Every Mistake We've Ever Made #3: Tokyo Grift
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I believe Sam literally is just a human torso with the HAI logo attached for a head
That is literally impossible
@@truthsupreme we liteealy has video evidence of it smh smh
And his torso is made of bricks.
and wings
a shakeali really?😳😳
Love the “uh, we run ads” was what Zuck said there too
My dog's name is Jake
@@G_FRE ok
@@G_FRE I'm still calling him Max
@@ab3040 bonkers
@@G_FRE say my hi to Jake
Aww don't be like that, your video was Memeier, and isn't that the victory we were looking for all along?
Plus I had the home field advantage since apparently, I am a U.S employee now...
oh noo is this comment sponsored by google as well??
Doofus
True. Fair enough
Oh wow, didn't know you watched HAI!
I love you, but wth is "Memeier".
in the beginning Sam should've said: "This video was made possible by HAI" because technically the mistakes are only possible when HAI publishes content.
That's a mistake for the next video.
@@jayros lol
@@jayros Mark *your* words. Believe me, it will happen for real.
Hai Mistakes 4: 4 better or worse
"I over trusted my aviation advisors over at Wendover Productions..."
I thought HAI was Wendover's aviation advisors... Uh oh...
It actually goes both ways.
Wendover is an Aviation Expert
Adam Greene same!
They're Half As Informative
You mean Wendover Aviators, not aviation advisors?
CGP grey: I made a mistake. Makes whole video talking about his missiles and stuff.
Hai: mistakes = content
CFP grey owns missiles?
@@Supermonster002 READ AGAIN!!!!!!!
I love the idea of HAI being dragged before the Senate over his video mistakes
Let’s make it happen!
Contact your senators, everyone!
Isn’t that literally what this video is?
@@FewVidsJustComments You sure it ain't just editin?
*Ting: you'll get 25$ off ur phone bill*
*Europeans: wait, since when do phone bills cost more than 25$?*
are you even european?
its like 30-90 pound here
American here, my phone bill cost about $130 a month, for three lines of unlimited talk, text, and data
I pay €16 for unlimited talk text and 200GB because I'm European I suppose
@@TheLegoPerson huh
Wait, y'all pay your bills?
Just leave the linguistics part to Tom Scott from now on and you'll avoid those future court interrogations.
What happens when Tom Scott takes a holiday to EE-ronn? You know, where they had the hostage crisis that brought down Jimmy Carter?
or also hire Gretchen McCulluch as a co-writer (i know tom also studied linguistics, don't @ me)
@@elskabee Her podcast Lingthusiasm is down in the description below.
xnoypt
Sam: I mean, surely one of you guys have laughed at some of my jokes, right?
Beatty: *"Obviously that's a no"*
nah, not that bad. just some real stinkers occasionally. passable.
You didn't even list the fact that at 5:18 in the "The Mathematical Loophole that Broke the Lottery" video, you said "$484,463.5" but put "$484,206" on the screen.
Save it for next year's correction video
Does not listing a mistake count as a mistake?
I’m betting something that your comment will appear on next year’s video.
Now in next year's video, he has to list that as a mistake, and also list it as a mistake that he didn't include that in this video
5:47 "Least viewed video," meanwhile one with fewer views is right next to it. While it is only an announcement, it is still a video.
Pretty sure he knowingly puts one mistake in his annual mistakes video.
Maybe it's the least viewed video of the last year?
@@giambaJ It's the last viewed video in this video, since everyone was looking at tbe wrong one
@@giambaJ I thought his mistake was completely ignoring the accent in "Ørmen" at 5:38.
Mistakes in the metales video :más:
Just calculated how much I save with ting. Ting is 25$ more expensive than my current one. A month.
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1:54 In summary, random long password > long word-based password > passw0rd123-style things
xkcd wasn't wrong because it was comparing the last two, but the commenters were because they thought a word-based password could beat a randomly generated one of the same length
TLDR: Randall Munroe smart, TH-cam comments dumb.
Dangit now HAI has to talk about this for a 4th video in a row.
easypassword1
@@skyem5250 The comic does no mention of random passwords. It explicitly says "non-gibberish base word" for the first password
well, interestingly the xkcd comic gave a not great example because the substitution password they choose would not be easy to crack(due to it's esoteric word choice and esoteric substitution choice) while the word based one might be easier to break with a dictionary attack. But, yes, generally common substitutions may not have a significant impart on your password security at all.(whereas longer and randomer passwords are significantly harder to crack for all methods)
Love how Warren just changes her outfit in the middle of the inquiry.
HAI: *exists*
Literaly everyone in congress: *I'm about to destroy this man's whole career*
Fun thing about Whangarei: I live there! Also, the very particular thing you did of mispronouncing the name like that was actually a hot button issue for New Zealanders for a while. The pronounciation of Maori names in New Zealand was (kinda still is???) a weird micro culture war.
Te Reo Maori (Literally "The Language Maori") did not have a system for writing before European colonists arrived in New Zealand, so when one was eventually created it used 'wh' to represent their /f/ sounds because the way the indigenous Maori produced their F sounds was different than most languages using the Latin alphabet; instead of using their teeth and bottom lip to produce the fricative sound, they did something more akin to pursing their lips and blowing. So Whangarei is pronounced Fung-uh-rey.
...at least it should be, but that's where this lil culture war pops up: Some Pakeha (White/NZ European) people in New Zealand spent a couple decades (or maybe centuries who knows) pronouncing Maori names distinctly more English, even at times when this literally was not how they were spellt. A local mountain in Whangarei, for example, is called Parihaka, and is proncounced exactly how it's spelled. Yet for some reason a lot of people ended up pronouncing it "Para-Hackey". And this ended up happening for a lot of Maori names, with probably the funniest example being when people called Whakatane (F*ck-a-tarn-eh) as "Whack-a-tain".
In the last couple of decades there's been a greater push to preserve and respect Maori culture. One small part of this has been putting more emphasis on not bastardizing their place names for no reason - and to be clear, this is not a case of language shifting naturally; the Maori have been pronouncing all of these words the same the whole time. Some racist older people got really upset that "they're trying to change the way it's said!" and were quite bothered that they were being told they'd been saying it wrong the whole time, or that the place they'd grown up was no longer called what they had always called it. So for a while you had this group of people that would very insistently pronounce all these place names wrong deliberately and get very intense if you tried to correct them or even pronounce it different from them in conversation, because in their eyes they were taking a stand against linguistic oppression or something.
The whole thing has died down now and aside from a few very very racist holdouts people say the correct names. But yeah, that's the story of how Sam accidentally engaged in a racist dumpsterfire by pronouncing a word with a "wa" instead of a "fa".
Nothing different than how Kiribati is Kiribass
So why not just change the spelling to something people are more likely to get more right more often?
@@cloudkitt Because generally when people who don't speak a language struggle with the pronounciation of its words, you don't change the language to suit their needs.
One one hand you have: "Change how Te Reo Maori spells /f/ sounds, go through the beauraucratic process of renaming the thousands of Maori place names to be spelled with 'F', find some way to deal with a sudden divide in written Te Reo texts spell a *tonne* of words, and then explain to the Maori population that their whole written language is being changed to make sure that a gaggle of vocal racists pronounce their place names correctly, even though those same racists will also probably now be angry the place names are *actually* being changed, and will just double down on their idiocy"
On the other hand you have: "Tell some boomers to suck it up and stop pronouncing these place names incorrectly"
The choice seems pretty clear.
@@The_Noblest_Roman I was not suggesting we change *their* language, I was suggesting changing the way their language is rendered in an alphabet that is not their language that would more accurately represent the pronunciation so that English speakers would be more likely to pronounce things correctly even without prior knowledge.
I did not realize that Maori did not previously have a written language, so fair enough.
And yet the "W" pronunciation of "Whangarei" is still quite commonly heard, especially by older New Zealanders. FWIW...
I like that you make these videos. It demonstrates humility and a desire to learn and grow from your mistakes, which will make the channel even better
We all make mistakes, that’s what makes us humans. But making a series all about admitting your mistakes is a step up
Avery the Cuban-American why are you everywhere ?
You say this as if you're a human, but you definitely have a superhuman ability to comment on videos.
HAI: haha video content machine go brrr 😛
It's been three years? I swear you made the announcement on Wendover no more than a year ago it really doesn't feel that long.
What?
Same,except I thought it was closer to 1.5 years.As the saying goes,times files when you are having fun.
Ørmen is not pronounced "ORmen", this got to be mentioned next year. :/
Haha I was just about to write this comment
@jaxson halychuk But he lives in Britain
Was about to say this
Does there stand a solitary candle, though?
@jaxson halychuk that's just not true
Other channels: "Nooo you can't profit from mistakes!"
HAI: "Haha correction video goes brrrrrrrrrrr."
Yep.
@@ting wait wut why is a corporation here?
@@wallywallendo If you hadn’t noticed, we sponsored this HAI video. We’re just here to make sure any questions that get asked about the sponsor are answered and the concerns about the sponsor heard!
@@ting oh okay!
"The six people in the world who care about euchre" I guess the population of Michigan is six
Literally everyone in Michigan plays it. I was required to learn i when I moved there
Can confirm. Am from outside Detroit.
...is that... not true?
I’m in Arizona and have never heard of it
Thanks for owning up to your errors, while also doing so in the most sassy way possible.
Random Fact:
The woman who invented chocolate chip cookies, sold the idea to Nestlé, for a lifetime supply of chocolate.
- Daily Fun Facts
Cool.
Fun Fact: Mom pick me up im scared im in the groceries isle where are you mom
@@cowboymooman8776 wtf
You earned a subscriber for this I like fun facts daily
science maniacs did you actually fall for that?
The senate hearing shtick was incredible! Loved it. Thanks for all the hard work you do. Good luck making less mistakes this year😎
Ok, the Congress segment was legit brilliant
Edit: Also, somehow, you got dragged before both Houses of Congress simoultaneously
I'm so furious at your mistakes that I've decided to continue being subscribed to you for the rest of my life!
0:22 Can you make a video explaining the economics of the industry that makes these stock videos. Honestly, who tf makes these and how much do you have to pay for them.
The weird stock videos and photos are made by videographers/photographers when they get bored.
*Nods approvingly in slow motion while wearing a suit*
Sometimes just photos can go for 1000+ pounds or dollars. There are ones that go for even more than that. Don't even get me started >.>
An excellent article on the topic.
www.digitaltrends.com/photography/bigstock-dives-into-the-photographers-mind-on-how-kooky-images-end-up-on-its-site/
The most important part:
"A common theme in the creation of most intriguingly funny stock photos is spontaneity. Some photographers choose to leave in the funny, offbeat, behind-the-scenes bits on the cutting room floor, and some choose to submit them to stock agencies with the rest of their entries. It can make for some great, unexpected, and humorous content." (From article linked above)
that would be an interesting video
XKCD is not wrong - it says that given the same knowledge of the password requirements the second is easier for a human to remember, and the first is easier for a computer to crack - XKCD's example is easier to crack, as it is CommonWord+with standard substitutions + symbol + number - yours is harder
Yes, thank you. XKCD is saying that if you need to remember a password, make it long rather than use common substitutions. A long password, even with a limited character set, is plenty strong. However, if you don't have to remember it, like if you use a password manager, it is always best to have a random collection of symbols from a large character set.
It looks like HAI mistakes part four is starting off strong
password managers ftw, no more bullshit
passwords need to die. There are better alternatives.
@@waltermeerschaert what are those "better alternatives"?
Sam: is that a threat
**karen noises intensifies**
I love the senate hearings harassing you, but seriously your videos are the highlights of my week. Thank you!
"Tokyo Grift" is funny to me since HAI is Japanese for YES.
(I tried to make a linguistics joke out of this but it was a bit too oblique.)
Absolutely love the meta hai content like the brick film on nebula and the court case here, it's really entertaining for long term hai fans!
2:04 Screenshot Missing - look forward to this appearing in the "Mistakes We Made in The Mistake Video"
It was the copyrighted photograph that he mentioned later in the video. Their lawyers don't seem to understand fair use, so yes, that's the best photograph available of that vessel.
Thanks for these. Honestly. The best part about learning is figuring out where you're wrong
4:24 that video also misspells the name of the Georgian capital Tbilisi.
“Lawnchair Larry is our least viewed video”
The podcast no one asked for: Well hello there
I was about to comment this, it is literally right there in the video next to it
General Podcasti! You are an old one.
Now I have to wait A WHOLE OTHER YEAR before the mistake in this video is revealed!
Wait what mistake
AJax 8398 There always seems to be a mistake in the corrections video. In next year’s, the mistake in this video will be confirmed.
I’m so upset! Lawn chair Larry is literally my FAVORITE episode!! I rewatch it pretty frequently because it’s such an epic story lmao
Hi Sam, I am a commercial Pilot on a 737. Under EASA rules you don't need "certain amount of hours" to keep up the currency of the rating a pilot holds but certain amount of take offs and landings. Usually 3 take off and 3 landings within 90 day period, a simulator every year for Licensce proficiency check and Line oriented evaluation as well as a Line check flight every 2 years. The 3 take off and 3 landings can be done in a simulator meaning a pilot can go months without flying an airplane and then operate a flight with passengers.
damn it now he is gonna make another video correcting the same mistake again.
I mean the implication for the xkcd comic was that word passwords scale better for human only password storage since 5 words at random can be more easily recalled than an equivalent set of random characters.
Omg! The court room scenes are freaking hilarious and amazing.
Darn it HAI I wanted to watch a (HAI) video while eating lunch earlier today and you just uploaded now???
first
@@ZeCoolGuy-lk5mg first reply, sure, you go
@@daryfitrady7590 I have the power
Comrades don’t make mistakes, we make happy little accidents
I laugh at nearly all your jokes. That's one reason why I subscribed to you. Knowledge plus humour.
6:25 - Dialect coach Erik Singer may be able to shed light on which should really be circled.
I've been waiting for this the whole year!
HAI doesnt make mistakes, it just leads into new episodes.
first
@@n.m.8802 I care
@@n.m.8802 no except me
@@n.m.8802 my gamer is epic though
Only Sam could get a company to sponsor a video literally entirely made of mistakes. Nice one Sam ;)
Plot Twist: He purposely makes mistakes to make this video
I appreciate the fact that you admit your mistakes.
"Lawnchair Larry is the least viewed video"
*watches the video on loop*
I love your videos! 😂 This is actually super cool to show the mistakes!
Half as interesting doesn't lie. They just make room for self corrections.
These mistakes videos are hilarious, and I love how you worked in a congressional hearing. LOL.
(I noticed the "no easy solution to NULL" one, too - lazy people should not be allowed to program computers, but then there probably wouldn't be many programmers; though, lower supply is good for the wages of the few of us who care /digress)
Me, getting a PhD in Linguistics, casually enjoying an HAI video:
Sam: 6:26
Me: :(
You're not the only one.
HAI is the only channel that finds a good use for mistakes. So this means that purposely making mistakes gives them more content. This makes all of us happy lol.
1 dislike already?
The haters have hit the bell on
Nah that's just HAI disliking his own video before it goes public
nooooooooo I'm not first
It's bots
@@n.m.8802 I care
This was a really funny video! I like how you inserted yourself into a Congressional hearing.
This video is 11 months old but hey it’s a video involving correcting pronunciation errors.
For the Chinese dynasties:
Táng is pronounced with a soft a. The hard a sound doesn’t exist in Mandarin Chinese (there is possibly a debate to be had over why we use Mandarin names for historical places or figures that predate the dialect, but that’s for another day)
Suí is pronounced like the word “sway.” In pinyin romanization, the letters u and i do refer to the sounds “oo” and “ee” when the vowels are used independently, but together are pronounced like “way”… for some reason. If I recall correctly, the pinyin was designed to make Chinese generally easier to teach, not specifically for English speakers like some older systems
I’ll give you a pass on the tones though. I spent 8 years learning Chinese and I still manage to bungle them sometimes
admitting you made mistakes
making a video of it (and adressing every mistake)
THAT is why i like your channel
kudos
HAI guy: “This one about Lawnchair Larry because it is out least popular video ever”
Announcing a new podcast the nobody asked for: Am I a joke to you?
Mistake at 3:15 Sam said the title was not words, only one problem there... they are words. I can only imagine Sam was referencing that the title "Why Highway Where Cars are Banned" is not a proper sentence.
mistake at 3:50, only 4 people care about Euchre not 6, as seen in Euchre's very exciting Wikipedia page where it says "Players: 4"
😎
He also called it a board game
Great video! I love your sense of humor!!
6:26 "linguistics also sucks"
_angry Tom Scott noises_
This was amazing!!! I love how someone is finally making fun of congresspersons being jerks! I'd love to see Sam really being questioned by the Senate!
(P.S. as a Grand Rapids native I must declare that Gerald R. Ford belongs completely to Grand Rapids!)
On that vowel space diagram you showed, there's severals points around it, represententing all the distinct vowel sounds. Next to each point is a unrounded sound to the left and a rounded sound to the right. Rounding literally just refers to if the lips are relaxed or being... rounded.
To show that the vowel has been fronted, you would move the circle to the next leftmost point, showing that the vowel has changed to a different distinct vowel that is futher forward in the mouth. Instead you circled the vowel to the left of the same point, showing that the vowel was no longer rounded. ʉ would have been the vowel to go to, as it is still rounded, but further forward in the mouth.
PS - please make more linguistics videos :(
It's nice that you can make a video admitting to your mistakes and still get paid for it. Lets you continue pumping out daily videos, and then just cop to the errors later. Brilliant!!
4:55
Not to be that guy, but you pronounced "Sui" incorrectly. It's actually pronounced [swěi].
PS.
I think It's funny that you mispronounced something in this kind of video.
Anyhow, I like your videos, keep it up!
Irrea I mean... if we’re talking Chinese pronunciation, he pronounced Tang and Yang wrong too
And Tang/Yang isn't pronounced with the ang sound in angle. The a is pronounced with an ah sound. It's similar to the American pronunciation of tong. Yang also has the ah sound, but Andrew Yang just adapted to Americans. Actually, I think all Chinese (Mandarin) pronunciations of characters in which their spelling/pinyin only has a vowel of a (e.g. Shang in Shanghai) all use the ah sound, but Americans (and probably other countries) mispronounce it with the ang sound in angle.
Sui pronounced like sway.
Yeah that was quite a cock up.
He also mispronounced the name of the Danish guy who now holds the key to the internet ^_^
I just assumed the Australian one was a coincidence you just happened to do it at the same time. Anyone, thanks for the awesome videos you make, you're my 3rd favourite youtube channel (a touch behind Economics Explained)
BRO last time I was this early was never
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@@ZeCoolGuy-lk5mg nobody cares
@@thijsvanderlinden2209 at least I'm first
this is your funniest video yet, especially the sam i am part
The last time I was just early he was still addicted to planes
oh wait
How you always early then?
Wait a second....HAI runs ads?!?! I thought those were unsponsored helpful suggestions!!!
"which really upset the 6 people who play euchure"
dude you're about to have the *entirety* of the state of michigan breaking down your doorstep
Oh no! All six of them?
@@makleto84 i don't have to take this from someone who sucks toes
Plot twist: HAI intentionally makes mistakes so that he can make an extra video every year
2:13 WENDOVER CONFIRMED
I swear this is just a genius way to promote old videos
Sam already messed up again by pronouncing Sui Dynasty as "Swee" Dynasty instead of the correct pronunciation of "Sway" Dynasty. Hope to see that corrected in HAI mistakes 4.
This is me looking through the comments to see if someone else said it before I make a duplicate comment. 😂😂
I love that you make these videos. It really diffuses the haters if you're giving yourself as much shit as they are haha
Mistake in a misstake video in a missedtale video it's a enlus bo-cycle
Ayyyyyy my man owning up to his mistakes, and facing the threat of losing people
find the mistake in this video that will be referenced in next year’s video 👀
He still mispronounced "Eruv."
he said the lawn-chair video was his least viewed video on the channel but the video announcing the podcast to the right of that video has less
I'm late to the party here, but man this was a great format for a mistakes video! Very very well done, very funny, upright: respect!
5:38 "and was replaced by Christian Oarman"
Oof. I'm used to foreigners butchering my language, but that mispronunciation is ironic given the video topic. Honestly though, I can't even figure out how to write that phonetically in English, so maybe it should be excused. That said Ø ≠ O, and it's an E, not an A.
Zuckerburg getting flamed is such a hilarious video and I'm so glad this video reminded me about it.
FACT is, he is a great creator, and he is a public FIGURE. #FACTS_AND_FIGURES ❤️❤️❤️🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵
FACTS AND FIGURES - Name checks out
This is me when the
@@placeholder_username9528 👌😀 u will gain immunity against coronavirus :D now
@@BigBang28A when u r new in youtube, right? :D
FACTS AND FIGURES - Thank you, I hope you do as well
That first shot is from the Glòries district in Barcelona, I even work in the building just behind that view. Never thought I'd see that in a HAI video
5:45 Technically 2nd least viewed video of all time if you're counting the announcement video?
He’s getting more and more sarcastic every video
Hey, another mistake is your name, I always think people try to say hi to me when they say your name, confusing.
The best channel which combines knowledge with some smokey jokes
Quick! Someone find a mistake in this episode for season 4!
I’m just here rewatching this video for the millionth time because it never fails to make me laugh
In the Eruv video, you pronounced the Hebrew words "eruv" and "melacha" like a gentile. Here's how you pronounce each one respectively:
עירוב/eruv
forvo.com/word/%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%91/#he
מלאכה/melacha
forvo.com/word/%D7%9E%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%9B%D7%94/#he
Granted, the "ch" sound in melacha (the unvoiced uvular fricative) is hard for anyone who speaks English as a first language to pronounce, if one did not grow up knowing how to pronounce it. You could get by if you pronounce it like a strong H, though
We were about to say the same thing!
I’m sure this has been mentioned before, but the video about Lawnchair Larry Walters that SB Nation’s Jon Bois did for his Pretty Good series is a work of art (as is all of Bois’ oeuvre, frankly).
Doesn't it look like he makes
mistakes on purpose just so that he can make an extra video every year?
This is my favorite video of the year. Well done, I couldn't stop laughing.