 its a joke my dude
Who are these losers making less than $150,000,000/year?
They are what is known as "average", normies, if you will. It is the modern vernacular to refer to "poor people".
Me
@@OmniscientWarrior or the posh way of saying (worthless piece of peasent
Stupid peasants. Lol
*sips from golden goblet*
What uneducated, peasants, let me sip from my S U P R E M E S H O W E R C U R T A I N
The Panda eats shoots and leaves.
The Panda eats, shoots, and leaves.
Haha!
Lol
The Panda eats shoots, and leaves.
The panda shoots the leaves in Vietnam
Even today any software developer can tell you that a single wrong character can completely break everything.
the best one is this: ";". sprinkle a few of these bad boys into someone's code, and they will start crying very quickly. you might think, "whats the big deal, its just a semicolon". well, no, ; is different to ; . One is a greek question mark, the other is a semicolon. have fun
@@amyshaw893 you sir.. are no human.. you are the devil incarnate, a demon in the flesh.
Matthew Shaw fuck You mean there’s two in programming?
I’m learning JavaScript right now and more often than not, I’m always forget one stupid character
@@Joonbhee Homoglyphs (characters that look like other characters) are a bane of parsers, security experts, and programmers. The Greek question mark is a classic example, but there are others. An en-dash can, depending on the font, look very similar to a hyphen. There are any number of dots in Unicode. And of course you can do all kinds of fun things with whitespace (look up JSON, intended to be a javascript subset, but actually not because of some Unicode whitespace characters).
Matthew Shaw Da heck is that
You've officially scared me good
2:58 "The cost of the mistake only 150,000,000 dollars,that's more than an american makes a year".
Yeah i only make about 100,000,000 million a year, you got me there mate.
Hire me!
Oof
Avilés i think he meant to say in there life, cause of this simple mistake he lost all of his audience that makes under 150 million dollars
100,000,000 million? Wow! That's 100 trillion dollars a year ;)
definitely an intended joke
"I dedicate this book to my parents, Mary, and God."
"I dedicate this book to my parents, Mary and God."
- The Oxford Comma: Never Optional
I dedicqte this book to my parents: mary and God. it needs a colon.
@@Sophhiiaa_ Actually, no; in that case the comma isn't _optional;_ it's outright incorrect if present.
If you need an Oxford comma, your style is probably crap.
I know that the second sentence is grammatically incorrect, but why is it incorrect?
@@LassBisharp Neither is incorrect, but the first is treating the nouns as a list of three, while the second suggests that Mary and God are his parents.
The smallest oopsies have the biggest consequences
One torn condom and i've had to suffer through 23 years of existence so far
@@liamwalton4183 You think you have it bad? Imagine how your parents must feel!
THERE WIPL BE CONSEQUENCES
That's how your dad and mom feel.
Like you are when the condom busted
Everyone's talking about "more than an average American makes in a year" but nobody is talking about the fact he said "example number C" right after
I fucking love his deliberate dry humor, it's so casual you would think it is an error
I'm sure it's a joke. I think it's also a recurring joke on SousVideEverything, a niche cooking channel.
Sebach82 finally someone who knows SVE 😍😍😍
I still didn't get it.....Pls explain.....What is example C
@@umangarya "number C"
Comma's can change a lot,
example:
Time to eat, children!
*Time to eat children*
Ms peregrins peculiar children?
@EnchantingEcho
*oh, okay*
@EnchantingEcho *-oh so you want to eat kids-*
Let's eat, grandma!
*L e t 's e a t g r a n d m a*
@@arty217 Nooooo, not grandma! She makes the best cookies!!
$150,000,000, the average American doesn’t make it....
YOU DONT SAYYY
@Fmono • 38 years ago • Updated it is a joke because it's exagerrated (like, way over the top). No regular American would make even close to $100 thousand dollars a year, especially after taxes.
R3Volt. 100K is high pay? My dad make 419K after tax last year.
bout to say XD it's more like "That's more than the average American makes in multiple lifetimes"
he meant to say lifetime
The average human doesn't make that much
“Commas are important people!”
“Commas aren’t people.”
Haha!
Good one
I forgot what Twitter thingy you took it from? What's the original place that is from?
LoL 😂
Nice one
Correct comma
Commas are important,people!
my mom told me not to worry about little things
now look where we are
losing millions
But this is about law
@@AkariInskoim gonna be honest with you, whenever I made this comment I have no idea what I was thinking because this makes zero sense to the video so uh
nevermind I actually read it properly I missed a word
tismu why is it always a mom
One time in the future, there will be an article that Jeff Besos is now bankrupt, BUT it was Jef Bezo.this will cause Amazon to burn down again and Amazon lo rapidly start loosing money.
English Teachers: _i gave my student an f for a missing comma_
Hello Kremit
Then I gave the English teacher an "F" for using a lower case "i", failure to use quotation marks around "f", and ending without a period.
So the teacher was paying respects to the student?
OmniscientWarrior then I gave you an “,F,.”
@@PorkchopGMX You can keep it as it looks like you will need it for the misuse of the commas.
"$150,000,000, that's more than the average American makes a year"
Average American salary: $50,000
That's a bit much don't you think. That's a mean not a median. The average american makes quite a bit less.
Rendezvous On Memory Lane A mean is the total divided by the sample size, it’s literally an average. A median is a measure of how much a person in the middle of the spectrum is making.
@@rendezvousonmemorylane the average American actually makes more
I'm pretty sure that 90% of Americans make less than that,but then bill gates and other billionaires just add a lot lol
@MrMarmalad also counting millionars is important.here's some potentially wrong head math.there's like 800 billionaire in the us and if we say they average at like 5 bill per that's 4 trillion added ,there's about 400 mil people so that's a added 10k to the networth of ye average person,which is far off how much income they may have extra of so doing the math yah your right lol.did the math while writing
Honestly, I learnt multivariable calculus before I learnt how to use commas properly.
It honestly seems so much more simpler than English grammar.
@@mygl4490 I feel like the English language has more rules, than what we classify as the laws of physics.
@Mike Jameson, I see what you did there...
Multivariable calculus? Is there single variable calculus? Lol
@Winston Mcgee You certainly cared enough to comment
Fact: *$150,000,000 is more than the average American makes in a year*
Good thing I'm not average!
or American
150 times more than the average american makes in a year
@@wibbleshnautz Ah yes because the average American makes $1 million a year...
Probably a life time instead
@@CheeseyMilkshakes 😂😂😂
And that is why, i use commas in phrases that, really, dont need any
nice
Doesn't use any periods either
athenathechess, cub, I, agree, I, also, use, commas, every, time,.
Are you out of breath?
I'm not a native speaker, but isn't it completely incorrect to put that comma in "...why, i use..."?
Woah, $150,000,000 is more than the average American makes in a year!? 2:56
I ran the numbers and it is indeed true. In fact there is no country where the average citizen makes 150 million a year. Pretty shocking fact I'd say.
It's like saying that $30,000 is more than the average cost of a can of soup.
@@benjiwyatt8812 If thats so, then I gotta go have a talk with my local grocery store.. They've been ripping off my community for years!
I didnt know about that!, how shocking !
I expected him to say in a lifetime
Notable example: I love cooking, my family, and my friends.
See? I accidentally added two commas which completely changed the sentence.
Jmandawgfan - "This book is dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand and God."
Let's eat,honey
See i added a comma by mistake
Oof
That's big, oof
See? I accidentally added a comma which makes no difference at all.
I want to die today
I want to die, today
No difference.
"$150 million dollars. That's more than most Americans make in a year."
PERCEPTION 100
I chortled. Thanks asshole
"Hold my beer" -The Federal Reserve
"That's more than an American makes in a year."
THAT is how you future proof your video from inflation.
A bit more than just a missing comma, but Arkansas had a similar issue with one of their laws in 1945. § 8 of “An Act to Authorize and Permit Cities of First and Second Class and Incorporated Towns to Vacate Public Streets and Alleys in the Public Interest” stated that "All laws and parts of laws, and particularly Act 311 of the Acts of 1941, are hereby repealed.”
By a strict reading of this law, all other laws of Arkansas were repealed. The state supreme court eventually ruled on it and clarified that: "No doubt the legislature meant to repeal all laws in conflict with that act, and, by error of the author or the typist, left out the usual words ‘in conflict herewith,’ which we will imply by necessary construction.”
if you ever feel like you messed up badly, just remember someone sunk a $3 billion dollar submarine because they forgot to close the hatch
I'm pretty sure all submarines sink. It's just that sometimes, it's because something went wrong.
@@suomeaboosome implode...
At first I thought this was recent but 3 years ago…
@@suomeaboo all submarines sink, but some don't come back up
The Oxford comma is lovely, un-intrusive, and absolutely essential.
*The Oxford comma is ugly, intrusive and absolutely nonessential.
@@spelcheak Correct punctuation: is over rated?
Darn it you spoiled the video
@@spelcheak Rebecca, my mother and my gardener...
Rebecca, my mother, and my gardener...
Do you see the difference?
@@spelcheak Your face is intrusive, ugly, and nonessential you non-believer in the Oxford comma!
Lol 😂
Got into an argument with another engineer over the need for an Oxford Comma, and he just didn't get it. I rephrased it as a SQL expression, and it made perfect sense to him and he used them forever afterward. So, there's an option: teach SQL/T-SQL before English in school!
"when it's a family business, it's not child labor it's chores" lmao xD
And that is why kids in family businesses usually don't get paid.
My mom paid me anyway. She’s awesome.
My dad also paid me 🤟
My uncle also does business with me from behind. But he doesn't pay me.
@@ZackMathissa Uhh...
I was sure this video was going to be sponsored by grammarly
You forgot the punctuation at the end of the sentence.
Should have got grammaly
@@SilveraroShow "Should have got grammaly"
"[$150,000,000 is] more than the average American makes in a year."
I mean, you're not wrong.
Deadpan at its finest
Every 60 seconds in Africa a minute passes
Alternative title: "How a Missing Comma forced a Company to pay their workers a fairer wage"
Nonce
How a missing full stop in a test costs your break time in school
Vsauce Puppet lol!!
USSR anthem not loud enough, disliked.
Agreed, comrad.
Agreed. The greatest anthem of all time.
@@habermanmusic Agreed, conrad.
Agreed, COMMA
Agreed, Comrade
Me: You’re so rude!
Sibling: Name 1 time I was rude to you.
Me: 0:18
Fierce LC 69th like
LMAO
"That's more than the average American makes in a year" 😂 This channel is educational and comedy gold.
Gold? Damn that's a low standard.
If you don’t got good grammar don’t be writing legal documentations because these require specificionment
Name
Seems like you’re talking from experience
That was the joke
Haha! I also watched the first 30 seconds of the video!
Grammar Police Reject Haha! I also know what a quote is!
Both Taylor and Son, and Taylor and Sons were never "Inc." as this is a US term ... PLC, or Ltd is the UK equivalent ... so the Logo is neither companies...
"Let's eat kids" and "Let's eat, kids" are two very different sentences
Felixkeeg depends where you are from, if an African, the first would be grammatically correct, while the second will be grammatically wrong, since there is no food and if there is you wouldn't share it would you? While for other people, the second one is grammatically correct.
Nicodemus no, just no
what if he wants to eat kids
That comma cost $5 million because it was _Supreme_
,̡̢͖̤̥͕̎̏̓͒̄ͅ
Why aren't you hired by Supreme yet? This idea of selling a comma is gonna earn them millions!
How's your representation theory doing?
Colgate
Evariste Galois why does this have nay likes
This is why i use Grammarly. Grammarly is an extension to chrome that lets you know when you make a mistake. When Grammarly detects a mistake it will give you either a fix and tell you what is wrong or an alternative word. What makes Grammarly also so great is that it is an entirely free extension. Now Grammarly is paring up and is in beta with Google Docs. so that your grammar mistakes will go away. Use Grammarly today to sound so professional, your piers won’t believe it.
I've always used a, b, and c
But then everyone, including my English teacher keep correcting it to a, b and c.
So here I am, looking at this.
oxford comma is a, b, and c. your teacher is wrong, unless she is american.
@@mikatu So that's why that rule is moronic. It's one of those rule the U.S. came up with, probably just to be different. Good thing I've never followed it because I prefer clarity over arbitrary rules.
@@timoteorider1697 You do realise that he didn't say otherwise, and that your comment doesn't do anything but add unessesary explanation to a good point.
Your english teacher was wrong even for the US. The rule is you CAN use "a, b and c" however "a, b, and c" is MORE CORRECT.
@@WildBluntHickok a, b and c is correct a, b, and c isn't
2:55 I'm going to need a source for this...
Not just punctuation but also word choice matters. “Forgive me father, for I have sinned” is a synonym for “Sorry daddy, I’ve been a bad girl.”
Jesus is technically an archaic spelling of Joshua. Christ means "the anointed one". So it's technically correct to call him Oily Josh.
Realifelore and Half as interesting upload a the same time
What does this mean? I don’t know
Coincidence? I think not
*Hotel Trivago*
Yes yes yes
Hotel trivago
Hotel Trivago - That scrawny dude on TV
You mean Hotel, Trivago? That comma will cost you $250,000 now pay up
ZLAuroraSwiper it is hotel? trivago now you should pay 1 billion get ready you poor kid XDDDDDD!
AlphaxAlex r/unexpectedtrivago
German law actually contains stuff like "if you fulfill condition A *and* fulfill condition B", where the interpretation by courts is "if you fulfill condition A *or* if you fulfill condition B". That's why lawyers have to study years.
3:02 Example number C.
*Bruh*
3 6 ß 5 C 7 0 Ə 8 4 þ 1 9
Just a reminder that C is the roman numeral for 100.
"150 Million dollars, thats more than the average American makes in a year"
*Well, you're not wrong.*
My publisher removed my Oxford commas from my history book, very upset since it changes the context of things but I wasn't allowed to go back and change things.
"$150'000'000. That's more than the average American makes in a year."
I literally laughed until I had tears in my eyes. Instant sub with a little bell as well (third channel I've ever clicked the bell). Keep up the more than average work!
Is $150'000'000 in Australian money? Is that why the commas are upside down?
So THAT'S why commas lost them money
Guys... I'm sorry I spoke too soon. With Biden in office it appears that $1'5,0'0,0'0,0'0,0'.0.0 per year might be a possibility. Thank you mister a̶l̶z̶h̶e̶i̶m̶e̶r̶'̶s̶ president for fearlessly showing the world that it is okay to kiss your granddaughter on the lips, to boldly sniff things that should never be sniffed, and to demonstrate how imploding your own economy is somehow a good thing. God bless America! (And thank f*ck I don't live there!)
Punctuation.... The difference between - Helping my Uncle Jack, off the horse; and - Helping my Uncle jack off the horse...
Say 'from' instead of 'off' and there's no worries :)
@@stevenandrews3891 Helping my Uncle Jack from the horse? What does that even mean?
@@haykalhakeem4473 that you are helping your uncle Jack come down from the horse..
The capital J in Jack is the important part. It's the difference between a noun and a verb. The comma in the first example is misplaced because it splits a single clause.
In Ireland, where the national language (therefore all legal language) is Irish, but almost all people speak English as a first language, had a similar mistake. After the Irish public voted to legalize same sex marriages, the wording of the law (which was in Irish and therefore went under the radar) technically legalized same sex marriage, but outlawed heterosexual marriages. It resulted in a scramble to fix the huge legal issue. We also accidentally legalized recreational drugs for one day.
as a mainer, yes its confusing, yes people have been sued.
Imagine if they'd left out the first "r" in subsection C, just above (0:39). There would have been a lot more exemptions.
Paul Kennedy oui oui
Reminds me of "Let's eat, Grandma!"
This reminds me of an old programmer joke.
So i went to the store, while there my wife texted me:
"bring a gallon of milk and if they have apples, bring 5"
I grabed a gallon of milk, passed by the produce section saw they had apples so i turned around and picked 4 more gallons of milk.
"while you're there, get eggs"
He never returned.
@@renakunisaki He is infinitely grabbing more and more eggs, currently holding 23,000 dozen eggs. sorry, 24,000
RealLifeLore and Half As Interesting always upload at the same time nowadays. I smell an anti-Wendover conspiracy.
Wendover and Half As Interesting are owned by the same guy i think,one guy 2 Channels
@@edinpok5481 Welcome to the joke. r/wooosh
My English tutor genuinely despises the oxford comma.
And me.
I hate oxford comas too! My friend is still in an oxford coma, he's been in one for 3 years.
Thomas Bob I meant comma! 😂
I hate the absence of an Oxford comma ..I really don't understand what is with you people
Well you're all objectively wrong.
Company: *Forgets Comma*
5 Million Dollars: Adios.
This is not Half as Interesting, it is Twice as Interesting!
it's also a play on BBC's QI so it's a joke within a joke within a joke
My comma has cost just a small loan of a million dollars.
How to properly clean your metal computer hi new Justin y
Now that’s a lot of -damage- Money
Here's a free one
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I'm running you put of business boy
Lol here ,,,,,,,,,,,,,
You are Great Value Brand "Justin.Y".
This is why grammar and spelling matters. So many people get it wrong and, if you point it out, you're insulted and told it doesn't matter. It DOES matter. It can be the difference in getting a job or not, a decent mark in an exam, it can affect your salary and your opportunities. If you know how to use your language properly, you will reap huge benefits.
I am so happy that you referenced that "Nathan For You" episode.
well i guess those people
*DID AN OOPSIE*
well, I guess those people*
dont wanna get sued, do you?
"punish him, not forgive him"
"punish him not, forgive him"
The way you transition to the sponsor of the video is always fun to watch😂
5:07 is it me or why does it seem so predictable when exactly the “promotion” stuff begins to happen? This time it was a little more subtle, as it usually seems to transition from the video content to “But what if you could ? With , you get free months of .”
Mhm..
True Story: When I bought my house I was a little short on the closing costs. The seller who was getting $28k for the house agreed to pay up to $2000 in closing costs to the bank to make sure the deal went through. In the end all the closing costs had been paid, however the document did not say "The seller agrees to pay up to $2000" instead it was typed "The seller agrees to pay $2000". So the day I got my house, I also got a $2000 check from the person I sold it to. Even though I paid 28k, I got 2k back. Which was nice because I had to fix a lot of things in the house. Bank error in your favor, receive $2000.
4:06
Netflix: "are you still watching?"
Someone's daughter:
Yo 😂😂😂😂
There's so many Missing periods in this you owe me a million dollars
its interesting how in English, sometimes punctuation makes the meaning different (which wouldnt be heard in spoken language), and sometimes tone/emphasis makes it different (which cant be signaled in written language - except for italic or underlining)
Or *bold* !
Vaguely related fun fact: Japanese has a spoken question mark.
I work 2 jobs and am running youtube channel. If only overtime hour restriction and / or payment was a thing in my country...
Spare time G Heh, more like No Spare time G am I right?
In what shithole do you even live and what do you work as lol
If you don't want to work 2 jobs and run a youtube channel, don't. All government restrictions can do is deny you opportunity.
If you work more the 40 hours between 2 jobs in the US, you wouldn't get overtime
Spare time G Good luck, man.
*HOW A COMA COST MY FAMILY A MILLION DOLLAR*
Healthcare bills?
(STORY TIME)(GONE WRONG)(I DIED?!?!?!)* emotional *
Sounds like an ACTUALLY HAPPENED title
Bob Something lmao
The Oxford comma is only optional if you don't care about getting any consistent meaning accross to your readers.
So basically anyone who cares enough to use any commas must use the Oxford comma where applicable
Finally, a video that I can send people when they say that you don't need the Oxford Comma
“The comma that turned my family novel into a horror.”
Let’s eat, kids
Let’s eat kids
Another example is Decca's accidental use of a comma in the title of The Rolling Stones song 'Paint it Black', they printed it as 'Paint it, Black' which is incorrect. Although a seemingly harmless mistake, it caused quite the controversy over a possible racial interpretation. In future printings, the title was changed to the grammatically correct print.
*"150 Million dollars, thats more than the average American makes in a year"*
I mean he isn't wrong
I wrote a history book with the oxford comma but the publisher removed it without telling me. Somewhat annoyed as this changed things.
The Maine court is gonna be having a field day after this one 😂
Always fun hearing how he’s gonna link the topic to brilliant.
She told him she loved him.
Put only between any words
“Cost them 150 Million Dollars. That’s more then the average American makes in a year” that’s why I love this channel
That's a pretty expensive comma,
truly MadLad
It reminds me of that one time in 1989 when an airplane got lost and eventually crashed in the Amazon because of a missing dot
Grammar teachers: Heavy breathing
I feel very bad for Taylor & Sons, they bankrupted because of someone who couldn't spell the company name. Hope they have another business & who made the mispelling is unemployed for a WHILE.
I got a Grammarly ad before watching this video.
Remember: a comma is the only thing standing between "Let's eat, Grandma," and "Let's eat Grandma."
How things can change all of these sentences have different meanings:
"I" didn't say he stole my bag
I DIDN'T say he stole my bag
I didn't SAY he stole my bag
I didn't say HE stole my bag
I didn't say he STOLE my bag
I didn't say he stole MY bag
I didn't say he stole my BAG
I didn’t say he stole MY bag
@@nathantavares9053 Thank you'
I DIDNT SAY HE STOLE MY BAG!! GODDAMN IT!
3:00 great comparison right?? 🤦♂️
You’re right, the average American only makes 149 million dollars a year which would make it a great comparison
Actually the lack of a comma there means that "this section does not apply to [either this group of thing] or [this one thing].
The cost of this transcription mistake: $150,000,000.
That's more than an average American makes in a year
😂
You cracked me up there :p
Liked the video simply for the Oxford comma.
It's a shame people are this dumb.
@@spelcheak especially you.
Don't take this personally I'm joking.
why? it's not grammatically accurate
"Ready to go back into the mines kiddos?" LMAOOOOOOOO
Long live the Oxford comma!
I always use it where necessary.
4:07 I'm pretty sure I've seen similar on Pornhub