This had to be filmed against a home green-screen in my tiny 90-square-foot flat, so apologies if the picture and sound aren't quite as sharp as usual. And yes, I regret not getting a haircut before lockdown.
@admiral3849
4 жыл бұрын
wait a minute
@theoweiss2883
4 жыл бұрын
The compression is killing us!
@Rahat-tw8vg
4 жыл бұрын
4 days ago
@BobSilverstein13
4 жыл бұрын
The video was uploaded and left as private until it was officially released today, that's how the comment was posted before we saw the video, stop asking.
@mobiljetoil
4 жыл бұрын
Walter
@oliverwilson11
4 жыл бұрын
"Bloody" will be a slur that robots use to insult biological humans
@yondaime500
4 жыл бұрын
In Alita: Battle Angel, the cyborgs use the term "meat boy". I guess they can't use "bloody" since they also have blood.
@joshuahadams
4 жыл бұрын
yondaime500 Taking notes from HK-47 I guess
@Mic_Glow
4 жыл бұрын
I think the correct term is meat sack. Or "organic". Which already sounds a bit iffy.
@heinzke8512
4 жыл бұрын
Meatbag
@rute_awakening
4 жыл бұрын
SQUISHIES
@theoriginalshew
4 жыл бұрын
Tom calls them "expletive infixations", I call them" sentence enhancers"
@Ant42Lee
3 жыл бұрын
How the *dolphin noise* are ya?
@WiiUniverse
3 жыл бұрын
pfp checks out
@mistermoee
3 жыл бұрын
Makes anything better, or worse.
@ikilledaman
3 жыл бұрын
Haha spongebob
@andersenzheng
3 жыл бұрын
i call them 'stralia
@bandie9101
4 жыл бұрын
"you were never taught, but you know how it works" - basically all native tongue grammar
@selohcin
4 жыл бұрын
KZitem comments prove your idea wrong on a daily basis. A shocking number of native English speakers demonstrate very limited ability to articulate their thoughts with anything approaching linguistically correct grammar.
@HassanSelim0
4 жыл бұрын
@@selohcin and on the other hand, a lot of non-native english speakers are able to understand these kinds of stuff without studying them, simply because of how common english is in online media/entertainment.
@BonaparteBardithion
4 жыл бұрын
@@selohcin I think the point here is that scholastically correct grammar is not the same as linguistically correct. ESL students only learn this stuff through exposure, so some pick it up while others don't. Native speakers always pick it up even if they never use it because it's ingrained in every day linguistics. Edit: Arguably, even incorrect internet speak is linguistically correct if a significant number of their peers understands them. Chatspeak is legitimate slang.
@santiagos.3673
4 жыл бұрын
now make a video proving it
@markmandel6738
4 жыл бұрын
@@selohcin Nicholes, you're confusing prescriptive grammar ("This is how you should say it") with descriptive grammar ("This [and maybe also this and this'] is how people say it.) Prescriptive grammar is a social practice for formal language, TAUGHT by teachers because it's artificial. Descriptive grammar is a science, applied by linguists to discover what's actually going on in a language, what native speakers LEARN starting in infancy without ever being taught.
@vartin3276
4 жыл бұрын
"Isacc God-damn Newton" sounds like something someone would say whenever physics inconveniences them
@BlueMiaou
3 жыл бұрын
"Isaac god-damn Newton!" -anime girls, probably
@ijustdocomments6777
3 жыл бұрын
If Walter White had been a physics teacher, instead of a chemistry teacher.
@GumSkyloard
2 жыл бұрын
@@BlueMiaou Nichijou in a nutshell.
@londonalicante
2 жыл бұрын
Like Samuel L Jackson on a plane thats about to crash.
@hwgoblin
Жыл бұрын
Or they're pissed at Newton for making calculus a thing... we've all been there.
@FISHSTlCKS
4 жыл бұрын
Tom: I don’t wanna swear just incase your parents don’t like swearing Also Tom: hey kids go try swearing yourself!
@Corbald
4 жыл бұрын
Shifting the blame is A-O-Friggin'-K in my book!
@locabal8354
4 жыл бұрын
swearing is a fan-fu'king-tastic expression.
@locabal8354
4 жыл бұрын
swearing is a fan-fu'king-tastic expression.
@Colopty
4 жыл бұрын
And remember to do it as loudly as you can. If your parents complain, say it's educational.
@brady50429
4 жыл бұрын
What about the n word that's my favorite
@Nadia1989
4 жыл бұрын
Tom Scott: "Raining!" * Looks at the window. * Yep, raining. Right now.
@Sethrain
4 жыл бұрын
Britain.
@MadeinHell2
4 жыл бұрын
Why was that so damn funny?!
@W4LL37SK83R
4 жыл бұрын
@@Sethrain Also most of the eastern US right now.
@einsteinyh
4 жыл бұрын
Also bogota 🤷🏻♂️
@danielsjohnson
4 жыл бұрын
I think that's how the Japanese language works.
@lazaraleksandrov2808
3 жыл бұрын
"Fortunately, I am British" is the single most Tom Scott sentence ever, apart from "[...]you'd have to charter a plane. So I chartered a plane!"
@maythe15015
3 жыл бұрын
Wait what video is that from
@lazaraleksandrov2808
3 жыл бұрын
@@maythe15015 the one about the most northern bit of Iceland
@ИринаХанжиева-п9д
3 жыл бұрын
From another video about the Eiffel tower or something: "To make matters more complicated, I am British."
@pkobalt
3 жыл бұрын
"So I booked a flight to Tokyo"
@christiancoyle8481
3 жыл бұрын
Don’t forget “oh no, I am a missile!” From the one about GPSs
@darleschickens7106
4 жыл бұрын
I misread the title as “expletive inflation” and went into the video expecting something about an increase in the use of swearing making the effect weaker.
@geli95us
4 жыл бұрын
Huh, that made me think, having taboo words is actually a good thing because without them you wouldn't have strong enough words for some situations, it's like you're saving them for later
@Sandwichr
4 жыл бұрын
@@geli95us Sometimes it works the other way around, when someone isn't swearing you know it's serious
@xMaverickFPS
4 жыл бұрын
now wait one bloody moment. bloody cursing doesn't bloody make it any bloody less powerful. /s
@hiawog_
4 жыл бұрын
Ok boomer
@monochrome_soft9472
4 жыл бұрын
oh ngl i thought that was going somewhere else entirely when i saw the word "inflation"
@akimel4028
4 жыл бұрын
2:09 "It just means we don't have to point out the window and go: RAINING!!!" Bloody brilliant.
@Victorsandergamer
3 жыл бұрын
brilli-bloody-illiant*
@MichaelDarrow-tr1mn
4 ай бұрын
@@Victorsandergamerthat's not how it works. The infix has to be before the stressed syllable.
@SmolBloof
4 жыл бұрын
Tom Scott exclaiming "raining!" - this truly is the best timeline
@yuvvrajkperson
4 жыл бұрын
Somebody make a gif
@klaxoncow
4 жыл бұрын
If this is the best timeline, then I shudder to think what the others are like.
@stardustreverie6880
4 жыл бұрын
I agree this is the best world line
@SodomySnake
4 жыл бұрын
We have achieved Stein's Gate.
@mrzap2875
4 жыл бұрын
2:09
@oafkad
4 жыл бұрын
I kinda want to setup my alarm to just be Tom excitedly shouting "Raining!"
@hpekristiansen
4 жыл бұрын
It is not an alarm as such, but you could download his weather app and turn up the volume.
@mousermind
4 жыл бұрын
*set up _Setup_ is a noun, mate.
@clumbus894
4 жыл бұрын
My favorite about weird rules you just "know" is with denonyms. There are a lot of different endings for denonyms, like -ese, -an, -ite, but for some reason if you give an English speaker a name of a country or of a city, or even of a made-up one, you'll usually get one answer.
@sydssolanumsamsys
2 жыл бұрын
i hadnt thought of those
@captaincapitalism9535
Жыл бұрын
I think -ite is woefully underutilized as a demonym, same with -ine
@firstnext5482
Жыл бұрын
I always thought that Greece/Greek was weird in that way. If you didn't know Greece became Greek I don't think that'd be your intuitive guess at the denonym. Also, Vatican City just doesn't get one because it's agreed no one is native to there. Vaticanite would be my go to. Also also I live near Phoenix, Arizona and that becoming Phoenician always felt wrong. It's not wrong but it feels wrong.
@conlon4332
Жыл бұрын
Or like "ish" like English. It's interesting how in German they almost always end in "sch".
@junofall
Жыл бұрын
Gets difficult with some words, like how the denonym of Jupiter is Jovian.
@Goodstegosaurus
4 жыл бұрын
Now I feel there should be an unlisted video of Tom just saying every English swearword.
@LemurMaster
4 жыл бұрын
I think anyone who is called a "national treasure" should have to record such a video.
@empath69
4 жыл бұрын
get him to guest on someone else's account who doesn't monetize and let him go ham B)
@theindisposable5525
4 жыл бұрын
@@empath69 I volunteer as tribute!
@hamzachetoui
4 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: There are also what linguists call "a circumfix", a type of infixiation that surrounds a stem from both sides.
@dominicmagtibay7462
3 жыл бұрын
Yep, in Tagalog we have a lot of those. For example: "tapak" which means "step" (with a foot) can become "natatapakan" which then means '"being stepped on."
@mcfarofinha134
3 жыл бұрын
@@dominicmagtibay7462 kinky
@moondust2365
3 жыл бұрын
@@dominicmagtibay7462 True. Although the translation is a bit wrong. Natapakan - "[accidentally] stepped on" Tinapakan - "[intentionally] stepped on" Natatapakan - "able to be stepped on"/"being stepped on [accidentally]" Tinatapakan - "stepping on"/"being stepped on [intentionally]" Matatapakan - "will step on"/"are about to step on" Tatapakan - "will [intentionally] step on"/"will be [intentionally] stepped on"
@oz_jones
2 жыл бұрын
@@mcfarofinha134 pervert
@dig8634
2 жыл бұрын
@@oz_jones Include me in that list pls
@pedroseba8753
4 жыл бұрын
"My apologies, fellas, im going to have to swear: B L I M E Y"
@Septimus_ii
4 жыл бұрын
I think blimey is one of the swear words which isn't allowed. Absoblimeylutely doesn't work
@javiercs006
4 жыл бұрын
@@Septimus_ii Actually it does etymologically. Blimey is derivative of "God blind me," a theo-imprecative.
@MinecraftAnd9646
4 жыл бұрын
@@Septimus_ii abso-blimey-lutely won't work. but abso-bliming-lutely would. heh.
@sirlyon3333
4 жыл бұрын
@@Septimus_ii you abso-blimmy-lutely can say this
@AalbertTorsius
4 жыл бұрын
@@javiercs006 TIL, thanks.
@minekrafines
4 жыл бұрын
As an Spanish viewer, it never ceases to amaze me how all languages have this untaught rules that we all know, even if it is not your native language.
@sturmklinge9642
4 жыл бұрын
Oh yes, same. I'm not an English native speaker either and I definitely wasn't taught this in school, but I still use it the way Tom describes it in the video.
@keith6706
4 жыл бұрын
What's funny is that people learning to speak a second (or third, or whatever) language are often taught some of those untaught rules so they can speak more like a native. One of my favourite examples is that I saw some lessons teaching English as a second language where it helpfully pointed out that when multiple adjectives are attached to one noun they have to be in a specific order based on the category of adjective to sound correct, which native English speakers are, generally, never actually taught. "The big white Victorian mansion" versus "the Victorian white big mansion". The latter just sound _wrong_.
@Deythlord2112
4 жыл бұрын
@@keith6706 i think tom mentions the specific order in one of his language file videos
@flumpyhumpy
4 жыл бұрын
what's being Spanish got to do with that?
@abijo5052
4 жыл бұрын
@@keith6706 I love watching English language teaching videos for just this reason, even though I'm a native English speaker
@halfaworldaway
4 жыл бұрын
This feels like a video from 2010. It's oddly cosy and nostalgic.
@aeriumsoft
4 жыл бұрын
yay 2010
@Luigiman-rc9fi
4 жыл бұрын
Back when people CHOSE to film at home and didn't HAVE to film at home.
@dougthedonkey1805
4 жыл бұрын
Tom does look very young
@terminaldeity
4 жыл бұрын
Funny enough, that's the year I learned about infixes. I was at university, majoring in linguistics, at the time.
@nob2243
4 жыл бұрын
English: _sticking a curse word inside an adjective_ Meanwhile, me in Polish: Meh, that's nothin'! Have you ever heard about sticking a curse word into *another* curse word... _zaje-kurwa-biście!_ (Well, as a general rule, Slavic languages are more expressive when it comes to swearing, soo...)
@NoTraceOfSense
3 жыл бұрын
@@saurosha I only know cyka blyat; how deep does the rabbit hole go?
@minecraftroksiak3306
3 жыл бұрын
Bro, that's my friends in a nutshell
@ntpgmr
3 жыл бұрын
How about slotting the classic fornicative into the classic theo-imprecative?
@starylize
3 жыл бұрын
this is so interesting!
@alexp6013
3 жыл бұрын
I think that in english you can do that too : god _f*cking_ damnit. I personnally use it about as often as I stub my toe.
@ButterfieldEric
4 жыл бұрын
“Unbefuckinglievalbe” -Lewis Black
@SGresponse
4 жыл бұрын
He's a comedian. You laughed because the punchline was surprising. It was surprising because it eschewed the standard way of using infixes. Sorry, but that is a great example of why Tom is actually right. It is also an extremely good example of how an exception can prove a general rule.
@stensoft
4 жыл бұрын
This is actually correct, unbelievable is pronounced /ʌnbəˈliːvəbl/ so the stressed syllable is lie and the infix should go before it.
@41-Haiku
4 жыл бұрын
I love that it works tho
@pattheplanter
4 жыл бұрын
@@SGresponse The word prove has a minor meaning of test. The original quotation meant "The exception tests the rule". Which is logical, if your rule does not include exceptional cases, it is not a rule.
@NoNo-nz7iq
4 жыл бұрын
To me it also sounds right if you put the infix between the prefix and the start of the word
@80greaty
4 жыл бұрын
Look at that description, can we appreciate how much Tom Scott researches for his videos? 😮
@mhello276
4 жыл бұрын
It is truly incredible and makes it so much more enjoyable to watch tom’s videos. It’s abso -shreking- lutely amazing
@ChrisbyFlanker
4 жыл бұрын
100% this. His content is on par with most disertations and university. It gives him so much credibility and it is also why I still follow his content.
@neelparmar6690
4 жыл бұрын
I also appreciate that the video seemed to be just one take
@mehmetaslan9551
4 жыл бұрын
Kurzgesagt enters...
@insanitycubed8832
4 жыл бұрын
Tom: There are some words that I cannot use in this video. Also Tom: Isaac god-damn Newton
@MartinOmander
4 жыл бұрын
I like how Tom includes citations to the linguists, so anyone who wants to know more can follow up. Keep up the good work!
@paxcaeli
4 жыл бұрын
"I want to keep my videos friendly for everyone, no matter how conservative your {parent's } views on language are [...] try these, out loud, to help you coope with the state of the world"
@Not_Lilly42
4 жыл бұрын
Not only try them scream them, at a time when you're home with your parents
@PeterNjeim
4 жыл бұрын
It's funny because conservatives are now the free speech ones and liberals want hate speech laws that impede freedom of speech. How times have changed.
@paxcaeli
4 жыл бұрын
Peter Njeim there are other places to talk about politics, or discuss with others your wrong ideas. This isn’t one of them, we’re talking about language here, and I don’t think anybody wants to see another thread where people shout “liberal/conservative bad”
@paxcaeli
4 жыл бұрын
Lilly King it takes all the fun away though
@AugustusBohn0
4 жыл бұрын
@@paxcaeli "wrong ideas" couldn't help yourself even when you were trying to take the high road, could you?
@Parageist99
4 жыл бұрын
"so we dont have to point out the window and go RAINING!" really cracked me up hehe
@GumSkyloard
4 жыл бұрын
Tom is a gem.
@jeremyamon24
4 жыл бұрын
In the Filipino language, the way verbs change tenses are dependent on how they are affixed or infixed. "kain" which means "to eat" have conjugations "kumain", "kumakain", and "kakainin" which means "have ate", "eat" or "eating", and "will eat", respectively. The "um" in kumain and kumakain is a regularly used infix among others to use within verbs. Notice how the affixes used are just repetitions of certain syllables within the root word. This rule, informaly, can be applied to almost any word and it doesn't have to be a verb. "Sumasamsung" means a person is using a Samsung brand. It also doesn't have to be a Filipino word. "Pinost" means "have posted", with "in" as the infix. "Grumaduate" means "have graduated". Just a little fun fact for people who are wondering what other uses infixes have.
@MinnesotaExpat
4 жыл бұрын
Esperanto does the same thing with not just verbs, but adjectives and adverbs as well. It's not bloody likely I'll find anyone else to speak it with, but the grammar itself is fun.
@Pluvillion
4 жыл бұрын
To be fair, we have words in our language that doesn't have a proper Filipino term. We're stuck to using whatever word that was instead. Sometimes spelled the way how we pronounce it "cake" = "keyk", or sometimes just the words it. Fancy seeing you here, too.
@helloakokuhol
4 жыл бұрын
Inflixes are a common thing among Austronesian and Austroasiatic languages (Khmer was an example on the video) so Filipino isn't any different in this sense. What amuses me is our use of inflixes on English words, but that still doesn't set us apart from any other bilingual person mixing their vocabularies. 😆
@minhaj_khan
4 жыл бұрын
I feel edumacated
@Liggliluff
3 жыл бұрын
@@MinnesotaExpat > _"Esperanto does"_ Easy example, the infix -in- meaning feminine. kato = cat or male cat katino = female cat katiĉo = male cat katido = kitten kateto = small cat Does that mean you can say katidino/katinido for female kitten?
@kshadehyaena
4 жыл бұрын
2:10 "Raining!" - perfect Matt Gray impersonation
@MetaBloxer
3 жыл бұрын
I...
@lundylow
11 ай бұрын
I heard an accidental Homer Simpson impression
@joeblakesley
4 жыл бұрын
Technically, these AREN'T usually infixes, or even morphemes, but examples of tmesis. Although, since I disagree with that nuanced distinction, that didn't stop me from giving "Abso-f****ing-lutely!" (sans asterisks) as my answer to "Does the English language have any infixes?" on my final linguistics exam paper before I dropped out.
@incription
4 жыл бұрын
Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley did you get marks for it?
@sjoerd809
4 жыл бұрын
How did that work out for you?
@harrytsang1501
4 жыл бұрын
Also great to teach non native speakers in identifying stressed syllables
@joeblakesley
4 жыл бұрын
I never asked. But I really doubt it. I gather that whoever the professor was who wrote the paper was looking for the answer, "No", in their infinite and unquestionable wisdom.
@joeblakesley
4 жыл бұрын
To be clear, I didn't censor it with asterisks in my answer.
@Emh19
4 жыл бұрын
I love that I learnt this in my Linguistics class in HS, having a whole class of 17 year olds being allowed to swear over and over again with the teacher is always fun.
@infinite1der
4 жыл бұрын
Using it as almost every word in a sentence: "Eff the effing effers."
@BonaparteBardithion
4 жыл бұрын
Interestingly, that follows similar rules in that only certain words can be used that way and you only learn them through exposure. The pool is very small. It requires the expletive to be accepted as a verb, adjective and noun. F*k is the only example off the top of my head that fits all those criteria. You might get similar results with "that bi*in' bi*h was bi*ing at me", but that's highly unlikely. You won't get the same result with "damn the damnable damned". That just sounds like an overzealous and redundant preacher.
Tim Minchin does a very good job of this singing about the fomer Pope.
@nerdporkspass1m1st78
4 жыл бұрын
Whenever a fight breaks out in a neighborhood, a linguist goes out with a pen and clipboard and is ready for the hunt.
@KyrstOak
4 жыл бұрын
What are you talking about??
@DanaTheLateBloomingFruitLoop
4 жыл бұрын
@@KyrstOak They wanna catch the best cursewords the people can come up with.
@vaclav_fejt
4 жыл бұрын
Well, how else does Pygmalion/My Fair Lady start? :-D
@PeskiePete
4 жыл бұрын
Would that be a cunning linguist?
@vaclav_fejt
4 жыл бұрын
@@PeskiePete brushing up on a little Danish.
@fimbles1015
4 жыл бұрын
Issac god damn newton! About time someone said it! Coming round here getting his physics everywhere...
@katie-ampersand
4 жыл бұрын
2:29 My mind already expected fanfuckingtastic
@em00k
4 жыл бұрын
absofuckinglutely.
@mattymoowhite
4 жыл бұрын
Or Scunthorpe...
@R2Cv1
4 жыл бұрын
@@mattymoowhite fan-scunthorpe-tastic?
@brianjones8899
4 жыл бұрын
@@R2Cv1 Outfuckingstanding
@Goldap1000
4 жыл бұрын
I love my language, it lets you put swear words in middle on of other swear words.
@professorracc.9780
4 жыл бұрын
My favourite example of this has to be "Jesus tap-dancing Christ"
@EricEisenhart
4 жыл бұрын
Nillie except it flips where the religion is...
@baylinkdashyt
4 жыл бұрын
My favorite - hoisted from a spider Robinson novel - is Jesus T Murphy and His Traveling Flea Circus, but unfortunately it's not actually an example of expletive infixation. It's also difficult to spin the joke on His, since it's in title case to begin with.
@mitch_tmv
4 жыл бұрын
This currently has 666 likes so I'm commenting instead of liking
@bentoth9555
4 жыл бұрын
Jesus was quite the dancer, but no tap-dancing that I can remember. At least according to that Andrew Lloyd Webber documentary.
@KattReen
4 жыл бұрын
I like Jesus cartwheeling Christ
@scipio5916
4 жыл бұрын
Imagine watching an action movie and the main character says to the villain “I am going to to cause to die you”
@JonesNate
4 жыл бұрын
There needs to be a pause and a point. "I am going to cause to die..." * Points * "You."
@firstnamelastname3182
4 жыл бұрын
Might I refer you to Backstroke of the West? You shan't regret it.
@ZunarZulfiqar
4 жыл бұрын
@@firstnamelastname3182 Shan't..... Good word.
@AlmightyGammonsayssuckyourmum
4 жыл бұрын
Zunar Zulfiqar you never heard of shan't before???
@KoyasuNoBara
4 жыл бұрын
"People die when they are caused to die"
@jaykay4137
4 жыл бұрын
don't let this video distract you from the fact that "undisableable" is a perfectly valid word made entirely of prefixes and suffixes
@lyreparadox
4 жыл бұрын
I thought in this instance "able" was being used both as a base word and a suffix? able > disable > disableable > undisableable (my spell check is disputing that last one)
@oliverwilson11
4 жыл бұрын
Only the second "able" is actually being used as a suffix, you can tell from the pronunciation
@ericcao4829
4 жыл бұрын
or disestablishmentarianism
@giin97
4 жыл бұрын
@@ericcao4829 I thoroughly enjoy this word :P
@giusepperoberto2343
4 жыл бұрын
I disagree with disestablishmentarianism. I'm an antidisestablishmentarian.
@konohh
4 жыл бұрын
I don't know why, but somehow the expression "solar freakin' roadways" comes to my mind...
@fannyslam
4 жыл бұрын
SOLAR. FREAKING. ROADWAYS.
@empath69
4 жыл бұрын
it's the same principle really, just for inserting the expletive into a phrase instead of into a word; not an infixation, but...well, I don't know enough linguistics, but the result is the same; increased emphasis.
@isweartofuckinggod
4 жыл бұрын
. 💥 SOLAR 💥 💥 FREAKIN' 💥 💥 ROADWAYS 💥
@andjustenjoytheshow
4 жыл бұрын
Just wanted to share: In the Filipino language, there's called "gitlapi" that means putting an affix between a root word Example: kumain (ate) The root word is kain (eat in English), and -um-. Interestingly, the language has also some words that the prefix, infix, and suffix are both present. It's called "laguhan". Example: pinagsumikapan The root word is sikap (diligence), the affixes are pinag-, -um-, and -an.
@moondust2365
4 жыл бұрын
True. It's something we learn in Filipino class. It's interesting how English technically has it as well, but most of us only ever end up learning about "infixes" online or in books.
@beibagisooii
4 жыл бұрын
That _is_ an infix. We also have circumfixes (kabilaan), e.g., "pag- -an" (pagsaluhan) and "ka - -an" (kagitingan)
@nanamacapagal8342
4 жыл бұрын
@@beibagisooii Does English have circumfixes? Parang Tagalog lang ang alam kong may circumfix eh
@andjustenjoytheshow
4 жыл бұрын
@@beibagisooii actually, the Filipino language has some words that have circumfix and infix, all in one. That's called laguhan. Example: pinagsumikapan, sansinukuban
@beibagisooii
4 жыл бұрын
@@nanamacapagal8342 apparently there are. "Em-en" and "en-en", like embolden and enlighten
@meej33
4 жыл бұрын
One of the more fascinating things in linguistics are those rules that cannot be defined explicitly but native speakers use unerringly.
@llearch
4 жыл бұрын
There's that entry about adjective order and "great green dragons" and why they can't exist, and at least three people I've seen have seen that and explained that they'd been teaching teaching ESL, had been asked about it, and explained their response as "I bluescreened"; adjective order must be opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose noun. And Everyone gets it right, and just about nobody is ever taught it, or can even list the sequence. Truly amazing.
@alextaylor6773
4 жыл бұрын
llearch n'n'daCorna I’m too high to make sense of that hyphenated phrase
@FixTheWi-Fi
4 жыл бұрын
@@llearch Is Great an opinion, size, or age in this case?
@barbarat5729
4 жыл бұрын
@@alextaylor6773 I'm not high (except for caffeine) and I'm lost.
@JonesNate
4 жыл бұрын
"explicitly"
@estiaanj8425
4 жыл бұрын
When I learnt english I never learnt to order that adjectives explicitly, I never read about it or anything, some orders just feel right and others don't. I must have learnt what feels right and what doesn't from somewhere, but it was never an intentional effort on my part, or on the part of someone teaching me. Also, english is the second language I learnt but now my primary language, so that's how I know for sure, I can literally remember learning it. I remember a time when I didn't even know about the concept of adjective order, but I instinctively knew what order to put adjectives in. So fascinating that we can learn language like this.
@kjamison5951
4 жыл бұрын
Along with “Isaac ‘god-damn’ Newton”, “Tom ‘abso-fahking-lutely awesome’ Scott”.
@meetaverma8372
4 жыл бұрын
Agreed
@raphaelnikolaus0486
4 жыл бұрын
I wanna have a 10-min-loop of Tom's "Raining!"-impression - so love it :D XD
@chevronlily
4 жыл бұрын
I genuinely laughed out loud at that
@raphaelnikolaus0486
4 жыл бұрын
@@chevronlily Me too, actually. And I skipped back *several* times! XD
@Opus313
4 жыл бұрын
There are not enough words to describe how much I enjoy Tom's videos. Tom: Let's talk about prefixes and suffixes and infixes!
@winterstefan1337
3 жыл бұрын
I cannot emphesize enough how bloody awesome Toms videos are. Not only am I able to switch from trivia like the tales of a British spacesuite right to the details of modern language rules. I also literally see the work and effort that's put into every single video. Having nice animations, great visual story telling and an absolutely high standard speaking of quotation and referencing the important sources. Even having to film the current video in a small flat and having to deal with the disadvantages of lockdown and social distancing, the video is great! Shoutout to Tom, Molly, Gretchen, William and Graham!
@wmradar
4 жыл бұрын
"Or Scunthorpe." -Jo Brand, on QI when this topic came up.
@emu7344
4 жыл бұрын
shorpe
@electroflame6188
4 жыл бұрын
Scun-foching-thorpe Or should I say Scunt-foching-horpe
@tetsusiega2
4 жыл бұрын
Penistone
@wmradar
4 жыл бұрын
@Almost blank Series A, episode Atoms, timestamp 13:15. (the timestamp of the QI episode, not the video we're commenting on, just for the two of you who were confused by the blue text)
@jmunt
4 жыл бұрын
The most satisfying infix is when that Halo announcer says “un-friggin-believable!”
@klausolekristiansen2960
4 жыл бұрын
Does that sound right to you? The infix comes before an unstressed syllable her. And though I am not a native speaker of English, it sounds odd to me. I would expect unbe-freakin-lievable,
@camjedi99
4 жыл бұрын
@@klausolekristiansen2960 well, traditionally when we pronounce unbelievable, we'd stress the beginning of believe, so it would be unBElievable, so when you interrupt it in un-freakin-believable, it still sounds okay. Moreover, you'd be interrupting the word believe in unbe-freakin-lievable, which doesn't sound horrible, but since it's interrupting the word, it's doesn't flow as well.
@evanfunk7335
4 жыл бұрын
@@klausolekristiansen2960 I think that typically we would do what you said, but in that instance, its between the prefix un- and suffix -believable so a lot of people put the curse word in the middle there
@tavianarmstrong974
4 жыл бұрын
*friggin
@edwardschenk5591
4 жыл бұрын
@@klausolekristiansen2960 As a native English speaker, no one ever says it like that. Un-f**ing-believable is very commonly used
@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
4 жыл бұрын
Tom: Pause the video and try them out Me: Okay Me: F- (dad walks by) Father, can you help me find the remot?
@meetaverma8372
4 жыл бұрын
You've taught me how to gain subscribers, by being everywhere
@tiramitsuko
3 жыл бұрын
why am I not surprised that you're here
@locomotivefaox
4 жыл бұрын
Whenever it rains in one of your future videos, please say “RAINING”.
@JonesNate
4 жыл бұрын
Twokinds?
@littlefinn9651
4 жыл бұрын
locomotivefaox furry?
@katarjin
4 жыл бұрын
@@JonesNate Is that still a thing? been many a year since I read that.
@larsswig912
3 жыл бұрын
3:31 "because I'm Arch Angel f**king Gabriel!!"
@lucasgildone2650
4 жыл бұрын
I just don’t understand why people feel the need to dislike videos like this literally one minute and someone’s already disliked
@Alex090
4 жыл бұрын
Bots?
@PilotPlater
4 жыл бұрын
tom said mean things about robutts
@dbackscott
4 жыл бұрын
L Gildone I like to think someone intended to hit the “like” button, but missed. It’s happened to me before.
@florianw116
4 жыл бұрын
Because curse words are evil
@topdog8035
4 жыл бұрын
because it's a boring and unnecessarily complicated topic for both learners and speakers. Some of his other videos are actually interesting, but this one is just diving into something that most people today just use as colloquialism and try to explain it, which is useless.
@KWolf2013
4 жыл бұрын
This was mentioned in my linguistics 101 course in uni, and watching my lovely buttoned-up professor discuss and encourage a roomful of freshmen to experiment with it was nearly as good as this is.
@MrCat-hq1nv
4 жыл бұрын
Mom: What are you watching? Me: I'm learning how to add words to create new words
@luuketaylor
4 жыл бұрын
Quality educational linguistic content, Mom!
@SteffenThole
4 жыл бұрын
So… you're learning German?
@MinerXDono
4 жыл бұрын
I'm disappointed you didn't mention "legen - wait for it - dary"
@kshitijk8477
4 жыл бұрын
Get this comment on top yall!!!!!
@PersianMapper
4 жыл бұрын
Coke milk
@erikbrendel3217
4 жыл бұрын
Awesome one :)
@bendanonfawkes4189
4 жыл бұрын
3:07 thanks a bloody lot for getting me in trouble with my mum.
@jLjtremblay
4 жыл бұрын
Had no idea that was even a "thing," much less that there was a term for it. How interesting! Thanks a ton for the great little video.
@xavi.cat.4095
4 жыл бұрын
You've never heard "outfuckingstanding" or "fanfuckingtastic'?
@melitopiia4730
4 жыл бұрын
@@xavi.cat.4095 They probably weren't aware of it rather than not knowing about it
@Kanieos
4 жыл бұрын
@@melitopiia4730 I did not hear of this before. As a non nativ English speaker I may heard a few of these forms but I did not think that this is actually a thing in English. I thought someone was just making up stuff to express himself.
@luthfimuhammad3068
4 жыл бұрын
My mom: Why are you laughing? Me: nothing My brain: Isaac god-damn Newton
@Goldtoise
4 жыл бұрын
Raining!
@TheRealReem0h
4 жыл бұрын
"Abso-frickin-lutely!" Scout, TF2
@JK-dv3qe
4 жыл бұрын
0:47 -> antiness, preology, hyperable, monoment 👍
@onionbot2
4 жыл бұрын
PrefixesSuffixes
@eastpavilion-er6081
4 жыл бұрын
2:10 "IT'S BLOODY RAINY!"
@n0us.
3 жыл бұрын
3:21 Or of course: SIMON F***ING COWELL
@azericthetraveller6355
Жыл бұрын
Unrelated to the video topic but still related to the video itself, I love that the source credits appear in a little box at the top or side of the screen when, and only when, they’re relevant. It doesn’t get in the way, but still puts it out there for the viewer to do their own research.
@victoriaeads6126
3 жыл бұрын
I love the linguistics videos. I have an undergraduate degree in linguistics -specifically as it pertains to the Slavonic language group, and I have always loved the myriad nuances of languages and the people who create them. 💜
@serinad9434
4 жыл бұрын
Oh, I've missed these linguistics videos, I'm so glad you're doing more of them again!
@edavis0423
4 жыл бұрын
learning about the english infix remains the highlight of my roman poetry class
@Jayqo
4 жыл бұрын
Remember seeing your channel after 2 drums and a cymbal fall off a clif and thought it was a 1 off video but you have been around for 15 years and I am proud of you tom
@JoeBleasdaleReal
3 жыл бұрын
“So I've had to sit for an hour and watch Location Location *LO-BLOODY-CATION?!”* - Jim Royle
@caznith
4 жыл бұрын
"-help you deal with the state of the world" damn i felt that
@GumusZee
4 жыл бұрын
4:16 - all sound terri-bloody-ble
@YoshiTheCockatiel
4 жыл бұрын
Canadian here - I wracked my brain for all the curse words I knew to guess what was blacked out in the video title - never did 'bloody' cross my mind! I've heard it said in British shows/movies plenty of times, didn't even register as a curse word in my mind it seems!
@KVBA
4 жыл бұрын
fun fact: in Polish, there are some cases where you can chug a swear word in another swear word. You could put "kurwa" in "zajebisty" to get "zaje-kurwa-bisty".
@cosmicspaceofficial
4 жыл бұрын
And can you give a translation?
@rambard5599
4 жыл бұрын
From my little interaction with polish people, this sounds about what I'd expect.
@kjamison5951
4 жыл бұрын
Cosmic Space “f***ing awesome”. Google translate is a friend.
@cosmicspaceofficial
4 жыл бұрын
@@kjamison5951 I don't really trust Google Translate since there are a ton of inacurracies and mistranslations.
@sohamsengupta6470
4 жыл бұрын
Oh that word sounds kick-ass. Idk why just the sound of that word is very appealing to my brain.
@Epinardscaramel
4 жыл бұрын
3:51 There is some disagreement among phonologists about where they can fit it. 🤭🤭
@tomahzo
4 жыл бұрын
I mean... is this what these people are getting paid for ,D? Why didn't anyone tell me about the possibilities of linguistics research when I was growing up? ;D
@happyvirus6590
3 жыл бұрын
1:02 Filipino language: Allow me to introduce myself.
@Banglish123
3 жыл бұрын
Stephen Fry once said that 'tmesis' is his favourite word. Also it begins with 'tm' which is odd. I was surprised you never mentioned it tbh. tmesis /ˈtmiːsɪs/ noun the separation of parts of a compound word by an intervening word or words, used mainly in informal speech for emphasis (e.g. can't find it any-blooming-where ).
@ix_mscz
4 жыл бұрын
"So we don't have to point to the window and RAINING!" -Tom Scott, 2020
@jackdog06
4 жыл бұрын
2:22 Almost went for some alliterative expletive infixation there, huh?
@RClaffieJr
3 жыл бұрын
Your restraint is admirable
@DataExpungedNull
3 жыл бұрын
Tom: "I try not to swear on camera" Tom two minutes and twenty six seconds later: "Isaac GOD-DAMN Newton"
@OrchidAlloy
4 жыл бұрын
Tom: I will not swear in this video Also Tom: god-damn
@landon3137
4 жыл бұрын
2:09 is super funny because there is an absolute downpour happening right ouside my window.
@Schenkel101
4 жыл бұрын
Did you mean: _Raining!_
@MibaCallabus
Жыл бұрын
You know... as a side note this is actually a really good video for helping someone with Aspergers figure out how regular conversation is coded. Wish I'd seen this as a teen.
@Peluceus
3 жыл бұрын
Tom: No swearing so you can watch this no matter how conservative you or your parents are. Also Tom: God-damn
@Emerald-Fluffie
3 жыл бұрын
The amount of uses for this is astro-frickin’-nomical
@leosong829
3 жыл бұрын
Nice
@gswcooper7162
3 жыл бұрын
This video was abso-bloody-lutely informative! ^^
@thesvet6969
4 жыл бұрын
0:55 morphmeme When you morph a dying meme into a dead meme to make a relevant meme
@4grammaton
4 жыл бұрын
I thought this was just called tmesis. And I also thought the "it" in "it rained" was just called an impersonal subject.
@RudeGuyGames
4 жыл бұрын
Linguistics truly is but a word salad.
@ambertapping7919
4 жыл бұрын
According to wikipedia: 'Expletive infixation is a process by which an expletive or profanity is inserted into a word, usually for intensification. It is similar to tmesis, but not all instances are covered by the usual definition of tmesis because the words are not necessarily compounds.'
@varana
4 жыл бұрын
Tmesis are a few other things as well, it's a more general term. So yes, infixation can be a form of tmesis, but not every tmesis is an infixation.
@harnsisdead9197
4 жыл бұрын
oh tom scott…. where were u when i was taking my gcses :(
@deltav9784
4 жыл бұрын
probably trying to get on the news in London, depending on how long ago you did them
@lordrork5884
4 жыл бұрын
Intriguingly, there's going to be a group of kids that can never say that...
@deltav9784
4 жыл бұрын
@@lordrork5884 And I happen to be one of them.
@FabulousKilljoy
4 жыл бұрын
I’ve noticed that where I live in Tennessee (I’ve never heard it outside here), we say “a-whole-nother” instead of “a whole other” or “another”. I’ve always thought it was strange that we stuck an entire word inside another word, didn’t even think about it this way
@FabulousKilljoy
4 жыл бұрын
@Topher TheTenth I don't believe I've heard it with "entirely" tacked on the end, at least not often enough for me to notice.
@SW33wNecie
4 жыл бұрын
Now just replace every occurrence of the word "bloody" to you-know-which-word.
@tybirous3417
4 жыл бұрын
Yeeees. "Fan-Voldermort-tastic" It's perfect! Rolls right off the tongue.
@WidgerCentral
4 жыл бұрын
Something about fornicating?
@loreleihillard5078
4 жыл бұрын
that's an in-you-know-which-word-credible idea!
@mockturtlesuppe
4 жыл бұрын
Fan-bleepy-tastic.
@DefinitelyNotShane
4 жыл бұрын
Stinky
@nextProgram
4 жыл бұрын
1:42 the difference between stood and sta👃🏻d
@justanotherrandomcrit8115
4 жыл бұрын
“Slap, in Khmer, means _to die.”_
@gonzadolape
4 жыл бұрын
Davie504 wants to know your location
@erdurano
4 жыл бұрын
I missed the linguistics videos. As a Turkish person who speaks English, they made me develop an inner sense of appreciation for world languages. Please keep them coming.
@Vesperitis
4 жыл бұрын
In the words of Yahtzee Croshaw, "Virtual F***ing Reality"
@oreokitty333
4 жыл бұрын
I can literally hear is voice right now. "Kinda sounds like you're sick of the whole concept..."
@ByronLewis
4 жыл бұрын
Or the best one, “La-di c-ting da!”
@antman5474
4 жыл бұрын
Virtual reality isn't one word so I'm not sure virtual f**king reality counts as expletive infixation as explained by this vid.
@TheAkashicTraveller
4 жыл бұрын
Today I went looking for, and found, a browser extention that removes all youtube recomendations. It's only been half a day and I feel both more relaxed yet also somehow anxious.
@tale7955
11 ай бұрын
"Fortunately, I'm British" Never heard that one before.
@toowilig7592
4 жыл бұрын
New Word: Antiness (n.) The act of disliking things without cause or reason.
@shononoyeetus8866
3 жыл бұрын
I want to live in a world where when it rains we just point out the window and shout RAINING
@iakovzhitomirskiy1569
4 жыл бұрын
1:15 so that is the true meaning of "SLAP LIKE NOW"
@mistermoee
4 жыл бұрын
Davide wants us to die? *_but i thought we were migos_*
@hux2000
3 жыл бұрын
Tom missed one more interesting thing about this, which is that we have another word for this linguistic phenomenon: tmesis. Plus, that word is notable in and of itself for being the only word in English that starts with 'tm-'.
@jestech4617
4 жыл бұрын
I'm laughing my head off. This video is so goshdarn amusing 😂
@JustAnotherPassenger
4 жыл бұрын
So where does Alan Partridge's famous "Abso-bloody-exactly" fit in to this?
@HeavyMetalMouse
4 жыл бұрын
Without the infix, the rest would be 'blend', what happens when you change what word you're saying midway through saying a word without necessarily meaning something completely different entirely. This would be an 'expletive-infixed blend', or something like that.
@nickwilson3499
4 жыл бұрын
JustAnotherPassenger that’s incorrect
@SirRebrl
4 жыл бұрын
@@nickwilson3499 It's not "incorrect" though. It's unconventional, but it does not offend my sensibilities as a native speaker and its meaning is comprehensible. I've also used "posi-fuckin'-lutely" and "abso-fuckin'-tively" in the past, myself.
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