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I make videos on things I think are neat. Historically that's mostly meant linguistics. My Twitter: twitter.com/Xid_of_Youtube My Tumblr: xidnaf.tumblr.com... more

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February 13, 2023 "China" doesn't exist. | Etymosemanticology
Because click-bait-y titles have never come back to bite me.
CGPGrey's video on Hong Kong and Macau:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piEayQ0T-qA
TestTube News' video on China and Taiwan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X6ejraWoqE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X6ejraWoqE
Intro-song:
"Flight of the Breezies" by Kadenza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWXvSBHB210
Special thanks to this Chinese-characters-to-Pinyin converter I used a lot when I made this video:
http://www.purpleculture.net/chinese-pinyin-converter/
(blame them if any of the pinyin is wrong!!!)
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6min
February 13, 2023 Why People Make Their Own Languages
Lots of people talk about how people create artificial languages. I want to talk about why.
See me help with Artifexian's conlang here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3378FlHK4v0
Intro song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWXvSBHB210
Outro song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYROATT0Mk4
Website for In the Land of Invented Languages, without which this video would have been much, much harder: http://inthelandofinventedlanguages.com/
Fan made Xidnaf subreddit some one made: https://www.reddit.com/r/Xidnaf
Fan-made intro thingy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIy_w9D_R-k
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10min
February 13, 2023 "Socialism" vs "Communism" | Etymosemanticology
You guys wanted another Etymosemanticology episode, right? No? Well, too bad, because Bernie Sanders got me wondering what exactly "Socialism" even is and I wanted to talk about it.
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6min
February 13, 2023 The Linguistics of AAVE
It's about time I address linguistic prescriptivism.
Links to things I didn't make that are in this video:
Intro song: "Flight of the Breezies" by Kadenza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWXvSBHB210
Outro song: "Mach Speed" by FlightRush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BW63OOPu7Q
Map of race in Chicago by Bill Rankin
http://www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?chicagodots
A cool video he made about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pRcdMVkA3k
Map of dialects of North American English:
http://aschmann.net/AmEng/
Photo of Los Angeles by Nserrano:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles#/media/File:LA_Skyline_Mountains2.jpg
Photo of New York by Anthony Quintano:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/quintanomedia/14825199293
Photo of Chicago by J. Crocker:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2010-02-19_16500x2000_chicago_skyline_panorama.jpg
Photo of a swamp in Mississippi by Gary Bridgman:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi#/media/File:Wolf-River-swamp-North-Mississippi.jpg
Anonymous painting of slaves on a South-Carolina plantation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States#/media/File:Slave_dance_to_banjo,_1780s.jpg
Picture of a slave ship:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny_South_(clipper)#/media/File:HMS_Brisk_and_Emanuela.jpg
Screen shots of websites used were from here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Nigeria
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bidialectalism
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9min
February 13, 2023 Untranslatability and Japanese Pragmatics
Are some things untranslatable?
My video where I talk about my life and stuff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W67yh3b3kQ
Intro song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWXvSBHB210
Outro song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHiaTWcJYck
Better explanation of the wa/ga distinction:
http://nihonshock.com/2010/02/particles-the-difference-between-wa-and-ga/
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9min
February 13, 2023 Roman Romance | Etymosemanticology
I had initially planned on having this up on Valentine's Day. I am bad at deadlines.
Intro Song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWXvSBHB210
Pictures I used in this video that I didn't make:
https://xkcd.com/55/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Rome#mediaviewer/File:Roma_dall'aereo.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_skipping#mediaviewer/File:Stone_skimming_-Patagonia-9Mar2010.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vexilloid_of_the_Roman_Empire.svg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Colosseum_in_Rome%2C_Italy_-_April_2007.jpg
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4min
February 13, 2023 What Even Is a Language?
Where do we draw the line between "language" and "dialect"?
Click here for the video of Scots:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cENbkHS3mnY
Things from this video I didn't make:
Picture:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa#mediaviewer/File:Africa_(orthographic_projection).svg
Intro Song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWXvSBHB210
Fakoutro Song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is4EOvK32vU
Outro Song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCDbm5VWDwg
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7min
February 13, 2023 Update: Technical Difficulties
Just thought I'd let you know I'm not dead.
Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDgk2YMzGpY
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1min
February 13, 2023 "Football" | Etymosemanticology
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Intro song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWXvSBHB210
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4min
February 13, 2023 What Even Is a Word?
Words confuse me. Like, even more than syllables.
What even is a language:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP-PV9ryXM4
The paper (book? pdf thingy) I mention in the video:
http://library.alaska.gov/hist/hist_docs/docs/anlm/05265040.pdf
Stuff in this video I didn't make:
Intro song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWXvSBHB210
Outro song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Be7fy1dx14
Pictures:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit#mediaviewer/File:Qamutik_1_1999-04-01.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skiing#mediaviewer/File:Skier-carving-a-turn.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo–Aleut_languages#mediaviewer/File:Eskimo-Aleut_langs.png
Places I got information:
The International Encyclopedia of Linguistics
https://www.princeton.edu/~browning/snow.html
A Grammatical Sketch of Siberian Yupik Eskimo by Steven Jacobson, which can be found here: http://library.alaska.gov/hist/hist_docs/docs/anlm/05265040.pdf
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8min

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