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Xidnaf
Приєднався 31 гру 2011
I make videos on things I think are neat. Historically that's mostly meant linguistics.
My Twitter: Xid_of_UA-cam
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My Twitter: Xid_of_UA-cam
My Tumblr: xidnaf.tumblr.com
Steamed Hams but i sorted it by phoneme
this is what you guys meant when you said you wanted more linguistics videos, right?
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Відео
Skip Every Monday By Abusing Time Zones
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hi :) if you want to follow me elsewhere, i have a secondary channel and a twitter.
Three Types of Forbidden Words
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You can discuss this video on reddit: www.reddit.com/r/Xidnaf/comments/6zeu1k/three_types_of_forbidden_words/ Intro Song: ua-cam.com/video/AWXvSBHB210/v-deo.html Outro Song: ua-cam.com/video/ JGjag8dRU/v-deo.html Patreon: www.patreon.com/Xidnaf Some social media I use that has nothing to do with linguistics: xidnaf.tumblr.com/ xid_of_youtube
How Nazis Stole the Word "Aryan"
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Just like the swastika, it was originally from India. Become a Patron: www.patreon.com/Xidnaf Discuss this video on reddit: www.reddit.com/r/Xidnaf/comments/6ol58k/how_nazis_stole_the_word_aryan/ Resources: Intro Song: ua-cam.com/video/AWXvSBHB210/v-deo.html Website I used for research: research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/ww2era.htm Pictures I used: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter's_B...
Are Languages Getting Simpler?
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Latin and Old English used to be so complicated. What happened? Discuss this video on reddit: www.reddit.com/r/Xidnaf/comments/6d3ir9/are_languages_getting_simpler/ Patreon: www.patreon.com/Xidnaf Intro Song: ua-cam.com/video/AWXvSBHB210/v-deo.html Outro Song: ua-cam.com/video/leOdGbhhRls/v-deo.html Social Media: These are rarely linguistics related, but in case anyone was curious: This is my t...
The Difference Between “Kings” and “Emperors” | Etymosemanticology
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"Because the Romans were weird" is the answer to a lot of questions about why our culture does this or that. SOME SMALL CORRECTIONS: 1. Calling "Caesar" a "last name" is more questionable than I thought. It was a name that people inherited from their parents, but Roman naming was weird and not exactly analogous to the modern system. 2. I implied that modern Russia was significantly more ethnica...
Is English a Tonal Language?
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"Tone" doesn't make any sense when you think about it. NOTE 1: Sometimes people will talk about "secondary stress" or "secondary accent" or something like that. This is a thing, but what I'm talking about here is "primary accent," which is the most stressed syllable in the word. I know it might sound redundant to say that there's only ever one syllable with primary accent, but let me put it thi...
"Nerd" | Etymosemanticology
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what is? Discuss this video on reddit: www.reddit.com/r/Xidnaf/comments/5u0exa/nerd/ If you want to learn more, there were three main places I got information for this: - eldacur.com/~brons/NerdCorner/nerd.html - American nerd: the story of my people by Benjamin Nugent - Nerd Ecology by Anthony Lioi The XKCD comic I used: xkcd.com/747/ The image from DesignTAXI I used: designtaxi.com/news/35129...
Patreon Announcement
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Posting this right after the mistakes compilation might not be the best idea, but whatever. Patreon: www.patreon.com/Xidnaf Update about my life: ua-cam.com/video/niHN3JfLaXM/v-deo.html
Proto-World and the Origin of Language
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In which I take seven minutes to say "we don't know squat." I have yet to make that video about why animals can't talk. That or I did but forgot to update this bit in the description. Nativlang's video on reconstructions of Proto-World: ua-cam.com/video/YS-QNKYYSTw/v-deo.html Intro song: ua-cam.com/video/AWXvSBHB210/v-deo.html Outro song: ua-cam.com/video/GckzLCaPEzk/v-deo.html
"China" doesn't exist. | Etymosemanticology
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Because click-bait-y titles have never come back to bite me. CGPGrey's video on Hong Kong and Macau: ua-cam.com/video/piEayQ0T-qA/v-deo.html TestTube News' video on China and Taiwan: ua-cam.com/video/1X6ejraWoqE/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/1X6ejraWoqE/v-deo.html Intro-song: "Flight of the Breezies" by Kadenza ua-cam.com/video/AWXvSBHB210/v-deo.html Special thanks to this Chinese-characters-to-P...
Why People Make Their Own Languages
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Lots of people talk about how people create artificial languages. I want to talk about why. See me help with Artifexian's conlang here: ua-cam.com/video/3378FlHK4v0/v-deo.html Intro song: ua-cam.com/video/AWXvSBHB210/v-deo.html Outro song: ua-cam.com/video/aYROATT0Mk4/v-deo.html Website for In the Land of Invented Languages, without which this video would have been much, much harder: inthelando...
"Socialism" vs "Communism" | Etymosemanticology
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You guys wanted another Etymosemanticology episode, right? No? Well, too bad, because Bernie Sanders got me wondering what exactly "Socialism" even is and I wanted to talk about it.
The Linguistics of AAVE
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It's about time I address linguistic prescriptivism. Links to things I didn't make that are in this video: Intro song: "Flight of the Breezies" by Kadenza ua-cam.com/video/AWXvSBHB210/v-deo.html Outro song: "Mach Speed" by FlightRush ua-cam.com/video/5BW63OOPu7Q/v-deo.html Map of race in Chicago by Bill Rankin www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?chicagodots A cool video he made about it: ua-c...
Untranslatability and Japanese Pragmatics
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Untranslatability and Japanese Pragmatics
"Ass" vs "Arse" | Etymosemanticology
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"Ass" vs "Arse" | Etymosemanticology
What Even Is a Syllable? (correction in the description)
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What Even Is a Syllable? (correction in the description)
The IPA and the IPA That Created It
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The IPA and the IPA That Created It
Ancient Languages of the Middle East
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Ancient Languages of the Middle East
Pronunciation of "Xidnaf" [possible seizure trigger at the end?]
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Pronunciation of "Xidnaf" [possible seizure trigger at the end?]
A slang is a slang. Just because you're afraid to call it that in the US due to political propaganda and censorship, that doesn't mean that the rest of the world has to accept this "AAVE"--which is nothing but a perverted and askew version of American English spoken by intellectually impaired American people who struggle with proper English language--as anything other than a slang. It is a slang and it is specifically spoken by a very certain and known social group of poor and uneducated people. And that's what differs it from a real dialect or, god forbid, a real language: these are spoken regardless of social groups. In this sense this "AAVE" as you call it is much more akin to how some intellectually impaired immigrants, who have issues with integrating into the society that they immigrated to, refuse to learn the proper language of the land and instead speak a really perverted askew version of it mixed with a load of native words from their own language, whatever that is. It's not a dialect. It's a slang. The whole rest of the world knows this, but somehow Americans are really afraid to call it what it is and keep trying to pretend like its a real thing, not a result of education system failure.
It's pretty clear that first languages developed separately at different times in different places, completely unrelated to each other, because the world was completely disconnected back when the very concept of language began to develop as a medium of communication between humans. There was absolutely completely NOTHING that could have caused different tribes of primordial paleolithic humans to use same combinations of sounds for same things across the entire species population of the planet.
Your arrows look surprisingly like penises.
My friend group in high school somehow ended up picking up AAVE’s habitual aspect with “be”. I have no clue how we did it since there’s only one black kid in out friend group and we started using habitual long before he became friends with us.
Second solution to the problem of fairness in an international standard language: revive a “dead” language. Latin, Classical Greek, Akkadian, or Sumerian as an international language would go crazy.
Please stop comparing Nazi symbol with Swastika, because both are different
more than ten year old... 2014/06/02-2024/06/29
Merci, bonne et intéressante vidéo
Modern art
2:20 Skinner just teleports into the kitchen lol
What "laughter doesn't count as speech" "no patrick yawning is not a phoneme" (faucalized) fire
ask black ppl 😅😂
There is no "proto-world" language. When God created Man, Adam had language. I'm sure all people, as descendants of Adam, understood each other. However, after Noah's flood, men were commanded by God to populate the Earth but instead, they stayed in one place in the Levant. Therefore God caused them to speak many languages and they could no longer understand each other and they were scattered throughout the Earth. About 70 languages came out of Babel - what you would call "proto-languages" - and those are the "language families" you see today.
hindu is oldest religion though
did u say n word
Weren't the Aryans the light skinned Persians?
I almost feel like lojban could become popular with coders who are also linguistic nerds.
This gives the same vibes as "Shrek but only when ANYONE says "E"" even tho they're different sounds obviously but still
Bro dropped every n word and new he couldn’t come back 😭😭
What’s frustrating is all those videos that try to teach you Thai writing and say “look how easy that was” lol
Lol I pronounced it as [ksɪːtnɑf]
don't other cultures borrow words from other languages anyway?
But they don't appropriate it 😊
2:16 me when the teacher yells at the class so i can present
The problem is the General American English is what's taught in public schools, not AAVE. So when you speak AAVE instead of GA, it indicates that you're either uneducated or being intentionally subversive. I don't even disagree that it 'has its own rules.' Too bad, it's not the standard.
This video is good but needs to clear up a few things. ㄷ is not a t sound. Much closer to a d sound. If you speak Hindi or know any other language that has a soft D ㄷ is a soft d. In between a t and a d. ㄱ is not a k sound much closer to a g. It’s in between a g and k. ㄹ is the hardest one for most people. Tip is to just do l and r sound at the same time when it is at the beginning of a syllable clister. If it’s at the end of a syllable it is the l sound where you touch your younger to your front teeth.
As a Thai, I'm going to make this more confusing (5:42): Take the word นัก "nak" It has no tone marks, so it would be pronounced as "nak (normal)". However, it is actually pronounced as "nak (slightly rising tone)" And then, if we lengthen the vowel, it becomes นาก Which is pronounced as "nak (high)" Then, for some reason, if we add a "h (ห)" to the beginning, it becomes หนัก, which is pronounced "nak (low)" So, we have นัก, นาก, หนัก "nak (slightly rising), nak (high), and nak (low)" All spelled with no tone marking.
That Fruits of her labour cover was such a throwback
I don't think this is that great of an achievement... If it can be considered an achievement at all. It's just theories which we have no way to verify. For all we know, it is just as likely all this guessing is wrong.
0:15 I live in the North of England, and would always say and hear the ones on the left. The ones on the right sound way too posh, have a friend who speaks like that and we used to make fun of her for it.
You got it reversed with the TAO. Yang is masculine. Ying is feminine.
I like to think that simple language existed among humans for a very long time, but one group of late homo erectus/ early homo sapiens got really good at spoken language and began to dominate and replace other humans who didnt have as developed of language skills. So in a way, that small little group that got good at language would be the proto language.
Huh
Nazism and communism are both disgusting cults of Satan!!!
...so apparently I ran across this channel eight years ago, completely forgot about it in the meantime (and apparently also forgot this video, since I got to the end without actually having recognized that I'd watched it before), and came down to the comments section only to notice my own lengthy comments from nearly a decade ago. Heh. Thank you, UA-cam algorithm, for bringing me here again? So... care to make a video about Toki Pona? ...or Hawaiian Pidgin. That's my favorite language so far (out of the 50+ that I've studied). ...I need to go make a conlang that uses the kind of simplifications used by Hawaiian Pidgin and AAVE.
Got yourself a subscriber! Would love to see you tackle Midwestern grammatical features... and Irish-American and Yiddish dialects of English (not sure on the correct wording for "the English dialect spoken by people who are also native to Yiddish). And hey, anything unique to the Pacific Northwest, as I can't easily pick up on the unusual features of the dialect I speak. And maybe something about how American English has shifted in the past century? I'm super interested in the lingistic features that would be completely incomprehensible to people of the 1920's, along with terminology that doesn't seem that recent (that is, not, like, computer/internet jargon) but was still coined or repurposed after the 1920's to such a degree that if you used them toward a person of the 1920's you'd be conveying either no sense or a very different sense.
In slovak, probably in other slavic languages too, used to be one of traditional gods god of lightning Parom, or historically Perún, which sounds kind of similar to the other ones
Aryan race doesn't exist.
2:20 Seymour Skinner has been disconnected
The nazi only cares lf your a German europein white boy
amazing explanation !!!
The coolest thing is that we possibly do know two words of Proto-World. Those being the words for mother and father, with them being some variation of 'mama' and 'papa', because those words are similar all throughout the world and are probably based on the universal way of babies babbling nonsense, which parents mistakenly believe to be the baby talking to them, and then reinforce it.
Did you stop making videos? Why?
Nota repelente: En españa no se dice computadora, se dice ordenador.
I heard from some statistics that the proto world language was developed around seventy thousand years ago after the Toba super volcanic eruption, when the more intelligent humans survived through that natural disaster and so were able to create language through it. Then they left Africa again and seperated through time to a lot diffrent human tribes and so language started to seperate a lot through the following thousands of years.
Giuseppe Catapano: "Atlantida which disappeared 12,000 years ago, was the land of the Pelasgians (ancestors of Albanians), who escaped the flood of Atlantis and began new civilizations on all continents, especially in Europe, Africa and small Asia". THOTH spoke Albanian! Thot means "to say" in Albanian Language. Pelasgians were the Aryan race! Zeus was a Pelasgian, not a Helen. After Illyad, the language of Gods was Gheg, North Albanian Dialect. (Herodotus) The Albanian Language is a proto Indo-European language, the Babel language indeed. Science Magazine 2023 declared Albanian Language older than 8000 years old, much older than Greek and Armenian languages. Aryan means in Albanian, " I am gold".
God bless the cellar dwellers who meticulously produce this stuff along the freakish 83 hrs Morshu Bible recital. This is the reason I'm living this life.
62 million people in Ethiopia speak semitic. so how Arebic and Hebrew are the major semitic branch. I wish you made some research before posting half baked.
Bro, I loved this channel, I've always wanted to try and find it again, but I must have been slightly misspelling your name. I even watched this video when you first posted it, and didn't realize it was from a familiar UA-camr. Now I'm randomly searching steamed hams and come across that name and profile picture I recognize
This channel is back from dead?
Ik this was made a decade ago, but as a Latin speaker I feel obligated to mention that Latin has aspirated consonants like classical Greek.