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Description: Think Fact here: We use words all the time, but how exactly do they work? And, is there a chance that words are "not real?" Let's investigate! Steven Pinker: Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain: youtube.com/watch?v=Q-B_ONJIEcE Special thanks to Michael from Vsauce for being apart of a video of mine! Check him out if you have not: youtube.com/user/Vsauce ____________________________ Link to my YouTube channel: youtube.com/thinkfact Link to my Twitter account: twitter.com/DaleWinslow Link to the Think Fact sub Reddit: reddit.com/r/thinkfact _______ First song is called: Vexento Link to song: youtu.be/8sOQ7HM0BYo And was made by: Yuki Website: juliadelgado.de Second song is called: Unfoldment, Revealment, Evolution, Exposition, Integration And was made by: Chris Zabriskie It's licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: chriszabriskie.com/reappear Artist: chriszabriskie.com ____________________________ Sources and further readings: The definition to "word:" oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/word?q=words Book that helped inspire the video, over how we organize species: entsoc.org/pubs/bookreviews/book-review-naming-nature-clash-between-instinct-and-science en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_taxonomy Friedrich Nietzsche (Full quote) goodreads.com/quotes/279237-words-are-but-symbols-for-the-relations-of-things-to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche A scale that lets you look at the size of different things throughout the universe: htwins.net/scale2 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time Beyond Words: How Humans Communicate Through Sound: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26361049 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_communication History around morse code: history.com/topics/inventions/telegraph History around binary: cut-the-knot.org/do_you_know/BinaryHistory.shtml Stephen Hawking's means of communicating: hawking.org.uk/the-computer.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerspelling en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatosensory_system Helen Keller, footage from the 1930s: youtube.com/watch?v=KLqyKeMQfmY Helen Keller, footage from the 1950s with her talking: youtube.com/watch?v=8ch_H8pt9M8 Deaf blind alphebet visionaustralia.org/images/braille/deafblind-alphabet.jpg?sfvrsn=0 Explanation over universal grammar: rit.edu/cla/philosophy/quine/universal_grammar.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky (The Morpheme) Long and Short Words: Language Typology -Tom Scott: youtube.com/watch?v=bxARj07jFp0 What the… Is that a word?: The myths behind word usage and “correctness:” writeworld.org/post/37691735655/what-the-is-that-a-word-the-myths-behind-word I need to get me one of these: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedic_dictionary Exclamation over the difference between dictionaries and encyclopedias: christianlehmann.eu/ling/ling_meth/ling_description/lexicography/dict_vs_encyclopedia.html Interesting list where the same word has a completely different meaning between languages: edl.ecml.at/LanguageFun/Sameworddifferentmeaning/tabid/3103/Default.aspx Interesting words that have known true English equivalent: lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/lost-translation-30-words-with-english-equivalent.html All The Colours, Including Grue: How Languages See Colours Differently -Tom Scott: youtube.com/watch?v=2TtnD4jmCDQ Why Computers Suck At Translation, By Tom Scott: youtube.com/watch?v=GAgp7nXdkLU Look at polysynthetic languages, particularly that of native American languages: native-languages.org/definitions/polysynthetic.htm en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaneron Is Anything Real? -Vsauce: youtube.com/watch?v=L45Q1_psDqk What Are You? -Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell: youtube.com/watch?v=JQVmkDUkZT4 Professor Robert Sapolsky gives a lecture on language: youtube.com/watch?v=SIOQgY1tqrU A cool text editor that I have been using to get the wacky fonts for the video: eeemo.net --- Plexus Form on a Black Background - Royalty Free Footage youtube.com/watch?v=t0kGRcd-IFY "O̡̭̣͈̝uŕ̭̲͖͔͉̼̣" W҉o͏ŗḑsͫͬ͊̓ͧ̄ ͢Ǹo̴t Re҉a̧l? What are words?