Some Odd Words with ISMO: "People Tipping" - Merriam-Webster
'Tip' has a number of meanings that might only make sense to native English speakers. In this video, Finnish comedian ISMO navigates how this three-letter word can have completely different implications.
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"and that's it, for body parts" Haha
@FabledGentleman
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah. It's to bad. I wanted to hear him say tip of the nose.
@jefferywilliams9680
5 жыл бұрын
@@FabledGentleman or other parts 😏
@Mistanyycguy
5 жыл бұрын
@@FabledGentleman Yeah what else could there be? Can't think of anything else apart from hair ;)
@halvempi_ap
4 жыл бұрын
@@Mistanyycguy Tip of the tongue, of course. How could you forget?
@timomastosalo
4 жыл бұрын
@@halvempi_ap And nothing else comes to the mind.
Here’s a tip: based on your view counts, you need to bring ISMO on more often 😉
@mahabubasalamkhan1887
Жыл бұрын
Very good
"And that's it for body parts" LMAO!
@timomastosalo
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah - or did you have another body part on the tip of your tongue?
@thsscapi
5 жыл бұрын
Tip of the nose?
@jonasthemovie
5 жыл бұрын
Just the tip
@user-qf1uz5ez9v
4 жыл бұрын
@@jonasthemovie wmnsoon
@chrisgordon2194
3 жыл бұрын
That's just the tip of the ASS-Berg
ISMO is becoming the best English teacher hahah
I don’t speak Finnish, but I’ve seen a video of him performing in Finnish, and he is totally different. His English persona is fairly mild mannered and somewhat innocent and reserved. His Finnish persona is more energetic and confident. I’m impressed that he was able to make the transition.
@timomastosalo
4 жыл бұрын
I think the natural part of it is, he is fully aware he's not perfect in English, and subconsciously more on his toes - so he takes it more mildly and humbly, somewhat bewildered. In Finnish it's just without such possible pitfalls - in English he could easily come over some blind spot he's not familiar with. He did describe in some interview, even in English, that he has to check his material with some genuine, native Anglophones before staging.
@Tapio86
4 жыл бұрын
@@timomastosalo are you saying he is tip-toeing in English?
@catecurry48
4 жыл бұрын
I have thought that it is probably challenging to be funny in another language. The nuances can be a real challenge, I think.
@calbackk
2 жыл бұрын
This is true. I know Finnish, and I would say Ismo is more like any other indigenous comedian in his own language. A little bit more rough and outspoken, ruder also. But I prefer his English language persona. It is in that capacity that he has found his unique touch.
@hepponeable
2 жыл бұрын
His Finnish persona is also a bit unconfident in Finnish scale. But thats true that he is more deer in a headlight, when he is speaking english. Maybe cause he is Finnish :)
I like this guy! His tips on how to tip are tipping the scales for his career. It’s just the tip of the iceburg. Massive success is at the tips of his fingers.
If it's to serve AND protect then no tip.. Apparently he learned that the hard way!!! Poor Ismo 🤣🤣🤣
A tip of the hat to Ismo for tipping the confusion towards a better understanding of correct usage.
@timomastosalo
4 жыл бұрын
Tip top tips
A bribe. Now that was funny! Really enjoyed these.
@Mr_Seppo
4 жыл бұрын
no tip
@HotelPapa100
2 жыл бұрын
We have a joke in Switzerland: How to anger a Swiss cop? When you're issued a small fine that you can pay on the spot: Pay, and say you don't need a receipt...
Tipping in the american way is really, really weird especially for us Finns, so glad he brought that up ;)
@TheRealFOSFOR
4 жыл бұрын
Yup. Seems like some shady income. How is the IRS supposed to tax that? Just pay the workers the correct wage!
@michaeljuliano8839
4 жыл бұрын
florenna It’s just plain. I was born and raised here in America, and it’s really stupid. Our minimum wage laws specifically exclude wait staff, so if we don’t tip them, their employer would have to pay them minimum wage. I’d rather just be charged the right amount to pay the people doing the service.
AMAZING!!! Please give us more ISMO!
"Serve" but not "serve and protect". "And that's it for body parts". Laughing out loud.
@samppakoivula9977
2 жыл бұрын
He forgot to mention that also water can tip from the tap...also tap can also mean at least 2 things: The one already mentioned and the limit buying on someones elses expense when they have agreed to pay on behalf of others like fri example buying a round in a bar for everyone
Thanks for the tips, Ismo.
Tämä oli loistava näytös.Kiitos Ismo. . .
Gotta love ISMO.
Love this guy!
Thanks for the tip Ismo!
Ismo, it's really time for you to come to Åland now and I bet you already have a line of Swedish words to disassemble. Anyway, you're a great comedian and always awaiting your updates.
Love Ismo. He's a great English teacher. I get an A in his class. 👨🎓👨💻😝
If Ismo had been my teacher it would have been way more fun. :)
I must tip my hat to Ismo for this.
So, one TIP from me, Ismo. The noun "advice" is uncountable, so it's not a good idea to say "an advice". If you want to use it in singular, try "a piece of advice". Anyway, I'm a big fan of yours and I love your sense of humor! Have fun exploring the language and I will follow!
Thanks, I learnt something new
I think I'll go now and "tip a few" (🍻 beers) 🤣😅😆
hi..i hv been following since last year on Merriam Webster vdo....U r a great guy
Fingertip you can point with too. Tippingpoint?
I'd love to see the Finnish counterparts of the words Ismo talks about - like: what is the Finnish for each of the many meanings of 'tip', 'shit', etc? I'd love to see them said/shown - just for a fuller understanding of the situation
And that's it for body parts killed me.
You don’t tip people who serve you. You tip people who are paid less than minimum wage by their employer.
@iandawson3171
8 ай бұрын
Not up to me to pay them. That's the Employer's job. Or maybe the government introducing a minimum wage.
More Ismo!
The irony that is the English language an all its variants allows for creative use of metaphor and word play. IMSO is funny as heck pointing them out, but I love the ability to work within is stretchy fabric.
There was just one more body part he did not mention. The tip of the nose.
I love the way you tipped here. However, I can't tip you. :)
@tylsimys67
4 жыл бұрын
Waiters get their pay anyway here in Finland, but I tip the doormen all the time - and believe me, it is worth it, in so many ways.
Ismo is one hella funny guy ^^
Ismo, tnx for your humor! And I hope they will wone dejy understand. And I know why you move to L.a. It's wormer with finnaly double V. Keep on going
Good music!
Top treasure of tip top tips
Here in Australia, we call the 'rubbish dump or refuse, 'the tip'. Take all that rubbish to the tip.
@jainamaden156
5 жыл бұрын
@Destiny Palmist We do in Sweden too.
@chris24hdez
5 жыл бұрын
I thought it was called a skip, maybe the UK?
@lightoflife7795
5 жыл бұрын
@@chris24hdez a very large metal bin without a lid, that is transported in the back of a truck (lorry or semi-trailer) is what we call a skip(bin) in Australia.
@dentistlinguist6569
4 жыл бұрын
If the word is used in both Swedish and English, it must be a very old word. Then it should still be used in other European languages?
@vmm5163
4 жыл бұрын
@@chris24hdez the skip is emptied onto the tip (rubbish dump) :-)
Love you man
@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536
Жыл бұрын
I ❤ only God and my family. 🙏.
Ansd a ...that's it for body part..lolz good one
you are great
I;VD NEVER HEARD ANY ONE WHO HAD SO MUCH WIT. HE SURE MAKES MY TUMMY HURT WITH LAUGHTER.
Not if they serve and protect. 😂😂🤣🤣
YASSSS ISMO
So... If a prosecutor comes and gives me a piece of paper and says "You've been served", I should tip?
@Mistanyycguy
5 жыл бұрын
Hahah good one!
@timomastosalo
5 жыл бұрын
Tip over? Just a tip, slipping my fingertips.
@bror8228
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, if you have lots of money...so that paper will vanish...
And the rubbish tip in Australia. Where our rubbish is taken 😊
@ataraxigrace822
2 жыл бұрын
"Taking this to the tip" "Going to the tip on the weekend" "Its a (rubbish) tip" means its a real mess
Now we can learn English words better only with the ISMO, this is a tip.
a tip is also where we take rubbish in England, "take it to the tip"
OMG this dude cracks my shit up!!
Ismo and the word matters.
He is a great linguist.
5. A tip is also a rubbish dump in other English speaking countries.
@coosoorlog
5 жыл бұрын
you learn something new every day
@eolakola7625
4 жыл бұрын
Also in Sweden
@timomastosalo
4 жыл бұрын
Good tip
@JimCullen
3 жыл бұрын
+tubester4567 that's one of the two other meanings I came to the comments to mention. A rubbish tip, and also "tipping" is another name for betting, especially in sports.
There's also 'tippy', a state of slight drunkenness in English Women, and tip, the drive-in garbage dump, as in: "Take that load of junk to the tip". Maybe those are not known so well in the USA?
@tenders
Жыл бұрын
In America, the cost a truck is charged to pour trash into the garbage dump is called a "tipping fee." Nothing else involving American trash seems to involve the word "tip" - at least, not any more.
@boardstalker
11 ай бұрын
Never heard of tippy? But tipsy yeah.
A genius. Hope He will visit us in Germany too :)
@timomastosalo
5 жыл бұрын
Give him a tip for that
Serve and tip🤣🤣🤣🤣
Funny 😆 there is "Fly Tipping" too which means something else entirely
Tip of nose ! One more ! 😂
@merriam-webster take ISMO back into your advertisements please! he is awesome
Great -- and in Australia, tip can also refer to the garbage dump. Like, I'm taking my shit to the tip.
Ismo oot kyl huippu... top 😁.... tip top 😂😂
I’m learning English with ismo
Don't give the waitress your tip if she doesn't wan't it.
A tip is also a dump site or or a descriptive word for a messy house.
Tip also means Garbage Dump in the UK. So we call it a Rubbish Tip. Or this place is a tip for an unclean room or house. :)
This izmo 😂 guy made me subscribe to meriam webster channrl 😂😂😂
You could not have picked a better guy to do this piece, though I do miss my crush, Emily Brewster.
Actually tip referring to a gratuity is not a word but an acronym, To Insure Promptness. Like COP, "constable on patrol", PIN, = personal identification number. English is known for the excessive substantivation of everything.
I'm at the tipping point ;)
*tips hat*
In the UK, a tip is also a garbage disposal & recycling center. Theres an extra tip for ya
"well it looks like my wife is tipping the waiter again" that could mean many things.
@shrewdthewise2840
4 жыл бұрын
"It looks like the waiter is tipping my wife", however, pretty much only means one thing
@englishconceptswithtrish
4 жыл бұрын
@@shrewdthewise2840 😂🤣😂🤣
Crazy
From now on I will always give advice to people who wants a tip.
@jarskil8862
Жыл бұрын
"Seek for a job where boss pays your wage and not the customers"
Do the word: - matter.
Instructions unclear, tipped an officer.
😂😂😂
Not sure if it's the same in America, but in Australia, a tip is also a place where you take rubbish/trash.
In dutch, "tipsy" is slang for being slightly drunk, in a nice way :-)
Why... don't you just pay the waiters enough... like decent human beings... It is NOT the customer's job to pay their salaries, they pay for the product already.
@timomastosalo
5 жыл бұрын
Product and rent. And 'sociosphere'. I think Jim Carrey invented that word.
@mrsTraveller64
4 жыл бұрын
When I travel to warm countries like Greece or Spain I tip waitresses IF the bill is normal price,not too big compared to what I got for it. In my own country in Scandinavia I never give tips,never ever. I only do it when I'm a guest in another country. In Israel I never give tips,why? because in every restaurant or cafeteria the waitresses tells me "tips is not included" when they handle me the bill!! How rude; its like they force and beg me to pay tips. And tips is supposed to be something you give IF you want to. Not something that the waitresses BEG for!!! So they never ever get it from me when I travel in Israel.
@debbiefox6846
4 жыл бұрын
@@mrsTraveller64 No offense but not tipping in many places will get you nasty things in your food. Watch the 2005 American movie "Waiting". May have you rethink your tipping habits. And believe me if you think this doesn't happen you are kidding yourself. Most wait staff are paid horrible wages. It's like being a mom serving dinner to like 20-30 people for 8-12 hrs. It's a nightmare. No I have never been a food server but i am a mom of grown kids from a huge family. The oldest and helped my mom most of the time. Waiters deserve to be treated better.
@Tapio86
4 жыл бұрын
@@debbiefox6846 well... Since tipping doesn't happen until after...I am guessing the nasty things already happened...and therefore the meal was already not worthy a tip...but maybe a lawsuit?
@georgesakellaropoulos8162
Жыл бұрын
They will just pass the added payroll costs to your meal. The average restaurant owner isn't going to become a millionaire. Profit margins are pretty low and they spend ungodly hours at work if they don't want the place to go under.
here in NZ the tip is also the garbage dump.
Serve = ok to Tip. Protect= no, its a bribe 🤣🤣🤣 . Not applicable in politics ... in where they first bribe, then they tip!🤣
Tip of the tongue
The audience have a darker sense of humor then Ismo😅
I promise you Ismo, just the tip!
@jdo5748
4 жыл бұрын
Haaaahahahaha, FUNNY
🤪🤣
You could also tip your hat and nod. Or you could be in tip top shape.
Tip top
@timomastosalo
4 жыл бұрын
Top tips
Brought to you by, the letter T.
@timomastosalo
5 жыл бұрын
Tripptank tip
@timomastosalo
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, he should start from A and go all the way to Z.
Where are the rest of videos from ISMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God damn
@timomastosalo
4 жыл бұрын
At ISMO KZread channel, or Ismo.fun
Tip is a suggestion to put a wager on horse.
Its also a description of a teenagers bedroom
You have fingertips but not toetips, but you can tiptoe and not tipfinger
You forgot the tip of the nose...for bodybarts. There is another one you forgot, but im not saying that one! :)
Guedes
'Tip' also means a rubbish dump.
you are so cute !
Sounds better at 0,75 speed.
Jesus, I wish u were my English teacher.
@MikkoRantalainen
3 жыл бұрын
I'm prefer Ismo instead of Jesus. Yes, I'm from Finland, too.
@paulsengupta971
11 ай бұрын
I don't think English existed when Jesus was around. Still, he may have learnt it since then.
He missed the tip of the nose.
So... a tip for waiters is basically a bribe to get a better service?
@pauljordan4452
2 жыл бұрын
No. Originally the tip was to buy them a drink as a reward for service.