Adding to the Japanese segment, the when you type the letter w a lot like so (wwwwww) it looks like grass, so sometimes when something is very funny, instead of using many "w" you can use "草" (kusa) which means grass. 草 is more like "lmao" though so please note that it is not usable in place of "w" (lol). Just some bonus history for anyone scrolling the comments.
@rizkyadiyanto7922 Жыл бұрын
grass.
@kiricappuchin Жыл бұрын
hololive taught me something new
@nathanwaterser8218 Жыл бұрын
So how'd you write "Touch Grass" in Japanese?
@TaIathar Жыл бұрын
@@nathanwaterser8218 Since the meaning of the phrase is "go outside" they would probably write that instead.
@nathanwaterser8218 Жыл бұрын
@@TaIathar It's not as iconic as "Touch Grass" though...
@nobreakingthepickle3452 Жыл бұрын
16:46 my mans just heard of writing and decided to invent it for his own language. What a legend
@nathanwaterser8218 Жыл бұрын
The man was probably like: "I don't have any idea of how this works but I love it" *proceeds to assign the phonemes of his language to it, making a new script in the process*
@kahorere10 ай бұрын
And he was really good at it! I heard a lecture about that script, and it was so approachable that for a while literacy rates were higher in his tribe than among the Europeans!
@TheBird..9 ай бұрын
@@nathanwaterser8218yo, Cherokee person here, that’s about right yea
@squishgod90944 жыл бұрын
I think "so that's Y..." might be my favorite joke of all time
@infinemyself56044 жыл бұрын
11:47
@DarrionTheIdiot4 жыл бұрын
AND great. you just spoiled it for me! just what i need! you spoiling the punchline to a very funny joke! (sarcasm)
@cashm54554 жыл бұрын
The One Above all you went in the comments before you finished the video
@DarrionTheIdiot4 жыл бұрын
@@cashm5455 Yeah. So what?
@cashm54554 жыл бұрын
The One Above all umm you can’t argue with stupid
@Howtard4 жыл бұрын
Every "wau" sounds progressively more like a sarcastic "wow"
@thelukesternater4 жыл бұрын
Howtard Not to mention that the wau symbol looks a lot like F
@hummingbirdspark39984 жыл бұрын
Wau you can really dance
@thefork44163 жыл бұрын
Uau
@uhChainsaws3 жыл бұрын
"That's a letter. Wow."
@sossololpipi96333 жыл бұрын
wāw
@hopesndreams5033 Жыл бұрын
I'm such a linguistics nerd. this video is so hard to find, with its title just being "w", but I come back to it every once in a while and sob with happiness
@rainbowlack Жыл бұрын
here's your reminder to re-watch it for the bajillionth time (like i just did lol)
@Glatier Жыл бұрын
just remember the channel name, that's how I'm able to look up that one mario kart video at any time
@internet_userr Жыл бұрын
Or you can simply like the video and it will appear in your liked videos playlist
@maxonator391311 ай бұрын
@@internet_userreah but there's an issue if you have 5000 videos in that one, as I've had since 2020. (it caps at 5k) Edit: Besides, if you have even over 1k, I'm pretty sure every video in there is gonna be hard to find lol
@BinglesP9 ай бұрын
@@Glatier What "one Mario Kart video"? Or, I guess in this case, who's?
@viktorflorianschantz4084 Жыл бұрын
FUN FACT: The Polish language is one of the very few Slavic languages to use a natural W sound - they use the letter "Ł" to make that sound. However, the letter W does exist in the Polish alphabet, and it makes a "V" sound, similarly to that in the German language. In other Slavic languages that use the Latin alphabet, such as Czech, the letter W is very rare, and is only used in foreign loanwords, such as those from the English language. That also makes the "V" sound.
@shelookstome8727 Жыл бұрын
Always found that interesting about Polish :)
@lupito61853 жыл бұрын
This whole video is an excuse to make the "so that's Y" joke
@Cloiss_3 жыл бұрын
the madlad made another video just to make this joke again
@mrbigdickthefirst18583 жыл бұрын
11:44
@SamiTheAnxiousBean3 жыл бұрын
everyone talking about the Y joke but not the stigma joke
@theredone17852 жыл бұрын
so that's upsilon
@lucy-qe3jv2 жыл бұрын
@@SamiTheAnxiousBean what stigma joke
@trewe04135 жыл бұрын
I got reverse clickbaited. I clicked expecting a shitpost and got a quality vid.
@eddydrouet18884 жыл бұрын
We should come up with a term for reverse clickbait...
@ewan_mclean4 жыл бұрын
Eddy Drouet shitbait?
@witheredbonnie94344 жыл бұрын
m a s t e r b a i t
@katrinahoward97624 жыл бұрын
J a i l b a i t
@AlgyCuber4 жыл бұрын
master bait lol
@plushdragonteddy Жыл бұрын
i am repeating this video immediately after watching it for the first time because i feel there is more to be crammed into my brain than what i managed on the first watch. this video is genuinely so funny and informative. if i was a substitute teacher, i’d just put jan misali videos on for the whole class
@vojta4413 Жыл бұрын
In Czech the letter W is called "dvojté vé" (double v), it was originally used to make /v/ sound, but it was replaced by V around 1850s. Today it is only used for writing foreign names
@dumbsville2 жыл бұрын
B lore: “it sounds like bee lol” W lore:
@popsiclelatte0922 жыл бұрын
hello verified human , how are you today ? have you eaten ?
@ps1hagrid2682 жыл бұрын
In Dutch it’s also just wee so I was really confused when I learned it’s double U in English
@Manienormae2 жыл бұрын
you didn't have to cut me off
@shoelicker2 жыл бұрын
W
@shoelicker2 жыл бұрын
W lore
@jeniferjoseph92004 жыл бұрын
This is like, what if a Bill Wurtz vid didn’t have the music
@ckv9544 жыл бұрын
Good description
@thenixaless74933 жыл бұрын
He wouldn't be known that well
@audreywong74943 жыл бұрын
Or, Vsauce but saucier
@agentofchaos29013 жыл бұрын
@@audreywong7494 lol what?
@gus85093 жыл бұрын
No one is saucier than vsauce
@creepersam334011 ай бұрын
This is quite literally the best way to trash talk if you get a win instead of just saying “W”
@mooseears9849 Жыл бұрын
I applaud this guy for making the KZbin masterpiece *w* and it’s equally magnificent sequel, *c* .I’ve always felt like these letters were slept on in the alphabet community
@grundall18183 жыл бұрын
*Me sees video with the title "w"* *Expects a 3 second video someone *saying "w"* *Clicks on video* "Wait what th-"
@igaja91613 жыл бұрын
Dbhdhdsh that's funny because it's true
@jcfiggy3 жыл бұрын
“iait ihat þe”
@madelinecook86963 жыл бұрын
this isn’t the chumbucket
@spingleboygle3 жыл бұрын
@@madelinecook8696 Sir this is a wendy’s
@wren59623 жыл бұрын
I saw the title ‘w’, looked at the video length, then decided why not
@soup64824 жыл бұрын
Video title: w Video length: eighteen minutes and twenty eight seconds
@HBMmaster4 жыл бұрын
video topic: w
@medhachattopadhyay94864 жыл бұрын
@@HBMmaster WY??
@ignacioariasrivas44744 жыл бұрын
I didn’t understand
@lemmy96824 жыл бұрын
What?
@primordial3454 жыл бұрын
I dont get it pls explain
@kshitijvids Жыл бұрын
i got goosebumps when he brought up how Maori used "wh" as an "F", truly poetic.
@earlyowlYT Жыл бұрын
i might be dense, but how is that poetic? genuine question.
@kshitijvids Жыл бұрын
@@earlyowlYT i was exaggerating, it was a joke.
@earlyowlYT Жыл бұрын
@@kshitijvids oh, hehe. thanks for clarifying!
@qwertyTRiG Жыл бұрын
@@earlyowlYT I'm not sure about poetic, but it truly is neat that they hit on the same solution as the Etruscians.
@hiimemily Жыл бұрын
"I've been jan Misali, and /w/" is still a great signoff.
@gogovish6 күн бұрын
hi emily
@Scruffy38702 жыл бұрын
I thought this was a shitpost but instead I ended up learning the history of W
@sillyfegart54552 жыл бұрын
This video is so good even Jesus is learning the letter w
@thecourier79642 жыл бұрын
Watch your mouth Jesus
@lenny77852 жыл бұрын
Same tho
@CarterHerrigstad2 жыл бұрын
Same, lol
@dongletron692 жыл бұрын
It's not safe to mock Jesus
@randomguy-tg7ok3 жыл бұрын
"And that's how a bird from a place somewhere between Egypt and Babylon means 'laugh' in a country on the other side of the world"
@hey_its_autumnb23803 жыл бұрын
lmaooo the fact that he liked this comment has me dying🤣🤣
@randomguy-tg7ok3 жыл бұрын
Wait what What
@hey_its_autumnb23803 жыл бұрын
@@randomguy-tg7ok very nice joke random guy
@shaunseymour15953 жыл бұрын
Japan
@radhikarao80523 жыл бұрын
@@randomguy-tg7ok in japan they often use wwww as smth so say laugh in like text messages cause in japanese laugh is 笑い or warai n people didn’t wanna type the kanji out so they just started using wwww kay thanks for coming to my ted talk 😫
@omoliemi Жыл бұрын
Can't believe I watched this video two years ago and now I'm majoring in linguistics
@Aflyonthemoon Жыл бұрын
самая интересная история одной буквы которую я слышала. Даже интересно стало узнать историю нашей В /w/
@zari_phone18112 жыл бұрын
I’m French, W is called “double v” because that IS WHAT IS LOOKS LIKE.
@ideasonek33742 жыл бұрын
Same in Italy
@entei85692 жыл бұрын
Lol
@smooch9852 жыл бұрын
same for swedes
@abdoonyt90492 жыл бұрын
I noticed that too lol
@add8522 жыл бұрын
This is what I thought as well but unfortunately it's not implemented in my country.
@alizztwt Жыл бұрын
Jesus christ i never thought a video on a topic im interested in could make me so tired. Im fascinated. Im enamoured. Im so angry. I just wanna go to bed. This is so convoluted im absolutely in love.
@1a2b Жыл бұрын
I really appreciate the "where are they now?' bit at 17:47.
@datoneguy5064 жыл бұрын
Fun drinking game: take a shot every time one of W’s ancestors is threatened to be cut from its alphabet
@mightypurplelicious32093 жыл бұрын
**blub blub blub**
@nqrtzy87653 жыл бұрын
Now now we don’t want anyone to die of alcohol poisoning here
@joda76973 жыл бұрын
@@nqrtzy8765 aw c'mon you won't die from those, it could be worse
@epingchris3 жыл бұрын
Take a shot every time one of W's ancestors is used in the video (talk about quick alcohol poisoning)
@jjsdumbshit27923 жыл бұрын
ahem take a shot every time you forgot the letter q and x
@mohammedislam51212 жыл бұрын
"You've got it set to M for mini, when it should be set to W for Wumbo. I wumbo, you wumbo. He, she, me wumbo. Wumbology, the study of wumbo!" - Patrick Star and the lore for W
@Xnoob5452 жыл бұрын
mumbo jumbo
@JustAPerson642 жыл бұрын
Wumbo pumbo
@torimackenzie66732 жыл бұрын
wumbo kumbo
@Levi-ie5oz2 жыл бұрын
Mumbo Wumbo
@dylanherron62622 жыл бұрын
How did you manage to spell wombology right and mess up wombo... Wumbo... Smh
@isadoramuller5590 Жыл бұрын
In Portuguese 'Y' is said "Ipsilon", and while most people say "Dabliu" for W, my grandma says "Dobre o V" with means "Double V" from her Brazilian-German ancestry. The most interesting fact is that because of globalization and immigration, we have a good bit amount of person names that have K, Y and W, and while they technically are part of the alphabet, there is no Portuguese word that uses them, so a lot of people don't consider they a part of our alphabet. They are only used in names or words or unit measurement symbols that come from other languages, like Whinderson, Kg, Disney, etc..
@kamota852311 ай бұрын
There are Portuguese words with K, W and Y
@isadoramuller559011 ай бұрын
@@kamota8523 there are several that were borrowed from other languages. I can't think of any that weren't. Which words do you refer to?
@seilaessecanalnvaitervideo64144 ай бұрын
@@kamota8523k maybe the other two i dont really see
@alexanderboulton21239 ай бұрын
I feel like that has something to do with why the Scots say "fit is it?" instead of "what is it?" I think the thing we can all learn from this is that all vowels and most consonants are basically the same.
@AthesielIcosiel5 жыл бұрын
"so thats y" this joke made me laugh so much i had to explain to 4 people why im watching a video about the history of the letter w. thanks
@SunroseStudios4 жыл бұрын
same
@anselmschueler4 жыл бұрын
"had to" be honest
@brennangray87124 жыл бұрын
though you might say "Y"
@Invizive4 жыл бұрын
I thiught the wire of my headphones broke at that specific point. Had to rewind to understand it's a joke. Bravo.
@mayadouglas73584 жыл бұрын
It made me cry tears of laughter omg
@theletterh97814 жыл бұрын
Happy first birthday to the most epic sentence ever: "F, Y, U, V and W all directly descended from a bird that looked like a lollypop"
@RENO_K3 жыл бұрын
Fuck i exhaled so fast my nasal hurts
@selenemoon28323 жыл бұрын
You were just born?
@theletterh97813 жыл бұрын
@@selenemoon2832 Huh? No that comment was posted on June 30th which is the date when this video got premiered.
@kornsuwin3 жыл бұрын
your username is very r/theletterh
@theletterh97813 жыл бұрын
@@kornsuwin :OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO A high level cultured person on KZbin?! Impossible! You have my respect
@eddykidplayzyt Жыл бұрын
W video
@hamira16968 ай бұрын
in germany i always felt like the V is so unnessecary, however now i know that we only missuse the W for a different pronunciation of the original V, which is admittedly real necessary in German. all those years of V hatred without knowing it was the OG all along. ill never judge a letter like that again.
@duckmaneuvers4 жыл бұрын
me: makes a funny joke in Japanese my Japanese friends: wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
@forestofsecrets72734 жыл бұрын
not finished video yet so idk if how w as a single constinant is used in japanese or why its used like that wa smentioned in the video, but if it wasnt n ur curious, its from warau/笑う (to laugh). verb ending was taken off, and now wara/笑 it was shortened to w in writing (tho is sometimes written as (笑) for reasons i dunno, maybe bc kanji is more familiar?). so thats why w is the japanese version of lol i believe w is pronounced as wara, but im not 100% sure
@v06894 жыл бұрын
Grass
@onebennyboi52574 жыл бұрын
@@v0689 ee
@iopvixens4 жыл бұрын
@@v0689 草
@2k5dcr4 жыл бұрын
草
@Jetsaturn02102 жыл бұрын
W stands for: Why the hell is this so well done
@cyannanima25052 жыл бұрын
No no, thast the DOUBLE W
@shadowsuzuki54452 жыл бұрын
@@cyannanima2505 Double double you? /j
@cyannanima25052 жыл бұрын
@@shadowsuzuki5445 why yes ×2
@Wereboypiko2 жыл бұрын
I just ruined the 500 *I’m sorry*
@locomotivetrainstation6053 Жыл бұрын
Should be HWĪ
@falondonahue8457 Жыл бұрын
Remember everybody the next time you wine, scream, cry and complain about how companies are simplifying their logos remember that the letters of the alphabet have to simplify slowly as time goes on... think about it.
@pashamarki13706 күн бұрын
On what must be my 10th rewatch of this video I finally noticed the "Where are they now" section at the end and I'm crying.
@icarus99815 жыл бұрын
wh to pay respects
@jamiee73675 жыл бұрын
wh
@annaabrams87385 жыл бұрын
wh
@shrekuwu2595 жыл бұрын
Φ
@unflexian5 жыл бұрын
ו
@ShirubaGin5 жыл бұрын
w
@TheOGPlatypus4 жыл бұрын
Since we're talking about intellectual things, let me explain mitosis. V U Ш W V V
@aureavita86534 жыл бұрын
thanks i understand now
@cozycowboy4 жыл бұрын
Don’t forget ш before the cleavage furrow begins to split
@TheOGPlatypus4 жыл бұрын
Fixed
@ZiRR04 жыл бұрын
What's the opposite of mitosis? Urfingerbro
@swig87924 жыл бұрын
VV
@bigmoestudio20 күн бұрын
Give the thumbnail designer a raise
@__8120 Жыл бұрын
"so that's Y..." You clever bastard
@Something2X73 жыл бұрын
I just typed "w" into the search bar to see what would come up and I stumbled upon this video, which has taught me more than my previous week of school
@wren59623 жыл бұрын
Week? This is more than I’ve learned all semester
@jaylyn95243 жыл бұрын
SAMEE
@jmn84983 жыл бұрын
For me it was the opposite. I was looking specifically for this video, but searching for _W_ didn't bring it up. Had to type _History of W_ instead. Curse thee, KZbin!
@irishjade033 жыл бұрын
@@wren5962 you must be young, maybe just high school when you sent that
@KaneYork3 жыл бұрын
Check out the c-quel y'all
@marivicespinosa58602 жыл бұрын
thought it was supposed to be a funny thing, but this is way better “I came looking for copper, and found gold”
@mcmonkey262 жыл бұрын
well if you would like some copper ive got some high quality stuff right here, you can even take a look at my fine reviews on these stone tablets over here
@geloakagbaby43482 жыл бұрын
W
@dallaStar.2 жыл бұрын
Right
@hiimemily2 жыл бұрын
@@mcmonkey26 High quality? My buddy Nanni begs to differ, Ea-nasir.
@blurned42212 жыл бұрын
Yuh
@sherbertshortkake6649 Жыл бұрын
People keep only telling half of the Japanese story so here's the actual synapse of "w" in Japanese internet culture. 笑う (warau) is the verb "to laugh" and sometime they'll even just use the kanji as a shorthand to show that someone laughed a little. You'll often see (笑) on its own in stuff like interviews to show one of the speakers chuckled (like writing "Haha" or "Laughs"). Since English is pretty prevalent in Japanese culture, the kool kids started to shorten 笑う (warau) down to just "w". (Not unlike how "haha" was replaced with "LOL" among English internet culture). You can even place multiple w's at the end of your sentences to show the level of laughterwwww Then they took it one step further and re-shortened "wwww" into the kanji for grass 草 (kusa), because the abundance of w's resembled grass. This is like how English internet culture moved from the tacky "LOL" to the more sophisticated "lmao". tl;dr, 笑う (warau) = to laugh 笑 (wara) = laughs; haha wwww = much laughing; LOL; ROFL; lollll 草 (kusa) = grass; lmao
@SushiElemental Жыл бұрын
草!
@magnusengeseth50609 күн бұрын
W is only barely a letter in the Swedish alphabet, as it's identical to V when you pronounce it and the two letters are somewhat interchangeable in things like names, where you can replace a V with a W if you want a name to look more old fashioned. As it happens, the province I live in has a name that starts with a V - Värmland - so the names chosen for the two main newspapers here can illustrate this brilliantly. The social democrat paper uses the regular V and calls itself Värmlands Folkblad (The people's pages of Värmland) - a common spelling for the common man. The conservative paper uses W and an older spelling and is called Nya Wermlandstidningen (The new Wermland times) - old fashioned spelling for old fashioned people. -This is only an aesthetic choice, the name of the province is pronounced identically starting with V in both cases. Since our W is basically just an alternate V, it also meant that back in the 90s when you would say the "www-" part of internet addresses we pretty much always said as "veveve" in Swedish.
@OfficialThatOneGuy2 жыл бұрын
So basically, people have always been simplifying logos since forever.
@WyvernRex20992 жыл бұрын
Yea, language and alphabets are all shaped by laziness
@ArturioBardi2 жыл бұрын
The N is a snake So yeah
@coolcj200620002 жыл бұрын
Going off topic: I love your PFP I play Spelunky 2
@JuanPablo-pg3vx2 жыл бұрын
Absolute W
@robotmummyking13292 жыл бұрын
Your name is my friends old username on here
@bochen10795 жыл бұрын
3:50 my mind just squinted a little when he said “JavaScript”
@RizalBudiLeksono4 жыл бұрын
ꦮ
@FiSH-iSH4 жыл бұрын
indeed.
@RizalBudiLeksono4 жыл бұрын
This is Java(nese) script ꧊ꦱꦲꦶꦏꦶꦏꦸꦭꦔꦁꦒꦺꦴ ꦲꦏ꧀ꦱꦫꦗꦮ꧈ꦲꦶꦁꦱꦶꦱ꧀ꦠꦼꦩ꧀ꦱꦿꦶꦮꦼꦢꦫꦶ꧉꧊
@Tetrisboyz4 жыл бұрын
@@RizalBudiLeksono yup makes more sense to me than JS
@xtrabit05 Жыл бұрын
I remember watching this full a couple months ago best video ive ever watched
@bea95 Жыл бұрын
I used to watch this channel years ago but never subscribed. Yesterday I thought about it but couldn't remember the name... Tonight this video randomly popped up in my home feed. I'm glad but scared. Subscribed.
@MegaPhester5 жыл бұрын
"So that's Y..." *angry muttering*
@TimeturnerJ2 жыл бұрын
In German, we actually make a w-sound as the letter's name, so whenever I'm spelling out loud in English, I still sometimes forget to call it "double-u". It's just so counter-intuitive.
@ps1hagrid2682 жыл бұрын
As a Dutch person I do the same
@zet65492 жыл бұрын
As a fellow German I make that mistake a lot
@forellenfisch17752 жыл бұрын
But we call the Y Ypsilon
@scorpion-nl9xu2 жыл бұрын
@@zet6549 same
@babylola17392 жыл бұрын
Did this at the start of learning english too. Now i don't do it anymore tho
@aljaslenc Жыл бұрын
Amazing linguistics video! It's really interesting to see the modern day names of the letters... in Slovenian, W is called "double V", but also, Y is called "ipsilon" (pronounced eepsilon)!
@stophel_en_blick761213 күн бұрын
late to the party: but in Dutch there is in fact a “triple” u: in medieval times w (uu) was pronounced /w/ this, like in german, shifted to /v~ʋ/, but only in onsets. To indicate the sound /w~u̯/ modern dutch adds an extra ‘u’, giving such beautiful monstrosities as: nieuw (new) leeuw (lion) jouw (your) miauw (meow) etc
@jamesjohnson82794 жыл бұрын
Multiple Letters: * die * Phoenicians and Greeks: That is a major wau
@FiSH-iSH4 жыл бұрын
heh, nice pun.
@bruh-zn8ju4 жыл бұрын
wau in the chat
@Notorietypulp4 жыл бұрын
Big oof, wait, big... UW, no no, big WW. I tried
@bonithechubbypotato51002 жыл бұрын
Wait I though that this would just be a picture of the letter “W” in darkness for 18 minutes
@plushcentric2 жыл бұрын
Same tho, I expected a shitpost
@anna_banana4142 жыл бұрын
im glad i wasn’t the only one 😭
@Opulscent2 жыл бұрын
I didn't see the duration so I thought it would be a couple seconds of W in darkness
@adilacma2 жыл бұрын
tbh it would probally get more views if it was that
@sakibhadzic2 жыл бұрын
@@plushcentric me too
@Icyy44067 ай бұрын
I saw this video a month ago and pretty much forgot about it. Then about 2 weeks later I heard about toki pona and decided to learn it (I learned it btw) and used your videos to help, not knowing it was the same guy until just now. Just a weird coincidence I wanted to share
@firebla2e2 жыл бұрын
W gameplay: “Let’s get this W(win).” W lore:
@chupetesuazo28152 жыл бұрын
Ñ
@R3t4rdmf2 жыл бұрын
@@chupetesuazo2815 grande chupete suazo
@shely_D7vil2 жыл бұрын
@@chupetesuazo2815 you really told them dude. Now give us french! Give us a *Û* !!
@dogeball26282 жыл бұрын
@@shely_D7vil û ok here you go
@joshgaming15852 жыл бұрын
People say dub now. They don’t say W anymore.
@nymph1e589 Жыл бұрын
This was so satisfying to watch thank you!
@tj4y482 жыл бұрын
This is exactly why I will never hesitate to click on a video with normally unappealing thumbnail and title. It might just be a masterpiece worth spending time on.
@jasonvoorhees69572 жыл бұрын
*cough* the history of the entire world i guess *cough*
@heiceonmycreamtillicone2 жыл бұрын
Amazing profile picture
@tj4y482 жыл бұрын
@@heiceonmycreamtillicone thanks. Cropped it myself.
@adethesimp2 жыл бұрын
I just look at how long it is, usually if it’s long it will be something completely irrelevant but amazing
@nebb.2 жыл бұрын
Ok
@ZipDoomTide Жыл бұрын
bro this actually helped me in typography class thank u sm
@valley-artifact9 ай бұрын
the "where are they now" was my favorite part
@pricex33 жыл бұрын
"W?" - Dumbledore calmly asked
@Utars3 жыл бұрын
a man of culture
@Melecie3 жыл бұрын
general kenobi! also, why is dumbledore laughing
@pawffice...3 жыл бұрын
This scares me because I don't know how to pronounce it
For a moment I thought it would be about a conlang called W
@GibusWearingMann5 жыл бұрын
To borrow a term from programming, maybe such a language should be called a "esoconlang"
@stopusingthisavatar565 жыл бұрын
@@GibusWearingMann I'd love to see someone create a new programming language and call it that!
@eden70105 жыл бұрын
OMG SAME
@fluorpotas5 жыл бұрын
sound inventory consonants ɸ β f v j ɥ w vowels i y u can someone complete it for me?
@aidenmcubing5 жыл бұрын
Same
@ultimatesentinel6 ай бұрын
The song at the end was beautiful
@ferudunatakan2 ай бұрын
I can not listen to the video and still get it
@lukasdreemurr1092 жыл бұрын
I clicked on this expecting a meme and got a whole ass backstory for the letter W. How intriguing.
@snivyboy1682 жыл бұрын
Yeah. And I thought there would just be some loud memey jumpscare in the middle of his calm speech, so I always kept my sound down, lol
@deltaboi90142 жыл бұрын
Same
@elpibearmando0072 жыл бұрын
Ñ
@chupetesuazo28152 жыл бұрын
Ñ
@venezuelaanimations37322 жыл бұрын
Ñ
@whitedinosaur455 жыл бұрын
Egyptians: imma make this weird ass bird that looks like a funny stick be a letter *Millenia of letter development later* 2019: UWU
@jiffylou985 жыл бұрын
o⚲o u⚲u
@pujeetjha82654 жыл бұрын
Underrated comment right there
@luisamarales62094 жыл бұрын
It's supposed to mean a curtain hook. It looks like a birds foot which in turn looks like curtain hook. It's meant to connect things which in Hebrew/Arabic means "and" which connects two ideas in a sentence
@ayaanoki4 жыл бұрын
VVVV
@ros97644 жыл бұрын
@@ayaanoki the long-awaited prequel of VVVVV
@enriquevega8693 Жыл бұрын
best video name ever
@mrcherry6314 Жыл бұрын
My man made a whole 18 min video about a letter Dats some serious dedication 💀
@Arctic_Jungle42 жыл бұрын
Most people's flexes: cars, having a gf/bf, being rich My flex: knowing the origin of W
@blackswan82192 жыл бұрын
beans
@baller_2 жыл бұрын
Beans
@javiartem2 жыл бұрын
beans
@motifity34162 жыл бұрын
beans
@shadow_da_bagel81772 жыл бұрын
beans
@jamiee73675 жыл бұрын
You: UwU Me, an Intellectual: WW
@enricobianchi44995 жыл бұрын
You mean vuuu?
@wug61755 жыл бұрын
Do you mean fvuuvuwuwuwyyuyyfv
@theapexsurvivor95385 жыл бұрын
VvvU?
@NotSoProishNoob5 жыл бұрын
Do you mean "Ooo wooo"?
@sprousprou5 жыл бұрын
UVW
@mercurieslocker Жыл бұрын
the letter wow... i'm obsessed
@TheHighSpaceWizard Жыл бұрын
This is exactly what I expected when I clicked this video. Subscribed.
@talkingpuppy49633 жыл бұрын
I literally haven’t laughed so hard in 3 years until I heard “so that’s Y...”
@yuvalne3 жыл бұрын
Such a great joke
@kryptoid25683 жыл бұрын
waw,great job 😀😀😀 heh? wow more like waw i am pretending that no one is laughing
@rainbowbun87163 жыл бұрын
I actually thought my iPad glitched 😂
@Ap1hw3 жыл бұрын
wwww
@leafyeaveeey3 жыл бұрын
here's the timestamp: 11:57
@marcelineraber4 жыл бұрын
Letters: Finally, we're living stable lives in this well-made alphabet. Languages: Y'all mind if I sound shift?
@sponge1234ify4 жыл бұрын
Other languages borrowing the latin script: _Mike Wazowski face_
@Angel1n011 ай бұрын
I learned more here than what I’ve learned at school.
@annabelmb Жыл бұрын
honestly i always just thought that it was because some people write the letter as more curved and not pointed but i have to say this is far more interesting
@timosullivan90992 жыл бұрын
"To grow as a civilisation, we must understand W lore" -William Shakespeare
@plazolaferreyro34162 жыл бұрын
Ñ
@Jaydebbc2 жыл бұрын
“if there’s a hole there’s a way” -Master Oogway
@justanobody80102 жыл бұрын
he did say that
@timosullivan90992 жыл бұрын
@@justanobody8010 of course he did
@bossaurayt35672 жыл бұрын
Well mr Shakespeare could spell
@jellorobot2 жыл бұрын
"And that's (Y)" followed by dead silence sent me into orbit. This is fantastic
@todddollasign56352 жыл бұрын
He prob waited the whole video to make that joke and it was delivered perfectly
@lino14072 жыл бұрын
@@todddollasign5635 the ‘Thats Why’ line had me thinking for like 10sec. and then skip back
@enniftea2 жыл бұрын
I thought my phone glitched
@syd7992 жыл бұрын
Time stamp??
@Max_Rocket Жыл бұрын
i have watched this 7 times in the lst 3 months
@777MaxRz Жыл бұрын
Literally a W video
@superminingcraftmc3227 Жыл бұрын
When he said “Italicized”, then showed a picture of Italy, my mind literally unlocked. I’ve never put the two together.
@qwertyTRiG Жыл бұрын
The history of the names italic and roman for typefaces goes back to the early days of printing in Europe.
@CrowdedMinds Жыл бұрын
Lol you must be from USA?
@carsonianthegreat4672 Жыл бұрын
@@CrowdedMinds that assumption makes no sense. Stop being so prejudiced
@PoisonFlower765 Жыл бұрын
@@CrowdedMinds I'm from the USA, and I put it together.
@WindowsDrawer Жыл бұрын
@@CrowdedMinds That makes no sense
@pnuemicking73472 жыл бұрын
In Spanish, “y” said aloud is pronounced “i griega”. When you got to the part explaining “ī Graeca” it blew my mind
@Ubsje2 жыл бұрын
in dutch too, "griekse ij", literally meaning "greek 'ij'". (use google translate if you want to know how to pronounce ij)
@batata25312 жыл бұрын
French too
@k-techpl72222 жыл бұрын
In Polish, it's called "igrek" so I also saw a resemblance when I watched the video.
@Ubsje2 жыл бұрын
igrek is another name for it in dutch as well
@grafvollkorn28002 жыл бұрын
in german its called ypsilon like the even older version
@KlamityZoo Жыл бұрын
This is my favourite video.
@2712animefreak5 жыл бұрын
There is additional interesting development of the usage of w in Japanese internet slang. When you write several w's in a row: wwwww they start resembling blades of grass. Therefore Japanese started using their word for grass: kusa(草) to express laughter.
@salierisneighbor97365 жыл бұрын
2712animefreak 😂wwwwwwwwwwwww😂
@kathvg5 жыл бұрын
2712animefreak some Japanese Internet slang is wild because it snatches letters and words from English to represent words in Japanese then simplifies it back into Japanese somehow
@eurotrash49705 жыл бұрын
I dont get it
@slavicblin81555 жыл бұрын
Euro Trash Me neither dude
@user-qg2uk9ji8q5 жыл бұрын
I think it because of the katakana ハ (ha) and when you put them together it looks like this: ハハハハハハハ
@electricnezumi5 жыл бұрын
3:51 never not gonna laugh at "the java script"
@alexwang9825 жыл бұрын
while (2=2) { printIn( “java should be replaced with python”); if 1=1: print(what language is this) elif 2=2: print(does JavaScript have elif?) else: print(java+python=jython?) }
@jacobgasser30935 жыл бұрын
@@alexwang982 js has else if which is better than elif imo and make sure you dont mix up java and js ;)
@jacobgasser30935 жыл бұрын
I am going to learn "java script" and then ask for help with the language in stack overflow haha
@olbluelips5 жыл бұрын
Pi You’ve mixed up your assignment and equality 😤
@xirensixseo5 жыл бұрын
i learned both C and python, URAAA
@criss1139 Жыл бұрын
w video
@Hexa420 Жыл бұрын
never thought i would be watching w lore at night
@e.98744 жыл бұрын
as a greek person i cant tell you how much i laughed at "oops all i!" like really we have like 6 i's whats the goddamn point. masculine i's feminine i's... *i* simply do not care
@maisonadwin21613 жыл бұрын
I’m using “I simply do not care” from now on
@xuly31293 жыл бұрын
ούψ! άλλ ί
@googleimgsearchfirmwaredownloa3 жыл бұрын
ы haha funne
@connorconnor24213 жыл бұрын
@@googleimgsearchfirmwaredownloa маёнез
@connorconnor24213 жыл бұрын
I thought that was some sorta pun οn υ
@ChrisLeeW005 жыл бұрын
I would like to thank the greeks for making "uwu" possible.
@kyle-silver5 жыл бұрын
Excuse me it's spelled "vvvv"
@kaziro5 жыл бұрын
Kyle Silver underrated reply
@zetanull96315 жыл бұрын
@@kaziro はい、もちろん WWWWWWW
@KuraIthys5 жыл бұрын
Wait, what does that say about the game called 'VVVVVV'?
@Kadanyix5 жыл бұрын
@@kyle-silver bitch please, it's YYYY
@duckorbs Жыл бұрын
i love watching this guy talk about random letters
@theallseeingtoaster5541 Жыл бұрын
Personally I find it very amusing to watch the video upside down and learn about the letter M
@Ethyro Жыл бұрын
💀
@Monody5125 жыл бұрын
My biggest gripe with the name "double-U" is that it's the only letter name in the alphabet to be more than one syllable.
@serglian85584 жыл бұрын
Dlu could serve as another name
@nutmegthefae4 жыл бұрын
In German it's Y funnily enough as our W us just 'wey' in pronunciation, while our Y is the old 'upsilon' :D
@chemicalfuzzy4 жыл бұрын
in French, the letter Y is literally called "greek i". so yeah. no judging
@speccysquaregolike96294 жыл бұрын
What about "elemeno"? That's got a few syllables
@2350CST4 жыл бұрын
Speccy SquareGoLike ikr? I think that is the best letter.
@thesushi19475 жыл бұрын
smh not enough lollipop birds in today's alphabet
@Drogon71024 жыл бұрын
Q is a bent lollipop bird. Does that make you feel any better?
@Shrek_es_mi_pastor4 жыл бұрын
@@Drogon7102 Yes
@untitled4579 Жыл бұрын
With the C video the first video I watched from the channel I like many others thought it was going to be a shit post but after watching it I was almost excited to see this in my FYP
@alphaglizzy4490 Жыл бұрын
This is a huge W lore video
@Rachel-zm9up3 жыл бұрын
In French we actually refer to its shape more accurately, literally “double v”
@sponsoredmessage2012 жыл бұрын
And this video finally lifted the "igrec" mystery from my French classes. (Though I'd have to watch again to get the whole story straight...)
@virrig69232 жыл бұрын
Swedish too xD
@Hydraina2 жыл бұрын
I believe I recall that Spanish also does that
@FuraFaolox2 жыл бұрын
a lot of languages tend to do that
@stabb2 жыл бұрын
Dubleh veh
@NithinJune4 жыл бұрын
3:51 "to the java script" words cannot describe how confused I am
@pitedapollo61754 жыл бұрын
Can you code?
@timothymclean4 жыл бұрын
I initially thought it was a coding joke, then gave up on trying to recognize the symbol and figured the island of Java had an obscure writing system. And now I'm not sure.