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
@@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"
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.
@@ERRAYAMAKASSARCENDEKIA bruh you responded to him 3 years later. Also its technically less than 11 minutes of explaining cuz the intro is 30 seconds and the outro also takes some time so youre broth wrong. Checkmate
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.
"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.
English has this as well... and a lot Eg water, train, bicycle, pseudoscientific, blue, one etc Instead of woter, trein, baisikl, soodossaientifik, bloo, wan
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.
"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.
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).
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.
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.
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
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).
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
In Swedish you can say" far får får får, nej får får inte får, får får lamm." And it basically means "father does sheep get sheep, no sheep does not get sheep, sheep gets lambs." And it's really confusing when people with a certain accent call lambs "fårungar".
Buffalo is a place. Buffalo is the plural of bison. To buffalo someone is to bully them. Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo (Buffalonian bison) (Buffalonian bison intimidate)] intimidate (Buffalonian bison).
pet-men-bell. pet has a bigger impact so the "e" has a bigger effect on your lips, since it gets a boost from that "p". men is second because m-e-n go together, that "m" kinda takes away the impact of that "e". and belt is somewhere between the two, or last. since you have to say "l" after "e" you stop the impact of that "e". there you have it, half drunk half high guy explains how to read on lips
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)
Pitch is a nice homonym...I personally can think of five different meanings from the top of my head: 1. The "height" of a musical note 2. Lateral angle of an aircraft 3. Introducing others to an idea 4. A stroke of some sort in various sport disciplines 5. The middleparts of stadiums
Luke Ernst Is that the same thing used on ships to coat some wooden parts? If not that's another thing. Also, 5 is the most wonderfully complex way to say 'another name for a sports field'.
My favourite example of odd synomous language is that people can be both "up for this" and "down for this" at the same time, as both antonyms have the same meaning in this case.
The German language has to offer something beautiful: Umfahren and Umfahren. It's the same word but the meanings are opposites. One is "drive around sb/sth" and the other is "run sb/sth over". Their only difference is their grammatical usage and the emphasize when speaking. German also has the bank homonym. But one is the financial building, the other is a bench.
assaqwwq doesn’t work for all romance languages (in italian is “banca” for bank and “panca” for bench) but the etymology is the same. It’s a case polysemis as result of semantic (=meaning) derivation from the germanic word “banch” referring to a place where people were sitting (bench) giving or waiting for money (bank)
How could you not mention 'Pitch'? Pitch = Tar (for your roof) Pitch = Tone/frequency Pitch = Sports field Pitch = Throwing something Pitch = The vertical attitude of a plane, complementing Roll and Yaw Pitch = To set up a tent See more at: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/pitch
Sort of 3 ways if you count *bbq,* which everyone pronounces as barbeque even though it's missing all the vowels. I'm actually curious how many people don't know that "bbq" is an abbreviation and not how you actually spell the word.
Travell Criner In actual usage, "two different ways" has the same semantic meaning as "another way", so he could just was well have said, "I didn't even know there was another way to spell 'barbeque'." Being that there is no semantic difference, then it is reasonable to conclude that there is also no semantic difference between "was" and "were" in this instance. In other words, stop being a prescriptivist. Grammar isn't concrete.
I disagree with your argument but I agree with your conclusion. However, I don't agree your conclusion proves your point. Nonetheless, this is a minor enough issue to agree to disagree.
You can't disagree with the argument and agree with the conclusion, since the conclusion is a direct result of the argument. Moreover, the conclusion absolutely proves my point, since it demonstrated perfectly the malleability of language. You're apparently one of those Dunning Krueger smart people. Stop overestimating yourself.
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
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.
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
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
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)
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
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.
In French we have: Vert = green Vers = towards Vers = verse (as in poetry) Ver = worm Verre = glass Vair = a kind of squirrel fur (this one's very rarely used)
Another type of things that end with "nym" are paroyms. The have different meaning, but sound SIMILAR in pronounciation and spelling. For example: Affect and Effect Continuous and Contiguous Eclipse and Ellipse
Me: * waiting for an amazing word for words that mean the same, sound the same and are spelt the same * Michael: Well, they're just the same word. Okay, yeah, fair enough.
I use the same calligraphy but not for 'e' but for epsilon, the greek letter ( I use it in maths/physics, often linked to small quantity ) In the wiki epsilon is written like that too : " ε "
I once read this masterpiece:
Unlockable could have two meanings:
1.The ability to be unlocked
2.The inability to be locked
@@kanupandit1683 You tried so hard to make a joke that it killed my internal being.
@@Zoova oh wait I just realized something
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
@@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"
Kanu Pandit un-lockable vs unlock-able
That’s simply the idea
Michael: dies
Family: he was a good man
Michael: Or was I?
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.
Family: demonic screaming
Anthony Janthony Crowley I think the word you’re looking for is “eulogy”
Guilherme Bernardes underrated
Miachel died
Or did he
Hey vsauce miachel here
a few people: yeah yeah, they're called homonyms
michael: im bouta end this man's whole career
700 👍
Ok
Michael: They are homonyms,
Me: Or are they?
Michael: Or are the?
1000 like
No
Internet: They're called homonyms
Michael: Here's 11 minutes of reasons why you're wrong
11 and a half*
still tho i find this comment funny af
@@ERRAYAMAKASSARCENDEKIA bruh you responded to him 3 years later. Also its technically less than 11 minutes of explaining cuz the intro is 30 seconds and the outro also takes some time so youre broth wrong. Checkmate
The “thanks for watching” is always so sincere. The same staggering level of sincerity at the end of every D!NG video.
And in Vsauce always
Dong
*DONG
And the intro is always a joke 😂
@@SuperIntenseGamer D!ng!!!! RREEEEEEE
Michael: *gets caught selling drugs*
Police Officer: "You’re under arrest!"
Michael: "Or am I?"
You're*
Is Mayonnaise an Instrument? Thank you
*Cue Vsauce music
@@spencerfuller149 check this out ruclips.net/video/Ldnecyy0FDU/видео.html
Proceeds to bamboozle and fascinate the officers. Then runs away concluding his argument.
wish i had michael as a teacher
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.
He is a teacher, in a sense.
I wish I had Koro-Sensei as my teacher...
DANDAN THE DANDAN yeah me too, what can be better than killing your own teacher
control your emotions kid
Not gonna lie when Micheal spellt it "barbaque" I immeadiatly went "oh damn I guess I was wrong my whole life".
Pure information authority
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
If it means anything, we get the word barbecue from barbacoa, which has an a in that spot
You: buys things
Me, an intellectual: purchases things
r/iamverysmart
r/woooosh
@@whiteface513abandonedchann8 r/entitledparents
r/imsorryjon
r/idontuseredditsoiwritethisjusttocontinuethereddittopicintheresponseshere
Michael is a slightly scary egg person who wants us to watch him play with his toys but that's okay
Triburos it's more than ok. It's gosh darn alright!
You mean he's becoming Northernlion.
Aaron Martinez that's exactly what I thought when I read this comment.
Hes a bearded egg, nothing more nothing less
He isn't an egg :(
"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.
The Delusionist And His Demons r/iamverysmart
Jordan
That was the wrong usage of the subreddit.
More like r/buttmarker
@@1SSJA wth is that subreddit? I can't find it on reddit anymore, did it get hit by the addons blackout protest or smth?
Michael: "I'm an adult."
*DOUBT*
Or is he?
Well he's not a nymph anymore
make sure to press X
You wouldn't go get a loan from a river bank and you wouldn't go fish in a financial bank..
*OR WOULD YOU*
André Martins well ok haha
You may not got to fish at a financial bank but some would try to phish at one.
You could phish in a financial bank.
On the internet, bank fishes you.
Honestly expected him to go on a tangent there
"it's not spelled the way it sounds"
*laughs in French*
Hon hon hon
*laughs in welsh*
Oiseau
french: "you have ten letters. you pronounce four of them."
English has this as well... and a lot
Eg water, train, bicycle, pseudoscientific, blue, one etc
Instead of woter, trein, baisikl, soodossaientifik, bloo, wan
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
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.
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.
Correct. However, the point is this *new* you only comes about because you become more *old* .
"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.
Very insightful, Jennifer. Thanks.
"Rock (Stone)" "Rock (Music Genre)" "Rock (To Move)"
PPL also reminded me of "Rock (The Rock)" and "Rock (Amazing or Exclamation)" Thanks ya'll
Nice
CAN YOU SMEELLLLLLLL
The Rock (Dwayne Johnson)
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).
And "Rock" (amasing)
THIS BLUE MY MIND.
Lol
ROFL
Or did it?
Your pretty funny with that their joke XD
Mad lad
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.
Well yeah, it isn't. It's pretty transparent. We only see it as blue because of how light works and eye works
Miserabilis r/woooooosh
*OR IS HE?*
@@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.
@@fufutg9543 the sky is not blue.
0:00 - 0:06
How I greet people
Ahoy there laddie! :D
SAME
SameeeE
I hope you got your noses strapped on
My parents when I ask them why they always take my New Years money:
1:23
Just steal their retirement funds and you'll be even.
grandma didnt stand a chance!
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.
I AM SHOOKETH
There's another example like that with the word "buffalo"
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo
yes
I’m so confused but I love this XD
Name the named naming name "name" to rename name name.
"I hope you have your noses strapped on."
I have ***SEVERAL*** questions.
Matthew BPbuds look up Chris fehn mask. He has a strapped on nose
I have ***SEVERAL*** noses >:D
RUclips: Demonetizes Michael’s videos
“You’re demonetized!”
Michael: Or am I?
Michael: *Goes through a 10 minute explanation*
*_First we need to know what exactly it means to be demonetized_*
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).
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
AHAHAHAHAHAHHAH
I thought he was gonna say it, I swear.
And that’s how I met your mother
Hahahahahahhahahahaha, you made my day😂
Hold my beer.
One of my favourite examples of homonyms at work is: "War does not determine who is right, only who is left"
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).
I want Michael to host meme review.
"This is a meme...
Or is it?"
Aye whatsup bro
I wanna see him on the Eric Andre Show
Or do you?
665th like rip
4:17 “But is cereal soup?” *vsauce music starts
*(Insert the "Is Cereal Soup?" script)*
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.
@@ferociousmaliciousghost there u go
@@miticobr173 what the....... , i see you re man culture as well
@@miticobr173 Isso devia ter mais likee
No "micheal here"?
This is truly the darkest timeline.
Here I made you a felt goatee until you can grow your own
It's not vsauce
Community reference nice
Who is Micheal? Is he from Isreal?
MrMindwavess I make the darkest timelines, having them all be genoci... where you talking about Undertale?
PET, BELL, MEN.
i agree
Yesss
Agree
I concur
Agreed
Me: Wanna go out?
Girl1: "I'm down."
Girl2: "I'm up."
Girl3: "I'm in."
Girl4: "I'm on."
*wana go *OOT*?
me: wanna go out?
girl1: "no"
girl2: "nope"
girl3: "nah"
girl4: "nay"
Girl5:"no"
but can you be inside both of them ?
"but can you be inside both of them ?" Only with extra-dimensional DONGs.
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.
“Ough” is also different in hiccough.
Also good luck with learning English. (I’m kinda late tho Ldol)
Those were tough when I was learning spelling in early life too. I used to get "tough" and "thorough" mixed up.
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:
“A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.”
even though i speak english natively i feel you
This was like Vsauce lite. It would light up my day if you made more videos like this.
I'm loving these special Michael sessions, where it's just the two of us.
4xdblack Just Michael.
Whatever you do, don't delete his character file.
Or should you say, joust the two of you?
1. Pet
2. Bell
3. Men
Thomas Orchard Same.
Same
That’s what I got
Same
Bell was easy to tell with the Ls :/
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
This show should just be called “Educational Memes”
DONG is better. 'Cause, like, DONG.
the perfect show for special kids
i disliked your reply
I let my kids watch dongs all night
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Vsauce and DONG are synonyms now I guess.
i'm fine with this
in that case i have a big vsauce
Alpha Good one m8.
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.
no, the aren't. they don't mean the same thing.
Michael's laugh
0:05
1:22
1:35
6:12
man 0:05 is a comedy vault
Press '0' for Ahoi!
Thank. You.
Michael: explains why homonyms isn’t the correct term
Me, who used homophones to begin with: *signature look of superiority*
But do you use neether or nayther, progress or prawgress and eether or ayther? (2:04 for context)
@@samuelhba8720 neether, progress and eether on top
Did literally nobody do the “Pet, Bell, Men” thing?...
Im sure some people did but their messages were covered up because people comment before watching the full video
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.
I thought it was men, bell, pet
I thought he said it in that order. Looked like that, and knowing Michael it probably was.
@@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.
When you make an entire RUclips video to prove some people wrong
Dong: 100
...and then say "I don't care how you say it"
Do
On a sheet of paper
Now,
Guys
Guillermo Recueero Hinojosa dong.
9:35 i think it was "pat, man , bell"
Men Pet Bell
man bell pet
Bell man pat
Ball, pat, man
Pet, men, bell
but you may 'phish' in a financial bank
Johnny James Take my like, you made my morning.
Once again, the day is saved thanks to homophones.
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.
After the 'bank' joke I went to like the video, but to my disappointment realised I already had, like damn.
Or are you?
Or have you
Or did you?
Or why you?
Or how you?
Imagine visiting Michael's home and having no context on why there's a piece of paper on the desk with just "DIARRH⬛️EA!" written on it
Antonym is the Antonym of Synonym, but Synonym isn't the Synonym of Antonym.
or is it?
🤯
WHAT THE FEK DID YOU DO
Mind blown
Kind of obvious 😂. Like the word play though
When Michael forgets his other channel’s password
In Swedish you can say" far får får får, nej får får inte får, får får lamm." And it basically means "father does sheep get sheep, no sheep does not get sheep, sheep gets lambs." And it's really confusing when people with a certain accent call lambs "fårungar".
Sonic mc.Edgelord toast toast toast
Yes im from finland soo i know. Oh god swedish is strange
Buffalo is a place. Buffalo is the plural of bison. To buffalo someone is to bully them.
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
(Buffalonian bison) (Buffalonian bison intimidate)] intimidate (Buffalonian bison).
Ma ma ma ma ma ma?
Did the mother horse scold the hemp? In Chinese
Fårungar? Why are you naming your sheep like you would name dragons?
"Let's look at three ways"
-Michael Stevens
pet-men-bell. pet has a bigger impact so the "e" has a bigger effect on your lips, since it gets a boost from that "p". men is second because m-e-n go together, that "m" kinda takes away the impact of that "e". and belt is somewhere between the two, or last. since you have to say "l" after "e" you stop the impact of that "e". there you have it, half drunk half high guy explains how to read on lips
it was bell instead of belt but still great job
@@Mex_Luigi how you know? :o
Skull I think you’ve missed the point there mate, the three words where pet, men, bell. Not pet, men, belt.
@@jackmack322 i tested this with different audio setups. Believe it or not what I said it's true
@Archive for rap channels that are blocked by UMG :^)
"you are tearing me apart Lisa."
And the saddest addition to autoantonyms:
"literally"
The way people use literally in the current year is literally the worst.
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)
So many people use "literally" and "theoretically" incorrectly that they probably should change the definitions in the dictionary.
me3333 I think that most people haven't heard of the word "figuratively" and use literally to sound hyperbolic.
Literally literally does not mean what literally used to literally mean.
You may phish in a financial bank though...
And you may suffer *alone* in a river bank.
“If you tear something I love, you might cause me to shed a tear.”
*I’D LIKE TO SEE THEM TRY.*
Pitch is a nice homonym...I personally can think of five different meanings from the top of my head:
1. The "height" of a musical note
2. Lateral angle of an aircraft
3. Introducing others to an idea
4. A stroke of some sort in various sport disciplines
5. The middleparts of stadiums
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So is there a history of some of those deriving from others, or are some of them coincidental?
Don’t forget a thick black semisolid used as fuel
Also “set”
Luke Ernst Is that the same thing used on ships to coat some wooden parts? If not that's another thing.
Also, 5 is the most wonderfully complex way to say 'another name for a sports field'.
6. Tar
7. To throw
8. To join in with something
...
My favourite example of odd synomous language is that people can be both "up for this" and "down for this" at the same time, as both antonyms have the same meaning in this case.
inflammable and flammable, inhabitable and habitable
Bro that trick was so clean! Bro that trick was so dirty! Mean the same
Teacher: Blew and Blue are homonyms
Me: I'm bouta end this man's whole career
The German language has to offer something beautiful: Umfahren and Umfahren. It's the same word but the meanings are opposites. One is "drive around sb/sth" and the other is "run sb/sth over". Their only difference is their grammatical usage and the emphasize when speaking. German also has the bank homonym. But one is the financial building, the other is a bench.
The bank homonym works exactly the same way in the Portuguese language. Banco as the financial building and the bench.
High Five :D
romanian too, and at this point id venture a guess that all latin languages will have it
It isn't only German. French has the word "apprendre", which can mean both "to learn" and "to teach".
assaqwwq doesn’t work for all romance languages (in italian is “banca” for bank and “panca” for bench) but the etymology is the same. It’s a case polysemis as result of semantic (=meaning) derivation from the germanic word “banch” referring to a place where people were sitting (bench) giving or waiting for money (bank)
actually air, aire, are, ayre, ere, err, eyre and heir is an octuplet
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.
@@ThorHC11 their is another form of are
@@smoceany9478 Yep, you're right. Should have figured that a hectare could be divided into ares. Touché.
@@ThorHC11 varies on accent
What about Eire? (Ireland)
OR ARE THEY?
Singh Anmol preet *music starts*
He knows it's such a meme at this point and it's great.
Classic
Or is it?
He said that when i read ur comment 😂
I’ve recently be thinking of creative homonyms myself and my two favorite are: Throne and thrown, Greece and grease
How could you not mention 'Pitch'?
Pitch = Tar (for your roof)
Pitch = Tone/frequency
Pitch = Sports field
Pitch = Throwing something
Pitch = The vertical attitude of a plane, complementing Roll and Yaw
Pitch = To set up a tent
See more at: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/pitch
Seier5000 pitch is also a type of alcohol
can also mean present as in pitch an idea
Jacob Bihary "pitching an idea" means to "throw and idea" it's not a different meaning for the word.
The pitch of the pitch caused the tent pitch to fall on my pitch
After I pitched a ball at too steep a pitch.
I didnt even know there was two different ways to spell barbeque
Sort of 3 ways if you count *bbq,* which everyone pronounces as barbeque even though it's missing all the vowels. I'm actually curious how many people don't know that "bbq" is an abbreviation and not how you actually spell the word.
Or how about the fact that it's "there *were* two different ways?"
Travell Criner In actual usage, "two different ways" has the same semantic meaning as "another way", so he could just was well have said, "I didn't even know there was another way to spell 'barbeque'." Being that there is no semantic difference, then it is reasonable to conclude that there is also no semantic difference between "was" and "were" in this instance.
In other words, stop being a prescriptivist. Grammar isn't concrete.
I disagree with your argument but I agree with your conclusion. However, I don't agree your conclusion proves your point. Nonetheless, this is a minor enough issue to agree to disagree.
You can't disagree with the argument and agree with the conclusion, since the conclusion is a direct result of the argument. Moreover, the conclusion absolutely proves my point, since it demonstrated perfectly the malleability of language.
You're apparently one of those Dunning Krueger smart people. Stop overestimating yourself.
This video blue my mind
ViaConnor *blew sorry if this was a pun, however the pun would have been emphasized with quotation marks.
I was so excited for him to get to the middle part. I was thoroughly underwhelmed.
whats a synonym for thesaurus?
glossary
Google
All of these responses are awful and I love it
Just lemon was fine, why'd you change it?
Darude - Duststorm
MIchael: "We gotta wind up, we are out of time"
me: Huh cool autoantonym
Michael: "And as always.. Thanks for watching"
me: Wait NO no NOOO
Liam Clow Smoothest outro of all time
@@angelmendez-rivera351 True
I like how he says "today's episode" as if Vsauce has any semblence of a regular upload schedule.
The rancher with three offspring named his homestead "Focus" because it's where the sons raise meat.
I love how at 6:56 he acts like everyone just got blown out of their seats
John Jackson
I was, actually I was twice because of how seat-blowing it was
Michel: I hope you have your noses strapped on!
Me: OH GOD I FORGOT THATS WHY I’M BLEEDING!!!
This comment is underappreciated
you had the chance to put voldemort into the joke...
testserver we were on the verge of greatness we were this close
@@testserverYT who
You're hiding it with the mask!
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
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.
mfs who took linguistics in university trying to use it irl
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
I thought this too! I was thrown off by it being in the same order as the example.
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
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)
Is it pronounced data or data?
Data
Definately data
sofkincool no it's pronounced data
Albusorus wtf it’s sooooo pronunced “data”
It's daada
Michael is the only person in the world that can make me watch an 11 minute video about English grammar😍
Hahahahaha so true, never thought about that but he totally is
Grammar in general the exact same rules and names apply in Spanish and Portuguese.
His expression and enthusiasim is just so hard to pass by
I hated studying English at school, but the older I get, the more fascinating I find the English language.
I wish he were my English teacher.....
0:33 *VSAUSE TRADEMARK*
so true ^.^
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
No one:
Michael: soup is soup
Everyone: pikachu_face.png
Or is it?
**Music plays**
Freemode Gaming that meme is played out, unoriginal, and lacks humor.
do better kid.
😮
Ah the soup here is made of soup
@@GRiMETiME leave him alone hes having his fun.
...soup
sup
......sp
spork
I'm at Soup
is cereal..?
Hey Vsauce, Michael here..... Or am I?
Omg that will be so good if he does a video about this
unoriginal.
Hello Dawgfans?, Micheel mere.
@@prickyguy2353 ya it can be good intro for a video.
7:50 "Well anyways, you guys, you get it you guys are smart. Homogrpahs..." Apparently whoever typed up these subtitles isn't smart lol
*no homonyms bro*
Your pfp fits perfectly
NO POMEGRANATES
And definitely no homographs
HarrisonFur dang u stole my comment
don't worry, i got you covered ruclips.net/video/Ldnecyy0FDU/видео.html
I actually really like this type of video, good job Michael
I now know the meaning of life.
what is it ?
42
I don't know the meaning of life, but I do know it's a homonym.
you mean like: 42 and for thy too? sry that's a homophone (almost)
Which one?
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.
Or Are They?
*vsauce theme doesn't play
UWU
@@sneezyguy793 please do not procreate
@@sneezyguy793 owo
@@sneezyguy793 ()\/\/()
Or did it?
So glad this wasn’t in English class.
Brandon Moore was for me
I feel like if Michael took his sweater off in the middle of the video, we might not even notice.
He did. lol Yes, I'm kidding.
Stu A
You just made me go check he didn’t
the second he said "Or are they?" I expected to hear the bell.
chills ran down my spine when i realized, i heard it in my head, but not in the video
In French we have:
Vert = green
Vers = towards
Vers = verse (as in poetry)
Ver = worm
Verre = glass
Vair = a kind of squirrel fur (this one's very rarely used)
PTNLemay
Thats why theyre saying
That something came from squirrel fur
But i cant remember what it really is
PTNLemay so a green worm running towards green glass would be "(a) vert ver (running) vers vert verre"?
Kueltalas
In French we put the adjective after the name for some reason. So it'd be "Un ver vert court vers un verre vert".
PTNLemay If someone said that sentence in France (not meaning to confuse people), would you be able to understand them? Genuinely curious!
Sam Cooke
Well, they would probably tell you "Worms crawl, they don't run." But yeah, if the context called for it, they would get it.
DONG has turned into Vsauce1 confirmed
Aditya Tiwari yea vsause1 is now a RUclips red channel. I guess this is where we come for free vsause content
good! i miss vsauce1
Aditya Tiwari which is a good thing
Tanuki I saw your thumbnail and I was like did I wright that?
Can't tell if you're upset about that or not. I'm good with it. Do miss IMG tho.
I cried
dude you're everywhere
no, but because we have the same interests it might look like I am
Yeah, i guess. I was sure i saw your profile pic on some other random videos but i figure i had some kind of deja vu lol
I wept
My eyes were sweating
Another type of things that end with "nym" are paroyms. The have different meaning, but sound SIMILAR in pronounciation and spelling. For example:
Affect and Effect
Continuous and Contiguous
Eclipse and Ellipse
"Set" would be an amazing word to discuss, since it has so many definitions.
"run" has more
You could say... it has no set definition. :P
Will be writing my parody script now
Hey Vsauce, Blur here. What is the K/D of a virus?
Michael: British and American way to spell diarrhea...
Latin: Am I a joke to you?
"diarrhea" /"diarrhoea" is from Greek. ("Flowing through")
@@jayfredrickson8632 That makes me picture things I don't want to picture.
this video feels like im about to leave and michael keeps speaking to keep me from leaving
Me: * waiting for an amazing word for words that mean the same, sound the same and are spelt the same *
Michael: Well, they're just the same word.
Okay, yeah, fair enough.
You're the only person I know who draws E like that ..
It's like a mirrored 3!
I use the same calligraphy but not for 'e' but for epsilon, the greek letter ( I use it in maths/physics, often linked to small quantity ) In the wiki epsilon is written like that too : " ε "
In his correction of Barbec(q)ue he did a regular E so he must use both
What do you mεan? It's a pεrfectly normal spεlling...
i write it like ε when i write fast, does that count? xP