Best Language & linguistics Videos
「Language & linguistics」下面有84部被不同的人、在不同月份推荐过的视频。挑的时候先看对象:入门1部,适合还没学过的人;进阶3部,适合已经懂术语的人;普通向80部,按兴趣就能看;更硬的0部,留给想看推导或细节的人。这一类数量最多的是讲解,所以它们的共同点是用一个图像或类比把一个概念补上。常出现的频道包括Tom Scott、TEDx Talks、CGP Grey。目录给这个主题划的范围是:Language: linguistics, etymology, name origins, pronunciation, English history, language learning, translation, writing systems, dialects, constructed languages, onomastics.如果只看三部,就从《George Lakoff: Moral Politics》开始,它负责把问题讲出画面;然后看《Stephen Fry Kinetic Typography - Language》,换一种讲法或例子;最后看《What Languages Sound Like To Foreigners》,留给已经有基础的人。页面按每页24部切开,顺序看的是被推荐跨越了多少个月,不是播放量。每条标题下面那一句是这部片子自己的内容说明,用来区分它在讲定义、过程、演示还是观点。点进去能看到推荐原话、原文链接和适合谁看。看的时候把强烈推荐当成有人明确叫你去看,把引用当成只是拿来举例,把批评留下来对照,不要把每条评论都当成同一力度。

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Word Crimes (Official 4K Video)
Weird Al Yankovic's 2014 parody of 'Blurred Lines' that scolds common grammar and usage errors, with a kinetic typography video.

Tiffany: The Name That Cheats Death
CGP Grey investigates why the name Tiffany spiked in popularity and then faded, with help from onomastics experts.

The odd accent of Tangier VA - American Tongues episode #3
A clip from the documentary American Tongues about the isolated Tangier Island, Virginia, whose dialect is among the most unusual in the US.

Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz (HD)
A colorized clip from the 1970 Polish comedy film 'How I Unleashed World War II' in which a character must pronounce the tongue-twisting name Grzegorz Brzeczyszczykiewicz for a Gestapo officer.

How big is a billion? - Numberphile
Numberphile explains the long and short scales for naming large numbers, covering millions, billions, trillions, milliards and the Greek myriad, with James Grime and Tony Padilla.

Does the language you speak change how you think?
Tom Scott, with linguists Gretchen McCulloch and Molly Ruhl, examines whether the language you speak changes how you think.

The Hidden Rules of Conversation
Tom Scott explains Gricean maxims, the unwritten guidelines that shape how we understand each other.

Stephen Krashen on Language Acquisition
A 15-minute clip of linguist Stephen Krashen discussing language acquisition, drawn from the 1980s.

Movie Accent Expert Breaks Down 32 Actors' Accents | WIRED
Dialect coach Erik Singer analyzes how accurate the accents are of 32 well-known actors, including Brad Pitt and Will Smith, in WIRED's breakdown.

How English sounds to non-English speakers
'Skwerl' is a short film by Brian and Karl made entirely in fake English, imitating how English sounds to people who don't speak it.

No Béarla Series 1, Episode 1.
The first episode of the Irish TV series No Bearla, in which native Irish speaker Manchan Magan travels around Ireland trying to get by using only Irish.

why typing like this is sometimes okay.
Tom Scott makes a short descriptivist argument that language keeps changing and that casual internet writing conventions, like lowercase typing and dropped full stops, are legitimate.

Stephen Krashen: Language Acquisition and Comprehensible Input
A lecture from the 1980s by linguist Stephen Krashen on how people acquire language.

Original Pronunciation - Hamlet | To Be, or not to be... | Ben Crystal
Ben Crystal performs Hamlet's 'To be, or not to be' in Original Pronunciation, the reconstructed accent of Shakespeare's time, on a London balcony.

Politics and Language | Noam Chomsky | Talks at Google
Noam Chomsky gives a Talks at Google lecture covering his work on politics and language.

Appalachian English
An excerpt from the documentary Mountain Talk on Appalachian English.

Can GPT-4 translate literature?
Tom Gally, a former professional translator and University of Tokyo professor, discusses in March 2023 whether GPT-4 and similar models could translate literary and popular fiction.

What do translators think about GPT?
Tom Gally, a former professional translator and University of Tokyo professor, discusses in April 2023 how GPT-4 and similar models may affect translators' careers.

Captain Literally: Part 1 - Studio C
A Studio C sketch in which Captain Literally, a superhero who takes the word literally in its strict sense, causes absurd and painful outcomes.

Monty Python - Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook
The Monty Python sketch in which a man uses a mistranslated Hungarian phrasebook with absurd results, followed by the courtroom scene.

Nicolas Doesn't Understand The West Country Accent | Hot Fuzz | Screen Bites
A Hot Fuzz clip in which Nicholas Angel struggles to understand the West Country accent of locals.

Interslavic Language | Will Bulgarian, Polish and Croatian understand a CONSTRUCTED LANGUAGE? | #1
A Polish linguist tests whether speakers of Bulgarian, Polish and Croatian can understand Interslavic, a constructed language built from Slavic languages.

Mongrel Nation - Brown cow
A comedy segment where Eddie Izzard travels to Friesland to try speaking Old English, claiming English originated in Holland and buying a cow to prove it.

Why Does Portuguese Sound Like Russian?! (or Polish)
A Langfocus video examining why Portuguese, especially European Portuguese, sounds like Russian or Polish.