Semantics: Crash Course Linguistics #5

Meat used to mean food in general

Thanks for this. Now I know where to start in resolving some common arguments that come up for me. I think the issue is with interpretations related to predicate calculus.

i’m the ultimate enabler of the “— is a sandwich/soup” argument. I wholeheartedly believe even our planet is a sandwich

I'm really enjoying the content, but the captions are overlapping some of the callouts

if your losing change the words meaning

Extremely interesting!

“Arguing semantics“ is one of my new favorite phrases, right up there with “waxing poetic”.

Fun fact: The German word "gift" means poison.
Originally, it started out like well, gift in English. However, people assassinated each other by giving each other "gifts", and the meaning kind of stuck.

In the future, when you mention a scholar could you put their birthdate in? Or should I wait until the Pragmatics video to comment this...

great video

Hi. I wish next time, I can see a segment in your channel that tackles everything about an education course . I hope so.

In fact Polish also has one word (robić) for "doing" and "making".

Can you guys please bring back Human Geography T_T

Love love love this series!!

The way I'm taking linguistics in college and crash course has an ongoing series on linguistics

I literally picture the word, not an image of the actual thing.

So when someone says "that's semantics" what does that mean?

This whole episode... its all semantics.

My favorite part of the week!

that was a lot of new terms for a quasi-linguistics hobbyist

“That’s semantics that uses formulas, not semantics you do while wearing a ballgown”

Well now I feel a bit silly for always changing into a tuxedo to do semantics.

I’m a French language teacher and I really appreciated this video.

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.

She really likes rabbits.

Chex Mix is a salad.

Yo great episode as usual but can we petition Sarah green to host crash course art history and criticism pretty please

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)

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.

Aww, I was hoping we'd segue into talking about scoping quantifiers over others! Ah well, the logician in me can always go do some lambda calculus to pass the time. Great video!

Michael La Ronda likes Gav.

Semantics is one of my favorite branches of linguistics, along with phonology and historical linguistics.

"That's formal as in using formulas, not semantics you do while wearing a ball gown." Awwww... * ~disappointed pouting~ *

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.

This episodes makes me want to have a chom chom

Pizzas are open face grilled cheese sandwiches. As an absurdist, I feel this is a fine hill to die on.

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.

Matpakke is food you bring from home to work, school or a trip, it's not a type of sandwich

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.

Awesome video 👌

anything served on a bun or swaddled isn't a sandwich.

This video should come with a warning not to watch it on an empty stomach!

most linguists would agree that BANK is not an example of polysemy but of homonymy, in fact BANK is the most commonly used textbook example of homonymy

I love CrashCourse videos! Every school should have them!

So is a sushi a sandwich? Fried chicken has to be a sandwich. So KFC chicken burgers are sandwiches filled with sandwiches 🤔 deep

what is this a hotdog is a sandwich?