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  • @guinabernardes
    @guinabernardes 5 лет назад +3021

    Michael: dies
    Family: he was a good man
    Michael: Or was I?

    • @anthonyjanthonycrowley6072
      @anthonyjanthonycrowley6072 4 года назад +146

      I just imagined either everyone around the coffin saying their goodbyes to him and someone says "he was a good man" so he opens his eyes, sits up says "or was I?" and the music plays in real life; or, alternately, someone's saying a funeral speech (I don't really know what they're called) and then a projector turns on and plays a video he prepared for after he died.

    • @rebeccavickerstaff541
      @rebeccavickerstaff541 4 года назад +38

      Family: demonic screaming

    • @thecomfycryptid
      @thecomfycryptid 4 года назад +25

      Anthony Janthony Crowley I think the word you’re looking for is “eulogy”

    • @mahir7261
      @mahir7261 4 года назад +2

      Guilherme Bernardes underrated

    • @WasiMaster
      @WasiMaster 4 года назад +16

      Miachel died
      Or did he
      Hey vsauce miachel here

  • @meaninglesscommenter8457
    @meaninglesscommenter8457 5 лет назад +3899

    I once read this masterpiece:
    Unlockable could have two meanings:
    1.The ability to be unlocked
    2.The inability to be locked

    • @Zoova
      @Zoova 5 лет назад +220

      @@kanupandit1683 You tried so hard to make a joke that it killed my internal being.

    • @kanupandit1683
      @kanupandit1683 5 лет назад +30

      @@Zoova oh wait I just realized something

    • @kanupandit1683
      @kanupandit1683 5 лет назад +44

      How does unlockable mean the inability to be locked? For something to be unlockable it must be locked. Therefore an unlockable thing has the ability to be locked

    • @ralphy1054
      @ralphy1054 5 лет назад +55

      @@kanupandit1683 and you could also say that the ability to be unlocked has two different meanings
      "The ability to be able to unlock it"
      Or
      "The ability to not be locked"

    • @meaninglesscommenter8457
      @meaninglesscommenter8457 5 лет назад +186

      Kanu Pandit un-lockable vs unlock-able
      That’s simply the idea

  • @joshuazhong2520
    @joshuazhong2520 3 года назад +1060

    Internet: They're called homonyms
    Michael: Here's 11 minutes of reasons why you're wrong

    • @user-pl1xi8my2d
      @user-pl1xi8my2d 2 месяца назад +1

      11 and a half*
      still tho i find this comment funny af

  • @Fafuchess
    @Fafuchess Год назад +97

    Not gonna lie when Micheal spellt it "barbaque" I immeadiatly went "oh damn I guess I was wrong my whole life".
    Pure information authority

    • @Verbindungsfehle
      @Verbindungsfehle 8 месяцев назад +6

      then there is me who paused the video to make sure he actually made a mistake, only to then continue the video to see him correct himself lol

  • @hasifahmed1065
    @hasifahmed1065 5 лет назад +2317

    THIS BLUE MY MIND.

  • @yen7955
    @yen7955 5 лет назад +3709

    a few people: yeah yeah, they're called homonyms
    michael: im bouta end this man's whole career

  • @MisterNohbdy
    @MisterNohbdy 3 года назад +80

    Michael: "I'm an adult."
    *DOUBT*

  • @cobalt8187
    @cobalt8187 3 года назад +413

    "Rock (Stone)" "Rock (Music Genre)" "Rock (To Move)"
    PPL also reminded me of "Rock (The Rock)" and "Rock (Amazing or Exclamation)" Thanks ya'll

    • @hamidan7069
      @hamidan7069 3 года назад +8

      Nice

    • @twitchycorpse4378
      @twitchycorpse4378 3 года назад +6

      CAN YOU SMEELLLLLLLL

    • @khazychan
      @khazychan 3 года назад +54

      The Rock (Dwayne Johnson)

    • @theantimatter
      @theantimatter 3 года назад +14

      It gets even more interesting when you consider that the music genre started its journey as a derivation from the verb (rock'n'roll) but ended having the sense of the noun (hard rock).

    • @madkirk7431
      @madkirk7431 3 года назад +4

      And "Rock" (amasing)

  • @asmodeusmogart5941
    @asmodeusmogart5941 5 лет назад +3760

    Michael: *gets caught selling drugs*
    Police Officer: "You’re under arrest!"
    Michael: "Or am I?"

    • @spencerfuller149
      @spencerfuller149 5 лет назад +59

      You're*

    • @asmodeusmogart5941
      @asmodeusmogart5941 5 лет назад +53

      Is Mayonnaise an Instrument? Thank you

    • @SuperXzm
      @SuperXzm 5 лет назад +62

      *Cue Vsauce music

    • @dianathenerd5640
      @dianathenerd5640 5 лет назад +1

      @@spencerfuller149 check this out ruclips.net/video/Ldnecyy0FDU/видео.html

    • @Merahki3863
      @Merahki3863 5 лет назад +44

      Proceeds to bamboozle and fascinate the officers. Then runs away concluding his argument.

  • @KrpticUnknown
    @KrpticUnknown 6 лет назад +5123

    wish i had michael as a teacher

    • @111Malefic
      @111Malefic 6 лет назад +149

      I really think you don't. Michael isn't a teacher, he said it himself. He's just some guy that likes science and wanna share it, he cannot teach you anything. Don't mistake vulgarizators for teachers. He's here to give you some life facts or just to stimulate your curiosity. A teacher is someone whose job is to make your learn something durably, with a method and practice. You don't get that here.

    • @JakeLovesSteak
      @JakeLovesSteak 6 лет назад +116

      He is a teacher, in a sense.

    • @dandanthedandan7558
      @dandanthedandan7558 6 лет назад +40

      I wish I had Koro-Sensei as my teacher...

    • @priyanshupradhan4388
      @priyanshupradhan4388 6 лет назад +12

      DANDAN THE DANDAN yeah me too, what can be better than killing your own teacher

    • @ahmedmagdy-qg3tb
      @ahmedmagdy-qg3tb 6 лет назад +9

      control your emotions kid

  • @aishaMa_
    @aishaMa_ Год назад +81

    Michael: explains why homonyms isn’t the correct term
    Me, who used homophones to begin with: *signature look of superiority*

  • @Mick_92
    @Mick_92 3 года назад +188

    I remember having a lot of trouble with "throw", "though", "thought", "tough", "through" and "thorough" when learning english. Not exactly homonyms (I think some would be heretographs though), but pretty damn confusing for a non-native speaker.

    • @bluthemeth
      @bluthemeth 2 года назад +12

      “Ough” is also different in hiccough.
      Also good luck with learning English. (I’m kinda late tho Ldol)

    • @basedyoshi7253
      @basedyoshi7253 2 года назад +4

      Those were tough when I was learning spelling in early life too. I used to get "tough" and "thorough" mixed up.

    • @dismalthoughts
      @dismalthoughts 2 года назад +1

      I was homeschooled and took crazy amounts of phonics/grammar growing up; my english skills were on point. Aaand now ~20 years later I found myself typing without really thinking about it too much and *frequently* get homophones mixed up D:

    • @catlover7015
      @catlover7015 2 года назад +9

      “A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.”

    • @jennifermorrey7378
      @jennifermorrey7378 2 года назад +1

      even though i speak english natively i feel you

  • @TriburosOnline
    @TriburosOnline 6 лет назад +3113

    Michael is a slightly scary egg person who wants us to watch him play with his toys but that's okay

    • @Snardvark25
      @Snardvark25 6 лет назад +39

      Triburos it's more than ok. It's gosh darn alright!

    • @aaronmartinez8383
      @aaronmartinez8383 6 лет назад +31

      You mean he's becoming Northernlion.

    • @masterchaoss
      @masterchaoss 6 лет назад +1

      Aaron Martinez that's exactly what I thought when I read this comment.

    • @Starman256
      @Starman256 6 лет назад +13

      Hes a bearded egg, nothing more nothing less

    • @robocu4
      @robocu4 6 лет назад +19

      He isn't an egg :(

  • @angelofdeth94
    @angelofdeth94 5 лет назад +1096

    You: buys things
    Me, an intellectual: purchases things

  • @mixup2216
    @mixup2216 4 года назад +56

    4:17 “But is cereal soup?” *vsauce music starts

    • @ferociousmaliciousghost
      @ferociousmaliciousghost 3 года назад

      *(Insert the "Is Cereal Soup?" script)*

    • @miticobr173
      @miticobr173 3 года назад +5

      Hey, Vsauce. Michael here.
      Take a look at this.
      Simple enough, right?
      But watch what happens next.
      Okay, what the heck is this thing?
      Mostly people eat it like a soup,
      out of a bowl with a spoon.
      But is it a soup?
      The word 'soup' comes from words that originally meant
      "to absorb liquid", which dry cereal left in milk too long will do.
      But words change.
      What if cereal is actually a type of salad?
      And milk is just a dressing?
      Or maybe, dry cereal is the actual meal and
      milk is just a condiment or a coating.
      Adding milk to dry cereal might be like adding
      ketchup to french fries, or icing a cake.
      Honestly, there is no real answer. The answer
      is whatever we agree the answer should be.
      We make up the words and we make up the categories.
      If you ask me, cereal is soup, but it's not soup soup.
      Cereal is also salad, but it's not
      salad salad.
      What I just did there is called reduplication.
      We do it all the time
      but usually for emphasis. For example,
      "I like you" but I also like like you.
      Tomorrow's event is fancy, but it's not fancy fancy.
      When I say "soup soup" or "salad salad", I
      am using reduplication in a way that is known as Contrastive focus reduplication. I am reduplicating
      a word to express a focus on prototypical types of that word,
      in contrast to French types.
      A Caesar or vegetable are more prototypical
      types of salad than, say, potato, taco, fruit, or a bowl of cereal with milk.
      The increasing progress of technology forces us to contrastively focus reduplicate more
      and more often.
      For example, now when talking about a book,
      you might need to clarify whether it is an e-book or a book book.
      The original physical paper type.
      The phrase paper book is a retronym.
      A modification to an old word made necessary by the advent and popularisation of something
      new.
      Before movies with sound came along,
      silent movies were just called movies.
      Before voicemail and e-mail, snail mail was just mail.
      And before mobile phones, your landline or home phone was simply a phone.
      Or in many cases just the phone.
      This is Morse code for a smiley face emoticon.
      It's a happy beat.
      The eyes of the emoticon are a colon,
      which up until as recently as the middle of the 1900s was often used with a dash
      to represent a pause.
      It was an especially helpful direction to
      people reading text out loud.
      It was used all over the place.
      In personal letters and
      all over America's Declaration of Independence.
      You may also notice that it looks a little
      bit
      anatomical.
      The Oxford English Dictionary has a name for
      this punctuation mark
      and that name is
      "the dog's bollocks".
      In other words, dog balls.
      Although other emoticons were definitely used
      earlier, as far as official dictionary entries are concerned, the very first emoticon with
      an official name was an emoticon for a willy.
      This also means that America's Declaration
      of Independence is,
      punctuation-wise,
      covered in dog wieners.
      Nine of them, to be exact.
      What I'm about to do is called drawing.
      When I am finished,
      what I have created is called
      a drawing.
      But it's finished. Shouldn't it be called "a drawn"?
      A similar version of this problem is often attributed to Steven Wright.
      Why are they called buildings if they are finished?
      Shouldn't they be called "builds"?
      What's really going on here is a phenomenon
      known as 'verbal nouns'.
      A noun formed from a verb.
      It's often easier to "noun-ify" a verb than to just use lots of words.
      Why call this a structure resulting from the active of building, when you could just call
      it a building?
      Where does the word 'nickname' come from?
      Did a guy name Nicholas one day decided everyone could call him Nick and in doing so create
      a literal nickname?
      No.
      Nickname is a product of rebracketing.
      A process in which speakers, often unknowingly, create
      new words by moving sounds from one word to another.
      For instance, the English word alligator is a corruption of the Spanish "el lagarto" -
      the lizard.
      El lagarto, el lagarto, el, alligator.
      Eke used to mean "also",
      as in you could have a name,
      and you could have another name that
      was also your name.
      Your "eke name".
      Eke name. Eke name. Ni, ni, nickname.
      Here's another funny thing about language.
      If you're noisy in class, you're disrupting class.
      But if you sit around silently paying attention,
      are you
      rupting class?
      You can be disgruntled, but can you ever be gruntled?
      Words that would seem to have a related word but actually do not are called unpaired words.
      Maybe they were in a pair at one point in history, or maybe through a fluke of etymology
      they only seem to have one, but what you think it would be isn't in any dictionary.
      Some definitions like "soup" and "salad" are so vague their borders are almost hilariously
      fuzzy.
      Other words, well, they're just plain silly.
      For example, the sun does not rise every morning.
      The Earth actually just turns you toward it,
      but yet our word for that phenomenon is sunrise.
      Languages are full of expressions like that.
      George Steiner wrote colourfully about this, saying "The accelerando of the sciences, and
      of technology, have beggared both the reach and veracity of natural language.
      In consequence,
      the commonplace relations of language to phenomenon to our daily context have become virtually
      infantile.
      They are a bric-a-brac of inner metaphors, of whory fictions and handy falsifications.
      From the perspective of the theoretical and exact sciences, we speak a kind of neanderthal
      babble."
      Whether spoken or typed or tabbed or felt
      or signalled,
      language may be inevitably full of idiomatic expressions and expressions that are
      incomplete.
      And categories
      that are fuzzy.
      But hey,
      at least it's our fuzz, and at least
      fuzz is entertaining.
      It would be nice to just know everything and have absolutely nothing
      to explain or demonstrate to anyone else.
      But then again,
      as Emily Dickinson once said,
      "a letter is a joy of earth. It is denied the Gods".
      If we were all omniscient, we'd have no reason to write letter to one another, there wouldn't
      be anything new you had to tell someone else. We would have no reason to debate the soupiness
      or saladness of cereal.
      No reason to wonder, no reason to read, or
      to watch.
      I'd have no reason to say and as always,
      thanks for watching.

    • @miticobr173
      @miticobr173 3 года назад +3

      @@ferociousmaliciousghost there u go

    • @sanyogoo6017
      @sanyogoo6017 3 года назад +1

      @@miticobr173 what the....... , i see you re man culture as well

    • @brayanxd4547
      @brayanxd4547 2 года назад +1

      @@miticobr173 Isso devia ter mais likee

  • @gril250
    @gril250 4 года назад +178

    My parents when I ask them why they always take my New Years money:
    1:23

    • @assassin947
      @assassin947 3 года назад +6

      hehehe... cuz I’m an adult

    • @kingduckie9135
      @kingduckie9135 3 года назад +9

      Just steal their retirement funds and you'll be even.

    • @onezerosevensix
      @onezerosevensix 3 года назад +5

      grandma didnt stand a chance!

  • @deajiven6159
    @deajiven6159 4 года назад +1646

    "it's not spelled the way it sounds"
    *laughs in French*

    • @druhu4590
      @druhu4590 4 года назад +82

      Hon hon hon

    • @jamesyjables
      @jamesyjables 4 года назад +34

      *laughs in welsh*

    • @mcvibing2785
      @mcvibing2785 4 года назад +25

      Oiseau

    • @benthomason3307
      @benthomason3307 4 года назад +109

      french: "you have ten letters. you pronounce four of them."

    • @Gia1911Logous
      @Gia1911Logous 4 года назад +33

      English has this as well... and a lot
      Eg water, train, bicycle, pseudoscientific, blue, one etc
      Instead of woter, trein, baisikl, soodossaientifik, bloo, wan

  • @willc236
    @willc236 5 лет назад +495

    The “thanks for watching” is always so sincere. The same staggering level of sincerity at the end of every D!NG video.

  • @mateusporawski5347
    @mateusporawski5347 4 года назад +47

    9:35 i think it was "pat, man , bell"

  • @FG-dh6pr
    @FG-dh6pr 3 года назад +23

    The way the mood shifts after “Or are they?” and after he shifts from being goofy to serious was funny. I love this channel and also Vsause(1).

  • @pratishtha1437
    @pratishtha1437 6 лет назад +939

    You wouldn't go get a loan from a river bank and you wouldn't go fish in a financial bank..
    *OR WOULD YOU*

    • @pratishtha1437
      @pratishtha1437 6 лет назад +3

      André Martins well ok haha

    • @KyleCorbeau
      @KyleCorbeau 6 лет назад +14

      You may not got to fish at a financial bank but some would try to phish at one.

    • @thewhitefalcon8539
      @thewhitefalcon8539 6 лет назад +7

      You could phish in a financial bank.

    • @greensteve9307
      @greensteve9307 6 лет назад +3

      On the internet, bank fishes you.

    • @Skystrike70
      @Skystrike70 6 лет назад +2

      Honestly expected him to go on a tangent there

  • @aaryanbhardwaj40
    @aaryanbhardwaj40 6 лет назад +313

    "You guys get it, you guys are smart."
    I finally have the mental capability to be able to comprehend the fact that running out of room to write a word does not change its meaning.

    • @jord19100
      @jord19100 6 лет назад +4

      The Delusionist And His Demons r/iamverysmart

    • @JA-nv4zb
      @JA-nv4zb 6 лет назад +4

      Jordan
      That was the wrong usage of the subreddit.
      More like r/buttmarker

    • @NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache
      @NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache 10 месяцев назад

      @@JA-nv4zb wth is that subreddit? I can't find it on reddit anymore, did it get hit by the addons blackout protest or smth?

  • @smoceany9478
    @smoceany9478 4 года назад +193

    actually air, aire, are, ayre, ere, err, eyre and heir is an octuplet

    • @ThorHC11
      @ThorHC11 4 года назад +33

      Unless there's another meaning for "are" that causes it to be pronounced like that, I'm pretty sure "air" and "are" are said differently.

    • @smoceany9478
      @smoceany9478 4 года назад +11

      @@ThorHC11 their is another form of are

    • @ThorHC11
      @ThorHC11 4 года назад +24

      @@smoceany9478 Yep, you're right. Should have figured that a hectare could be divided into ares. Touché.

    • @bardcore7660
      @bardcore7660 4 года назад +3

      @@ThorHC11 varies on accent

    • @GoogleUser-ms6hr
      @GoogleUser-ms6hr 3 года назад

      What about Eire? (Ireland)

  • @FrankieTeardrop1998
    @FrankieTeardrop1998 Год назад +6

    "Let's look at three ways"
    -Michael Stevens

  • @derekholland7956
    @derekholland7956 5 лет назад +767

    Michael is the only guy who can state the most obvious thing (ex. The sky is blue) and then give the OR IS IT face and we actually listen and believe him.

    • @Max-kv1xm
      @Max-kv1xm 5 лет назад +30

      Well yeah, it isn't. It's pretty transparent. We only see it as blue because of how light works and eye works

    • @southerndude9516
      @southerndude9516 5 лет назад +2

      Miserabilis r/woooooosh

    • @Euclase
      @Euclase 5 лет назад +8

      *OR IS HE?*

    • @fufutg9543
      @fufutg9543 5 лет назад +13

      @@Max-kv1xm "because of how light works and eye works" but... "how light works and eye works" is what color is. So it's blue.

    • @someyeeterontheblock2421
      @someyeeterontheblock2421 5 лет назад

      @@fufutg9543 the sky is not blue.

  • @MrMindwavess
    @MrMindwavess 6 лет назад +398

    No "micheal here"?
    This is truly the darkest timeline.

    • @sam23squires
      @sam23squires 6 лет назад +4

      Here I made you a felt goatee until you can grow your own

    • @DJxDJ1997
      @DJxDJ1997 6 лет назад +2

      It's not vsauce

    • @garchamayne4515
      @garchamayne4515 6 лет назад +7

      Diego Ordoñez And yet, Michael is here

    • @eliarbogast
      @eliarbogast 6 лет назад

      Community reference nice

    • @Nilguiri
      @Nilguiri 6 лет назад

      Who is Micheal? Is he from Isreal?

  • @kirk-careem
    @kirk-careem Год назад +4

    One of the smoothest sign offs in RUclips history, a special treat for those who watched to the end. And as always, thank you for presenting

  • @Frudge
    @Frudge 3 года назад +5

    “If you tear something I love, you might cause me to shed a tear.”
    *I’D LIKE TO SEE THEM TRY.*

  • @jacko7755
    @jacko7755 6 лет назад +272

    That last section reminded me of how the phrases “I’m up for that” and “I’m down for that” mean the same thing even though they use antonyms

    • @travellcriner6849
      @travellcriner6849 6 лет назад +8

      How about the fact that when you were first born, you were *new* to the world (that was you when you were new). but now you're the *new* you.

    • @TERMINATOR3900
      @TERMINATOR3900 6 лет назад +4

      Actually I think the usage of **new** in both of those cases is the same. I.e. you were **new** to the world when you were born, but now you've made some change in your life so you are acting like a **new** person.

    • @travellcriner6849
      @travellcriner6849 6 лет назад +4

      Correct. However, the point is this *new* you only comes about because you become more *old* .

    • @DarkMoonDroid
      @DarkMoonDroid 6 лет назад +7

      "Up for" and "down for" are actually slightly different.
      "Up", in the sense meant here, is the kind of up that a man experiences with an erection. It's meant to convey that one want's to participate in a very enthusiastic way.
      "Down", in the way it's said here, is the kind of down that a gang wanna-be has to stay down in order to endure the ordeal of being "jumped-in" to a gang. You have to allow the gang members to beat you up and you have to "stay down" for it. In this case, it means that you want it bad enuf to make a sacrifice for it.
      These meanings are similar but different.

    • @travellcriner6849
      @travellcriner6849 6 лет назад +3

      Very insightful, Jennifer. Thanks.

  • @MaeveFirstborn
    @MaeveFirstborn 6 лет назад +141

    "I hope you have your noses strapped on."
    I have ***SEVERAL*** questions.

    • @explodyz
      @explodyz 6 лет назад

      Matthew BPbuds look up Chris fehn mask. He has a strapped on nose

    • @volbla
      @volbla 6 лет назад +6

      I have ***SEVERAL*** noses >:D

  • @ryanvandermerwe5587
    @ryanvandermerwe5587 4 года назад +13

    Teacher: Blew and Blue are homonyms
    Me: I'm bouta end this man's whole career

  • @EggShellGames
    @EggShellGames Год назад +1

    I’ve recently be thinking of creative homonyms myself and my two favorite are: Throne and thrown, Greece and grease

  • @justarchie6081
    @justarchie6081 6 лет назад +604

    PET, BELL, MEN.

  • @to9100
    @to9100 6 лет назад +686

    1. Pet
    2. Bell
    3. Men

  • @Ad0rak
    @Ad0rak 10 месяцев назад +2

    I was so excited for him to get to the middle part. I was thoroughly underwhelmed.

  • @brianhitchcox5530
    @brianhitchcox5530 8 месяцев назад

    I love watching these videos so much.

  • @lucasprem1618
    @lucasprem1618 5 лет назад +952

    I want Michael to host meme review.

  • @PaleozoicProductions
    @PaleozoicProductions 6 лет назад +401

    0:00 - 0:06
    How I greet people

  • @doctortrouserpants1387
    @doctortrouserpants1387 3 года назад +5

    "Elephant Juice" is a viseme for "I love you"

  • @pohjanvanamo
    @pohjanvanamo Год назад +3

    Ok. This was more complicated than what I knew before, so learned something new 👍
    (In Finnish the spelling and pronunciation usually go the same way, so we were just taught that words that are written the same way are homonyms. 😅)
    And now, few homonyms to cheer up the day:
    Kuusi/kuusi = six/spruce
    Lakka/lakka = lacquer/cloudberry
    Viini/viini = wine/(arrow)quiver
    Häntä/häntä = tail / of him/her

  • @nzubechukwu
    @nzubechukwu 4 года назад +500

    RUclips: Demonetizes Michael’s videos
    “You’re demonetized!”
    Michael: Or am I?

    • @lenka1444
      @lenka1444 4 года назад +14

      Michael: *Goes through a 10 minute explanation*

    • @derikr
      @derikr 4 года назад +15

      *_First we need to know what exactly it means to be demonetized_*

  • @girlsinredtrenchcoat1169
    @girlsinredtrenchcoat1169 5 лет назад +565

    Michael: You wouldn’t go fish in a financial bank
    God I hope not
    Michael: pauses for a minute
    I swear to whatever hellborn force that controls my perception of reality if he says “or would you”
    Michael: skate
    SWEET RESPITE OH LORDY

    • @darpanpatel8023
      @darpanpatel8023 5 лет назад +5

      AHAHAHAHAHAHHAH

    • @W.H.V.
      @W.H.V. 5 лет назад +8

      I thought he was gonna say it, I swear.

    • @vuice6601
      @vuice6601 5 лет назад +2

      And that’s how I met your mother

    • @miserysluvr
      @miserysluvr 5 лет назад +3

      Hahahahahahhahahahaha, you made my day😂

    • @vibe3d
      @vibe3d 5 лет назад +3

      Hold my beer.

  • @AlexPies1
    @AlexPies1 11 месяцев назад +1

    I was absolutely floored when you said people tried to tell you those were homonyms. maybe it's just because homophones were driled into my brain at such a young age, but I don't think I could ever get those mixed up

    • @NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache
      @NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache 10 месяцев назад

      Fr, we were taught the difference between homophones, homonyms, synonyms, antonyms, etc in 1st grade! And I live in like, a 3rd world country (granted I'm in a fairly big city and that was a small-ish but still private school, but still the guys replying I'm almost 90% certain are Americans)

  • @zkiller195
    @zkiller195 9 месяцев назад

    Michael, love the video and all your content (long time subscriber)
    It would be awesome to see content on words that mean the opposite of what they appear. Words like inflammable (in many instances, the prefix in- means not) or factoid (the suffix -oid typically means resembling or similar to)

  • @shanedonahoo7704
    @shanedonahoo7704 6 лет назад +298

    This show should just be called “Educational Memes”

    • @user-ft4pb5vb3e
      @user-ft4pb5vb3e 6 лет назад +10

      DONG is better. 'Cause, like, DONG.

    • @MM-co3gl
      @MM-co3gl 6 лет назад +7

      the perfect show for special kids

    • @nanowhit
      @nanowhit 6 лет назад +4

      i disliked your reply

    • @Kihidokid
      @Kihidokid 6 лет назад +1

      I let my kids watch dongs all night

    • @keetrandling4530
      @keetrandling4530 6 лет назад

      +

  • @ZippedZipFile
    @ZippedZipFile 5 лет назад +45

    One of my favourite examples of homonyms at work is: "War does not determine who is right, only who is left"

    • @seanwilkinson7431
      @seanwilkinson7431 10 месяцев назад +4

      Gallagher: "If Pro is the opposite of Con, then Congress is the opposite of Progress."
      Me: "That rule doesn't work for Constitution and Prostitution!" (Or Confessional and Professional, unless you get stuck with a novice priest in the booth).
      There are also so many words that start with Pro and don't have a Con variant and vice-versa, like Convention, Prolapse (I wouldn't want to be diagnosed with a Conlapsed Rectum...😮), Congregate, Proper, and Constipation (there is technically a Prostipation, but we just call that Diarrh[o]ea).

  • @mikeayia8819
    @mikeayia8819 4 года назад +1

    Very educational great job Michael Stevens and love the way you end all your episodes with almost a sad good bye

  • @inself7367
    @inself7367 2 года назад +4

    it really helps me. wow. thank you!
    your video does kill two birds with one stone for people like me.
    I was wondering what the heck is the differences among all the terms, saying so what?
    and you're here to make it clear. so happy for having this ❤

  • @ChrisOrillia
    @ChrisOrillia 5 лет назад +380

    Will, will Will will Will Will's will?
    wiki: Will (a person), will (future tense helping verb) Will (a second person)
    will (bequeath) [to] Will (a third person) Will's (the second person)
    will (a document)? (Someone asked Will 1 directly if Will 2 plans to
    bequeath his own will, the document, to Will 3.

    • @moonsaer
      @moonsaer 5 лет назад +28

      I AM SHOOKETH

    • @jad3415
      @jad3415 5 лет назад +10

      There's another example like that with the word "buffalo"
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

    • @chewedgum3001
      @chewedgum3001 5 лет назад +4

      yes

    • @qewdascz1839
      @qewdascz1839 5 лет назад +5

      I’m so confused but I love this XD

    • @noelbus4536
      @noelbus4536 5 лет назад +2

      Name the named naming name "name" to rename name name.

  • @spinnyb9998
    @spinnyb9998 5 лет назад +646

    pet, bell, men

  • @amperage3457
    @amperage3457 3 месяца назад

    The shuffle on this playlist literally played lenzs law before this and I ended the episode where he was holding a copper pipe. Absolutely blew me away when I saw the intro to this episode 😂

  • @girlinagale
    @girlinagale 4 года назад

    I'm still reverberating from your morse code exploration I watched at 6am this morning.

  • @whereeveritgoes
    @whereeveritgoes 6 лет назад +111

    Me: Wanna go out?
    Girl1: "I'm down."
    Girl2: "I'm up."
    Girl3: "I'm in."
    Girl4: "I'm on."

    • @bryceduyvewaardt8136
      @bryceduyvewaardt8136 6 лет назад +25

      *wana go *OOT*?

    • @szhzs6121
      @szhzs6121 6 лет назад +63

      me: wanna go out?
      girl1: "no"
      girl2: "nope"
      girl3: "nah"
      girl4: "nay"

    • @the_red_ditto2426
      @the_red_ditto2426 6 лет назад +6

      Girl5:"no"

    • @x-daveonpc
      @x-daveonpc 6 лет назад +2

      but can you be inside both of them ?

    • @keithode1737
      @keithode1737 6 лет назад +13

      "but can you be inside both of them ?" Only with extra-dimensional DONGs.

  • @guillermo63785
    @guillermo63785 6 лет назад +448

    Do
    On a sheet of paper
    Now,
    Guys

  • @demarcuscousinsthe65th
    @demarcuscousinsthe65th 2 года назад

    "If you tear apart something I love, you might cause me to shed a tear"
    -Michael

  • @Rev_Erser
    @Rev_Erser Год назад

    the and the (haha can't tell) are used for when the next word starts with either a consonant sound or a vowel sound

  • @austinbagnall1990
    @austinbagnall1990 5 лет назад +715

    Antonym is the Antonym of Synonym, but Synonym isn't the Synonym of Antonym.

  • @123_king_me9
    @123_king_me9 6 лет назад +78

    When Michael forgets his other channel’s password

  • @ellafant9424
    @ellafant9424 4 года назад +4

    I’ve also heard autoantonyms be called Janus words. Very fascinating!

  • @WilliamJohnston
    @WilliamJohnston 3 года назад +1

    So many good nuggets of info here, it’ll definitely several watches to fully appreciate. An example of an autoantonym that’s always confused me (in the UK anyway, or maybe just my family using the word wrong) is the word ‘doubt’. I hear people say ‘I doubt it’ to mean ‘unlikely’, yet I also hear them say it in an affirming response to people ‘yes, I doubt it’, meaning ‘probably so’… anyone found the same thing?

  • @LimitedWard
    @LimitedWard 6 лет назад +430

    Vsauce and DONG are synonyms now I guess.

    • @lucianrex1528
      @lucianrex1528 6 лет назад +19

      i'm fine with this

    • @Azide_zx
      @Azide_zx 6 лет назад +80

      in that case i have a big vsauce

    • @rockLuca14
      @rockLuca14 6 лет назад +1

      Alpha Good one m8.

    • @mathenthusiast6635
      @mathenthusiast6635 6 лет назад +17

      I think Michael uses Vsauce only for complex/broad topics that can be connected to several other topics. Homonyms, however, is a specific topic that doesn't really wrap around different subjects.

    • @Ari-hc1vr
      @Ari-hc1vr 6 лет назад +3

      no, the aren't. they don't mean the same thing.

  • @ABaumstumpf
    @ABaumstumpf 6 лет назад +473

    "you are tearing me apart Lisa."
    And the saddest addition to autoantonyms:
    "literally"

    • @voxelfusion9894
      @voxelfusion9894 6 лет назад +34

      The way people use literally in the current year is literally the worst.

    • @cornekeetels5293
      @cornekeetels5293 6 лет назад +17

      Stijn Broekhuis doesn’t everyone using it the wrong way turn it into everybody saying it correctly. Language is the way we make it to be.🤔🤔 (my attempt at sounding deep)

    • @me3333
      @me3333 6 лет назад +2

      So many people use "literally" and "theoretically" incorrectly that they probably should change the definitions in the dictionary.

    • @voxelfusion9894
      @voxelfusion9894 6 лет назад +8

      me3333 I think that most people haven't heard of the word "figuratively" and use literally to sound hyperbolic.

    • @kaizov2940
      @kaizov2940 6 лет назад +14

      Literally literally does not mean what literally used to literally mean.

  • @HIROX13
    @HIROX13 4 года назад

    I like the work "Set". loads of meanings

  • @LuizBHMG
    @LuizBHMG 3 года назад +3

    Autoantonym: in Portuguese there is a fun one: "relevar". It is a verb that has two meanings: to make something relevant or important. Or… to forget something, don't think about something.

  • @seto007
    @seto007 6 лет назад +103

    This was like Vsauce lite. It would light up my day if you made more videos like this.

  • @DadSkool
    @DadSkool 6 лет назад +166

    but you may 'phish' in a financial bank

    • @DanKeehner
      @DanKeehner 6 лет назад +6

      Johnny James Take my like, you made my morning.

    • @ReneePrower
      @ReneePrower 6 лет назад +2

      Once again, the day is saved thanks to homophones.

  • @dentistrider3874
    @dentistrider3874 Год назад

    Bro really said "Descriptionist" instead of "Descripivist" 😂 Great way to visualize these concepts!

  • @creativeoj
    @creativeoj 4 года назад +4

    My favorite autoantonym is "Cleave," which has two definitions: to hold tightly to, and to spilt apart from. However the English language produced two words that look the same, and sound the same but have such drastically different meanings, I'll never know.

    • @KarasuInaiga
      @KarasuInaiga Год назад

      Yes you will, just look it up in Wiktionary!

  • @PenisGabber
    @PenisGabber 6 лет назад +143

    dongonyms

  • @FruityBasket99
    @FruityBasket99 5 лет назад +236

    After the 'bank' joke I went to like the video, but to my disappointment realised I already had, like damn.

  • @donlimoncelli6108
    @donlimoncelli6108 Год назад +1

    The rancher with three offspring named his homestead "Focus" because it's where the sons raise meat.

  • @chrismanuel9768
    @chrismanuel9768 Год назад

    Usually these videos are things I already know that I watch for entertainment.
    This one? All new information

  • @losingluke
    @losingluke 5 лет назад +149

    When you make an entire RUclips video to prove some people wrong
    Dong: 100

    • @mabus4910
      @mabus4910 5 лет назад +6

      ...and then say "I don't care how you say it"

  • @andrewoliver7069
    @andrewoliver7069 4 года назад

    Love the art in the background.

  • @JojoJere
    @JojoJere Год назад +6

    Pet bell men 9:30

  • @DullFiction
    @DullFiction 6 лет назад +166

    Michael's laugh
    0:05
    1:22
    1:35
    6:12

  • @FUMoonMoney
    @FUMoonMoney 4 года назад +631

    Did literally nobody do the “Pet, Bell, Men” thing?...

    • @rodgertaubsr7567
      @rodgertaubsr7567 4 года назад +91

      Im sure some people did but their messages were covered up because people comment before watching the full video

    • @unboy
      @unboy 4 года назад +31

      A helpful RUclips creator, after suggesting viewers comment on a specific aspect of the video, should pin as the top comment the one which best addresses that suggestion.

    • @chorusTaurus
      @chorusTaurus 4 года назад +67

      I thought it was men, bell, pet

    • @felixroux
      @felixroux 4 года назад +40

      I thought he said it in that order. Looked like that, and knowing Michael it probably was.

    • @damamoot2291
      @damamoot2291 4 года назад +18

      @@felixroux I agree, I think he said pet first cuz he opened his mouth more on that one and for the others it's a 50/50 pretty much but yeah, Michael would do that.

  • @MikeLCF
    @MikeLCF Год назад

    The eerie music makes this very surreal

  • @toxicnukem
    @toxicnukem Год назад

    that end was as smooth as butter

  • @DeanBaileyPhotography
    @DeanBaileyPhotography 6 лет назад +206

    You may phish in a financial bank though...

  • @shubhamraj25
    @shubhamraj25 6 лет назад +77

    0:33 *VSAUSE TRADEMARK*

  • @80cardcolumn
    @80cardcolumn 2 года назад +1

    “Mean” can mean (among other things):
    - Below average, poor, inferior quality. The mean streets of .
    - Average, the middle position. The mean test score was 75.
    - Above average, excellent. He plays a mean guitar.

  • @spazzyavalanche4563
    @spazzyavalanche4563 4 года назад

    Just for the people that want to know the song in the beginning the song is called Jack the Lad or Sailors Hornpipe

  • @4xdblack
    @4xdblack 6 лет назад +60

    I'm loving these special Michael sessions, where it's just the two of us.

    • @gristCollector
      @gristCollector 6 лет назад +3

      4xdblack Just Michael.

    • @4xdblack
      @4xdblack 6 лет назад +3

      Whatever you do, don't delete his character file.

    • @lukas9150
      @lukas9150 6 лет назад

      Or should you say, joust the two of you?

  • @wave3308
    @wave3308 6 лет назад +225

    Did VSauce just move to the DONG channel?

    • @Leo-zk9rd
      @Leo-zk9rd 6 лет назад +18

      Wave that's what I'm wondering

    • @nofanfelani6924
      @nofanfelani6924 6 лет назад +51

      perhaps Vsauce and Dong are homonym

    • @Nohfegea
      @Nohfegea 6 лет назад +40

      He said on the Vsauce subreddit that DONG now is where he explains themes that are too small for a full video or just fun facts, whereas the official Vsauce channel is for big (>20 min long) videos with a lot of research or something like that.
      www.reddit.com/r/vsauce/comments/86a49b/can_anyone_tell_me_why_the_vsauce_videos_of/

    • @wave3308
      @wave3308 6 лет назад +3

      Nohfegea makes so much sense now! Thanks for the info

    • @sanyammishra1263
      @sanyammishra1263 6 лет назад +9

      He probably would have forgotten the password of Vsauce account

  • @Adambenhmida0000
    @Adambenhmida0000 Год назад +3

    11:04 the way he says that outro man

  • @QuitebrokeN
    @QuitebrokeN 3 года назад

    "we gotta wind up...we're out of time.."
    that sounded so depressed it made me frown

  • @singhanmolpreet5935
    @singhanmolpreet5935 6 лет назад +309

    OR ARE THEY?

  • @Depleted-Uranium
    @Depleted-Uranium 5 лет назад +116

    Or Are They?
    *vsauce theme doesn't play

  • @haroldwhitney6130
    @haroldwhitney6130 7 месяцев назад

    Very very thorough.

  • @alangrant5278
    @alangrant5278 11 месяцев назад

    This wound me up
    In more ways than won

  • @mostlyaditya
    @mostlyaditya 6 лет назад +207

    DONG has turned into Vsauce1 confirmed

    • @tigerkill420
      @tigerkill420 6 лет назад +14

      Aditya Tiwari yea vsause1 is now a RUclips red channel. I guess this is where we come for free vsause content

    • @iLqkk
      @iLqkk 6 лет назад +4

      good! i miss vsauce1

    • @mizuro13
      @mizuro13 6 лет назад +2

      Aditya Tiwari which is a good thing

    • @readmore3208
      @readmore3208 6 лет назад +1

      Tanuki I saw your thumbnail and I was like did I wright that?

    • @mikelopez4533
      @mikelopez4533 6 лет назад +1

      Can't tell if you're upset about that or not. I'm good with it. Do miss IMG tho.

  • @jabezzgames4055
    @jabezzgames4055 5 лет назад +79

    I SEE MEN
    ICY MEN
    AY SEMEN

  • @CasMcAss
    @CasMcAss 11 месяцев назад

    Why the did I tear up when michael said we gotta wind up and that we're out of time? It hit different for some reason

  • @Catslug
    @Catslug 6 лет назад +532

    ...soup

  • @BarryBruh
    @BarryBruh 6 лет назад +308

    whats a synonym for thesaurus?

  • @Artifex421
    @Artifex421 11 месяцев назад

    The difference between the "the's" is also phonotactic.
    /ðə/ is used before words beginning with a consonant; "the bridge"
    /ði/ is used before vowels; "the apple" It creates a transitional /j/ consonant instead of forcing a glottal stop.

  • @shargo498
    @shargo498 Год назад

    He has successfully attain the power to influence reality on a cosmological level. Just by explaining stuff he can change reality to his will.

  • @Vasharan
    @Vasharan 6 лет назад +21

    Auto-antonyms are also sometimes called contronyms, and there are a surprising number of them that are used commonly in English. Buckle, screen, sanction, out, cleave, fast, etc.

  • @floatingbrick1217
    @floatingbrick1217 5 лет назад +34

    I slowed down the video to .25x speed and have determined that the order is "Pet, Bell, Men," and I will give my reasons, based on my amateur background in linguistics.
    General Information: All three samples follow the same format of phonemes, a bilabial consonant followed by the front open-mid unrounded vowel, and ending with an alveolar consonant.
    Sample 1: His lips open slightly more from the first consonant, which signifies the aspiration found in initial voiceless plosives /p, t, k/ in English. This immediately narrows down sample 1 to "Pet", as it has the only voicless plosive onset.
    Sample 2: The second and third samples were slightly harder, as /b/ and /m/ look nearly identical. However, the difference between /l/ and /n/ can be seen in the way his tongue narrows and points up in sample two, which indicates the alveolar lateral approximate /l/. As implied by the name, this consonant directs air around either side of the tongue, the tip of which rests against the alveolar ridge. This means that sample 2 must be "Bell"
    Sample 3: By process of elimination, sample 3 must be "Men."
    I hope my reasoning is convincing, and sorry for the technical lingo I had to use to get to my answer.
    -Edit: Fixed some capitalization inconsistencies

    • @ViliamF.
      @ViliamF. Год назад +5

      Agreed. I arrived at the same conclusion, with much more simplified reasoning (which makes the conclusions less certain, so kudos for deep linguistic analysis). Upper lip movement is greater for "P", tongue movement is greater at "L", and "men" is relatively weak in movements compared to the other two words.

    • @bighillraft
      @bighillraft Год назад

      mfs who took linguistics in university trying to use it irl

    • @RafaelMunizYT
      @RafaelMunizYT Год назад +1

      I have no experience with lip reading nor is english my first language and I came to the same conclusion for these reasons: when he says the first word you can see the T being pronounced. if he pronounced the T more subtlety, like a D it would be harder to distinguish. the second word is bell because his tongue curls up like an L. and the third word is men. the third word I can't explain how I spotted the difference but I can see him pronouncing the N in the end

    • @brydie191
      @brydie191 11 месяцев назад +2

      I thought this too! I was thrown off by it being in the same order as the example.