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ranculus :
imagine arguing with somebody in Tamil and they start referring to you with the irrational noun class 💀
2023-08-11 19:51:32
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nozaki’s biggest fan🫡 :
wait can you explain the rational irrational nouns in tamil
2023-08-11 16:03:56
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human1011 :
The noun classes of the Bantu languages will always be one of the coolest systems ever :)
2023-08-11 15:13:30
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Carlos :
The language im learning right now differentiates between nouns you can touch, nouns you can see and nouns you can't see. Can you guess what it is?
2023-08-11 14:00:38
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sporky🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 :
you could distinguish between social classes. all of them, current and historical, and formal and informal separately
2023-08-18 20:31:41
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Prince • Enemies :
I thought a noun class was where a noun goes to study and become a pro noun
2023-08-12 00:32:45
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muskeg.mudsuck :
That last is specularly tranparent!! Or transparently specular!!😁😁
2023-08-13 00:13:41
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Luciliae :
please tell us about the Justin "case"
2023-08-28 03:22:36
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Lumifyrr ᛚᚢᛗᛁᚠᛁᚱᚱ :
the rich/poor nouns is how we talk about meat/animals (e.g. mutton/sheep, beef/cow, poultry/bird, etc.)... we can blame the french for that
2023-08-11 21:48:45
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Beetroot :
@chloe RAAAAAGH
2023-08-13 08:12:07
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Erika J. Algard 🍉 :
My conlangs are looking absolutely classless right now. Time to make a class class that excludes my country bumpkin ass
2023-08-11 14:12:25
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iStickyBouquet :
I'm trying to make a language for my book and your videos help a lot btw
2023-08-11 16:53:40
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Hi :
doesn't mandarin sort of have this with the articles
2023-08-11 19:37:25
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bibabassie :
sanest linguist
2023-08-11 17:11:58
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marie 🐿️ :
gendered inanimate nouns?
2023-08-11 13:55:32
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hilmafrrghr :
@spoopytanuki @wilhelm polish seperates words into fem, masc, neuter, masc animate, masc inanimate and masc personal :D just a little fun fact
2023-08-11 16:46:45
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Ananya 🏎️🚦 :
@simran white people saying Tamil is always a jumpscare
2023-08-12 23:38:34
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John M :
Swahili does that and tbh I don't see the point 😂🥰 still lovely language tho
2023-08-11 18:57:13
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meriem :
in light of the caption i think you'd be delighted to know a linguistics professor at my university is named Justin Case
2023-08-11 13:49:47
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Anna Lynn398 :
Mood
2023-08-11 13:49:27
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Kaynewilly :
Look into japanease and counting different objects. certain properties of object are counted differently. R there any other or similar things
2023-08-12 07:13:45
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Saru - shihosaki canon :
i thought you were Ben from Zepotha...
2023-08-12 12:11:18
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newsflash :
You are very handsome :)
2023-08-11 13:49:17
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Linus :
Gonna add a based/cringe class system in my next language
2023-08-13 15:49:21
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💚💚Mika09💚💚 :
@TheyCallMeShug
2023-08-13 10:45:56
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jsfdfkdsf :
i did NOT expect u to mention tamil hahaha i was shook
2023-08-15 03:26:41
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the capital of alaska :
can i separate them between basil and not-basil? seriously though i love your videos they’ve helped me so much with my own language
2023-08-16 01:08:41
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Marshal🔥🔥 :
Please make a pikmin language
2023-08-11 19:16:19
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<3 :
in bengali there's o e and she which is based on distance
2023-08-13 08:31:43
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Honda Civic :
Calm down man
2023-08-11 13:52:44
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Anomalous.Glitch :
In Japan, there’s different words to count things based off physical attributes.
2023-08-12 13:11:58
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Zeph_16 :
I love your vids but my metabolism is too slow to follow you so i need multiple watches everytime 😂
2023-08-11 16:25:00
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[ee-lim] :
taking apart a language’s components (esp morphology here) from the lens of creating your own language is mindblowing
2023-11-27 06:24:30
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1^∞ :
Tamil mentioned 🎉
2023-08-13 14:31:34
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ivyboo😘✝️ :
Unrelated: Have you ever talked to a bird in your bird language? If not please do it, I wanna see if the bird will react.
2023-08-11 23:39:47
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fukashi :
what on earth is a rational and irrational noun
2023-08-12 03:21:57
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proratarights :
Do you have a job
2023-08-12 00:30:25
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e :
didn't gendered nouns in Latin derived languages start from animate and inanimate?
2023-08-11 16:32:11
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GJB :
I did a class for invisible nouns in my conlang
2023-08-11 15:19:49
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bee :
imma make noun for weather something is fabric or not
2023-08-12 00:02:23
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Santoso :
English sort of have those high-poor register, I think? chicken vs poultry house vs mansion/domicile bedroom vs bedchamber
2023-08-12 03:33:26
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DeadInSalem🔻 :
Don’t even get me started on Navajo noun classes
2023-08-12 03:43:41
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Lauciello :
Neapolitan distinguishes between mass nouns (milk, coffee, iron, rap music, bread) from masculine nouns 😳
2023-08-11 22:15:14
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CaptainCalliope :
Your hubris knows no bounds. Bordering on madness. It's inspiring.
2023-08-12 07:20:28
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The Toad Lord ` :
In my language nouns are male female and neutral, but only male are in/animate
2023-08-12 07:37:13
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Nicholas (Sedgewick) Thompson :
🤯🤯🤯🤯….
2023-08-12 09:28:54
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Mallorcastylexx :
kay(f)bop(t) has a Justin Case for an object that could come in handy in an emergency
2023-08-11 21:12:40
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