Think Fact's video: Are Words Real

Think Fact here: We use words all the time, but how exactly do they work? And, is there a chance that words are "not real?" Let's investigate! Steven Pinker: Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-B_ONJIEcE Special thanks to Michael from Vsauce for being apart of a video of mine! Check him out if you have not: https://www.youtube.com/user/Vsauce ____________________________ Link to my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thinkfact Link to my Twitter account: https://twitter.com/DaleWinslow Link to the Think Fact sub Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/thinkfact _______ First song is called: Vexento Link to song: https://youtu.be/8sOQ7HM0BYo And was made by: Yuki Website: http://www.juliadelgado.de/ Second song is called: Unfoldment, Revealment, Evolution, Exposition, Integration And was made by: Chris Zabriskie It's licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/reappear/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ ____________________________ Sources and further readings: The definition to "word:" http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/word?q=words Book that helped inspire the video, over how we organize species: http://www.entsoc.org/pubs/bookreviews/book-review-naming-nature-clash-between-instinct-and-science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_taxonomy Friedrich Nietzsche (Full quote) http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/279237-words-are-but-symbols-for-the-relations-of-things-to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche A scale that lets you look at the size of different things throughout the universe: http://htwins.net/scale2/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time Beyond Words: How Humans Communicate Through Sound: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26361049 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_communication History around morse code: http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/telegraph History around binary: http://www.cut-the-knot.org/do_you_know/BinaryHistory.shtml Stephen Hawking's means of communicating: http://www.hawking.org.uk/the-computer.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerspelling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatosensory_system Helen Keller, footage from the 1930s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLqyKeMQfmY Helen Keller, footage from the 1950s with her talking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ch_H8pt9M8 Deaf blind alphebet http://www.visionaustralia.org/images/braille/deafblind-alphabet.jpg?sfvrsn=0 Explanation over universal grammar: http://www.rit.edu/cla/philosophy/quine/universal_grammar.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky (The Morpheme) Long and Short Words: Language Typology -Tom Scott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxARj07jFp0 What the… Is that a word?: The myths behind word usage and “correctness:” http://writeworld.org/post/37691735655/what-the-is-that-a-word-the-myths-behind-word I need to get me one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedic_dictionary Exclamation over the difference between dictionaries and encyclopedias: http://www.christianlehmann.eu/ling/ling_meth/ling_description/lexicography/dict_vs_encyclopedia.html Interesting list where the same word has a completely different meaning between languages: http://edl.ecml.at/LanguageFun/Sameworddifferentmeaning/tabid/3103/Default.aspx Interesting words that have known true English equivalent: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/lost-translation-30-words-with-english-equivalent.html All The Colours, Including Grue: How Languages See Colours Differently -Tom Scott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TtnD4jmCDQ Why Computers Suck At Translation, By Tom Scott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAgp7nXdkLU Look at polysynthetic languages, particularly that of native American languages: http://www.native-languages.org/definitions/polysynthetic.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaneron Is Anything Real? -Vsauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L45Q1_psDqk What Are You? -Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQVmkDUkZT4 Professor Robert Sapolsky gives a lecture on language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIOQgY1tqrU A cool text editor that I have been using to get the wacky fonts for the video: https://eeemo.net/ --- Plexus Form on a Black Background - Royalty Free Footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0kGRcd-IFY "O̡̭̣͈̝uŕ̭̲͖͔͉̼̣" W҉o͏ŗḑsͫͬ͊̓ͧ̄ ͢Ǹo̴t Re҉a̧l? What are words?