12. Language | THUNK 

Wow, I think that this is the first time that I've ever contributed the first comment on a RU-vid video. Woo!! Excellent video, dood. Every description was spot on (to my understanding of how this all works), and I really liked how you described verbal assault at the end. I've never really thought about it in that way, but you're right. People often can't control the unpleasant or painful emotions evoked by words that they hear, so causing this pain on purpose is definitely analogous to physical assault. Keep up the great work!

Honestly my friend, this is a really high quality channel. Just stumbled upon it when I was researching Duverger's law and I can't stop thunking

Nice. "Skeuomorphic" is one of those words few people use, but the concept is everywhere. Hallowe'en slaps you in the face with it all the time ( plastic decorations that are made to look like wooden picture frames, stone grave markers, and steel machetes.).

This is the perfect description of what I've been trying to explain as best-friend telepathy. It's just plain mind control :P I really like your videos :) please make more.

"Dirty prescriptivist !" I am stealing that for the next time the gloves come off while talking a grammar nazi ! You should have made some room in there for the author is dead thing. Words as programs that execute in your brain without your consent. Very clever idea ! That reminds me of the book Snow Crash. The part about sumerian using language to control people (maybe to organize them for agriculture or something). In fact, that's probably the core idea of the book (snow crash itself is a binary virus that you catch by just reading it). I just finished listening to Ursula Franklin's Massey lecture (The real world of technology) and there is sort of a related idea. She calls it "prescriptive technologies" and it's about how work procedures constrain people in their actions. Might be straying too far offtopic there. www.cbc.ca/ideas/massey-archives/1989/11/07/1989-massey-lectures-the-real-world-of-technology/ The most vile word I have ever imagined is "eye poker". That's just awful, think about it ! Oh no, somebody made a video about it Dead Space 2: Eye Poke Machine

"Words are little programs that your brain executes without your consent" NICE!

Wow, I am not the only one who thinks that way about language :D

Your vids are always thought provoking. Thanks.

Since I don't interact with many humans in real life, I actually relate more to this topic through reading books. I read Wicked by Gregory Maguire and HATED it. It's not that it was a bad story, I just couldn't comprehend what the author was trying to say at times. His language was so vague and I almost felt like his editor skipped entire sections of dialogue. Because of that, I had trouble picturing what was going on and why. Not good. For all you Twilight-haters out there, I'm going to try and explain the phenomenon to you. First of all, the movies were crap. I'm not going to talk about the movies. The books, however, are not as bad as you think they are. The reason they were so popular in the first place is that Stephanie Meyer was good at conveying emotions and images with her words. Even if those words were juvenile in nature, she still got her point across. Her sexy sparkly point. I don't mean to make this thread a debate on the merits of Twilight; I was just using it as an example of MIND CONTROL.

I really liked this one

p.s. General Semantics - You can have power over other people if they believe that your definition of reality is their own.

Hi, I just discovered you and I love your videos! I just thought of a topic if you ever want to go more in-depth with language. I've seen a bunch of super interesting research on how the language you grow up learning affects the way you view the world. For example, the Chinese perception of family vs. the English perception of family. Thanks for being awesome =)

In norway we have two words for hat, "hatt" for hard/fancy hats "lue" for soft hats.

You need a wider audience. Maybe there's hope, I just got this video in my youtube recommendations.

I think Stephan King has talent.

What was that? Benejeceret word paralysis? How do you spell that?

"Lol" should be in dictionary because it is commonly used,, just not in a common fashion.

Snow Crash

Don't fuck with my EVM (English virtual machine). I Just got an update and still don't know how it works or how to turn it off. But I have heard about some mindful software, which can turn the EVM off. Once I got a program which made me hate what I love. You know those delicious patties form your local restaurant. They are made of animals! Please uninstall that fact.