Inspired by xkcd.com/1133/ See the original version of this video with big boy words here: • Gömböc-The Shape That ... .STL file for the Gömböc: www.thingiverse.com/thing:523643
If you move your current surroundings and pay attention to your current vocabulary at the same time for many hrs, you're vocabulary intellect will be less existent. It's the other senses that move you. Edit: And when it moves you, you'll know.
No- but there might be a "Garrulously verbose videographic dissertation dorsally affixed to contemplation of eccentrically perturbed, polygonally faceted, of intermittent optically perceptual determination - apparent amorphously gelatinous plasmoidal interlopers of aerodynamically & submarinally indeterminate egress ingress re levitational & descensional methodologies but in lucent terminology altitudinally & horizontally translocational within a near contemporaneous Post-Babylonian empire, western superpower military overseer boundary " If you want videos on 'Jellyfish' UFOs over a US army base in Iraq?
@@lightdark00he said 10-hundred.. that's a thousand.. not 10 thousand. Otherwise VIDEO, TURTLE, and others wouldn't have been "dumbed down".. moving picture? Lol
Exactly, there *_are_* cases of unnecessary verbosity or general elitism, ("ah yes, the ludonarrative dissonance presents itself as a problem") but most terms are actually just common (and necessary) derivations to make communication easier. ("Falcon amd the Winter Soldier fails because it's metanarrative doesn't match with what is actually written", or, in other terms, the John Walker effect)
Interesting subject and method. Sounds like reading the assembly instructions from my Amazon furniture order. Or a poorly translated direct marketing ad.
Really shows how language is important to allow us to explore hard concepts. Subjects would get 10x harder if not impossible sometimes if our vocab was that short. That's is maybe why animals couldn't evolve like us as a society, not just a intelligence barrier, some of them are intelligent enough but they lack vocab to communicate and think of compelx concepts (also opposing thumbs and stuff.. Haha)
I forget where I first heard or read the following explanation, and I'm basically not even paraphrasing because I don't remember how it went, but: When you're in a conversation, there are two needs that must be met: the speaker needs to communicate their message in the most concise way possible, and the receiver (could be someone hearing or reading) needs the message to be the as easily understandable as possible; mostly, this is because our brains can receive and interpret a message faster than our mouths can speak it or fingers can type it. This leads to two general categories of words: complex, hyper-specific words that convey the speaker's intent in the most unambiguous way possible using the least amount of clarifying words, and simpler words that can be spoken and understood very quickly, but require more words. But, if you use jargon that the receiver isn't familiar with you've completely lost the whole point of using that jargon to speed up the conversation. So, know your audience, and tailor your message to their level of familiarity, if possible!
Lesson of the video: Nature ALWAYS finds the solution, especially in life adaptations. There're innumerous examples of shapes in Nature that use very sophisticated "designs"... This is one example of a very mathematically sophisticated shape, actually being used by nature by ages ❤
So this is a specific writing style called (obviously) constrained writing, and it’s super interesting. It’s primarily used in poetry, so doing it for science is super interesting. The person I bring up whenever this topic presents itself is Georges Perec, who wrote two lipograms (constraints limiting specific letters). One exclusively used words containing the letter e, and the other only used words that didn’t have the letter E. To top that, he wrote in French, so any translator has to follow the same constraints, and it’s a novel so it still has to read like a novel
What my ears hear: This thing has one spot where it doesn’t fall over and does fall over. When it falls over it goes and doesn’t fall over and then does.
I missed the “simple words” part in the title and the opening and didn’t suspect anything until the latter half when I realized I had seen this short on this same channel before and started wondering why he isn’t calling it what we know it is.
I love how many sentence things you use that have the word things. I think if you get that thing a little bit better you can teach science to my meemaw
You can have functional with only 100 words? I'll learn the 100 most common words from every language then! (plus grammar and phonetics)... This reminds me of the paper "Growing a Language." In that paper every word with more than one syllable has to be defined prior to use.
Have you thought about 3D printing some of these and selling them? When I look for them on Amazon, I see that they’re anywhere from 160 to several hundred dollars for some reason. Can’t a guy just buy a cheap gomboc these days?
I like normal English, James 😅 It's like, too many words to say something that's already obvious half sentence before 😂 This is an experiment, of course, but I like your own perfect mind-blowing explanations! 🤯
I think the problem is not what words you use, but how. If you use a more specific word each greater logical unit, I think viewers that are not accustomed are still able to get it's meaning, while feeling good about making the connection and therefore keeping engaged. Btw, I am no native speaker of English but I prefer more complex language, as my ADHD makes it boring otherwise. So maybe this is more of a personal (or ADHD?) point of view. Any opinion on this? ☺️
2:12 "But the cool thing about this thing is that this is the same stuff throughout the whole thing" Honestly I'm having a hard time figuring out if this is supposed to be a joke or not. If it's not a joke, using more descriptive words would make this so much easier to understand.
It’s a challenge to make a video using only the 1000 (?) most common words. I think he has a normal version of this video somewhere. Search “action lab gomboc”
