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[@guinabernardes]

Michael: dies Family: he was a good man Michael: Or was I?

[@anthonyjanthonycrowley6072]

I just imagined either everyone around the coffin saying their goodbyes to him and someone says "he was a good man" so he opens his eyes, sits up says "or was I?" and the music plays in real life; or, alternately, someone's saying a funeral speech (I don't really know what they're called) and then a projector turns on and plays a video he prepared for after he died.

[@rebeccavickerstaff541]

Family: demonic screaming

[@thecomfycryptid]

Anthony Janthony Crowley I think the word you’re looking for is “eulogy”

[@mahir7261]

Guilherme Bernardes underrated

[@WasiMaster]

Miachel died Or did he Hey vsauce miachel here

[@meaninglesscommenter8457]

I once read this masterpiece: Unlockable could have two meanings: 1.The ability to be unlocked 2.The inability to be locked

[@Zoova]

@@kanupandit1683 You tried so hard to make a joke that it killed my internal being.

[@kanupandit1683]

@@Zoova oh wait I just realized something

[@kanupandit1683]

How does unlockable mean the inability to be locked? For something to be unlockable it must be locked. Therefore an unlockable thing has the ability to be locked

[@ralphy1054]

@@kanupandit1683 and you could also say that the ability to be unlocked has two different meanings "The ability to be able to unlock it" Or "The ability to not be locked"

[@meaninglesscommenter8457]

Kanu Pandit un-lockable vs unlock-able That’s simply the idea

[@joshuazhong2520]

Internet: They're called homonyms Michael: Here's 11 minutes of reasons why you're wrong

[@user-pl1xi8my2d]

11 and a half* still tho i find this comment funny af

[@Fafuchess]

Not gonna lie when Micheal spellt it "barbaque" I immeadiatly went "oh damn I guess I was wrong my whole life". Pure information authority

[@Verbindungsfehle]

then there is me who paused the video to make sure he actually made a mistake, only to then continue the video to see him correct himself lol

[@yen7955]

a few people: yeah yeah, they're called homonyms michael: im bouta end this man's whole career

[@FrancisMburukamunyu]

700 👍

[@Jared004]

Ok

[@auroraofclanborealis]

Michael: They are homonyms, Me: Or are they? Michael: Or are the?

[@theredastro7696]

1000 like

[@crystallopez1397]

No

[@angelofdeth94]

You: buys things Me, an intellectual: purchases things

[@fetts4ck849]

r/iamverysmart

[@whiteface513abandonedchann8]

r/woooosh

[@fetts4ck849]

@@whiteface513abandonedchann8 r/entitledparents

[@whiteface513abandonedchann8]

r/imsorryjon

[@fatitankeris6327]

r/idontuseredditsoiwritethisjusttocontinuethereddittopicintheresponseshere

[@MisterNohbdy]

Michael: "I'm an adult." *DOUBT*

[@user-pl1xi8my2d]

Or is he?

[@aishaMa_]

Michael: explains why homonyms isn’t the correct term Me, who used homophones to begin with: *signature look of superiority*

[@aaryanbhardwaj40]

"You guys get it, you guys are smart." I finally have the mental capability to be able to comprehend the fact that running out of room to write a word does not change its meaning.

[@jord19100]

The Delusionist And His Demons r/iamverysmart

[@JA-nv4zb]

Jordan That was the wrong usage of the subreddit. More like r/buttmarker

[@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache]

@@JA-nv4zb wth is that subreddit? I can't find it on reddit anymore, did it get hit by the addons blackout protest or smth?

[@KrpticUnknown]

wish i had michael as a teacher

[@111Malefic]

I really think you don't. Michael isn't a teacher, he said it himself. He's just some guy that likes science and wanna share it, he cannot teach you anything. Don't mistake vulgarizators for teachers. He's here to give you some life facts or just to stimulate your curiosity. A teacher is someone whose job is to make your learn something durably, with a method and practice. You don't get that here.

[@JakeLovesSteak]

He is a teacher, in a sense.

[@dandanthedandan7558]

I wish I had Koro-Sensei as my teacher...

[@priyanshupradhan4388]

DANDAN THE DANDAN yeah me too, what can be better than killing your own teacher

[@ahmedmagdy-qg3tb]

control your emotions kid

[@cobalt8187]

"Rock (Stone)" "Rock (Music Genre)" "Rock (To Move)" PPL also reminded me of "Rock (The Rock)" and "Rock (Amazing or Exclamation)" Thanks ya'll

[@hamidan7069]

Nice

[@twitchycorpse4378]

CAN YOU SMEELLLLLLLL

[@khazychan]

The Rock (Dwayne Johnson)

[@theantimatter]

It gets even more interesting when you consider that the music genre started its journey as a derivation from the verb (rock'n'roll) but ended having the sense of the noun (hard rock).

[@madkirk7431]

And "Rock" (amasing)

[@mixup2216]

4:17 “But is cereal soup?” *vsauce music starts

[@ferociousmaliciousghost]

*(Insert the "Is Cereal Soup?" script)*

[@miticobr173]

Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. Take a look at this. Simple enough, right? But watch what happens next. Okay, what the heck is this thing? Mostly people eat it like a soup, out of a bowl with a spoon. But is it a soup? The word 'soup' comes from words that originally meant "to absorb liquid", which dry cereal left in milk too long will do. But words change. What if cereal is actually a type of salad? And milk is just a dressing? Or maybe, dry cereal is the actual meal and milk is just a condiment or a coating. Adding milk to dry cereal might be like adding ketchup to french fries, or icing a cake. Honestly, there is no real answer. The answer is whatever we agree the answer should be. We make up the words and we make up the categories. If you ask me, cereal is soup, but it's not soup soup. Cereal is also salad, but it's not salad salad. What I just did there is called reduplication. We do it all the time but usually for emphasis. For example, "I like you" but I also like like you. Tomorrow's event is fancy, but it's not fancy fancy. When I say "soup soup" or "salad salad", I am using reduplication in a way that is known as Contrastive focus reduplication. I am reduplicating a word to express a focus on prototypical types of that word, in contrast to French types. A Caesar or vegetable are more prototypical types of salad than, say, potato, taco, fruit, or a bowl of cereal with milk. The increasing progress of technology forces us to contrastively focus reduplicate more and more often. For example, now when talking about a book, you might need to clarify whether it is an e-book or a book book. The original physical paper type. The phrase paper book is a retronym. A modification to an old word made necessary by the advent and popularisation of something new. Before movies with sound came along, silent movies were just called movies. Before voicemail and e-mail, snail mail was just mail. And before mobile phones, your landline or home phone was simply a phone. Or in many cases just the phone. This is Morse code for a smiley face emoticon. It's a happy beat. The eyes of the emoticon are a colon, which up until as recently as the middle of the 1900s was often used with a dash to represent a pause. It was an especially helpful direction to people reading text out loud. It was used all over the place. In personal letters and all over America's Declaration of Independence. You may also notice that it looks a little bit anatomical. The Oxford English Dictionary has a name for this punctuation mark and that name is "the dog's bollocks". In other words, dog balls. Although other emoticons were definitely used earlier, as far as official dictionary entries are concerned, the very first emoticon with an official name was an emoticon for a willy. This also means that America's Declaration of Independence is, punctuation-wise, covered in dog wieners. Nine of them, to be exact. What I'm about to do is called drawing. When I am finished, what I have created is called a drawing. But it's finished. Shouldn't it be called "a drawn"? A similar version of this problem is often attributed to Steven Wright. Why are they called buildings if they are finished? Shouldn't they be called "builds"? What's really going on here is a phenomenon known as 'verbal nouns'. A noun formed from a verb. It's often easier to "noun-ify" a verb than to just use lots of words. Why call this a structure resulting from the active of building, when you could just call it a building? Where does the word 'nickname' come from? Did a guy name Nicholas one day decided everyone could call him Nick and in doing so create a literal nickname? No. Nickname is a product of rebracketing. A process in which speakers, often unknowingly, create new words by moving sounds from one word to another. For instance, the English word alligator is a corruption of the Spanish "el lagarto" - the lizard. El lagarto, el lagarto, el, alligator. Eke used to mean "also", as in you could have a name, and you could have another name that was also your name. Your "eke name". Eke name. Eke name. Ni, ni, nickname. Here's another funny thing about language. If you're noisy in class, you're disrupting class. But if you sit around silently paying attention, are you rupting class? You can be disgruntled, but can you ever be gruntled? Words that would seem to have a related word but actually do not are called unpaired words. Maybe they were in a pair at one point in history, or maybe through a fluke of etymology they only seem to have one, but what you think it would be isn't in any dictionary. Some definitions like "soup" and "salad" are so vague their borders are almost hilariously fuzzy. Other words, well, they're just plain silly. For example, the sun does not rise every morning. The Earth actually just turns you toward it, but yet our word for that phenomenon is sunrise. Languages are full of expressions like that. George Steiner wrote colourfully about this, saying "The accelerando of the sciences, and of technology, have beggared both the reach and veracity of natural language. In consequence, the commonplace relations of language to phenomenon to our daily context have become virtually infantile. They are a bric-a-brac of inner metaphors, of whory fictions and handy falsifications. From the perspective of the theoretical and exact sciences, we speak a kind of neanderthal babble." Whether spoken or typed or tabbed or felt or signalled, language may be inevitably full of idiomatic expressions and expressions that are incomplete. And categories that are fuzzy. But hey, at least it's our fuzz, and at least fuzz is entertaining. It would be nice to just know everything and have absolutely nothing to explain or demonstrate to anyone else. But then again, as Emily Dickinson once said, "a letter is a joy of earth. It is denied the Gods". If we were all omniscient, we'd have no reason to write letter to one another, there wouldn't be anything new you had to tell someone else. We would have no reason to debate the soupiness or saladness of cereal. No reason to wonder, no reason to read, or to watch. I'd have no reason to say and as always, thanks for watching.

[@miticobr173]

@@ferociousmaliciousghost there u go

[@sanyogoo6017]

@@miticobr173 what the....... , i see you re man culture as well

[@brayanxd4547]

@@miticobr173 Isso devia ter mais likee

[@TriburosOnline]

Michael is a slightly scary egg person who wants us to watch him play with his toys but that's okay

[@Snardvark25]

Triburos it's more than ok. It's gosh darn alright!

[@aaronmartinez8383]

You mean he's becoming Northernlion.

[@masterchaoss]

Aaron Martinez that's exactly what I thought when I read this comment.

[@Starman256]

Hes a bearded egg, nothing more nothing less

[@robocu4]

He isn't an egg :(

[@deajiven6159]

"it's not spelled the way it sounds" *laughs in French*

[@druhu4590]

Hon hon hon

[@jamesyjables]

*laughs in welsh*

[@mcvibing2785]

Oiseau

[@benthomason3307]

french: "you have ten letters. you pronounce four of them."

[@Gia1911Logous]

English has this as well... and a lot Eg water, train, bicycle, pseudoscientific, blue, one etc Instead of woter, trein, baisikl, soodossaientifik, bloo, wan

[@gril250]

My parents when I ask them why they always take my New Years money: 1:23

[@assassin947]

hehehe... cuz I’m an adult

[@kingduckie9135]

Just steal their retirement funds and you'll be even.

[@onezerosevensix]

grandma didnt stand a chance!

[@Mick_92]

I remember having a lot of trouble with "throw", "though", "thought", "tough", "through" and "thorough" when learning english. Not exactly homonyms (I think some would be heretographs though), but pretty damn confusing for a non-native speaker.

[@bluthemeth]

“Ough” is also different in hiccough. Also good luck with learning English. (I’m kinda late tho Ldol)

[@basedyoshi7253]

Those were tough when I was learning spelling in early life too. I used to get "tough" and "thorough" mixed up.

[@dismalthoughts]

I was homeschooled and took crazy amounts of phonics/grammar growing up; my english skills were on point. Aaand now ~20 years later I found myself typing without really thinking about it too much and *frequently* get homophones mixed up D:

[@catlover7015]

“A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.”

[@jennifermorrey7378]

even though i speak english natively i feel you

[@asmodeusmogart5941]

Michael: *gets caught selling drugs* Police Officer: "You’re under arrest!" Michael: "Or am I?"

[@spencerfuller149]

You're*

[@asmodeusmogart5941]

Is Mayonnaise an Instrument? Thank you

[@SuperXzm]

*Cue Vsauce music

[@dianathenerd5640]

@@spencerfuller149 check this out kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpXRlpavrpV5erc

[@Merahki3863]

Proceeds to bamboozle and fascinate the officers. Then runs away concluding his argument.

[@willc236]

The “thanks for watching” is always so sincere. The same staggering level of sincerity at the end of every D!NG video.

[@theonedad7071]

And in Vsauce always

[@jonathanshapiro6593]

Dong

[@SuperIntenseGamer]

*DONG

[@madkirk7431]

And the intro is always a joke 😂

[@madkirk7431]

@@SuperIntenseGamer D!ng!!!! RREEEEEEE

[@FrankieTeardrop1998]

"Let's look at three ways" -Michael Stevens

[@mateusporawski5347]

9:35 i think it was "pat, man , bell"

[@Timmy_04]

Men Pet Bell

[@JooJPC]

man bell pet

[@lukeshumaker4848]

Bell man pat

[@Musiphymatic]

Ball, pat, man

[@theununtrium]

Pet, men, bell

[@MrMindwavess]

No "micheal here"? This is truly the darkest timeline.

[@sam23squires]

Here I made you a felt goatee until you can grow your own

[@DJxDJ1997]

It's not vsauce

[@garchamayne4515]

Diego Ordoñez And yet, Michael is here

[@eliarbogast]

Community reference nice

[@Nilguiri]

Who is Micheal? Is he from Isreal?

[@MaeveFirstborn]

"I hope you have your noses strapped on." I have ***SEVERAL*** questions.

[@explodyz]

Matthew BPbuds look up Chris fehn mask. He has a strapped on nose

[@volbla]

I have ***SEVERAL*** noses >:D

[@smoceany9478]

actually air, aire, are, ayre, ere, err, eyre and heir is an octuplet

[@ThorHC11]

Unless there's another meaning for "are" that causes it to be pronounced like that, I'm pretty sure "air" and "are" are said differently.

[@smoceany9478]

@@ThorHC11 their is another form of are

[@ThorHC11]

@@smoceany9478 Yep, you're right. Should have figured that a hectare could be divided into ares. Touché.

[@bardcore7660]

@@ThorHC11 varies on accent

[@GoogleUser-ms6hr]

What about Eire? (Ireland)

[@FG-dh6pr]

The way the mood shifts after “Or are they?” and after he shifts from being goofy to serious was funny. I love this channel and also Vsause(1).

[@pratishtha1437]

You wouldn't go get a loan from a river bank and you wouldn't go fish in a financial bank.. *OR WOULD YOU*

[@pratishtha1437]

André Martins well ok haha

[@KyleCorbeau]

You may not got to fish at a financial bank but some would try to phish at one.

[@alexc4924]

You could phish in a financial bank.

[@greensteve9307]

On the internet, bank fishes you.

[@Skystrike70]

Honestly expected him to go on a tangent there

[@hasifahmed1065]

THIS BLUE MY MIND.

[@sauceaddict9569]

Lol

[@TheFraz123]

ROFL

[@amirislim8177]

Or did it?

[@geotalemobile2157]

Your pretty funny with that their joke XD

[@deadgirllife2]

Mad lad

[@Ad0rak]

I was so excited for him to get to the middle part. I was thoroughly underwhelmed.

[@ryanvandermerwe5587]

Teacher: Blew and Blue are homonyms Me: I'm bouta end this man's whole career

[@derekholland7956]

Michael is the only guy who can state the most obvious thing (ex. The sky is blue) and then give the OR IS IT face and we actually listen and believe him.

[@Max-kv1xm]

Well yeah, it isn't. It's pretty transparent. We only see it as blue because of how light works and eye works

[@southerndude9516]

Miserabilis r/woooooosh

[@Euclase]

*OR IS HE?*

[@fufutg9543]

@@Max-kv1xm "because of how light works and eye works" but... "how light works and eye works" is what color is. So it's blue.

[@someyeeterontheblock2421]

@@fufutg9543 the sky is not blue.

[@ZippedZipFile]

One of my favourite examples of homonyms at work is: "War does not determine who is right, only who is left"

[@seanwilkinson7431]

Gallagher: "If Pro is the opposite of Con, then Congress is the opposite of Progress." Me: "That rule doesn't work for Constitution and Prostitution!" (Or Confessional and Professional, unless you get stuck with a novice priest in the booth). There are also so many words that start with Pro and don't have a Con variant and vice-versa, like Convention, Prolapse (I wouldn't want to be diagnosed with a Conlapsed Rectum...😮), Congregate, Proper, and Constipation (there is technically a Prostipation, but we just call that Diarrh[o]ea).

[@kirk-careem]

One of the smoothest sign offs in KZbin history, a special treat for those who watched to the end. And as always, thank you for presenting

[@Frudge]

“If you tear something I love, you might cause me to shed a tear.” *I’D LIKE TO SEE THEM TRY.*

[@jacko7755]

That last section reminded me of how the phrases “I’m up for that” and “I’m down for that” mean the same thing even though they use antonyms

[@travellcriner6849]

How about the fact that when you were first born, you were *new* to the world (that was you when you were new). but now you're the *new* you.

[@TERMINATOR3900]

Actually I think the usage of **new** in both of those cases is the same. I.e. you were **new** to the world when you were born, but now you've made some change in your life so you are acting like a **new** person.

[@travellcriner6849]

Correct. However, the point is this *new* you only comes about because you become more *old* .

[@DarkMoonDroid]

"Up for" and "down for" are actually slightly different. "Up", in the sense meant here, is the kind of up that a man experiences with an erection. It's meant to convey that one want's to participate in a very enthusiastic way. "Down", in the way it's said here, is the kind of down that a gang wanna-be has to stay down in order to endure the ordeal of being "jumped-in" to a gang. You have to allow the gang members to beat you up and you have to "stay down" for it. In this case, it means that you want it bad enuf to make a sacrifice for it. These meanings are similar but different.

[@travellcriner6849]

Very insightful, Jennifer. Thanks.

[@justarchie6081]

PET, BELL, MEN.

[@Isaac-lm6pl]

i agree

[@potatoonastick2239]

Yesss

[@ammarmorad2901]

Agree

[@yaltschuler]

I concur

[@ChloeE623]

Agreed

[@doctortrouserpants1387]

"Elephant Juice" is a viseme for "I love you"

[@AlexPies1]

I was absolutely floored when you said people tried to tell you those were homonyms. maybe it's just because homophones were driled into my brain at such a young age, but I don't think I could ever get those mixed up

[@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache]

Fr, we were taught the difference between homophones, homonyms, synonyms, antonyms, etc in 1st grade! And I live in like, a 3rd world country (granted I'm in a fairly big city and that was a small-ish but still private school, but still the guys replying I'm almost 90% certain are Americans)

[@to9100]

1. Pet 2. Bell 3. Men

[@LeahSunKyu]

Thomas Orchard Same.

[@markvallone5136]

Same

[@unholylime4121]

That’s what I got

[@salemalsaiari5366]

Same

[@SlippyLegJones]

Bell was easy to tell with the Ls :/

[@whereeveritgoes]

Me: Wanna go out? Girl1: "I'm down." Girl2: "I'm up." Girl3: "I'm in." Girl4: "I'm on."

[@bryceduyvewaardt8136]

*wana go *OOT*?

[@szhzs6121]

me: wanna go out? girl1: "no" girl2: "nope" girl3: "nah" girl4: "nay"

[@the_red_ditto2426]

Girl5:"no"

[@x-daveonpc]

but can you be inside both of them ?

[@keithode1737]

"but can you be inside both of them ?" Only with extra-dimensional DONGs.

[@inself7367]

it really helps me. wow. thank you! your video does kill two birds with one stone for people like me. I was wondering what the heck is the differences among all the terms, saying so what? and you're here to make it clear. so happy for having this ❤

[@80cardcolumn]

“Mean” can mean (among other things): - Below average, poor, inferior quality. The mean streets of . - Average, the middle position. The mean test score was 75. - Above average, excellent. He plays a mean guitar.

[@shanedonahoo7704]

This show should just be called “Educational Memes”

[@user-ft4pb5vb3e]

DONG is better. 'Cause, like, DONG.

[@MM-co3gl]

the perfect show for special kids

[@nanowhit]

i disliked your reply

[@Kihidokid]

I let my kids watch dongs all night

[@keetrandling4530]

+

[@lucasprem1618]

I want Michael to host meme review.

[@JamUsagi]

"This is a meme... Or is it?"

[@klippiesgames6398]

Aye whatsup bro

[@emmetth9481]

I wanna see him on the Eric Andre Show

[@unhingedfrogspawn6715]

Or do you?

[@simasturbo5348]

665th like rip

[@mikeayia8819]

Very educational great job Michael Stevens and love the way you end all your episodes with almost a sad good bye

[@girlinagale]

I'm still reverberating from your morse code exploration I watched at 6am this morning.

[@girlsinredtrenchcoat1169]

Michael: You wouldn’t go fish in a financial bank God I hope not Michael: pauses for a minute I swear to whatever hellborn force that controls my perception of reality if he says “or would you” Michael: skate SWEET RESPITE OH LORDY

[@darpanpatel8023]

AHAHAHAHAHAHHAH

[@kaveevin1494]

I thought he was gonna say it, I swear.

[@vuice6601]

And that’s how I met your mother

[@miserysluvr]

Hahahahahahhahahahaha, you made my day😂

[@vibe3d]

Hold my beer.

[@nzubechukwu]

KZbin: Demonetizes Michael’s videos “You’re demonetized!” Michael: Or am I?

[@lenka1444]

Michael: *Goes through a 10 minute explanation*

[@derikr]

*_First we need to know what exactly it means to be demonetized_*

[@dentistrider3874]

Bro really said "Descriptionist" instead of "Descripivist" 😂 Great way to visualize these concepts!

[@racistman928]

"If you tear apart something I love, you might cause me to shed a tear" -Michael

[@PaleozoicProductions]

0:00 - 0:06 How I greet people

[@rudysmith1445]

Ahoy there laddie! :D

[@sunflowertara7047]

SAME

[@alexxeibrando6907]

SameeeE

[@regurgam8518]

I hope you got your noses strapped on

[@ChrisOrillia]

Will, will Will will Will Will's will? wiki: Will (a person), will (future tense helping verb) Will (a second person) will (bequeath) [to] Will (a third person) Will's (the second person) will (a document)? (Someone asked Will 1 directly if Will 2 plans to bequeath his own will, the document, to Will 3.

[@moonsaer]

I AM SHOOKETH

[@jad3415]

There's another example like that with the word "buffalo" en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

[@chewedgum3001]

yes

[@qewdascz1839]

I’m so confused but I love this XD

[@noelbus4536]

Name the named naming name "name" to rename name name.

[@brianhitchcox5530]

I love watching these videos so much.

[@toxicnukem]

that end was as smooth as butter

[@123_king_me9]

When Michael forgets his other channel’s password

[@PenisGabber]

dongonyms

[@donlimoncelli6108]

The rancher with three offspring named his homestead "Focus" because it's where the sons raise meat.

[@andrewoliver7069]

Love the art in the background.

[@losingluke]

When you make an entire KZbin video to prove some people wrong Dong: 100

[@mabus4910]

...and then say "I don't care how you say it"

[@LimitedWard]

Vsauce and DONG are synonyms now I guess.

[@lucianrex1528]

i'm fine with this

[@Azide_zx]

in that case i have a big vsauce

[@rockLuca14]

Alpha Good one m8.

[@mathenthusiast6635]

I think Michael uses Vsauce only for complex/broad topics that can be connected to several other topics. Homonyms, however, is a specific topic that doesn't really wrap around different subjects.

[@Ari-hc1vr]

no, the aren't. they don't mean the same thing.

[@yusufcoskun7914]

The first five seconds is gold value

[@ellafant9424]

I’ve also heard autoantonyms be called Janus words. Very fascinating!

[@FruityBasket99]

After the 'bank' joke I went to like the video, but to my disappointment realised I already had, like damn.

[@licuppaulbenedicts.1126]

Or are you?

[@medhanshkhandelwal6339]

Or have you

[@MigattenoBlakae]

Or did you?

[@scg1636]

Or why you?

[@hpds3133]

Or how you?

[@guillermo63785]

Do On a sheet of paper Now, Guys

[@marshenrobot7600]

Guillermo Recueero Hinojosa dong.

[@QuitebrokeN]

"we gotta wind up...we're out of time.." that sounded so depressed it made me frown

[@EggShellGames]

I’ve recently be thinking of creative homonyms myself and my two favorite are: Throne and thrown, Greece and grease

[@spinnyb9998]

pet, bell, men

[@rrightbraeden1161]

My pfp is better than yours.

[@ly_g1570]

Why so many likes damn...

[@declanhemphill4214]

same dude

[@retardedengineer3453]

🥜

[@whiterunsteward7477]

Pet men bell.

[@DadSkool]

but you may 'phish' in a financial bank

[@DanKeehner]

Johnny James Take my like, you made my morning.

[@ReneePrower]

Once again, the day is saved thanks to homophones.

[@pohjanvanamo]

Ok. This was more complicated than what I knew before, so learned something new 👍 (In Finnish the spelling and pronunciation usually go the same way, so we were just taught that words that are written the same way are homonyms. 😅) And now, few homonyms to cheer up the day: Kuusi/kuusi = six/spruce Lakka/lakka = lacquer/cloudberry Viini/viini = wine/(arrow)quiver Häntä/häntä = tail / of him/her

[@amperage3457]

The shuffle on this playlist literally played lenzs law before this and I ended the episode where he was holding a copper pipe. Absolutely blew me away when I saw the intro to this episode 😂

[@austinbagnall1990]

Antonym is the Antonym of Synonym, but Synonym isn't the Synonym of Antonym.

[@StreakierMoss4]

or is it?

[@mattjw16]

🤯

[@Bepsip_Kanyu]

WHAT THE FEK DID YOU DO

[@sharkguy2340]

Mind blown

[@jarchie4013]

Kind of obvious 😂. Like the word play though

[@DeanBaileyPhotography]

You may phish in a financial bank though...

[@travellcriner6849]

And you may suffer *alone* in a river bank.

[@trocodiliac2405]

michael just delivered the most badass "yeah, no" to twitter users

[@MikeLCF]

The eerie music makes this very surreal

[@ABaumstumpf]

"you are tearing me apart Lisa." And the saddest addition to autoantonyms: "literally"

[@voxelfusion9894]

The way people use literally in the current year is literally the worst.

[@cornekeetels5293]

Stijn Broekhuis doesn’t everyone using it the wrong way turn it into everybody saying it correctly. Language is the way we make it to be.🤔🤔 (my attempt at sounding deep)

[@me3333]

So many people use "literally" and "theoretically" incorrectly that they probably should change the definitions in the dictionary.

[@voxelfusion9894]

me3333 I think that most people haven't heard of the word "figuratively" and use literally to sound hyperbolic.

[@kaizov2940]

Literally literally does not mean what literally used to literally mean.

[@tylor_vwricer]

I didnt even know there was two different ways to spell barbeque

[@Caitlin_TheGreat]

Sort of 3 ways if you count *bbq,* which everyone pronounces as barbeque even though it's missing all the vowels. I'm actually curious how many people don't know that "bbq" is an abbreviation and not how you actually spell the word.

[@travellcriner6849]

Or how about the fact that it's "there *were* two different ways?"

[@jjsmith706]

Travell Criner In actual usage, "two different ways" has the same semantic meaning as "another way", so he could just was well have said, "I didn't even know there was another way to spell 'barbeque'." Being that there is no semantic difference, then it is reasonable to conclude that there is also no semantic difference between "was" and "were" in this instance. In other words, stop being a prescriptivist. Grammar isn't concrete.

[@travellcriner6849]

I disagree with your argument but I agree with your conclusion. However, I don't agree your conclusion proves your point. Nonetheless, this is a minor enough issue to agree to disagree.

[@jjsmith706]

You can't disagree with the argument and agree with the conclusion, since the conclusion is a direct result of the argument. Moreover, the conclusion absolutely proves my point, since it demonstrated perfectly the malleability of language. You're apparently one of those Dunning Krueger smart people. Stop overestimating yourself.

[@NINOGIANLUCA]

Grazie Michael

[@chrismanuel9768]

Usually these videos are things I already know that I watch for entertainment. This one? All new information

[@wave3308]

Did VSauce just move to the DONG channel?

[@Leo-zk9rd]

Wave that's what I'm wondering

[@nofanfelani6924]

perhaps Vsauce and Dong are homonym

[@Nohfegea]

He said on the Vsauce subreddit that DONG now is where he explains themes that are too small for a full video or just fun facts, whereas the official Vsauce channel is for big (>20 min long) videos with a lot of research or something like that. www.reddit.com/r/vsauce/comments/86a49b/can_anyone_tell_me_why_the_vsauce_videos_of/

[@wave3308]

Nohfegea makes so much sense now! Thanks for the info

[@sanyammishra1263]

He probably would have forgotten the password of Vsauce account

[@michaelbirchall2247]

Internet: They're called homonyms Michael: Let me introduce you to Mr. Dunning-Kruger.

[@randommexicandude3061]

This man just made an eleven minutes video to win a Twitter discussion. Mad respect.

[@DullFiction]

Michael's laugh 0:05 1:22 1:35 6:12

[@ioannismavrogiannis151]

man 0:05 is a comedy vault

[@mfw9902]

Press '0' for Ahoi!

[@germanshepherd2701]

Thank. You.

[@LiamClowMusic]

MIchael: "We gotta wind up, we are out of time" me: Huh cool autoantonym Michael: "And as always.. Thanks for watching" me: Wait NO no NOOO

[@angelmendez-rivera351]

Liam Clow Smoothest outro of all time

[@exp-channel0]

@@angelmendez-rivera351 True

[@zkiller195]

Michael, love the video and all your content (long time subscriber) It would be awesome to see content on words that mean the opposite of what they appear. Words like inflammable (in many instances, the prefix in- means not) or factoid (the suffix -oid typically means resembling or similar to)

[@HIROX13]

I like the work "Set". loads of meanings

[@jabezzgames4055]

I SEE MEN ICY MEN AY SEMEN

[@zfloyd1627]

Damn

[@nabayanchakma2419]

U suk

[@corsac_]

deep

[@Depleted-Uranium]

Or Are They? *vsauce theme doesn't play

[@sneezyguy793]

UWU

[@arcanine_enjoyer]

@@sneezyguy793 please do not procreate

[@floofyfoxxo744]

@@sneezyguy793 owo

[@anawesomepet]

@@sneezyguy793 ()\/\/()

[@jeremydixon1586]

Or did it?

[@JojoJere]

Pet bell men 9:30

[@LuizBHMG]

Autoantonym: in Portuguese there is a fun one: "relevar". It is a verb that has two meanings: to make something relevant or important. Or… to forget something, don't think about something.

[@FUMoonMoney]

Did literally nobody do the “Pet, Bell, Men” thing?...

[@rodgertaubsr7567]

Im sure some people did but their messages were covered up because people comment before watching the full video

[@unboy]

A helpful KZbin creator, after suggesting viewers comment on a specific aspect of the video, should pin as the top comment the one which best addresses that suggestion.

[@chorusTaurus]

I thought it was men, bell, pet

[@felixroux]

I thought he said it in that order. Looked like that, and knowing Michael it probably was.

[@damamoot2291]

@@felixroux I agree, I think he said pet first cuz he opened his mouth more on that one and for the others it's a 50/50 pretty much but yeah, Michael would do that.

[@seto007]

This was like Vsauce lite. It would light up my day if you made more videos like this.

[@uoweme8780]

This video taught me more about language than school ever did

[@WilliamJohnston]

So many good nuggets of info here, it’ll definitely several watches to fully appreciate. An example of an autoantonym that’s always confused me (in the UK anyway, or maybe just my family using the word wrong) is the word ‘doubt’. I hear people say ‘I doubt it’ to mean ‘unlikely’, yet I also hear them say it in an affirming response to people ‘yes, I doubt it’, meaning ‘probably so’… anyone found the same thing?

[@mostlyaditya]

DONG has turned into Vsauce1 confirmed

[@tigerkill420]

Aditya Tiwari yea vsause1 is now a KZbin red channel. I guess this is where we come for free vsause content

[@iLqkk]

good! i miss vsauce1

[@mizuro13]

Aditya Tiwari which is a good thing

[@readmore3208]

Tanuki I saw your thumbnail and I was like did I wright that?

[@mikelopez4533]

Can't tell if you're upset about that or not. I'm good with it. Do miss IMG tho.

[@TheJaredtheJaredlong]

I like how he says "today's episode" as if Vsauce has any semblence of a regular upload schedule.

[@shargo498]

He has successfully attain the power to influence reality on a cosmological level. Just by explaining stuff he can change reality to his will.

[@eduardogutierrez2920]

Im not sure if it counts bc one is a phrase but a set of visemes that always comes to mind is "colorful" and "I love you"

[@Catslug]

...soup

[@SuckMyKiss420]

sup

[@strictlyworse_mk7108]

......sp

[@yuehan6711]

spork

[@dryued6874]

I'm at Soup

[@shounenda4291]

is cereal..?

[@AMSASH]

Michel: I hope you have your noses strapped on! Me: OH GOD I FORGOT THATS WHY I’M BLEEDING!!!

[@henrylichti9871]

This comment is underappreciated

[@testserverYT]

you had the chance to put voldemort into the joke...

[@tahirasuleman]

testserver we were on the verge of greatness we were this close

[@screamsinrussian5773]

@@testserverYT who

[@cheesecheese6950]

You're hiding it with the mask!

[@creativeoj]

My favorite autoantonym is "Cleave," which has two definitions: to hold tightly to, and to spilt apart from. However the English language produced two words that look the same, and sound the same but have such drastically different meanings, I'll never know.

[@KarasuInaiga]

Yes you will, just look it up in Wiktionary!

[@Adambenhmida0000]

11:04 the way he says that outro man

[@KaylorXyai]

Michael is the only person in the world that can make me watch an 11 minute video about English grammar😍

[@alekzamonski1179]

Hahahahaha so true, never thought about that but he totally is

[@luiscarlosqg]

Grammar in general the exact same rules and names apply in Spanish and Portuguese.

[@Fintech0912]

His expression and enthusiasim is just so hard to pass by

[@richardfoster4928]

I hated studying English at school, but the older I get, the more fascinating I find the English language.

[@ironcaptain3282]

I wish he were my English teacher.....