Non-VIrgin...a Lexical Gap?

[daughterofeve7]

dear Hank, there is a word for shallow in Romanian, it's 'superficial,' which is a loan word from Latin, and you can only use it in an abstract sense, you can say a person is 'superficial' but you can't say that water is superficial, in which case you would use 'not so deep' :)

[bbugarschi]

a Romanian nerdfighter. salut :D

[daughterofeve7]

@bbugarschi haha, salut! yeah, I was a little surprised to hear him mention Romanian, but also pleased. In any case, I had to correct the mistake :P

[willChen7]

is the VI in your title's VIrgin supposed to be a pun on sex?

note; if not a pun, at least some nameless form of subtle hilarity?

[IsabelleHorler]

LACUNA MATATA

[xSpArTiChRiSx]

Mary was a virgin.....If you don't count anal.

[0Rosina0]

The "I" in the "Virgin" in the title is capitalized...?

[PolkadottedAngels]

@OnlyNands "It"? I don't think "they" can be singular, but it is often incorrectly used as such.

[Staals2]

The Meaning of Liff, anyone?

[Mimsyborogove923]

Wow, you guys are like, a perfect nerd duo, you have the mathematical and the literary.

[pieisgood125]

@onlynands technicly the word they can be plaural or singular as can them

[carbine125]

Lacuna Mutata, what a wonderful phrase!

[OnlyNands]

There should be a word that single and refers to someone third person who you don't know is male or female.

[flagman57]

"It doesn't matter what you do it matters that you got there" .

This is an erroneous Machiavellian principle that basically says the ends justify the means. So you could do the most heinous things but if you do good things afterwards then its fine.

[aniNinja13]

You really shouldn't have writen a note to 15yr old John and told him to dump his girlfriend. If this was actually a real letter that you somehow (TARDIS?) got to 15yr old John, then you have successfully, probably, created a paradox, thus collapsing the universe. If John dumped his girlfriend from back then, then there would probably by a new timeline of girlfriends and there would be a LARGE possibility that he'd never meet the Yeti. ( Did I get everything right? I'm pretty sure.)

[DystopianCreativity]

@aniNinja13 Not only that, but there is every possibly that, due to said alteration, the Vlogbrothers wouldn't even exist to begin with, thus erasing the possibility of Hank ever sending that letter to 15-year old John, thus erasing the aforementioned alteration in time, thus creating a paradox.

Messing with time is VERY dangerous.

[schmidtcs]

This is why I like debaser9779's video "Not a Virgin."

[seeingmud]

Shit! Lacuna is the name of the memory erasing group in eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.

[SpunkStalker101]

Hank is dirty. Oh, so dirty.

[jacknjillbitches]

this machine pwns noobs! what about all the fascists??

[RaawrItsAmyy]

Every time I watch one of your videos, I become a little bit smarter.

[godessshannon]

In English, (as against German), there are no female forms for words like friend or teacher which is really annoying! :D

[farshnuke]

I dumped a girlfriend so she decided to get her family to hunt me down on the grounds that I had had an affair when I had infact dumped her precisely to avoid that possibility

[bobet1245]

@thenightshroud77 instead of virg-out, may i recommend virg-in&out?

[1234tche]

in portugese there is no verb form of "wonder".  i. e. i wonder what happened to hank?

[randomliamsquares765]

There is no phrase in Irish for saying 'I love you'. Pretty weird

[megakaren0]

@randomliamsquares765 there's also no phrase in Irish for "yes" which is waaaay weirder in my opinion. (Also if you talk to an Irish person, even is they don't speak gaelic , you'll see that they will avoid saying "yes" which makes them awesome at the yes/no game)

[surfinbird53]

Such a word doesn't exist in the swedish launguage either.

[whitewave677]

Your my new favorite thing! 

[RiskyBrothers]

ima sully every d claw rusher in the wilderness

[JoelCornah]

Douglas Adams made a word for Lexical Gap; Liff.

The Meaning of Liff book is all about Lexical Gaps.

[La8Stell]

supercalifragiliciousexpialido­cious is the word you say if you dont know what to say...

[janeeeeex3]

lacuna matata :)

[desde11]

this like button pwns noobs. press it (please dont feed into my ego)

[matt151328]

@CodenameJD haha I posted that 28 days ago xD

[CodenameJD]

Lacuna matata.

[rubikscube42]

@CodenameJD Exactly what I was thinking!

[TheMushroomMovie]

Hank, please reproduce. Do not let your genes go unreplicated, I beg of you. Please don't let Katherine's genes go unreplicated! You are both outstanding people and leaving no copies would leave the world a less wonderful place.

[Asymma]

Arabic has no word for "is," "are," or "am."

[layniebirdlu]

@Asymma just like hebrew!

[meravf1995]

@layniebirdlu True, but we don't really need those words. Are you Israeli?

[layniebirdlu]

@meravf1995 No, but I'm Jewish, and I went to Jewish day school for 13 years. So I know my fair share of Hebrew. :)

[redbarron718]

NO! John can NEVEr be a dumpER! he will aways be a dumpEE!

[27shermanator]

The John Bobblehead is staring into my soul.

[whitecip]

In italian there isn't a word which means "hello" and one which means "bye" we always say "ciao" =D I have many friends from other countries who think that's very strange

[o0OLauO0o]

It's not a word its more like a concept but in spanish we have "vergüenza ajena" which means you feel embarrased because of what another person is doing/saying/whatever but it has nothing to do with you.

[ryman2013]

The reminded me of the theory or linguistic relativity and how Native Americans had no words for boats until Columbus came along...

[Abigail2719]

so true...there is no Romanian word for shallow! ..hmmm...im romanian and i never thought of that!

[DaftAnime]

Lacuna matata what a wonderful phrase!!

[allysuffyrox]

The plural of you in Northern Ireland is 'Yuns' (You-ins).

The more you know.

[mollified5]

Hey Hank, what about "sexually active?" You can't be non-sexually active and a non-virgin at the same time... yeah...

[ramblinevilmushroom]

@mollified5 yes you can, just have sex, then stop having sex. then you would be both a non-virgin, and non-sexually active.

[mollified5]

@ramblinevilmushroom What I was trying to say is that if someone is sexually active or was once sexually active and not anymore, then that person is no longer a virgin.

[ramblinevilmushroom]

@mollified5 but thats not the same thing as being the opposite.

[bellacullen98a]

So the back of the knee is a lexical gap?

[tashhepstir]

how about sexually active?

[ctraver]

"You" actually was the plural, with a secondary use as a formal singular. "Thou" was previously used in most cases where modern speakers use 'you".

It would be convenient if we had kept "thou" in everyday speech. Translating other languages that maintained a clear singular/plural distinction would be a bit simpler.

[ArtemisFowlIII]

actually I believe that "you" is, well, the plural form in English. There was a singular form as well in middle/old English, but it's disappeared since, as words tend to do over time.

[Ironor8]

the opposite of a "virgin: is a "playa"

[matt151328]

Lacuna Matata

[thenightshroud77]

if your not a virgin

your a virg-out

[Angel77777771]

@thenightshroud77 How did 101 nerdy people not get annoyed by the fact that you wrote "your" instead of "You're"? I am annoyed.

[AwesomlyMe]

@thenightshroud77 *you're

[KungfuCow5]

@thenightshroud77 During in the act of losing your virginity you are called Virg-inandout.

[thenightshroud77]

@KungfuCow5 ha so true :D

[lookingformybluebox]

Love his shirt!!! Montana just became a not that bad place to spend the next 7 or 6 years...

[fiercelyjackie]

Oh hey, I'm 15 and just got out of my first relationship that lasted a year. This video made me not want to cry. Whoooo



[CakeBeneathTheIcing]

@fiercelyjackie Make your whoooo more excited. WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OO!

Something like that.

^^^^Sorry if this is me being an insensitive jerk, just trying to cheer you up. I know everything probably feels like it sucks, but it'll be alright :)

Just try and make things positive. Maybe instead of "Whoo"ing you can "Whoo hoo"? Add a little more positivity to make things feel better. I hope I helped and didn't make things worse.

[fiercelyjackie]

@CakeBeneathTheIcing you are awesome. WHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOO HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[alvingagarino]

Burst out laughing at youz guyz

[filmfan41]

OK, my three cents. Being a virgin or not is fine. He never said otherwise. That said I suggest "Were-Gin." but... "Experienced" ala- J.Hendrix seems a fine way to go. "happy with the awesome they have wrought." is a fine way to end the sentence. (virout is nice, too)

[Himewna]

Am I the only one who immediately thought "Hakuna Matata" when Hank said "Lacuna"?

[LawrenceGordon92]

Virgout. Nuff Said.

[mininamegal]

it makes me laugh because Lexical gap sounds like my name Lexie and i can never think of words/

[Richierua]

isnt "ye" a plural for "you"

[oceansurferg]

@Richierua "Ye" is also "the" in Ye Olde English. It has to do with the "th" sound, which was originally indicated by a letter that looked similar to "y" and therefore, in modern renderings of written english y is used. However, it should still be pronounced as the when spoken, but because the whole th and y thing isn't well known, people end up saying ye.

[oceansurferg]

@Richierua Having just watched the video after posting, I realize this isn't what you were asking. But ye is singular or plural, but we don't speak old english anymore.

[communityschannel]

huh, how about being sexually-active?? dumbfuck

[Gawentel]

@communityschannel There's a large... large difference.

[filmfan41]

@communityschannel but... he wanted the opposite of a noun... and you presented an adjectival clause. Thanks for trying to help, but you may not have understood the precision of the question. varlot.

[pandasexpresso]

Iiiiiiiiits supercalifragilisticexpialidoc­ious!!

[Adroumoi]

in Arab, there is no word for airplane, so the department of aviation is the department of flying things, which i find hilarious, and yes there are too many commas.

[22BoxesOfFoxes]

@Adroumoi I'm sorry for correcting you, but "Arab" is not a language. I believe you mean Arabic. [/grammarcorrect]

[ctraver]

@Adroumoi Irish has a few missing words. No word for "hello", though the English word is sometimes borrowed. There is no "yes" or "no" either. There is also no verb for "to have".

Obviously these concepts do exist in the language, they are just expressed in a vastly different manner than in English. I don't know if these words exist in the other Celtic languages.

[duchashes]

@ctraver what are the replacements for yes and no those seam like extremely important words

[ctraver]

@duchashes You use the verb from the question. "Are you happy" would be replied to "I am" or "I am not". "Do you run?" would be "I run" or "I do not run".

[duchashes]

@ctraver hm, interesting.

[ImaParamoraholic]

@Adroumoi Um, it's called 'Arabic', and there is actually a word for airplane - 'Ta'ira'. Get your facts straight.

[aliencheesemaker]

@Adroumoi And I'm told that there is no distinction between their words for "fingers" and "toes", much to my friends' alarm when Saladin came over clutching his foot and saying he'd stubbed his finger

[avivkp1]

@Adroumoi Wait, what about "taira"?

[canaryyellowbubble]

@Adroumoi There is a word in ArabIC for airplane it's تاءرة or "Ta-ira"

[Adroumoi]

@canaryyellowbubble oh I'm sorry, I mixed up persan and arabic, but it's a little too late to change that

[thebestanthe3rd]

@Adroumoi "flying things" ROFL!!!

[Katypillar713]

supercalifragilisticexpialidoc­ious



[cameliaac]

how do you know about Romanian?

[LotusPhoenix93]

is there a vid of john reading a letter from hank?

[ichikish]

@LotusPhoenix93 In fact, there is!

"Dumping My 15 Year-Old Girlfriend"

[Ash1316182123]

Best end to a video ever.

[ufoundbethany]

Wait... you never read the letter from your bank....

[Ybarchov21]

The machine in the background pwns noobs.

[mititzi]

I had to tell people that nerds die non-virgins... sigh. They were trying to make fun of an astrophysicist, the stupidity of the teeneage population scares me.

[SSClov]

What would a non-nerdfighter be called? Lexical gap? I think so.

[MeccaDeer]

@SSClov Decepticons! dftba! 

[rachanatank]

Can I have your babies?..

[Alexandra12345670]

Love love love love LOVE!!!!!!! I was thinking about this at the beginning of my required science class at the beginning of the year. (I'm an English major.) I'm always promoting English stuff because I believe that it helps with critical thinking and blah blah blah. BUT, my professor was saying the exact same things about having a science degree and acting like science was the best and superior to any other field (and blah blah blah). So...it made me think. And I agree with you COMPLETELY!

[The64v]

[school] "gives us a framework for how to think about things"

[yukibee1112]

Or you can be me a nerd who pretends to be of average intelligence.

[ConfusedShipper123]

Lacuna erased my memories. I got a letter from Kirsten Dunst about it.

(cookies for anyone who understand the reference?)

[SincerestTester]

Steve jobs was considered a nerd correct? Did he die a virgin? HE WAS A WINNER!

[24Pianist]

Plural of you = everyone

Eg. "Come on, everyone!"

[fashionbug9880]

@24Pianist Plural of you, as in multiples of one person, like if someone had clones, but they were addressing the clones as one person, not as in multiples of different people. Your example is different people addressed as one group. I hope that made sense.

[prettyhippie865]

@24Pianist Good thinking, but if they're groups of groups. And you only want one group to come with you, you wouldn't say, "Come on, everyone". That's where you would need a plural form of you that is not everyone.

[RiskyBrothers]

plural of you in spanish=ustedes

[Emmelberry]

You plural=yous.uns (it just occured to me I have absolutely no idea how to spell...well...yousuns)

[Lightavion]

Because of this video, The band I started with some friends was named "Lexical Gap"

This was a year ago. Unfortunately, seeing that we're in the lower grades of high school and have educational obligations, We've done little to nothing. Watching this again, I will try my best to revive Lexical Gap. And if and when we rise to our feet again, I'll get back to you.

[21thebestgirl]

i'm sorry but i'm new to this vlog.. who's john?

[Violagirl47]

@21thebestgirl the VlogBrothers are Hank - who is in this video, and his brother John Green. They make alternating videos.

[21thebestgirl]

@Violagirl47 thanks :)

[deathlyhallows713]

the irish language has many lexical gaps/lacunas

[SuperChalek]

Lacuna...matata?

[RaynaOfSunshine]

@SuperChalek IT MEANS NO WORRIES!

Sadly, it's Hakuna Matata :(

[SuperChalek]

@RaynaOfSunshine

It really would be awesome if the song were lacuna matata. x)

[Lightavion]

@SuperChalek Doing it. I have a band called Lexical Gap. I will personally write this cover/parody and get back to you on this. Lakuna Matata? Challenge Accepted.

[tinyartist18]

Hank... that speech you gave really helped me. I'm going through a tough teenage stage - you know, role definition versus confusion and yaddi yaddi yadda. But anyway, thank you for that.

[TheMadMsHatter]

We need a word for citizen of the United States. Honestly Spanish has "Estadounidense," but English has no word. |: What an illogical lexical gap...

[Anix18malen12]

@TheMadMsHatter Well, citizens of the United States apparently choose to believe that their one country is all of America, so to themselves and any other country outside of North and South America, their denomination is American.

[TheMadMsHatter]

@Anix18malen12 I have a hard time calling myself American. I'm forced to because there is no word for it, but every time I say it it bothers me. I try to say "I'm from the US" rather than "I'm American," because even though I am North American, I'm not Canadian or Mexican. But I know what you mean.

[MrCubeGuy]

I hate it when people say "yer guyses" for the plural of your...

[wispyoverlord]

HA he's getting fucked over by the bank XD

[homerdude7]

on another note lacuna mattata

[lyricalpraise]

@homerdude7 Aw... I was going to say this. I am not as brilliant as I thought. Thanks, Homer Dude. You're not nice to me.

[ellaandthegiantpeach]

@homerdude7 what a PUNderful phrase

[homerdude7]

most nerds die because their hearts stop beating...

[sandstorm49]

I absolutely hate how I'm a genius to the dumb people and dumb to the smart people, yet I enjoy and understand this kind of thing.

[WellGuessThreeTimes]

There are two words that I miss in the English language (I speak Swedish) 1: "Lagom" = not too much and not too little, the exact right amount. 2: "Fika" = When you eat between meals, but it's not a snack, it could be coffee and cookies, but it could be anything. If you don't want to say "let's have a coffee" because you don't like coffee, you could say "Let's go have a fika".

[rainbowsandonions]

who needs to get forced to do math and science?

gosh im such a nerd

[TheRealEmPiRe0909]

42

[UltimateKieran]

Thats why german translation into high-register english is so difficult! German always used "ihr" or "euch" which is a pluralized form of the 2nd person! However, while there are colloquialisms in american english for the pluralized form of 2nd person such as the beloved "y'all" and "you guys", they can't be used for translation into high-register english (or standard english for tht matter) because they are improper colloquializms! So to solve the problem, the plural form is just simplified by

[MegaBacktalk]

I wanna get dirtified...

[secretnerdgirl]

you is the plural form of thou, which was lost somewhere along the way. Random bit of knowledge that applies to a small part of this video

[AgesxsegA]

I totally ruinate that idea.

[zayneolson]

@ThisNerdyGirl

Yes. Yes I am.

[canuslupus2005]

I own a book called "They Have a Word for It" by Howard Rheingold, which is all about lacunas. My favorite is "Drachenfutter," a German word that Rheingold translates as "peace offerings for wives from guilty husbands." Literally, it means "dragon food."

[ThisNerdyGirl]

Is anyone else really bothered by the capitalized "I" in the title?

[Yulex42]

@ThisNerdyGirl NOT UNTIL YOU POINTED IT OUT!

[gurumiarmy]

@ThisNerdyGirl I actually thought it said "Non-Vlrgin" with a lower-case L, like it Vlogbrothers. This then confused me even more when I started watching the video, because I thought it was a video about people who've never watched a vlogbrothers video. Then I read your comment, and I did a face-palm.

[MrPolkinghorne]

@ThisNerdyGirl Yes, you and 328 people. Have a look at your comment!

[CafeJude]

thank you I didnt know that

[stude444]

nigriv

[BrittTaylor943]

Apparently there is no exact Russian word for compromise. I find that a little funny :)

[tommykl]

"Y'all, or youse guys".

[babeailious9]

@klaudyw3 he meant shallow in terms of measuring how deep something is eg the sea. Not as in a characteristic.

[klaudyw3]

late but a synonym for shallow in romanian is "superficial" or at least it has that connotation.

[RickhatesScott]

No real opposite to undefeated either; and a few other ones I have pondered but escape me right now

[Double2Edged]

So yes, there should be a word for when there should be a word for something and there is a word for when there should be a word for something and that word is lacuna.

Totally not convoluted at all, Hank.

[madeleinelily0]

... I always thought it was "Verg-out".

[GrannyTenderstone]

I like how George Carlin used to cover stuff relative to the language. Such as "refinish". Do you have to "restart?" he once asked. He was a gem.

[shayyflower]

Awww you guys are like opposites! One is more english-minded, the other all sciency and mathematical... you complete each other!

[3croN]

THIS MACHINE PWNS NOOBS

[hannahbackyards]

This is sad. Hank, what do you do for a living?

[eggsistoast]

Like in Gulliver's travels where the houhnhm... houhnm... horse people didn't have a word for lie; instead they said "the thing you said which was not."

[ArtemisScribe]

the people of the gamma forests have no word for pond, because the only water in the forest is the river.....

i honestly never thought i'd be able to say that in intelectual conversation

[MarianAlaways]

@ArtemisScribe Have an internet for the epic Doctor Who reference in context. :-)

[ArtemisScribe]

@MarianAlaways that awkward moment when you get a nice reply to your comment and you have to scroll back through 3 pages to remember what you wrote........................o­h thank you very much :)

[MarianAlaways]

@ArtemisScribe He he. I had to go back to look and see what I had said in reply to your comment. Also, you're very welcome :-)

[uniqueangel5]

I thought the opposite of "virgin" is "slut." Or at least, that is how my friends use it... My friends are not nerdfighters; therefore, they are not made of awesome... :(

[Runnyscape20]

Whilst you're 14, Virgin isn't a lexical gap

The opposite of "Virgin" is "Pregnant" at that age.