Mmm, yeah... I've actually never had a chom chom split but I really want to try one. You know what I have had though? Chom choms with Nutella. Sooo good...
We're all literally dying of hunger. There is no cure. If the treatment isn't given often enough, it will eventually kill us. Most who use the phrase aren't particularly close to that point, but most people have less than a month to live unless fed.
LOL. I remember once a guy invited me over to "netflix and chill" and I was like "Yeah! The new season of dr who is out!" Then he didn't want to netflix, and was not chill about it. I was very disappointed.
I'm autistic; I have to pay attention to every single word I say, mostly because I actually want to make sure the concepts in my head get conveyed properly, but more promptly because all the analysis you talked about, that's normally done relatively subconsciously, has to be done manually with us aspies (to varying degrees)
When I was in my late teens and early 20s, "Netflix and chill," was called "staying in and watching movies." I've seen the beginning of several films but have no idea how any of them end.
"I'm literally dying of hunger" Is a double hyperbole, hyperbolising the already hyperbolic "I'm dying of hunger" by adding the word "literally" hyperbolically as opposed to the usual anti-hyperbolic use of "literally" This is due to the feeling that hyperbole is so common that it doesn't get the intended point across as well as it may once have.
Interesting perspective! How long does it take to add a new layer of hyperbolicicity? When would we get to something like, "Seriously, i really am literally dying of hunger! No joke!"?
As with anything in language, it merely requires ppl to start doing it. All language "fads" started with someone deciding to say bae or what have you. This would most likely come about in a young generation attempting to differentiate themselves from their priors. We may see in a future generation such a trend pop up, although what is more likely would be a dropping of literally, or possibly the shortening of it.
I'm so happy someone finally talked about Grove!!!!!! I noticed Hank neglected to suggest reading in this area. an oversight, I'm sure. (He also presumed the saying/meaning distinction, but we can talk about that later.) Grice's posthumously printed collection 'Studies in the Ways of Words' is beyond excellent. sometimes I read it just as a pick me up. Grice's style can be difficult, but is penetrable with thought (and conversation) and effortlessly charming. For more on the particulars of this video you want to read Part 1, Chapter 1: 'Logic and Conversation'. My personal favourite essays are 'Meaning' and 'Meaning Revisited'. There's so much more to do with and talk about Grice and Studies (his disdain for the 'A-Philosophers' introduced in this video, the potential for 'be relevant', for example) but this is long enough already. please feel free to discuss studies and ask for more recs in replies to this. sincerely, an enthused doctoral student.
As a teacher I love your videos because you talk and use examples of the things that I talk in my classes, You guys help so much when I am trying to get my point across great job! Greetings from Costa Rica! :)
Thanks for having uttered a sentence which enriched my ever-growing, English-learner vocabulary with two novel words, the words being verbiage and vicissitude.
Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
Ive been watching this series on philosophy from episode 1 and think that anyone who has issues communicating within a family unit should watch at least 1 episode a week as a unit, then discuss the content and try apply it to their daily lives. If you choose to watch this to better your own ability to understand the world around you even better. Thanks to all involved in the making of the show!
He already does via drone program. He will crash a weading in the middle east by shooting a missile at it in the hopes of hitting the one target within the crowd of 100 civilians or so.
It was because of her "huge tracks of land". I know yours was a princes bride quote and mine is monty python, but I always think of one and then the other.
Well, technically you are dying of hunger, but you treat it by eating, so you can say it even if you don't write the book, you just shouldn't say your death by starvation is inminent.
One thing that I thought of yesterday is the word "please." It's a concept that spans every language so far as I know, yet it doesn't actually add meaning. It's about manners and showing someone deference when making a request. Rather than conveying information, it's expressing an underlying sentiment.
Wow. The timing of this video's release is impressive. I have a college project about the study of language in the light of Wittgenstein and John L. Austin due to next week. Either procrastination is not such a bad thing or this is a reminder that I should really, really start doing it.
Most girls seem to actually want to watch netflix before AND after the implied sex in "Netflix and chill", so... i think the phrase is more honest and literal than you give it credit.
This video should be required to be consumed in it's entirety before posting comments, sooo many "arguments" on youtube are just people not understanding what the other person meant, because the what the words they typed literally meant wasn't what the person actually meant.
I just loved that the baby was born with "your" glasses. I was minorly disappointed that a (random) kitten didn't then jump into the glasses wearing baby's arms and a red (cartoon) heart literally appeared between them as they both sighed via the bliss of mutual affection.
thank you so much Crash course! i don't know if you agree with me but i believe education should be free . again thank you for working so hard to give us content on a wide range of subjects!
because school is usually for the purpose of churning out mediocre employees instead of knowledgable people? look up democratic schools if you want, they're far superior
They are! Just higher up, we did them for ALevel English literature and language. Our teacher set us the task of applying them to the Dead Parrot Sketch in order to demonstrate how flaunting the maxims creates comedy by subverting expectations of speech. The conversation does not follow the standard set of rules for that scenario. The language is not appropriate for one talking to a stranger, it would be rude to hit a parrot on the desk of a pet shop owener. He talks too loudly and makes exaggerated statements and movements etc.
While I haven't finished this video yet, I find this topic particularly interesting due to my difficulties with understanding what other people mean. I often take things too literally, and I do not see the hidden meaning behind phrases like netflix and chill or saying that someone has a nice personality. It makes things more difficult to communicate to others. In addition, I do not naturally follow Maxim's rules for conversation, and I did not even know these unspoken rules.
No that rule refers to not using unnecessarily advanced words when simpler ones will do. As far as I know there is no simpler way of saying 'flouting the maxim' it's just the name for what you are doing
There's a difference between using obscure terminology when it's unnecessary, and using jargon in its appropriate context. (Can we take back "jargon"? It's too fun to say to only use it in a derisive sense!)
It's weird how mad people get about using "literally" to mean "really". Because, those words, literally, mean the same thing. If you're mad about millenials using literally to not mean _literally_ literally, get mad about the centuries of English speakers who have agreed that when something's "really" true, it doesn't always have to be _real_ ly "really" true.
+GelidGanef What if I want to say something is literally true, but it's something that I know will most likely be interpreted as a figure of speech? Since people sometimes use "literally" figurative that makes it complicated to try and communicate that. There's an actual functional reason why people shouldn't use "literally" figuratively.
What irks is that we're watching the language lose information in real time, due to individuals failing to pay attention to or reflect upon what they and others are saying. Yes, it's precedented, but it's more glaring in this age of increased written communication (text, email, comments, message boards). We're seeing a specific meaning being glossed as vague emphasis and repeated in ways which, in most cases, completely reverse that specific meaning. The whole process is an unnerving reminder that a lot of people are operating on very narrow linguistic and general cognitive bandwidth.
You could just say "non-figuratively". If you use it sparingly, it'll probably take decades for THAT to become a generic intensifier! This sort of thing probably happens a lot. Here's another example: As I understand it, the word "you" used to be specifically plural, with "thou" being the second person singular. But "thou" fell out of usage for some reason, thus leading eventually to the use of "you all" or "y'all" for short to specify the second person plural, as "you" was used for the second person singular as well. But... it seems that "y'all" has itself come to be used to refer to lone individuals as well, thereby obliging someone who really wants to specify the plural to use "all y'all". It would not surprise me if, within my lifetime, some people wind up using "all all y'all" without the least awareness of the irony involved in doing so..
CC should do a music history topic. That would be interesting. Like the evolution of it and the major influential people of the times, etc. That would be another fantastic topic to watch.
It seems that Philosophy is often Linguistics with Crash Course, but yeah, those sound awesome. Is Anthropology really going to be one? (Also, Law School is somewhat true with US Government and Politics.)
Hey Hank, how about adding a "further reading" for each episode? I get that each episode is meant only as overview, not detailed discussion, so I think it will be useful to have pointers for those who'd like to read more
"Literally" has been "misused" so often that many dictionaries currently consider it a contranym, meaning both "actually" as well as "figuratively". Trivia facts.
I have heard Batman, Superman, and even The Doctor used in discussions of Philosophy, but the Legion of Substitute Heroes???? Amazing. Well done, Hank.
for me to be clear I'm careful when I use absolute words like : always, never, love, and truth. When words like this are used flippantly it lessens the value and strength of such words, and thus their communicative value.
When you're hungry, isn't that just your body's way to remind you that, "Hey, you actually ARE starting to starve to death"? ergo -> when person says "I'm literally starving to death", they are correct!
It's amazing, from the last episode until now, I've had no cause to say the word chom choms. It completely slipped my mind that this was even a thing we were trying to make happen.
What's currently happening to the word "literally" is what happened to words like "very" and "really", which used to mean "literally" but slowly drifted into simply being intensifiers. Eventually we're going to have to come up with more words that are supposed to actually mean "literally" or we'll run out.
It's not the transmission of words that does anything, it's the reception of words and translation into meaning that change states or associations within the receiver, which is helped along by institutional or other social legitimacy. Words only do things because we agree to allow them to do things.
that does not make the effects of words any less real. For example you can buy food for pieces of paper and metal chips because society agrees on this.
Yeah, those words don't "change the word" any more than any other utterance -- like any successful utterance they change the mental state of other people, who then act accordingly.
Not since 1942. Congress has forfeited its power to declare war, every war the US has been involved in in the last 75 years was started by the presidency and later retroactively approved by the Senate. There was even a scandal about it in the 70s when veterans who fought in Vietnam got no benefits because they didn't fight in any war. Congress was forced to retroactively declare was on North Vietnam, over five years after the war had ended, and they've followed that pattern ever since. .
speaking multiple languages forces you to think of idioms, maxims and expressions in a whole new way; and is especially funny when you say something that literally makes perfect sense with no clue what the connotations of your words mean.
They can't declare war but they control the entire military. They can send every soldier the US has anywhere they want and attack any place on a moment's notice.
How does this entire segment on language not manage to discuss post modernism? The points it makes about language and epistimology are incredibly important
There's a word for that: contranym. At least there's a word for it until the less literate decide to use it to mean 'when your butt itches in public' or something equally as clever and the language gets muddied a bit more.
In the spirit of linguistic pedantry I would like to point out that since there is no legal authority on the use of the English language, a word can't "officially" change its meaning. Makers of dictionaries have no more authority to decide what words mean than anyone else.
In the spirit of linguistic extra pedantry, I would like to point out that there is an recognised source for English, at the source - in English. So yes - you can 'officially' change its meaning, however what you can't do is practically change its meaning. All that 'official' source does is document (describe not prescribe for Chomskyians) the practical change that had occurred. In essence - the word changed, the recognised source of English usage documented said change.
Language is so crazy! It's amazing how sarcasm and slang even exists. I wonder who the first person to use sarcasm was. He/she must've been one sassy friend. Us humans are pretty cool.
It's a philosophy degree, what'd you expect? It's not like he majored in English. Of course if he had, he'd still be flipping burgers. He'd just be bitching about it with grammatical accuracy.
I could go for a chom-chom split right about now.
Mmm, yeah... I've actually never had a chom chom split but I really want to try one. You know what I have had though? Chom choms with Nutella. Sooo good...
+Erulasse Aranel my chom chom nutella'd in my pants
We're all literally dying of hunger. There is no cure. If the treatment isn't given often enough, it will eventually kill us. Most who use the phrase aren't particularly close to that point, but most people have less than a month to live unless fed.
This is an excellent comment. Gold star.
-Nicole
Huh, hunger is a disease in that context
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But you can just eat a chom chom!
Try to keep up with your treatment by eating more chomchoms.
Ever notice how people start by saying "So basically" before going into a complex explaination?
yeah, that's me
@DBR Liamg Thank you professor!!
from my experience the person who starats with "basically" has no complex thought on their mind ever
No.
LOL. I remember once a guy invited me over to "netflix and chill" and I was like "Yeah! The new season of dr who is out!" Then he didn't want to netflix, and was not chill about it. I was very disappointed.
So, technically, he invited you over to "not Netflix, then not chill".
I'm autistic; I have to pay attention to every single word I say, mostly because I actually want to make sure the concepts in my head get conveyed properly, but more promptly because all the analysis you talked about, that's normally done relatively subconsciously, has to be done manually with us aspies (to varying degrees)
‘we would like to remind you that bananas are chom choms’
~Hank green 2016~
I'm here 2019. They're just chom choms now! 😅🍌💛
I now call bananas chom choms. I've confused so many people. XD
Wtf is a banananana?
I can't even spell anymore. 😅
Chom-choms are great for Netflix and chill~
.....For Netflix and chill...... by yourself?
Serendipity Chan :3
If it's Netflix and chill for 2, then whipped cream trumps chom-choms every time.
Wtf is a "chum chum"?
+Alienmination Chom chom* I'm om iPad
When I was in my late teens and early 20s, "Netflix and chill," was called "staying in and watching movies." I've seen the beginning of several films but have no idea how any of them end.
Words will never be able to describe how much I love crash course
"How do we manage to understand each other at all?"
Just barely, Hank, just barely.
Damn. I forgot all about chom choms since the last episode.
You failed us!
You eat chom choms constantly. How could you forget?
I eat chom choms every morning after my 10km run, 100 pushups, 100 sit-ups, and 100 squats
Not only did I not forget, I told my sister and someone who took us out to get frozen yogurt about it! The chom chom shall spread.
Erulasse Aranel You're the real hero here
When I say "Netflix and chill", I mean watch Netflix
Oh boi make sure the people you say it to know that's what you mean.
and THEN you are going to chill, :^)
it's ok, your personality and the audiences knowledge of your personality creates the context so they know what you mean
same here
I had no idea "netflix and chill" meant something else than watching tv !!!
"I'm literally dying of hunger"
Is a double hyperbole, hyperbolising the already hyperbolic "I'm dying of hunger" by adding the word "literally" hyperbolically as opposed to the usual anti-hyperbolic use of "literally"
This is due to the feeling that hyperbole is so common that it doesn't get the intended point across as well as it may once have.
Interesting perspective! How long does it take to add a new layer of hyperbolicicity? When would we get to something like, "Seriously, i really am literally dying of hunger! No joke!"?
As with anything in language, it merely requires ppl to start doing it. All language "fads" started with someone deciding to say bae or what have you. This would most likely come about in a young generation attempting to differentiate themselves from their priors. We may see in a future generation such a trend pop up, although what is more likely would be a dropping of literally, or possibly the shortening of it.
I'm so happy someone finally talked about Grove!!!!!! I noticed Hank neglected to suggest reading in this area. an oversight, I'm sure.
(He also presumed the saying/meaning distinction, but we can talk about that later.)
Grice's posthumously printed collection 'Studies in the Ways of Words' is beyond excellent. sometimes I read it just as a pick me up. Grice's style can be difficult, but is penetrable with thought (and conversation) and effortlessly charming.
For more on the particulars of this video you want to read Part 1, Chapter 1: 'Logic and Conversation'.
My personal favourite essays are 'Meaning' and 'Meaning Revisited'.
There's so much more to do with and talk about Grice and Studies (his disdain for the 'A-Philosophers' introduced in this video, the potential for 'be relevant', for example) but this is long enough already. please feel free to discuss studies and ask for more recs in replies to this.
sincerely,
an enthused doctoral student.
As a teacher I love your videos because you talk and use examples of the things that I talk in my classes, You guys help so much when I am trying to get my point across great job! Greetings from Costa Rica! :)
"THERE'S THE DOOR" This live made me laugh more than it maybe should have
Warning: this video is a voluble verbiage of vexing vocabulary and a vicissitude of verbose vernacular.
Thanks for having uttered a sentence which enriched my ever-growing, English-learner vocabulary with two novel words, the words being verbiage and vicissitude.
Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.
The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
@@jetblack742 vat the vuck!!
VVVVV Huh? ;)
@@jetblack742 That level of alliteration is astounding and aspirational.
Crash Course Linguistics, please?
YES. Pleeeaase, Crash Course?
Yes. Yes. Yes. I need it.
La Jutubisto yeeesssss!!!!
it's happening :D they announced it in a recent update video i believe, I'm really excited for it!
@@autumnavalanche1097 still waiting.. :(
"I would like to remind you that bananas are chom choms" I AM DYING.
Ive been watching this series on philosophy from episode 1 and think that anyone who has issues communicating within a family unit should watch at least 1 episode a week as a unit, then discuss the content and try apply it to their daily lives.
If you choose to watch this to better your own ability to understand the world around you even better.
Thanks to all involved in the making of the show!
6:45 "I now pronounce you husband and wife or husband and husband or wife and wife"
how very sweet of you ,i hope it will be the norm soon
By far my fav episode of the 27 I've watched. The applicability of the linguistic concepts in my daily life are beautiful
Seriously, if we could just follow Grimes' rules on the internet, we'd be on our way toward social media utopia.
I love the idea of Obama crashing a wedding to go to war
He already does via drone program. He will crash a weading in the middle east by shooting a missile at it in the hopes of hitting the one target within the crowd of 100 civilians or so.
Can't wait for the next episode.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can break my heart.
Maiwage.
Maiwage is what bwings us togethah, today.
It was because of her "huge tracks of land". I know yours was a princes bride quote and mine is monty python, but I always think of one and then the other.
Emily Caballero OMG YASSSSSS
chom choms!!!
Alisha's Guide was looking for this comment xD
Gotta get that daily dose of potassium!
If I write a book, and in that book I'm dying of hunger, can I say that I am literally dying of hunger?
That would be literarily.
+varana312 omg
varana312 the words have the same origins though, which complicates things
Well, technically you are dying of hunger, but you treat it by eating, so you can say it even if you don't write the book, you just shouldn't say your death by starvation is inminent.
Only if that book is featured in Reader's Digest.
the opening theme always gives me the chills.
aw, the wedding part made me smile. thanks for being inclusive, crash course!
One thing that I thought of yesterday is the word "please." It's a concept that spans every language so far as I know, yet it doesn't actually add meaning. It's about manners and showing someone deference when making a request. Rather than conveying information, it's expressing an underlying sentiment.
In a group interview, I was asked what my hobbies were. I said "netflix and chilling with my friends". I wonder why I didn't get the job.
Wow. The timing of this video's release is impressive. I have a college project about the study of language in the light of Wittgenstein and John L. Austin due to next week. Either procrastination is not such a bad thing or this is a reminder that I should really, really start doing it.
Now that I've caught up, I'm really sad I can't sit down and watch an hour of CC philosophy at a time. Hank, you're doing a great job!!
You have a really good voice, easy to listening to, which is refreshing for youtube
NETFLIX 'N' CHILL IS ABOUT SEX?!
I thought it was about napping.
The legion of substitute heroes reference was for me personally and I appreciated it so much
Most girls seem to actually want to watch netflix before AND after the implied sex in "Netflix and chill", so... i think the phrase is more honest and literal than you give it credit.
This video should be required to be consumed in it's entirety before posting comments, sooo many "arguments" on youtube are just people not understanding what the other person meant, because the what the words they typed literally meant wasn't what the person actually meant.
Netflix and Chill? Hooray for scoodelypooping! \o/
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+ XD
MalfunctionM1Ke As long as it's consensual 👍🏼
Yeah, nobody should be forced to watch netflix
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I just loved that the baby was born with "your" glasses. I was minorly disappointed that a (random) kitten didn't then jump into the glasses wearing baby's arms and a red (cartoon) heart literally appeared between them as they both sighed via the bliss of mutual affection.
Loving the representation and diversity of the animations =)
I respect your efforts to make chom choms happen, and I will do my part to influence my corner of the world.
I'M LITERALLY FIGURATIVELY DYING OF HUNGER
thank you so much Crash course! i don't know if you agree with me but i believe education should be free . again thank you for working so hard to give us content on a wide range of subjects!
WHY ARE GRICE'S MAXIMS NOT TAUGHT IN SCHOOL!!!!
because school is usually for the purpose of churning out mediocre employees instead of knowledgable people? look up democratic schools if you want, they're far superior
They are! Just higher up, we did them for ALevel English literature and language. Our teacher set us the task of applying them to the Dead Parrot Sketch in order to demonstrate how flaunting the maxims creates comedy by subverting expectations of speech. The conversation does not follow the standard set of rules for that scenario. The language is not appropriate for one talking to a stranger, it would be rude to hit a parrot on the desk of a pet shop owener. He talks too loudly and makes exaggerated statements and movements etc.
Administrators thought that our time would be better spent prepping for various standardized tests.
Azzarinne Then Grice's Maxims ought to be on the test!
That'd be one way to fix it!
While I haven't finished this video yet, I find this topic particularly interesting due to my difficulties with understanding what other people mean. I often take things too literally, and I do not see the hidden meaning behind phrases like netflix and chill or saying that someone has a nice personality. It makes things more difficult to communicate to others. In addition, I do not naturally follow Maxim's rules for conversation, and I did not even know these unspoken rules.
Says don't use obscure phrases, flaunts the phrase "flouting a maxim"
No that rule refers to not using unnecessarily advanced words when simpler ones will do. As far as I know there is no simpler way of saying 'flouting the maxim' it's just the name for what you are doing
There's a difference between using obscure terminology when it's unnecessary, and using jargon in its appropriate context.
(Can we take back "jargon"? It's too fun to say to only use it in a derisive sense!)
He explained what that meant though. It's no longer obscure for this audience
I love seeing the little chom chom dancing at the end ❤
9:11 seconds long.
hank did 9/11
Look! A chom-chom in a top hat!
that's creepy
+TwixtheWizard Dammit hank
+Rachael Jackson not at all. He meant 551 seconds long.
is anyone else uncontrollably in love with Hank?
I'm literally dying of hunger, somebody give me a chom-chom!!!
i been seeing this course since a few weeks ago and just wanna give you and the staf the thanks for this excelent aporation , i really enjoy it.
Chom choms
A banana is a chom chom.
Bananas are chom choms.
Come nomnom on chom choms and shake your bon-bon
Why isn't this a more popular comment? Bananas are chom choms.
You called?
wtf, did someone really make an account named Chom Choms with a picture of bananas? I mean... Chom Choms?
Mayn the internet is really... internet-y.
That baby Hank just killed me, figuratively speaking.
It's weird how mad people get about using "literally" to mean "really". Because, those words, literally, mean the same thing. If you're mad about millenials using literally to not mean _literally_ literally, get mad about the centuries of English speakers who have agreed that when something's "really" true, it doesn't always have to be _real_ ly "really" true.
except "really" can be interpreted to mean "very", while "literally" cannot.
(edit : you're right, i don't know why i even wrote this)
Mhd. Yousef Attar But it literally can.
+GelidGanef
What if I want to say something is literally true, but it's something that I know will most likely be interpreted as a figure of speech? Since people sometimes use "literally" figurative that makes it complicated to try and communicate that.
There's an actual functional reason why people shouldn't use "literally" figuratively.
What irks is that we're watching the language lose information in real time, due to individuals failing to pay attention to or reflect upon what they and others are saying. Yes, it's precedented, but it's more glaring in this age of increased written communication (text, email, comments, message boards). We're seeing a specific meaning being glossed as vague emphasis and repeated in ways which, in most cases, completely reverse that specific meaning. The whole process is an unnerving reminder that a lot of people are operating on very narrow linguistic and general cognitive bandwidth.
You could just say "non-figuratively". If you use it sparingly, it'll probably take decades for THAT to become a generic intensifier!
This sort of thing probably happens a lot. Here's another example: As I understand it, the word "you" used to be specifically plural, with "thou" being the second person singular. But "thou" fell out of usage for some reason, thus leading eventually to the use of "you all" or "y'all" for short to specify the second person plural, as "you" was used for the second person singular as well. But... it seems that "y'all" has itself come to be used to refer to lone individuals as well, thereby obliging someone who really wants to specify the plural to use "all y'all".
It would not surprise me if, within my lifetime, some people wind up using "all all y'all" without the least awareness of the irony involved in doing so..
You just, literally, blew my mind.
I thought you were LITERALLY going to explain what it means to "Netflix and chill" and maybe provide a "how to" lesson.
Wrong video site ;)
That would have been nice, but he remained ambiguous. His tone implied something lascivious. This may be his reason.
Kamasutra will be discussed in 12 episodes
YOu wanna see Hank's chom chom?
Qermaq Who doesn't?
CC should do a music history topic. That would be interesting. Like the evolution of it and the major influential people of the times, etc. That would be another fantastic topic to watch.
You know what would be interesting? Crash Course Prehistory.
absolutely
And Geography, and Linguistics. Those would be cool as well.
It seems that Philosophy is often Linguistics with Crash Course, but yeah, those sound awesome. Is Anthropology really going to be one? (Also, Law School is somewhat true with US Government and Politics.)
Isn't this already linguistics though
I'm still waiting for Crash Course Math
I love this video so much I've come back to it multiple times.
Hey Hank, how about adding a "further reading" for each episode? I get that each episode is meant only as overview, not detailed discussion, so I think it will be useful to have pointers for those who'd like to read more
"Literally" has been "misused" so often that many dictionaries currently consider it a contranym, meaning both "actually" as well as "figuratively". Trivia facts.
Wait what?!?
All these years my mother asked me, "How was your day at school?", "Fine" *was not* the adequit answer?
I have heard Batman, Superman, and even The Doctor used in discussions of Philosophy, but the Legion of Substitute Heroes???? Amazing. Well done, Hank.
for me to be clear I'm careful when I use absolute words like : always, never, love, and truth. When words like this are used flippantly it lessens the value and strength of such words, and thus their communicative value.
Oooh, I studied about performative utterances in this literature class I had in uni. It was my favourite topic.
Literally though, we are all constantly dying of something.
Yeah, life dude
This is why Yolo is wrong. You live every day, you die only once.
*****
You live every time.
You die when you're dead.
Technically you normally start dying around 25. (When you stop growing and start aging)
I'd argue that growing and maturing is just part of dying, like fruit ripening is just part of fruit rotting.
When you're hungry, isn't that just your body's way to remind you that, "Hey, you actually ARE starting to starve to death"? ergo -> when person says "I'm literally starving to death", they are correct!
I must be old. I had no idea that "Netflix and chill" meant sex. I have used it literally all this time, like to my brother! Lol!
It's amazing, from the last episode until now, I've had no cause to say the word chom choms. It completely slipped my mind that this was even a thing we were trying to make happen.
Please do a Sociology and an Art History crash course!!!!
As a person with mild aspergers syndrome this is incredibly fascinating
i'm literally dying of hunger, i will eat some choms choms
I would kill for a good netflix and chill sesh right now
I have run out of chom choms today.
Literally. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
I'm in high school and I make jokes about when people say "literally" as opposed to "figuratively".
"this can come off as supercilious and pandantic and might cause your interlocutor to be fractious"
Sounds like something I'd say
sorry interlocutor
If no one outside of a slim and homogenous group of peers can understand you, then you don't have very useful language skills, do you?
pedantic
Gosh I say just mildly uncommon words sometimes and people look at me funny -.-
Emmily The Engineer i am happy to know what he said when he said that.
When somebody say: "Hey, want to come over and Netflix and Chill?" And they don't even know the real meaning.
"we all say things like that _all_ _the_ _time_.."
All the time? Like constantly or continually?
I love the "I do" "I don't think so!" Lol
before watching this video i didn't know that 'netflix and chill' meant sex. and we don't have netflix in our country :/
Where is that?
+Ross Parlette Alabama
What's currently happening to the word "literally" is what happened to words like "very" and "really", which used to mean "literally" but slowly drifted into simply being intensifiers. Eventually we're going to have to come up with more words that are supposed to actually mean "literally" or we'll run out.
Pedantic is not an obscure turn of phrase.
For the middle school and early-high-schoolers that these videos are increasingly directed towards, it is.
No, it isn't. The word pedantic ought to be understood by most middle-schoolers.
Did he not say "term or phrase"?
it very likely is to non-native english speakers at the very least
In that case, I'm a simple minded high schooler because I had no idea what that word meant .
It's not the transmission of words that does anything, it's the reception of words and translation into meaning that change states or associations within the receiver, which is helped along by institutional or other social legitimacy. Words only do things because we agree to allow them to do things.
that does not make the effects of words any less real. For example you can buy food for pieces of paper and metal chips because society agrees on this.
KohuGaly No, it just places the power of words where it belongs: in minds, not in utterances.
Yeah, those words don't "change the word" any more than any other utterance -- like any successful utterance they change the mental state of other people, who then act accordingly.
The President doesn't declare war CONGRESS DOES!!! *Exasperation*
tell that to Vietnam Korea Afghanistan Lybia Somalia Yemen iraq and whatever's left of syria
Actually, The President declares war and then The Senate verifies it.
in Russia and Mongolia it doesn't depend
Not since 1942. Congress has forfeited its power to declare war, every war the US has been involved in in the last 75 years was started by the presidency and later retroactively approved by the Senate.
There was even a scandal about it in the 70s when veterans who fought in Vietnam got no benefits because they didn't fight in any war. Congress was forced to retroactively declare was on North Vietnam, over five years after the war had ended, and they've followed that pattern ever since. .
I'm pretty sure that the original commenter was referring to the US government.
"How do we understand each other at all???" ~ so true
I AM A CHOM CHOM!
I AM A CHOM CHOM!!!
chomchom power..CHOMMY CHOMMY HAAA!
I figuratively love this video!
"how to do things with words" .... how very specific.
speaking multiple languages forces you to think of idioms, maxims and expressions in a whole new way; and is especially funny when you say something that literally makes perfect sense with no clue what the connotations of your words mean.
7:00 The president does not and has never had the power to declare war
True, but that hasn't stopped many from starting "conflicts" in the past
Unfortunately, they do correct this at 7:40 so this comment is therefore backed by unconfirmed information making this a violation of the matrix. :^)
thank god for that
Hearing Grice's Maxim gave me a short sharp flashback to English language A-Level XD. great video once more
But the president of the United States can't declare war. Only Congress can do that.
Duck man, I see you everywhere.
Tell that to George bush
+OfTheHunt yea seriously
Hank covers that at 7:37.
They can't declare war but they control the entire military.
They can send every soldier the US has anywhere they want and attack any place on a moment's notice.
How does this entire segment on language not manage to discuss post modernism? The points it makes about language and epistimology are incredibly important
FYI: The meaning of literally changed officially in 2013 ... can now mean 'figuratively'.
Which was one of the greatest miscarriages of grammatical justice in human history... literally!
+ For frennis
There's a word for that: contranym.
At least there's a word for it until the less literate decide to use it to mean 'when your butt itches in public' or something equally as clever and the language gets muddied a bit more.
In the spirit of linguistic pedantry I would like to point out that since there is no legal authority on the use of the English language, a word can't "officially" change its meaning. Makers of dictionaries have no more authority to decide what words mean than anyone else.
In the spirit of linguistic extra pedantry, I would like to point out that there is an recognised source for English, at the source - in English. So yes - you can 'officially' change its meaning, however what you can't do is practically change its meaning. All that 'official' source does is document (describe not prescribe for Chomskyians) the practical change that had occurred.
In essence - the word changed, the recognised source of English usage documented said change.
Language is so crazy! It's amazing how sarcasm and slang even exists. I wonder who the first person to use sarcasm was. He/she must've been one sassy friend. Us humans are pretty cool.
I got a degree in philosophy? Now I'm flipping burgers... Can you explain what happened, Crash Course?
First mistake: Getting a degree in philosophy.
You went to college.
Your punctuation baffles me. Are you unsure whether you've got a degree in philosophy?
+Headrock grammar burned
It's a philosophy degree, what'd you expect? It's not like he majored in English. Of course if he had, he'd still be flipping burgers. He'd just be bitching about it with grammatical accuracy.
I love these videos! Crash Course is one of my favourite TH-cam channels :)
When are we going to get to Aesthetics???
I can't wait to learn to how prove philosophically that classical music is objectively superior.
this is literally our lesson right now in our liguistic research class!