Mmm, yeah... I've actually never had a chom chom split but I really want to try one. You know what I have had though? Chom choms with Nutella. Sooo good...
We're all literally dying of hunger. There is no cure. If the treatment isn't given often enough, it will eventually kill us. Most who use the phrase aren't particularly close to that point, but most people have less than a month to live unless fed.
LOL. I remember once a guy invited me over to "netflix and chill" and I was like "Yeah! The new season of dr who is out!" Then he didn't want to netflix, and was not chill about it. I was very disappointed.
I'm autistic; I have to pay attention to every single word I say, mostly because I actually want to make sure the concepts in my head get conveyed properly, but more promptly because all the analysis you talked about, that's normally done relatively subconsciously, has to be done manually with us aspies (to varying degrees)
When I was in my late teens and early 20s, "Netflix and chill," was called "staying in and watching movies." I've seen the beginning of several films but have no idea how any of them end.
"I'm literally dying of hunger" Is a double hyperbole, hyperbolising the already hyperbolic "I'm dying of hunger" by adding the word "literally" hyperbolically as opposed to the usual anti-hyperbolic use of "literally" This is due to the feeling that hyperbole is so common that it doesn't get the intended point across as well as it may once have.
Interesting perspective! How long does it take to add a new layer of hyperbolicicity? When would we get to something like, "Seriously, i really am literally dying of hunger! No joke!"?
As with anything in language, it merely requires ppl to start doing it. All language "fads" started with someone deciding to say bae or what have you. This would most likely come about in a young generation attempting to differentiate themselves from their priors. We may see in a future generation such a trend pop up, although what is more likely would be a dropping of literally, or possibly the shortening of it.
He already does via drone program. He will crash a weading in the middle east by shooting a missile at it in the hopes of hitting the one target within the crowd of 100 civilians or so.
Thanks for having uttered a sentence which enriched my ever-growing, English-learner vocabulary with two novel words, the words being verbiage and vicissitude.
Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
It was because of her "huge tracks of land". I know yours was a princes bride quote and mine is monty python, but I always think of one and then the other.
I'm so happy someone finally talked about Grove!!!!!! I noticed Hank neglected to suggest reading in this area. an oversight, I'm sure. (He also presumed the saying/meaning distinction, but we can talk about that later.) Grice's posthumously printed collection 'Studies in the Ways of Words' is beyond excellent. sometimes I read it just as a pick me up. Grice's style can be difficult, but is penetrable with thought (and conversation) and effortlessly charming. For more on the particulars of this video you want to read Part 1, Chapter 1: 'Logic and Conversation'. My personal favourite essays are 'Meaning' and 'Meaning Revisited'. There's so much more to do with and talk about Grice and Studies (his disdain for the 'A-Philosophers' introduced in this video, the potential for 'be relevant', for example) but this is long enough already. please feel free to discuss studies and ask for more recs in replies to this. sincerely, an enthused doctoral student.
As a teacher I love your videos because you talk and use examples of the things that I talk in my classes, You guys help so much when I am trying to get my point across great job! Greetings from Costa Rica! :)
Well, technically you are dying of hunger, but you treat it by eating, so you can say it even if you don't write the book, you just shouldn't say your death by starvation is inminent.
because school is usually for the purpose of churning out mediocre employees instead of knowledgable people? look up democratic schools if you want, they're far superior
They are! Just higher up, we did them for ALevel English literature and language. Our teacher set us the task of applying them to the Dead Parrot Sketch in order to demonstrate how flaunting the maxims creates comedy by subverting expectations of speech. The conversation does not follow the standard set of rules for that scenario. The language is not appropriate for one talking to a stranger, it would be rude to hit a parrot on the desk of a pet shop owener. He talks too loudly and makes exaggerated statements and movements etc.
It's weird how mad people get about using "literally" to mean "really". Because, those words, literally, mean the same thing. If you're mad about millenials using literally to not mean _literally_ literally, get mad about the centuries of English speakers who have agreed that when something's "really" true, it doesn't always have to be _real_ ly "really" true.
+GelidGanef What if I want to say something is literally true, but it's something that I know will most likely be interpreted as a figure of speech? Since people sometimes use "literally" figurative that makes it complicated to try and communicate that. There's an actual functional reason why people shouldn't use "literally" figuratively.
What irks is that we're watching the language lose information in real time, due to individuals failing to pay attention to or reflect upon what they and others are saying. Yes, it's precedented, but it's more glaring in this age of increased written communication (text, email, comments, message boards). We're seeing a specific meaning being glossed as vague emphasis and repeated in ways which, in most cases, completely reverse that specific meaning. The whole process is an unnerving reminder that a lot of people are operating on very narrow linguistic and general cognitive bandwidth.
You could just say "non-figuratively". If you use it sparingly, it'll probably take decades for THAT to become a generic intensifier! This sort of thing probably happens a lot. Here's another example: As I understand it, the word "you" used to be specifically plural, with "thou" being the second person singular. But "thou" fell out of usage for some reason, thus leading eventually to the use of "you all" or "y'all" for short to specify the second person plural, as "you" was used for the second person singular as well. But... it seems that "y'all" has itself come to be used to refer to lone individuals as well, thereby obliging someone who really wants to specify the plural to use "all y'all". It would not surprise me if, within my lifetime, some people wind up using "all all y'all" without the least awareness of the irony involved in doing so..
Ive been watching this series on philosophy from episode 1 and think that anyone who has issues communicating within a family unit should watch at least 1 episode a week as a unit, then discuss the content and try apply it to their daily lives. If you choose to watch this to better your own ability to understand the world around you even better. Thanks to all involved in the making of the show!
No that rule refers to not using unnecessarily advanced words when simpler ones will do. As far as I know there is no simpler way of saying 'flouting the maxim' it's just the name for what you are doing
There's a difference between using obscure terminology when it's unnecessary, and using jargon in its appropriate context. (Can we take back "jargon"? It's too fun to say to only use it in a derisive sense!)
Most girls seem to actually want to watch netflix before AND after the implied sex in "Netflix and chill", so... i think the phrase is more honest and literal than you give it credit.
Wow. The timing of this video's release is impressive. I have a college project about the study of language in the light of Wittgenstein and John L. Austin due to next week. Either procrastination is not such a bad thing or this is a reminder that I should really, really start doing it.
Hey Hank, how about adding a "further reading" for each episode? I get that each episode is meant only as overview, not detailed discussion, so I think it will be useful to have pointers for those who'd like to read more
It seems that Philosophy is often Linguistics with Crash Course, but yeah, those sound awesome. Is Anthropology really going to be one? (Also, Law School is somewhat true with US Government and Politics.)
It's a philosophy degree, what'd you expect? It's not like he majored in English. Of course if he had, he'd still be flipping burgers. He'd just be bitching about it with grammatical accuracy.
While I haven't finished this video yet, I find this topic particularly interesting due to my difficulties with understanding what other people mean. I often take things too literally, and I do not see the hidden meaning behind phrases like netflix and chill or saying that someone has a nice personality. It makes things more difficult to communicate to others. In addition, I do not naturally follow Maxim's rules for conversation, and I did not even know these unspoken rules.
haha I once called my dad when I was a young lad and asked him how to mix a kind of sauce. When he said I should add adequate salt I figured I needed to add salt till the watery substance got the consistency I thought it should have. I remember innocently pouring a little hill of salt before mixing it out.
One thing that I thought of yesterday is the word "please." It's a concept that spans every language so far as I know, yet it doesn't actually add meaning. It's about manners and showing someone deference when making a request. Rather than conveying information, it's expressing an underlying sentiment.
for me to be clear I'm careful when I use absolute words like : always, never, love, and truth. When words like this are used flippantly it lessens the value and strength of such words, and thus their communicative value.
CC should do a music history topic. That would be interesting. Like the evolution of it and the major influential people of the times, etc. That would be another fantastic topic to watch.
When you're hungry, isn't that just your body's way to remind you that, "Hey, you actually ARE starting to starve to death"? ergo -> when person says "I'm literally starving to death", they are correct!
Not since 1942. Congress has forfeited its power to declare war, every war the US has been involved in in the last 75 years was started by the presidency and later retroactively approved by the Senate. There was even a scandal about it in the 70s when veterans who fought in Vietnam got no benefits because they didn't fight in any war. Congress was forced to retroactively declare was on North Vietnam, over five years after the war had ended, and they've followed that pattern ever since. .
They can't declare war but they control the entire military. They can send every soldier the US has anywhere they want and attack any place on a moment's notice.
This video should be required to be consumed in it's entirety before posting comments, sooo many "arguments" on youtube are just people not understanding what the other person meant, because the what the words they typed literally meant wasn't what the person actually meant.
it's a meme. but when I was younger, I'd invite someone to "watch a movie" and everyone I asked that knew exactly what I was actually asking. When you get older you realize you need neither an excuse nor slang to ask someone for sex.
Now everyone should go watch the movie "Being There" to see how communication can go awry. My favorite word when thinking about meaning is "Tory." The meaning of Tory has changed over time, sometimes year to year, so when Ford Madox Ford uses it in "Parade's End" we have to guess both what Ford thinks it means and what he wants his character to mean by using the word.
There's a word for that: contranym. At least there's a word for it until the less literate decide to use it to mean 'when your butt itches in public' or something equally as clever and the language gets muddied a bit more.
In the spirit of linguistic pedantry I would like to point out that since there is no legal authority on the use of the English language, a word can't "officially" change its meaning. Makers of dictionaries have no more authority to decide what words mean than anyone else.
In the spirit of linguistic extra pedantry, I would like to point out that there is an recognised source for English, at the source - in English. So yes - you can 'officially' change its meaning, however what you can't do is practically change its meaning. All that 'official' source does is document (describe not prescribe for Chomskyians) the practical change that had occurred. In essence - the word changed, the recognised source of English usage documented said change.
Hi, actual linguist here. I heavily object to the first minute of this video. "literally" is an intensifier, and it has been used as such since 1769: 1769 F. Brooke Hist. Emily Montague IV. ccxvii. 83 "He is a fortunate man to be introduced to such a party of fine women at his arrival; it is literally to feed among the lilies." If you are going to complain about "literally", you better also be complaining about "really", "real", "very", "truly", "awful", "awful", "extremely", "insanely", "totally", "completely", "utterly", and "absolutely".
I get the pun on the title, but good luck getting teachers to know what this is after a year has passed and the phrase "Netflix and chill" gets replaced with something new. I'm just pointing out that this video's title will make the topic discussed much harder for philosophy teachers/professors to find (for classroom use obviously) in the future. Edit: Good grief guys! You even mention this in your video under the section 4.2 (Manner - Ambiguity Should Be Avoided).
thank you so much Crash course! i don't know if you agree with me but i believe education should be free . again thank you for working so hard to give us content on a wide range of subjects!
Me too. I can only assume they are pooping into their hands and rubbing it on the walls or something. Or maybe all women carry around porn and so they go into the toilet to watch it. That's why they go in groups
French the Llama. Are chom-choms becoming Hank's French the Llama? That is so jokes! This reminds me of this time when I had an unequivocally exhilirating discourse session with a literal giant squid of anger and he was all like--
I could go for a chom-chom split right about now.
Mmm, yeah... I've actually never had a chom chom split but I really want to try one. You know what I have had though? Chom choms with Nutella. Sooo good...
+Erulasse Aranel my chom chom nutella'd in my pants
We're all literally dying of hunger. There is no cure. If the treatment isn't given often enough, it will eventually kill us. Most who use the phrase aren't particularly close to that point, but most people have less than a month to live unless fed.
This is an excellent comment. Gold star.
-Nicole
Huh, hunger is a disease in that context
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But you can just eat a chom chom!
Try to keep up with your treatment by eating more chomchoms.
LOL. I remember once a guy invited me over to "netflix and chill" and I was like "Yeah! The new season of dr who is out!" Then he didn't want to netflix, and was not chill about it. I was very disappointed.
So, technically, he invited you over to "not Netflix, then not chill".
Ever notice how people start by saying "So basically" before going into a complex explaination?
yeah, that's me
@DBR Liamg Thank you professor!!
from my experience the person who starats with "basically" has no complex thought on their mind ever
No.
Chom-choms are great for Netflix and chill~
.....For Netflix and chill...... by yourself?
Serendipity Chan :3
If it's Netflix and chill for 2, then whipped cream trumps chom-choms every time.
Wtf is a "chum chum"?
+Alienmination Chom chom* I'm om iPad
‘we would like to remind you that bananas are chom choms’
~Hank green 2016~
I'm here 2019. They're just chom choms now! 😅🍌💛
I now call bananas chom choms. I've confused so many people. XD
Wtf is a banananana?
I can't even spell anymore. 😅
Damn. I forgot all about chom choms since the last episode.
You failed us!
You eat chom choms constantly. How could you forget?
I eat chom choms every morning after my 10km run, 100 pushups, 100 sit-ups, and 100 squats
Not only did I not forget, I told my sister and someone who took us out to get frozen yogurt about it! The chom chom shall spread.
Erulasse Aranel You're the real hero here
I'm autistic; I have to pay attention to every single word I say, mostly because I actually want to make sure the concepts in my head get conveyed properly, but more promptly because all the analysis you talked about, that's normally done relatively subconsciously, has to be done manually with us aspies (to varying degrees)
When I say "Netflix and chill", I mean watch Netflix
Oh boi make sure the people you say it to know that's what you mean.
and THEN you are going to chill, :^)
it's ok, your personality and the audiences knowledge of your personality creates the context so they know what you mean
same here
I had no idea "netflix and chill" meant something else than watching tv !!!
Words will never be able to describe how much I love crash course
When I was in my late teens and early 20s, "Netflix and chill," was called "staying in and watching movies." I've seen the beginning of several films but have no idea how any of them end.
Crash Course Linguistics, please?
YES. Pleeeaase, Crash Course?
Yes. Yes. Yes. I need it.
La Jutubisto yeeesssss!!!!
it's happening :D they announced it in a recent update video i believe, I'm really excited for it!
@@autumnavalanche1097 still waiting.. :(
"I'm literally dying of hunger"
Is a double hyperbole, hyperbolising the already hyperbolic "I'm dying of hunger" by adding the word "literally" hyperbolically as opposed to the usual anti-hyperbolic use of "literally"
This is due to the feeling that hyperbole is so common that it doesn't get the intended point across as well as it may once have.
Interesting perspective! How long does it take to add a new layer of hyperbolicicity? When would we get to something like, "Seriously, i really am literally dying of hunger! No joke!"?
As with anything in language, it merely requires ppl to start doing it. All language "fads" started with someone deciding to say bae or what have you. This would most likely come about in a young generation attempting to differentiate themselves from their priors. We may see in a future generation such a trend pop up, although what is more likely would be a dropping of literally, or possibly the shortening of it.
"How do we manage to understand each other at all?"
Just barely, Hank, just barely.
I love the idea of Obama crashing a wedding to go to war
He already does via drone program. He will crash a weading in the middle east by shooting a missile at it in the hopes of hitting the one target within the crowd of 100 civilians or so.
Warning: this video is a voluble verbiage of vexing vocabulary and a vicissitude of verbose vernacular.
Thanks for having uttered a sentence which enriched my ever-growing, English-learner vocabulary with two novel words, the words being verbiage and vicissitude.
Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.
The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
@@jetblack742 vat the vuck!!
VVVVV Huh? ;)
@@jetblack742 That level of alliteration is astounding and aspirational.
6:45 "I now pronounce you husband and wife or husband and husband or wife and wife"
how very sweet of you ,i hope it will be the norm soon
"THERE'S THE DOOR" This live made me laugh more than it maybe should have
Maiwage.
Maiwage is what bwings us togethah, today.
It was because of her "huge tracks of land". I know yours was a princes bride quote and mine is monty python, but I always think of one and then the other.
Emily Caballero OMG YASSSSSS
I'm so happy someone finally talked about Grove!!!!!! I noticed Hank neglected to suggest reading in this area. an oversight, I'm sure.
(He also presumed the saying/meaning distinction, but we can talk about that later.)
Grice's posthumously printed collection 'Studies in the Ways of Words' is beyond excellent. sometimes I read it just as a pick me up. Grice's style can be difficult, but is penetrable with thought (and conversation) and effortlessly charming.
For more on the particulars of this video you want to read Part 1, Chapter 1: 'Logic and Conversation'.
My personal favourite essays are 'Meaning' and 'Meaning Revisited'.
There's so much more to do with and talk about Grice and Studies (his disdain for the 'A-Philosophers' introduced in this video, the potential for 'be relevant', for example) but this is long enough already. please feel free to discuss studies and ask for more recs in replies to this.
sincerely,
an enthused doctoral student.
As a teacher I love your videos because you talk and use examples of the things that I talk in my classes, You guys help so much when I am trying to get my point across great job! Greetings from Costa Rica! :)
chom choms!!!
Alisha's Guide was looking for this comment xD
Gotta get that daily dose of potassium!
NETFLIX 'N' CHILL IS ABOUT SEX?!
I thought it was about napping.
"I would like to remind you that bananas are chom choms" I AM DYING.
Netflix and Chill? Hooray for scoodelypooping! \o/
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MalfunctionM1Ke As long as it's consensual 👍🏼
Yeah, nobody should be forced to watch netflix
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If I write a book, and in that book I'm dying of hunger, can I say that I am literally dying of hunger?
That would be literarily.
+varana312 omg
varana312 the words have the same origins though, which complicates things
Well, technically you are dying of hunger, but you treat it by eating, so you can say it even if you don't write the book, you just shouldn't say your death by starvation is inminent.
Only if that book is featured in Reader's Digest.
I thought you were LITERALLY going to explain what it means to "Netflix and chill" and maybe provide a "how to" lesson.
Wrong video site ;)
That would have been nice, but he remained ambiguous. His tone implied something lascivious. This may be his reason.
Kamasutra will be discussed in 12 episodes
YOu wanna see Hank's chom chom?
Qermaq Who doesn't?
Chom choms
A banana is a chom chom.
Bananas are chom choms.
Come nomnom on chom choms and shake your bon-bon
Why isn't this a more popular comment? Bananas are chom choms.
You called?
wtf, did someone really make an account named Chom Choms with a picture of bananas? I mean... Chom Choms?
Mayn the internet is really... internet-y.
WHY ARE GRICE'S MAXIMS NOT TAUGHT IN SCHOOL!!!!
because school is usually for the purpose of churning out mediocre employees instead of knowledgable people? look up democratic schools if you want, they're far superior
They are! Just higher up, we did them for ALevel English literature and language. Our teacher set us the task of applying them to the Dead Parrot Sketch in order to demonstrate how flaunting the maxims creates comedy by subverting expectations of speech. The conversation does not follow the standard set of rules for that scenario. The language is not appropriate for one talking to a stranger, it would be rude to hit a parrot on the desk of a pet shop owener. He talks too loudly and makes exaggerated statements and movements etc.
Administrators thought that our time would be better spent prepping for various standardized tests.
Azzarinne Then Grice's Maxims ought to be on the test!
That'd be one way to fix it!
By far my fav episode of the 27 I've watched. The applicability of the linguistic concepts in my daily life are beautiful
Seriously, if we could just follow Grimes' rules on the internet, we'd be on our way toward social media utopia.
It's weird how mad people get about using "literally" to mean "really". Because, those words, literally, mean the same thing. If you're mad about millenials using literally to not mean _literally_ literally, get mad about the centuries of English speakers who have agreed that when something's "really" true, it doesn't always have to be _real_ ly "really" true.
except "really" can be interpreted to mean "very", while "literally" cannot.
(edit : you're right, i don't know why i even wrote this)
Mhd. Yousef Attar But it literally can.
+GelidGanef
What if I want to say something is literally true, but it's something that I know will most likely be interpreted as a figure of speech? Since people sometimes use "literally" figurative that makes it complicated to try and communicate that.
There's an actual functional reason why people shouldn't use "literally" figuratively.
What irks is that we're watching the language lose information in real time, due to individuals failing to pay attention to or reflect upon what they and others are saying. Yes, it's precedented, but it's more glaring in this age of increased written communication (text, email, comments, message boards). We're seeing a specific meaning being glossed as vague emphasis and repeated in ways which, in most cases, completely reverse that specific meaning. The whole process is an unnerving reminder that a lot of people are operating on very narrow linguistic and general cognitive bandwidth.
You could just say "non-figuratively". If you use it sparingly, it'll probably take decades for THAT to become a generic intensifier!
This sort of thing probably happens a lot. Here's another example: As I understand it, the word "you" used to be specifically plural, with "thou" being the second person singular. But "thou" fell out of usage for some reason, thus leading eventually to the use of "you all" or "y'all" for short to specify the second person plural, as "you" was used for the second person singular as well. But... it seems that "y'all" has itself come to be used to refer to lone individuals as well, thereby obliging someone who really wants to specify the plural to use "all y'all".
It would not surprise me if, within my lifetime, some people wind up using "all all y'all" without the least awareness of the irony involved in doing so..
Ive been watching this series on philosophy from episode 1 and think that anyone who has issues communicating within a family unit should watch at least 1 episode a week as a unit, then discuss the content and try apply it to their daily lives.
If you choose to watch this to better your own ability to understand the world around you even better.
Thanks to all involved in the making of the show!
In a group interview, I was asked what my hobbies were. I said "netflix and chilling with my friends". I wonder why I didn't get the job.
Can't wait for the next episode.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can break my heart.
Says don't use obscure phrases, flaunts the phrase "flouting a maxim"
No that rule refers to not using unnecessarily advanced words when simpler ones will do. As far as I know there is no simpler way of saying 'flouting the maxim' it's just the name for what you are doing
There's a difference between using obscure terminology when it's unnecessary, and using jargon in its appropriate context.
(Can we take back "jargon"? It's too fun to say to only use it in a derisive sense!)
He explained what that meant though. It's no longer obscure for this audience
Most girls seem to actually want to watch netflix before AND after the implied sex in "Netflix and chill", so... i think the phrase is more honest and literal than you give it credit.
Loving the representation and diversity of the animations =)
the opening theme always gives me the chills.
I must be old. I had no idea that "Netflix and chill" meant sex. I have used it literally all this time, like to my brother! Lol!
9:11 seconds long.
hank did 9/11
Look! A chom-chom in a top hat!
that's creepy
+TwixtheWizard Dammit hank
+Rachael Jackson not at all. He meant 551 seconds long.
aw, the wedding part made me smile. thanks for being inclusive, crash course!
Wow. The timing of this video's release is impressive. I have a college project about the study of language in the light of Wittgenstein and John L. Austin due to next week. Either procrastination is not such a bad thing or this is a reminder that I should really, really start doing it.
Hey Hank, how about adding a "further reading" for each episode? I get that each episode is meant only as overview, not detailed discussion, so I think it will be useful to have pointers for those who'd like to read more
Pedantic is not an obscure turn of phrase.
For the middle school and early-high-schoolers that these videos are increasingly directed towards, it is.
No, it isn't. The word pedantic ought to be understood by most middle-schoolers.
Did he not say "term or phrase"?
it very likely is to non-native english speakers at the very least
In that case, I'm a simple minded high schooler because I had no idea what that word meant .
before watching this video i didn't know that 'netflix and chill' meant sex. and we don't have netflix in our country :/
Where is that?
+Ross Parlette Alabama
You know what would be interesting? Crash Course Prehistory.
absolutely
And Geography, and Linguistics. Those would be cool as well.
It seems that Philosophy is often Linguistics with Crash Course, but yeah, those sound awesome. Is Anthropology really going to be one? (Also, Law School is somewhat true with US Government and Politics.)
Isn't this already linguistics though
I'm still waiting for Crash Course Math
I got a degree in philosophy? Now I'm flipping burgers... Can you explain what happened, Crash Course?
First mistake: Getting a degree in philosophy.
You went to college.
Your punctuation baffles me. Are you unsure whether you've got a degree in philosophy?
+Headrock grammar burned
It's a philosophy degree, what'd you expect? It's not like he majored in English. Of course if he had, he'd still be flipping burgers. He'd just be bitching about it with grammatical accuracy.
While I haven't finished this video yet, I find this topic particularly interesting due to my difficulties with understanding what other people mean. I often take things too literally, and I do not see the hidden meaning behind phrases like netflix and chill or saying that someone has a nice personality. It makes things more difficult to communicate to others. In addition, I do not naturally follow Maxim's rules for conversation, and I did not even know these unspoken rules.
Now that I've caught up, I'm really sad I can't sit down and watch an hour of CC philosophy at a time. Hank, you're doing a great job!!
haha I once called my dad when I was a young lad and asked him how to mix a kind of sauce. When he said I should add adequate salt I figured I needed to add salt till the watery substance got the consistency I thought it should have. I remember innocently pouring a little hill of salt before mixing it out.
Wait what?!?
All these years my mother asked me, "How was your day at school?", "Fine" *was not* the adequit answer?
You have a really good voice, easy to listening to, which is refreshing for youtube
I'm literally dying of hunger, somebody give me a chom-chom!!!
One thing that I thought of yesterday is the word "please." It's a concept that spans every language so far as I know, yet it doesn't actually add meaning. It's about manners and showing someone deference when making a request. Rather than conveying information, it's expressing an underlying sentiment.
for me to be clear I'm careful when I use absolute words like : always, never, love, and truth. When words like this are used flippantly it lessens the value and strength of such words, and thus their communicative value.
That baby Hank just killed me, figuratively speaking.
Please do a Sociology and an Art History crash course!!!!
I just tried a chom chom milk shake from Fat Burger and it was pretty dang good.
Literally though, we are all constantly dying of something.
Yeah, life dude
This is why Yolo is wrong. You live every day, you die only once.
*****
You live every time.
You die when you're dead.
Technically you normally start dying around 25. (When you stop growing and start aging)
I'd argue that growing and maturing is just part of dying, like fruit ripening is just part of fruit rotting.
Oddly enough this video is 9:11 the day after 9/11
9:10 for me, but still very corincadintal
Illuminati confirmed?
I'M LITERALLY FIGURATIVELY DYING OF HUNGER
CC should do a music history topic. That would be interesting. Like the evolution of it and the major influential people of the times, etc. That would be another fantastic topic to watch.
NETFLIX AND CHILL IS ABOUT SEX???
/s. Cause you know, someone might actually think this wasn't sarcasm.
I literally just found this out because of this video. No joke. Literally is being used correctly here.
I love this video so much I've come back to it multiple times.
I have run out of chom choms today.
I love seeing the little chom chom dancing at the end ❤
"this can come off as supercilious and pandantic and might cause your interlocutor to be fractious"
Sounds like something I'd say
sorry interlocutor
If no one outside of a slim and homogenous group of peers can understand you, then you don't have very useful language skills, do you?
pedantic
Gosh I say just mildly uncommon words sometimes and people look at me funny -.-
Emmily The Engineer i am happy to know what he said when he said that.
When you're hungry, isn't that just your body's way to remind you that, "Hey, you actually ARE starting to starve to death"? ergo -> when person says "I'm literally starving to death", they are correct!
The President doesn't declare war CONGRESS DOES!!! *Exasperation*
tell that to Vietnam Korea Afghanistan Lybia Somalia Yemen iraq and whatever's left of syria
Actually, The President declares war and then The Senate verifies it.
in Russia and Mongolia it doesn't depend
Not since 1942. Congress has forfeited its power to declare war, every war the US has been involved in in the last 75 years was started by the presidency and later retroactively approved by the Senate.
There was even a scandal about it in the 70s when veterans who fought in Vietnam got no benefits because they didn't fight in any war. Congress was forced to retroactively declare was on North Vietnam, over five years after the war had ended, and they've followed that pattern ever since. .
I'm pretty sure that the original commenter was referring to the US government.
I respect your efforts to make chom choms happen, and I will do my part to influence my corner of the world.
i'm literally dying of hunger, i will eat some choms choms
The legion of substitute heroes reference was for me personally and I appreciated it so much
But the president of the United States can't declare war. Only Congress can do that.
Duck man, I see you everywhere.
Tell that to George bush
+OfTheHunt yea seriously
Hank covers that at 7:37.
They can't declare war but they control the entire military.
They can send every soldier the US has anywhere they want and attack any place on a moment's notice.
This video should be required to be consumed in it's entirety before posting comments, sooo many "arguments" on youtube are just people not understanding what the other person meant, because the what the words they typed literally meant wasn't what the person actually meant.
"we all say things like that _all_ _the_ _time_.."
All the time? Like constantly or continually?
When somebody say: "Hey, want to come over and Netflix and Chill?" And they don't even know the real meaning.
When are we going to get to Aesthetics???
I can't wait to learn to how prove philosophically that classical music is objectively superior.
I figuratively love this video!
"how to do things with words" .... how very specific.
I love the "I do" "I don't think so!" Lol
I thought Netflix and Chill was a joke... Is that really slang?
maybe it used to be but now its just a meme
Both is possible. It started out as a joke perhaps, but because of that, it did get the meaning.
Whenever I've used Netflix and Chill, we've watched netflix and chilled out.
What's the joke?
it's a meme. but when I was younger, I'd invite someone to "watch a movie" and everyone I asked that knew exactly what I was actually asking.
When you get older you realize you need neither an excuse nor slang to ask someone for sex.
Now everyone should go watch the movie "Being There" to see how communication can go awry.
My favorite word when thinking about meaning is "Tory." The meaning of Tory has changed over time, sometimes year to year, so when Ford Madox Ford uses it in "Parade's End" we have to guess both what Ford thinks it means and what he wants his character to mean by using the word.
I AM A CHOM CHOM!
I AM A CHOM CHOM!!!
chomchom power..CHOMMY CHOMMY HAAA!
I loved the subtle look at 4:10. XD
FYI: The meaning of literally changed officially in 2013 ... can now mean 'figuratively'.
Which was one of the greatest miscarriages of grammatical justice in human history... literally!
+ For frennis
There's a word for that: contranym.
At least there's a word for it until the less literate decide to use it to mean 'when your butt itches in public' or something equally as clever and the language gets muddied a bit more.
In the spirit of linguistic pedantry I would like to point out that since there is no legal authority on the use of the English language, a word can't "officially" change its meaning. Makers of dictionaries have no more authority to decide what words mean than anyone else.
In the spirit of linguistic extra pedantry, I would like to point out that there is an recognised source for English, at the source - in English. So yes - you can 'officially' change its meaning, however what you can't do is practically change its meaning. All that 'official' source does is document (describe not prescribe for Chomskyians) the practical change that had occurred.
In essence - the word changed, the recognised source of English usage documented said change.
is anyone else uncontrollably in love with Hank?
7:00 The president does not and has never had the power to declare war
True, but that hasn't stopped many from starting "conflicts" in the past
Unfortunately, they do correct this at 7:40 so this comment is therefore backed by unconfirmed information making this a violation of the matrix. :^)
thank god for that
I would kill for a good netflix and chill sesh right now
Hi, actual linguist here. I heavily object to the first minute of this video. "literally" is an intensifier, and it has been used as such since 1769:
1769 F. Brooke Hist. Emily Montague IV. ccxvii. 83 "He is a fortunate man to be introduced to such a party of fine women at his arrival; it is literally to feed among the lilies."
If you are going to complain about "literally", you better also be complaining about "really", "real", "very", "truly", "awful", "awful", "extremely", "insanely", "totally", "completely", "utterly", and "absolutely".
Oooh, I studied about performative utterances in this literature class I had in uni. It was my favourite topic.
I get the pun on the title, but good luck getting teachers to know what this is after a year has passed and the phrase "Netflix and chill" gets replaced with something new. I'm just pointing out that this video's title will make the topic discussed much harder for philosophy teachers/professors to find (for classroom use obviously) in the future.
Edit: Good grief guys! You even mention this in your video under the section 4.2 (Manner - Ambiguity Should Be Avoided).
thank you so much Crash course! i don't know if you agree with me but i believe education should be free . again thank you for working so hard to give us content on a wide range of subjects!
my girlfriend's mom keeps trying to correct me when I offer her a chomchom.
YAY!! MORE PHILOSOPHY!!
Wait a second. What do women mean when they say they're going to go powder their nose? I always took that statement pretty literally.
Me too. I can only assume they are pooping into their hands and rubbing it on the walls or something. Or maybe all women carry around porn and so they go into the toilet to watch it. That's why they go in groups
they're going to the bathroom to fullfill their fisiological needs
As long as its in powder form that's still a literal interpretation though.
Yea but it's still misleading because I would assume power their nose means power the outside of the nose, not the inside.
*physiological
French the Llama. Are chom-choms becoming Hank's French the Llama? That is so jokes!
This reminds me of this time when I had an unequivocally exhilirating discourse session with a literal giant squid of anger and he was all like--
Chom Choms is not gonna stick guys....
As a person with mild aspergers syndrome this is incredibly fascinating
I rather debt fix and Jill. #cancelit
You just, literally, blew my mind.