What's your favourite word?

@Schody_lol

Жыл бұрын

I have no favourite word. There’s just too many to decide!

@NaseerZanki

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I like words that can be many word classes like "Round" as it can be one of five word classes i.e. noun, verb, adjective, adverb, and preposition. 🙂

@captainyulef5845

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✨albeit, arid, scant, howdy, etc. etc.✨ I have too many to list here-

@DAVINNIA314

Жыл бұрын

My favorite word is Chaos

@theGypsyViking

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I think my favorite word is either "rutabaga" or "banana." They're both fun to say. However, my favorite category of words has to be onomatopoeia. Boom, pow, meow.

12:46 - In Swedish colons are also used to shorten a word by removing the middle, for example: • c:a - cirka ("circa") • s:t - sankt ("saint") • n:a - norra ("north") • Ax:son - Axelsson (a surname) We also use them when conjugating abbreviations, for example: • CD:arnas (the CDs') • SMS:a (to send a SMS) • USA:s (USA's) • CV:t (the CV)

7:55 I would like to point out that this is *not* an imperative sentence. A proper example would be “Leave me alone!”, “Stop staring at your phone!” or “Close the door on your way out”. Imperative sentences consist of commands or orders in a direct way, unlike, for example, “it would be nice if you could leave me alone” which is stating a fact, even if this fact is suggestive of an action/order.

"Mnogo" in Slavic languages usually means "very" or "many" but in Polish, "mnoga" means "plural" as in the name of a word class. While "Bardzo" means "very" and "wiele" means "many" in Polish.

@Shadefinder1

Жыл бұрын

Много?

@modmaker7617

Жыл бұрын

@@Shadefinder1 Correct.

@BinglesP

7 ай бұрын

Very interesting fun fact! 'Bardzo' is a pretty cool-sounding word.

I always remember prepositions from Frasier. There's one sence where Marty asks Niles to help write a letter. It quickly decends into Niles pointing outway too many faults, the last one being "oh, you shouldn't end a sentence with a preposition". We see Marty angrly scribble something down to which Niles follows up with "you know... Off is a preposition"

In Bengali, prepositions are actually placed after the object (instead of lien English like "under the tree") so they're usually called postpositions.

The things referred to as "word classes" here were called "parts of speech" in primary school - but of course they don't just affect speech! Just imagine how popular this channel would be if it'd have been entitled "The Taxonomy of Morphemes" instead of "NameXplain". 😜

@BinglesP

7 ай бұрын

I see I'm not the only one that thought of Name Explain and GameXplain's channel name similarities

I remember a teacher calling determines adjectives. Maybe she thought it would be easier for the kids to understand.

In the US, when I was growing up in the 70s/80s, there was Schoolhouse Rock. It was a series of animated songs that ran in between cartoons on Saturday mornings. They taught a variety of things like multiplication, US history, science and.... grammar! I bought one of the anniversary DVD sets since I get so nostalgic for these little songs. I couldn't tell you what cartoons I watched at the time but I can still sing the songs about nouns, verbs, interjections, etc.

@New_Wave_Nancy

Жыл бұрын

I just looked up one on yt. I suggest checking out Lolly, Lolly, Lolly Get Your Adverbs Here.

Another interesting thing about the ampersand - & is an abbreviated form of the latin word “et” which means “and”. You can kind of see that if you compare Et and & (especially if you imagine the E as curved). That’s also why you may occasionally see “&c” instead of “etc” as an abbreviation of et cetera.

The question mark is actually from the Greek symbol for Carrin, the boat-man for the dead. Carrin's symbol has a cross-bar instead of a dot. Also, our number 5 symbol = Saturn. 4 = Jupiter. There are a few others.

'Tittle' is not a Greek word. What you are referring to is the Greek word 'keraia' (κεραία), which is related etymologically to the word for 'horn' (κέρας). Also 'synecdoche' has a different meaning, more similar to 'to accept together out of'.

I teach ESL. I tell my students that words are small ideas and sentences are big ideas. It just seemed to be the simplest way to describe that concept. I will sometimes even say that groups of words, pieces of sentences, or phrases are medium ideas.

Words for words. Now that's meta.

"Ampersand" comes from saying the alphabet and the end used to be "z, and per se and". It is this habit of saying the alphabet as a unit that caused "and per se and" to be reanalyzed as "ampersand". The symbol began life as a quick way to represent the Latin word "et" before evolving into a symbol which meant "and" cross-linguistically. Turn it sideways and its origins as "et" become more clear.

@MuriKakari

Жыл бұрын

You don't even need to turn it sideways. Just capitalize it in cursive.

@BinglesP

7 ай бұрын

Name Explain's most recent video (as of replying) is about this etymology.

Your channel makes my realice that Norwegian (my language) is much more Norwegian than English is English.

Words have interesting etymologies and terminologies.

Idk how language education works in English, but in Spanish we _do_ get tought all these from a young-ish age, and also onomatopoeia (which you don't really see much, but sure, they're sorta their own thing). I have always loved how, at least in Spanish, most determinants have pronoun versions, it's such a cool symmetry. Also, some people think determinants should be a type of adjectives, for some reason, which just doesn't seem right...

# being called hashtag started as a mistake. It isn't wrong because language changes and meaning is derived from usage. Lots of words started out as errors like this. A hashtag was originally a tag that started with a hash. Then people started ignoring the tag part and considering the hash itself to be the tag. A technical term being misunderstood and adopted by non-technical people can give us true errors like calling the whole computer a modem or a hard drive but in this case, it seems to have risen above the original error and become a common usage and therefore an acceptable term, no matter how much shell scripters like myself might dislike it.

Never understood why words that modify adjectives (really) got classed as adverbs, rather than a classification of their own.

@Furienna

Жыл бұрын

An adverb will tell you when something happens or where something is or enhance a verb or an adjective. Adjectives with a -ly suffix belongs to the third and the fourth cathegories.

Ampersand was a slurred version of "And, per se, and" when it was the last letter of the alphabet. Kinda. It was said last, and had no name just a use. It came from "Et" being mutated in look to be written more smoothly and was used a lot. So the only way to call it and indicate it was to say "&, that is, and." It was inelegant but worked.

Adverb is not a combination of adjective and verb. The Latin prefix ad means "to", so it is "to the verb" because it modifies the verb.

You forgot another name, it's also called the tic-tac-toe board

He was talking about interjections? Yippee!

Time for the debate on the minimum natural number of parts of speech. I vote 2: nouns and verbs.

Will someone please just shut the window? Patrick is clearly cold...

no-one: Patrick: smilie 9:40

I was today years old when I found out how to pronounce "synecdoche"

I think determiners is not a separate class - they're just adjectives, e.g. "quidam" in Latin is classified as an adjective by all Latin dictionaries.

@MuriKakari

Жыл бұрын

That's because determiners as a class do not exist in Latin (and do not need to), rather determiners are something English carried forward from its Germanic roots. It's important to separate the two categories because adjectives behave in ways that the more restricted determiners cannot, such as taking predicative or postpositive position.

@jboss1073

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@@MuriKakari None of those classes "exist", they're all invented by humans. The point is, nothing about any determiner in any language makes it a "non-adjective", therefore all determiners are simply adjectives and the languages that have this division are doing so purposelessly. When you say "it's important to separate them because determiners and adjectives act differently sometimes", that sounds very prescriptivistic to me, and you should not do that because you probably don't want to come across as a prescriptivist. If I want to use a determiner as an adjective as a native speaker that is my prerrogative and you cannot stop me, hence, again, your division between determiners and adjectives is unfounded, unjustified and invalid.

@MuriKakari

Жыл бұрын

@@jboss1073 Yes, I suppose I did come off more than a bit prescriptivist, but what I really objected to was using Latin to justify datacropping and making conclusions about English without taking into account the observable behavioral differences between words sorted into two different classifications in the language under discussion and the confusion that can cause for students when two items with different usage rules are treated as the same thing. The classes 'exist' as a created tool to look at the different functions and interactions of different words, and yes, they are dependent on varying definitions. I apologize if my contrasting opinion wasn't worded conciliatoryily enough for you.

@jboss1073

Жыл бұрын

@@MuriKakari It just sounds like you're defending the current academic opinion just because. How is "some bowl" and "a blue bowl" different in terms of qualifying the bowl, and hence "some" being just an adjective? Why does it need to be separate? Answer it without being prescriptive.

@MuriKakari

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@@jboss1073 notice how 'in 'a blue' you suddenly need that article?* whereas a construction like 'a some blue' doesn't carry meaning. Likewise 'a bowl is blue' v 'a bowl is some' / 'bowl is some'. 'some' and 'a' are occupying the same syntactic place and performing the same syntactic function. 'blue' is performing a different syntactic function. Semantically, 'some' or 'a' chooses a subset from the "universal" or "infinite" set of the noun it acts on- once that set is chosen, adjectives can be used to further describe/qualify it. * you can absolutely say something like 'blue bowl is there', but effectively that includes an unvocalized/elided determiner.

I thought ampersand derived from when & was still considered a quasi part of the alphabet, and so reciting the alphabet would end with "x, y, z, and, per se, and", the last part truncating into our modern-day "ampersand"

I'm having flashbacks to English class 30 years ago.

As a high school English Language student, they didn’t even tell us about Conditional sentences, only the top 4…

Thanks!

@NameExplain

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Thanks you!

9:42 “smilie” hehe

4:05 I read some book that told "determiner" is adjective, so what do you think? Thank your for your exciting videos.

@Furienna

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They seem to be pronouns to me.

@MuriKakari

Жыл бұрын

Separating determiners from adjectives is more recent linguistic theory.

@MuriKakari

Жыл бұрын

@@Furienna Pronouns are determiners

@Somebodyherefornow

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@@Furienna no, pronouns stay by themselves, when determiners “act” as adjectives, “mine” is a pronoun, while “my” is a determiner

@Furienna

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@@Somebodyherefornow Okay, but I don't think that we don't have a distinction like that in Swedish.

The imperative sentence would be "Close the window"

Meta-words... Wordception!

But I thought that numerals also was a word class?

@MuriKakari

Жыл бұрын

Determiners or nouns based on how they're used

@Somebodyherefornow

Жыл бұрын

@@MuriKakari not determiners, adjectives

And then a tittle is part of a class that has it's own name. Or maybe not because that's different from a diacritical mark because an i always has the tittle. It doesn't change the use of the bar under it. I wonder if at one time it did.

What about articles?

you example for imperative was wrong?

Aren’t articles and numerals also considered word classes? Also, I don’t think determiners are a separate class from adjectives

@MuriKakari

Жыл бұрын

Like, scientific classifications, linguistic classes change as we learn more about the languages.

@Somebodyherefornow

Жыл бұрын

articles are separate.

@Somebodyherefornow

Жыл бұрын

numerals could be adjectives, or something i forgot

I was taught determiners were a type of adjective, called something other than determiners but I forgot what.

@lesterstone8595

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articles: (indefinite articles: a, an, some) & (definite article: the)

No comments on the shorts? "Czechia" is a terrible name for a union of Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia, three beautiful names. Also, CZ is a Polish digraph; it's CH in English. So why not Chekia, or Chekland? From the "Czech Republic" to the "Kingdom of the Bohemians, Moravians, and Silesians"!

@modmaker7617

Жыл бұрын

A) there are comments on shorts. B) the government chose to use Czechia so respect their decision. C) it's a Republic not a Kingdom.

@kenaikuskokwim9694

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@@modmaker7617 They use "Spojené státy[" and "Spojené království" rather than "United States" and "United Kingdom". Why don't they respect *our* decision? Because it's their language! English is ours, and we know better what works. If "Czechia" is so wonderful, why don't they use it themselves? Why don't we just use "Česko" (or "Chesko") like they do?

@modmaker7617

Жыл бұрын

@@kenaikuskokwim9694 Just be happy that Česko has an English translation.

Words for words are called meta-language.

Is it just me, or was the slight pause after 6:12 for a second or two feel a tad off?

13:16 you said Asterix? RLLY? 😢

Shane you missed interrobang

also, discord?

Billy is on the toilet, not in the toilet. 😜

Lol@ "claRss"

5:18 Name Explain gone WOKE??? Talking about PRONOUNS??? /j

"We don't need to explain these names" yes you do. I understood jackshit until you explained the meanings

"Word classes"? Sorry, but I've always known them as "parts of speech"

@Somebodyherefornow

Жыл бұрын

english class vs linguistics

Then comes Xbar theory and now pronouns are of class D

If pronouns are one class, then pro-verbs, or any other en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-form