Homonyms 

I just imagined either everyone around the coffin saying their goodbyes to him and someone says "he was a good man" so he opens his eyes, sits up says "or was I?" and the music plays in real life; or, alternately, someone's saying a funeral speech (I don't really know what they're called) and then a projector turns on and plays a video he prepared for after he died.

Family: demonic screaming

Anthony Janthony Crowley I think the word you’re looking for is “eulogy”

Guilherme Bernardes underrated

Miachel died Or did he Hey vsauce miachel here

@@kanupandit1683 You tried so hard to make a joke that it killed my internal being.

@@Zoova oh wait I just realized something

How does unlockable mean the inability to be locked? For something to be unlockable it must be locked. Therefore an unlockable thing has the ability to be locked

@@kanupandit1683 and you could also say that the ability to be unlocked has two different meanings "The ability to be able to unlock it" Or "The ability to not be locked"

Kanu Pandit un-lockable vs unlock-able That’s simply the idea

11 and a half* still tho i find this comment funny af

then there is me who paused the video to make sure he actually made a mistake, only to then continue the video to see him correct himself lol

700 👍

Ok

Michael: They are homonyms, Me: Or are they? Michael: Or are the?

1000 like

No

Lol

ROFL

Or did it?

Your pretty funny with that their joke XD

Mad lad

Or is he?

You're*

Is Mayonnaise an Instrument? Thank you

*Cue Vsauce music

@@spencerfuller149 check this out ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ldnecyy0FDU.html

Proceeds to bamboozle and fascinate the officers. Then runs away concluding his argument.

r/iamverysmart

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Nice

CAN YOU SMEELLLLLLLL

The Rock (Dwayne Johnson)

It gets even more interesting when you consider that the music genre started its journey as a derivation from the verb (rock'n'roll) but ended having the sense of the noun (hard rock).

And "Rock" (amasing)

“Ough” is also different in hiccough. Also good luck with learning English. (I’m kinda late tho Ldol)

Those were tough when I was learning spelling in early life too. I used to get "tough" and "thorough" mixed up.

I was homeschooled and took crazy amounts of phonics/grammar growing up; my english skills were on point. Aaand now ~20 years later I found myself typing without really thinking about it too much and *frequently* get homophones mixed up D:

“A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.”

even though i speak english natively i feel you

Triburos it's more than ok. It's gosh darn alright!

You mean he's becoming Northernlion.

Aaron Martinez that's exactly what I thought when I read this comment.

Hes a bearded egg, nothing more nothing less

He isn't an egg :(

I really think you don't. Michael isn't a teacher, he said it himself. He's just some guy that likes science and wanna share it, he cannot teach you anything. Don't mistake vulgarizators for teachers. He's here to give you some life facts or just to stimulate your curiosity. A teacher is someone whose job is to make your learn something durably, with a method and practice. You don't get that here.

He is a teacher, in a sense.

I wish I had Koro-Sensei as my teacher...

DANDAN THE DANDAN yeah me too, what can be better than killing your own teacher

control your emotions kid

*(Insert the "Is Cereal Soup?" script)*

Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. Take a look at this. Simple enough, right? But watch what happens next. Okay, what the heck is this thing? Mostly people eat it like a soup, out of a bowl with a spoon. But is it a soup? The word 'soup' comes from words that originally meant "to absorb liquid", which dry cereal left in milk too long will do. But words change. What if cereal is actually a type of salad? And milk is just a dressing? Or maybe, dry cereal is the actual meal and milk is just a condiment or a coating. Adding milk to dry cereal might be like adding ketchup to french fries, or icing a cake. Honestly, there is no real answer. The answer is whatever we agree the answer should be. We make up the words and we make up the categories. If you ask me, cereal is soup, but it's not soup soup. Cereal is also salad, but it's not salad salad. What I just did there is called reduplication. We do it all the time but usually for emphasis. For example, "I like you" but I also like like you. Tomorrow's event is fancy, but it's not fancy fancy. When I say "soup soup" or "salad salad", I am using reduplication in a way that is known as Contrastive focus reduplication. I am reduplicating a word to express a focus on prototypical types of that word, in contrast to French types. A Caesar or vegetable are more prototypical types of salad than, say, potato, taco, fruit, or a bowl of cereal with milk. The increasing progress of technology forces us to contrastively focus reduplicate more and more often. For example, now when talking about a book, you might need to clarify whether it is an e-book or a book book. The original physical paper type. The phrase paper book is a retronym. A modification to an old word made necessary by the advent and popularisation of something new. Before movies with sound came along, silent movies were just called movies. Before voicemail and e-mail, snail mail was just mail. And before mobile phones, your landline or home phone was simply a phone. Or in many cases just the phone. This is Morse code for a smiley face emoticon. It's a happy beat. The eyes of the emoticon are a colon, which up until as recently as the middle of the 1900s was often used with a dash to represent a pause. It was an especially helpful direction to people reading text out loud. It was used all over the place. In personal letters and all over America's Declaration of Independence. You may also notice that it looks a little bit anatomical. The Oxford English Dictionary has a name for this punctuation mark and that name is "the dog's bollocks". In other words, dog balls. Although other emoticons were definitely used earlier, as far as official dictionary entries are concerned, the very first emoticon with an official name was an emoticon for a willy. This also means that America's Declaration of Independence is, punctuation-wise, covered in dog wieners. Nine of them, to be exact. What I'm about to do is called drawing. When I am finished, what I have created is called a drawing. But it's finished. Shouldn't it be called "a drawn"? A similar version of this problem is often attributed to Steven Wright. Why are they called buildings if they are finished? Shouldn't they be called "builds"? What's really going on here is a phenomenon known as 'verbal nouns'. A noun formed from a verb. It's often easier to "noun-ify" a verb than to just use lots of words. Why call this a structure resulting from the active of building, when you could just call it a building? Where does the word 'nickname' come from? Did a guy name Nicholas one day decided everyone could call him Nick and in doing so create a literal nickname? No. Nickname is a product of rebracketing. A process in which speakers, often unknowingly, create new words by moving sounds from one word to another. For instance, the English word alligator is a corruption of the Spanish "el lagarto" - the lizard. El lagarto, el lagarto, el, alligator. Eke used to mean "also", as in you could have a name, and you could have another name that was also your name. Your "eke name". Eke name. Eke name. Ni, ni, nickname. Here's another funny thing about language. If you're noisy in class, you're disrupting class. But if you sit around silently paying attention, are you rupting class? You can be disgruntled, but can you ever be gruntled? Words that would seem to have a related word but actually do not are called unpaired words. Maybe they were in a pair at one point in history, or maybe through a fluke of etymology they only seem to have one, but what you think it would be isn't in any dictionary. Some definitions like "soup" and "salad" are so vague their borders are almost hilariously fuzzy. Other words, well, they're just plain silly. For example, the sun does not rise every morning. The Earth actually just turns you toward it, but yet our word for that phenomenon is sunrise. Languages are full of expressions like that. George Steiner wrote colourfully about this, saying "The accelerando of the sciences, and of technology, have beggared both the reach and veracity of natural language. In consequence, the commonplace relations of language to phenomenon to our daily context have become virtually infantile. They are a bric-a-brac of inner metaphors, of whory fictions and handy falsifications. From the perspective of the theoretical and exact sciences, we speak a kind of neanderthal babble." Whether spoken or typed or tabbed or felt or signalled, language may be inevitably full of idiomatic expressions and expressions that are incomplete. And categories that are fuzzy. But hey, at least it's our fuzz, and at least fuzz is entertaining. It would be nice to just know everything and have absolutely nothing to explain or demonstrate to anyone else. But then again, as Emily Dickinson once said, "a letter is a joy of earth. It is denied the Gods". If we were all omniscient, we'd have no reason to write letter to one another, there wouldn't be anything new you had to tell someone else. We would have no reason to debate the soupiness or saladness of cereal. No reason to wonder, no reason to read, or to watch. I'd have no reason to say and as always, thanks for watching.

@@ferociousmaliciousghost there u go

@@miticobr173 what the....... , i see you re man culture as well

@@miticobr173 Isso devia ter mais likee

Unless there's another meaning for "are" that causes it to be pronounced like that, I'm pretty sure "air" and "are" are said differently.

@@ThorHC11 their is another form of are

@@smoceany9478 Yep, you're right. Should have figured that a hectare could be divided into ares. Touché.

@@ThorHC11 varies on accent

What about Eire? (Ireland)

Hon hon hon

*laughs in welsh*

Oiseau

french: "you have ten letters. you pronounce four of them."

English has this as well... and a lot Eg water, train, bicycle, pseudoscientific, blue, one etc Instead of woter, trein, baisikl, soodossaientifik, bloo, wan

André Martins well ok haha

You may not got to fish at a financial bank but some would try to phish at one.

You could phish in a financial bank.

On the internet, bank fishes you.

Honestly expected him to go on a tangent there

hehehe... cuz I’m an adult

Just steal their retirement funds and you'll be even.

grandma didnt stand a chance!

Men Pet Bell

man bell pet

Bell man pat

Ball, pat, man

Pet, men, bell

The Delusionist And His Demons r/iamverysmart

Jordan That was the wrong usage of the subreddit. More like r/buttmarker

@@JA-nv4zb wth is that subreddit? I can't find it on reddit anymore, did it get hit by the addons blackout protest or smth?

And in Vsauce always

Dong

*DONG

And the intro is always a joke 😂

@@SuperIntenseGamer D!ng!!!! RREEEEEEE

Here I made you a felt goatee until you can grow your own

It's not vsauce

Diego Ordoñez And yet, Michael is here

Community reference nice

Who is Micheal? Is he from Isreal?

i agree

Yesss

Agree

I concur

Agreed

Well yeah, it isn't. It's pretty transparent. We only see it as blue because of how light works and eye works

Miserabilis r/woooooosh

*OR IS HE?*

@@Max-kv1xm "because of how light works and eye works" but... "how light works and eye works" is what color is. So it's blue.

@@fufutg9543 the sky is not blue.

Thomas Orchard Same.

Same

That’s what I got

Same

Bell was easy to tell with the Ls :/

Matthew BPbuds look up Chris fehn mask. He has a strapped on nose

I have ***SEVERAL*** noses >:D

How about the fact that when you were first born, you were *new* to the world (that was you when you were new). but now you're the *new* you.

Actually I think the usage of **new** in both of those cases is the same. I.e. you were **new** to the world when you were born, but now you've made some change in your life so you are acting like a **new** person.

Correct. However, the point is this *new* you only comes about because you become more *old* .

"Up for" and "down for" are actually slightly different. "Up", in the sense meant here, is the kind of up that a man experiences with an erection. It's meant to convey that one want's to participate in a very enthusiastic way. "Down", in the way it's said here, is the kind of down that a gang wanna-be has to stay down in order to endure the ordeal of being "jumped-in" to a gang. You have to allow the gang members to beat you up and you have to "stay down" for it. In this case, it means that you want it bad enuf to make a sacrifice for it. These meanings are similar but different.

Very insightful, Jennifer. Thanks.

"This is a meme... Or is it?"

Aye whatsup bro

I wanna see him on the Eric Andre Show

Or do you?

665th like rip

Gallagher: "If Pro is the opposite of Con, then Congress is the opposite of Progress." Me: "That rule doesn't work for Constitution and Prostitution!" (Or Confessional and Professional, unless you get stuck with a novice priest in the booth). There are also so many words that start with Pro and don't have a Con variant and vice-versa, like Convention, Prolapse (I wouldn't want to be diagnosed with a Conlapsed Rectum...😮), Congregate, Proper, and Constipation (there is technically a Prostipation, but we just call that Diarrh[o]ea).

Ahoy there laddie! :D

SAME

SameeeE

I hope you got your noses strapped on

Michael: *Goes through a 10 minute explanation*

*_First we need to know what exactly it means to be demonetized_*

Fr, we were taught the difference between homophones, homonyms, synonyms, antonyms, etc in 1st grade! And I live in like, a 3rd world country (granted I'm in a fairly big city and that was a small-ish but still private school, but still the guys replying I'm almost 90% certain are Americans)

AHAHAHAHAHAHHAH

I thought he was gonna say it, I swear.

And that’s how I met your mother

Hahahahahahhahahahaha, you made my day😂

Hold my beer.

DONG is better. 'Cause, like, DONG.

the perfect show for special kids

i disliked your reply

I let my kids watch dongs all night

+

My pfp is better than yours.

Why so many likes damn...

same dude

🥜

Pet men bell.

or is it?

🤯

WHAT THE FEK DID YOU DO

Mind blown

Kind of obvious 😂. Like the word play though

Guillermo Recueero Hinojosa dong.

Im sure some people did but their messages were covered up because people comment before watching the full video

A helpful RU-vid creator, after suggesting viewers comment on a specific aspect of the video, should pin as the top comment the one which best addresses that suggestion.

I thought it was men, bell, pet

I thought he said it in that order. Looked like that, and knowing Michael it probably was.

@@felixroux I agree, I think he said pet first cuz he opened his mouth more on that one and for the others it's a 50/50 pretty much but yeah, Michael would do that.

*wana go *OOT*?

me: wanna go out? girl1: "no" girl2: "nope" girl3: "nah" girl4: "nay"

Girl5:"no"

but can you be inside both of them ?

"but can you be inside both of them ?" Only with extra-dimensional DONGs.

I AM SHOOKETH

There's another example like that with the word "buffalo" en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

yes

I’m so confused but I love this XD

Name the named naming name "name" to rename name name.

Yes you will, just look it up in Wiktionary!

Johnny James Take my like, you made my morning.

Once again, the day is saved thanks to homophones.

The way people use literally in the current year is literally the worst.

Stijn Broekhuis doesn’t everyone using it the wrong way turn it into everybody saying it correctly. Language is the way we make it to be.🤔🤔 (my attempt at sounding deep)

So many people use "literally" and "theoretically" incorrectly that they probably should change the definitions in the dictionary.

me3333 I think that most people haven't heard of the word "figuratively" and use literally to sound hyperbolic.

Literally literally does not mean what literally used to literally mean.

And you may suffer *alone* in a river bank.

i'm fine with this

in that case i have a big vsauce

Alpha Good one m8.

I think Michael uses Vsauce only for complex/broad topics that can be connected to several other topics. Homonyms, however, is a specific topic that doesn't really wrap around different subjects.

no, the aren't. they don't mean the same thing.

Or are you?

Or have you

Or did you?

Or why you?

Or how you?

...and then say "I don't care how you say it"

glossary

Google

All of these responses are awful and I love it

Just lemon was fine, why'd you change it?

Darude - Duststorm

Singh Anmol preet *music starts*

He knows it's such a meme at this point and it's great.

Classic

Or is it?

He said that when i read ur comment 😂

man 0:05 is a comedy vault

Press '0' for Ahoi!

Thank. You.

so true ^.^

UWU

@@sneezyguy793 please do not procreate

@@sneezyguy793 owo

@@sneezyguy793 ()\/\/()

Or did it?

Wave that's what I'm wondering

perhaps Vsauce and Dong are homonym

He said on the Vsauce subreddit that DONG now is where he explains themes that are too small for a full video or just fun facts, whereas the official Vsauce channel is for big (>20 min long) videos with a lot of research or something like that. www.reddit.com/r/vsauce/comments/86a49b/can_anyone_tell_me_why_the_vsauce_videos_of/

Nohfegea makes so much sense now! Thanks for the info

He probably would have forgotten the password of Vsauce account

sup

......sp

spork

I'm at Soup

is cereal..?

Sort of 3 ways if you count *bbq,* which everyone pronounces as barbeque even though it's missing all the vowels. I'm actually curious how many people don't know that "bbq" is an abbreviation and not how you actually spell the word.

Or how about the fact that it's "there *were* two different ways?"

Travell Criner In actual usage, "two different ways" has the same semantic meaning as "another way", so he could just was well have said, "I didn't even know there was another way to spell 'barbeque'." Being that there is no semantic difference, then it is reasonable to conclude that there is also no semantic difference between "was" and "were" in this instance. In other words, stop being a prescriptivist. Grammar isn't concrete.

I disagree with your argument but I agree with your conclusion. However, I don't agree your conclusion proves your point. Nonetheless, this is a minor enough issue to agree to disagree.

You can't disagree with the argument and agree with the conclusion, since the conclusion is a direct result of the argument. Moreover, the conclusion absolutely proves my point, since it demonstrated perfectly the malleability of language. You're apparently one of those Dunning Krueger smart people. Stop overestimating yourself.

4xdblack Just Michael.

Whatever you do, don't delete his character file.

Or should you say, joust the two of you?

inflammable and flammable, inhabitable and habitable

Bro that trick was so clean! Bro that trick was so dirty! Mean the same

what is it ?

42

I don't know the meaning of life, but I do know it's a homonym.

you mean like: 42 and for thy too? sry that's a homophone (almost)

Which one?

Fadimations I agree. I'm an avid supporter of the Pet Bell Men party.

theres dozens of us

Cachicochip lol

u get my vote

Vote Pet Bellmen.