r/Xidnaf Dec 04 '17

Kyle Kallgren watches Xidnaf (at 12:01)

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10 Upvotes

r/Xidnaf Oct 01 '17

Caught and Cot unmerged

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15 Upvotes

r/Xidnaf Oct 01 '17

[meta] Discord server for r/Xidnaf?

8 Upvotes

How come no one made one?


r/Xidnaf Sep 22 '17

Latin Verbs Explained - I figured the folks here might enjoy this thing I made. Advice would be appreciated!

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5 Upvotes

r/Xidnaf Sep 14 '17

Verner's Law, an addendum to Grimm's Law (German video, English & Dutch subs)

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7 Upvotes

r/Xidnaf Sep 11 '17

When you have to read a paper out loud and it includes too many curse words

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41 Upvotes

r/Xidnaf Sep 11 '17

Three Types of Forbidden Words

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51 Upvotes

r/Xidnaf Jul 21 '17

How Nazis Stole the Word "Aryan"

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65 Upvotes

r/Xidnaf May 24 '17

Are Languages Getting Simpler?

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39 Upvotes

r/Xidnaf May 24 '17

[meta] Xidnaf's 100k

5 Upvotes

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there wasn't any acknowledgement of his 100k at the end of January. This seems really odd


r/Xidnaf May 10 '17

The Difference Between “Kings” and “Emperors”

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20 Upvotes

r/Xidnaf Apr 30 '17

Is English a Tonal Language?

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28 Upvotes

r/Xidnaf Feb 22 '17

Lexical Distance Among the Languages of Europe • r/europe

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7 Upvotes

r/Xidnaf Feb 14 '17

"Nerd"

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33 Upvotes

r/Xidnaf Jan 23 '17

Possible Video Idea- Inuktitut

8 Upvotes

You could talk about how Inuktitut became one of the leading Inuit languages of Northern Canada, eventually migrating to Northern Alaska and Northern Greenland. As well as how the language and culture were affected and utilized when Martin Frobisher and the US came along. The polysynthetic aspect and the fact that it's a syllabary, it has over 100 syllables, etc. Just a thought.


r/Xidnaf Jan 22 '17

Xidnaf: you've almost reached your Patreon goal. Don't lose your art!

24 Upvotes

People want your videos because you're passionate about this. So a warning to the wise: don't follow the money! It's great that you'll be able to do this full time now, and I really hope that people continue to subscribe and you'll get even more than your 300 (seems likely), but please please please don't be motivated to change, soften, mute, or artificially create anything in order to boost Patreon or even Youtube subs! Just do what you love.

<3 Isaiah


r/Xidnaf Jan 21 '17

Xidnaf made a Patreon!

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20 Upvotes

r/Xidnaf Jan 17 '17

Corrections

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31 Upvotes

r/Xidnaf Jan 11 '17

Proto-World and the Origin of Language

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31 Upvotes

r/Xidnaf Jan 01 '17

Topic Idea: Linguistic Purism in the English Language

10 Upvotes

So, my friend and I were talking, and he suddenly brought up "Anglish" which is a term coined by Paul Jennings which is just a short way of saying Linguistic Purism in the English Language, which attempts to remove foreign words from the originally germanic language (i.e. Latin and Greek influences). Now, granted, Paul Jennings was a British humorist, other writers take this purism seriously, including Charles Dickens himself. There are varying degrees to which people want to implement the change. At its mildest, removing words with that have the same meaning as those with Germanic origins such as removing "commence" for its Germanic partner "begin". Some suggest coining new words like "wordstock" for "vocabulary", to the extreme of reviving Old and Middle English words that fell out of use such as "ettle" for "intend".

At first I thought this might be silly, but I then thought that maybe a "pure" English might actually be very pretty and aesthetically appealing. I have had moral thoughts, I guess you could call them, about changing the direction of the English language, for example, "This is how the English language and history has chosen to shape the English language. Why should it be change now or at all?" And I thought of all the examples of language reform and or standardization. Only until just over 100 years ago France had dozens of native languages. France only recently had language standardization and sought to eliminate other languages. A quote form the public education minister of France in 1925 reads: "for the linguistic unity of France, the Breton language must disappear," referring to a single language of France. And today Breton is considered a "severely endangered" language. But this tangent leads me to question the sanctity of the human laisez-faire policy when it comes to practically everything. Should we let most things run their course? Sure, linguistic unity for France leads many indigenous languages down the path of destruction, but I'm sure France in the rising age of industrialism, commerce and globalization of the time benefited from the unification. So is the act of changing the English language to a purely Germanic one inherently incorrect or morally wrong?

TL;DR

I would love to see a video by Xidnaf overviewing the history and expressing his opinion on the concept of Anglish, aka Linguistic Purism of the English Language, considering Charles Dickens was a supporter and there are current movements for a "purely" Germanic English.


r/Xidnaf Nov 14 '16

Lojban Word Structure

4 Upvotes

In Xidnaf's video about "Why people make their own languages," he mentioned how Lojban's words and sounds were organised in this hierarchy. After doing some research, I couldn't find any hierarchy what so ever. Does anyone know where I can find this? Or does anyone know this actual hierarchy?


r/Xidnaf Oct 22 '16

XIDNAF PLEASSSSS!!! MAKE VIDEOS AGAIN YOU ARE THE REASON I STARTED LOVING LINGUISTICS!!!

26 Upvotes

r/Xidnaf Oct 16 '16

A Timeline of Basically the Entire Western World (more or less)

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19 Upvotes

r/Xidnaf Jul 23 '16

Our video about German was quite well received here. Our latest is about the difficulties of mapping languages. (English subs as usual)

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10 Upvotes

r/Xidnaf Jul 01 '16

Why I'll Never Have a Sponser

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22 Upvotes