This is the first time I've seen any of his videos and now have watched 15 of them.

You chose all the right adverbs.

Sure. Words have meaning and power. Hardly ever is the word used in it's proper context in recent vernacular or history though. People are being programmed to be stupider with each passing generation in their use and abuse of language. 'Just' is used nowadays as a filler word or as an excuse in defense of someone's inability or unwillingness to express honestly, anything at all. In it's adverb form ("Exactly, that's it!' or, 'the meaning being quite clear') or the adjective ('based upon or behaving according to what is morally right and fair'), the meaning is 'quite clear.'

Here for example, in Dag's comment (resounding best in one's mind when imagined in the voice of a 14-year-old teenaged girl from Beverly Hills), the word takes on a relatively banal and pointless connotation as well as reflecting in this case of a pompous air as well as a laziness of thought with little or no meaning, whatsoever.

Only folks that understand already and know Dag to lean towards the unrealistic, romantic, idealist camp with regard to the condition of the planet's coveted and rampantly abused resources and air-quality relative to climate, would 'get the jyst' as it were.

Love ya Dagmar, I simply can't stand the word 'just' being thrown about to satisfy one's ego or unbridled emotionalism. Stop buying plastic bullshit and driving, etc. etc., and don't cast a vote for empirical cunts and lovers of empire and their own if you're that passionate, or shut the fuck up about it already, hippie-boy

By the way, if you haven't guessed already, I own a POS used Cadillac, running great, lotta power, sexy-ish, plush and roomy inside, chicks and brothers dig my roll, but hard as fuck by design ("Fuck You, General Motors!") to find new parts for.

entire.... I see what she did there!

Also, she's the one likely to get in a car accident if she's too busy thinking about flat adverbs and not paying attention to the road.

You got this just about exactly right. Three sentences in 7 minutes of talking.


>> ^Kofi:

Verb - noun - noun - pronoun - adjective - verb - political keyword - noun. Pronoun - adverb - noun - noun - noun - freedom - adjective - pronoun - current location - adjective - noun - God. Verb - noun - noun - enemy demographic - adjective - noun - noun - America - adjective - noun.

Verb - noun - noun - pronoun - adjective - verb - political keyword - noun. Pronoun - adverb - noun - noun - noun - freedom - adjective - pronoun - current location - adjective - noun - God. Verb - noun - noun - enemy demographic - adjective - noun - noun - America - adjective - noun.

If only I had that level of caution...

In reply to this comment by Fusionaut:
Hey Opus,

I actually had to google it myself before I posted since I wasn't sure myself.

In reply to this comment by Opus_Moderandi:
>> ^Fusionaut:

al·right   
[awl-rahyt]
–adverb
all right.
—Can be confused:  all right, alright (see usage note at the current entry ).
—Usage note
The form alright as a one-word spelling of the phrase all right in all of its senses probably arose by analogy with such words as already and altogether. Although alright is a common spelling in written dialogue and in other types of informal writing, all right is used in more formal, edited writing.
{EDIT} forgot the reference http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/alright
>> ^Opus_Moderandi:
Yeah, he does seem to be alright.



Well, bury me in an ant hill and smear me with jam. That'll teach me not to research my grammar nazi comments.

Hey Opus,

I actually had to google it myself before I posted since I wasn't sure myself.

In reply to this comment by Opus_Moderandi:
>> ^Fusionaut:

al·right   
[awl-rahyt]
–adverb
all right.
—Can be confused:  all right, alright (see usage note at the current entry ).
—Usage note
The form alright as a one-word spelling of the phrase all right in all of its senses probably arose by analogy with such words as already and altogether. Although alright is a common spelling in written dialogue and in other types of informal writing, all right is used in more formal, edited writing.
{EDIT} forgot the reference http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/alright
>> ^Opus_Moderandi:
Yeah, he does seem to be alright.



Well, bury me in an ant hill and smear me with jam. That'll teach me not to research my grammar nazi comments.

>> ^Fusionaut:

al·right   
[awl-rahyt]
–adverb
all right.
—Can be confused:  all right, alright (see usage note at the current entry ).
—Usage note
The form alright as a one-word spelling of the phrase all right in all of its senses probably arose by analogy with such words as already and altogether. Although alright is a common spelling in written dialogue and in other types of informal writing, all right is used in more formal, edited writing.
{EDIT} forgot the reference http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/alright
>> ^Opus_Moderandi:
Yeah, he does seem to be alright.



pwned.

>> ^Fusionaut:

al·right   
[awl-rahyt]
–adverb
all right.
—Can be confused:  all right, alright (see usage note at the current entry ).
—Usage note
The form alright as a one-word spelling of the phrase all right in all of its senses probably arose by analogy with such words as already and altogether. Although alright is a common spelling in written dialogue and in other types of informal writing, all right is used in more formal, edited writing.
{EDIT} forgot the reference http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/alright
>> ^Opus_Moderandi:
Yeah, he does seem to be alright.



Well, bury me in an ant hill and smear me with jam. That'll teach me not to research my grammar nazi comments.

al·right   
[awl-rahyt]
–adverb
all right.
—Can be confused:  all right, alright (see usage note at the current entry ).

—Usage note
The form alright as a one-word spelling of the phrase all right in all of its senses probably arose by analogy with such words as already and altogether. Although alright is a common spelling in written dialogue and in other types of informal writing, all right is used in more formal, edited writing.

{EDIT} forgot the reference http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/alright
>> ^Opus_Moderandi:

Yeah, he does seem to be alright.

Reminds me of... not is ... it shares a general concept but not the motivation to create obediance.

Here, the language takes away the context of human idioms, emotion, and cultural norms embedded in the words replacing it with dry descriptions and simplified adverbs. e.g. Lips, eyes, smile, waiter, food, drink, menus, mirrors, tears, man, woman. Smiling or crying means something. Lip uplifting or dripping salt liquid is an empty description.

Living with such a language would limit the ability to think and behave emotively as a human... there just wouldn't be a word for it any more.>> ^poolcleaner:

>> ^raverman:
Awesome Post! Steampunk style poetry... reminds me of Orwellian "Newspeak".

It's more like the opposite of Newspeak. Newspeak was a parred down vocabulary, simplifying sentence structure, omitting alternative words, and emphasizing simplistic concatenations such as "doublethink", as well as shortened concatenations such as "minitrue" (Ministry of Truth). It's also important to note that in order to truly speak and understand Newspeak you must have a specific understanding of each word, for no single word is intended to be used in any other way than it's original meaning, eliminating poetics.
This video, on the other hand, is a string of modern expressions filled with stiff latinate words for comedic (and poetic) effect. There are too many thoughts associated with each word to be even remotely considered for ingsoc's Oceania.

>> ^nibiyabi:
>> I wonder if the grammar error in the phrase "things we say wrong" is intentional, because he never seemed to address it.

I can't tell, but he does say "things we say correctly" at one point. My first instinct is that he wasn't trying to be ironic.




>> ^FlowersInHisHair:
>> OK - I have to take this chap to task on this one: "I feel badly".

Yes, he's trying to assume that only an adverb fits there. Saying "I feel sick" is a description of what a person feels, not how he/she feels it. He would probably look at someone oddly if they said "I feel exhaustedly".

Actually, it's
"I think what you fucking meant was:
"Ah, come on... Grammar Nazis - it's pretty original."
Alternatively, perhaps some ellipses would suffice, but I have no fucking idea what those commas are doing there."

not
"I think what you fucking meant was:
Ah come on: grammar nazis. It's pretty original.
Or perhaps some ellipses would suffice. But I have no fucking idea what those commas are doing there."

You will notice that I omitted starting a sentence with a conjunction. Furthermore, "pretty" (adverb) is overworked and has no place in a serious discourse such as this, therefore usage of "fairly" is advised.

>> ^chilaxe:
>> ^syncron:
Ah come on, grammar nazis, it's pretty original.


I think what you fucking meant was:
Ah come on: grammar nazis. It's pretty original.
Or perhaps some ellipses would suffice. But I have no fucking idea what those commas are doing there.

>> ^rychan:
I think her usage was fine. "pristinely" is an adverb, modifying "carried". You can carry yourself sadly, happily, slowly, quickly, or pristinely.

The syntax of the sentence may have been correct but it's semantically that she's incorrect. It doesn't make sense to say "I carried myself spotlessly" or "I breathed underhandedly."