The Messy History Of Naming The Moon

[@NameExplain]

What's your favourite thing you learnt from this video? I love the fact that Galileo made a telescope without ever seeing one. What a mad lad.

[@notquality3471]

i like cheese

[@hellomynameisjoenl]

NotNotQuality Nice.

[@lucasknox9694]

So Galileo was Boom Boom?

[@karatekickz]

Video idea: All the different names for the male organ. Follow up video: all the different names for lady bits.

[@bigmac1516]

Btw, I thought of something that doesn't have a name. The day after tomorrow.

[@12tone]

"I might name it this. Let me know if I did!" is a baller move, Patrick. I wish I'd thought of it first.

[@afk_is_ok]

Reply 3

[@mclains8362]

Reply why?

[@heathenfire]

ಠ!! I'm from a state in South India called Karnataka. We speak Kannada here and have a script of our own. ಠ is one of our letters. I'm so happy that it has become this famous. I feel happy whenever I see it used as a meme. It represents the heavy 't' sound by the way. In case anyone was wondering

[@servantofaeie1569]

I knew that. I study different writing systems. I'm glad I'm not the only one to notice this ಠ_ಠ

[@Fae_van]

That's cool!, i didn't know until now

[@deekshas3936]

Hey fellow kannadiga! Namaskara

[@Kartik-yi5ki]

tt

[@heathenfire]

@@servantofaeie1569 wow that's interesting, can you read the Kannada script?

[@FatPigInTheHouse]

Dear Past Patrick, you did not name it The Race to the Moon

[@teun4767]

It's a shame isn't it

[@nicholas3354]

Now to deliver this message to past Patrick. I think past Patrick was asking too much.

[@jasmineannabelle]

Erreniu

[@jasmineannabelle]

M

[@gracel9873]

I thought this was Memeulous video based on the thumbnail.

[@ctrlpea7058]

Grace L me too

[@ixalaz4536]

Same until I read the title 😂

[@jadew6795]

Same

[@saturnproductions1827]

Same

[@DarwinskiYT]

Same

[@fassbrause0076]

6:32 imagine the chaos if a country like Germany was called Germany on one map, Allemagne on another, Niemcy on yet another one, while being called Deutschland by the natives.

[@mng3941]

@Dominique Z You speak French? (I don't, but I'm a Hetalian…)

[@queerwizard]

You forgot Tyskland

[@vilukisu]

Finnish calls it Saksa

[@jaquelinegiarola]

Or alemanha

[@grandsome1]

@@mng3941 Yeah, French doesn't give a fuck about endonyms. Londres(London), Pékin(Beijing), Hollande, and Allemagne; the académie doesn't give a fuck.

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

There are actually quite a lot of places, including islands, lakes, creeks, hills, and mountains that don't have names. Even some places you'd expect would, like the highest point in same places, don't have names. You should research the topic of unnamed places and do a video about it!

[@obilesk]

What about "Luna"? It's the one name mentioned more than once in literature and pop culture. Not official, but rather popular.

[@obilesk]

@@di-riso Yep.

[@michaelhaywood8262]

That is from French, the moon is La Lune.

[@dingo588]

Let’s just go with Big Glowy and call it a day

[@threaruscamuwundra7417]

No, name it Small Glowy. Big Glowy is the sun

[@helloiamenergyman]

@@threaruscamuwundra7417 and then what will the stars be called? really small glowys

[@metametodo]

And there are its phases: Big Small Glowy Diminishing Glowy Hidden Glowy Growing Glowy

[@dingo588]

Guys I think we have this figured out!

[@jaquelinegiarola]

mat HJGBKakeya tiny glowies

[@Fae_van]

Imagine if Germany had different names depending on the map. Germany: *laughs in deutschland* *laughs in Allemagne* And *Njemacka* also *germania*

[@wandaperi]

Spielst du in Fortnite !

[@TheGogeta222]

Not to forget laughs in Preißn

[@cakeisyummy5755]

*Croatian intensifies*

[@david82633]

Laughs in Tyskland

[@TheGogeta222]

@@Reichsritter Bayern d'Samma mir! Jawoi!

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

We need to storm the moon to get the cheese. We can use Wallace for assistance

[@el_rey_chipinque]

Avery The Cuban-American Wallace: “There’s no use In prevaricating about the bush 😬”

[@bodie6783]

Why do I see you everywhere

[@MisterBrickFilms]

On a similar subject, something I've been quite interested in was how quickly people named the features of Pluto once we got the pictures of New Horizons in 2015!

[@dg-hughes]

From what I have read, recall it went: grapes > grape screw press > screw press used for type (books) > books show people how they had bad eyesight > eye glasses invented for reading > meanwhile fine lacework required a small magnifying glass / microscope > when two lenses were stacked that became the telescope. Old grapes started it all, we owe it all to grapes.

[@nocontextwhatever]

Where do the words "deaf" and "blind" come from? I can't puzzle out any etymological links to expected words like: eyes, ears, seeing, hearing, or a lack of them. Big fan of the channel!! 👍

[@tinderbox4690]

You didnt name it "The race to name the Moon".

[@waynemarvin5661]

Uh, I think he knows that.

[@shadepizza4217]

The vsauce video where he talks about the concept of nothing doesn't have a name

[@garret1930]

You just named it

[@MerkhVision]

@@garret1930 no they didn’t, they just referred to its content. Not the same as naming it at all

[@lisaa4446]

Some links that could be being referred to Names.: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmi3eX2lh750aMU Will we run out of names?: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGm6pIKVlL2Wf5I Misnomers: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/rp-ai5SKaKaapbc

[@tardigrade9493]

Delighted to hear that Mary Blagg finished her work and has historical credit for consolidating selenography.

[@enthusia492]

Moon < Luna Change my mind

[@pyrrhocorax]

Selene triumphs all!

[@jaquelinegiarola]

Moon < lua

[@howtubeable]

Luna means Moon.

[@Thumbsupurbum]

Luna is just the Latin word for The Moon.

[@Jordan-subj]

@@Thumbsupurbum The general idea is that almost all the other stuff in the solar system are Latin named, so the Moon should be named "Luna" and the Sun is "Sol".

[@oggaming2988]

Another great video! Keep it up

[@TitanATX]

Do a Name Explain of Caesar/Tsar/Kaiser

[@enriquegonzalez6265]

There must be Unknown fish species in deep waters that have no name yet.

[@mrsslibby6857]

Enrique Gonzalez he said things we know of. We’re still discovering new fish and plants and stuff but as soon as we discover them we give them names

[@enriquegonzalez6265]

@@mrsslibby6857 oh yes. We know there are new undiscovered species down there. We just cant name them.

[@jaquelinegiarola]

I officially declare all unnamed species of underwater fish named. They are all called bob

[@enriquegonzalez6265]

@@jaquelinegiarola 😂😂😂 ok. So I guess now everything has a name. Problem solved.

[@WaterShowsProd]

There's a current trend in palaeontology to name new fossil species after comic book and fantasy characters.

[@sampo2949]

Something that doesnt havea a name: in many cultures and languages the ring finger is known as simply ”nameless” or the “nameless” finger

[@clar1nettist204]

Even things without names have names They're called "unnamed things"

[@williamsledge3151]

You should do a video of names of famous ships like the Titanic, or the many Enterprises.

[@MC3141592653589]

There is a Language in Hawai’i that is spoken by a few people. I believe it was started in the 1840’s by Norwegian settlers. My great-grandmother said that around the 1910s, the language started to be used to keep secrets, as the Americans were a bit harsh and totalitarian. So they started to take English words out of it. Then they tried to make it sound more Northern European due to the language bans. If there was a name for this language, it is lost now.

[@mikaelmerilahti]

Ring finger doesn't have a name in finnish as it's called "nimetön" what translates to "nameless" :D

[@j3licat]

So it's name is "nameless"?

[@mikaelmerilahti]

@@j3licat Yes :D

[@j3licat]

@@mikaelmerilahti So it does have a name. U_U

[@emsnewssupkis6453]

Tolkien's Ring Lord, the Dark Lord was 'the Nameless One', he who shall not be named. BTW, Tolkien was an expert in Finnish mythology, for example, and admired it greatly.

[@invisiblelemons7633]

There is a subreddit called whatstheword for things people don't know the name of. So if you go to all the unsolved posts you can get a good idea of things that don't have names for them

[@magnus9618]

Nobody: Not a single soul: Germany: "My name is Jeff"

[@kitcutting]

I picked up this ant nearby. This ant doesn’t have a name. So I named it Anthony. DAMN IT, you’re right. It’s difficult to not name things.

[@danielclasen809]

We don't name individual grains of sand found on the beaches

[@Algeriawindows69]

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[@Algeriawindows69]

And the list goes on and on and on i can't write all of them

[@VoidHalo]

One thing I found out recently is that there's a name for that sort of fuzzy looking grey/white color you see in pitch blackness. It's called eigengrau. Which is German for own grey.

[@binaryglitch64]

I always thought the moon of Earth was named Luna... I think my mom told me that when I was very young.

[@curtis_haring]

I like the line "Let me know if you think of something that doesn't have a name!" I would love to tell you, but...well...I don't know the name of it. :)

[@dennyzavada407]

Thank you Patrick! Awesome job as always. What great research!

[@trinalgalaxy5943]

there is a town in colorado that goes by No Name, and has resisted all attempts to name it!

[@juliankristiansenrundhaug1168]

I don't think that those pictures with the faces cut out of them so you can put your own head through and take pictures have a name, I can't find one at least.

[@hedleypanama]

#Objection.. I know two things named "nameless": 1-The innominate veins, also named "brachiocephalic veins" 2-The "Sin Nombre" virus...

[@yall571]

For something with no name I know the answer The chance of my life not ending with me working in mcdonalds

[@The0Stroy]

It's called hopelessness

[@kungtyn5813]

Hopeless

[@Robin-jk6wz]

Undergraduate

[@kylehazachode]

In Star Trek and other sci-fi’s, they say “lunar surface” for moons in other solar systems. I wish there was a different name for that term. Lunar seems like it should refer to our moon not others.

[@Yordleton]

What's the name for that feeling you get when you're trying to think of nameless things, but can't think of any?

[@derekwheeler4299]

Depressed

[@hpsauce1078]

I was under the impression that the moons official name was Luna... it is just easier to say the Moon, a bit like how we don't call the queen elizabeth winsor.

[@SteveJB]

9:30 hahahaha. Love the verb you gave to astronomers and their telescopes here :)

[@sxyph7358]

thousands of colors don't have names. Actually there's an entire website where you can select a random color without one and give it a name yourself.

[@michellebetts8031]

I just got finished watching the video about Ishi, and even he who had a name, but couldn’t say it was given another name just so we could call him something!!!

[@condorboss3339]

Actually, there are thousands of lakes in northern Canada that do not have names.

[@ColapsMental]

Gow do you convert names? I.E. From John in english to Ion in romanian. From Sandor in hungarian to Alexander in english

[@Luca-vb3xo]

Bung Hole with those names in particular I think it’s just how people in different places write them and then pronounce them. Like John->Johannes->Iohannes->Ion. I and J are often interchangeable and so are U and V. Other variants of John being Jan, Jean, Juan, Ivan. Sandor is probably a ‘romanianisation’ of Xander, being short Alexander.

[@wildstarfish3786]

Either by etymological cognates or use the bible for biblical names afaik

[@servantofaeie1569]

Those Kannada eyes tho ಠ_ಠ

[@Perririri]

Kaomoji normie

[@JeremyWS]

I love the Moon. I can't wait for us to go back to it in 2024. It'll be awesome.

[@themediaangel7413]

Is there a name for those suction toys that you press down into the ground and then they pop back up after a couple seconds?

[@sorenmine7765]

"Let me know something that doesn't have a name." oh you cheeky bastard.

[@dominikheiderer9161]

Top upload! 👏🏻

[@timomastosalo]

The lunar seas are not as far off as they 1st seem. Though there's no water, the lunar 'seas' would be where the massive waters would gather, if moon had, or would get oceans of water.

[@ashcoates25]

The crew of Apollo 11 had craters named after them too near their landing site!

[@Knabberwasser_H2SO5]

Maybe we have, as humanity, for everything (we know of) a word, but not every word exists in every language.

[@nocontextwhatever]

Very cool point!

[@VivaTunita]

this is a video about nomoonclature

[@Disconnected554]

Actually the object is called Satellite. Our Satellite's name is The Moon. The other planets Satellites have their names, like Europa, Io and Phobos. But the people are just repeating the "calling the things by the brand."

[@Disconnected554]

same thing happens to the sun. The name of our star is The Sun/Sol and the system Solar System. But people keeo calling the other stars "sun".

[@EpreTroll]

dutch did it again whoo

[@Sindraug25]

How about the name of the Moon itself? As far as I know, the Latin word Luna is the only name put forth for it, but I'd like to enter Mona into the contest. It's a proper name, it still sounds kind of like moon, and it comes from the Old English word for moon, so we'd be drawing from our own language instead of taking from others.

[@edvardskalva]

In latvian we dont call other moons moons but natural satellites so our moon isnt just called the moon its called the only moon although the name for a month is the same as for the moon

[@thatonepersonyouknowtheone7781]

My pet rock doesn't have a name, I just call it whatever curse words I can think of.

[@waynemarvin5661]

Wow!!!! A comment from 1975!!!

[@soton4010]

Yet me know something lacking a name. This rock I found. I'm a gonna call it Peter... damn it

[@bigboaharthurmorgan2109]

Zaccari Jarman Lol

[@WaterShowsProd]

There ought to be an award for excellence in drollness.

[@josmeijers2818]

another awesome video m8.

[@Quintinohthree]

Patrick, yoir mention of the committe for establishing names for lunar features reminded me of the various IUPAC committees for establishing nomenclature for chemical substances and the like. I think that could actually make for an interesting video, maybe compile interesting names, delve into how different compounds can be named in different ways and so on.

[@JeremySmith-ve2ur]

Thanks, from now on I shall call our moon Simon.

[@snaaail]

I appreciate the Kerbal Space Program music

[@777gpower]

For nameless things here on earth many river islands and second or third order islands go without names or are simply assigned a number which doesn’t seem like it should count

[@frankwu4747]

6:35 German is written differently in different languages. So this disparity exists today. Also South Americans consider all of North and South Americas as one large supercontinent, America.

[@lingoteen]

6:30 French maps: Allemange German maps: Doicheland English maps: Germany Litetrally the best country for references lol

[@BMoney8600]

I know I want to go to Germany one day

[@ericlanglois9194]

Everything has a name? I think you haven't looked at many of the lakes in the northern half of Canada.

[@201950201950]

This is one of my favorite videos

[@swifteh1780]

Yeah I know. Imagine how confusing it would be if Deutschland was called Bob, Germany was called Jeff, and Allemagne was called Harry.

[@thuabb9717]

Please make a video on why we dont have a word for „not thirsty“. I always asked myself that

[@Knabberwasser_H2SO5]

In German there is a word, but no one uses it. It's "sitt" as opposed to "satt", which means "fed up". That made me wonder, do you have in English a word, you use for "satt"?

[@wildstarfish3786]

​@@Knabberwasser_H2SO5fed up? just because it's spelled with a space doesn't mean it's two separate words at least as far as definitions are concerned

[@KSPAtlas]

I hear ksp music in the background

[@Kartik-yi5ki]

Something the doesn't have a name? Of course I know one.. It's a ...a... What is its name?

[@r0bw00d]

The moon _does_ have a name: Luna.

[@epg96]

Please make videos about this Why do Iranians name Poland as Lekhistan? Why do North Germanic peoples called Germany as Tyskland?

[@daisybrain9423]

Tyskland = Deutschland, they're cognates.

[@supremelordoftheauspicious2928]

Evan Pangaribuan The names for Eastern European countries entered the Persian language through Ottoman Turkish. So we have to look for the root in the Turkish language. Appearantly it comes from an eastern Slavic word for poles: Lyach. Which became Lechia in the Polish language and was rendered as Lehestan by the Ottomans and the term entered various middle eastern languages like Armenian, Kurdish, Persian and etc... through ottoman influence.

[@trendyboy1539]

Hungary is called Majaristan in Hindi,मजारिस्तान

[@frankbruder3097]

@@trendyboy1539 , sounds very straightforward as a translation of Magyarórszág. But how did it get to be called "Hungary" and variations of that in western Europe?

[@emsnewssupkis6453]

My German side of the family lives to this day in Tyrol which straddles the area between Bavaria Germany and Austria, deep in the mountains (they also make musical instruments there).

[@Chrischi3TutorialLPs]

To think that we landed on the moon is a reality that my mind refuses to fully capture and embrace. And yet, my knowledge of the universe tells me that such is indeed possible, and i know not to trust my mind for it can decieve me.

[@pauljmorton]

Have you ever come to think of the fact that the brain is the only thing we know to have named itself.

[@wildstarfish3786]

Most people who changed their names and also humans in general also count though

[@Diaramamond]

That was a really weird example at 6:23 because...that's exactly how it is...even with the paritcular country you picked out as an example...

[@fredred8371]

What a good suggestion. They should be named patron saints of the Moon... Not just of it's features. This was a great video man!

[@checkmyplaylist6879]

Why is Memeulous on the moon?

[@NameExplain]

Have I accidentally gone a done a reference to something? I thought it was just one of those Japanese emoticons.

[@lemonder7116]

@@NameExplain there's this KZbinr named memeulous and that's his logo for his channel lol

[@deekshas3936]

They're not Japanese emoticons!!!! The letters belong to the Kannada script. ಠ_ಠ

[@servantofaeie1569]

Name Explain its Kannada not Japanese

[@kaloarepo288]

There is a fascinating 1998 album by Welsh composer Carl Jenkins called "Imagined Oceans" which consists of the names in Latin of some of the seas or "maria' of the moon.

[@theshaggiest303]

What is this mysterious field of "Astromony" you keep mentioning?

[@komiball]

I call Earth's moon "Luna"

[@LARAUJO_0]

I like the use of Kerbal Space Program music here

[@LARAUJO_0]

Apparently it's actually a Kevin Macleod. My life is a misconception

[@valentinbiehrer9704]

that thing that happens where two people are walking toward each other and they both try to avoid the other so that they block each other, before repeating that. That doesn't have a name, I think.

[@TheCsel]

What about features on the dark side of the moon?

[@Perririri]

#PinkFloyd *has entered the chat*

[@KendrickMan]

How did mushrooms get their names? Fly agaric, shiitake, portobello, oyster, chanterelle, honeys, hen of the woods, chicken of the woods, lobster mushrooms, enoki, cep, puffballs, lion's manes, hedgehogs, milk caps, artist's conks, wax caps, wine caps, gypsy mushrooms, deer mushrooms, earth tongues, morels, etc. Something tells me Patrick would love myco-nomenclature.

[@Oldiesyoungies]

what do you call the filter and used coffee grounds after you brew a pot? throw away the "used coffee grounds?" i think there should be a name for that

[@kabochaVA]

3:19 No, you did not... But I guess you already know that! ^^

[@danadnauseam]

One of the far side maria is called Mare Muscovium. When that name was accepted by the IAU, t was reported that someone commented that Moscow was a state of mind.

[@cameronramsay118]

"Please stop calling me names", my dad (2016)

[@stevierv22]

This Japanese symbol 々which just repeats the preceding kanji originally doesn't have a meaning or sound so even though it looks like a kanji it's not considered one. Usually people call it onaji or noma but it really doesn't have a name.

[@PabloEmanuel96]

I need help A teacher told us that "the end" at the end of movies meand "theatre end" like the end of the play or sm I don't think it's true but I couldn't find any prove online

[@azhadial7396]

6:33 Wow, I did not know some people called it "Bob" or "Harry". I have always heard people say "Jeff" in my home country of Jonathan when talking about this country...

[@lawikipa]

3:18 No.

[@konq9779]

That that moment whe you hear hissing right behind you and total shock fills your body so you turn around and see creeper and all you can say is either "Creeper Aw Man" or scream. That moment doesn't have it's own name and should have one.

[@therongjr]

"A big issue for this committee was DEATH," he said, so nonchalantly. 😂

[@ethanhayes7038]

They actually are seas in a loose sense. Just not ones made out of water. At some point in the moon's past molten lava flowed in those spots after some major collision. Now I suppose any solid ground could be described as cooled lava seas, but because the mare are relatively smooth and dark compared to the surrounding areas I think we can make the distinction.

[@storyspren]

There's a TIFO video out there about people without names and how some governments handle them.