I was pregnant with my son and had not thought of a name yet when I had a dream about it. An older relative was calling my baby "Selador" and I remember worrying to myself in my dream that his name sounds like "cellar door"
Just a note to tell you how much I liked this video. It's rare to find Lewis and Donny Darko in the same discussion. Also, my favourite word for decades has been "ampersand.".
My suggestion for a beautiful word removed from context Chlamydia I do believe it ticks off many of the boxes PS, I joke that this would be a great name for a girl if it wasn't already taken
There's a play titled: It's called the sugar plum. The male lead uses it to seduce the female lead. And now I realized how you titled your youtube page as "seladore"! LOL!
I was on a medication one time named Seroquel, I will never forget it because I loved the way it sounds. Oddly enough I had a horrible reaction and hated the medicine haha.
Also my 21 yr old son's name is Mason Cole. I always got compliments on his name, now Mason is very popular in the last decade. Adam Wesley is his brother, I think they're both nice strong names. Maybe I am a bit biased perhaps.
Truly awful stuff. Saw its effects on a friend in Bisbee AZ His name was curin Therefore I would say to him often curin is greater than seroquel Yet seroquel ain't curin' much. P.s. my son's name is brycen Cole.
@@williemasterofdestruction5339 it's a very hard feeling to explain. I told my doctor the best way I could describe it was feeling completely dissociated at a moments notice. It was like I would be talking to someone, then suddenly feel as if I am a spectator of the conversion instead of the person in the conversation, almost out of body but in the worst way possible. It got to be really scary, especially in public alone or while driving. Like I said, super hard to describe where you could make someone truly understand, but the most awful medication I have ever been on in my life. Xanax is a very close second! I love your son's name❤ Hope you both are well, your friend also.
Such amazing content.....just watched your vid on Stephen King's Rage.....a novella that really haunted me after I read it years ago, I always saw it as prophetic instead of an inducement....yet I can understand why it was pulled, it's like anything else in life, some people pick up a hammer & build something, some people use it as a deadly weapon.....should hammers be banned?.... probably not the best comparison.....I just love the written word, and metaphorical book-burning is a slippery slope....looking forward to seeing what else you have to say 👍
Great video, but you have a mistake in the understanding of cellar-door scoring 6/10. This is not a a rating system where 1 means the worst, 5 average and 10 the best. In this system 6/10 does not mean just above average. For example you could hypothetically imagine a language where 90% of words have only
Clicked on this video because I knew the answer would be Cellar-door. It’s mentioned in Donnie Darko, but I’ve never understood why. This was a really interesting video dude, your voice is very calming, just subbed!
As a bilingual, some English words that I like a lot for no reason are: eclectic, magnanimous, hubris, murmurs, anonymity, jabberwocky, myopia/myopic, among other stuff. I guess my only metrics are how cute they sound & how fun they are to say 💀.
Dude you do phenomenal work, you've got immense talent and I love all of your long form content, it's stunning that you're still so lowkey, if you keep with it you're going to blow up, and I'm stoked to see it happen
Really surprised you don’t mention Ursula K Le Guin in this video. She was (arguably) the foremost female writer of science-fiction and fantasy in the twentieth century, and her epic fantasy series Earthsea uses this word prominently with a mysterious island named “Selidor”. In her books it is the Westmost island on the map, populated once by dragons rather than humans. In her world-building, she establishes that the people of Earthsea begin orally told legends and tales with the formula, “As long ago as forever, as far away as Selidor….” Rather than “Once upon a time…” or something. So whenever I hear the word sound “cellar-door/Selador/Sell-a-door/Cell-adore” or whatever I always immediately think of Le Guin’s Selidor as the definitive meaning in my mind.
This is interesting. For a novel I have written called "The Magician" (part of a trilogy) I named the the main protagonist Levi Cellardoor for that very reason. I hadn't delved that deeply in my research of a name for him so I thoroughly enjoyed this video for more information. Although I wish I had changed the spelling to Selladore instead :) Thanks for the video!
Is there some way to test words on the phonetics test because I'd like to submit the actual most beautiful word in the English language, and that is "Tiger-palm". I think it's a contender for GOAT. By the way I watch a decent amount of video essay channels and your work is really top notch, I'm excited to see you grow!
Hello. The word at the top of the list is, 'tremulous', however, you quite clearly pronounced a different word: 'tumultuous'. 'Tumultuous' rolls off the tongue rather nicely as well.
