What is the Enchanting Table Language?

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  • Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
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    Leeuwe van den Heuvel - Dutch
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Комментарии • 220

  • @CasualConlanger
    @CasualConlanger Год назад +935

    I still have no idea what "baguette" means. This video was super unhelpful. 10/10 😎

    • @LotsOfS
      @LotsOfS Год назад +90

      It might be a reference to GTA: San Andreas. I know Notch does love that game. One of the magic spells in that game to get infinite health was "BAGUVIX". Then for Minecraft, I'm guessing the "VIX" part was too similar to Vex, a hostile mob that also has to do with magic, and so they scrapped that part of the spell and replaced it with something else, though I'm not entirely sure why it would be replaced with 'ette' specifically. Perhaps an Ette was a mob idea they wanted to implement but that ended up on the cutting room floor and never made it in the main game except for this trace mention in a weird encrypted word.

    • @notwithouttext
      @notwithouttext Год назад +33

      everyone's overthinking it. it's just a fancy spelling of "bag wet" because notch was thinking of the idea for the words while his bag was wet

    • @lexicornix7530
      @lexicornix7530 Год назад +9

      Baguette is the French word for the bread you use for a sandwich (Subway). It also means "wand".

    • @Somebodyherefornow
      @Somebodyherefornow Год назад

      @@lexicornix7530 ma baguette longue est "wet"

    • @notwithouttext
      @notwithouttext Год назад +13

      @@lexicornix7530 wooosh

  • @Vallee152
    @Vallee152 Год назад +387

    To your introduction, 'craft' can actually be used as a suffix, like 'witchcraft' meaning the "skill of witchery." "Minecraft" could be interpreted as the "skill of mining." I feel like this might actually be what the name means, since the name was keyed by a fan before crafting was even in the game.

    • @InventorZahran
      @InventorZahran Год назад +41

      Maybe the 'craft' part of that name inspired the game's creators to add the crafting element...

    • @mkks4559
      @mkks4559 Год назад +44

      Maybe the real craft was the friends we made along the way.

    • @Vallee152
      @Vallee152 Год назад +37

      @@mkks4559 I absolutely love the part where craftious said "it's craftin' time" and crafted all over the place

    • @InventorZahran
      @InventorZahran Год назад +10

      @@mkks4559 The real friends were the mines we crafted along the way.

    • @Sun-Tzu-
      @Sun-Tzu- Год назад +8

      That's exactly what I was thinking, I always thought it was something to the tune of Warcraft (WoW/fantasy) or Bushcraft (wilderness survival).

  • @LingoLizard
    @LingoLizard Год назад +715

    Never would’ve expected a K Klein video about minecraft

  • @Liggliluff
    @Liggliluff Год назад +293

    (0:15) Isn't that called a "compound"? It's assumed it's from 'to mine' and 'to craft', but it could just as well be from 'a mine' and 'a craft' (a skill, a trade). The result is a noun, a proper noun, and therefore called a "compound noun" specifically, since it's a noun from a compound.

    • @Gamesaucer
      @Gamesaucer Год назад +23

      You could read it several ways, I think.
      Noun + Noun = Noun: (1) Something produced by a mine or (2) from a mine, or (3) a mining tool;
      Noun + Verb = Verb: (4) To create a mine.
      Time to add it to the dictionary!

    • @louisrobitaille5810
      @louisrobitaille5810 Год назад +17

      @@Gamesaucer Or read it another way.
      Mine: (5) Explosive device, (6) setting up explosive devices.
      Craft: (7) Doing something with what you gathered, (8) a skill you're honing.

    • @sheikchilli8670
      @sheikchilli8670 Год назад +3

      @@Gamesaucer or we could see it as noun + verb that has been turned into a noun: minecraft, the craft of mines, analogous to the word witchcraft, but instead of witchery it's all about mining

    • @InventorZahran
      @InventorZahran Год назад +1

      Basketball is a game about baskets and balls. Minecraft is a game about mining and crafting. It's that simple!

    • @paper2222
      @paper2222 Год назад

      @@InventorZahran not so simple.
      is "mining" and "crafting" a verb or a noun?
      i say "yes".
      but the answer may be different for other people

  • @robertskitch
    @robertskitch Год назад +93

    Kinda funny that Minecraft also has its very own cypher alphabet but you wouldn't know it. Technically it is in the game but you cannot find it via normal gameplay.
    From the update notes for snapshot 21w37a:
    "Added illageralt, rune-like font from Minecraft Dungeons (currently only usable via commands)"
    So, yeah, it's originally from the spin-off game 'Minecraft Dungeons' (and was used in the teaser videos for the game). I guess they added it to the main Minecraft game so that it could be used by mapmakers and modmakers and such?

  • @thalesvondasos
    @thalesvondasos Год назад +133

    I always thought the words in Minecraft were nouns, not verbs, similar to spellcraft.

    • @angeldude101
      @angeldude101 Год назад +17

      English likes using words as different parts of speech than they were originally without actually inflecting the word at all. Checking Wiktionary, both "mine" and "craft" seem to have been nouns before they become verbs.

  • @hoangkimviet8545
    @hoangkimviet8545 Год назад +77

    Minecraft, the most widely known compound word in English, even foreigners do not intend to learn it.

  • @Autumn-Muse
    @Autumn-Muse Год назад +51

    That feel when the linguist forgets what a compound word is.

  • @--Paws--
    @--Paws-- Год назад +84

    Who knew you can learn about Doom lore about Minecraft.

  • @truckjumperdude
    @truckjumperdude Год назад +46

    FINALLY A MINECRAFT VIDEO

    • @IdoN_Tlikethis
      @IdoN_Tlikethis Год назад +8

      we are one step closer to seeing those old minecraft videos >:)

  • @johnsonyip1127
    @johnsonyip1127 Год назад +22

    scientists are still trying to figure out what the ancient egyptians meant with the combination of letters "baguette".

  • @chao3948
    @chao3948 Год назад +24

    the linguistics and conlanging communities are so intertwined in my head that I need to make an actual effort to not assume anyone who posts about linguistics on the internet is automatically into conlanging. This runs so deep in my brain and I don't really know why

    • @EchoLog
      @EchoLog Год назад +5

      I have to remind myself the same thing since I basically started conlanging and cyphering before I finished learning my native language.

    • @Writer_Productions_Map
      @Writer_Productions_Map 9 месяцев назад +1

      All Conlangers are Linguistics nerds, but not all Linguistics nerds are Conlangers

  • @Diriector_Doc
    @Diriector_Doc Год назад +26

    Damn. I'm gonna have a really hard time making finding a translation for "baguette" when I translate this video into French.

  • @einootspork
    @einootspork Год назад +9

    "This block is used to get rid of Lapis Lazuli"
    too real man

  • @limalimon1738
    @limalimon1738 Год назад +36

    Great vid! It's crazy to listen to a native Swedish person pronounce Notch's real name 2:11

  • @PixelBytesPixelArtist
    @PixelBytesPixelArtist Год назад +9

    There was like a year long period we’re people (children) online would just call every single writing system that wasn’t Latin “Minecraft enchanting language”. Like especially Hebrew and Chinese for some reason.

    • @neoqwerty
      @neoqwerty Год назад +1

      at least that beats calling it "moonrunes" (which is what we used to call it when we didn't know which script it was and didn't want to accidentally call, say, hebrew "arabic" or other mistakes, so moonrune got catch-all'd.
      Sounds like calling it Minecraft enchanting language is just an attempt to revive moonrunes that died under the length of its own name?

  • @benjaminclehmann
    @benjaminclehmann Год назад +9

    You're correct that Xyzzy is from Colossal Cave Adventure and given that it's commonly used in video games as a cheat code this is probably why it's in minecraft.
    However, as a math person it gave me whiplash back to introductory linear algebra because it's a mnemonic for remembering how to compute cross products. If a = b x c then a_x = b_y * c_z - b_z * c_y, and note that the subscripts spell xyzzy. For a_y and a_z you rotate the subscripts (x -> y -> z -> x). In fact there's a theory that this is where it came from in that video game, but Wikipedia says that the creator was unaware of it.

  • @thehydrogen
    @thehydrogen Год назад +10

    Next, a video on the linguistics of Villagers

  • @ZarlanTheGreen
    @ZarlanTheGreen Год назад +10

    Doomguy is a descendent of the guy from Wolfenstein? That's kinda amusing, and not too surprising.
    *_Commander Keen!? WTF!?_* He's related to those guys!?

    • @kklein
      @kklein  Год назад +9

      officially commander keen is the grandson of Blazkowicz. doomguy is either the son or grandson of commander keen (son I think, but the Wiki says grandson) i think it's pretty cool

    • @ZarlanTheGreen
      @ZarlanTheGreen Год назад

      @@kklein It's quite surprising! Nice to know.

  • @hariharpuri1362
    @hariharpuri1362 Год назад +25

    Finally talking about the weird character of the enchantment table and as a polylingual and it has always bothered me 😅
    But great video ❤

  • @鿰鿰鿰鿰
    @鿰鿰鿰鿰 Месяц назад +1

    translated them
    0:44
    1.) elemental of dry
    2.) humanoid darkness
    3.) hot ph'nglui xyzzy
    0:54 & 1:09
    1.) range stale water
    2.) destroy inside w(water,wet or wgah'nagl)
    3.) fhtagh stretch
    1:06 , 1:18 , 1:20 - right & 1:28 - bottom right
    1.) ball other air
    2.) stale towards p(physical or ph'nglui)
    3.) scrolls other spirit
    1:13 - top left
    1.) other enchant r(range or r'lyeh)
    2.) stretch inside cold 😳
    3.) galvanize creature
    1:15 mid right (diagonal)
    1.) galvanize creature -again
    2.) stretch other
    3.) limited earth
    between 1:16-1:17 bottom left (diagonal) & 4:05
    1.) imbue berata klaatu
    2.) bless elder cthulhu
    3.) shorten bless niktu
    between 1:17-1:18 & 4:00 - bottom right
    1.) galvanize creature -again,again
    2.) limited earth -again
    3.) shorten bless niktu -again

  • @UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana
    @UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana Год назад +8

    I would love to see a game implement humming/freeform sign (as in not an actual sign language) instead of a language or monogrammar alt language, just because it will result in everyone being very confused 😵‍💫, while understanding what is being said, while not understanding how they understand what is being said for weeks on end.

  • @cs127
    @cs127 Год назад +10

    k klein minecraft gameplay videos when

  • @Boppercat
    @Boppercat Год назад +8

    I had always thought that it was all random characters, guess I was kinda right.

  • @TheoOliverAndersen
    @TheoOliverAndersen 5 месяцев назад

    The protection 2 you get on your diamond chestplate at 1:02 translates to "destroy inside w"

  • @glowjoe09
    @glowjoe09 8 месяцев назад

    i swear the way you tell us about sponsors makes me go "Ahhh you got me this time" while pointing at the screen

  • @heypeopleitsmatt
    @heypeopleitsmatt Год назад +18

    But does it tell you anything about the enchantment

    • @kklein
      @kklein  Год назад +33

      nope

    • @Dmanepic
      @Dmanepic Год назад +5

      @@kkleinsomeone needs to make a texture pack to do that

    • @kklein
      @kklein  Год назад +15

      @@Dmanepic i think that would require a mod :/

    • @kacperwoch4368
      @kacperwoch4368 Год назад +2

      @@Dmanepic You can just replace the enchantment alphabet with english in the game files. I did that once some 10 years ago but then realized it made no sense so i changed it back. I guess that was my first modding experience.

  • @Krazylegz42
    @Krazylegz42 Год назад +2

    Love a video featuring my favorite classic video game character

  • @the_real_one3659
    @the_real_one3659 Месяц назад +1

    just learned the galactic alphabet and I have never been that disappointed while reading the enchantements. At 0:54 Its litteraly written range stale wat, destroy inside w and fhtagn stretch😕😕😕😭😭🙏

  • @nukollodda
    @nukollodda 7 месяцев назад

    Will say love the conlang critic reference at 3:38

  • @mnm1273
    @mnm1273 Год назад +2

    About 30% of this video is an ad (31,5% is post ad transition).

    • @kklein
      @kklein  Год назад +1

      yes this is true, thus it is placed at the end

  • @Liggliluff
    @Liggliluff Год назад +4

    It's a shame Minecraft couldn't have made its own cypher, and also base it on the Swedish A​B​C​D​E​É​F​G​H​I​J​K​L​M​N​O​P​Q​R​S​T​U​V​X​Y​Z​Å​Ä​Ö alphabet, and have the strings generated actually mean something in Swedish.
    This would land it between F and F- since it's using a different natlang with a different script.

  • @flexibrain7018
    @flexibrain7018 Год назад

    i was 20 years old when i saw a video that told me that smog is the combo of smoke and fog. i can't believe i didn't realise that-

  • @Mercure250
    @Mercure250 Год назад +1

    Gotta love that jan Misali reference

    • @tookiecar1
      @tookiecar1 Год назад

      “Welcome to conlang critic where I roast your favorite conlang”

  • @CallofFreaky
    @CallofFreaky 3 месяца назад

    0:11 a sequence of mine and craft, just like the game

  • @samiralawton7497
    @samiralawton7497 Год назад +2

    Fantastic video. Short, funny, and informative

  • @MWoyde
    @MWoyde Год назад +5

    It’s nice to see that some people seem to have the same ADHD tangents about random scripts or language related things out there

  • @CallofFreaky
    @CallofFreaky 3 месяца назад

    Gonna get a tattoo in enchantment table so no one can make a tweet making fun of the mistranslation

  • @randomperson7716
    @randomperson7716 Год назад +3

    omg that's me at 4:11

  • @werlynakadera1944
    @werlynakadera1944 Год назад +1

    What’s funny is that this script looks kinda like my conlang script completely by coincidence

  • @yoro__33
    @yoro__33 Год назад +3

    not the linguistics video i expected to see today

  • @XSotaxX
    @XSotaxX 8 месяцев назад

    "U" looks like he had a bad day...

  • @gilperry6782
    @gilperry6782 Год назад +4

    i never understood the "Hebrew looks like enchantment table language" saying. it might just be because I'm used to the Hebrew alphabet but I've never seen the similarities

    • @tuluppampam
      @tuluppampam Год назад

      I'd go as far as saying that I feel like hangul looks closer to enchantment script than Hebrew does

    • @georgenoodles1387
      @georgenoodles1387 Год назад

      I think its because of the like..... squarish style it has ?? You know what i mean right like hebrew is very squarey

    • @GoldsteinGuy
      @GoldsteinGuy 2 месяца назад

      Actually as I kid playing minecraft knowing hebrew as my only language I tried to read (not very successful)
      It’s very similar

  • @ethelmini
    @ethelmini Год назад

    It's obviously a portmanteau of Minehead witchcraft.
    Lap-is laz-u-li(e)

  • @h0rn3d_h1st0r1an
    @h0rn3d_h1st0r1an Год назад +3

    "If there is one thing I know he loves is being anti-semetic."
    I KNEW I WASN'T INSANE

  • @aimfulRenegade
    @aimfulRenegade Год назад

    i remember deciphering the enchantment table glyphs trying t figure out what the random words meant.

  • @jmurray1110
    @jmurray1110 Год назад +1

    Technically the doom marines name is very dependant on the timeline and era
    Doom 3 is the doom marine, doom 1 and 2 is doomguy and doom 2016/eternal is the slayer or the doomslayer but they are basically all just code names in a comic he’s BJ blatzuits the third and in slither he flynn tagart where the code to get doom 2 in eternal comes from

  • @Pangloss6413
    @Pangloss6413 Год назад +1

    Isn't doomguy named Flynn Taggart tho?

  • @r.sulfuratus
    @r.sulfuratus Год назад +1

    Illumina was not on the list of channels I follow that I expected to see featured on here.

  • @protondium_8927
    @protondium_8927 Год назад

    Didn't even realize this was a K Klein video just by the thumbnail!

  • @RichConnerGMN
    @RichConnerGMN Год назад +6

    bruh, why are you calling notch the creator of minecraft when everyone knows he stole the credit from hatsune miku
    thank you for pointing out the antisemitism in the villager design though, i've seen it mentioned but only on tiny scales and never from someone with a following as large as yours. i'm not even jewish and it really bothers me.

  • @Wolfstray
    @Wolfstray Год назад +2

    this video felt like watching adhd in action

  • @robims5048
    @robims5048 Год назад

    This video is a hard contender for best video I have seen this decade.

  • @ethanmcdermott8738
    @ethanmcdermott8738 Год назад +5

    Would love to hear more about the conlang tier list

  • @fluff8102
    @fluff8102 Год назад

    minecraft isn't a sequence of words, its a single compound word.

  • @JNCressey
    @JNCressey Год назад +1

    I think it's more like a transliteration rather than a cipher.

    • @swedneck
      @swedneck Год назад

      i believe transliteration is a broader term, it *can* mean simply swapping characters but it can also be quite a bit more complex like with chinese.

  • @mekelius
    @mekelius Год назад

    Oh right, not everyone grew up obsessed with the commander keen games. Or even knows what they were...

  • @alexanderlori7651
    @alexanderlori7651 Год назад +3

    A crossover of my two favorite topics on youtube oh you legend k klein🤤🥰

  • @bobboberson8297
    @bobboberson8297 Год назад

    youre getting too good at this

  • @louisrobitaille5810
    @louisrobitaille5810 Год назад

    1:32 You sound like you're trying to swallow a baguette whole xD

  • @dank.
    @dank. Год назад

    Ah yes, wolfenstein 3d clones, my favorite. Truly the most defining game released by ID. I really liked the video's more goofy topic than usual, but as a devout doom eternal fan I just couldn't let this go lmao. Love it, keep up the good work!

  • @b34m270
    @b34m270 Год назад

    I always thought of the name as being mine and the suffix -craft analog to "witchcraft"

  • @patrik5123
    @patrik5123 Год назад

    Wildly underrated channel.

    • @kklein
      @kklein  Год назад

      thanks 🙏🏻 appreciated :))

  • @adamfields2661
    @adamfields2661 Год назад

    I like the Jan misali reference

  • @zocorzwiftshot
    @zocorzwiftshot Год назад +1

    best swedish pronounciation from a brit ever confirmed

    • @burner555
      @burner555 8 месяцев назад

      He's swede tho

    • @zocorzwiftshot
      @zocorzwiftshot 8 месяцев назад

      @@burner555 sounds pretty damn british to me

  • @TrueSchwar
    @TrueSchwar Год назад +1

    Hey! Linguistic Minecraft is my thing!

  • @stuffmorestuff6647
    @stuffmorestuff6647 Год назад

    It's nice that this video, unlike most others, made it abundantly clear that it was an absolute waste of my time

  • @Boombampop.
    @Boombampop. 8 месяцев назад

    standard galactic alphabet. that's it.

  • @mandoalessonsbackup
    @mandoalessonsbackup Год назад +3

    🤣 when you said 1990 for PC, I thought you said 1990 B.C.

  • @nick2555v6
    @nick2555v6 Год назад

    Minecraft is actually a portmanteau

  • @Marween
    @Marween Год назад

    This is so unexpected.

  • @none5020
    @none5020 Год назад

    Good music btw, spanish esc, reminds me of classical guitar from Switzerland.

  • @RmationYT
    @RmationYT Год назад

    Miraft

  • @vee2629
    @vee2629 Год назад +1

    FINALLY

  • @StoryTeller796
    @StoryTeller796 Год назад +1

    Is portmanteau=compound word?

    • @kklein
      @kklein  Год назад +2

      it's where you have a blend of words to form a new word. hence "bedroom" (or "minecraft") isn't a portmanteau, but "smog" or "motel" or "hangry" are.

  • @no1fanofthepals
    @no1fanofthepals Год назад +4

    Is «Minecraft» your favourite game?

    • @kklein
      @kklein  Год назад +12

      i like it a lot. probably not my favourite but definitely one of my favourites

    • @no1fanofthepals
      @no1fanofthepals Год назад

      @@kklein oh you replied nice

  • @scaevolaludens679
    @scaevolaludens679 Год назад

    Isn't Minecraft a composite, the act of crafting mines?

  • @-removed
    @-removed Год назад

    wait this whole time i was playing a game that is against me?

  • @scibanana3542
    @scibanana3542 Год назад

    no no, it's obviously a _bewitching_ table

  • @ChrissieBear
    @ChrissieBear Год назад +1

    It's the standard galactic alphabet from Commander Keen.

  • @strifera
    @strifera Год назад

    Kenning?

  • @MonkOrMan
    @MonkOrMan Год назад

    0:11 isn't this a compound noun?

  • @steadlexfrizzle7693
    @steadlexfrizzle7693 11 месяцев назад

    I wanna try to.edit the resource pack so that those letters become English alphabet and i can read them.

  • @MrChezzStudios
    @MrChezzStudios Год назад

    no comment I have seen has said anything about this and I know this is 4 months later, but what is the song played in the outro??? it is really bothering me that I can't figure it out!!! K Klein or someone with it, plz tell me!!!
    Edit: I found it and It is from The Legend of Zelda if I'm correct.

    • @kklein
      @kklein  Год назад +1

      that's just something i improvised myself, but it's similar to clock town from LoZ

  • @lusr2923
    @lusr2923 Год назад

    3:32

  • @pikachuisshook5535
    @pikachuisshook5535 Год назад

    Got notified quickly this time

  • @Napltn
    @Napltn Год назад +1

    I’m French
    The pronunciation of baguette hurted me

    • @kklein
      @kklein  Год назад +12

      what are you talking about? that's just a random gibberish word it doesn't have a real pronunciation

    • @Napltn
      @Napltn Год назад +1

      @@kklein it hurted me even more

  • @z3rocool
    @z3rocool Год назад

    i dont believe its a cypher im p sure its just a font

  • @colinpalmer5267
    @colinpalmer5267 Год назад

    BANG!

  • @denifnaf5874
    @denifnaf5874 8 месяцев назад

    Klaatu berata niktu

  • @Swagpion
    @Swagpion Год назад

    Minecraft is a compound word. Like cupcake.

  • @animatechap5176
    @animatechap5176 Год назад +5

    Are you ok?

  • @klop4228
    @klop4228 Год назад

    Isn't "minecraft" just a compound word?

  • @panqueque445
    @panqueque445 Год назад

    Well no, Minecraft is not a poor man's toe, it's a game, duh.

  •  Год назад

    I find it funny that you don't really consider "Minecraft" to be a portmanteau, as by that logic "porte-manteau" isn't a portmanteau either...

  • @ytuberonyt
    @ytuberonyt Год назад

    phew
    still here

  • @kvd1027
    @kvd1027 Год назад

    cool

  • @inforced
    @inforced Год назад

    Minecraftin

  • @Dmanepic
    @Dmanepic Год назад +1

    W language

  • @GuiSmith
    @GuiSmith Год назад

    Compound. “Minecraft” is a compound, by English standards.
    No I will not take second opinions. No it doesn’t matter that it makes no connection between the two words other than sequence of events, it makes a new meaning of utter grandeur.