Soap Opera
Most of us know where the ’soap’ comes from in “Soap Opera”… but how about the ‘opera’ part?
Sorry.. had to repost this.. something messed up in the previus post and I lost about 140 comments.
Arrgghh! Such is life… sorry 
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“I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.” – Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925. …soap the scopes….
Soap Opera, I am unable to post comments there
Hi Marina, Dearest of all my teachers,
I believe the word your looking for is cliffhanger. Seems I have a lot of catching up to do since working away from home all last week, has gotten me behind on the lessons.
Beautiful necklace by the way I love how it nestles amongst the hollow, makes me envious. Have two new word requests “grammatolatry” and “ogallala”.
A voice! A voice! I hear which does set my heart a flutter.
An explosion of heaven within my mind which permeates a burning into the very flesh of my being.
Truly this woman is bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, otherwise it could not be,
for this reason alone I claim her my own , Marina for all eternity.
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RE: Soap Opera, I am unable to post comments there
Hi Marina, Dearest of all my teachers,
I believe the word your looking for is cliffhanger. Seems I have a lot of catching up to do since working away from home all last week, has gotten me behind on the lessons.
Beautiful necklace by the way I love how it nestles amongst the hollow, makes me envious. Have two new word requests “grammatolatry” and “ogallala”.
A voice! A voice! I hear which does set my heart a flutter.
An explosion of heaven within my mind which permeates a burning into the very flesh of my being.
Truly this woman is bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, otherwise it could not be,
for this reason alone I claim her my own , Marina for all eternity.
Hope You Like It
Somebody in Texas Loves You
Horse walks into a bar, and the bartender says, “hey buddy, why the long face?”
Why the long face, prospero811?…Tommy Cash promo video for his 1960’s number one hit Six White Horses…[roam]..gun me down; no no no
Again a nice one.
I like your shirt if I had a favorite color and my key chain that you are using for a necklace. I am still waiting for the next date and unfortunately I had to push my car seventeen miles home after the last date? I would have to say it was all pleasure!
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Привет, Marina! I am the first to say that you are beautiful, that the answer is Cliffhanger, and that “supercalafragelisticexpialadociously” is as much a word as “supercalafragelisticexpialadocious”!
(Please forgive my sarcasm!
)
Oh, and please do one on the word “sarcasm”! Thanks you!
Marina, also could you do a video on superschitzophrenicexpialodocious? I have it!!! It’s a rare chemical balance that is only caused by me not watching your funny, witty, and extremely sexy videos!!! lol jk I don’t have that, but I do like to watch your videos!!!
I am in love with this woman!
‘cliffhanger’? Bah! The technique is known as titilation.
Thank you, Marina!
You are in the top three of all my teachers, just after teacher of math.
“What method soap operas using to captivate their viewers?”
I believe this method is “fake marriage shoe”. As long as you get used to it, this marriage keep changing the shoe colors by faking it.
Cheers!
I would be in a soap opera with you any tin, hold on, gotta get the water hose, your so hot my pc is smoking.
Interestingly enough most soap operas today are in fact sponsored by Proctor and Gamble, which makes and owns many things, including soap lines, toothpaste, and Pringles.
And the term is cliffhanger
And the SAGA continues………………lol
Soap Operas use a technique called a Cliffhanger to get people to tune in for their next show the next day.
the answer to the followon question of “what is the word for the dramatic ending that leaves the watchers waiting for the next episode?” The answer is “cliffhanger”
Marina,
Word Request: Bandwagon, as in, relating to sports, “bandwagon fan.”
Marina,
A guess from out of left feild
infomercial = [sophisticated-witty-underestated-documentry program-interveiw] (1)
Gregory McBride
the soap in soap opera comes from the sponsors of soap opera programs – with many commercials about laundtry detergents, dish soap, etc……
I’d like to request the word “Pub Crawl”
Oh and if you’d say hi to the “Thirsty Swagman” (from thirstyswagman.com) while you’re giving the lesson, I would be honored!
That was an easy lesson, but mostly because we use the same words in swedish….. “cliffhanger”. Not that it´s in any way swedish words, but we tend to loan words from different language and use at home.
I´ll get back to you with the word yuletide sometime in december!
from your dear student / Swedehunter
Marina,
First off, I wanted to tell you that you’re absolutely stunning……..
The word I’m curious about is invalid, and by invalid, I mean a sick person. Where did that come from?
marina, what do I need to do to become teachers pet for the day?!