Semantics: Crash Course Linguistics #5
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Bill
In Book 13 of The Analects, when asked about the first measure to be taken in order to improve the administration, Confucius replied, -It would certainly be to correct language-
Our languages are so screwed up in the fact that everyone holds different meanings in their head to the same words. This causes very poor communication and shallow thinking.
If we could return to a language like Tamil where a words meaning could be derived by the word itself we could think and communicate much more efficiently.
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In Book 13 of The Analects, when asked about the first measure to be taken in order to improve the administration, Confucius replied, -It would certainly be to correct language-
Our languages are so screwed up in the fact that everyone holds different meanings in their head to the same words. This causes very poor communication and shallow thinking.
If we could return to a language like Tamil where a words meaning could be derived by the word itself we could think and communicate much more efficiently.
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Sharon
seeing people in the comments talking about the Sandwich Debate, and even the Soup/Cereal convo, but the real question is: Is butt leg? (imo it totally is)
also i miss my semantics homework from my undergrad days. predicate calculus was fun, easy-, and impressed my non-ling friends bc they thought i was doing some super complicated math with all the funky symbols we were using by the end of that quarter.
-(for me, at the level we were at)
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seeing people in the comments talking about the Sandwich Debate, and even the Soup/Cereal convo, but the real question is: Is butt leg? (imo it totally is)
also i miss my semantics homework from my undergrad days. predicate calculus was fun, easy-, and impressed my non-ling friends bc they thought i was doing some super complicated math with all the funky symbols we were using by the end of that quarter.
-(for me, at the level we were at)
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Novrdd
i gotta be honest, back in the day I have to read through books: a journey with words and boring pages, to be able to have a certain amount of understanding of semantic and its branches. This video gives me a lot of hope, joys, and happiness for how fun it is for people out there to obtain this kind of knowledge nowdays. Thank you so much Crash Course for your works. I adore it so much.
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i gotta be honest, back in the day I have to read through books: a journey with words and boring pages, to be able to have a certain amount of understanding of semantic and its branches. This video gives me a lot of hope, joys, and happiness for how fun it is for people out there to obtain this kind of knowledge nowdays. Thank you so much Crash Course for your works. I adore it so much.
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Gang
My education borrowed the psychological term Schema. Packets of cultural information that attach themselves to phonemes which add meaning beyond their definition when formed into a word. Schema can also be entirely individual. What do you think of when you think of -A Fast Car- In America it's usually a red sports car, but it breaks down depending on the individual, and country of origin.
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My education borrowed the psychological term Schema. Packets of cultural information that attach themselves to phonemes which add meaning beyond their definition when formed into a word. Schema can also be entirely individual. What do you think of when you think of -A Fast Car- In America it's usually a red sports car, but it breaks down depending on the individual, and country of origin.
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MrsHellraizer
Hold on! I am Norwegian and I've lived and visited places across the country. Vegimite is NOT a thing that is normal on -matpakka- (which means food package for anyone who wants to know. Just saying matpakka doesn't even have to contain bread it can be a salat if you want. But vegimite isn't a thing you can find outside of the biggest cities in Norway.
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Hold on! I am Norwegian and I've lived and visited places across the country. Vegimite is NOT a thing that is normal on -matpakka- (which means food package for anyone who wants to know. Just saying matpakka doesn't even have to contain bread it can be a salat if you want. But vegimite isn't a thing you can find outside of the biggest cities in Norway.
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Lakrids
-Matpakke- means -packed lunch-. If you pack a burrito, then that's your matpakke. You could pack a bowl of salad, and it would still be a matpakke.
A person from Norway might usually pack a very simple sandwich with liver pate and multiple pieces of bread, but she could also bring lompe or lefse (flat bread) and it would still be a matpakke.
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-Matpakke- means -packed lunch-. If you pack a burrito, then that's your matpakke. You could pack a bowl of salad, and it would still be a matpakke.
A person from Norway might usually pack a very simple sandwich with liver pate and multiple pieces of bread, but she could also bring lompe or lefse (flat bread) and it would still be a matpakke.
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andrewnduati
Absolutely not, semantics example aside, I will not stand for anyone to call a pizza sandwich. I do not care what facts you may have to completely invalidate my opinion which I consider to be a fact for me. Pizza is not a type of sandwich. END OF DISCUSSION (jk I love semantics and I'm all for it)
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Absolutely not, semantics example aside, I will not stand for anyone to call a pizza sandwich. I do not care what facts you may have to completely invalidate my opinion which I consider to be a fact for me. Pizza is not a type of sandwich. END OF DISCUSSION (jk I love semantics and I'm all for it)
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Cookie
I used to collect reference books. I was surprised to discover that the word computer was listed in a 1921 unabridged English dictionary. I was amused to read that it described someone's job, adding up columns of numbers and/or doing other mathematics or computations.
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I used to collect reference books. I was surprised to discover that the word computer was listed in a 1921 unabridged English dictionary. I was amused to read that it described someone's job, adding up columns of numbers and/or doing other mathematics or computations.
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Christian
Awesome video again! Semantics courses at my university were infamously obtuse and formal--we had to learn set theory before even talking about types of meaning--and this was WAY easier to understand. It is hard to capture the scope of Semantics though.
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Awesome video again! Semantics courses at my university were infamously obtuse and formal--we had to learn set theory before even talking about types of meaning--and this was WAY easier to understand. It is hard to capture the scope of Semantics though.
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Lrozzie
The Norwegian matpakke is just a sandwich wrapped in paper that you usually bring either to school/work or maybe on a mountain hike. The word consists of two words. Mat(food) + pakke (package. The filling can be whatever you like.
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The Norwegian matpakke is just a sandwich wrapped in paper that you usually bring either to school/work or maybe on a mountain hike. The word consists of two words. Mat(food) + pakke (package. The filling can be whatever you like.
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