I'm not usually this nit-picking when it comes to language, but seeing as you're making a "show" about the mis-use of English, I felt I had no choice but to point out an error you made at around 5:21. You describe "goodly" as "an adjective which means...'an attractive woman'", which is clearly wrong, using as it does a noun ("woman") to describe a verb. It would be more appropriate to define it as meaning "attractive", before going on to explain that it is mostly used when describing women.
I will only use the word goodly if I can explain to people why I used it, and justify why I think its correct. which is why i'm going to watch this video about 27 more times so I can get it.
"The Dictionary of Jack, the dictionary is back, the Dictionary of Jack, the dictionary is back, it's oh so fun to see, I love vocabula-ry, it's back, it's back, it's back, it's the Dictionary of Jack!!"
Yes, the Japanese make all sorts of crazy foods. Yesterday I bought a potato sandwich in the convenience store and as we're approaching Halloween pumpkin flavoured chocolate is appearing in many shops.
Now, there's a dude that tells the truth in the world, we need more people like this personally. Hey, if your listening Jack, when you get alittle older, become the president!
Did you, by any strech of the immagenation, do an Advanced English and Literature class in high school? Or are you just REALLY smart, cuz i'm 13 and i think what you just said wasn't confusing or difficult to understand, i knew all of that already! Anyway, your videos are really....informative....and.....interesting....i suppose. Great video all the same!
Yo, Jack. Where do ya get funding to make your videos? They are obviously very well made with a big production value, I just gotta know. I have a couple videos I would like to shoot. Any advice??
Actually, adjective means 'that is added to' from the Latin 'adjectivum'; not specifically 'added to the noun' but it has come to mean that in usage. I guess you were being funny with 'add to the jective'.
I disagree with using good in ways such as 'I'm doing good'. It just isn't correct, and is an an example of American corruption of the English language. 'I'm doing well' has sufficed for centuries. 'I'm doing good' means nothing more than 'I am doing good things'.
What about English corruption of the English language? You could still be saying things like, "This frere bosteth that he knoweth helle, and God it woot, that it is litel wonder."
I didn't mean American 'corruption' of the language. Every place has dialects and colloquialisms that aren't strictly correct. The problem is that American English is exported so aggressively through films and TV. It's like a linguistic Starbucks.
You know (or do you), I love English, but I can't STAND English TEACHERS! I have never had one that didn't understand (and subsequently marked me down for) the need to revolutionize the language via regression! Just a little, come on guys! Also (that's right, ALSO!), I totally did put my thinking hat on, but it's a little tight...perhaps the blockage of blood to my brain is influencing this comment...
Well, I do not believe there is anything wrong with "also", but here the children are taught from an early age to NEVER begin a sentence with "also". For those of us who get into advanced English classes, however, the rule is less severe. And Americans don't really love the letter "Z" (I never knew about "zed" until I had a foreign exchange history teacher from England), that's just how we're taught. :)
OMG i've been so busy the past couple months and i've only just now been catching up with my YouTube watching and i am SO happy to see this video! Good/well is one of my biggest pet peeves!! favorited!
And I HAVE done what you asked of in other videos... etc. "figuratively" and I get really pissed when people say "awesome". It's working. YOU'RE CHANGING THE WORLD!
Not to be a contrarian, but I'd like to offer a different proposal for your expert consideration.
"Goodness" is a noun. So is "wellness." Let's convert 'em both to adverbs: "Goodnessly" and "wellnessly." Use 'em interchangeably, and nobody will ever get tripped up!
Jack goodnessly makes videos, and he makes me laugh wellnessly!
lol, funny vid Jack, keep it up! And yeah, I've been corrected by my parents for using "good" instead of "well", but not as much as I use "presume" over "assume", lol.
Just FYI: when you say "I'm good," that's not an idiomatic expression for "I'm in a good mental state." It's actually an adjective, used by the linking verb "to be". A linking verb (grammar nazi time) like "to be" or "to seem" or even "to taste" uses the adjective to modify the subject (literally, "I am good" uses "good" like "good -pronoun-"). "I am well" means that your state of being is good ("well" modifies "to be"); "I am good" means that you yourself are good.
Hey, this is a very entertaining and well-made video. I'm just the kind of person who hates it when people say they are doing "good" when they mean that they are doing well. It grates on my sensibilities. I guess I am just too sensetive...
Now if you could just explain goodly when to say "...and me" and when to say "...and I". I still cringe every time I hear the song "We are the World"... "It's true we make a better day, just you and me." AAAAHHGHH! Oh, and I hope your abssession clears up.
Well i don't want to quote scripture but um if your mormon then here's a reminder "I nephi, being born of GOODLY parents..." see they used it back it the "day"
I'm not sure if that girl at the end understood the concept very goodly. BTW have you seen the Dave Chapelle definition for "good" in the movie "Undercover Brother"? Good means the absence of light; thus, "good morning" implies that whitey will try to kill you in the morning. Possibly one of the only times that Chappelle has told a joke goodly.
sorry, I completely disagree with your allowance of good as an adverb in conversational speech. that is unless you want to purposely sound ignorant (gramatically speeking). furthermore, what is that caveat about "as long as they know what rule they are breaking" mean. are you going to ask someone if they know what they just did wrong everytime they say they are "doing good"?... other than that it was good and you did well.
LOL, only you could find a way to fit a chris crocker reference into the dictionary of jack but if you were gonna go there you should have gone all out and put on a blonde wig, LOL. Good dictionary though.
I love the DoJ...I can let someone else be grammar nazi and just go on with my life...it is a wonder anyone can understand this language without a PHD though...
Honest to God, when I was 11 years old I was reading an interview with Aaron Carter and he said "Michael Jackson let me come over his house. He's really cool and said I could play with his monkey any time"
I know what you're saying and you have a very good point. But when people use good instead of well, it sounds so wrong to me. It'd be hard to get used to it.
I think you use it more over there than here in the UK. Most intelligent people I've spent time with on this side of the pond use well. But then I *have* heard very intelligent Americans use good. So perhaps it'd be harder for us to change than you.
AH I love this video! I am sending it to my father who does not seem to realize that the word "well" exists. It drives me a little crazy sometimes. Great job, Jack!
dude big fan but... fuck that who cares if you use good or well in a sentence the focus of the language is to get the message across not to be all over matters of gramar nature
Consider this approach: language serves two purposes, convey a message and make an impression. Sometimes the second one matters (job interviews, trying to get that hot girl's number) and sometimes it doesn't (YouTube).
Speaking ultra-correctly in a casual situation can make you seem like a pompous snob, but making casual errors like "good/well" and misspelling grammar among people who can spot them will make you seem like a drooling moron.
I wanted to rate this video with six or more stars, but that would indicate a condition exceeding perfection, so I am affirming my evaluation with only five stars, attempting to declare my approval goodly. Please do not be disappointed.
There is another possibility - the "good" meaning something close to "morally sound or morally right". So then it could answer: Are you good or evil? (cohering to moral constraints) Are you feeling sick? (phsical illness) Wow that was a bad crash are you ok? (direct physical trauma) How's it goin'? (having a good day or good luck/ feeling energetic) Wow you play skillfully don't you? (ok - its pompous and no one says that but you get the point)
"...you're doing GOOD, but keep paying attention." (At least you're following your own advice!)
This is the funniest thing I've seen on YouTube so far. But then, I don't actually watch that many videos. So maybe it's not even a good video, it's just that I am feeling particularly goodly today.
Jack is a cross between Alton Brown and Michael Shanks
tabletopphoto 1 year ago
I'm not usually this nit-picking when it comes to language, but seeing as you're making a "show" about the mis-use of English, I felt I had no choice but to point out an error you made at around 5:21. You describe "goodly" as "an adjective which means...'an attractive woman'", which is clearly wrong, using as it does a noun ("woman") to describe a verb. It would be more appropriate to define it as meaning "attractive", before going on to explain that it is mostly used when describing women.
2010nousername 1 year ago
I don't like the idea of "goodly." It's too close to Orwell's Newspeak (i.e., eliminating words and replacing them with suffixes).
SenorScoop 2 years ago
I love your brief explanation of nouns and verbs.
ShawnD1 2 years ago
how did you make the neverland ranch backround, and the wonderful picture of michael jackson and bubbles like that?
trixcie68 2 years ago
i wish my happy place was neverland ranch LOL XD
trixcie68 2 years ago
....it's actually not confusing......goodly....it doesn't sound right...gah......people use it stupidly because they're ignorant...duh
TheSpontaneousWonder 2 years ago
i hope jack doesn't feel guilty for using the michael jackson in that sentence...
TheSpontaneousWonder 2 years ago
This video is 2 years old. Why should he?
JokerAgentOfChaos 2 years ago
haha
ImRidinACatTV 2 years ago
I chuckled heartily at your comedic reference to Michael Jackson's alleged pedophilia activities.
I think it would have been most hilarious for your ironic happy place to be the Ferret Cage which smelled of urine you feared in Elementary school.
But, overall, I do believe you did very goodly on the differences between "good" and "well" and how they should be used in proper English sentences.
KiddBlack 2 years ago
I will only use the word goodly if I can explain to people why I used it, and justify why I think its correct. which is why i'm going to watch this video about 27 more times so I can get it.
MitraMomtazi 2 years ago
That's not confusing at all...that's what's so funny about it...and goodly? lol wth
TheSpontaneousWonder 2 years ago
Goodly???????????????????
gmodman123 3 years ago
I laughed heartily at the usage of the word "adnoun."
earne311 3 years ago
excellent. Now i have a way to prove an english teacher wrong. Hahahahahahahaha!
GodofChaos45 3 years ago
Dude, now I say "goodly". . . Thank you, Jack.
rebirthflames 3 years ago
YES, JACK..U'R DOING GOODLY!!
oliverescobar 3 years ago
you're doing well, you mean jack. I KNEW ID GET YOU ONE DAY.
illuminol 3 years ago
oops i didn't watch the end of the video. DAMN
illuminol 3 years ago
I've got your intro. song in my head now.
"The Dictionary of Jack, the dictionary is back, the Dictionary of Jack, the dictionary is back, it's oh so fun to see, I love vocabula-ry, it's back, it's back, it's back, it's the Dictionary of Jack!!"
steevmac 3 years ago 2
Yes, the Japanese make all sorts of crazy foods. Yesterday I bought a potato sandwich in the convenience store and as we're approaching Halloween pumpkin flavoured chocolate is appearing in many shops.
steevmac 3 years ago
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Waterlover47 3 years ago
That vid was done goodly. nice chris Croker referance. lol
Loonitickb105 3 years ago
Your rants are always done goodly. Seriously.
medic007 3 years ago
wtf you stole my comment joke!!!
WELL at least you used it GOODLY
Ho0lihan 3 years ago
maybe adjective came from object which as song thing to do with a noun. objects and nouns are similar.
schatzi321 3 years ago
lmfao loved the chris crocker joke xD
xXxGLORYxXx 3 years ago
brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
slinkiwaffel 3 years ago
ook..breath.....breath..calm down.you are way to obsessed with grammar
AnkhOmega 3 years ago
im bringin goodly......yeaaaaaaa
HockeyB496 3 years ago
Now, there's a dude that tells the truth in the world, we need more people like this personally. Hey, if your listening Jack, when you get alittle older, become the president!
Or at least a superintendent ^ ^.
Max Hamee
Gungho73 4 years ago
"...heres conjugating at you, kid." funny
theamymking 4 years ago
Eh, I want to say goodly, but when I do, feel like I'm fixing to wear an old black suit and plow the land.
merlinsteele 4 years ago
AS WELL YOU SHOULD.
optimuszgrime 4 years ago
Did you, by any strech of the immagenation, do an Advanced English and Literature class in high school? Or are you just REALLY smart, cuz i'm 13 and i think what you just said wasn't confusing or difficult to understand, i knew all of that already! Anyway, your videos are really....informative....and.....interesting....i suppose. Great video all the same!
Skye940 4 years ago
This video has done very goodly
dreapster 4 years ago
This video is goodly! or is that - was goodly?or very goodly? It's goodly! Thanks!
xyzgenericid 4 years ago
cooooooool
whojumpsthere 4 years ago
OKAY MY HATS ARE ON :]
Yes.
Hats.
I have many of them.
:]
CookieMonsterGoRawr 4 years ago
Yo, Jack. Where do ya get funding to make your videos? They are obviously very well made with a big production value, I just gotta know. I have a couple videos I would like to shoot. Any advice??
edlitz36 4 years ago
i don't think he is funded, all the video's he made could be done by one person Easily with a Green Screen and a good editing program.
xXenthesisXx 4 years ago
Actually, adjective means 'that is added to' from the Latin 'adjectivum'; not specifically 'added to the noun' but it has come to mean that in usage. I guess you were being funny with 'add to the jective'.
I disagree with using good in ways such as 'I'm doing good'. It just isn't correct, and is an an example of American corruption of the English language. 'I'm doing well' has sufficed for centuries. 'I'm doing good' means nothing more than 'I am doing good things'.
hiswayornoway 4 years ago
What about English corruption of the English language? You could still be saying things like, "This frere bosteth that he knoweth helle, and God it woot, that it is litel wonder."
JackDanyells 4 years ago
Those were the days. :D
I didn't mean American 'corruption' of the language. Every place has dialects and colloquialisms that aren't strictly correct. The problem is that American English is exported so aggressively through films and TV. It's like a linguistic Starbucks.
hiswayornoway 4 years ago
You know (or do you), I love English, but I can't STAND English TEACHERS! I have never had one that didn't understand (and subsequently marked me down for) the need to revolutionize the language via regression! Just a little, come on guys! Also (that's right, ALSO!), I totally did put my thinking hat on, but it's a little tight...perhaps the blockage of blood to my brain is influencing this comment...
dasiavou 4 years ago
What's wrong with also?
It's 'revolutionise'. Why do Americans love the letter zed so?
hiswayornoway 4 years ago
Well, I do not believe there is anything wrong with "also", but here the children are taught from an early age to NEVER begin a sentence with "also". For those of us who get into advanced English classes, however, the rule is less severe. And Americans don't really love the letter "Z" (I never knew about "zed" until I had a foreign exchange history teacher from England), that's just how we're taught. :)
dasiavou 4 years ago
wtf? zed?
ShavosBlackJacket 4 years ago
You know, like Lord Zed off Power Rangers :D
hiswayornoway 4 years ago
"Not unlike"
Hmmmm? You know what I mean Jack.
311i5c 4 years ago
gaaaaaaaaah the theme song is getting on my nerves!!!!!!!!
foliatedchicken 4 years ago
Im fucking tired of your theme song Jack! Come up with something new. Well maybe I just watch wayyy too many of your videos back to back
lvia00 4 years ago
AGHHHH... Aaron (Jack) Is AWSOME!!!
bostonfan6 4 years ago
I have to play this again - but I made a copy of it for my gay Multiply group - so they can enjoy.
I don't understand a word you said, but I will go to my death allowing you to have the last word.
lol
Thanks, it was so sweet.
budwoodjr
budwoodjr 4 years ago
OMG i've been so busy the past couple months and i've only just now been catching up with my YouTube watching and i am SO happy to see this video! Good/well is one of my biggest pet peeves!! favorited!
kate104 4 years ago
at about 2:40
you said "if you made it this far, you're doing good"
don't you mean "well"?
sertrbl 4 years ago
This video is very funny!! And well scripted / edited. You have a lot of talent!!
eaunan 4 years ago
Just to let you know, the word "goodly" is used several times in the Fort Collins High school song.
So "goodly" is still in fashion.
warning1042 4 years ago
2:14: I shall never sleep again... XD
GeniusGrl 4 years ago
goodly!!!
man english is tough... ah... n i m studying ba in english!!! :x
monsterbulb 4 years ago
I learned along time ago that you are "well" not "good", but I never understood why. This was actually helpful to me.
ps> english is still stupid.
RAWagner 4 years ago
I'm going to use "goodly" now. No matter what.
And I HAVE done what you asked of in other videos... etc. "figuratively" and I get really pissed when people say "awesome". It's working. YOU'RE CHANGING THE WORLD!
...
o.0
rebirthflames 4 years ago
that film was made goodly
ruler124 4 years ago
Not to be a contrarian, but I'd like to offer a different proposal for your expert consideration.
"Goodness" is a noun. So is "wellness." Let's convert 'em both to adverbs: "Goodnessly" and "wellnessly." Use 'em interchangeably, and nobody will ever get tripped up!
Jack goodnessly makes videos, and he makes me laugh wellnessly!
Urgelt 4 years ago
Brilliant. I am a grammar nazi, and sadly, I correct people (much to their dismay) constantly. I can't help it!
Yeti22 4 years ago
lol, funny vid Jack, keep it up! And yeah, I've been corrected by my parents for using "good" instead of "well", but not as much as I use "presume" over "assume", lol.
thementalteen 4 years ago
LMAO goodly!! I'll be sure to spread it in the high school crowd. Fads do goodly with teenagers!
I didn't know there was such a part of speech as adnoun...odd.
NYGuy207 4 years ago
Can you do us all a favor Jack and run Perez Hilton off of Youtibe for us-PLEASE! Just X him like your did Paris Hilton.
EntBlog90210 4 years ago
Ahahahahaha
klanda 4 years ago
LOL i think you did goodly too!
babybabeana 4 years ago
As usual... brilliant and quite funny... keep the videos coming Jack...
DanzNewz 4 years ago
love it. were you a linguistics major?
chickadee1028 4 years ago
That was video was goodly done.
kiddsock 4 years ago
another goodly done video! I love watchin' your vids!
Alura11 4 years ago
Goodly done Mr Jack!
ThePricanBouncer 4 years ago
Just FYI: when you say "I'm good," that's not an idiomatic expression for "I'm in a good mental state." It's actually an adjective, used by the linking verb "to be". A linking verb (grammar nazi time) like "to be" or "to seem" or even "to taste" uses the adjective to modify the subject (literally, "I am good" uses "good" like "good -pronoun-"). "I am well" means that your state of being is good ("well" modifies "to be"); "I am good" means that you yourself are good.
maxvip99 4 years ago
Shite.
Mattew1999 4 years ago
Very goodly done
geishagirl2k 4 years ago
Very well, very good. Very goodly.
rgaubatz 4 years ago
you did goodly indeed
ClubRustyTV 4 years ago
Goodly done!
hmcmo 4 years ago
my head hurts lol
Kjm2007 4 years ago
At 2:46, you say:
"you are doing good"
when you meant to say:
"you are doing well."
Unless you really mean that by sticking with the video this long you are doing a morally good thing...
freesk8 4 years ago
Yes, that was obviously unintentional and I thank you very much for explaining that to me. I clearly had no idea.
JackDanyells 4 years ago
I can not tell if you are being sarcastic or not.
Hey, this is a very entertaining and well-made video. I'm just the kind of person who hates it when people say they are doing "good" when they mean that they are doing well. It grates on my sensibilities. I guess I am just too sensetive...
freesk8 4 years ago
I'll send you a link to an old video I did that should help clear it up.
JackDanyells 4 years ago
Thank you SOO much!
That was really helpful, and made me like you a lot more!
freesk8 4 years ago
That was sarcasm, in case you missed it.
freesk8 4 years ago
That was a real goodly video.
MizzYvon 4 years ago
This was quite confusing and entertaining. You did goodly.
yessir179 4 years ago
great
jojoMaMa888 4 years ago
So when are you going to become a grammar teacher? I would have probably enjoyed my freshman year a lot more.
melchiorus 4 years ago
Did you purposely say good instead of well at 2:46?
"If you made it this far and you still understand what I'm talking about, you're doing good, but keep paying attention."
Nanania90 4 years ago
What do you think?
JackDanyells 4 years ago
You made me twitch a bit every time you said, "You're doing good." Fortunately, it all turned out goodly in the end.
OHdulcenea 4 years ago
bleh, english can be confusing. dutch adjectives and adverbs look the same, except for some case-endings, which only ad an -e
mouaii 4 years ago
lol oh man u made me laugh
warriorpriincess 4 years ago
nouns are to pronouns as verbs are to proverbs.
Right.....
soicanpost 4 years ago
Dude. I use urban dictronay because it's less confusing
zeldakix17 4 years ago
this vid is bad as in goodly
bbbckcal 4 years ago
As Martha Stuart would say: That's a good thing" so if you like goodly, get ready for betterly and bestly as well.
bbbckcal 4 years ago
Now if you could just explain goodly when to say "...and me" and when to say "...and I". I still cringe every time I hear the song "We are the World"... "It's true we make a better day, just you and me." AAAAHHGHH! Oh, and I hope your abssession clears up.
BigNWide 4 years ago
there are people that find this difficult?
LionelF 4 years ago
Wow educational and hysterically funny... you did do goodly:D
Awesome vid...
Alligator2222 4 years ago
Well i don't want to quote scripture but um if your mormon then here's a reminder "I nephi, being born of GOODLY parents..." see they used it back it the "day"
kinkosmyers 4 years ago
Nice (:
KishoTenshi 4 years ago
Ouch, Jack. Why doesn't your quotation have end quotation marks? Yikes.
TheGrammarian 4 years ago
Ha, Chris Crocker reference.
Goodly done.
Talixaen 4 years ago
I love these videos.
SweetLiss 4 years ago
I'm not sure if that girl at the end understood the concept very goodly. BTW have you seen the Dave Chapelle definition for "good" in the movie "Undercover Brother"? Good means the absence of light; thus, "good morning" implies that whitey will try to kill you in the morning. Possibly one of the only times that Chappelle has told a joke goodly.
pef23 4 years ago
Very entertaining.
EuphoniumEuphoria 4 years ago
These has very goodly videos, interestion video's. thanks your.
nizostyle 4 years ago
Goodly just doesn't sit good with me.
beentherewonthat 4 years ago
lol
azb1034 4 years ago
I really don't care that much about this but it was still entertaining
dirrkah 4 years ago
Still a good video though
kallamazzoo 4 years ago
Oh man
gamerbots 4 years ago
love it as always!
martini613 4 years ago
you're my hero
wardbingham 4 years ago
three comments one: still confuse two: reminded me of my language arts teacher three: out of all the thing you chose, Lord of the Rings?
still love the Dictionary of Jack though so keep on goin in a way that everyone can stay focused on pls!
sr4jes 4 years ago
when someone asks you how you are wouldent they corect word be fine and not good?
wing189 4 years ago
sorry, I completely disagree with your allowance of good as an adverb in conversational speech. that is unless you want to purposely sound ignorant (gramatically speeking). furthermore, what is that caveat about "as long as they know what rule they are breaking" mean. are you going to ask someone if they know what they just did wrong everytime they say they are "doing good"?... other than that it was good and you did well.
norhymenorreason 4 years ago
I disagree too
kallamazzoo 4 years ago
You disagree with what
dirrkah 4 years ago
Very well. In support of you, my good sir, I will adopt 'goodly' into my spoken vocabulary. 5/5 (as usual!)
xiayu27 4 years ago
confusing but goodly :D
greatkioman 4 years ago
LOL, only you could find a way to fit a chris crocker reference into the dictionary of jack but if you were gonna go there you should have gone all out and put on a blonde wig, LOL. Good dictionary though.
magikbymoonlight 4 years ago
I love the DoJ...I can let someone else be grammar nazi and just go on with my life...it is a wonder anyone can understand this language without a PHD though...
DeMerickisWatching 4 years ago
Honest to God, when I was 11 years old I was reading an interview with Aaron Carter and he said "Michael Jackson let me come over his house. He's really cool and said I could play with his monkey any time"
Ariya 4 years ago
You should have your own show on PBS.
If I had 10 tapes of you explaining English maybe it wouldn't be so noticeable on my comments that English is my second language.
Ranblv 4 years ago
I'm stating to think this videos aren't doing any good to your mental health.
greengrendel 4 years ago
I want you as my teacher ^_^
davidburch 4 years ago
i shall comment you jack, as you hinted so goodly at the end of the video
did i do that right? :)
kerilizmon 4 years ago
Even though this video was the most complicatd of all Dictionary of Jack videos, it is still funny!
And yes, Michael Jackson is creepy...
kometman 4 years ago
wow, this must have taken you forever, good stuff though.
kereru 4 years ago
Jack, your work on this video was goodly.
PaulsOpinion 4 years ago
I know what you're saying and you have a very good point. But when people use good instead of well, it sounds so wrong to me. It'd be hard to get used to it.
I think you use it more over there than here in the UK. Most intelligent people I've spent time with on this side of the pond use well. But then I *have* heard very intelligent Americans use good. So perhaps it'd be harder for us to change than you.
dwood2001 4 years ago
AH I love this video! I am sending it to my father who does not seem to realize that the word "well" exists. It drives me a little crazy sometimes. Great job, Jack!
MythArdolen 4 years ago
Forget grammar. I think you've made the most important political discovery in years.
1) thinking cap = hat
2) most USAmericans don't wear hats -> therefore most have trouble thinking
3) most who wear hats are over 70 or under 25, the same groups who most strongly oppose the Bush administration.
My God, it's all so simple now!
jlmww 4 years ago
You tell everyone they speak badly, and then you try and make us all say "goodly".
preschmanager 4 years ago
dude big fan but... fuck that who cares if you use good or well in a sentence the focus of the language is to get the message across not to be all over matters of gramar nature
garapa 4 years ago
Consider this approach: language serves two purposes, convey a message and make an impression. Sometimes the second one matters (job interviews, trying to get that hot girl's number) and sometimes it doesn't (YouTube).
Speaking ultra-correctly in a casual situation can make you seem like a pompous snob, but making casual errors like "good/well" and misspelling grammar among people who can spot them will make you seem like a drooling moron.
My apologies to any actual drooling morons.
professor2442 4 years ago
I am a English Language Learner, and I loved your video! Can you talk slower next time...?
sk37 4 years ago
Or people could just learn to use well the way they're supposed to.
watchingstuff1981 4 years ago
you dont need to use well just say im all right
fremanofkol 4 years ago
Just came across this in an artical about a rattlesnake bite:
Nostrand said. "It got him pretty well enough that I knew to send him to the hospital."
HA
cjam12 4 years ago
you're teeth are yellow which is awesome. Yes awe inspiring.
Charlesdance 4 years ago
I wanted to rate this video with six or more stars, but that would indicate a condition exceeding perfection, so I am affirming my evaluation with only five stars, attempting to declare my approval goodly. Please do not be disappointed.
subwooferfugue 4 years ago
Lycinja 4 years ago
I was with you until those last two.
Days go well. They don't go good.
And people play well. They don't play good.
jlmww 4 years ago
Both are used as the idiomatic expression form of "I'm good"
For skillfullness you are really saying "I am good at _____ " and for "How's it goin' " your response can also be phrased "I am having a good day."
Both are shortened to "I'm good".
Lycinja 4 years ago
Oh have I mentioned lately that you're awesome?
(Btw, that one little shot out/link totally like...tripled my subscribers. That's not saying much, BUT...I bow graciously to you anyway =))
thatbostonchick 4 years ago
you did goodly why are people using da insted of the its 3 letters long you don't need too make it shorter
Gaffacharge 4 years ago
"...you're doing GOOD, but keep paying attention." (At least you're following your own advice!)
This is the funniest thing I've seen on YouTube so far. But then, I don't actually watch that many videos. So maybe it's not even a good video, it's just that I am feeling particularly goodly today.
ddlsr 4 years ago
I'm gonna use 'well' because, well, I use it well. And yay! The dictionary is back!
martnik 4 years ago
Very goodly. lol
thejudgemeister 4 years ago
You did goodly Jack.....? I'm sorry I just can't do that shit.
Well done.
PrezLeefun 4 years ago
Yes it seems odd but i am joining the challenge (as i did with "Less" & "Few"
This video was made goodly
mrdougan 4 years ago
Puns pave the road to happiness.
Um.. I don't think I can enforce goodly, but I'm sure I can keep attacking people who abuse grammar.
Yatouh 4 years ago
good job man
cheezit83 4 years ago
Darn, I can't get this silly song out of my head! LOL
awreslr2 4 years ago
Very good episode, you are so creative!
Hekerui 4 years ago
Adnouns sound like something that has to be surgically removed. ...thats, sugicaLLY removed.
Xelanderthomas 4 years ago
I think, more important than asking why your happy place is the Neverland Ranch, is asking why your inner child has underwear on his head...
NoobixCube 4 years ago
The dictionary of Jack!
The dictionary is bad!
the dictionary is jack!
The dictionary is back!
it's oh so sad you seeeeee
he loves vocabulary!
He's back he's back he's back, it's his dictionary of jack!
nah, but seriously, your videos rock! =] I understood that though, so do I get a refrence? xD
Ancodi 4 years ago
haha you really did goodly ^^
KaiToTheN 4 years ago
Fine then!
H2TheChrizzle 4 years ago
Love the new vids. Feels like forever since u posted ur last DoJ
amrisolarstreak 4 years ago
I will do good torturing kittens today.=>It will be a good thing.
I will do well torturing kittens today.=>It will be a torture of high quality.
Cyclonebg 4 years ago
I love linguistics and your Dictionary is my fav reference book. Keep it up. :) That was done goodly!
FGAlxPx 4 years ago
I like this adnoun idea.
comfalot 4 years ago
great! i love these dictionary videos.
Sikosm 4 years ago
Super goodly video, I'm always a fan of your DoJ videos.
rockinvideogirl 4 years ago
Jack, are you suggesting that we create a new word???(adnoun) And does that creation now validate the existence of grawsome? just curious.
goldenpizza 4 years ago
You did a goodly job on this video Mr. Danyells. Thanks!
JKVman2007 4 years ago
That was a very interesting topic. You educated and entertained me at the same time; how dare you!
darkbond13 4 years ago
You explained it very well. You did it weller than I could, but, I don't speak English goodly.
spk121 4 years ago
"Goodly sounds weird"
Agreed. I prefer greatly myself.
ZZDaikun 4 years ago
How can you scream bravely, were you to do so?
Oh, and, as always, you did goodly. Logic > Rules
Truthiness231 4 years ago
Well it was a joke in this video, but apparently you've never seen Braveheart.
JackDanyells 4 years ago
lol
appletubes 4 years ago
Not too bad, but you kind of lost me there at the end.
ezekheal 4 years ago