you know she knows her words when she says, "sepulchrally quiet."

@carlgrimeseyepatch27

6 жыл бұрын

Dax Krishna S I know i was like “in this moment i’m so thankful I know what a sepulcher is ...”

@calebmatthews2026

6 жыл бұрын

Why exactly are sepulchres considered an example of something especially quiet????

@alias634

6 жыл бұрын

Except when she says criteria instead of criterion when referring to the singular

@SkiDaBird

6 жыл бұрын

Unless you're in academia (and then it's still questionable), no one uses criterion.

@human3507

5 жыл бұрын

* * This expression means: Deadly quiet in a non-formal Language.

I don't care what the subject or topic, hearing someone who is well versed and passionate about what they do is always interesting to me.

@KP-zb1tr

6 жыл бұрын

Tech By Matt I feel the same way.

@tylorbray

6 жыл бұрын

Locksport

@rustyshackelford6834

6 жыл бұрын

Someone who likes to rewrite definitions because they don't like them lol

@lauraireson6358

6 жыл бұрын

+

@chafacorpTV

5 жыл бұрын

Irregardless. I agree with you.

This was surprisingly more interesting than I thought it would be.

@Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper

4 жыл бұрын

Why

@ashisheady8841

2 жыл бұрын

should I like your comment or not?

@coldmedznotp2p

Жыл бұрын

@@Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper why not?

The fact about the dots in a word literally blew my mind. You've changed my life forever!

@cristaltophat

5 жыл бұрын

Here have another nugget of knowledge, .com is short for commercial

@jabinho6974

4 жыл бұрын

Where on vid

@TariqNavabiGaming

4 жыл бұрын

HummerTop not as cool ۵-۵

@cristaltophat

4 жыл бұрын

@@TariqNavabiGaming okay what's a fact you think is cool? (I can't be the only one bringing facts to the table)

@narata1541

4 жыл бұрын

I'm so sad your mind is now gone. 😭

It's so cool to see linguistics getting some love. I think that prescriptivism and descriptivism should be taught in schools, because prescriptivism is very common here in America, and actually causes a lot of damage, like people being ashamed of their southern accent, or AAVE (AKA ebonics) being labeled "thug english."

@JohnDoe-os7so

6 жыл бұрын

Adam Pacheco-Amit We were taught about prescriptivist and descriptivism in Canada

@PointyGorman

6 жыл бұрын

I think that particular example is more to do with glorification and self segregation of minorities in the US than of prescriptivism.

@NightDoge

6 жыл бұрын

Don't worry about it dude, Spanish is pretty prescriptivist too. Despite the RAE's caveats on its definitions and orthography being "recommended" and "preferred" Hispanic culture throughout the Americas and Europe have taken that whatever the RAE says to be the de facto, objectively correct version of Spanish. Which is funny because, from what i've read this adoration is mostly in the popular society, whereas in academic circles (their scholarly journals) it's much more descriptive. Btw, RAE stands for the "Real Academia Española", aka the Royal Spanish Academy. There are other national academies for Latin America for dealing with the literary language, but the RAE is the most popular and most prestigious.

@SkiDaBird

6 жыл бұрын

Nori, I was born in the Midwest, and there were several long arguments in school over the word ain't. This was with a bunch of similar income white people. There is no correct way of speaking, and everyone carries an accent.

@barutaji

6 жыл бұрын

+Random Person123 we also learned it in Brazil. But in the end people still think in a prescriptive way. Probably because it is a way then can feel smart or can segregate minorities with a "justification"

I´m a language nerd and this is so cool, English is actually my second language but there are obviously more interesting linguistic data on English than many other languages, linguistic studies on my mother tongue are almost non-existent, I wish linguistics gets more attention as a field of science, it is as important as history and literature if you ask me.

@danialtahir

7 жыл бұрын

Ich bin Shin same here. My mother tongue is Urdu (pakistan). I love English and Spanish.

@TheIndogamer

7 жыл бұрын

Ich bin Shin My mother tounge *may have been* Bahasa Indonesia because I don't remember whether my mother thought me Indonesian or English first.

@toaster8907

7 жыл бұрын

Ich bin Shin Interesting, my mother tounge is bahasa melayu and my second language is obiously english, I learnt english through kids tv shows, ad's, and books

@TheIndogamer

7 жыл бұрын

SP OI Wonderful. Salam dari Jakarta.

@SassySasquatchh

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, wish they had more stuff on Visayan, because the only way I can really brush up on it is when my dad comes to town or I go to the Philippines.

"Language is like a river. Every dialect is its own current. And all of these currents come together to make this fairly cohesive looking ribbon of water. But every one of those currents is integral to the direction of the language." - Kory Stamper 2017

1:15 heyyyy that's pretty good

@fahimp3

5 жыл бұрын

Hi, stop reading old comments.

@SalamanderMagic

5 жыл бұрын

Michael Farník I heard that in idubbz voice

@MohamedSomali

4 жыл бұрын

Fahim Saharaiar thanks 😂

I like business jargon as a joke, like, who doesn't want to promote synergy, to see the clear goal using a buzzword and diversify the company's empowerment with organic growth; to push the envelope and find a good exit strategy.

@Uncountability

7 жыл бұрын

really parting the kimono there bud

@navonmyhand7999

7 жыл бұрын

Seems... extraneous

@iAmTheSquidThing

7 жыл бұрын

Sometimes jargon in necessary though. Within any particular field, there are unique concepts that you need names for.

@platoniczombie

7 жыл бұрын

Jargon is a way to keep the general public from understanding a particular subject deeply. Jargon comes from itemizing, compartmentalizing, subject to a degree that to know sufficiently about any particular thing one must become a scholar of it. You have to become adept to that particular subject's jargon to do so. Jargon isn't necessary, I could easily tell people that the Panopticon was Foucault way of describing how people make sure that the behavior amongst themselves remains relatively same, the results of this behavior is that the majority of people established a normal way of acting in public that gets continued throughout generations by the subtle, and not so subtle, ways the public corrects behaviors that do not follow their behavior. Or I could describe it as people policing behavior amongst themselves, which sets a normative behavioral expectation that get perpetuated throughout time. Jargon is a way to speak to people within Jargon specific areas, whereas, to describe something without Jargon takes time, effort, and the belief that it is important to try to convey ideas and concepts to people that do not know the Jargon.

@jayyyzeee6409

7 жыл бұрын

Business jargon helps you get your ducks in a row.

So much work for defining one word. And yet people still cant differentiate between "Your" and "You're".

@navonmyhand7999

7 жыл бұрын

Your right.

@falveyarmstrong9761

7 жыл бұрын

You're joke isnt funny.

@slayersmurfable

7 жыл бұрын

sicupu15 It's "can't" not "cant". looks like you could use some work as well.

@sebastianwayne9571

7 жыл бұрын

Falvey Armstrong *isn't

@omkarparopkari

7 жыл бұрын

BlueBeachHouse Sebastian Wayne You guys are wrong. Not having an apostrophe is not grammatically correct, but it doesn't become a different word either. Your and You're are two different words, and have completely different uses.

I was literally decimated by this video yet I enjoyed it iregardless.

@DontHatemusiK

6 жыл бұрын

You literally were not.

@GhostFusiion

6 жыл бұрын

You mean that you were ACTUALLY divided into ten?

@ma-moomoo

6 жыл бұрын

It's spelled *irregardless* you swine!

@DontHatemusiK

6 жыл бұрын

Justin English Kermit*

@annsuya_8364

6 жыл бұрын

Photosynthesis

would listen to a podcast if she hosted one - pretty interesting stuff!

"I know words, I have the best words.." -45th president of the United States of America.

@navonmyhand7999

7 жыл бұрын

My vocab is bigly. Very enormous.

@solavaire16

5 жыл бұрын

@Anglo-Celtic Mega Nationalist Source?

I love this woman! Very intelligent and charismatic.

@luciano53688

5 жыл бұрын

She is kinda hot, right?

@williamrockwell9705

11 ай бұрын

LOL if she was actually those things it would go without saying, but she it not those things you all just demand that she be so you say she is to sway low info group thinkers.

@williamrockwell9705

11 ай бұрын

@@luciano53688 Sure in the modern age where you have to pretend that things are reversed.

I want to know what she thinks about urban dictionary lol

@maybeyourbaby6486

5 жыл бұрын

I just don't get why urbandictionary has such a bad rep tbh. I think it can get awkward when definitions are sexist/racist/homophobic etc because they are user-submitted and chosen by vote, but it's also a really great way to understand things that can be obscure or that you don't want to google. If I hear a suspicious term or about a shock website or something I always look it up on urbandictionary, since it usually lets me understand disturbing/inappropriate content quickly without having to actually delve into it personally.

@balderbremer9588

4 жыл бұрын

@@maybeyourbaby6486 i (not a native English-speaking) find urban dictionary very helpful, when there is slang on the internet that I don't understand. It's sooo good and I don't get why people hate on it either.

@imi_obvious

3 жыл бұрын

@@balderbremer9588 I love urbandictionary. It taught me what Cincinnati Switcheroo is :D

Like it or not, if someone says it, it's a word. It may be nonstandard, improper, incorrect or just odd (ugh is a word) but it is still a word. A real word. Babawa Wawa would agwee.

@tristanmoller9498

6 жыл бұрын

What’s the definition of word?

@chinmayjoshi3592

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe a collection of phonemes that are arranged so as to have a meaning..?

@TuomasKivisto

5 жыл бұрын

As long as people understand what you mean it's a word.

@Pantano63

4 жыл бұрын

"if someone says it, it's a word", not necessarily. Words have meaning.

Favourite word currently. Subfusc. Google it if you don't already know its definition.

@benjamenYTDeadTheGamer

7 жыл бұрын

Alexander Colwill You must be a very 'subfusc' person then.

@emanuelpastreich2677

7 жыл бұрын

Alexander Colwill mine is concatenation

@alexandercolwill

7 жыл бұрын

Like it. You could say that a smart home is a concatenation of Internet connected devices.

@davidb5205

7 жыл бұрын

My favorite word is 'callipygian'. Even better is the fact that it peaked in use during the 1830s, at the start of the Victorian Era. I like to imagine that their equivalent of "damn she thicc" was "yes, my good chap, she is quite callipygian indeed"

@peterDcontact

7 жыл бұрын

mine is correlation

i always assumed people who wrote dictionaries were dull boring old men with elbow patches on their blazers, Kory here is the exact opposite

@jedisilvr

6 жыл бұрын

Nothing wrong with elbow patches.

For the language "purists" out there who want English to remain "pure," let me show you what "pure" English looks like: "Se wisa wer timbrode his hus ofer stan. Þa com þær micel flod, and þær bleowon windas, and ahruron on þæt hus, and hit ne feoll: soþlice, hit wæs ofer stan getimbrod." There you go. That's "pure" English (better known as Old English), before it was "corrupted" by French, Greek, and other languages. But of course, that's not what you mean, right? You just want English to remain "pure" by what _you_ consider to be "pure." You don't want English "tainted" by all these youngsters coming up with their new words, misusing and redefining existing words, etc. In that case, if you want the language to remain unchanged, I have a solution for you: STOP SPEAKING IT! Yes, the only way a language will never change again is if it's no longer used (see: Latin). Otherwise, learn how language actually works and quit whining.

@noel7139

4 жыл бұрын

But what does it mean tho?

@pfysche2283

4 жыл бұрын

Ugh, those Germanics and their strange accents and silly words! Why can't we just go back to the good old days of Proto-Indo-European! egH₂ sendn̥ĝʰwéH₂ meĝ men!

@integralboi2900

4 жыл бұрын

I’ve never heard anyone complaining about that ever, I think that’s common knowledge for most English people.

@micheal5117

2 жыл бұрын

have you heard of anglish

@yorgoskontoyiannis6570

4 ай бұрын

You young bucks with your Late-West-Saxon dialects, regularizing the language and removing all its beauty and complexity! It's supposed to be: "Eornestlice ælch þare þe þas mine word gehereð, ⁊ þa werceð, beoð gelic þam wisen were, se his hus ofer stan getymbrede: Ða com þær ren, ⁊ michel flod, ⁊ ðær bleowan windas, ⁊ ahruron on þæt hus, ⁊ hit naht ne feoll: soðlice hit wæs ofer stan getymbred. And ælch þare þe gehyrð þas mine word, ⁊ þa ne werceð, se beoð gelich þan desien men, ðe getymbrede hys hus ofer sand-chisel: Ða rinde hyt, ⁊ ðær com flod, ⁊ bleowen windes, ⁊ aruren on ꝥ hus; ⁊ ꝥ hus feol: ⁊ his ryre wæs mychel." [It's Matthew 7:24-27]

Anti dis establishment arianism A philosophy against disestablishment (the act of removing something that has been established/set in place, usually reffering to human rights and freedom) Antidisestablishmentarianism: the belief that people's rights and freedoms should not be taken away Did I do it right?

You made ME the happiest person in the word with the dot thing! I never knew there was a way you should do that, other than just how much fits...

"My job isn't to police what people say, or how people talk" Some people need to look in a mirror and say this lol

I've never though about dictionary editors but I'm very happy that I watched this because it was so informative.

My favorite word is defenestration! I love that we have a word for throwing someone out of a window XD

@cherryblossomstreet8802

4 жыл бұрын

I learned that word from quora lol

@Malaima

4 жыл бұрын

it comes from French: défénestrer!

@tomasgoes

4 жыл бұрын

Try Apricity. It's my favourite.

I knew how to spell antidisestablishmentarianism is 5th grade. It's just a bunch of prefixes and suffixes, mostly.

@mariaivanova8192

7 жыл бұрын

Neigh Inator The spelling is actually really simple, you just have to memorize the word and that's it

@navonmyhand7999

7 жыл бұрын

I know a bunch of digits for pi...

@makeupislife3988

7 жыл бұрын

Me too, since I was like 6 years old. It's literally just prefixes and suffixes all bundled up into one word.

@eleonoramustafaeva1303

7 жыл бұрын

+Brad Smith oh we cant tell a typo from a mistake can we

@TBFSJjunior

7 жыл бұрын

+Ella Oh we can't tell a joke from a serious statement can we? ;)

Me and my friend were playing scrabble the other day and noticed 'elephant' wasn't in out scrabble dictionary, anyone know why?

@BlakeBauer

7 жыл бұрын

Maelyne Coggins What's an elephant? I've never heard of that word?

@maxq-

7 жыл бұрын

what is this "elephant" you speak of ?

@heshiram1188

7 жыл бұрын

What's an elephant? is that a clothing?

@dothedeed

7 жыл бұрын

*My friend and I / *our - Must be an error in your dictionary

@BidwatRajPokhrel

7 жыл бұрын

dothedeed You should always address someone else before you? is that a rule?

she's a smart and beautiful lady I really enjoyed this video

she's so pretty and smart pls define our chances of going to Olive Garden

@guilace

7 жыл бұрын

Wonder Bread Why Olive Garden?

@hecticdmc

4 жыл бұрын

@@guilace You ask a guy called "Wonder Bread" why he wants to go to Olive Garden? I would think you already know the answer to that.

Vox's animation & motion graphics still astonishes me to his day

5.17 Genuinely thought my screen was being taken over by bugs

@drizm9257

7 жыл бұрын

Warren Berchie 0:12

This is my favorite kind of content. Please post more like this.

Waiting for that one guy who rages and threatens to unsubscribe because Vox is showing "political bias" in the video... :D

@SlurryNoises

7 жыл бұрын

LMAO

@wii3willRule

7 жыл бұрын

Matteo R. Yes! It somehow doesn't feel the same without them lmao

@miloblackmetalhate

7 жыл бұрын

+Matteo R. You're that guy mate.

@matteor.3001

7 жыл бұрын

+Miles Nelson +Milind Tripathi On the contrary, I prefer to keep my mouth shut when it comes to politics in videos, especially these educational, interesting ones. I enjoy watching all of Vox's videos, political or unpolitical. Just wanted to make a joke, and perhaps you are following along, but I'm tired and snowed in, so yeah. Have a great day. :D

@miloblackmetalhate

7 жыл бұрын

I was joking too, albeit poorly. :D

I studied lexicology for one semester and it was so fascinating! Love this video

I said “thrice”twice around my brother and he hates it when he hears it now.

@integralboi2900

4 жыл бұрын

Now start saying treble and see his reaction.

I adore her word usage. It's quite pleasant to the ears to hear such verbal precision.

As usual, you're absolutely amazing! A top-notch information. Each and every word is fruitful; each and every sentence is vibrant.

Congrats on keeping me facinated week by week here.

3:42 "The third criteriA..." Ouch.

@yongjunpyj

4 жыл бұрын

I see that you took nothing away from this video about how dictionaries are more descriptivist than prescriptivist, and words have different meaning over time. Criteria has, with time, been treated as singular or even uncountable.

@jackoconnor2831

3 жыл бұрын

I noticed the same thing. She should have said criterion.

@thescowlingschnauzer

3 жыл бұрын

She can say it. I understood, so it's acceptable English. But I still feel the ouch.

honestly vox's videos are so interesting, one of my favorite channels now

I will say honestly I rarely if ever comment on videos but I have to say this is one of the best Vox videos I have ever seen, I really enjoyed this one! Thank you and well done

The word "gullible" is not in the dictionary.

@symbioticcoherence8435

7 жыл бұрын

"the" dictionary meaning what exactly?

@Jared7873

7 жыл бұрын

Really? I thought it was a tribute to the novel "Gulliver's Travels".

@grandsome1

7 жыл бұрын

Jared Schreckengast It's a joke, how gullible of you!

@johnnyvivic8730

7 жыл бұрын

This should definitely be top comment.

@dave5194

7 жыл бұрын

you son of a-

This was a really funny yet educational video. Thanks for giving my inner language nerd things to giggle about.

This was the most delightful and entertaining commentary on the English language I have seen is quite some time -- maybe ever!

When you look for a great content, Vox is always the best. They outdo themselves every time.

1:30 I have that exact watch. It glows green in the dark when you press the button on the side.

Honestly I cannot wait for the day "b" joins the ranks of a, I, and o as a single-letter word

@hecticdmc

4 жыл бұрын

If "I" is a word to describe an individual person, why isn't "U" a word to describe an individual person? I know some use it in texting situations, but why can't it be a formal word?

@headcanon6408

4 жыл бұрын

peanutbuttercracker1 o? What word is that? I thought A and I were the only one-letter word Also can’t wait till G joins them

@peanutbuttercracker1

4 жыл бұрын

@@headcanon6408 "O" would be an alternative spelling of "oh". A lot of old things like Shakespeare and the Bible use it. Think of like "O Come, All Ye Faithful"

This is my favorite video I've watched in a looooong time. Thank you, Vox. I wish I'd found this sooner.

Man I love Vox. I loved the editing too, People miming to what she was saying was a nice touch

typical vox propaganda. Words aren't real.

@galgrosek1927

7 жыл бұрын

GlowBox fake news

@Valosken

7 жыл бұрын

It's not propaganda, it's actual linguistics.

@MGBYST

7 жыл бұрын

Valosken ummm sweaty words aren't real

@navonmyhand7999

7 жыл бұрын

Alternative Definitions

@aaronmontgomery6977

7 жыл бұрын

GlowBox SAD!

*Sepulchrally*... this was a fascinating choice of word. Took me a minute to recognise it. If any of you have read the King James Version of the Bible, you'll have come across the word _sepulchre_ many a time, but to use this as an adjective was a first for me! Brilliant.

One of the most informative videos I have come across recently. :)

That last seconds about the dots that are not for syllables but for the hyphen really took me unguard!!!! Nice video

That ending though 😲💥

I love her

I'm an amateur philologist and English isn't my first language, so I use MW's site a lot. I've seen a lot of Kory and the other staff members' videos and I love them so it was very exciting to see her on this youtube channel.

I love Kory! Seeing her in videos is always a delight :)

she such an interesting job!

5:17 thought there were ants crawling on my screen..

her word choice was very apt for everything she was explaining

I didn't want this clip to end.....superb! 👌🏽👏🏽

Fun Fact unlike French and German English doesnt have a governing body as to how the language should be spoken. There are institutions in France and Germany that actually enforce rules as to how their native language should be used

@danidejaneiro8378

5 жыл бұрын

And Spanish has La Real Academia Española

@Pantano63

4 жыл бұрын

Which is why English is a mess and all those languages make more sense once you know the rules.

@poncho3326

4 жыл бұрын

@@Pantano63 Not really. English has it's own linguistic nonsense, but I really don't think French or German is quite better, on the contrary. As a native French speaker, I can tell you that most rules in French have at least a dozens exceptions. I find english to be relatively easy and somewhat coherent.

@maelstrom57

4 жыл бұрын

I don't know about German but regarding French, there actually isn't a "governing body" with the power to decide how people should speak. L'Académie française has no such power; all they really do is publish a dictionary every few decades and issue usage recommendations on their website.

this video is so interesting!!

This video is fantastically produced. Bravo!

Simply fascinating! Thanks, Vox!

I wish she was an application in my phone I could learn from, when bored

When I saw Kory Stamper, i readily clicked on this vid ❤️❤️❤️

Been watching her videos on MW for a very long time, always a pleasure to see her pop up in other places!

I absolutely loved the editing of the video

About the dot thing.... Aren’t words always separated by syllables when you have to break it up though?

@kosatochca

4 жыл бұрын

Quadtrain4 nope, syllables are connected with morphemes, such as affix -tion, whereas one the video you could clearly see that in many words it is recommended to break it like -tio- and -nary or -tio- and -ning

Antidisestablishmentarianism long? Well that's cute. In Swedish we have a lot of those words, it's really just a lot of words put together (anti-dis-etablishment...). Just like: Realisationsvinstbeskattning (we actually us this quite often) or Silverfärgadflaggstångsknoppspoleringsmedelstrasan or Nordöstersjökustartilleriflyg-spaningssimulatoranläggningsmaterielunderhållsuppföljningssystemdiskussions-inläggsförberedelsearbeten Three perfectly logic words in Swedish.

@mariaivanova8192

7 жыл бұрын

Johan Mood Well...I guess I'm not going to try learning Swedish

@sergior8992

7 жыл бұрын

Johan Mood don't you feel like a special snowflake for knowing that?

@cesarperezargota

7 жыл бұрын

"Capital Gains Tax"? Doesn't seem like it's really all that common ._. Korean is similar, although super long words aren't super common. The first example that always comes to mind is: "뭐 주문하시겠습니까?" ("What would you like to order?") 주문 order + 하 to (order) + 시 respect particle + 겠 intent particle + 습니까 honorific ending for questions and 뭐 just means "what" I guess if you romanize it, it looks even longer, since the Korean alphabet links syllables together into a single block: 주문하시겠습니까 Jumunhashigessseubnikka But usually, words don't get all that long.

@JohanMood

7 жыл бұрын

Maria: It's actually quite easy when you get the hang. For example: moppskaft = mop handle, it's really just two words put together to show that they belong together. Another example is the English word railroad = järnväg in swedish (iron-road), swedes then continue with it in the same way, like: Järnvägsbro (railroad bridge) Ståljärnvägsbro (steel railroad bridge). The other two examples isn't something we use but it's totally fine to say, in fact my spelling corrector (gosh I want to write them together) on the computer didn't even complain! The biggest problem is to know when somethings should and shouldn't be together when I translate between English and Swedish, like mop handle :) Cesar: Every year with declaration for example, everything you buy and sell that can make you profit in some way :) Yhe it's the same way in Swedish, long words are just impractical so we don't use them; although there is nothing wrong with the concept and perfectly fine to use them. The last example is a "word" put together solely for the purpose to show how far it can go and still make sense, but the other one is actually something that you can found in the hardware store (at least a part of it) Flaggstångsknoppspoleringsmedel = flagpole knob polisher

@grandsome1

7 жыл бұрын

Johan Mood Yeah those are compound words like porte-manteau (lit.: jacket-holder) except in French for once we are sane enough to put a "-" between the individual words. That's one of the few occasions that French acts sane.

This was epic! THANK YOU KORY! I learned so much!

I'm a low-key English language nerd and I'm so happy to see this video on Vox! Thank you!

Psst come here Lettuce is delicious!

It's interesting how those who understand the English language well tend to be more open about it and don't get triggered when someone misuses it. I believe this is why we say " a little learning is a dangerous thing".

I could listen to her 24/7, best pronunciation ever

I really enjoyed this. Encore please.

Love that hair!

If you said "I write dictionaries." I would say, "Wanna go on a date?"

I love watching experts speak passionately on their field. And the Shadowhunters fan in me appreciates them for using a quote in this video.

Another great video ! Good job .

arent you supposed to break words between syllables? so the dots mark both things? at least thats how it is in german.

@flobb91

7 жыл бұрын

i am really curious. can someone answer pls? pretty pls?

@MatrixZoomZ

7 жыл бұрын

flobb91 by pronouncing the word out loud you can find the amount of syllables. This lady is just stating the misconception that these dits are the break in the words. The dots actually just mean where you break a word that is separated by hyphen.

@TheMongooseOfDoom

7 жыл бұрын

english.stackexchange.com/questions/385/what-are-the-rules-for-splitting-words-at-the-end-of-a-line

@wii3willRule

7 жыл бұрын

KSJDbv Bruh why you gotta be so rude

@hectort.3807

7 жыл бұрын

stfu

Can we get "wumbo" in the dictionary? n. wumbo, related words: wumboed, wumboing, wumbology. Example sentence: "Well the M should be W for wumbo."

Very interesting and educational. Thank you, Kory Stamper.

She's so well-spoken and this is so nerdy I love it so much

3:42 She said "criteria" when she should have said, "criterion."

huh, I always thought it would be some committee of old Englishmen wearing monocles who do such work. weird when you see that even courts refer to dictionaries in judgments.

@robinx6138

7 жыл бұрын

Nitish Daniel like in South Park?

I really like the art style of this video. Good job!

1:57 reading sources... a great excuse to just peruse newspapers and magazines at work. Awesome. I’ll use that.

Irregardless of the fact that she used 'criteria' instead of 'criterion,' she's still my favorite lexicographer :)

@LittleBrinnieeeeGG

5 жыл бұрын

*regardless

Aren't marking points to break a word between lines and distinguishing syllables the same thing? I knew you could only break words between syllables and not mid-syllable. Am I missing something here?

@Vox

7 жыл бұрын

To pick one more example: www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pareidolia Dots: par·ei·do·lia Syllables: per-ˌī-ˈdō-lē-ə So as you can see, there's one more syllable break (dashes in the last three letters) than line break (the dot before "lia"). (I didn't know this either, before talking to Kory!) -Phil PS - yes, I picked this example prompted by a coworker's video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/d2WYr86ohcm0YdI.html

@SubhomMitra

7 жыл бұрын

Vox I guess we assume that the shorter words are always a single syllable. I never would have guessed that "lia" is two syllables! Just Vox being amazing once again.

@isaacninan5053

7 жыл бұрын

The more you know...

@mattbeharry

7 жыл бұрын

In the example given - "dic•tio•naries" - the word in syllables would be "dic•tion•ar•ies". So you would be allowed to write it as dictio-naries (as shown in their example), which is not broken on syllables, notice the N is not paired with ARIES along syllables. At least, I believe that's what they're saying.

@SubhomMitra

7 жыл бұрын

kntrider2009 As a non-native (but C2 level) English speaker, I'm curious if there's any quick way to split syllables. Like how would you know that "tion" is a syllable and not something like "tio", "na", and "ries" off the back of your hand?

As a graphic designer, that last bit of information, just gave me life. Bless.

This was really good one, Vox.

So the dots separating syllables in words in a dictionary are there to indicate where you put the hyphen in order to break apart the word. Got it.

what is the definition of irregardless?

@user-pw5by5jw8p

7 жыл бұрын

Tusenbensen It's used just like "regardless"

@navonmyhand7999

7 жыл бұрын

The opposite of regardless, so regardful. It's a double negative. IRregardLESS

@aeriose

7 жыл бұрын

No, it means the same as regardless. Look it up

@Samael1113

7 жыл бұрын

Tusenbensen It means Without Regard. it is a weird combo of irrespective and regardless and due to the double negative should mean With Regard. Purists get mad at its unironic use because it is used in the opposite manner of what it tells you it means according to prefixes.

@hectort.3807

7 жыл бұрын

Google it

Such an intriguing video!

I've never thought of a language and dictionary that way before. Really insightful.

و في جانب آخر من العالم, هنالك لغة تحتضر. 💀

@JULIUSCOOLX

5 жыл бұрын

بدر و بس 🗿

@farismag

4 жыл бұрын

وفي الجانب الآخر من العالم* يبدو أنك من سيقتلها على مستواك الركيك.

"my job isn't to police what people say" Vox should learn a thing or two from this woman

I love this! Man, words are cool. This is the dream job I never knew I was dreaming of.

Such great job it really all came together at the end just talking about currents and how how important it is to English as a whole