3-4 chom choms, 1.5 cups flour, 1 cup sugar, 1 tsp baking soda, 0.5 tsp salt, 1 tsp vanilla, 2 eggs, 0.5 cups butter. Mix sugar and butter(soft). Whip until consistency of frosting. Mash chom choms and mix with beaten eggs Mix mash and sugar Slowly mix in dry ingredients Preheat oven to 350 F Pour mix into greased and floured bread pan Bake for about 55 minutes, top should be golden brown
There is a around fourth grade reading level book called "Frindle" in the book the main character asks his English teacher where the definitions of words come from. She explains fairly well and he decides to make a new word. He starts calling the writing instrument that uses ink a Frindle instead of a pen. He gets a classmate to do it, and then another. They start going to the convenient store after school and asking for Frindles and pointing to pens. By the end of the week when they asked for a Frindle the clerk would respond "Black or Blue?"
I loved that book! And the evil teacher started giving kids detentions for using the word and they would have to write "I am writing this sentence with a pen" like 500 times or something but the teacher would never look so they started writing "frindle" instead and gradually like the entire school was getting detention for this and it was just a great book.
I believe this is one of the difficulties of creative writing. You might describe certain things in a particular way, but there is no guarantee that the reader will get exactly what you meant, because they might have misunderstood it or interpreted it in a different way.
Finally! Someone who recognizes how crazy language is! The fact we can speak to one another is positively straight up insane. The more you look into it, the crazier it gets. Although I would dispute the idea that we can't know that our subjective experiences are the same, but I don't believe I could reach the level of proving it. Brains are not as different as most would suppose. And our senses directly imprint our experience of reality on our brains in ways which do not differ much. When you see an "A", there is a literal pattern of neurons exactly in the shape of an "A" which light up. That's just where the optic nerve connects, and it gets more complicated from there, but I think that suggests that the chances our subjective experiences differ significantly (at least for those of us raised in similar environments) are small. Back to how crazy language is, though. I say "apple" to you, and you picture an apple. I am able to project a pattern of neural activity into your brain. By vibrating meat parts in my mouth and throat. And you understand what I mean. Because when you were 2, someone made those noises a bunch of times when apples were around. And more generally because the people around you before age 5 frequently made similar noises when similar things were around. (A similar is VAGUE... sometimes a splatter of color on a piece of paper or a screen that has shapes kind-of like the thing you actually see (except flat, and at the wrong scale, and supporting none of the same interactions, and maybe even the totally wrong colors...) If they hadn't done that, then no amount of training could ever get you to understand that when I say "apple" I'm talking about a brand of computers. Obviously.
I had a friend in high school who had developed an entire language for him and his older sister to use called, "Loppy Doppy." And it wasn't just some Pig Latin easily-translated nonsense either, it took YEARS of listening to them talk to each other to even slightly catch on to what they were discussing and I never could figure out how to answer them properly in Loppy Doppy. They'd be going on like, "Loppuh showpa nippa jaru dopple kan?" And you'd just have to sit there, nodding along like, "Okay you could be speaking Sanskrit right now and I'd never know..."
This sounds a lot like the language my friend Chloe would speak, just in like how you just typed it. She taught it to my other friend that she was smashing so they could talk in front of me all the time. Drove me crazy.
Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies. Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand, dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, & what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? & what dread feet? What the hammer? what the chain, In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp, Dare its deadly terrors clasp! When the stars threw down their spears And water'd heaven with their tears: Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? Tyger Tyger burning bright, In the forests of the night: What immortal hand or eye, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
Ok, this is terrifying, I didn't notice the word ''Chom Chom'' until I saw it on reddit, and apprently, the reddit guy also got it from another reddit guy, so I trace the source, and here I am. Great job, Crash course, I think your ''Chom Chom'' have setting in for 2nd generations or more, I think this word might be here to stay if ppl work hard enough. By the sense of six (Or, in my opinion, four)degree separation, the word ''Chom Chom'' might well come to your own house without you knowing it.
Someone needs to make a new Wikipedia page for Chom Choms. Essentially a copy of the old "banana" page but correctly named. They need to be linked together.
Here is a new word to add to your mind's dictionary of terms- My school hopes to get it to actual word status! Spism- the curly addage on a piece of paper from a spiral notebook. /'spiz/um/ The ignominious freshmen handed the teacher a paper with spisms still attached and subsequently the paper ended up in the trash.
What do you mean by the curly addition? Are you referring to the section of a sheet of paper that's riddled with hole-punched circles so that the wire of the spiral binding can be wound through it?
I just came across your videos and can't stop binge-watching! Seriously, your content is insanely good! It's so awesome to see a channel who has a real purpose of educating the Internet generation rather than dull their minds. I feel like I, a sixteen year old girl, can take and learn a lot from your videos which I applaud you for. Keep up the good work, guys.
It would be kinda ironic if chom chom caught on but the term "Banana Republic" stayed around, causing history teachers to have to explain that banana is actually an archaic form of the word chom chom.
Can I just say that this has been possibly my favorite Crash Course series so far? I mean, you guys have made a lot of fantastic courses, but I think this is one of the most comprehensive and accessible guides to Philosophy available anywhere. You take 45 minute lectures and break them down into 10-minute videos, while still--somewhat miraculously--showing the nuance and complications embedded within each argument. More than anything else, I think it is so important that people learn and practice critical reasoning skills, especially analyzing arguments and counterarguments, and CC Philosophy does a terrific job of that
Beetles in the box is why I find relationships and emotions so hard. I feel SOMETHING for the other person but I'm worried that if my beetle has lesser meaning than their beetle, then I feel like I'm leading the other person on. Or another scary thing is maybe when I tell a girl that I 'like' her it's equivalent to her telling me she 'loves' me. So that after I've told her I 'like' her, I keep wondering why I can't say I 'love' her. My feeling may already be good enough for her to feel loved, but since I can't be sure which word to use and I end up making her feel undervalued. What would potentially be a perfect (no such thing as perfect) relationship, ends up in TEARS because of a damn beetle
7:44 I actually did this once for fun with my family, I started using the word "crab" as a kind of insult or to constitute someone's incompetence... I still can't get rid of it xD to some degree it is funny to catch the reactions you get after calling someone a "crab" in public
Are they really sheeple if they're making the choice on purpose? With intent? If they choose to do this because they find the potential outcome fascinating? Are you and I sheeple for using the word sheeple by following someone else? Where is the delineating line?
I've always wondered about the beetles in boxes analogy in my mind. Like perception of colors are simply labels for different shades but I've never been able to put it in words as well as this video to have a discussion about it. Thank you!
00.52 in and I propose that a game in philosophical terms is an activity with 1 or more active participants that serves a purpose. Either to entertain, occupy, or otherwise, keep someone's attention.
the vlog brother's community already set a name for something. The area below the video where the author puts references or links to things in the video. You know, the doobalydoo. I originally heard it in Vlog bros videos, then in videos of people associated with vlog bros, and only in the last month or three did I hear it from an author of a video not at all associated with them. Nerdfighteria has named something on the internet.
When I was younger, my dad, a mathematician, said that a definition for a thing just has to indicate the set to which that thing belongs, and the characteristic which distinguishes it from all other sets. For example, you could fine a giraffe by saying it was a mammal (set) with a long neck (defining characteristic), assuming no other animals have long necks.
China! They are beating us on language! I will make us win again, I will make our words great again. Our words will win and win and by the way, Jeb Bush, very low energy, terrible energy he is so weak but let me tell you this, very important, our words will be the best because I know words! I've had people call me and say: "Donald, thank you for your great words"
And I use those best words to make best phrases, like "Crooked Hillary", "Lying Ted", "Low Energy Jeb", "Your head will spin", "Believe me", and "I'm not gonna pay you for your work".
Simplest but undetailed explanation:A word has it's own meaning because we believe and/or agree that that is what that word means and is for. Example:You and your best friend invented a code chart you both agree on. Brothers-in-arms=Best friends who feel like brothers. Fox and bunny=A boy and a girl who are just strong friends but most ship them.
Trees are hard and true objects.That is a truth.Truces are trust between everyone that the other/s will keep their peace. There are 5 related English words here.
so basically Ebonics is as valid as english. Use it in class, kids, and refer the teacher to this vid when you get reprimanded. Teachers love that sort of thing. #chomchomsforharambe
Linguistically, ebonics or AAVE (African-American Vernacular English) are totally legitimate forms of communication. They may not be appropriate to use in certain scenarios though this is totally independent of their racial origins. People accept French as a legitimate language but your English speaking teacher would probably get pissed if you only spoke French in their class.
Depends on what you consider "Valid". Is Ebonics as widespread as English? Can you expect to find the same level Audience Meaning with Ebonics that you would with English. In certain parts of the world it may be true, but your class room may not be the best place for it. Until you can propagate Ebonics in your classroom to the point where everyone has a common understanding of what is being said then you might as well be speaking gibberish.
+Trevor Cuba AAVE is a totally functional and legitimate language. It has a speaker base who can mutually speak and understand the language, it has its own lexicon and its own rules for grammatical construction. It is a language, pretty much every linguist will agree on that. However, would it be useful to speak using AAVE to someone who doesn't understand it? no. Just like it wouldn't make any sense to speak Hawaiian to someone who doesn't speak it. That fact doesn't make AAVE any less "valid". It's a totally legitimate language and had similar properties to other languages. The language that you speak depends on what you assume the speaker will understand. If you don't think they'll get it, don't use it. I'd be less likely to use AAVE words and constructions if I were in rural Wisconsin because no one would understand them. If I were in a city with a high African-American population, it would be reasonable to assume that AAVE would be more likely to be understood.
+Trevor Cuba Additionally, many teachers in urban settings are more likely to understand AAVE simply due to exposure. So, again, depending on context, it might not be unreasonable to tell your teacher something like "I'm finna' do that assignment tonight".
+Trevor Cuba how do you define "English". I don't agree that you can say that there is one English that is the default. I speak/write Australian English. You probably speak another English. It's true that perhaps less people might understand AAVE than other Englishes, but I'd say even less would understand Welsh English or Broad Australian English, but you're not going to sack your teacher just because they're from Swansea or Geelong.
game: an activity that one can be better or worse at performed at least part for the purpose of positive engagement And yes, this implies that part of something's status as a game can be affected by the intent of the activity's inventor (if it has one), society at large's view of the activity, and/or the doer of the activity's intention
I love crash course. This comment is about the ad at the beginning of this, and some other, videos lately. I don't usually click the skip ad button, but when I saw that this ad had been running 57 seconds and had another 50minutes and 17seconds to go I skipped the ad and paused the video to write this comment. An hour ad? nope.
Omg i am so glad i am not the only one who thinks about this. I have wondered a great deal of my life if people actually see the same thing when they say they see a certain colour or thing.
"When people communicate verbally, there’s speaker meaning, which is what the speaker intends when using a word. And then there’s audience meaning, which is what the audience understands." I wrote in a paper some years ago something similar before realising it's context in philosophy; that communication is instant, interpretation is infinite.
Before finishing the first minute of the video I would say that a game is any activity that allows us to engage in using our brain in a different way than we would going throughout our day. After all a game comes with a goal therefore your brain is constantly figuring out how to play that game better and making little adjustments until eventually you get so used to swiping that it no longer matters how fast temple run goes. You just play until you’re board and once you’re board it’s no longer an engaging activity and you need a different game. Just like walking. When we learn to walk and run our body has to have that sense to balance our shift in weight until eventually we don’t even worry about falling anymore and if we start to we immediately know how to adjust and some people go to the next level with sports that require agility or incredible balance like figure skating or maybe dancing. I think games just a way exercise the brain and our human itch to compete wether it be against ourself, others, or the terms out in front of us like a diamond block behind a creeper and skeleton on the other side of a lava lake in Minecraft. Challenge Accepted. And then our brain just kicks into strategy mode if we decide to focus on the goal. So really any activity that you don’t do instinctively can’t be turned into a game if that’s what you decide to do. For example running is not a game. It’s a sport but humans can already run when they need to so it’s not engaging unless you buy stipulations on it that don’t necessarily have to accompany running like racing to a certain point. Just because you run doesn’t mean you know where you’re going so you can’t compete as if it’s a game but once you lie down the frame work as to what you are competing for then that’s what leads to you trying to figure out how to do it the best you need to in order to get the desired outcome. In humans the staring game is a game although humans look at things all the time we don’t willingly focus on staring longer than someone else for the most part. If you played the staring game with a dog you would be the only one playing because that dog has no idea what it’s apart of but the fact that you’re doing that for entertainment is what makes it a game for you and not for the dog. If you play tug of war with a dog then most people are actually playing a different game. We are trying to get the dog as excited as we can because we think that’s fun. The dog is trying to get the toy. If we were playing tug of war it wouldn’t be much of a game because most humans can hold on to whatever it is no matter what the dog does and all it takes for us is a quick hard yank and the dog loses. That’s not very engaging at all. That’s like saying the goal of the rain game is to get wet by rain. That’s going to happen already. This isn’t a very coherent point Im making and I feel like it could’ve been simpler but this is a comment not a essay for my professor. People don’t have to get it. I know what I mean when I say what a game is.
Thank you very much for making this video! I am really interested in linguistics and watch a lot of linguistics videos on _RUclips_, this video really helped me figuring out the real meaning of ambiguous words like ‘state’, ‘love’ and to better understand my role in the ‘language vs. dialect’ dilemma. Thank you! I truly believe that language and how we use words shapes the society we live in to a large extent. Also, now I am going to eat to the kitchen and get a chomp chomp!
Wittgenstein is right. I start to watch crash course philosophy from a more recent episode, and, after a while, I decide to watch everything from ep 1. Before watching ep 26 I got that "chom choms" means "banana" just because crash course community says it refereing to the fruit. Amazing!
Excellent book about how language shapes our understanding of the world is Lakoff and Johnson's "metaphors we live by", one of my favourite books and we'll worth a read!
Nice try. You should be glad he didn't get into the whole meaning of words in time too. I mean the Romans did stuff to make time pass in an interesting way by literally making other people fight to the death in front of them. And they called that The Games. And let's not get started on what a Circus was to them. Oo
In a weird way, YES! A meme is any piece of communicated culture, usually abstract in nature. We speak in memes and collective history, we use Hiroshima as a unit of measurement and a word for fornication as way of expressing basically any strong emotion. Language isn't the vehicle for memes, so much as the prime meme of a culture. And different cultures use different primary memes.
Scientists studying memes define them as the smallest unit of reproduced behavior. Since languages are made up of a lot of little pieces such as word-meaning pairings discussed in this episode it would be more accurate to say language is made out of memes.
sooo should we use chom choms for scale, now ? and my mother tongue is french, should I use chom choms in french too ? what would that imply for this linguistic community ? I need a venn diagram, now ! with chom choms in the middle !!
On the example of concepts for words being defined by observable behavior, (pain) I see a flaw in the argument. If I were to experience pain but not externalize it in anyway I still know that I am in pain, even if no one else does, I am still able to define pain internally, and those who saw me injure myself might still know that I am in pain without me showing any signs of it because they know that the same thing caused them pain, in this case it's not defined by an observed behavior but by a shared experience. I know that hurt me, so therefore it hurt them and that hurt we've both felt can agreeably be called pain.
I was hoping the other dude's "beetle" was an old Volkswagen Beetle! However, when I hear the word "buggy", off-road dune buggies racing in the desert come to mind! It's definitely regional, considering I'm from the American Southwest (Las Vegas in particular), surrounded by racing series like the Mint 500, Baja 1000, and many, many more...
chom choms is actually a kind of sweet in bangla language. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/BD_Porabarir_Chamcham.JPG/1024px-BD_Porabarir_Chamcham.JPG
It seems to me that the definition of a "game" is a voluntary challenge. One can make one for oneself, or agree on one with selected others. It also seems to me that we can't talk about meanings of words in a general way--many technical words do have very specific meanings, while some of our most common words have fuzzy ones. Language is based upon agreement (as is art). Even in the midst of violent disagreement, our shared reality is vast, and the fact that we hang in there arguing for hours attests to this. While there are subjective and objective aspects to the words we use, it's our intention (or lack of) to understand each other that makes language work (or not).
i am taking a course called words : formation and meanings in my third year of college as a English major student. And i wanna say, this helps a lot ! i am going to have the test tmr. Wish me good luck.
I'm first. There are no comments yet. Now's my chance to claim victory . My impact will shape the rest of the comments that follow . I must choose the following words carefully. Hi. I like cats
I'm reading Wittgenstein's Brown and Blue book right now. It sort of feels like he is attempting to define philosophy and reason's limits, specifically in language, but maybe in all our symbolic communication.
This can only be true if the dualism of mind matter and physical matter exists. In a purely physical world, we can actually explain how subjective feeling feels like (eg. black-and-white room thought experiment). Like you have stated before, dualism has quite a bit of problems attached to it.
There already is a wikipedia page for chom choms and apparently it's a popular dessert in Bangladesh. The ingredient list for chom chom doesn't have any actual chom choms, but it does look quite tasty.
Any good recipes for Chom Chom bread?
3-4 chom choms, 1.5 cups flour, 1 cup sugar, 1 tsp baking soda, 0.5 tsp salt, 1 tsp vanilla, 2 eggs, 0.5 cups butter.
Mix sugar and butter(soft). Whip until consistency of frosting.
Mash chom choms and mix with beaten eggs
Mix mash and sugar
Slowly mix in dry ingredients
Preheat oven to 350 F
Pour mix into greased and floured bread pan
Bake for about 55 minutes, top should be golden brown
There is a around fourth grade reading level book called "Frindle" in the book the main character asks his English teacher where the definitions of words come from. She explains fairly well and he decides to make a new word. He starts calling the writing instrument that uses ink a Frindle instead of a pen. He gets a classmate to do it, and then another. They start going to the convenient store after school and asking for Frindles and pointing to pens. By the end of the week when they asked for a Frindle the clerk would respond "Black or Blue?"
I genuinely just ctrl+f'd for "frindle."
I loved that book! And the evil teacher started giving kids detentions for using the word and they would have to write "I am writing this sentence with a pen" like 500 times or something but the teacher would never look so they started writing "frindle" instead and gradually like the entire school was getting detention for this and it was just a great book.
Whoaaaaaaaa I had entirely forgotten that book existed until this very moment. Wow, I've read a lot of books.
I believe this is one of the difficulties of creative writing. You might describe certain things in a particular way, but there is no guarantee that the reader will get exactly what you meant, because they might have misunderstood it or interpreted it in a different way.
*Noah Chom-Chomsky has entered the chat*
Finally! Someone who recognizes how crazy language is! The fact we can speak to one another is positively straight up insane. The more you look into it, the crazier it gets. Although I would dispute the idea that we can't know that our subjective experiences are the same, but I don't believe I could reach the level of proving it. Brains are not as different as most would suppose. And our senses directly imprint our experience of reality on our brains in ways which do not differ much. When you see an "A", there is a literal pattern of neurons exactly in the shape of an "A" which light up. That's just where the optic nerve connects, and it gets more complicated from there, but I think that suggests that the chances our subjective experiences differ significantly (at least for those of us raised in similar environments) are small.
Back to how crazy language is, though. I say "apple" to you, and you picture an apple. I am able to project a pattern of neural activity into your brain. By vibrating meat parts in my mouth and throat. And you understand what I mean. Because when you were 2, someone made those noises a bunch of times when apples were around. And more generally because the people around you before age 5 frequently made similar noises when similar things were around. (A similar is VAGUE... sometimes a splatter of color on a piece of paper or a screen that has shapes kind-of like the thing you actually see (except flat, and at the wrong scale, and supporting none of the same interactions, and maybe even the totally wrong colors...) If they hadn't done that, then no amount of training could ever get you to understand that when I say "apple" I'm talking about a brand of computers. Obviously.
I had a friend in high school who had developed an entire language for him and his older sister to use called, "Loppy Doppy."
And it wasn't just some Pig Latin easily-translated nonsense either, it took YEARS of listening to them talk to each other to even slightly catch on to what they were discussing and I never could figure out how to answer them properly in Loppy Doppy.
They'd be going on like, "Loppuh showpa nippa jaru dopple kan?"
And you'd just have to sit there, nodding along like, "Okay you could be speaking Sanskrit right now and I'd never know..."
were*
This sounds a lot like the language my friend Chloe would speak, just in like how you just typed it. She taught it to my other friend that she was smashing so they could talk in front of me all the time. Drove me crazy.
falsebuild what's the origin of a chom chom?
Was it very similar to English? What was the phoneme inventory like? Was it just vocab or were there syntactical differences from English?
plot twist: they were speaking spanish and you're from uptown manhattan
My name is Anna
I live in Louisiana
I listen to Nirvana
And I like chom choms
Most of the time, to slant rhyme is just fine.
I don't think Nirvana rhymed anyway....
Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies.
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp,
Dare its deadly terrors clasp!
When the stars threw down their spears
And water'd heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
Tyger Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
If you live in Louisiana
and your name is Anna.
May I suggest Santana?
+Inferno Cop Blake, wtf?
Ok, this is terrifying, I didn't notice the word ''Chom Chom'' until I saw it on reddit, and apprently, the reddit guy also got it from another reddit guy, so I trace the source, and here I am.
Great job, Crash course, I think your ''Chom Chom'' have setting in for 2nd generations or more, I think this word might be here to stay if ppl work hard enough. By the sense of six (Or, in my opinion, four)degree separation, the word ''Chom Chom'' might well come to your own house without you knowing it.
chom choms for the win
Ya. Its easier to say chom choms than bah-nah-nahs
Yes, and here we are.
Trivia: Chom choms are rich in potassium.
And chom choms are relatively inexpensive at Costco (~US$0.49/lb.)!
CALL BANANAS CHOM CHOMS???
im dedicated.
Me too
Definitely
yes!
YASSSSSSSSSSS
Let's make our chom choms thrive!
It's like that book 'Frindle'! Where this kid starts calling pens 'frindles' and it catches on until it's in the dictionary.
That book is the best
Oh ya I read that book!
lol I came down here to say exactly this
no, it's fiction
'Frindle' is a perfectly cromulent word.
Chom chom is so ridiculously fun to say. I really hope it cathces on.
yeah but...so is banana
especially in the Minions voice. BA NA NAAAAAAA
know the internet will go "chom chom for scale" when showing a picture
It's catching on. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomchom
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+Larry Lewinsohn That's not a banana.
Someone needs to make a new Wikipedia page for Chom Choms. Essentially a copy of the old "banana" page but correctly named. They need to be linked together.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana
I saw that, but a lot of words have multiple meanings and pages for each. We need a new Chom Chom page
Can we maybe not terrorize wikipedia?
SlimThrull Do not betray the Chom Choms
Here is a new word to add to your mind's dictionary of terms- My school hopes to get it to actual word status!
Spism- the curly addage on a piece of paper from a spiral notebook.
/'spiz/um/
The ignominious freshmen handed the teacher a paper with spisms still attached and subsequently the paper ended up in the trash.
You are welcome!
What do you mean by the curly addition? Are you referring to the section of a sheet of paper that's riddled with hole-punched circles so that the wire of the spiral binding can be wound through it?
My friend uses spiral notebooks, and I use composition notebooks. I like edges clean, and she doesn’t care. We’ve been having a spism chasm.
I just came across your videos and can't stop binge-watching! Seriously, your content is insanely good! It's so awesome to see a channel who has a real purpose of educating the Internet generation rather than dull their minds. I feel like I, a sixteen year old girl, can take and learn a lot from your videos which I applaud you for. Keep up the good work, guys.
for the glory of chom choms!
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sheeple
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yeah! sheeple
chom choms!
It would be kinda ironic if chom chom caught on but the term "Banana Republic" stayed around, causing history teachers to have to explain that banana is actually an archaic form of the word chom chom.
Can I just say that this has been possibly my favorite Crash Course series so far? I mean, you guys have made a lot of fantastic courses, but I think this is one of the most comprehensive and accessible guides to Philosophy available anywhere. You take 45 minute lectures and break them down into 10-minute videos, while still--somewhat miraculously--showing the nuance and complications embedded within each argument. More than anything else, I think it is so important that people learn and practice critical reasoning skills, especially analyzing arguments and counterarguments, and CC Philosophy does a terrific job of that
Beetles in the box is why I find relationships and emotions so hard. I feel SOMETHING for the other person but I'm worried that if my beetle has lesser meaning than their beetle, then I feel like I'm leading the other person on.
Or another scary thing is maybe when I tell a girl that I 'like' her it's equivalent to her telling me she 'loves' me. So that after I've told her I 'like' her, I keep wondering why I can't say I 'love' her. My feeling may already be good enough for her to feel loved, but since I can't be sure which word to use and I end up making her feel undervalued. What would potentially be a perfect (no such thing as perfect) relationship, ends up in TEARS because of a damn beetle
Mama always said: "Life is like a box of beetles, you never know what you're gonna get."
The solution is to be completely forward and if people don't like that.
Ehhhh
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tell her what she wanna hear ;)
wittgenstein said that same thing that every problem in our social world comes from language
Definitely my favorite episode so far. I love thinking about this stuff.
chom chom for scale
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One of us...
I was looking for this comment
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I would love to call bananas chom choms, cause that's adorable... but I rarely talk about bananas
No, you rarely talk about chom choms.
*I rarely talk about chom choms
My chom chom is definitely something to talk about tho.
Chom choms are amazing
Bananas are nothing to talk about. Chom choms are something to rave about!
casually adds chom choms to urban dictionary.
Chom chom is Vietnamese for rambutan, FYI ;)
that's true.
That's just schmerkles!
is my chom the same as your chom?
Don't say that at work lol
My chom is bigger than yours.
Nah
Is a chom a small chomchom?
ma chom2 is bigger than urs
Please make a chom chom shirt!
This series needs to win some kind of award - it's that amazing. Thank you for your hard work.
Crash Course linguistics? Anybody?
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Hosted by Tom Scott. Make it happen, you guys.
If Bananas are now Chom Choms can Pajamas be Pajom Joms?
Chom Choms in Pajom Joms XD
I love it!
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Terrible Tallrus
Why on earth would he blame you O.o
You're just some random guy in the comments he didn't even know until you commented ;D
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mickiooo DAMN IT! SOMEONE CALLED ME A PAJOM JOM! IT'S ALL TALLRUS' FAULT!
7:44 I actually did this once for fun with my family, I started using the word "crab" as a kind of insult or to constitute someone's incompetence... I still can't get rid of it xD to some degree it is funny to catch the reactions you get after calling someone a "crab" in public
This playlist has the most interesting comments section; no one's spamming "Oh, who else is here studying for their AP test?"
Knife fights is my favorite game
my favorite game is kill all humans
+wayne sanford hi bender!
Russian roulette is better (see deer hunters)
The solitair version sucks....
we practice with chom-choms
A game is something that I just lost. And so have you, I'm afraid.
screw you (i lost the game)
Wow, is this still being played?
+QED It is never not being played. There are only people who have lost the game before, and those who haven't yet.
be afraid, be very afraid
No, we won:
xkcd.com/391/
Gotta love them chom choms, so delicious.
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My chom choms are often stolen by trash pandas. It's why I dislike meatspace.
sheeple
Are they really sheeple if they're making the choice on purpose? With intent? If they choose to do this because they find the potential outcome fascinating? Are you and I sheeple for using the word sheeple by following someone else? Where is the delineating line?
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I've always wondered about the beetles in boxes analogy in my mind. Like perception of colors are simply labels for different shades but I've never been able to put it in words as well as this video to have a discussion about it. Thank you!
00.52 in and I propose that a game in philosophical terms is an activity with 1 or more active participants that serves a purpose. Either to entertain, occupy, or otherwise, keep someone's attention.
I recently started philosophy classes because of these videos, thanks Hank and the entire team behind it :D
Gwen Stefani's gonna have to change her lyics... C is chomchoms C-H-O-M-C-H-O-M-S!
*lyrics
Nah, she should just shut up :)
Lol, yeah.
the vlog brother's community already set a name for something. The area below the video where the author puts references or links to things in the video. You know, the doobalydoo. I originally heard it in Vlog bros videos, then in videos of people associated with vlog bros, and only in the last month or three did I hear it from an author of a video not at all associated with them. Nerdfighteria has named something on the internet.
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Wheezywaiter originally came up with that
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When I was younger, my dad, a mathematician, said that a definition for a thing just has to indicate the set to which that thing belongs, and the characteristic which distinguishes it from all other sets. For example, you could fine a giraffe by saying it was a mammal (set) with a long neck (defining characteristic), assuming no other animals have long necks.
Whoever made the call of placing knife fights closer to the paradigm than underwater breath holding ... I love you
Is that Sherlock and Watson at 6:10 in the bottom left?
I guess that means... the game is on. Or something punny like that. And I love how you are one of the few who pointed that out!
Ad Fl yes it was them... guess they like BBC's too
It takes time and effort for animation team to make those avatar. So, they just randomly put them there instead of creating new avatar.
They are also an iconic pair of friends!
Wow! Nice job seeing that
man I could really go for a chom chom right now...
my prof literally linked 3 of these crash course video as he cannot come to today's class and told us to learn for ourself
So tough a subject so easily explained. Thank you!
You are too good in simple explanations.
This sh!t is chom choms, C-H-O-M-C-H-O-M-S!
Again this sh!t is chom choms, C-H-O-M-C-H-O-M-S!
Few times I've been around that track...
"I have the best words" -Trump 2016
"Everyone calls me and says, 'Donald, your words, we love them.'"
China! They are beating us on language! I will make us win again, I will make our words great again. Our words will win and win and by the way, Jeb Bush, very low energy, terrible energy he is so weak but let me tell you this, very important, our words will be the best because I know words! I've had people call me and say: "Donald, thank you for your great words"
And I use those best words to make best phrases, like "Crooked Hillary", "Lying Ted", "Low Energy Jeb", "Your head will spin", "Believe me", and "I'm not gonna pay you for your work".
He speaks so bigly!
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I can't wait for *Thomas Nagel's* new book: _"How does it feel to be a chom chom?"_
Simplest but undetailed explanation:A word has it's own meaning because we believe and/or agree that that is what that word means and is for.
Example:You and your best friend invented a code chart you both agree on.
Brothers-in-arms=Best friends who feel like brothers.
Fox and bunny=A boy and a girl who are just strong friends but most ship them.
Trees are hard and true objects.That is a truth.Truces are trust between everyone that the other/s will keep their peace.
There are 5 related English words here.
awesome how you guys break down these things most people don't get.
Always bring a Chom Chom to a party!!!!!
Chom Choms are good!!!!
I love chom choms!
Have you ever tried bananas?
+Соɾу ℛ. What does that crazy word mean?
+Соɾу ℛ. What are those?
Chom choms are the best!
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so basically Ebonics is as valid as english. Use it in class, kids, and refer the teacher to this vid when you get reprimanded. Teachers love that sort of thing.
#chomchomsforharambe
Linguistically, ebonics or AAVE (African-American Vernacular English) are totally legitimate forms of communication. They may not be appropriate to use in certain scenarios though this is totally independent of their racial origins. People accept French as a legitimate language but your English speaking teacher would probably get pissed if you only spoke French in their class.
Depends on what you consider "Valid". Is Ebonics as widespread as English? Can you expect to find the same level Audience Meaning with Ebonics that you would with English. In certain parts of the world it may be true, but your class room may not be the best place for it. Until you can propagate Ebonics in your classroom to the point where everyone has a common understanding of what is being said then you might as well be speaking gibberish.
+Trevor Cuba AAVE is a totally functional and legitimate language. It has a speaker base who can mutually speak and understand the language, it has its own lexicon and its own rules for grammatical construction. It is a language, pretty much every linguist will agree on that. However, would it be useful to speak using AAVE to someone who doesn't understand it? no. Just like it wouldn't make any sense to speak Hawaiian to someone who doesn't speak it. That fact doesn't make AAVE any less "valid". It's a totally legitimate language and had similar properties to other languages. The language that you speak depends on what you assume the speaker will understand. If you don't think they'll get it, don't use it. I'd be less likely to use AAVE words and constructions if I were in rural Wisconsin because no one would understand them. If I were in a city with a high African-American population, it would be reasonable to assume that AAVE would be more likely to be understood.
+Trevor Cuba Additionally, many teachers in urban settings are more likely to understand AAVE simply due to exposure. So, again, depending on context, it might not be unreasonable to tell your teacher something like "I'm finna' do that assignment tonight".
+Trevor Cuba how do you define "English".
I don't agree that you can say that there is one English that is the default.
I speak/write Australian English. You probably speak another English. It's true that perhaps less people might understand AAVE than other Englishes, but I'd say even less would understand Welsh English or Broad Australian English, but you're not going to sack your teacher just because they're from Swansea or Geelong.
game: an activity that one can be better or worse at performed at least part for the purpose of positive engagement
And yes, this implies that part of something's status as a game can be affected by the intent of the activity's inventor (if it has one), society at large's view of the activity, and/or the doer of the activity's intention
I love crash course. This comment is about the ad at the beginning of this, and some other, videos lately. I don't usually click the skip ad button, but when I saw that this ad had been running 57 seconds and had another 50minutes and 17seconds to go I skipped the ad and paused the video to write this comment. An hour ad? nope.
I see we started the language part of philosophy.
When will we get to Noam Chom-Chomsky?
Wow, this was a great episode!
Excuse me while I go have a chom chom.
Chom chom ftw! I submitted it to urban dictionary help spread the word.
Omg i am so glad i am not the only one who thinks about this. I have wondered a great deal of my life if people actually see the same thing when they say they see a certain colour or thing.
these discussions r d basis for natural language processing
I love how the 'shoe horn' is drinking laudanum.
God, the vaguest cluster concept
Just finished drinking a strawberry and chom chom smoothie
"When people communicate verbally, there’s speaker meaning, which is what the speaker intends when using a word. And then there’s audience meaning, which is what the audience understands." I wrote in a paper some years ago something similar before realising it's context in philosophy; that communication is instant, interpretation is infinite.
Before finishing the first minute of the video I would say that a game is any activity that allows us to engage in using our brain in a different way than we would going throughout our day. After all a game comes with a goal therefore your brain is constantly figuring out how to play that game better and making little adjustments until eventually you get so used to swiping that it no longer matters how fast temple run goes. You just play until you’re board and once you’re board it’s no longer an engaging activity and you need a different game. Just like walking. When we learn to walk and run our body has to have that sense to balance our shift in weight until eventually we don’t even worry about falling anymore and if we start to we immediately know how to adjust and some people go to the next level with sports that require agility or incredible balance like figure skating or maybe dancing. I think games just a way exercise the brain and our human itch to compete wether it be against ourself, others, or the terms out in front of us like a diamond block behind a creeper and skeleton on the other side of a lava lake in Minecraft. Challenge Accepted. And then our brain just kicks into strategy mode if we decide to focus on the goal. So really any activity that you don’t do instinctively can’t be turned into a game if that’s what you decide to do. For example running is not a game. It’s a sport but humans can already run when they need to so it’s not engaging unless you buy stipulations on it that don’t necessarily have to accompany running like racing to a certain point. Just because you run doesn’t mean you know where you’re going so you can’t compete as if it’s a game but once you lie down the frame work as to what you are competing for then that’s what leads to you trying to figure out how to do it the best you need to in order to get the desired outcome. In humans the staring game is a game although humans look at things all the time we don’t willingly focus on staring longer than someone else for the most part. If you played the staring game with a dog you would be the only one playing because that dog has no idea what it’s apart of but the fact that you’re doing that for entertainment is what makes it a game for you and not for the dog. If you play tug of war with a dog then most people are actually playing a different game. We are trying to get the dog as excited as we can because we think that’s fun. The dog is trying to get the toy. If we were playing tug of war it wouldn’t be much of a game because most humans can hold on to whatever it is no matter what the dog does and all it takes for us is a quick hard yank and the dog loses. That’s not very engaging at all. That’s like saying the goal of the rain game is to get wet by rain. That’s going to happen already. This isn’t a very coherent point Im making and I feel like it could’ve been simpler but this is a comment not a essay for my professor. People don’t have to get it. I know what I mean when I say what a game is.
"Tweeting is a slippery slope that leads to drinking alone."
Stop trying to make fetch happen.
There is also 'the game'
Just lost it :(
+Andre Vieira Oh come on.
Time to play the gamee. Mwuahaha.
danmit, I lost...
i lost...
I HATE YOU
Thank you very much for making this video! I am really interested in linguistics and watch a lot of linguistics videos on _RUclips_, this video really helped me figuring out the real meaning of ambiguous words like ‘state’, ‘love’ and to better understand my role in the ‘language vs. dialect’ dilemma. Thank you!
I truly believe that language and how we use words shapes the society we live in to a large extent.
Also, now I am going to eat to the kitchen and get a chomp chomp!
That was incredibly insightful
the "my red may not be your red" thing deserves an episode of its own
You can just check out Vsauce.
Man now I really want a chom chom. One of my best friends is allergic to them
I already do this word replacement thing with fizzy good
I read a book with my 4th grade called "Frindle." It is all about a kid inventing a word and recruiting his linguistic community. That's all.
Wittgenstein is right. I start to watch crash course philosophy from a more recent episode, and, after a while, I decide to watch everything from ep 1. Before watching ep 26 I got that "chom choms" means "banana" just because crash course community says it refereing to the fruit. Amazing!
Excellent book about how language shapes our understanding of the world is Lakoff and Johnson's "metaphors we live by", one of my favourite books and we'll worth a read!
a game is something that us do to make time pass in a interesting way
But a book or a movie is not a game.
but then you could consider someone doing something as simple as strumming a guitar or reading a game
Reading a book makes me pass time in an interesting game and by no means a game
But isn't "entertainment" kind of the same definition?
Nice try. You should be glad he didn't get into the whole meaning of words in time too. I mean the Romans did stuff to make time pass in an interesting way by literally making other people fight to the death in front of them. And they called that The Games. And let's not get started on what a Circus was to them. Oo
"Gottlab Frege" should be "Gottlob Frege"
or, in full, Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege.
Just a small thing 1:40 it's Gottlob Frege, not Gottlab Frege :-)
This show is just awesome
The meaning of a word is defined by usage, and a good model of this is in the practice of cryptography.
Is language a meme?
In a weird way, YES! A meme is any piece of communicated culture, usually abstract in nature. We speak in memes and collective history, we use Hiroshima as a unit of measurement and a word for fornication as way of expressing basically any strong emotion. Language isn't the vehicle for memes, so much as the prime meme of a culture. And different cultures use different primary memes.
Scientists studying memes define them as the smallest unit of reproduced behavior. Since languages are made up of a lot of little pieces such as word-meaning pairings discussed in this episode it would be more accurate to say language is made out of memes.
+Daniel Hall New thing learned! thanks a lot!
This wins for best comment oh my god and the responses I think I'm gonna cry
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It’s 2024, whos craving chom choms
sooo should we use chom choms for scale, now ? and my mother tongue is french, should I use chom choms in french too ? what would that imply for this linguistic community ? I need a venn diagram, now ! with chom choms in the middle !!
J'adore des tchome-tchomes.
Mi tre amas ĉomĉomojn.
C'est alors une chom chom ou un chom chom? Serai-je au chômage si je mange trop de chom choms ?
im russian
чом-чомы, чёрт возьми
Click click click chom choms click click, click click click clack.
On the example of concepts for words being defined by observable behavior, (pain) I see a flaw in the argument. If I were to experience pain but not externalize it in anyway I still know that I am in pain, even if no one else does, I am still able to define pain internally, and those who saw me injure myself might still know that I am in pain without me showing any signs of it because they know that the same thing caused them pain, in this case it's not defined by an observed behavior but by a shared experience. I know that hurt me, so therefore it hurt them and that hurt we've both felt can agreeably be called pain.
I was hoping the other dude's "beetle" was an old Volkswagen Beetle! However, when I hear the word "buggy", off-road dune buggies racing in the desert come to mind! It's definitely regional, considering I'm from the American Southwest (Las Vegas in particular), surrounded by racing series like the Mint 500, Baja 1000, and many, many more...
chom choms is actually a kind of sweet in bangla language.
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/BD_Porabarir_Chamcham.JPG/1024px-BD_Porabarir_Chamcham.JPG
Farabi Phoenix পুরা অস্থির
Anyone else see Sherlock and John at 9:31??
Word.
It seems to me that the definition of a "game" is a voluntary challenge. One can make one for oneself, or agree on one with selected others. It also seems to me that we can't talk about meanings of words in a general way--many technical words do have very specific meanings, while some of our most common words have fuzzy ones. Language is based upon agreement (as is art). Even in the midst of violent disagreement, our shared reality is vast, and the fact that we hang in there arguing for hours attests to this. While there are subjective and objective aspects to the words we use, it's our intention (or lack of) to understand each other that makes language work (or not).
i am taking a course called words : formation and meanings in my third year of college as a English major student.
And i wanna say, this helps a lot !
i am going to have the test tmr. Wish me good luck.
Literally died laughing from when he said who can stay quiet the longest, I can so relate
I'm first. There are no comments yet. Now's my chance to claim victory . My impact will shape the rest of the comments that follow . I must choose the following words carefully.
Hi. I like cats
you are not first
I like cats, too! I also like kitties, mousers, and felines.
Well, it's better than "I'm early, let me make a joke," at least!
This is how to intelligently meme. Good show
I like chom choms.
CHOM CHOMS ARE THE REVOLUTION
the answer to can we create meaning is in pop culture and music for example the slang used in rap music quickly becomes commonly used
I'm reading Wittgenstein's Brown and Blue book right now. It sort of feels like he is attempting to define philosophy and reason's limits, specifically in language, but maybe in all our symbolic communication.
last time I was this early wait for it .. the Mongols.
What about... THE GAME?
Patsonical just lost it
Seen that movie repeatedly and still can't figure it out!
I just lost the game.
Just lost the game. SMH
Just lost it too.
When you watch this video after reading 1984..
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This can only be true if the dualism of mind matter and physical matter exists. In a purely physical world, we can actually explain how subjective feeling feels like (eg. black-and-white room thought experiment). Like you have stated before, dualism has quite a bit of problems attached to it.
There already is a wikipedia page for chom choms and apparently it's a popular dessert in Bangladesh. The ingredient list for chom chom doesn't have any actual chom choms, but it does look quite tasty.