Comments by "Jovet" (@jovetj) on "RobWords" channel.

  1.  @globalheartwarming  My mom had mums too. They're very pretty! 🤣
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  2.  @grizwoldphantasia5005  Everyone forget about the ☸wheel?
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  3. As an American, I "love" Welsh. It's such an odd and funny (both curious and ha-ha at the same time) language, especially compared to others like Irish and Scottish Gaelic. On that note, I also wish Manx was more of a thing these days, too, but Welsh has never been extinct. And hopefully never will be!
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  4. It's so complex, too. Languages naturally evolve, both from use in isolation and ignorance of the masses. It cannot be stopped, as reassuring as it would be to curtail it.
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  5.  @attilajuhasz2526  I'm not etymologist, but it would be interesting to study how many words are added versus how many words are altered per annum. Both are happening all the time.
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  6. You mean, Linus Type Tips?
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  7. That's just ghastly.
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  8. I don't know if the captions are auto-generated but there is an apostrophe atrocity at 5:46 with it's. 😲
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  9. I thought of another word: fresh A marketting "genius" has decided that "fresh frozen" is a thing, and it's better than something that's just "frozen" ...even though it makes no sense whatsoever.
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  10.  @unpopular_theories  Now, five months later, the tide has completely turned, of course... and it's hot and very humid outside.
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  11. This really gets into splitting hairs. I can say annoyed as an•noyed pretty easily. Time has glossed those together, but marry, Mary, and merry may sound almost the same but not exactly the same. a and e are definitely different vowels for me.
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  12. When I was taught English back in my youth, we were taught "long" and "short" forms of all the vowels. Our teacher(s) wrote the long forms with a macron and short forms with a breve. It's stuck with me all these years later.
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  13. 18:14 It's a bit unfortunate what your word "çum" looks like... I thought you didn't like the /s/ sound relevant in other languages for that one? :confused:
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  14. 11:18 That was satisfying, Rob!
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  15. People and living beings do NOT have a gender... but languages do!
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  16. Living beings don't have a gender. They have a sex.
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  17. That snarky G is rubbing off on him!
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  18. Rob, you can't rate your own inventions. LOL! Nice video!
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  19. 8:10 Greek wakes up and raises its hand...
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  20.  @michaelrichter9427  Oh?
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  21. I vote NO on diacritical marks on letters in English. No cedillas, please! For /sh/ instead, try its IPA form: ʃ (or, even better, maybe, chop off its descender at the baseline... just don't call that a long S! haha)
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  22.  @topherthe11th23  “Someone can imagine fire being hot. That doesn't mean that it's not objectively true that fire is hot.” What is objectively hot? Is it 20 degrees? 200 degrees? 2000 degrees? There's no such thing as "objectively hot." Perhaps the Planck temperature is objectively hot? “I talk to religious people frequently, and I find what they say appalling.” Uh huh. Perhaps I should "talk to" the same "religious" people you do... I don't find people's beliefs appalling merely because they are religious people. I'm intrigued by your feeling threatened by the beliefs (or truths!) of others. “You're that person who believes that if a tree falls in an empty forest it doesn't vibrate the gas-particles in the air near its surfaces (i.e. "make a noise"), who can't differentiate between a noise and some being hearing the noise.” ”The vast majority of people don't have a problem with the idea that something can happen while nobody knows that it happened. Your response will be "then how do you KNOW it happened?"” Poppycock. My response is what difference does it make? “You seem to be much about the idea that if humans can't reliably know what is true, then truth doesn't exist.” My belief is that the human perception of (what we call) reality is not necessarily reality. It's challenging to be sure of absolute truth if one can't be absolutely sure of reality. A truth I'd like to believe is real is that 2+2=4. We can derive a proof of that. But, the very fine line between reality and truth is murky. Part of the human experience is the quest to understand that line. “That doesn't mean that the only things that exist are human perceptions, and it doesn't mean that the things being unreliably perceived don't have an existence independent of the mind perceiving them.” Are you sure about that? The only thing any human knows about the environment (or reality) is what he perceives or reasons from those perceptions. That's the whole point of this discussion: how does a person perceive truth? What can the word truly mean beyond the human experience? Are the two separable? Hearing voices does not mean someone nearby is actually talking to you. But for the person hearing them, it can be difficult or impossible to tell the difference. What is the truth about the voices if two people hear them but not a third? If our reality is some kind of simulation as some have proposed, does that make it real or not real? (These are all rhetorical questions. You are not expected nor equipped to answer them.)
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  23.  @jacksonhorrocks4281  Now you're getting it. Practice bending that fork!
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  24. 🐮Oeuuuuuuuuuuuve 🐄
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  25. 18:28 "followed by" ? Are English and American usage of this confused? "Q follows J" or "J precedes Q" but "Q followed by J" is wrong if J is ahead of Q.
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  26. They is not an appropriate pronoun for a lone person. Ever. Stop this madness, you insane people!
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  27.  @sfkapacheoutlaw5348  No, it is not. The correct pronoun is he unless you know the object of the pronoun to be female, in which it's her.
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  28.  @sfkapacheoutlaw5348  Just because some Leftist twit edits the dictionary doesn't mean that 1) the language is magically changed, and 2) that particular dictionary is more correct than any other.
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  29.  @sfkapacheoutlaw5348  Yes, do send more personal attacks my way. It makes your argument that much more robust and convincing. The "they" trend you speak of is a very new phenomenon and is an artificial devolution of English. It's sort-of like when the plural "you" was dropped from English... the language got a little less precise that day. I am glad that English today doesn't have genders, but people and pronouns do because that's the scientific basis of our existence.
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  30.  @sfkapacheoutlaw5348  I haven't called you a nitwit. Are you saying I should? That isn't irony. Shakespeare wrote for entertainment, not as the archetype of the English language. "y'all" is an unofficial contraction of "you all", so that's also not the same as plural you. And you question my self-awareness? LOL You're silly.
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  31. Are you taking claim to be the Leftist twit that decided gender is "a thing" and that it's "fluid" and that "one can pick 'their' pronouns"??
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  32. This is pretty neat. I made my own alphabet a long time ago, but I admit it wasn't this elegant. That doesn't mean I can't think of some suggestions, though. The resemblance of 𐑑 to the numeral one is unfortunate, for example.
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  33. 14:02 I find that chart there very interesting. Wasn't Manx technically extinct at one point? And the only reason it's around today is that some people studied and learned it after the fact? But that some of its pronunciation and such may have died with the last native speaker before? That's quite a rebound if Manx is no longer in the 🔴red category.
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  34. @ I did write tried, not accomplished 😖😏
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  35. You could rename W as wynn.
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  36. Amazing video, Rob! ❤
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  37. The start of this video was really painful. LOL
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  38. English is easy to spot because of '
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  39.  @joeware  Yeah, contrary to the marketing hype, there is no such thing as "the cloud". If you mean "a server somewhere" then just state that.
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  40. I think it's best to always emphasize that all of this sounds great (pun intended?) but it's still very theoretical.
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  41. Does you wife know you are "Hardcore Thorn" and are chanelling Golem?
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  42. Woof! @ 7:28 Great video, Rob!
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  43. What about complex numbers? :ducks:
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  44. 12:45 Not an "upside down e"... it's a turned e!
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  45. "Grammatical gender" is redundant.
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  46. 10:40 One of my biggest pet peeves... when people do not respond logically. Your example there is pretty good, but I do say there is no ambiguity. If you are agreeing with what the person stated/asked, you should respond YES. If you're disagreeing, you should respond NO.
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  47. But not eth??
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  48.  @futakisser  When someone tells you who they are, you should listen.
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  49.  @futakisser  The person wearing them. Pretty basic symbol of the occult. The "humans are just basal animals" motivation.
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  50. The sound effect in this video is better than the word. Can we just use that as the word?
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