I'm just (re-)discovering this channel and going back to all of the missed episodes over the past year. Each one is a full meal, though! I really do enjoy it.
I found this channel because it was quoted in an email. Despite the fact I spent a lot of time researching English words on RUclips, it was never suggested by RUclips. The reason that this channel doesn't have over a million followers is because, for some reason, RUclips refuses to promote it. Proof? I have hit the bell but RUclips frequently does not tell me of new posts.
And when they aren't, history tends to portray them as such, because historians (especially before the advent of modern historian's ideals) tended to demonize figures who didn't fit in with cultural norms...which for most of Western history included women who did much of anything.
I love this video. Suggestion for a video - on etymology itself. When did the study of words become a thing. Is this a 20th century phenomenon? Is there such of a thing as ancient etymological writings?
I know there was some ancient BS etymological philosophy, an attempt to derive etymology in a vacuum and derive greater meaning from that. It only resembled modern etymology in that one of its steps was saying "This is what word X means," but that's still close enough to deserve brief mention.
@@NancyTroutman Well, no. First off, there was some logic behind it; people name words after things that matter to the word. Second, this was back before we had linguistics or millennia of written records to study, so they had an excuse not to know better. Finally, the Greeks and many of their cultural students were just into _ex nihilo_ philosophical conclusions about the physical world; the importance of empirical evidence wasn't nearly so undeniable.
Aristotle: *is widely regarded as a prominent philosopher
also Aristotle: *hard bottom for a dominatrix
Which wouldn't be a contradiction if the story wasn't meant to show how stupid it is to let women gain power over you.
"I warned you I would quench your thirst for blood, and so I shall"
*Top 10 Most Powerful Quotes in History
I'm just (re-)discovering this channel and going back to all of the missed episodes over the past year. Each one is a full meal, though! I really do enjoy it.
Welcome back!
This channel deserves more viewers. You do a great work here.
Thank you!
I found this channel because it was quoted in an email. Despite the fact I spent a lot of time researching English words on RUclips, it was never suggested by RUclips. The reason that this channel doesn't have over a million followers is because, for some reason, RUclips refuses to promote it. Proof? I have hit the bell but RUclips frequently does not tell me of new posts.
Do more on powerful women, sometime. Preferably not quite as violent and bloodthirsty, although we tend to have to be, to be heard...
And when they aren't, history tends to portray them as such, because historians (especially before the advent of modern historian's ideals) tended to demonize figures who didn't fit in with cultural norms...which for most of Western history included women who did much of anything.
I love this video. Suggestion for a video - on etymology itself. When did the study of words become a thing. Is this a 20th century phenomenon? Is there such of a thing as ancient etymological writings?
As it happens, we’ve done that-at least in part: ruclips.net/video/uAelIs0pNUY/видео.html
I know there was some ancient BS etymological philosophy, an attempt to derive etymology in a vacuum and derive greater meaning from that. It only resembled modern etymology in that one of its steps was saying "This is what word X means," but that's still close enough to deserve brief mention.
@@timothymclean Sort of like deriving hidden meanings from numbers?
@@NancyTroutman Well, no. First off, there was some logic behind it; people name words after things that matter to the word. Second, this was back before we had linguistics or millennia of written records to study, so they had an excuse not to know better. Finally, the Greeks and many of their cultural students were just into _ex nihilo_ philosophical conclusions about the physical world; the importance of empirical evidence wasn't nearly so undeniable.
Oh wow, RUclips formatting doesn't like starting a paragraph with characters that are aligned differently than the rest of the paragraph's characters.