Thesaurus.com is Kinda Dumb 

"Dear son, have you consume the moo juice?" "Indubitably, mother"

why say "i want to die" when you could say "i have an urge to breath one's last"

"and how many people use it for fanfiction-" *perspiration enhances*

“More muscle bound than a gorilla” “Pigeon” This suggest a pigeon could crush my skull with its feets

“Hey mom mind passing me the *_moo juice_* ?” “Ah yes a fine delicacy.”

Why say "I want to hit you in the face with a brick" when you could say "One wishes to acquaintance your face with the fundamental tool in building walls, repeatedly"

The fact that "moo juice" is an acceptable replacement for milk though- Welp. *I know what I'm calling it for the next ten years.*

The entire pigeon part was absolute gold

The fact that you consider “baffling” a fancy word is truly baffling.

Thanks Jaiden. I really enjoyed this. So relatable!. oh... sorry, I should really say: *I extend my gratitude to you, Jaiden! My amusement was unquestionably satisfied. It was indeed empathetic to my own experiences*

Why say “I loved this video! It was very funny!” When you could say “I cherished this prerecorded program! It was astonishingly entertaining!” What the hell did I just say...

6:35 "Jaiden hit itself in confusion!" for real though, cant stop looping the bloopers... i feel bad but it's just too funny *and relatable*

i used the wrong "barren", frikking.... okay whatever

I died at the animal documentary clip 😂 The added pictures Jaiden added in made it 10 times better 😂

Jaiden, as an active fanfic writer and reader, definitly more people use it for fanfics, literally no one in real life refers to eyes as orbs but we still do it, or no one writes "the older raven-haired woman looked away because she could feel the heat on her cheeks" instead of "Jamie wasn't looking at Rosie because she was blushing", but we do so in the fanfic world

"But think....how many more memes could you look through" "Jaiden, but isn't this a meme?"

The Pigeon part killed me

"Hey can you pass the moo juice?" "Indubitably." "Much obliged." "No worries." Now that's one heck of a conversation

Jaiden can turn anything into a meme in the best way possible

"Would you like to hang out?" "Do you authorize conduction of our own selves constituting a gathering appointment?" That last one sounds like something Sheldon Cooper would say LMAO

My friend actually says "indubitably" as a substitute for "yes" sometimes.

“Use it for fanfiction” *ya caught me there*

I think I’m sleep deprived, hearing “moo juice” made me cry in laughter

You struggling in the bloopers with "as a society" reminded me of an occurrence last week where I wanted to tell two classmates of mine that I had the song "Digital Ripples" from the _Belle_ soundtrack stuck in my head. And I for the heck of it couldn't say it smoothly and correctly, dang it!

Oh my god I need to see that Pidgeon documentary

IM LAUGHING SO HARD AT THE PIGEON HELP

I know Im a little late, but teachers generally dont want you to write all fancy, they want content. But people are lazy and think that using a more expansive lexicon will make them sound better, as its easier to lengthen a sentence than do research another point about your topic. Most college profs I have had just wanted us to be as brief as possible. Strict word limits, make your statement, make your points, conclusion.

"Revamping common phrases" @4:49 Sounds like how Starfire speaks, I love it

Jaiden then: *talks about words* Jaiden now: sO i PeEd On mY wALleT

I have a very technical word for you, Jaiden. Yeet- An object being thrown at high velocity.

Why say “Mom can I get this phone?” when you can say “Mother, I ask of you, to please get me the new phone that I shall need to use in the future generations if it survives and now.”

5:00 YOU CANT DO THAT WHILE IM IN PUBLIC

Pigeons can be killed by turtles. Thats how much of a evolution masterpiece they are.

Laziness is the mother of all bad habits. But then again she is a mother so we should respect her

"It's funny because it's true"

1:36 idk why but i can't stop laughing at this

teachers: alright we are writing an essay about milk student: u mean MOO JUICE

"Amy is John's girlfriend" I'm going to start saying this to random people

1:36🤣🤣🤣 cracks me up every time I always rewind it so I said again lol

Yeah, I always found it funny that they give so many synomyms when you know that all of those words don't mean the same thing. They just mean similar things that greatly vary in context. Like, if I wanted to say I saw someone get decapitated in the street, sure I could say that they were executed, but why would I say they were "brought to the block"? That makes it sound like I was inviting a friend to a night club, not watching someone get brutally murdered. I don't know why I chose decapitation as my word choice, maybe I'm just tired and wanted a really extreme example for the sake of it, but wow, was that an easy one to nitpick at.

i was dying of laughter at the pigeon documentary

I want Jaiden to edit subtitles for all of the documentaries on existence

I swallowed a dictionary once. Gave thesaurus throat I've ever had.

My god, this made me laugh a lot; it made me give up all the equanimity I could have had before watching it XD. And yeah, I had to write essays in flamboyant language (while all schools force you to do it, it's a bigger obligation when you study something related to communication :P). Fun fact, though: I never used Thesaurus for a couple of reasons (one that also addresses why its use sometimes makes no sense): 1) I had a dictionary of synonyms. Yep, that's an actual thing (Thesaurus it's an online version that doesn't use that name) and, the older the dictionary edition is, you can get access to even more outdated and fancy words. That's why now I have three (I have barely used since school... but this video has given me an excuse to revisit them). 2) With those essays we were expected not only to suffer to meet the requested elements of the paper (I want 5000 words, explaining if Jaiden Animations' speech favors functionality over structure, or structure over functionality... for tomorrow class) but also to use the terms we just saw in class (functionalism, structuralism, gongorism...) and that we were able to repeat them (we were expected to defend our view against all the other views). Choosing a random fancy word that we could not repeat most of the times backfired horribly. 3) Fancy words don't increase size. Sure, fancy words expand the text to new lines... but not always in word count (which is what we want, most of the times). and the video has an example of that: "penguins live in the cold" could be translated easily to "penguins inhabit the barren polar desert"; we went from five to six words. But what does the trick (and makes the text sounds even more ridiculous) is throwing additional ideas that have to make sense (penguins, one of the few birds that can't fly... or something like that XD). Yep, Thesaurus can give you words to "enrich" those ideas, but if you don't have a way to expand the concept (rather than the count of letters) you were lost. For example: "penguins, one of the few birds that can't fly..." could help me reach the 5k goal if I transform it to: "penguins, one of the most graceful and curious life forms to inhabit earth; one of the very few beings with wings on this planet that has not developed the skill of flying (as if this species was the subject of some curse of the Mother Nature we still ignore)...". We just went from 9 words in plain engish to an "embellished paragraph of almost 50 XD. That's why documentaries love this style: more extended ideas means more time, meaning you need less footage changes to illustrate whatever the voice is saying. But, there is a catch: while Thesaurus can help to increase the "cultured" sound of some words that could still be considered "simple", the list that sometimes the web provides has to be carefully considered because: 4) That a word in the suggested list is less used doesn't exactly mean it's an accurate "cultured" replacement :P. A good synonym dictionary, "curated" by a group of humans takes into account which words/phrases are more accurate replacements; not taking into account (or, should we say, notwithstanding... nah, four words resumed into one doesn't help with volume XD) if they are odd or not. That's why many works in the classroom were "burned": the elegant words were not only odd to say, but they were also oddly used. Another example happens in the video: the list of "questionable" synonyms is "passionate", "smirking, "ravenous", "eyes-widen", "grin-seductive"... all by Thesaurus suggestions XD. But (and that's what we did in the classroom) if you consider that "questionable" is an adjective (words are questionable), the words needed for replacing "questionable" should work as adjectives implying "something forbidden" and "smirking" or "eyes-widen" don't do the trick, at least not in the form the were suggested by Thesaurus. "Smirking words" or "words that are smirking" sounds as if the words were actually smiling to you... and that's not the idea (XD); fixing it to "words that make your smirk"... doesn't work either; while we like to think a smirk is the most "seductive" smile the face can throw (and seems that Thesaurus rescued that idea) what the emoji and the feeling actually want to say is "leering": an expression of lascivious interest and/or malicious intentions (and sounds more natural: "your leering words"). Using "Eyes-widen words" or "words are eyes-widen" makes it pretty evident: the Thesaurus suggestion should be "eyes-widenING", at least. But while "eyes wide open" are used for surprise... they can also mean illumination. "Looking for eyes-widening words" could be also for the teaching to become a better self; so, if we want to mean technically the opposite (the anon user wants its characters... to sin), we could try some other reactions like some "blushing" or "burning" words. Even bigger digress: If any M Fan Fiction writer ever comes this far on the text, this might be of use: one of the most quoted writing rules of Mark Twain is "Use the right word, not its second cousin" meaning that we should use the word that has the best effect for the goals of the text. "Upping" the language will kill the mood for those who just want the facts, not a suitable candidate for the Noble Prize in Literature :P. In the end, all this wall of text is in good fun (the video is years beyond good and evil) so I'll just end with this: Let's look for the most controversial, contentious, unsettling, disreputable, iffy, indecent, indelicate, titillating, risqué, prurient, salacious, off-color, heated, eager, ardent and feverish words Thesaurus has to offer and let's make a dictionary XD. A, pretty much, dumb effort, but now I'm wondering it there is such a specialized dictionary somewhere... I mean, I just found there are interesting publications like the Manual Of the Italian-Esquimo Conversations", the "Dictionary of One Letter Words" (which is said to have 232 pages) or a 1995 english-albanian dictionary of terms of the oil industry (beat that, Thesaurus :P).

“The teacher doesn’t even talk like that!” heh. My middle school science teacher: *PHENOMENAL*

My teachers: Write detailed sentences. Me: Ok.... *LATER* My Teachers: You have very limited word counts, so simplify sentences. Me: You said write detailed sentences? My Teachers: Do both. Me: _what_

Love how she was cracking herself up trying to say hoopla at the end 😂

Amy is dating john Jaiden: Oh, I ship it. John and Amy: Waa

Me as a 4th Grader: :P A 6th grader: Can I borrow a pen? 4th Grade Me Trying to be cool: INDUBITABLY

*shifts nervously in seat* Maybe I use Thesaurus for both school work and fanfics......

I used a thesaurus in school, but haven't needed it past that. I still find myself using slightly more obscure words than my friends sometimes, mostly because when you read/listen to books, you may pick up some different vocabulary.

Guy: do you authorize the conduction of our own selves constituting a gathering appointment My brain: HELP IM MELTING I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ANYMORE

me (a fan fiction writer): cRAP SHE'S ON TO US

DON'T MOURN OVER SPILLED MOO JUICE

"amy is john's girlfriend" later... "chad and amy are dating, chad doesn't let amy talk to her friends, chad's a manipulator!" seems like amy got a better person. edit: the better person is john

As a fanfic writer (but not smut, just garden variety), I NEVER use thesaurus, it's just in my brain already

Technical word: Defenestrate. To forcibly remove another individual from a building via the nearest window.

YO I CHOKED WHEN THE DOCUMENTARY PART PLAYED

I admit that I guiltily skim the site of the thesaurus for explicit fanfic writing.

I love how she just keeps bragging about her vast word knowledge 😂 I wish I remember any of these words after

Mom: what drink do you want for breakfast? Me: moo juice Mom: what

*feasting* on our streets. holy... pigeons eat our streets? ***THE MORE YOU KNOW*** Edit: Christ-- Haven't had this many likes ever- Thanks for all the likes for my stupid little joke.

It’s fun saying obtuse (as in stupid) and having everyone around you be like: doesn’t that have something to do with triangles??

Also I occasionally write shopping lists using inventive alternatives. "Cow juice" is one. "Unfertilized chicken ovulations" is a bit beyond my typical tone, but "naturally quasi-spherical protein containers" might do it. "Butter-delivery vegetables" are squash. "Upper body covering" and "graphite delivery cylinder." Etc.

They're warm, nice people with big hearts. They're humid, pre-possessing homosapiens with full-sized aortic pumps.

4:03 "...and how many of you use it for writing fan fictions?" Me: *Crap!I'm caught!*

I actually just came from there while trying to write a fanfic. I needed a synonym for mouse. (I wanted to name a mouse themed superhero.) It suggested fox.

my mom just wal- sorry, ~perambulated~ to my side and sa- , ~aformentioned~ "glad your watching something educational"

My favorite word of all time- Defenestration- the act of hurling someone out a window.

The pigeons. I'm dead 😂

5:06 MOO JUICE The following has found me flabbergasted by the tone the author has placed inside this word.

When she started struggling to say the words at the end, I started to relate so much- My friends sometimes have to teach me how to say words or what it means 😭

I often use big words to make myself look photosynthesis

Jaiden: smirking... ravenous... eyes widen... Me who just watched James’s fan fiction video: *hm*

Whenever I read texts like those, my head voice reads it in an overexaggerated British noble-man accent. Makes it way funnier, but I also can't absorb a single sentence when I do that.

“About 300 km” is the standard unit of measure between Edmonton and Calgary (Alberta Canada) or simply saying “about 3 hours” xD

“Amy is John’s girlfriend.” *shrugs* “I ship it.”

Smirking... Ravenous... Eyes-widen- VIETNAM FLASHBACKS TO THAT ONE FANFIC OF JAMES

I once used the word rigidity in a proper sentence at my fast food job, and sure enough, everything stopped and they looked at me like I was bat shit insane.

As an alternative to "moo juice" that I didn't see, how about: "cow sap".

"My new thesaurus is terrible!" "How terrible?" "...It's terrible!"

I don't know about other people, but I sometimes use "big words" that help me convey my idea in more detail. Some common words are just too broad in meaning and I want a word thats more on point or explains exactly what I'm trying to express.

Obsequious. A word I was forced to learn in highschool. And you know what? I don't remember what it means. We had 100 words. I wasn't gonna remember them all.

0:43 I feel this way with my APCSP class's checkpoint tests on replit. If I want my code to say 'These students are present and these ones are absent', I should be able to say it, not have to rewrite it as 'These students are present and these ones are present'.

XD imagine writing a essay and instead of saying “milk” you say “moo juice” 😂

Honey, ye need some milk. My dear, it is to be considered with great valour thou art in great requirement of MOO JUICE

~pigeon jam intensifies~ *LIGHT PARTY*

watching this in 2023, even Jaiden's early vids are amazing ngl.

My friend asked me if we wanna hangout I wanted to say yes what I Said was; "Indubitably" And he said; "What's a Indubitably?" And there I was lmao.

Fun fact: “walk, think, say” are all native English words while their thesaurus counterparts used here are borrowed from other languages (likely Latin and French). Back in the day, a tooooon of French and Latin words were brought into the language but were originally only used by those of noble/educated status. Words that were often borrowed were used in fields like science and literature which commoners were unable to participate in. It’s kind of interesting that some of these borrowed words have become common but the native English words we’ve kept around still have that feeling of sounding blunt or dumbed down compared to their French/Latin-derived counterparts

How about “it really sucks that Carl has hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia he’s never gonna be able to read books with long words”

I love your animation style like how you drew expressive faces with ovals and lines

In 4th grade a boy in my class wrote “thru” in a persuasive essay and our teacher gave us a giant lecture on it.

Dearest Jaiden, Before all else I believe it should be stated that I have great appreciation and gain much delight from your illustrations. They contain within them charming imagery and reveal yourself to be exceptionally entertaining. Overall, they truly are exquisite. In regards for this piece, I perceive that the intended meaning for this could simply be stated as "Gobbledygook is pretentious". Regardless, this early gift in celebration of the day of my birth, though unintentional, is much appreciated. Stay vigilant and may God bless you on your journey through this life.

I've never used it for an essay, but I have for writing song parodies. It helps when you need a rhyme with the right ending.

I think we are ment to use it to make the essay longer because usually there is a insane word count that you have to have in order for the teacher to accept it.

“Faster than a cheetah” A peregrine falcon? “More muscle bound than a gorilla” A peregrine falcon...? “More agile than a great white shark” Falcon...? (Bird pictures start showing up) “Swooping overhead” Definitely the peregrine falcon then “Feasting on our streets, the pigeon.” WHAT?!?!

*strong ass british accent* *You cAn’t imagine my delight*

just finished my bachelor's degree and this is so true... 90% of college is writing a bunch of "blah" non-stop that you don't really mean or care about... So glad it's over...

7 years later and now we have chat gpt.