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  • @guinabernardes
    @guinabernardes Před 4 lety +3001

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

    • @anthonyjanthonycrowley6072
      @anthonyjanthonycrowley6072 Před 4 lety +146

      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
      @rebeccavickerstaff541 Před 4 lety +38

      Family: demonic screaming

    • @thecomfycryptid
      @thecomfycryptid Před 4 lety +25

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

    • @mahir7261
      @mahir7261 Před 4 lety +2

      Guilherme Bernardes underrated

    • @WasiMaster
      @WasiMaster Před 4 lety +16

      Miachel died
      Or did he
      Hey vsauce miachel here

  • @meaninglesscommenter8457
    @meaninglesscommenter8457 Před 5 lety +3893

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

    • @Zoova
      @Zoova Před 5 lety +220

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

    • @kanupandit1683
      @kanupandit1683 Před 5 lety +30

      @@Zoova oh wait I just realized something

    • @kanupandit1683
      @kanupandit1683 Před 5 lety +44

      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
      @ralphy1054 Před 5 lety +55

      @@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
      @meaninglesscommenter8457 Před 5 lety +186

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

  • @joshuazhong2520
    @joshuazhong2520 Před 3 lety +1048

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

    • @user-pl1xi8my2d
      @user-pl1xi8my2d Před 2 měsíci +1

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

  • @Fafuchess
    @Fafuchess Před rokem +92

    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
      @Verbindungsfehle Před 7 měsíci +6

      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

  • @angelofdeth94
    @angelofdeth94 Před 5 lety +1092

    You: buys things
    Me, an intellectual: purchases things

  • @yen7955
    @yen7955 Před 5 lety +3707

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

  • @MisterNohbdy
    @MisterNohbdy Před 3 lety +76

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

  • @cobalt8187
    @cobalt8187 Před 3 lety +412

    "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
      @hamidan7069 Před 3 lety +8

      Nice

    • @twitchycorpse4378
      @twitchycorpse4378 Před 3 lety +6

      CAN YOU SMEELLLLLLLL

    • @khazychan
      @khazychan Před 3 lety +54

      The Rock (Dwayne Johnson)

    • @theantimatter
      @theantimatter Před 3 lety +14

      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
      @madkirk7431 Před 3 lety +4

      And "Rock" (amasing)

  • @deajiven6159
    @deajiven6159 Před 4 lety +1644

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

    • @druhu4590
      @druhu4590 Před 4 lety +82

      Hon hon hon

    • @jamesyjables
      @jamesyjables Před 4 lety +34

      *laughs in welsh*

    • @mcvibing2785
      @mcvibing2785 Před 4 lety +25

      Oiseau

    • @benthomason3307
      @benthomason3307 Před 4 lety +109

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

    • @Gia1911Logous
      @Gia1911Logous Před 4 lety +33

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

  • @hasifahmed1065
    @hasifahmed1065 Před 5 lety +2304

    THIS BLUE MY MIND.

  • @aishaMa_
    @aishaMa_ Před rokem +80

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

  • @gril250
    @gril250 Před 4 lety +177

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

  • @TriburosOnline
    @TriburosOnline Před 6 lety +3113

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

    • @Snardvark25
      @Snardvark25 Před 6 lety +39

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

    • @aaronmartinez8383
      @aaronmartinez8383 Před 6 lety +31

      You mean he's becoming Northernlion.

    • @masterchaoss
      @masterchaoss Před 6 lety +1

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

    • @Starman256
      @Starman256 Před 6 lety +13

      Hes a bearded egg, nothing more nothing less

    • @robocu4
      @robocu4 Před 6 lety +19

      He isn't an egg :(

  • @KrpticUnknown
    @KrpticUnknown Před 6 lety +5122

    wish i had michael as a teacher

    • @111Malefic
      @111Malefic Před 6 lety +149

      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
      @JakeLovesSteak Před 6 lety +116

      He is a teacher, in a sense.

    • @dandanthedandan7558
      @dandanthedandan7558 Před 6 lety +40

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

    • @priyanshupradhan4388
      @priyanshupradhan4388 Před 6 lety +12

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

    • @ahmedmagdy-qg3tb
      @ahmedmagdy-qg3tb Před 6 lety +9

      control your emotions kid

  • @mixup2216
    @mixup2216 Před 3 lety +56

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

    • @ferociousmaliciousghost
      @ferociousmaliciousghost Před 3 lety

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

    • @miticobr173
      @miticobr173 Před 3 lety +5

      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
      @miticobr173 Před 3 lety +3

      @@ferociousmaliciousghost there u go

    • @sanyogoo6017
      @sanyogoo6017 Před 3 lety +1

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

    • @brayanxd4547
      @brayanxd4547 Před 2 lety +1

      @@miticobr173 Isso devia ter mais likee

  • @Mick_92
    @Mick_92 Před 3 lety +188

    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
      @bluthemeth Před 2 lety +12

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

    • @basedyoshi7253
      @basedyoshi7253 Před 2 lety +4

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

    • @dismalthoughts
      @dismalthoughts Před 2 lety +1

      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
      @catlover7015 Před 2 lety +9

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

    • @jennifermorrey7378
      @jennifermorrey7378 Před 2 lety +1

      even though i speak english natively i feel you

  • @asmodeusmogart5941
    @asmodeusmogart5941 Před 5 lety +3757

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

    • @spencerfuller149
      @spencerfuller149 Před 5 lety +59

      You're*

    • @asmodeusmogart5941
      @asmodeusmogart5941 Před 5 lety +53

      Is Mayonnaise an Instrument? Thank you

    • @SuperXzm
      @SuperXzm Před 5 lety +62

      *Cue Vsauce music

    • @dianathenerd5640
      @dianathenerd5640 Před 5 lety +1

      @@spencerfuller149 check this out czcams.com/video/Ldnecyy0FDU/video.html

    • @Merahki3863
      @Merahki3863 Před 5 lety +44

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

  • @justarchie6081
    @justarchie6081 Před 6 lety +604

    PET, BELL, MEN.

  • @smoceany9478
    @smoceany9478 Před 4 lety +193

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

    • @ThorHC11
      @ThorHC11 Před 4 lety +33

      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
      @smoceany9478 Před 4 lety +11

      @@ThorHC11 their is another form of are

    • @ThorHC11
      @ThorHC11 Před 4 lety +24

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

    • @bardcore7660
      @bardcore7660 Před 3 lety +3

      @@ThorHC11 varies on accent

    • @GoogleUser-ms6hr
      @GoogleUser-ms6hr Před 3 lety

      What about Eire? (Ireland)

  • @FrankieTeardrop1998
    @FrankieTeardrop1998 Před rokem +6

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

  • @to9100
    @to9100 Před 6 lety +687

    1. Pet
    2. Bell
    3. Men

  • @pratishtha1437
    @pratishtha1437 Před 6 lety +939

    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
      @pratishtha1437 Před 6 lety +3

      André Martins well ok haha

    • @KyleCorbeau
      @KyleCorbeau Před 6 lety +14

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

    • @thewhitefalcon8539
      @thewhitefalcon8539 Před 6 lety +7

      You could phish in a financial bank.

    • @greensteve9307
      @greensteve9307 Před 6 lety +3

      On the internet, bank fishes you.

    • @Skystrike70
      @Skystrike70 Před 6 lety +2

      Honestly expected him to go on a tangent there

  • @mateusporawski5347
    @mateusporawski5347 Před 4 lety +47

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

  • @FG-dh6pr
    @FG-dh6pr Před 3 lety +23

    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).

  • @aaryanbhardwaj40
    @aaryanbhardwaj40 Před 6 lety +313

    "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
      @jord19100 Před 6 lety +4

      The Delusionist And His Demons r/iamverysmart

    • @JA-nv4zb
      @JA-nv4zb Před 6 lety +4

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

    • @NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache
      @NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache Před 9 měsíci

      @@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?

  • @MrMindwavess
    @MrMindwavess Před 6 lety +397

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

    • @sam23squires
      @sam23squires Před 6 lety +4

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

    • @DJxDJ1997
      @DJxDJ1997 Před 6 lety +2

      It's not vsauce

    • @garchamayne4515
      @garchamayne4515 Před 6 lety +7

      Diego Ordoñez And yet, Michael is here

    • @eliarbogast
      @eliarbogast Před 6 lety

      Community reference nice

    • @Nilguiri
      @Nilguiri Před 6 lety

      Who is Micheal? Is he from Isreal?

  • @ryanvandermerwe5587
    @ryanvandermerwe5587 Před 4 lety +13

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

  • @Frudge
    @Frudge Před 3 lety +5

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

  • @MaeveFirstborn
    @MaeveFirstborn Před 6 lety +141

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

    • @explodyz
      @explodyz Před 6 lety

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

    • @volbla
      @volbla Před 6 lety +6

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

  • @derekholland7956
    @derekholland7956 Před 5 lety +766

    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
      @Max-kv1xm Před 5 lety +30

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

    • @southerndude9516
      @southerndude9516 Před 5 lety +2

      Miserabilis r/woooooosh

    • @Euclase
      @Euclase Před 5 lety +8

      *OR IS HE?*

    • @fufutg9543
      @fufutg9543 Před 5 lety +13

      @@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
      @someyeeterontheblock2421 Před 5 lety

      @@fufutg9543 the sky is not blue.

  • @Ad0rak
    @Ad0rak Před 10 měsíci +2

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

  • @kirk-careem
    @kirk-careem Před rokem +4

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

  • @willc236
    @willc236 Před 5 lety +495

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

  • @lucasprem1618
    @lucasprem1618 Před 5 lety +951

    I want Michael to host meme review.

  • @doctortrouserpants1387
    @doctortrouserpants1387 Před 3 lety +5

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

  • @brianhitchcox5530
    @brianhitchcox5530 Před 7 měsíci

    I love watching these videos so much.

  • @jacko7755
    @jacko7755 Před 6 lety +273

    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
      @travellcriner6849 Před 6 lety +8

      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
      @TERMINATOR3900 Před 6 lety +4

      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
      @travellcriner6849 Před 6 lety +4

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

    • @DarkMoonDroid
      @DarkMoonDroid Před 6 lety +7

      "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
      @travellcriner6849 Před 6 lety +3

      Very insightful, Jennifer. Thanks.

  • @PaleozoicProductions
    @PaleozoicProductions Před 6 lety +401

    0:00 - 0:06
    How I greet people

  • @EggShellGames
    @EggShellGames Před rokem +1

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

  • @demarcuscousinsthe65th

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

  • @shanedonahoo7704
    @shanedonahoo7704 Před 6 lety +298

    This show should just be called “Educational Memes”

  • @ZippedZipFile
    @ZippedZipFile Před 5 lety +45

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

    • @seanwilkinson7431
      @seanwilkinson7431 Před 9 měsíci +4

      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).

  • @AlexPies1
    @AlexPies1 Před 11 měsíci +1

    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
      @NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache Před 9 měsíci

      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)

  • @mikeayia8819
    @mikeayia8819 Před 4 lety +1

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

  • @spinnyb9998
    @spinnyb9998 Před 5 lety +647

    pet, bell, men

  • @PenisGabber
    @PenisGabber Před 6 lety +143

    dongonyms

  • @girlinagale
    @girlinagale Před 4 lety

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

  • @pohjanvanamo
    @pohjanvanamo Před 11 měsíci +3

    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

  • @whereeveritgoes
    @whereeveritgoes Před 6 lety +111

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

  • @girlsinredtrenchcoat1169
    @girlsinredtrenchcoat1169 Před 5 lety +565

    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
      @darpanpatel8023 Před 5 lety +5

      AHAHAHAHAHAHHAH

    • @W.H.V.
      @W.H.V. Před 5 lety +8

      I thought he was gonna say it, I swear.

    • @vuice6601
      @vuice6601 Před 5 lety +2

      And that’s how I met your mother

    • @miserysluvr
      @miserysluvr Před 5 lety +3

      Hahahahahahhahahahaha, you made my day😂

    • @vibe3d
      @vibe3d Před 5 lety +3

      Hold my beer.

  • @donlimoncelli6108
    @donlimoncelli6108 Před 11 měsíci +1

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

  • @ellafant9424
    @ellafant9424 Před 4 lety +4

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

  • @nzubechukwu
    @nzubechukwu Před 4 lety +500

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

    • @lenka1444
      @lenka1444 Před 4 lety +14

      Michael: *Goes through a 10 minute explanation*

    • @derikr
      @derikr Před 4 lety +15

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

  • @guillermo63785
    @guillermo63785 Před 6 lety +448

    Do
    On a sheet of paper
    Now,
    Guys

  • @inself7367
    @inself7367 Před 2 lety +4

    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 ❤

  • @LuizBHMG
    @LuizBHMG Před 3 lety +3

    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.

  • @ChrisOrillia
    @ChrisOrillia Před 5 lety +380

    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
      @moonsaer Před 5 lety +28

      I AM SHOOKETH

    • @jad3415
      @jad3415 Před 5 lety +10

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

    • @chewedgum3001
      @chewedgum3001 Před 5 lety +4

      yes

    • @qewdascz1839
      @qewdascz1839 Před 5 lety +5

      I’m so confused but I love this XD

    • @noelbus4536
      @noelbus4536 Před 5 lety +2

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

  • @austinbagnall1990
    @austinbagnall1990 Před 5 lety +715

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

  • @80cardcolumn
    @80cardcolumn Před 2 lety +1

    “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.

  • @andrewoliver7069
    @andrewoliver7069 Před 4 lety

    Love the art in the background.

  • @LimitedWard
    @LimitedWard Před 6 lety +431

    Vsauce and DONG are synonyms now I guess.

    • @lucianrex1528
      @lucianrex1528 Před 6 lety +20

      i'm fine with this

    • @Azide_zx
      @Azide_zx Před 6 lety +81

      in that case i have a big vsauce

    • @rockLuca14
      @rockLuca14 Před 6 lety +1

      Alpha Good one m8.

    • @mathenthusiast6635
      @mathenthusiast6635 Před 6 lety +17

      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
      @Ari-hc1vr Před 6 lety +3

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

  • @toxicnukem
    @toxicnukem Před rokem

    that end was as smooth as butter

  • @Adambenhmida0000
    @Adambenhmida0000 Před rokem +3

    11:04 the way he says that outro man

  • @DeanBaileyPhotography
    @DeanBaileyPhotography Před 6 lety +206

    You may phish in a financial bank though...

  • @losingluke
    @losingluke Před 5 lety +149

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

    • @mabus4910
      @mabus4910 Před 5 lety +6

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

  • @amperage3457
    @amperage3457 Před 3 měsíci

    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 😂

  • @creativeoj
    @creativeoj Před 4 lety +4

    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
      @KarasuInaiga Před rokem

      Yes you will, just look it up in Wiktionary!

  • @FruityBasket99
    @FruityBasket99 Před 5 lety +236

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

  • @123_king_me9
    @123_king_me9 Před 6 lety +78

    When Michael forgets his other channel’s password

  • @QuitebrokeN
    @QuitebrokeN Před 3 lety

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

  • @MikeLCF
    @MikeLCF Před rokem

    The eerie music makes this very surreal

  • @DadSkool
    @DadSkool Před 6 lety +166

    but you may 'phish' in a financial bank

    • @DanKeehner
      @DanKeehner Před 6 lety +6

      Johnny James Take my like, you made my morning.

    • @ReneePrower
      @ReneePrower Před 6 lety +2

      Once again, the day is saved thanks to homophones.

  • @FUMoonMoney
    @FUMoonMoney Před 4 lety +631

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

    • @rodgertaubsr7567
      @rodgertaubsr7567 Před 4 lety +91

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

    • @unboy
      @unboy Před 4 lety +31

      A helpful CZcams 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
      @chorusTaurus Před 4 lety +67

      I thought it was men, bell, pet

    • @felixroux
      @felixroux Před 4 lety +40

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

    • @damamoot2291
      @damamoot2291 Před 4 lety +18

      @@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.

  • @yusufcoskun7914
    @yusufcoskun7914 Před 3 lety

    The first five seconds is gold value

  • @JojoJere
    @JojoJere Před rokem +6

    Pet bell men 9:30

  • @ABaumstumpf
    @ABaumstumpf Před 6 lety +473

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

    • @voxelfusion9894
      @voxelfusion9894 Před 6 lety +34

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

    • @cornekeetels5293
      @cornekeetels5293 Před 6 lety +17

      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
      @me3333 Před 6 lety +2

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

    • @voxelfusion9894
      @voxelfusion9894 Před 6 lety +8

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

    • @kaizov2940
      @kaizov2940 Před 6 lety +14

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

  • @jabezzgames4055
    @jabezzgames4055 Před 4 lety +79

    I SEE MEN
    ICY MEN
    AY SEMEN

  • @zkiller195
    @zkiller195 Před 9 měsíci

    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)

  • @dentistrider3874
    @dentistrider3874 Před 11 měsíci

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

  • @DullFiction
    @DullFiction Před 6 lety +166

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

  • @Catslug
    @Catslug Před 6 lety +532

    ...soup

  • @chrismanuel9768
    @chrismanuel9768 Před 11 měsíci

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

  • @HIROX13
    @HIROX13 Před 4 lety

    I like the work "Set". loads of meanings

  • @Depleted-Uranium
    @Depleted-Uranium Před 4 lety +116

    Or Are They?
    *vsauce theme doesn't play

  • @mostlyaditya
    @mostlyaditya Před 6 lety +207

    DONG has turned into Vsauce1 confirmed

    • @tigerkill420
      @tigerkill420 Před 6 lety +14

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

    • @iLqkk
      @iLqkk Před 6 lety +4

      good! i miss vsauce1

    • @mizuro13
      @mizuro13 Před 6 lety +2

      Aditya Tiwari which is a good thing

    • @readmore3208
      @readmore3208 Před 6 lety +1

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

    • @mikelopez4533
      @mikelopez4533 Před 6 lety +1

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

  • @alangrant5278
    @alangrant5278 Před 11 měsíci

    This wound me up
    In more ways than won

  • @haroldwhitney6130
    @haroldwhitney6130 Před 6 měsíci

    Very very thorough.

  • @wave3308
    @wave3308 Před 6 lety +225

    Did VSauce just move to the DONG channel?

    • @Leo-zk9rd
      @Leo-zk9rd Před 6 lety +18

      Wave that's what I'm wondering

    • @nofanfelani6924
      @nofanfelani6924 Před 6 lety +51

      perhaps Vsauce and Dong are homonym

    • @Nohfegea
      @Nohfegea Před 6 lety +40

      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
      @wave3308 Před 6 lety +3

      Nohfegea makes so much sense now! Thanks for the info

    • @sanyammishra1263
      @sanyammishra1263 Před 6 lety +9

      He probably would have forgotten the password of Vsauce account

  • @julianm871
    @julianm871 Před 5 lety +242

    Real eyes
    Realize
    Real lies

  • @WilliamJohnston
    @WilliamJohnston Před 2 lety +1

    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?

  • @shargo498
    @shargo498 Před rokem

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

  • @mindnova7850
    @mindnova7850 Před 6 lety +239

    I now know the meaning of life.

  • @tylor_vwricer
    @tylor_vwricer Před 6 lety +94

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

    • @Caitlin_TheGreat
      @Caitlin_TheGreat Před 6 lety +3

      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
      @travellcriner6849 Před 6 lety

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

    • @jjsmith706
      @jjsmith706 Před 6 lety +1

      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
      @travellcriner6849 Před 6 lety +1

      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
      @jjsmith706 Před 6 lety

      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.

  • @Rev_Erser
    @Rev_Erser Před 11 měsíci

    the and the (haha can't tell) are used for when the next word starts with either a consonant sound or a vowel sound

  • @Artifex421
    @Artifex421 Před 11 měsíci

    The difference between the "the's" is also phonotactic.
    /ðə/ is used before words beginning with a consonant; "the bridge"
    /ði/ is used before vowels; "the apple" It creates a transitional /j/ consonant instead of forcing a glottal stop.

  • @john-.-doe
    @john-.-doe Před 4 lety +398

    No one:
    Michael: soup is soup
    Everyone: pikachu_face.png

    • @freemodegaming4562
      @freemodegaming4562 Před 4 lety +15

      Or is it?
      **Music plays**

    • @GRiMETiME
      @GRiMETiME Před 4 lety +5

      Freemode Gaming that meme is played out, unoriginal, and lacks humor.
      do better kid.

    • @D-Man_Jam
      @D-Man_Jam Před 4 lety +1

      😮

    • @yogitshankar6348
      @yogitshankar6348 Před 4 lety +3

      Ah the soup here is made of soup

    • @Drogon7102
      @Drogon7102 Před 3 lety +1

      @@GRiMETiME leave him alone hes having his fun.

  • @lucasgregson9057
    @lucasgregson9057 Před 6 lety +561

    pet
    bell
    men

    • @TheSmilingFear
      @TheSmilingFear Před 6 lety +9

      I thought so too!

    • @PhooGiSucky
      @PhooGiSucky Před 6 lety +5

      me too

    • @emas1084
      @emas1084 Před 6 lety +6

      Yep thought so too

    • @88Hyo
      @88Hyo Před 6 lety +26

      Lucas Gregson i think you only Saw that because he Said those in that order before, so your brain was pre-disposed for that

    • @sam2902
      @sam2902 Před 6 lety +7

      88Hyo you can see him pronounce the L in bell

  • @michaelbirchall2247
    @michaelbirchall2247 Před 9 měsíci

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

  • @shubhamraj25
    @shubhamraj25 Před 6 lety +77

    0:33 *VSAUSE TRADEMARK*

  • @fivefoottwelve2789
    @fivefoottwelve2789 Před 6 lety +90

    This video blue my mind

    • @Maninawig
      @Maninawig Před 6 lety

      ViaConnor *blew sorry if this was a pun, however the pun would have been emphasized with quotation marks.