Hi Ryan - thanks for saying so. That's really what I wanted it to be like, but I've gotta be honest... I spent a STUPID amount of time on this video that then absolutely tanked in views. I knew it wouldn't do well but it's done particularly poorly and took me a PARTICULARLY huge amount of time and mental energy, so I really appreciate you saying that. I don't normally do this but I'm hoping that just a few more like-minded people will see this and was wondering if you had a friend or a social or something that you'd be willing to share it with? No worries if not... It's just the usual KZfaq algorithm isn't finding this one's audience. Cheers for the comment in any case!

@@daysandwords Thanks for the reply. It's a shame it didn't do well - I'll share it where I can. I've seen other creators complain that their highest-effort videos often get no views while a video they think nothing of will end up with huge reach. Just know that I'm rooting for you, as are your other subscribers. It's also possible that 'language learners' are inherently a weird bunch of people to appeal to. With so much variety I'm not envious of anyone who has to try to figure out what works for the algorithm. It seems much more 'in flux' than other spaces like Chess KZfaq or BookTube which seem to have more or less 'settled' to a formula or even a format where each video is kind of similar. But then the variety of LanguageTube allows for new creators to emerge and bring new ideas. It just also risks the algorithm sometimes saying no. In any case, I hope you keep doing what you enjoy.

It's a brilliant video and I enjoyed it a lot. But, if you want clicks commensurate with the effort you put it, your title and thumbnail *suck*. The close up of the word suggests "wordy things". Dictionaries etc. Boffins in glasses. But the real focus of the video isn't "the word that…" it's "…gives me nightmares"… because the video *is* the nightmare. It's the hell in your head. Change the thumbail to highlight the ghost train/horror rollercoaster journey that you take us on and you'll get more clicks. Eg. You terrified, on a ghost train, pulling your hair out, being attacked by flying bat-shaped words. I'll bet GPT-4 or Bing could bang out something pretty reasonable for you.

Totally! I would say that "tear up" as in to cry is a faaaaairly modern way of using it and sort of doesn't really make it a verb, because you've got to add "up", and you can make basically anything a particle verb by adding a preposition. You would get strange looks if you just said "I hope I don't tear". "Tear up" is the verb, I would argue. And that's before we even mention tier... or the German "Tier" (beast/animal).

Yeah, wanted to write the same thing :)

Yeah, in English it's called an element.

German: One single glass or plastic element is ‘die/eine Linse’ Objektiv is a device you can mount on your camera that consist of one or several ‘Linsen’ (die/einige Linsen) ‘Linse’ actually refers to the shape of the surface not being flat, so you can have contact lenses (Kontaktlinsen) for your eyes and even lentils, because of their shape, are called ‘Linsen’ in German.

​@@mramoschYeah it's pretty much the same in all the languages except English where it's a lens while it's in glasses, but an element when it's in an assembled camera lens.

Yeah I know. Originally the script had all that but it ended up being better to not address that. In English those are called elements. But the way this video came about just led to my needing to go down the road of pretending to not understand the difference. Although I did actually find some languages that can refer to a fully assembled lens as both "lence" and "objective".

Curiously, the different boxes actually called it different things in the same language.

I got a new camera like 2 months ago just for videos but it's actually got me right back into photography big time.

BTW what sort of stuff do you shoot? One thing I've never really done in photography is to be completely in on one genre like macro or landscapes. It's expensive to have one of basically every type of equipment haha. I've got from 14mm to 840mm. 😂

​@@daysandwords I'm mainly interested in getting good 4k60fps recordings for KZfaq, as well as some photos/videos for some non-KZfaq things where I also might need high quality footage. I can totally feel how it can indeed get super expensive haha, I'm actually just on the verge of buying a camera and a lens today - Going for the Sony a7s III, but I was REALLY was conflicted over what lens to get. I'd really love a wide-angle 20mm f1.8 lens because it looks great by default, but its fixed angle so I can't zoom with it, which I think might turn into a problem considering how often I use rapid zooms/pans in my videos. Then a 24-105mm F4 is also a practical choice, which would be great for the zooms that I do in my videos, but its not a wide-angle lens, and I think I'd really benefit from one, so in the end, I decided I'll go with a 16-35mm F4 wide-angle lens as a middle-ground. I really want to try all of those lenses, but they're all like 500€ to 1000€, so I decided that I should first just go with one and then get more later if I it feels like one is not enough lol. I'm really not that knowledgeable about cameras and lenses yet, so its better to start "small". I did buy a GH5 Mark II at one point at the start of last year, but I refunded it as I wasn't fully satisfied with it, and decided that if I'll get a real camera, then I should get one that I'd actually be satisfied with, even if it costs twice as much. I'm currently in Japan where cameras/lenses are a bit cheaper as there are plenty of second hand options, so I'm using that as an opportunity.

Oh yeah, for some reason... I forget that you need a camera for KZfaq, because I've always thought of you as a faceless channel, but of course you do film stuff haha. I think Sony is where it's at for a lot of things... the latest Panasonic (my one) is only their first camera that can keep up, so the whole system is still kind of behind.

Yeah there are heaps of variations. But there are three Spanishes at the end all referring to a complete camera lens and they all call it different things. (Different countries/dialects obviously.)

You mean you will look at them through a different... len?

@@daysandwordsbut he has two eyes, so you meant to say lenSES, or …. *dramatic music* did you?

yeah, it makes you see things in a different lens

Oh dude this one almost killed me haha. I want to make putting this kind of video together less of a chore than it currently is, because I like the result but I can't be doing this to myself every video. 😅

@daysandwords oh really 😅 yeahhh, I get that. No need to be running a marathon everytime you go to put a video together haha. I'm sure you'll sweet talk to videos into giving you less trouble in no time 😂

Actually, I'm asking a few people in the comments this... I don't normally do this but I'm hoping that just a few more like-minded people will see this and was wondering if you had a friend or a social or something that you'd be willing to share it with? No worries if not... It's just the usual KZfaq algorithm isn't finding this one's audience. Cheers for the comment in any case!

Tackar!

Well they probably all got it from Latin or from a neighbouring language. It's like tongue/language. It's not coincidence that we can refer to a language as a tongue, but in French they're literally the same word. It's also interesting that in English it's ONLY the collection of "lenses" to make a tube that goes on a camera that's called lens. The ACTUAL lenses that make up this "lens" are called "elements".

Thank you!

Yeah it's the same in most of the languages I mentioned, except Spanish, where they can call it "objetivo", "optica" or "lente" depending on dialect.

Haha thanks. No, I only watched season 1 of that show about 5 years ago.

BTW I take this as a particularly nice compliment because it was actually not the script to even speak Swedish... I just had some notes about getting really annoyed at the instruction booklet, and since I was reading the Swedish section of it I got annoyed at it in Swedish haha.

Thanks Erik! Unfortunately the algorithm isn't finding the right audience on this one. 😐

Ha, you're funny. I actually wanted to but at this stage and with 4000 views per video... yeah, nah.

Maybe make it a KZfaq Shorts series then? It'll be less time and effort that way, and you can gauge whether or not people will watch a full length video about it

Shorts take even longer. (Seriously, there's a name for this paradox, I forget what it is, but it's a thing.) I absolutely hear what you're saying, don't worry, it's been on my mind to do videos like this for like 2 years, TRUST ME... But however complex you're thinking it is to make this a series or a shorts series or whatever, it's probably 4x as complex (and that's assuming that you're actually pretty savvy as to how tricky these really are.)

Whoever you are, I just want to THANK YOU so much for saying this. It took me freakin' forever and got like 1/10th of my usual views (which I kind of expected), but for me it's about actually pushing myself, so it's good to hear that someone appreciated that.

I'll actually talk about my stock music provider in a video soon!

You know this whole video is a joke, right?

"Det är lite underligt att lins och objektiv heter samma sak på engelska." De heter INTE samma sak på engelska. Det ni kallar för "lins" kallar vi för "element" (vanligtvis "the front element" eller "the rear element"). Men en gång till... förstår du inte att genom hela videon skojar jag?

Cheers!

Bens Tens' Wrens can be photographed with a lens. Don't judge me OK I've been working on this video since I can remember.

It's also a photography thing, but it doesn't fit the pattern of "lenses". Think about it... It would have to be "bellowses".

Yeah me too! I've never had a problem spelling anything, but when I would see people write "lense", I could kind of see where they were coming from!

No cleanse as in you can carry out a cleanse. It's a nounification of the verb.

To clarify: Yes, I have heard cleanser, but I would normally associate that with some sort of material, like hand cleanser or something. "Cleanse" to refer to the period of time that you use to eliminate something, e.g. junk food cleanse, is definitely a thing.

Yeah, I guess French doesn't normally conflate the two, like you have "vous" and with the liaison, that's a Z sound, "vou-z-ête..." but then when there's an S, it's more often in the middle or at the start of a word, like "sujet".

Haha this took me more than a month! 😅

Oh right, I didn't actually pick that up. I thought it was an odd choice of words but I thought maybe you were assuming I uploaded weekly haha.

Well I guess in earlier times there wasn't much else to refer to for shapes. When you think about it "bulb" is also from plants and vegetables.

Hmmm, I also did a bit of this as a teenager long before I learned languages... but I was learning a lot of music at the time. I think it will go away with time, because I think it's just a natural consequence of your brain assimilating a lot of new information. I'd have to recommend you see someone more qualified if it continues.

Thanks for watching.

Thanks for the recommendation!

Thank you! It took almost as long as "Immersion" so I should hope it was worth it.

I said that though... But it's spelled differently so it's not the same.

That's a name though, and also I think it's deliberately anomalous. That is, it sounds funnier and more fitting to say "Joneses" when most people would just say "Jones". It's just the phrase "keeping up with the Joneses" that has its own rules.

Yeah... I did actually mess up the upload settings though, that wasn't just me trying to come up with an excuse... it probably would have done badly anyway but it did even worse because I had VPN'd through Mexico when I uploaded and I saw that a disproportionate number of viewers in the first hour were from Mexico, and they would have immediately left because of the English and whatever else (not knowing my channel etc.) - I would reupload it but it seems like a mild gain.

But I mentioned that... And there are a few problems with it. Yes, a proper noun, but I would also argue, not really an English word. It's a foreign name, and no one in English speaking countries calls them "Mercedes-Benzes", we just call them "Mercedes" and then the plural takes care of itself. Literally the only time I hear the "Benz" part is on ads for them.

The man in the blue shirt says I'm not allowed to check.

Hmm, nah I disagree. "Where ARE my jeans?" - "Your jeans ARE here." "These scissors are really bad." We treat them as plural and they ARE plural... You can't say "jeanses" and you can't say "My scissors is broken." Also, it's perfectly fine, and probably even "more" correct to say "A PAIR of scissors" and a "PAIR of jeans/pants". The only difference between them and completely ordinary plurals is that a singular version doesn't really exist... but that's by nature. You need two blades to make scissors and you need two pant legs to make pants. Lens isn't the same... the ONLY word that anyone (including me) has come up with that goes in the same category is "summons".

@@daysandwords That's what I said. We treat them like plurals but can one have one jean or one scissor? No, not unless you want to get real weird with language like one pant leg is a jean and one blade of the scissors is a scissor lol

But they ARE plural in the normal ways. You said "we treat them as plural but aren't"... But they ARE. Lens and summons are totally different.

Thank you! It was a lot of work haha. Well, there's rhyming, and then there's rhyming. All the words like "tense" can rhyme in what I'd call a "rap battle" scenario, like where anything that sounds about right will do. "You got me out here and I'm sittin' on the fence, About whet-her or not I'm gonna buy. this. lens." Yeah, it definitely works for that. But it's a different sound. There are quite a few words that rhyme with "tenses" - fences, senses etc. But "lenZ" only rhymes with those plurals I mentioned, and "cleanse" because the rest of them are the S sound. There is of course also all the conjugations of the "-end" verbs, "mends, wends, tends, sends, bends, lends" (lends is literally a perfect homophone because you don't pronounce the D) but then they can't be pluralised to make "mendses". In summary, we're talking about words from different categories of rhyming quality. Near rhymes: - Tense, fence, defence, dense, hence, whence, sense, vents Then perfect rhymes (only for "lens", not "lenses"): cleanse dens hens wrens tens / tends fends bends mends wends sends ammends attends etc.

@@daysandwords aaaah now I got it! I pronounced it wrong! So the sound of the Z carries also over to the plural, and that is completely unique. What a mess. Thank you for that thorough explanation!

Oh yeah, I get where the confusion was now... Yes, it's a Z-Z sound at the end. "LenZeZ", which is like "cleanZeZ" but they are the only two that I know of. I literally only noticed TODAY that the -s plural that we use in English is always pronounced as a Z. It is so ingrained in our minds (mindZ) that it's actually hard to explain to people... They can't even hear what you mean until you say something like "cars" but you pronounce it "carce".

@@daysandwords Jep that's exactly it ;). For my German ear, it has been a subtlety that I just now am able to notice. We never stop learning! :D

Thanks Sonya! Sorry to ask but I'm asking this of anyone who seems to have been the exact target audience for this video... I'm hoping that just a few more like-minded people will see this and was wondering if you had a friend or a social or something that you'd be willing to share it with? No worries if not... It's just the usual KZfaq algorithm isn't finding this one's audience. Cheers for the comment in any case!

Well, if I were the algorithm, I wouldn't know either who to recommend this to...

😂

Curiosity kills the cat….. I changed my region to Italy. I have to change it back to German before doing online banking. 😂 My first english book was „The Fellowship of the Ring“. I needed three months (25 years ago). Nowadays I need 3-4 hours. I am learning Italian now with Busuu, podcasts, audiobooks, e-books - many repetitions… 1-2 hours per day, at the weekend 4-6 hours per day. This midnight I mad the test B1 in Italy after 4 months. I passed the test only from listening. I am kind of a fanatic. My primary goal was only „reading“. Greatings from Germany Ingrid

Well not to mention lends/mends/sends etc.

Yeah, did you see that note or just think of it? I only thought of it at dinner on like day 23 of editing this.

@@daysandwords the note; I went back to pause and read - I was hoping to help you get to your desired comment total

I'd make one of these fortnightly if I had like 2000 channel members. Otherwise they're once a year luxuries 😂

Yeah the point of the end was that ALL the languages listed have synonyms for lens and I found them, I just didn't have time to get them in the edit. It seems like you watched the end but at the same time... did not watch it. Because the three different Spanish words for it are mentioned... that's the entire point of it? Like... Are you familiar with how videos are made AT ALL? None of the words you mentioned fit the criteria at all, by the way.

Też to skumałem i mnie ścięło 😅

Tak! Po polsku też!

Oh actually not really. There was a M4/3 camera present in this video for a little bit but do you mean the Lumix box? That lens is for full frame L mount. I have a G85 that has been my camera for the last two years but now I've gone up to an S5 II.

@@daysandwords Oh, okay. I’d misread the Lumix box. I just love the M4/3 lenzes :) too much to switch to full-frame, but the latter probably makes more sense for your line of work. Keep up the great and quirky work, Lamont! I’ve been subscribed since 2020 and you’re one of the most unique creators out there.

​ @ChristopherBonis Yeah tonnes of people just assume Lumix is M4/3 because that was their thing for so long, so I talk to other photographers who are like "Oh, there is a Lumix full frame?" The S5 II is going to be SUPER popular in the next few years because it's a near-cinema level camera for about $2K US. Actually it turned out that the switch was somewhat unnecessary because part of it was to get a -LOG colour profile which the G85 doesn't have but then after I bought this new camera I found a small KZfaqr who had found a way to imitate LOG on the G85. Doh haha. But part of us was for a thin DOF with reliable autofocus and I got that, so it's good. Also I take photos for leisure so it's serving that purpose too. BTW you might be surprised how cheap some full frame options are now, or used APS-C. What's your current camera?

@@daysandwords Yeah, full-frame and APS-C have come a long way and largely eliminated the gap/advantage that 4/3 (now M4/3) once held. As such, it seems my system is declining in popularity and occupies a smaller and smaller market share-so much so that my neighborhood camera store doesn’t even offer M4/3 anymore. Still, I remain faithful with my beloved OM System (formerly Olympus) OM-1 and my series of small lezes with incredible range and reach (thanks to the crop-factor). For example, I just bought a second-hand 12-200mm (24-400mm equivalent), which presents extraordinary versatility. Unfortunately, it ain’t too bright. However, with the latest release (OM-1 Mark II), I’ve begun to lose faith in Olympus’ successor and really wouldn’t even recommend M4/3 at this point save for very specific circumstances, namely macro and amateur wildlife (which is what I do). I can’t think of any other arena at this point in which the smaller sensor stands out-and it certainly comes with its drawbacks…20MP certainly isn’t gonna cut it for the professional product shoots you do! Thanks for the back-and-forth, Lamont! Nice that we have a passion for photography and language learning in common.

@@daysandwords Yeah, full-frame and APS-C have come a long way and largely eliminated the gap/advantage once held by 4/3 (now M4/3). Still, I remain faithful to the format thanks in large part to lenzes with such incredible range and reach. For example, I just purchased a second-hand M. Zuiko 12-200mm (24-400mm equivalent), which affords extraordinary versatility jn a remarkably compact form-factor. Unfortunately, it ain’t too bright. Nevertheless, I remain very fond of my Olympus (now OM System) OM-1. At this point, however, I probably wouldn’t recommend M4/3 save for very specialized circumstances, namely macro and amateur wildlife (which is what I shoot). M4/3 is declining in popularity and its market share is diminishing-so much so that my local camera store doesn’t even cater to it anymore! That’s why I get excited when I see someone who appears to be using the same system! Alas, 20MP isn’t gonna cut it for the professional product shoots you do. Thanks for the back-and-forth, Lamont! It’s nice that we have photography in common (in addition to language learning)!

Yes I know but it's still weird, I've bothered explaining it somewhere down in these replies, you can find it if you want.

@@daysandwords Yes I assumed as much, and that you were well aware. :) I was just being a bit facetious. It was in no way intended as a patronising "ACTUALLYYYY..." I do apologise if that was how it came across as that was never my intention. Great video mate! I'm very happy to have found your channel!

Yeah I always figured that Arabic or an early Middle Eastern language was involved since I know that they had lenses and telescopes etc. before the West.

@@daysandwords The Greeks had lenses, but I don't think an actual telescope existed before the 17th century anywhere.

Well that depends on your definition of "telescope". When we think of a telescope we think of looking at things in space and we tend to think of Galileo, but really "tele" as in "over distance" and "scope" as in "view", the Arabs definitely had devices that could enhance the detail that you could see a distance away, just not the same kind of distance as what we call "telescopes": www.historyoftelescope.com/telescope-history/origin-of-telescope/

Thank you!

Yes. But no... See video addressing this.

Yeah I think something must have been "wrong" with the notifications on this because ok, it's not a super clickable title and thumbnail, but even most of my channel members don't seem to have seen it.

When did I say I wasn't neurodivergent? Technically I have diagnosed ADHD, but I also think that most people would have tested "positive" for it so to speak, had they have done the test under the same conditions (too much caffeine for a kid, incredibly turmultuous home life etc.)

I understood that (and the whole thing was a joke, so your use of "nonetheless" is kinda... nah), but here's what's weird about the objektiv vs lins thing: Yes, "lins" means the front or individual piece of glass, which is called an "element" in English and "objektiv" means the assembled lens. BUT: Clara really casually just says "lins" like it's nothing. NO ENGLISH speaker would EVER just say "element" in that scenario. 99% of English speakers don't know what the individual pieces of glass are CALLED. Only photographers and camera nerds know about "element". Clara isn't a camera nerd, she has said that in her other videos. So it's a difference between English and several other languages that anyone is ever referring to a given piece of glass in the assembled lens... it's weird.

Don't you mean firzt?