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  • You see Jack? You should make more videos like this one!!!!

  • Frankly, I've never heard anyone say, "I could care less"... Must be an American thing...

  • It always bothers me when someone asks a question with a negative in it, such as "Wouldn't you do that?" because either way you answer, it could mean something else...

  • ...i hate the word ain't...irregardless? no one uses that!

  • @TheSpontaneousWonder OMG you'd be surprised! like i didn't think ppl actually said UNTHAW until i heard it for myself from an English Teacher! You'll usually hear those two words used by middle aged adults.

  • omgosh, the bass part sounds like something the trombones play in band...ferret cage...that's because elementary school sucks...5th grade...ahhhh, find a happy place, find a happy place...no not the giant robo dongs! lol tehe jk

  • "irregardless" and "I could care less" have always bothered me. If someone uses it in a sentence, it'll actually take me aback and my eyes will glaze over and I'll start to drool. I also lose the thread of whatever they're talking about.

    I'm glad I'm not alone.

  • you should make a video for people that over use air quotation

  • I agree on the 'irregardless' statement. Anyone who uses it needs 5 minutes in the ferret cage.

    I also hate the 'i could care less' statement, but i don't agree that 'i couldn't care less' shouldn't be used. It is a hyperbole used to express an extreme apathy towards something.

    Yes, I did double check to make sure I used hyperbole correctly.

  • "Two negatives make a positive, and it works the same way for (the English) langauge too".

    Double negatives are/were incorrect in Classical Latin, German & English, but are considered *correct* in Classical Greek, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Hebrew and Japanese.

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    The language of mathematics is very different in the US and Britain.

    math = maths

    negative one = minus one

  • GET IN THE FERRET CAGE, JACK! Hilarious, as usual.

  • LOL The Math song

  • "I should so teach at Harvard!" LOL

  • Except the Agulera Principle is flawed. :|

  • So many of my nightmares involved the word "irregardless".

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  • quote: but at the same time 0^0=1,

    where did you do elementary school? O___O

    So according to you also 0*0=1 ?!

    My gosh!

  • According to teachers, anything to the power of zero equals one.

  • Maybe in first grade....I bet you to find a math graduate that will tell you so! Use google, my friend.

  • Yeah it does not bug me, heres 1, there you go, have fun.

  • At the end where he says "you might end up in a ferret cage" you can see a black spot on one of his lower teeth. lol That's why you shouldn't chew tobacco.

  • yea

  • "I could care less" is sarcasm, and "you Can't not do it" is emphasizing the action of doing it in a poetic sense while showing someone's opinion on the matter in a more important, dramatic way. Negatives have been used in an artistic sense for a long time.

  • omg people its a joke

  • DAMN IT. I just said about my friends video that I can't not laugh...so i had to come back and watch this lol..

  • lol i liked the part where he says son of a bitch

  • lol man u r one hell of a freak... awesome videos :P

  • Fruit of the Loom Gives me Magical Powers!

  • Get in the ferret cage until you learn how to multiply

  • You're a bloody genius, I love you!

  • omg! i thought i was the only one bothered when people say "irregardless." you should do something about the use the phrase "deja vu all over again." how redundant is that!

  • Thank you for pointing out the illogic of "I could care less" (and others). We are importing this mistake into the UK at present (along with "real [adjective]" rather than "really [adjective]" -really is an adverb; real is not) and it really gets on my nerves.

  • dude applying math to english [although what you mentioned was simple] is just confusing.

    math sucks

  • I love the underwear on his head kid. I remember his first line: "fruit of the loom gives me magical powers!" LOL

  • THANKYOU!

    I've always thought people who said "I could care less" when it is obvious they were trying to say that they could not were absolutely nuts!

  • OCD much?

    I like you though

    You're like one of those shows we watch all the time but never laugh at

    saved by the bell..etc.etc.

  • i hated elementary school very much... i can relate to your trauma.

    im gonna bomb that cursed place one of this days...

  • JACK!!! I took the PSATs the other day and there was a grammar portion where you had to choose which sentence was grammatically correct... one of the choices had "irregardless" in the sentence and my head nearly exploded. Then I thought of you. Hahah.

  • Your Hooot! (: and i love the video. i laughed so much when he said : son of a bitch ." lmao

  • Ohmy god i did not know that there are people that uses "iregardless" what a bunch of ignorant swines ( i am no american and do not live in a country where english is the native-tounge and still i am amazed with the mistkes that native-speakers commit.... or mine also ... if i misspelled anything in this comment please enter my account and fill my comment seccion with kind "fuck you"s and other swearing please)

  • Heyyyyyyyy

  • the mini-jack very funny lol, "son of a bitch!"

  • very nice, 5/5

  • son of a bitch!

  • u should make a movie bout u in elementry school tht'll be the best

  • The English language is weird because it doesn't contain double negatives. I don't know whether this is true about other languages but I know that it is grammatically correct if not grammatically preferred to use double negatives in Spanish and Russian.

  • I love you! Yes! Someone gets it!

  • I know! finally!

  • k decia el giri este?

  • Oh, man. I was waiting to see if you would bring up the "could care less" issue and you DID. I laughed so hard...and then even harder when you talked about your neighbors hearing you at the end. You crack me up.

  • i do have ptsd from 5th grade!!! worst experience of my life.

    i still have flashbacks every time a teacher gets mad at me. and a serious fear of failure.

  • As an English man I find many Americanisms get to me, but since I've been here(One month)the thing that gets to me most is when your talking to someone and they say "your so funny" but there not laughing. Though you make a very good point about the word "like"....Awful.

  • fix your collar, it's driving me crazy

  • you're an idiot. irregardless is a word, and it means the same thing as regardless.

  • No, it can't be.

  • I mean, it is, but only because so many people insist on using it. With its prefix and suffix, however, it makes no sense in its stem context. Stupid word, bitter subject! jk

  • Irregardless, is a word in the sense that you will find it in the dictionary (in mine anyway) and people will, in fact, use it. However, the word is considered to be nonstandard because, as he points out, of its two negatives. In all fairness, it's a fairly new word (early 20th century) and is generally used to add emphasis, though it oftentimes just makes you sound foolish. It's a casual word, not formal as so many believe it to be, and it's considered a blunder by most.

  • yeah, theyre arent not many ppl that talk incorrectly nowadays. theres not no way i would be one of those..hehe

  • You are very smart!

  • Good video. Now get back in that ferret cage.

  • very good video- it drives me mental when people are verbose to try to sound clever with words such as irregardless, presume (when they mean assume), virtually, literally, physically etc.

    thank you jack

  • If only the world were as sensible as we are, Jack... ;)

    Keep it up, guy. There ain't no way you can't not fail.

  • Believe it or not, I have never used the phrase "I couldn't care less" because of that reason right there. I mean, "I could care less"? Isn't that supposed to be a compliment? Why don't people THINK??

  • I wanna make dirty man love with ya.

  • so triple Negatives = a Negative

  • you get in the ferret cage

  • Even Pink Floyd are doing it.

    "We don't need no education"

  • lmao at the end!!

  • LOLOLOLOL 3 points I loved about this video.

    1) The "I couldn't care less part." I've been telling my friends they were using the expression incorrectly, but they ignored me!! HAH, shows them.

    2) The ferret cage. That must've been embarassing when your neighbor walked by, unless they didn't not walk by (LOL).

    3). The irregardless. I've never heard that word until now. I think people were taking your advice to heart.

  • Ain't no way nobody couldn't never not fail to un-dis-de-anti-appreciate your humor! good video irregardless...

  • - X -= +

    + X += +

    - X += -

  • That's right Jack, you should-ought to "learn'em" kids how to speak and write correctly

  • That't right Jack, you should-ought to "learn'em" kids how to speak and write correctly.

  • Who do you think you are...the Mad Grammarian?

  • "We don't need no education."

  • omg shit you actually looked like my calc teacher w/ a shirt and tie

  • My automatic back-handed slap reflex would go into overdrive whenever I heard "irregardless." But - and this is no lie - I finally did the legwork and looked it up just two months ago: m-w. com/dictionary/irregardless

  • Your argument was doomed the minute you said "just do the math".

  • hey ur videos are awseome and dont get me wrong but try some grading tecniques it might take out some of the green on your body and face so it doesnt look like ur standing in front of a green screen. im not saying i dont like your video cause i do like them there awesome just giving some advice. (and u do know u didnt put a background right at the end of the video where you can see ur in front of a green screen right?) :D

  • The fallacy of saying "I could care less" has been a pet peeve of mine for a long time now. I am glad someone else recognizes it, too!

  • you're so buff lol

  • aint=aren't+isn't

    is "not"+are "not"

    two negatives equal a positive :-O

  • You've got a point there. Proper grammar is underrated these days.

  • The logic of two negatives make a positive is true in English, but not in all langauges. In (gramatically correct) Spanish, for example, double negatives are used all the time. eg No hay nada (there is nothing, but literally there is not nothing)

  • Have you thought of becoming an English prof at a college? You seem to have strong opinions about how people use and abuse the English language.

  • The English language is depreciating by the generation, instead of improving. I've noticed that almost all the people that I know my age, use double negatives in nearly every sentence, so I get really confused when they try to have a conversation with me.

  • This was one of the funniest ones you've done, Jack.  There's no way I won't watch it again.

  • I think I'm guilty of saying "I could care less", but normally I'm pretty good at avoiding double negatives and the like.

  • You are never not awesome Jack!

    And you SO easily evoke the buried in trouble in elementary school days in all of us!

    Your neighbor would probably just want to get in the ferret cage too to see if it was any fun!

  • Teacher: "OK kids, were going to sing a math song."

    Little Jack: "Son of a bitch..."

    lmao, does he have underwear on his head?

    And I'm glad someone told people off about "irreguardless".

    To JackDanyells, cheers! Great stuff all around.

  • Ferrets rock!!!!!

  • i would never not see one of ur videos

  • WOW thats a triple negative!

    That means there is some way you can do and episode about negatives

    great vid

  • BWAHAHAHA, ferret cage...oh thats good material. Thanks for another hilairious video Jack.

  • did you see my video responses?

  • If your videos catch on, there's no way I shouldn't invest in ferret cage manufacturers. :-)

  • "You can't not do it" is a bad example. It's not a simple double negative but an example of litotes, using negation for its emphasising effect (cf. emphatic "Thou shalt not kill" with unassertive "Thou shalt allow all to live a natural lifespan").

    "Irregardless", however is another matter. A salesman used it with me a few days ago and, if it weren't for the great sale price, I'd have walked out of the store in protest.

  • how dare you make me remember math...

  • oooh, double negatives piss me off too! This video is overly awesome :P

    PS - I have a ferret cage!

  • God bless you and your seed. I once read an article in our local paper in which the columnist used 'irregardless' unironically. I wept.

  • I should SO teach at harverd >< you're great!

  • You are a silly goose :D

  • I would never not comment on your hilarious videos!

    ...

    *gets into ferret cage*

  • Haha, awesome.

  • Pause it on 4:38, Jack has the funniest look.

  • Funny stuff! Is 'ain't' even a word?

  • i ain't never heard no one say irregardless. so what you souldn't have not done, is to do nothing with that one word, for.. hold on, i confused myself here.

  • by golly he couldn't have not never thought about not doing a better video irregardless of him being in a ferret cage -1 x -1 = positive 2 ya'll. that video was AWSOME...lol but seriously nice video, i'm a big fan dan

  • "is that a f*kin joke" lmao

  • Saying I could care less is kind of like asking someone if they could walk any slower. I usually reply, "I can, thanks for the suggestion"

  • thank you! I hate the phrase "I could care less". It's so annoying!!! AAAAAAAGH!!

    ...

    Yeah... Thank you for this video. As always, very funny.

  • As for the "I could/couldn't care less" debate: I think it'd be better to just drop the annoying word from the mind-boggling phrase. "I care less" or "I don't care" gets the point across better.

  • haha you know what pisses me off the most? When people add "il-" to stuff. Like my partner for an Wnglish project kept saying "ILlogical fallacies" instead of "logical fallacies." I TOLD HER A MILLION TIMES TO SAY LOGICAL!

    In fact, the video is on my page. I'll post a video response so you can see just how horribly aggravating it is.

  • BTW my script was immaculate but one guy was high, another was extremely nervous, and the girl was a HUGE bitch who wouldn't listen to my direction or say the lines I had written. AND it was DIFFICULT to edit.

  • I don't care that Little Jack wears underwear on his head. But why is that underwear so yellow?

  • Jack! haha brilliant! It does piss me off when I haer " I could care less". Jack are you studying or have studied an English major? You really come on with things I couldnt think right away. You must really have tho8ughts of people's grammar while at the same time having a normal conversation. Keep it up! I too cant not tolerate excessive negatives irregardless. :)

  • i always use "i couldn't care less"! well, at least i use it correctly.

    :D

  • I wasn't not totally not unimpressed! Um... I don't hope this didn't come out right...

  • ...you aint no Einstein Bro!...Pure Genius !

  • Oh my god, the phrase "I could care less" has ALWAYS pissed the hell out of me. Thank you so much for bringing it up.

  • YES! Someone finally realized it! "I couldn't care less" is a phrase I say fairly often. The first time I said it to my friends they looked at me weird and said "Hey, wouldn't you mean "I could care less?". I just responded to their asinine comment showing them that I was indeed correct, and they were just fooled by pop culture. ~Josh

  • HAHA ferret cage! ur gettin ent half gettin better Aaron! keep it up!

  • We need more videos.

  • "son of a bitch" hahaha

  • I am too one of your subscribers. You make very good short films.

    Plus. I LOVE using negatives in speech especially when those hearing get confused!!!

  • lol

  • Dude your my favorite subscription, every video you make is awesome!!!! keep it up

  • This is a great episode! I loved the flashback to school-poor little Jack! And I often get a puzzled look on my face mentally trying to work my way through the various negatives littered in speech, doing the negative math thing as I listen, usually resulting in me realising that someone has ended up saying the opposite of what they meant to say. Great point with the couldn't care less thing! Does anyone REALLY say 'irregardless'!?

  • Ooooo I almost died laughing!!! "Get in the ferret cage!" "But it smells like pee!"

  • i think you are becoming my favorite creator on youtube.

  • hahahahahah lets sing a math song son of a bitch

  • omg...THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU!!!!!

    i cannot stand it when people misuse negatives..its like my pet peeve...THANKYOU!!!!!! lol..i love ur videos btw...

  • awesome :)

  • *laughs* I look forward to your videos. It's fantastic that there's someone else out there that cares that people today are a touch illiterate.

  • i hate farrets! there aint no way im going in there

  • it really gets under my skin when people say 'irregardless'!

  • so true! I, as a German, already go confused with all that coubled negatives and thought they'd make the negative more negative, which was a surprise to me, cause we don't use it that way in Germany! So thanks to you, I know now that the people are talked with aren't using some weird English but are just too stupid to know better :) THANK YOU

  • Woo!  My suggestion made it in! Although, I never did consider the Aguilera Principle.

  • I've never even heard anyone use the word "irregardless" around me. I guess the education system in the state of New Jersey isn't lacking as opposed to other places I won't talk about here.

  • Lol! That was hilarious and educational! Thank you!

  • Amen!

  • Oh boy. Jack back in his magical fruit of the loom's. xD!!!

  • That was nice. Ferret cage, LOL!

  • The classroom scene was hilarious.

  • Thanks for showcasing the improper usage of "irregardless." I have been ranting about that non-word for years!

  • i love u jack!!!

  • :) still lovin' it!

  • Awesome work.

  • I can't pinpoint the exact reason you are such a faggot. But...damnit you just are such a queer. It much come natural.

  • What is little Jack wearing on his head? It looks like an old pair underwear, lol.

  • Don't you know that Fruit of the Loom gives him superpowers? :p

    (check one of his earlier vids)

  • This sux.

  • I had to teach double negatives to my class of 10 year olds, 2 weeks ago. It went right over their heads.

  • Haha I saw this slogan at work today that said, "Everybody doesn't never like Sara Lee." ugh...

  • I hate "I could care less"... It's "I COULDN'T care less" in the UK

  • what about the butter: i caN'T believe it's NOT butter

  • anothing brilliant dictionary video...they're my favorite =]

  • lol id like to thank you for making this vidoe

  • Aha! I should have watched the video before I made that comment. Scratch that.

  • somehow I knew someday you would find one of these things so annoying (irregardless being the winner) that you'd angrily demand for us not to use it.

  • After reading the most recent comments, I think you should do a video on "irregardless," or at least insert it into one of your vids. Btw, I love your stuff; I think you're my favorite subscription.

  • how stupid did you feel when you were si nging this song? but really, this is a great video. i can really relate to the "I couldn't care less." expression. it drove me crazy when my friends and even parents say it. i FINALLY find someone to relate to.

  • ya, that whole "i could care less" thing always seemed very annoying and stupid to me. Like you said on another dictionary, that's what happens to phrases and words in america

  • awesome vid you rule

  • Key:*right eye twitches* This Dictionary of Jack made my brain hurt...

  • Great video, I loved it. 5 stars:)

  • I wish I COULD put people in a ferret cage for using language incorrectly.

    Then again, that would require a lot of cages.

  • I'd like to thank you for the bit where you were wearing a beard. It made my day.

  • irregardless, this is like so grawesome y'all

  • you was so dumb in gradeschool its like you aint had no brain or nothin. also, you watch the view? really? are you shure?

  • Have you touched on the word "anyways" yet?

  • "I could care less," has always given me crazy. I would SO be in your class at Harvard.