Some notes about the sample section: The whole thing is heavily cut and edited, obviously, and is at 2x speed, so if you wanna see a more accurate sample, watch it at 0.5x speed. Secondly, the hat I wear is a Colorado hat, which I believe would be worn by people who go outside because 1. Colorado is the US state with the most outdoorsy residents and 2. The hat basically says co (for Colorado), resembling cỏ, the Vietnamese word for grass! Whenever the hat is on the floor, that represents the “hairy” tone, and whenever picked up, replaces being bald (I have hair and would like to keep it.)

@QuizmasterLaw

10 ай бұрын

no one would ever invent a conlang based on something so ridiculous as recurrent homophones and homonyms relying on a pictographic writing system and rigid grammar to disambiguate it

@mil87_

9 ай бұрын

As a Coloradan, I can indeed confirm that I have touched grass at least once.

Ah, the hardest language for a conlanger to speak

@iscrampad2194

9 ай бұрын

Hardest language to learn as a league of legends player…

@zasproductions9258

9 ай бұрын

@@iscrampad2194more like an average Discord mod

@aidungeon2591

9 ай бұрын

hardes langauge to len as a moba playa@@iscrampad2194

@chitsein4133

7 ай бұрын

ÆYĪ PËRUẞK

@ReatExists

7 ай бұрын

or gamers, or average internet users, or martians

I can imagine old speakers complaining that wearing a hat is 'lazy' compared to shaving / growing hair, and that young speakers own pocket sized cuts of turf

@EchoLog

9 ай бұрын

If mustaches, masks, makeup, and other head-things count, dialects must be wild.

@oriscomapping1565

9 ай бұрын

As a member of the leg hair dialect, I can confirm

@MalachiCo0

5 ай бұрын

And then I would accuse them of LARPing as an old person and then tell them to touch grass

I have a Greenlandic accent when I speak this language. I touch rocks.

@tobithesergal

9 ай бұрын

Rocks? Greenland? Sounds like a dwarf to me

@Ravioli638

8 ай бұрын

Rock and stone!

I also want people to know that the sample was close to 40 minutes of raw footage that needed to be cut down massively.

Between Touching Grass and Kaybop(f) we now have two conlangs with phonemic hats. What a time to be alive!

@newdmitrij201

9 ай бұрын

except in kay(f)bop(t) you don't speak without hats

@kjl3080

9 ай бұрын

Oh god there's two of them now

@hiraunia

8 ай бұрын

If i had a nickel for everytime there was a conlang that involved hats in communication I'd have two nickels; which isn't alot but its weird that it happened twice

@haXXiGD

8 ай бұрын

YES

3 minutes of a guy sitting in the grass, hitting it and taking his hat on and off. Really good content.

“You know, like in Vötgil” This activated my startle response and fight-or-flight response

@rainbowlack

7 ай бұрын

Were you a bit excited?

@janmusi

9 күн бұрын

@@rainbowlack he was ready to fight

I like how, since we are not shown and it is not known whether lingo lizard is bald or not, the example could either be the introduction to the bee movie or complete nonsense.

I see, the Secret-Handshake Vietnamese creole has entered the ring, legendary

Technically speaking, by reskinning Vietnamese grammar & syntax this is a form of Vietnamese Sign Language that's actually closer to Vietnamese than actual Vietnamese Sign Language.

@tentathesane8032

10 ай бұрын

vietnam should officially adopt it then

@Woistwahrheit

10 ай бұрын

I would die if they used this 😳

@randomserb761

10 ай бұрын

This is not a form of Vietnamese Sign Language, even though it's an artificial sign language based on Vietnamese.

@hiraunia

8 ай бұрын

​@@randomserb761Its not a good form of Vietnamese sign language

@randomserb761

8 ай бұрын

@@hiraunia It's not a form of Vietnamese Sign Language - period. VSL is a distinct language, genetically entirely unrelated to Vietnamese. This conlang, which happens to use the hands as articulators (though in a fashion very alien to actual natural sign languages), is based on Vietnamese, not VSL.

for important context, are you originally bald or do you have hair? because that dramatically changes the signs you're using throughout the video. other than that, great tutorial, thx! I've been wanting to touch grass for a while and this video really helped me do that

I like this conlang, because it gives a reason for conlangers to go outside 🙂

Finally a language that pandas might speak accidentally from time to time. Bamboo is a grass after all.

@Indian_Gamer_PSS

8 ай бұрын

r/woosh

@rasmusn.e.m1064

8 ай бұрын

@@Indian_Gamer_PSS how is that a woosh? are we experiencing a meta-woosh rn?

@haXXiGD

8 ай бұрын

imagine if you were a native speaker and you just walk by a panda and it says "fuck you"

When aliens come to Earth, this will be the language we will use to communicate

I would love to see a “choreographic sign(con)lang” where the “phonemes” or “morphemes” are dance moves 🕺

@edwinkjellzahn

8 ай бұрын

I know there’s a couple dance styles in India that do something like that, but I don’t remember what it’s called, although I’m pretty sure it has to do with Mudras, which are hand or full body gestures in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Janism.

@Solotocius

8 ай бұрын

So basically what bees do lol

@Eic-L

6 ай бұрын

The same person who made a writing system for sign languages also made one for choreographies

TF YOU MEAN YOU HAVE TO WEAR A HAT THAT IS WORN BY PEOPLE WHO GO OUTSIDE?!💀

@MinpikuWasTaken

10 ай бұрын

Aren't hats like... made for people that go outside????

@fernit0505

10 ай бұрын

@@MinpikuWasTaken fedoras

@psychokineticism

8 ай бұрын

no fedoras allowed here

Fluent speakers would probably choose words poetically so as to minimize placing/removing their hat. Shiny shaved heads or excessively long hair would become status symbols for intellectuals, only to eventually be derided as pretentious.

@godowskygodowsky1155

9 ай бұрын

Traditional Vietnamese poetry already has a flat sharp system for its tones. Perhaps you could relex to make it coincide.

passersby probably thought you were beating up grass and then throw your hat

this should be an international language

Also 100% true, sometimes, touching too much grass, (laying on, rolling around on) causes irritation and itching of the skin.

@davidroddini1512

5 ай бұрын

I wanted so badly to learn this language. That is how I found out I am allergic to grass 😭

i am trying SO HARD not to burst out laughing in the middle of a dead quiet lecture this is surreal good

The hardest language for League of Legends players and Discord mods to learn

Imagine bringing a tiny pot of grass with you everywhere to communicate

It takes so long just to say one sentence. This is gosh darn cursed.

It would be pretty ironic if this guy got stung by a bee while signaling the intro for bee movie. Thankfully that didn't happen

Finally a worth language to learn, maybe my dad will come back

@justaduck1664

10 ай бұрын

hahahaha. NO

Thanks to this conlang, the trees in Vietnam don't need to speak Vietnamese anymore

I hereby resolve to only speak to any future children I may have in Touching Grass

my cat used this language to summon back my father, thank you

the finger dependent signing could actually be a quick way of communicating low complexity content really fast... if it wasnt obscured by the grass...

Ah yes, Ancient Vietnamese Sign Language (AVSL)

I desperately want to see Agma Schwa sign a couple sentences of this just to see him film himself going outside and punching grass 😂

Wow, why is this in my recommendations? Hmm well... It's really curious thanks for this:0

This being of pure concentrated energy is unstoppable

Now I have a video to point people to when they look at me disparagingly and/or confusedly after I say it's too much work upon their demand that I touch grass! Thanks!

This channel deserves so much more subscribers just because of this video.

You know what, just because you described something so preposterous, I will have to do the only thing I can. "No u"

I'm very happy that Vietnamese is being used for a meme conlang. 3:30 And French too because of colonization or smth. According to Wikipedia, "Ba Lan" is also loaned. 5:26 Corruptive aspect should be a thing in every language.

You should've incorporated different lengths of grass that you have to touch into the signs, instead of hair

@Oler-yx7xj

10 ай бұрын

That's the steppe dialect

Lol, I didn't think I'd see someone manage to make a worse orthography for Vietnamese than the one in use, but here we are

@godowskygodowsky1155

9 ай бұрын

I think the current Latin orthography fine. There's near perfect correspondence between sounds and spellings, if you if ignore sound mergers that differ between dialects anyways. It is also generally consistent with other Latin alphabets. I'm pretty sure this is as good as you can get without adding diacritics to Hangul or something.

I believe the correct terminology is "fingeme".

the conlang we deserve to research

Love seeing corruptive aspect get used

I actually speak a dialect of this which was adopted to my land after foreign settlers brought it to us. However, due to cultural reasons, we must never be bald. As such, the bald/hairy part of the language has turned into bare/hat, which makes way more sense while still fitting with the shorthand labelling.

I almost thought this was going to be an already existing language

Didn't expect to hear you explain my own native language to me, but you did good

I haven’t seen anyone else comment on this, but “Y’know, like in Votgil!” hit me like a ton of bricks (in the best way possible) 😂. Genuinely excellent moment, thanks for making me laugh!

Ah, going for the posteriori catagory arent you

How to speak touching grass Step 1: Go outside and search for grass

This is It. This is the best language out there. I love how simple and easy to understand it is! Step aside, Toki Pona!

I hope this video gets a morbillion views

Instruction unclear. Now I have grass in my mouth, and a rancher is trying to push me into a barn. I'll try to speak it tomorrow.

Like any good entrant into the circus, the longer I watch the more it feels like I’m dissociating

the only language that i can’t learn 😔

Someone should check if any great ape species actually communicate like this

we just got canon confirmation lingolizard is not bald

What if you live in a desert with no grass? Can you touch sand instead?

@substandardnerd

8 ай бұрын

Probably, but you'd have to deal with something that is coarse, rough, irritating, and gets everywhere

@rainbowlack

7 ай бұрын

touch cactus (yeouch!)

The only thing I have to say about this is that you listed the fingers in reverse order and I hate it.

That some beautiful grass. Sure wish I could... touch it.

I'm absolutely love this

"it is required to be the type of hat worn by people who go outside" DAMN! So my cat ears wont work!

first time anyone will ever say "im allergic to this language"

looks like a windows product key

interesting concept lol

You did an awesome job creating this conlang .

Actually, reduplication makes that word lighter than the original, "nho nhỏ" means "a bit small" not "very small".

The one language that League of Legends players will never be able to learn…

Could’ve had to so instead of hair or bald it was palm or back of the hand facing the grass.

Neck beard approaches a woman in the park. He crouches and starts fondling the grass, gets up and tips his fedora then leaves.

What happens if you touch the carpet instead?

Inb4 tech CEOs make a machine that lifts and lowers your hat for you based on voice commands, but the microphone picks up your conversations (there's also an infrared camera) to sell your personal data, but someone messed up the coding and switched the balds and haireds around and now all the personal data is garbled and they can't figure out why

i only have dead grass, can i still speak this language?

This is magnificent

This is like vietkong's cypher.

Cool, you included the language that I'm relearning

@user-kussikh

7 ай бұрын

language where you touch objects in your room?

Wasn’t surprised when you would do a conlang vid Cursedlangs are hit or miss for me some like Hyperpirate make me wheeze to oblivion and others are a little to unwieldy to remember in my little simian brain Also happy about K Klein diversifying his content (I just think it’s groovy about other things that aren’t Natlangs)

i love hatonyms!

the earth: keep going I'm almost there, darling

"touch grass" "sorry I don't speak Vietnamese"

Hmmmm, so is this just Vietnamese sign language where you have to be bald and unbald while touch grass?

I started binging youtube 3 hours ago. How did I go from analysis of Korea's economy to this

I don't know how Agma Schwa will pronounce this if it wins, so 1/10.

but what if a Baboon like alien used this language, sitting communally eating grass? picking grass, some to eat & some as language, while they 'talk'

"Bees are banned from flying in the air"

It's so hard though

Can you still Touch Grass if you use fake grass?

Lets be honest, absolutely no grass was touched in the process of the creation of this language.

Could you do a video about Khmer please? ❤

I’m learning this language 🗿🗿🗿

I'm missing part of my left index finger because of a woodshop accident. Would that be a speech impediment in Touching Grass?

this was funny but the grass made it worse turns out the Juneau Auld Howe is allergic to ahem "turf grass"

Cursed Morning Musume conlang! How to talk like Morning Musume Vowel tones Normal(no diacritic) Cute(diacritic above) Angry(diacritic below) Consonants For normal vowels For cute vowels(half pulmonic) For angry vowels(double pulmonic) Normal=grown woman Cute=smiling child Angry=whining child,scream Orthography:too many letters

da hell did I just see??

@Denneth_D.

10 ай бұрын

A relex of Vietnamese that’s what

0:18 true

Cursedlang, cursed on a waste of time imho…. Unless you’re gonna use this as the next code language for WW3 (can’t use Navajo anymore like WW2!)

oh man after watching this video I have to ask are you Vietnamese xD

もイヤだー アアアアアアー！

đi chạm cỏ!

1:23 what about a wig