Fantastic Features We Don't Have In The English Language 

i thought of "but mr krabs, we don't deliver!" "WE don't deliver, but YOU do"

Ey kenma

1:23 is when you've won the lottery but there's this one aunt/uncle that you have a restraining order against

Thought the exact same thing

This made me exhale from my nose

HahahAhhhHhahaha

- Have you ever heard about that band? - Which band? - Absolute Direction

*Absolute funny*

hahhaaaahshshssh

*badam tsss*

That’s brilliant

Norwegian too :)

in french too

This features in all Germanic languages (except English) and in French.

That has always been one of the biggest sources of confusion in English for me. That's great. Although, I believe old English had that at one point.

- Hello, it's ambulance? What are you wearing rn? I'm SORRY

“hi ambulance, im dad”

Call an ambulance! *draws gun* BUT NOT FOR ME!

Hi ambulance, I'm dad.

i also speak languages, what a coincidence!

@@matteomagurno3068 No way! I speak languages too

Ok this is a miracle... I speak languages too

I don't speak languages :'(

@@varunsathya1912 well you see, I believe you are typing in something called ‘English’ which is classified as a language, so you do speak languages :D

How handy!

"I'm west-handed, when I am facing south."

OMG, I laughed so much!

im south handed when facing north

"I'm south-handed when I'm facing east"

English-Finnish bilingual here and I agree. I mix the two languages a lot when talking with friends and find it harder to speak only English. Only Finnish is a bit easier for me, as it's my native language, but easiest is to mix both of them on the fly.

English-thai bilingual here, me too

In my experience this ease is a consequence of lacking vocabulary in one of the two, might just be a language purist though idk

@@neecogwheelsword3627 Not in all cases.

​​@@neecogwheelsword3627 sometimes yes but sometimes it's just that one language has an amazing way of describing a situation that the other doesn't. Maybe it's shorter, maybe it's all condensed in a single word while it's a full sentence on the other, maybe it's just more accurate. I speak French-English-Japanese and with some other trilinguals we often end up with sentences that are full of words from the 2 other languages.

so true! same with exclamation marks ! I'm a big reader and sometimes a character will say something but you don't realise until after the sentance that they were meant to be shouting the whole time. Then I go back and read the sentence again to get the full effect.

@@joannas322 double reading! It's actually kind of a shame we don't have that in other languages (like Catalan or English)

i sometimes use the ¿ in English too

My favorite thing about this is that it doesn’t necessarily draw attention to the complete sentence, rather focusing purely on the interrogative portion. The following sentence is a grammatically correct question in English: _Dad, what is that?_ In Spanish, this is what you would write to express the same question: _Papá, ¿que es eso?_ It may not look like much, but for long sentences with multiple commas and only one phrase that is actually doing the “questioning,” this makes reading Spanish exponentially easier.

@@alahiri2002I disagree with it being exponentially easier, as English uses reverse word order, which together with interrogative words like “what” or “how” and questions being separated by one of .,:; makes it quite clear what is a question and what is not. OP even admits to it being left out of a lot of typing, can you imagine how little people would use it in English, especially considering the amount of weird contractions English uses?

Omg bruh what AAAH

wow, just noticed that now, I thought the video was more recent

@@lucasthech Same exacly, I just saw that one in recomended under the newest video, I thought it's like a week old or smth

I kinda like this lighting more

Wait what

Lmao

"Make sure you keep west when driving"

This would get confusing in space Maybe have orientation with the sun and the body that you are orbiting

As an adult person who can't quickly distinguish left from right and tell time under pressure, I'm certain I would be told that anyway

"No, dum-dum your OTHER North!" it's, 'No, dummy, your OTHER North" a dummy may exhibit temporal situational disorientation including xy and z & t or inappropriate or inordinate responses socially for myriad reasons. A dum dum...

right! I was wondering if anyone noticed this too 😂

I can't even picture what font that is, but that's very funny to hear. Am gonna go back through the video to learn what that font looks like!

To be proper, it should be either ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi or Hawaiian. The English word Hawaiian doesn't have an ʻokina in it.

Kind of like in downtown New Orleans. North south east and west don’t work because of the geography of the river’s curve. You get uptown (or upstream), downtown, towards the river and towards the lake. It’s even more hopeless using compass directions, as South Carrollton and South Claiborne are two streets that intersect, at 90 degrees no less.

Wow that sounds like it came straight from an anime studio that heard the isekai is popular and just made another of the RPG type game based animes. How did you do that?

Just figure out which one of your hands is your north hand, and you can know the way

Seems like something out of highschool dxd

That can't save you if I use the ability of my *Time Independence* You will find yourself in space but can you find yourself, *IN TIIIIIIIME*

I was horribly easy to disorient as a kid and had to train myself in what to pay attention to later so as not to be always driving the wrong way. People from languages with absolute direction always freaking know their orientation. They don't get lost unless you drug them and fly them to a different continent.

Why did I read this in a Russian accsent

@@samo_di8420 because I typed it with a russian accent!

Yes, there are 3 types of exclusivity for "we" and people usually only focus on two. It's me+you, me+them, me+you+them (where them is any number of people). - Your suggestion of an "everyone" pronoun isn't bad either. But -we- everyone already got "everyone".

but isnt Russian "we" is the same as Eglish "we"? I mean it can mean (you/me) or (me/them) or (all of us)

Who are you, Comrade Question? :P

In Cebuano (Philippines), we also use kami and kita but we never use kita for kami and vice versa in any circumstance. We also shorten them to "mi" and "ta" if it's not at the beginning of the sentence.

In marathi (India) ,inclusive we is 'Apla' and exclusive we is 'Amcha'

In serbo-croatian language kita is word for penis

In Michif (Canadian indigenous language) kiyanaan is inclusive we and niyanaan is exclusive we. And then if you want to say a simple verb that ‘we’ did, you say ki-‘verb’-inaan or ni-‘verb’-inaan.

in the language of KrÂsïnrse, the inclusive "we" is "dasÿm" and the exclusive is "onësn" also, there's a "we" for when it's just two people - "tySt" (the capital S makes part of it)

Isn't querer "want"? I'm dumb so idk

​@@DE3P_BeatsIt can also be used that way

Love can be applicable to both platonic and romantic relationships.

I guess "like" is a little different to both.

To varying degrees... adore, admire, love, like, even worship (...to ellivate that person to another heavenly realm)

That falls under the absolute directions. If you say "west" west is always the same direction.

you can always tell someone to mirror you

Shane Salinas not if the two people are facing the same direction and the object is between them. And so, the request for this word remains unanswered...

we have that in the south is called Over Yonder

What about just "my left/right"

Southwest*

You had me🤣🤣🤣🤣 South kidney, seriously? Body part are supposed to be left and right, I wonder how the people who use cardinal directions are used to describe it.

I'm slightly more concerned with how such people could communicate online or over the phone, or to those who are blind, where which direction you're facing isn't entirely obvious. Sure, you have a north foot and a south foot, but are you facing west or are you facing east? How does the listener know if they can't see you? You know your south kidney is missing, but if you tell your friend online who just recently stole an east kidney, would they know if they stole your kidney or someone else's?

@@himura-miki Maybe they just ask each other which way they're facing?

I'm slightly ashamed it took me a minute or so to remember what the hell you meant by south kidney

when someone replies negative to a negative question it logically means the answer given is positive, but that is not general, so sometimes answer that way implies otherwise.

I've wondered that too. When someone asks me "Don't you hate it when ____" and I say yes, they don't know if i'm saying yes as in hate I hate it or yes as in I don't hate it

cope

seethe harder

German has this feature too! ("Doch")

This is why the people who prepare patients for surgery use special marking pens.

"Now they're east-handed scissors."

This is just speculation, but in those languages the hands might have special names, like "the strong hand" for right and "the smart hand" for left, or something like that. Or, they just do what the guy above said.

@Sir Thiccums I am south south west handed currently.

or they'd just be the 'dominant hand'

I'm west handed right now

*Influencers on Instagram:*

*WE* felt that! *COMMUNISM INTENSIFIES*

🥰

in italian it’s “questo”, “codesto”, “quello”

spanish has same feature too!

My native Cebuano has it too! Kiri - This (closer to speaker than listener) Kari - This (equally near to speaker and listener) Karâ - That (closer to listener than speaker) Katu - That (far from both speaker and listener)

korean has that as well!

こそあど言葉 in general is really cool

Not just bengali - a lot of other north indian languages too, and maybe even some south indian ones. Hindi, for example, has "aap", "tum", and "tu".

Tbh i too find it hard to use as a native bengali. When i try to address someone younger than me but also a stranger i don't know if i should use "aapni"(used for strangers) or "tumi"(which can be used for people younger than you)

There's a similar thing in russian too. We have ты and вы. Ты is used when you're talking to singular person you're comfortable/familiar with. Вы is used either for plural you (talking to multiple people at once) or as a respectful way to refer to singular person who's higher in social hierarchy (and also respectful way to adress a stranger)

@@eldreyte so Вы is the same as 'vous' in French?

In german we also have two forms of you. You would say "you" to your friends, family, vlose ones, or younger persons, while you would use "Sie" for business partners, strangers or any kind of person who is at least at the same level in social hierarchy and you aren't very close to.

I hope they also patch the political class

Actually, we are abandonware.

Buy the DLC for 29,99 for two different words you'll never ever use.

Im evil I changed your likes from 699 to 700 😈

Shronk Donk then why tf you making a big deal out of it then?

*Consistent.

Their ahh know rewlz ... roolz? Ruze?

@@Randy.Bobandy If "consistent", therefore "resistent"? 🤔

like pro *noun* ce but pro *nun* ciation

I before e except after c unless sounding like A like neighbor or weigh or when the English language is being weird, such as either or height. Speaking of height, why do height and weight sound different? They're incredibly similar words when it comes to spelling, but they're both pronounced differently. Leisure and foreign are ei words that have also gone rogue from this spelling rule. And then there's science, glacier and species, which definitely is breaking the rules. Heirloom, atheist, forfeit, and seismic follow this trend as well. So in conclusion, English sucks. Edit: Wow, I didn’t know a lot of these English rules. Thanks for telling me.

Other romance languages do have both words, but none uses it as extensively as Spanish. "Stare" in Italian is used much less frequently than "essere", for instance. Re: "I'm tired", I've always found it interesting that in Spanish they differentiate between being tired due to physical exhaustion ("estoy cansado") and being tired as in being sleepy ("tengo sueño").

@@joavim You can do that in italian too, although not everybody does. You can say "Sono esausto/sfinito/distrutto" (physical exhaustion) or "Ho sonno" (being sleepy). "Sono stanco" can mean both things.

@@youtubeviewerxx has nothing to do with the usage of "stare" though

Same here with portuguese and I love it! I don't know if it's different in Spanish but in Portuguese "saber" means knowing something or having deep knowledge about a topic, wheras "conhecer" means being aquaintanced with a person/recognising them or recognising a word or a city for example. "conhecer" is not about knowledge/understanding, it's just about recognising something/someone. Again, could be different in Spanish!

@@marion.saturn its the same in spanish, but instead of conhecer its conocer

faster than light travel is completely impossible

@@trappedcosmos Recall that he says he is writing a book

@@trappedcosmos that's crazy I didn't know that I guess that's why it's a fiction book and it's not real

@@trappedcosmos I fear you missed the point

*Science* fiction, its not fantasy, scientifically it's impossible

Ukrainian/Russian speaker here, and trust me, you're BLESSED to have this system. See, we have a separate name for almost every member of the family; there are so many complicated names that almost no one knows every one of them, and when someone does and mentions it everyone will be like 'wtf is that? Do you mean your spouse's sibling?' (and, of course, all the terms are separate for the two genders) There even are competitions at knowing all of these, if I'm not mistaken. I'm fascinated with how plain and simple it is in English.

But in Urdu we do have different names for these relations.

@@MohsinExperiments oh cool! And do you, like, actually know all of them??

@@dariialysiuk8787 Yes

@@magicpenguin9988 I was just about the say the same thing. Step sister and sister in law are bother the same word in French.

Excellent idea. but probably hard to find a small word that is not already in use *somewhere* on earth xD

I don't think it would work 🤔 people are used to twisting their tongues in such unique ways that there can't be one word that is the same but also pronounced and interpreted the same. Just how it's difficult to understand what non natives are saying when they speak a foreign language. It's sometimes almost impossible because they cannot form certain words or sounds

Most have "English?". Best part is even if both parties only know a dozen English words, it's still the fastest way to communicate that you don't know what they're saying almost anywhere in the world.

I thought that's "huh?"

7LeopardStar ??? typical humans are capable of making the same sounds as everyone else. the word “help” can be pronounced by any typical person, regardless of their native language, it just wouldn’t be spelled help.

Well I mean, Japanese only has 5 so close enough

@@stratonikisporcia8630 How important are those verbs? Like, are they thinks like “to be” and “to do”, or are they other obscure verbs?

@@austinross4093 They're the most used ones. The most irregular is "da" = "to be", then you have the medium irregular ones: "suru" = "to do" and "kuru" = "to come", finally two are only slightly irregular: "iku" = "to go" (participial form "itt-" instead of expected ["iit-"]) and "aru" = "to be" (yes another one, it's kinda similar to the ser / estar situation in Spanish) that just doesn't have a connective form. Well, there are some other irregular verbs, such as "masu" or "irassharu" but these ones are either auxiliaries or expressions, so you won't have to conjugate them.

In Turkish we just put -tı -ti -dı -di or -mış -miş (Adds Uncertainty) At the end of the Verbs to make them past tense.

@@Eren______ Japanese: *-ta*

@Aridalways the subject's left or right, obviously. :-\

Good point, because the orientantion of your body matters at the moment of the statement. On the other hand: this is exactly why in most hospital i know writing something like "This leg off -->" on the leg in question, is already normal.

Can i just say that in medical terminology they use the ventral/dorsal/posterior/anterior/etc. system for locating certain body parts and it is a definitive way that all doctors understand ... they don’t use right and left because your right wouldn’t be the patients right and that’s just confusing

@@darknut1223 Right and left might not be used in other languages, but that has no bearing to parts of your body for doctors to care about. If you're talking about a patient's left kidney, it is the patient's left kidney. Not the "kidney on the left" either the doctors left or the patients left. If I said you left hand, you wouldn't ask "Do you mean my left, or your left?" We're talking about YOUR hand. Your left hand will always be your left hand, whether I'm talking about, or you're talking about it.

@@nyangret I scrolled down to see if someone mentioned this cause Im taking Medical terminology right now 😄

I have today learned that that also applied to chinese.

We have that in Bulgarian as well, but only for aunts and uncles, not for grandparents. (Vuicho and vuina are maternal uncle and aunt, chicho and lelia are paternal uncle and aunt respectively.)

This is an interesting dilemma when designing languages. Do we go for precise vocabulary to convey information efficiently or do we go for generic and vague vocabulary to keep it easier to learn.

As a native swede I’ve always found it a little weird that this isn’t the case in every language. “My grandmother on the maternal side”... or just mormor? Much easier. Good luck learning Swedish, Josh! I’ve heard it’s tricky. May I ask why you want to do it? It’s such a small language (though useful in three countries which is neat!).

@@FilippaSkog no

So Russian is just “put whatever, wherever, and it’ll still make sense?”

​@@NStripleseven that's true thanks to the case system so there is no need to put the words in a certain order

Yes, it makes it easier, but sometimes we have to emphasize words in sentences instead of swap them, and to accentuate intonation.

You need strict rules for word order in English because English does not have cases apart from the genitive. If you have cases, word order becomes less important, you almost always know what is the subject and what is the object, regardless of word order.

As a native english speaker, and someone still relatively new to learning russian, I've been told I speak "very english" russian. For example, it's perfectly reasonable in russian to say "это я знаю уже" or "This, I know already." But easier for me to assemble the meaning of phrases like this when its formatted in an English-grammatical way, such as "я уже знаю это" or "I already know this." I can imagine the rigid structure of english word order can be quite confusing for Russians learning english, but atleast for me, it applies both ways. The lack of word order confuses me. Edit: Sidenote, the occassional omission of personal pronouns such as I, you, or we and instead just relying on the verb conjugation can also make it more difficult for me to immediately understand who is doing what.

der die das dem den dessen....

@@kanalkucker14 deren

Der dir das, wieso weshalb warum, wer nicht fragt, bleibt dumm. In English: The the the, why why why...

Imagine having 24 forms of "the" *angry Attic Greek noises*

Imagine only having a single letter for the word "the". And for the word "and".

pessimistic

Sad?

@@deltanedas but that's a state of being

pathetic

There should be a word for when you think theres a ghost but its actually just your ecoudorian friend in a hat Do you get the joke?

Not true in Egypt which is the only place i know to use that term أصبر و أصطبر هما نفس الكلمة مش عارف أنت جبت الكلام ده منين.

Is it like "waaaaait"?

@@tourhet It definitely exists in modern standard Arabic but it's not used that much in modern dialects

@@m7mdisenm866 Some words in Standard Arabic have more than one pronunciation and writing, but they do not change the meaning or confirm it, and certainly not a rule for grammatical emphasis

@@tourhet Bro there is literally a whole thing called "صيغة المبالغة" in "نحو" Have you never heard of it?

Gosh i hate that one. When translating you need to change the english start of a sentence depending on whether a japanese speaker adds a desu ka at the end of their sentence

That's a problem in the US too.

This always confused me in English, in Portuguese (and romance languages as a whole) dating someone and being friends with them are two completely different concepts expressed with different words. Female friend = Amiga Girlfriend = Namorada

@@jliller And it's mostly generational. Anyone I can think of saying "girlfriend" for their platonic female friend is almost certainly over 45 years old at this point

@@darklibertario5001 i realise your coment is 7 months old, but something cool is that in portuguese "amigo/a" used to mean girlfriend/boyfriend but also friend. Basicly it was like German or English with same word for both concepts causing mildly annoying confusion. One example of this was the medieval songs known as "cantigas de amigo" meaning "songs to boyfriend". In the 1300s people all over Portugal started using "amigo/a amado/a" or "amigo/a enamorada/o" to create diference to normal "amigos". Later the "e" was dropped turning the word into "namorado" which people started using as a noun instead of an adjective. There is a writting by some academic medieval dude complaining about the younger generation using this new widespread term. Supposedly it is one of the oldest clearly recorded instances of complaits about how young people are speaking wrong and using slang.

@@miguelpimentel5623 That's some very interesting insight, I've studied about the troubadours and "cantigas de amigo" but never really connected the dots about the original use of the word, in a weird way I'm really glad that those two concepts were divided linguistically, I wish English had this.

Exatly

That's not literally one word though. It works, but misses the point.

that would be "the boys and me" or "the boys and I"

This needs atleast 1k likes

This isn’t correct at all, English lacks that. For example if an African tribe language lacked the word for the month June and referred to it as “the 6th month” instead of having a word “June”, it’s primitive ish. English lacks the we inclusive/exclusive and needs to add more words to convey meaning that most languages have a word for

Thou art wrong, good sir. I'm starting a movement and invite thee to join.

*bogans have entered the chat*

Y’all

We use youse in Newcastle (UK) as well.

I’ve always just said “y’all,” at least in casual conversation.

So the right one if you're facing north

what if the bomb is along a north - south axis and every wire is on the east side

Your east, or mine?

@@natnuss98 If not you're dead

@@natnuss98 that would be easy IF you knew where you were facing. And suppose after your efforts, you found out that you're facing the South West :)

Just say "goodbye." "Hey dan remember the match last weekend-" " *Goodbye* " *Walks away without making eye contact or saying a word*

the entire english language politeness system works around saying a lot of words and being vague, so good luck trying to undo centuries of that. Polish is an example of a language that goes the other way. In Polish it's polite to be short, direct, and with as few a words as possible.

@@danahanley888 As a response to "tja" you usually get a "Und sonst so?"

In the midwest US we say "Welp" and the other person says "Yep" and that's it.

@@DougAdamsSame in the Pacific Northwest, so maybe just an America in general thing.

We have an optional one in english that I use a lot: "/s".

technically we have one in english as well, although it's rarely used - the interobang (‽)

@@MaliciousOnion I thought the interrobang was like “?!” but a single punctuation mark.

In my language we use "(!)" if we're being sarcastic.

@Gray El entrenador Pokémon Never heard of (!), and i been speaking spanish for a while now, the more you know

We have that in Danish. Moster, faster, farbror, morbror. Mother's sister, father's sister, father's brother, mother's brother. The former are more used than the latter since the latter are not proper words. It's just father (far) or mother (mor) + brother (bror). A lot of people use uncle (onkel) instead because the others sound kind of dumb.

Hindi has that too

Vietnamese has that too. The mother's older sister and brother are "bác" The mother's younger sister is "dì" The mother's younger brother is "cậu" The father's older brother and sister are the same as the mother's The father's younger sister is "cô" The father's younger brother is "chú".

A lot of Asian languages have that

@@cuamanhong2719 And what about the spouses of those people? In English, your mother's brother and your mother's sister's husband are both "uncle". Are the spouses of your parents' siblings another whole set of words in Vietnamese?

IPA goes crazy, bro.

So, Vietnamese?

Yórùbá? It's already been existing for a longgg time anon

I think this concept is referred to as a featural writing system

i ink we should revamp certain words: cake, make, bake, take, lake, sake, fake are now kaek, maek, baek, taek, laek, saek, and faek. latin/greek/french roots are calqued, if not regularised in english. Photosynthesis is Lightmaking. Internationalisation is now Betweencountrymaking. loanwords are always calqued.

At least English should have accent marks for spellings with multiple pronunciations. Rough, through, cough, etc. "ough" is pronounced in a completely different way. If I weren't a native English speaker, this would be maddening. I worked in a cafe near the UN in New York and it was amusing listening to all the foreigners try to pronounce "whole wheat" when asking for a bagel!

It sounds like something out of 1984

syockit Not really.

/watch?v=GiVs05yq9-o It actually does make sense if you learn how the roots of words are made. You can even roughly figure out what a word means and is spelled you've never heard before just by identifying the roots in it as well as knowing what language the roots came from.

Come on, write it in the same direction: :ꓷ

YESSS!!!!

@@Liggliluff 101 /)(\

*pulls out glock*

@@Liggliluff hold up

I'm guessing that little bit would mean something like "that's what [subject] think(s)"?

@@madladdie7069 a direct comparison in English would be "but that's just an opinion of mine"

@@darkness74185 Oh. So it's less "that's what [SUB] thinks" and more "that's what I think"?

Weeb congregation

Did you fart it out because you were saying an ass sentence?

Google Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis.

Arrival? Who is the author?

There was a time, where English had second person singular. The word was "thou". And it was conjugated separately: with the ending "st". Like "Thou writest a comment." Like in German, second person plural was used a polite form for storagers or people of high rank (The person counts like many persons.) The English were so polite, that they began using this form for everyone. In German, the polite form is today third person plural. So, "Can you help me?" would literally mean "Can They help me?"

@Kanashimi Report THEM?

YES

My French friend cries because there isnt a super popular plural form of you

@@hostgrady yeeeesss, as a brazilian I never know what "you" they are using. In portuguese we have "você" for singular and "vocês" for plural, and is SOOO more easy. I think that every latin language have this feature

I noticed that too

I don't get it. Anyone can Explain?

@@lucky_lol I think it's the One Direction band's font. Actually is a idea, to my sense

@@lucky_lol bc 1d is only 1 direction and it’s called direction

That’s 2D

In my experience, in languages where you have varying degrees of "love", telling a partner a lesser form of "i love you" is interpreted as saying "I _don't_ love you", which pressures you into always using the highest form of the verb even if you don't actually mean it.

@@matroqueta6825 apple love vs orange love...

Interesting. To me, this clarifies why characters finally saying 'I love you' is a huge moment in TV shows many times.

@@matroqueta6825​​⁠interestingly, this is the not the case in Japanese, where there are many varying ways to express your care and affection of another, the highest form of “I love you,” (愛してる) is sometimes said at the culmination of a fictional piece of work, and is saved for the special occasion precisely because of it’s strength and rarity. It’s rarely said in real life, as well as never being used for love confessions. The lowest and most common form actually is, (好きです) and the surrounding tensity, privacy, and tone indicate that someone is revealing their harbored romantic feelings. The slightly higher one 大好き is used when you want to express that you really like something! But when used to express feelings to another person is actually more shallow and welcomed among friends, and thus never perceived as a deep romantic confession. Love confessions, in order to kickstart a relationship, is standard practice in Japan. What couples say to each once their mutual feelings are confirmed is probably personal and varies. Another note, replying “Me too.” in Japanese when told “I love you.” is not considered non-romantic or someone too afraid to say I love you back. It’s simply a pure confirmation that their love is the same 😁

+TheRWS96 We really do. I have used mu many times, but I often have to explain the word. Mu is surprisingly useful.

+TheRWS96 I agree, and I've also used it.

+TheRWS96 Mu is a Greek letter. It is indicative of the prefix micro. For example, micrometers or micrograms. Our blood should always have less than five micrograms of lead per deciliter in it. This quantity would be written like this: μg/dl.

not really random as the word MU already existed in other languages so that is why MU instead of something else Click this link for more information: c2.com/cgi/wiki?MuAnswer

+TheRWS96 He was talking to 'Mark Streminsky', hence the "+Mark Streminsky' part, who was mentioning that the greek letter mu is used for micro, which is kind of random for this discussion. If it were to be added to say the English language, it would be written out 'mu', using the greek letter for it would be like, l33t speak.

The word 'rickrolled' exists but a word for 'a day after tomorrow' doesn't. Oh hey, and the word rickrolled is even in my Grammarly system since I typed 'rick rolled' however it auto corrected to 'rickroll'. .____.

Miss Flower i think an archaic term for it is overmorrow

@@acookie7548 in my native language we have a word for the day after tomorrow, and it literally means over-tomorrow so that makes sense

@@evae9415 oh that's so cool! is that dutch?? or like hindi? those are the only two languages i know with a word for it asdfghjk

Miss Flower in german „a day after tomorrow“ is „übermorgen“ and a day before yesterday is „vorgestern“

The closest we have is a bit silly, BuT tYpinG LikE tHiS oFteN DoEs tHE tRIcK

i hate that idea/j slash j works well

that's one of the reasons why languages are amazing. you learn a word that you can't convey well in english.

As well as quice, qintice, sextice, septice, octice, novice (nine times) and decice.

@@unkreativity1596 uP

Thrice of them are sitting on a couch

@@hkwww ???

@@hkwww that’s a really bad of use of the word thrice, would you use “twice” instead of “two” in that sentence

Use a differrent language

@@artifex2.080 r/woooosh

A character for sarcasm I'd use a symbol that isn't in my keyboard- question mark but facing left

@@davidgoldrock7264 I know portions of the internet use "/s" to mark it, though it's not universal enough. Sometimes I use caps to indicate emphasis on a word to make it more clear, but obviously that can just be confusing.

@@Gihntemos you know that's nice, but I'm talking bout somthing universal: somthing that you can see in a book or a newspaper

On the other hand, if you have to use "I" or "you", you end up with 8421 pronouns to choose from and if you pick the wrong ones, you're likely to sound offensive :D

Japan is a VERY tidy and Efficient place. Everything has to be on perfect and on time!

Yep, I love it, easiest is just not to use I or You, most ppl don't 😂

that's actually not true, japanese has a much slower information rate compared to a lot of european languages.

@@zahra9890 it's an extremely efficient language in terms of day to day use (and even more in places like the internet), but the formal use of the language can get extremely tedious and long

*will have had been going to entered

“All your base are belong to us.”

Wow, that sounds tense.

i don't get this someone explain

Since when are all Asians Chinese? No means to insult btw

theresa I just noticed that too!

OMG, I'm exhausted 😩 I've been scrolling the comments for 2 minutes straight until I finally found someone who actually noticed that. FINALLY 😌

@@leejaerim8972 Wish we could let the graphic designer know his cleverness was appreciated.

IM SO DEAD AHAHAHHA

I hate myself for even knowing that

I used to insist that "the Thursday coming up this week in 2 days" was the only correct one.

Same deal in Turkish

Don't blame us, we got it from the Romans. (:

You gotta have priorities mate

And what a fine word that is!

Just write threehalves without a space. Solved.

Kuba Borowiecki But it makes sense one and a half is simple, 1 & 1/2. Defenestration is also simple De- (most often without, in this case off) -Fenestra- (latin for window, proper word in latin would be fenestram) Tion- it means its a verb So its sort of throwing (if you strech the doing something part) off a window.

What about that cheese

Sheese

Statusinator but that sounds like She’s

X and Q also, Q should take over the "ch" sound X should take over "sh" sound idk what C can do

German had entered the chat .

The language that the concept comes from is from a tribe of Aboriginal hunter-gatherers who didn't really build anything larger than a hut, and who live in a continent not particularly well provided with large caves. Waking up in a strange place with no point of reference to the outside world is not something their language was developed to deal with.

@@boosterh1113 To be fair, it's quite rare for us, as well.

BackSpace In chinese "the day after tmr" is 后天(hou tian) and "the day before ytd" is 前天(qian tian). Pretty sure there might be some other languages that can describe those too!

Russian and other Slavic languages have words for these too. ^_^

in italian we say "the other yesterday"

In Germany the day before yesterday is "Vorgestern" (It's basically the words "vor" (Before) and "gestern"(yesterday)stuck together... ) and the day after tommorrow is "Übermorgen"(Über = Above; Morgen = tomorrow)

The English word "overmorrow" has been forgotten, but it's plain enough that you could probably bring it back and start using it without having to explain what it means.

Not to mention the cousins and nephews. I get lost on that.

It's widely different in different part of china as well. I'm from northern china, dad's younger sister would be 姑妈/小姑子。 姨丈 would be 姑父. 姨 in our dialect means mom's relative. For example, 姨父 would be mom's brother or brother Iaw.

does it take a lot longer to write or type chinese than english (assuming somebody was equally fluent in both), i’ve always thought the characters must take a while to draw

Kayjp writing 100 Chinese characters definitely takes more time than writing 100 english words, but a 100-word passage in english can be translated into chinese with ~60 characters; in terms of typing there are many Chinese typing systems, eg. pinyin (type according to phonetics in english alphabets) and cangjie (breaking down each chinese characters into fragments represented by alphabets)

@@MrTyty527 ah that makes sense, your language is so descriptive. Thanks for the response😊

Swedish has "Kissnödig" which means "pee needy" "Jag är kissnödig, jag måste kissa" "I am 'urinatey', I have to pee"

lindholmaren perfect. Sweden seems to be deluxe language.

"I'm busting." works quite well.

gotta piss works in Australia

There actually is one, but we never use it. "Micturient: Having a need to urinate."

It's more related than you think

This is genius and I'm now also frustrated it doesn't work like that

Don’t forget about the word comb.

It’s Not Rocket Science comb would be pronounced the same as cwm

@@ItsNotRocketScienceGD Oh god I'm combing

That's cool

That's neat

Yep. That's called "pian pang bu shou" or radicals. If a word has 心, then it's related to feelings (not the muscle that pumps blood). 想 means think, and 感 means feel.

we should learn traditional Chinese. in simplified Chinese, love is 爱 but in traditional Chinese, love is 愛 which has the character 心in it which means heart. You cant love anyone without a heart!

@@hadwinying6664 Emotion comes from the brain, all the heart does is pump your blood.

sakurafan771 lmaoo

"Going to go down?" "Going to go down." same thing with english

Banana warriors

Wu Chenglin no one talks like that

Isn’t that kind of like: Q: This is going to go down? A: This _is_ going to.

Anything to save me from the horrors of "Is this hyphenated?"

Thats just how making new words works in all languages

flammenwerfer😄 is funner to say than flamethrower

still waiting for it....

Language changes when individuals begin using certain word in communication, when it gets popular. So just conceive the new words & begin using them, popularize them, & there you'll have it. But sure, other things that are in conflict will require changing what was taught.

English also does this quite often.

English does that in some words but without applying any conjugation. The expression "to foot the bill" is an example of it.

"Sapatos?" "Paa nalang." Edit: "[mag]paa [ka] nalang."

Mag-shoe

I only have experience with English and German but this happens frequently in both languages.

In german we have that too! But instead of Jo we say Doch. Ja is the same

If you want to preserve the difference, English has you covered: A: You're wrong. B: No, I'm not. A: (You) are too.

YnasMidgardNaule I‘ve never heard the answer „You are too“ to a „No“ answer. Tf

In Russian we just use da 'yes' and nyet 'no' for that purpose, why do you need a separate word for that?

arabic has this too

As a trilingual I concur

I disagree about the last two points (Evidentiality and Absolute Direction). English has the features and has the ability to opt-out. For example: - I just saw. Versus: someone saw. - It's the one on the left, it is facing south. - Versus: The two objects sitting next to each other in a vortex (spin), yes, the one that is facing North East South West instead of the one facing East South West North. No, not that one! ...see its simple, but gives us more options to converse either more accurately or expressively.

The God Emperor of Mankind no it doesn't

The God Emperor of Mankind same here

I dont. It works fine

@Random playground That's how I'd name a parrot that doesn't repeat after me.

@@RosimInc7 or you could rename yourself into "poor parrot trainer"

@Random playground your butt can't what?

@@reanetsemoleleki8219 this is why people should not change their name on youtube.. or in general.. oh i miss the days where one would pick a nickname and just stick with it forever..

"Passifik Oshan"

Or the confused students could have just carried compasses with them.

They... Meaning the students or the university administration?

Source: trust me dude

Oh no... There’s a whole separate story of confusion about directions. Some compasses use red/orange arrow to direct North, but some other use red arrow to direct South. Which kinda makes sense: North should be blue, since it associates with cold, and South should be red, since it associates with warm.

@@jerrygreenest I suppose that depends on which hemisphere you are in.

But it's not so easy to emphasize words in text.

Christopher Hearn That’s why I wish iOS keyboards had an italics feature

That’s actually great.

@@c_e_n_t_ how

@@TheStandardIsTheStandard _youtube has it_

There are English words for language features that don't exist in English - that's kinda hilarious!