From what I remember off the top of my head skullduggery is like underhanded or unscrupulous behavior; trickery. which definitely seems like something hed be doing,
Brennan completely ignoring the bit on multiple occasions is like a dog owner ignoring their dog so as not to reinforce a bad behavior and it's absolutely sending me
Zac making the conscious decision early on that "okay, on today's Wrap Up episode, I'm going to do a bit where I pretend to know minutia about the random topics we bring up" is S+ tier level of comedic genius.
If I remember correctly, Minutia was borrowed into English in the 18th century from the Latin plural noun minutiae, meaning "trifles" or "details," and derived from the singular noun minutia, meaning "smallness." In English, minutia is most often used in the plural as either minutiae (pronounced \muh-NOO-shee-ee) or, on occasion, as simply minutia. The Latin minutia, incidentally, comes from minutus, an adjective meaning "small" that was created from the verb minuere, meaning "to lessen." A familiar descendant of minutus is minute.
@@MarcMan- Wow, thanks for sharing your bit of knowledge with us! I was just about to Google the meaning of the word minutia, but I'm glad someone with more knowledge came along to help me on my endless path of learning!
@@MarcMan- if you think about it, relying on your own memory is so risky and unpredictable - looking things up truly is the only way to remember correctly
@@amberlee7343 not pronounced whatsoever at any point in time, it was stupidly added later to reflect etymology (hundreds of years before English took it from French, there was a b)
You can really see Zac thinking. You can tell because his eyes look to his left and he's accessing his long-term memory. The hand to the chin is another sign of accessing his deep memories to bring them to the fore.
I think the funniest thing about this is that Ally did ask what skulduggery meant, but literally no one asked what angora or metatextual meant, so Zac unilaterally defining them out loud really just proves the exact opposite point: that he was the one person who didn't know what they were and so looked them up for himself. Incredible bit
it's even better bc he's in a room of other writers but all of them use words he doesnt know, so hes literally just googling the meanings of words instead of questions. like he's the only one who needs this info but he's the one teaching everyone else
@@StylistFia127 in the back of Zac's room, you can kinda see a "Zac's Stream". That's a blanket a viewer gave to him! He used to stream on Twitch. I'm not sure if there's a video of him first mentioning it tbh, but some of his streams are archived on his RU-vid channel (: (if u like animal crossing, i reccommend you watch the ones where he visits either Emily Axford's or Vic Mchael's islands.)
Middle English is, like, Geoffry Chaucer's writing. Shakespeare wrote in Early Modern English. Early Modern English is new enough that we can still understand it today through context clues, similar spelling, and syntax. Middle English is so different that works written in it have to be translated by experts in order for us to understand it today. And then Old English is like trying to read something written by aliens. Regardless, the English language, as a whole, is a facisnating, beautiful, mongrel, bastard of a mess. I love it.
@@_Moe 🤓 nah jk I’m an English major and I’m appreciative of your distinction but “Emily’s grasp of Shakespearean Early Modern English” just doesn’t have the same ring to it lmao
It's so tragic how Zac never truly recovered from that car crash. Now he can only connect half of his brain fully to the other when turning his head at least 30 degrees to the left.
This is basically the same as a running joke I have with my friends where someone will ask something and I'll say "Uhhh hold on let me consult my *memory*" and then loudly google the question and give them the answer as if I knew all along.
Zac Oyama knows everything, oh yeah He pretty much knows everything He tells me stuff, and then I tell you that stuff I tell you all the stuff Zac Oyama told me
Ah that word. I think I heard it pronounced as skulduggery [Skuldudgery damn auto correct] once in my formative years and have been pronouncing it like that every since.
It's from "Adventuring Party", the talkback show of an actual-play D&D series "Dimension 20". Some episodes are free on RU-vid, the rest are on their streaming platform Dropout (which is very cheap and imo very much worth the money)
