ueh uoh, cool and kool—coup my coop and court the course to days random lesson>>>>well produced and neat as ever but obscurity is forever.” – Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821—phooqkyghn
I always wondered why the English leave out the H sound in the beginning of all their words except “herbal”, the only word I know of that Americans pronounce with a silent H.
Can’t think of another F for U sound, but there are plenty of weird English pronunciations of French. One example: a famous street in London witha French name–Beauchamp Place–should be pronounced “bo shon” place. It is actually pronounced Beecham!
I don’t agree with your analysis of the different pronunciations of lieutenant. I believe that the two different pronunciations came about for a typographic reason. The English alphabet uses Roman characters, and in Ancient Rome, there was no written distinction between U and V. For example, the word MAXIMUS would be MAXIMVS. Stone chiseled letters from Ancient Rome eventually became printed material. Since French is a Romance language, typographic conventions would carry over. Lieutenant and lievtenant are the same word.
English has Latin and Germanic roots, and in German, V and F have very similar pronunciations. Old English is much closer to German than modern English, so the pronunciation of the French word lieutenant by speakers of Old English could be lieftenant. This is why I think that the British pronunciation is leftenant and the American pronunciation is lieutenant.
While I agree that she did not include the Roman asspect of it, and she made herself sound like a typical “ignore my mind and stare at my tits” type of chick. She basically said what you wrote only a shorter version. She did not sound like a textbook lecturer, and threw out more appeal to her audience. Thus making her a good lecturer. Quit trying to sound smart when you’re not. READ TH?E TEACHINGS OF SOCRETES!
wordlover where have you been. Everyone here misses you and buzzword. Please come back and banter with us some. You two made for some interesting comments and fun times.
Marina, I have a word request as a result of all this loo talk; Where does the expression “tootle loo” meaning “so long”, “see you later” come from?
I have my own theory, but what does the expert say?
1) Us pesky Brits stole it from France (loanword) tout à l’heure. It is pronounced toodle loo in UK Bob where are you from.
2) It means in England that I need to bugger off quick because I ate and drank too much
3) An Englishman’s desire to find the home of the Mona Lisa
There’s been a whole heap of fuss in the British media about ‘regrading’ cannabis/mariuana. It makes me wonder – where do words like ’spliff’ and ‘reefer’ come from?
Back in Nam, say 1969, June… daybreak… sun climbing up over the horizon… trenches are quiet… soldier whispers to his partner… “this opium is great man! I had a science-fiction dream last night where this hot teacher in the next century was talkin’ bout WORDS back home and everybody’s happy and stuff. It was too much!”
His partner never replied because he had the…
THOUSAND YARD STARE!
Was this guy dead? (or) Was this guy alive but stuck in a zone known only to himself (shellshock)? (or) was this guy just paying attention to enemy movements over yonder…. say 3000 feet? hmmm?
No, Skipper, I live in the real one.
Etymology of Aberdeen – Aber=mouth of a river (No Swedish jokes here, please) + Dee=the name of the river at the mouth of which Aberdeen is situated.
BTW, Is there a River Dee in WA? And do you have to go down to the river to wash?
Aberdeen Mississippi Blues
1. Funny way to play the violin.
2. I know Idi Amin always claimed to be Scottish, but why Aberdeen Mississippi Blues?
3. Is Booker White an oxymoron?
The first computer was invented in 2600Bc. I was called and still is called an abacus. Technically a manual difference engine the automatic ones changed their name later to computer but when ?
The first automatic working difference engine was built in 1822 (50 years after it was ‘invented by J H Smith’) in my home town Manchester England Britain. I can answer this one without references because i have seen it . It is as big as a house in the Museum of Science and Industry. 2+2 =I’ll come back next week LOL
So the word origins were introduced some time after that by Captain J. F***nose who decided that the appropriate descriptive verb was to compute. So the noun would be a computer.
Compute is a theft (loanword) from the Latin words computus and computare
Hey 2hfwfc , did you hear about that early mechanical computer some diver discovered? I was wondering if you knew anything about it? Last I heard they where going to use some special xrays to figure out how it worked without destroying it.
Computer, at one time. was a job title for those who did interest amortization calculations – important to bankers. An amortization is a string of calculations where each subsequent string is dependent upon variable values created during each pass of calculation. Phew!
I did see a snatch piece about the mechanical computer found by divers. It appeared to be configured like an astrolabe but a few added features are yet to be explained.
Hey captain you are such full of witty gems I was waiting for a punchline.
Good job my cha cha loving friend pointed out that you were serious.
Do you still Cha cha melika ?
This is weird – earlier on, the site wasn’t letting me post my replies but now it is! That’s good.
I’m a new student with an insatiable appetite for learning. Thankyou for the opportunity.
Miss, can you tell me where the word ‘gong’ comes from? That big metal thing that the guy used to bang with a mallet before every movie. And Marc Bolan of course, who told us all to get it on, bang a gong. Is ‘gong’ from the far east or is it a simple onomatopoeia?
I am trying to stop laughing at melikadothechacha’s comments.
I have found about 7 meanings to this already, all pretty rude but illhairyarse non the less.
I also do the chacha Melika
Thank-Q! come back for the 12:15 show.
I gets racier after midnite! I took this name
because if I ever get the TA spot, Marina
will say “Me-Lika-Do-The-Cha-Cha” and
THAT would be SOOO cool!
I have heard the origin of the S-word ( s – h – i – t) comes from shipping cow manure and the phrase “Ship High In Transit” was placed on the crates. Is this true or just a hoax?
The origin of any other curse words you may know of could be cool, too.
Thanks!
That’s crap LOL
Joking apart I never knew that . thanks word lover always delighted to share knowledge with you.
Crap—-Thomas Crapper the London Plumber’s Merchant to make popular (but not invent) the flushing inside lavatory.
The product was caller ‘the crapper’…..hence verb to crap…
Funny and embarrassing thing is I used to educate people that Ship High in Transit was a fact and later discovered my big mistake when I really got into researching nautical origins. I also learned of many things in school that are just untrue. I feel like I was lied to and not taught a thing. So now I ways say to people somethings you where taught in school are just false.
Thanks so much Marina, i really appreciate it!
Now i think it’s time to name your sister.
You names sound kind of aquatic (Marina = a place to dock boats
if that’s wrong maybe you should do a lesson on your own name.
It probalby has a different meaning in Russian)
so perhaps your twin should have something aerial.
I don’t know what it should be, Airport doesn’t have the same ring to is as Marina. Think about it.
you’re a genius! I had the answer right in front of me but i needed you to respell it into a girl’s name.
now we jsut have to convice Marina to start calling her twin Ariel.
i can’t read or speak Russian. sorry.
the only words i know are dah, nyet, dosvidenya
and nichevo which after much research i learned means nothing!
But confusious from Taiwan said that to know more is to learn that you know nothing. So you know the Russian for nothing so you must now know it all LOL
The Russian was just the way that Ariel Tritanovna Rodina would be spelt in Russian. buddy.
Boringly enough nothing more I’m afraid.
I prefer Russian characters to our own.garbage.
They have distinct sounds unlike ours
A as in aye
A as in apple
A as in wade
A as in mark
A as in awkward
Need i say more ?
It’s no use to insist, Proz; it’s Angelina AND I have her phone number.
Now you know why we so seldom see her in the videos – she’s always on the phone.
Why? because i love how companies marketing their products say: “Turbo-Charged Grass Seeds!” or “Super-Charged Hunting Knife!” when most consumers have no idea what those words mean, but they automatically assume it is better. i’m not asking for you to tell me what turbochaged means, im asking for turbo. where does it come from, and why do all people see the word “turbo” and immediately they think positively-charged!
That’s not really exact such an idea makes me think about when one is shopping for anything you have to face the marketing illusion that one product is greater or you need to buy two instead of just one. I would want to know if you really think that knowing the origin of turbo is going to change our idea of what an illusion is
some times companies or persons have a way of making you feel a certain way when you see their product or ask a question. The scaring feeling you get abut buying the product flip flops turbo around until you just get confused
melika – that goes good with a pangalactic gargleblaster, except that when you drink one it’s like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick. It’s the alcoholic equivalent to a mugging.
it could from the word: turbine. its first uses are in turbocharger and turbojet (a jet engine) from the 1930’s and 1940’s. both of these inventions operate using a key mechanical components: turbines.
both the turbocharger and turbojet allow the vehicle (aeroplanes especially fighter aircraft) to go fast(er) which in 1940s was a key performance indicator of how good an aircraft was.
It wasn’t the food. There was a lady with six kids. Her friend observed that men have the same look in there eyes when they’re hungry as when they’re horny. The lady with the kids said “You mean all I had to do was FEED him??”
Remember during the Paul is Dead era that feeling everybody would get when listening to and trying to decipher the clues that John left in his songs as to what REALLY happened to Paul?
why does the word “blue” (as in phrase: blue movie) mean pornographic? in contrast to that an area of a city that has prostitutes and has pornographic shops/stripclubs etc. is called red light district.
Must be the old way. Nowadays they grid up during a pace lap, under yellow, and take the green flag at race speed. Red is used now to indicate to drivers to come to an immediate stop on the track. We only do that if the track is blocked – rarely.
Wait a second… heh-heh-heh, I’m just KIDDING… Yeah, that’s the ticket… It was just a joke… I don’t know what’s in this Ziploc, it looks like grass clippings… Why would someone keep grass clippings in a sandwich bag? I mean, what would you do with it? Eh-heh-eh-heh … HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA… Look at the time! Gotta run…
All you yellow bellies are looking through rose-colored glasses, and that makes me see red, dammit! I’ve been a little blue, lately, due to the gray skies. However, the clouds have a silver lining, and all you black-hearted greenhorns will soon be raising a white flag, I’m sure.
I think the blue reference has something to do with regulations or restrictions. “Blue laws” mean you can’t buy alcohol on Sundays. Blue movies are those unavailable to young kids. Both are references to restrictions.
I like the sell me some vegitarian food idea i’ll sell you some tofu and soy sauce. I stopped eating lots of tomatoes and potatoes because of the high cianide content they naturally have.
Okay i might not think that’s what your asking the class for but it’s all I could think of It might not be very funny to you though Marina in fact i dont mean that as a threat it’s just confusing
Hey wordlover cianide used to be a bedtime drink in England like Horlicks or Cocoa is today..
like Heroin was cough medicine
Made you feel dead drowsy LOL
I know you’ve told me not to call you thins before but f*** nose !
One thing I did learn buddy is that just because someone speaks English doesn’t mean that someone else that speaks English can understand. Here in England the regional dialect can be so extreme that I moved 50 miles east to Yorkshire and need an English to Yorkshire phrase book !
Can you explain ‘wentup thill baht bahns’ or ‘put wood in thole’
CAPTAIN MORGAN, I’LL REALLY PREFER TO WRITE THIS WAY, I DON’T KNOW WHY. I ACOSTUMED TO TURN ON CAPSLOCK WHEN WRITE AND THERE’S SOMETHING I DON’T UNDERSTAND. WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WRITING MAYUSCULAS ??? EVERYBODY TELLS ME ABUT IT
You don’t know why and there lies the understanding. May I ask you a question Gio? Why do we have Uppercase and Lowercase letters? What is their purpose?
gio – There are two reasons that come to mind to warrant refraining from “all caps” writing.
1. In the etiquette of email, text, IM and message boards, capitalization of all of the letters of a word STRESSES that word and places emphasis on it. When an entire paragraph or passage is capitalized, IT MAKES PEOPLE THINK YOU ARE RAISING YOUR VOICE.
2. In all writing, not just electronic, style has traditionally dictated that people not write in all upper case. This is because it has been demonstrated that all upper case writing is harder to read than mixed case writing. When people read, especially when they read fast, they read the shape of words. They do not read each individual letter. All caps makes everything roughly the same shape, while mixed case provides more variety and the eye is able to scan the text easier.
The fact that “everybody” tells you about it should make you think twice, since those are the people with whom you are trying to communicate.
I’ll add a third reason that is, I believe, my own contribution to this issue. I think that people should strive to communicate in proper style as much as possible. Use complete sentences. Use proper structure and grammar. Learn good and clear style. That doesn’t mean to be perfect or to waste inordinate amounts of time proofreading. All that means is to get into good habits. A lot of people use all caps to avoid having to write properly.
LOL
Chinese are particularly offended when we ’shout’ at them in upper case.
Not only is defiance against authority snubbed by their culture there they don’t understand the need for caps at all.
In fact in Taiwan Confucious said in true Yoda style Annoyance shown argument already lost you have.
It’s like giving a ‘v ‘ sign in the UK.
A philologist equiv would know 47,000 characters average chinaman 3000. I struggle on 230. Can you imagine lower and upper case …special desk sized keyboard.
they don’t really use vocal punctuality either because the word’s ’song’ determines it’s meaning.
I always remember first time I said hello the recipient when he had finished rolling around from laughing he explained to my translator that I had pronounced day as shit so was enquiring about the enjoyment factor of his most recent bowel movement !
And I thought my Russian ex-wife was weird when she refused to speak for a week . I apparently touched her bottom (accidentally) in public.thus branding her a whore.
Different things offend different people but low profile offends no one
@Pros, Thanks for your take on all Caps writing. I try to use complete sentences when I can. I’m very weak in sentences structure, grammar, and spelling. I was deprived from taking writing & English classes. I was able to learn some skills from computer programming of all things. I always try to proof read my comments as much as I have time for. I struggle with trying to get all my thought down on the keyboard as quickly as possible before they seep away from my mind. My most hated subject is writing and English speaking and yet now I am an instructor (masculine for teacher?) and I write a lot in these blogs. Who would have known?
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@ 2hfwfc, I always try to look at offending talk as someone who doesn’t understand how their communication or actions effect me. For maybe they really don’t know. When people poke fun at me I get very offended, but knowledge of that they are only having fun, I don’t want to be the party pooper and I try to turn it around and make it fun for me. I sometimes try to be the class clown. Its embarrassing but we need more happy and funny things in our lives so we can die with a smile on our faces. LOL on the bowel movement joke.
Hey I thought you were hilarious as always captainjack my learned friend.
It was not a dig at you I loved the multicased text and LMAO It was aimed at MR UPPERCASE but replied to you so that it would appear in the right order for all to read. Sorry if you misunderstood my motives buddy !
Love reading your comments.
As far as the English variety of English goes quite frankly there are absolutely no visual signs of your deprivation whatsoever you very modest fellow.
@2hfwfc, Oh no I didn’t mean I was offended by you. I was just making a general comment about how I see things. Yes I see how you placed your comment in right order. I understood your motives clearly.
About my English, Really? I thought my English sucked! I’m always being corrected by my sister. I even had a girlfriend in the Philippines that corrected me. She knew proper English better than I did. I really prefer telepathy with my sister to communicate thoughts. I have a hard time finding words and putting sentences together to describe my thoughts. Thanks 2hfwfc for your complements.
Teacher knows best! What a refreshingly mature and civil discussion. If people conducted themselves outside of cyberspace in the same manner as they do on HotForWords, my workweek would be a great deal more pleasant indeed.
Marina, as an attentive student, I must bring to your attention your sentence structure. To advise gio to “type regularly” is to say that he should type every day or type often. Would it perhaps better convey your thought to say to gio that it is best to “type the regular way.” or “type in the regular fashion.” ?
Buzz word says WTF ?
I think it is ‘tongue in cheek’ NO the other cheek.
Everyone one just wants to agree with teacher here.
Hardly surprising really with teacher’s pet app still open
Люблю тебя всем сердцем, всей душою мaрина LOL
@ Богдан, I think its because when we type we have to slow down and put our thoughts in order. We can even delete sentences after further refection about how this comment will effect others, how will it be understood, is it a complete thought, etc. People need to just slow down and think before having to open mouth and inserting foot.
In regards to 2hfwfc comments but not directed to his comments (wow what a mouthful), I try not to always agree with teacher. I don’t want to be a “Yes man”. It good not to always agree. Its healthy to have differences and to respect others opinions. If we all agreed one way of doing things then the world would be very boring. We all would have the same color of things, work the same jobs, etc, you get the point. My former relationships with girlfriends, we always had good debates. Sometimes we where able to change each others thinking by really looking at the other persons view. Relationships always lasted longer than when I was a “Yes Man”.
Btw, I like your new avatar.
Enjoyed today’s quote and here’s one back at you.
“Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.” – Samuel Johnson, 1752
Great to see you in uniform again.
Thank you very much Marina!
What an honor and a privilege to be your pet.
You have many great students and I am humbled.
Also thanks for the guitar return because it always fires me up.
Please continue your quest to educate and entertain.
You always do a great job.. so thanks again. +5
My world expanding with words
David
@ Cimska, I don’t know. I have never been one. I hear it many things. Having Marina speak your screen name from her sexy lips maybe. Or everyone congratulating you on being picked as a Pet. I always fantasize her wearing her hot yellow top speaking my name. (btw Marina do you have the same top but in bright green?)
What kind of things you do. Well the normal stuff. Get out of bed. Log on to HFW and contribute your words and thoughts. Thats basically it I imagine. What do you think it should be?
It’s great to have been the teachers pet, Friends laugh at you, you get to show off the video to anybody who will look. My kids look at me a little differently now & I think I may have to email the video to my wife LOL. You guys that haven’t had the priviledge yet still have anticipation on your side. What have I to look forward too I hope I’m not a forgotten friend. I know Marina will look after her pets even if we are a bit ugly or pesky at times. Thank you & care for your own. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peBuh0rkuk0&feature=related
Nothin wacky going on here. Just an observation comparing some of the ideas being expressed by you guys to the framework of thought suggested by the series “Heroes”.
ie. helping the helpless makes us all stand taller.
you can laugh now!
i got a word like that for you its ketchup or katsup haha just joking that word game is in the SIMPSONS god i love the SIMPSONS maybe more than i love you Marina no i love you better you got big boobs and your prety
Dear Fellow student
You speak like Homer! are you homer? you are homer! I am sure Homer leave this body alone! VADE RETRO HOMER!
Euh sorry… I shouldn’t watch the exorcist so oftenly
Amicalement
Don Felipe
Dear fellow student
Gio is right! There’s things that can’t be said right here. She has no big B°°Bz she has serious philological arguments. These are the rules! Here, you must forget the homer that is in you (well this part of your personnality, I mean).
Amicalement
Don Felipe Gonzales
Dear fellow student wordlover,
felipinos (sorry for la tilda) is not a chili pepper (well, sometimes,….) a felipino is diminutive of felipe or of Philip but in spanish.
It is also reputed to be the name of an extremely dangerous human being living in Europe that won the “Mister Universe” award during 10 years, but that retired to leave room for the young.
That’s horrible! Sometimes you read things you don’t know if it is a real question or humor! I hope I don’t appear as the one who want to seem ” I know every thing” (sorry if you think that)
Amicalement
Don Felipe Gonzales de la derecha de la mitad del cielo
Dear fellow student
OoOoOops chat is really excellent, every body has problems to understand the others. OK, wordlover! Sorry!
Perhaps our teacher could make an apparition in one of the Simpson episode….(if they still write some)
Amicalement
Don Felipe Gonzales
Oh there is so much love here!!!! Marina doesn’t know what she is missing. Too bad she is to busy with lesson plans to join in. But then the focus would all turn onto her.. Hhmmmm Maybe she should make a fake log-in and pretend to be one of us students.
Dear fellow student,
You’re right Captain Jack, she should make a fake log-in, a little bit of schyzophrenia is always welcome! The funiest thing would be that the fake log in were elected teacher’s pet !
Amicalement
Don Felipe
Le Cat – stick to what you know.
Les mew, les purr, les Rowr! Rowr!
Can you kiss a pretty girl Pepi boy, Pepi boy
Can you kiss a preety girl yong Pepi?
being mean to Marina grrrr i go kick his ass …..or maybe buy him a beer …depends on how big……maybe we could conjure up a trick word to pull the wool over Marina’s eyes…….Just kidding ,Teacher your the best.
Marina, you don’t deserve that kind of abuse (or any abuse, for that matter)!
hdvideo needs detention! Better yet, s/he need to be expelled! Can I get a “hell yeah”?
Hell yeah, that reminds me when I Use to play Americas Army if you got to many roe (rules of engagement) points you got sent to a prison cell in Ft Leavenworth. Perhaps Marina should have her own detention hall where you only got to watch one video, of her own choosing for a couple of days…………….wait a minute I would be there every day…….bad idea
OK – there is DEFINITELY^ spaghetti going on…
must be a salad on the side.
Sometimes I have to eat & work, too
I just don’t have 61 million people
watching me do it!
No feta (use warmed cocnut oil to mix with the pesto) just pesto mixed the right way and try any indian vegitarian food recipies they are some of the best, anyways who cares about amen, make people say ohmm or namaste for good vegitarian check the thai menu as well
tofu? yuck. this stuff is disgusting. smells like all foods of this planet combined gone bad and tastes like … nothing. eat paper instead. at least it doesn’t have that smell. bah.
["That is spaghetti, right?
a hot tomatoe eating a ‘mater! LOL
good thing a ‘mater is a vegetable
or that would be canabilism!']
Eating vegetables is cannibalism. Plants respond to soothing voices and music. Sure tomatoes have no brains as we do but they are living things are they not? Have you ever seen a tomato do a stupid thing? Makes you wonder who the smart one is hu? Isn’t ignorance bliss? Aren’t they like animals? They take in oxygen and expel carbon dioxide (though the non fruit part of the plans does the exact opposite). I sometimes eat edible flowers that my sister brings to me. I feel like im biting off the head of some animal.
Oh sorry thats the green thumb on me talking. Would someone please pass the chicken wings!
Speaking of tomatoes, I should find a pea patch and grow some tomato plants. I wish I could just grow them on my yacht. Im getting sick and tried of this store bought ethylene gas sprayed tomatoes. Way to much starch and too little sugar.
Can you please tell me where the word slang comes from?
I think that it may come from the french: “slae langue”, which means “dirty language” but i’m not sure.
Anyway you should have it on your show.
Allso I would want to know were the word LOVE comes from.
This is the first lesson that I have never heard before. I never knew the British say Lefttenant. Thats a new one to me.
The British are funny, always using different words than we use.
I have requested some words but nothing yet. I was wondering about a word that I will request this time. I want to know about the word JUXTAPOSE. How did it come to be? Thanx for all your lessons Marina. You really know how to teach and keep us interested.
What an extremely BIZARRE opinion you have buddy
It brought a smile
The capital city of Britain is London England. There people speak ENGLISH ! Where do you think the language was from America ?
ENGLISH IS FROM ENGLAND (Which is part of Great Britain / United Kingdom / ex bully boy world dominators etc etc. now a piece of crap as we gave it all back US, Africa, India, Far East, Australia, Caribbean etc
When the English colonised North America the English took the language with them to be the main language of the USA except for the French colonies in Canada who naturally adopted French. North America was governed from London, England.
What do you think Independence Day celebrates Independence from ? the Marsians > No from the English at the Boston tea Party where you burnt our supply ships to dissolve our control. In those days because of scurvy our armies couldn’t react effectively
So how could you possibly think that the English are funny and change your words when it is obviously the other way round by the mere language description ? ENGLISH from ENGLAND Britain
The following words are almost never used in England
lobby, hood (cars) gas (cars) sidewalk, cookies, ho, hooker, shopping mall, parking lot, jaywalking, soccer. gasoline.
You changed them from hallway, bonnet, pavement, biscuits, prostitute, shopping centre, carpark, (no term for jaywalking it is totally legal here) football (we call ball with the hands rugby) and petrol.
Lefttenant is the only word I can think that we modified from yours.
Can anyone else think of a word that the English loaned from America that is in common use here….. I can’t. The US loaned the entire language from us.
Before someone is quick to correct me, Yes I admit that the entire English language is on loan from 16 different countries over the last 3000 years and that the true indigenous language of this land is Celtic Welsh from Wales which bears no resemblence to English)
It is the pronunciation stoopid stoodunt was a noosance on the nooz that gets me. (or bugs me for the US readers). We say Styoopid styoodent and nyoosance and nyoos
Dear fellow student (well after this monologue I don’t know if you’are a student)
That is a real demonstration. And I must join 2hotforwordsfan, English is from England not USA.
Excuse me for my intervention, but I don’t think it is smart to be so rude with titanpa. Intelligence and knowledge are two different things. You cannot blame him not to know. Before you became so learned where you “styoopid”? I don’t think so.
Well, this is not meant to be insulting. Each time someone overstep his bound, there is a risk that everybody’s fun ends. So please don’t be rude like that.
Amicalement (mais vraiment, sans arrière pensée)
Don Felipe Gonzales
The English language as used in the US is closer to the way English was originally spoken. This makes sense, since the place where it was originally spoken has modified it to an alarming degree. In the US, the main modification of English is the vocabulary. True, there are new dialects and we don’t sound the “e” at the end of alot of words that used to have that sound, but American English hasn’t had the opportunity to morph like British English has. Just my 2¢ (or tuppence).
I wasn’t aware that i was being rude to Titanpa and certainly didn’t intend to be so..
I just wanted to point out to any Americans who generally (not all) tend to be notorious for their insularity, that England is in Britain and is part of their American ancestry. No offence intended.
FACT Recent polls show that 80% of Americans don’t know that England is part of Britain which is in Europe and 90% of Americans can’t point out their own country on an Atlas and 70% don’t know what they actually celebrate Independence from. As I say insular.
Definately and absolutely not stoopid.
They are a self sufficient country of highly educated people that don’t have any need to know anything about the world around them iutside the US because of their self sufficiency..
Just geographical and historical ignorance strangely enough about the one subject that should interest them, themselves which I find bizarre.
Yes I will be first to admit that Brits are stupid because they look back where Americans look forward . Who knows.
I disagree that knowledge is not intelligence they have the same meaning in one of it’s three contexts, but I think that you use the word intelligence as a faculty of sense and reason as in clever with natural common sense, If so I agree 100% there buddy
Some the most educated people I know display the ultimate trait of stupidity, by being rude and arrogant.
I have no time for anyone that displays either and am extremely sorry that I came over that way. I didn’t mean to.
I have a great respect for wordlover but the fragments of the tuppence worth that I do understand I disagree with staunchly and choice to use his/her favourite word poppycock !.
People post on websites preferred language and show a flag. Why is is often American and come to think of it why is it a British flag ?
Why not an English flag ?
Food for thought
Be very careful how you use the word tuppence when you speak to an Englishman as it has 2 meanings my learned friend. The other is the infantile polite word for vagina. So avoid discussing your tuppence in public LOL…………
With regards to your tuppence worth of time on the soap box, it was difficult to tune into your wavelength and the e bit that went straight over the head completely. This is because maybe you didn’t learn the rules of the e at an English speaking school.?
As for morphing, occupants of opposite ends of the British Isles haven’t a clue what the other is babbling on about !
It really is that Morphed up.
Somewhere below I covered Cockney Rhyming Slang. The mind boggles. What does our brainstorming friend mikeldoeschacha have to say about this ? Can a see a literal quote coming ?
Its ok. I dont think your rude. Your just trying to correct me. I think you should create a website. HotForHistory. Im sorry if I sounded condescending (which is a good word for Marina to investigate. And why dont we say anything ‘proascending’?)
But pardon me now. I must take the bloody tube to my flat.
Yes WL there is no adequate word in the English language to describe Marina. As I say she is just too not for words.
Sorry titanpa I didn’t think anyone would think I was being rude but Don Felipe Gonzales did. Maybe a translation error or a culture difference.
Traditionally the French and the English never saw eye to eye despite being neighbours. Neither saw the need as there is a sea between them which stopped Napolean but not Norman.Fortunately it stopped Adolf as well.. The email was replied to you so that it appeared in the right order on the page.
Hey titanpa. Who says I of all people am even remotely qualified to correct you.
I just wanted you to see the point of view from someone across the Atlantic that’s all.
Hi Marina! Wonderful site. A beautiful woman who’s intelligent and has a great sense of humor who provides me with information about things I didn’t even know I didn’t know.
I do have a request–I’ve always wondered about the phrase “used to” as in “I used to be thin” or “he used to do that”
Also did you know that one of my favorite old science fiction movies, “Forbidden Planet” has as one of the protagonists a philologist. I’ll never be able to watch that movie the same way again.
Hey I was betrothed to Russian Professor of Philology who was super sexy also but as an exact opposite to Marina she was rude arrogant and just had no common sense whatsoever.
I bet that the main protagonist philologist in Forbidden Planet didn’t dress like Marina 2 years before I was born in 1956 ! LOL
Or I hope not anyway. I would hate to see Walter Pidgeon adjusting his boobs before filming like Marina does on Depilation, or showing his bare bum like on Floccinaocinihilipication. However I think that Walter (or anyone else for that matter) could teach Marina how to wear suzzies properly after watching hotdog ! LOL
Oh wow Really? Now Im going to have to see that movie again. I had plan to buy the movie later on but currently have a reason to move it up on my list of must buy movies.
Where does the term “Underdog” come from? I don’t understand how being favored to lose relates to your position relative to a canine.
Along the sports theme… what about upset? I have heard two stories. One is that the team that loses when they are supposed to win is always very upset. The other is from the early 1900s, when the only horse to ever beat the great Man O War, was named Upset, and that term came to mean a big UNDERDOG beating a heavy favorite.
I’d like to know why Russian Kettlebells are called that. The ones I’ve seen are all made in China, not Russia and aren’t a kettle or a bell! What’s up with that? And what’s a pood? “Pood” sounds like something you wouldn’t want to step in. And what are they saying in the lyrics of this video on Youtube? Privyet, Marina, help us keep abreast of what’s going on! Thanks! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO61k3EODY4&feature=related
Good question wordlover. Why is “abreast” singular when breasts come in pairs??? Shouldn’t it be “abreasts”? And if it’s just one breast, then what happened to the other one? So many questions, so little time… All I know is that when you say “Marina”, you’ve said a mouthful.
Oh My Gawd! Thats so funny no one has brought up that word. I use that word sometimes in class to explain abeam of ship or boats. My bad for not bringing it up sooner.
Dear fellow student
I ‘ve just watched the video. It’s incredible! The guy that jumps on one leg is really a strong one !
I now know what I want to be whan I’ll be gown up!
Amicalement
Don Felipe
From a Canadian, it’s official “left”. That being said Our own media does say it both ways & nobody seems to bat an eye as we get so much American media beamed in that if you don’t think aboat it, it goes unnoticed, “either Loo or Left”. A lot of American tv journalists are Canadian because of our accent and delivery, the most well known http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/07/AR2005080701146.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fImL1EpKC6Q&feature=related
I’ve traveled well south of the boarder a few times & am amazed at how the news anchors sound so different than the locals.
We are BORG. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. We also have hot women. Seven of Nine it hot. I think she wants to assimilate with you. We are BORG. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. We are …
A Canadian is walking down the street with a case of beer under his arm. His friend Randy stops him and asks, “Hey Dave! Whatcha got that case of beer for?” “Well, I got it for my wife, you see?” answers Dave. “Wow,” exclaims Randy, “Great trade!”
A baby seal goes into a bar and waddles onto a bar stool.
The bartender says, “What will you have?”
The baby seal says, “Anything but a Canadian Club”
A French guest who was staying in a hotel in Edmonton phoned room service for some pepper. “Black pepper, or white pepper?” asked the concierge. “Toilette pepper!”
Hey I use to take my x on dates to Brownwood when we were dating. Thats were i grew up down in central Texas. Little old town called Dublin, its got the worlds oldest DR. Pepper bottling plant.
Thanks all for the replies. I hear both but I do get confused looks if someone says ‘left’tenant. I guess that’s what we get for getting our TV from south of the border. Canadian commenter
Privet marina! i wanted to know where the word ”Fauna” comes from as in ”fauna and flora”, what does it have to do with animals, etc…. Oh! and teacher’s pet would be nice too
Hold the place whilst the superior is away… Hmm. My experience as a Lieutenant (my guys called me LT, “ell tee”) was that I fought the fight while the superior watched me on the wide screen in the toc. But that is another story…
argh come on, its called underground, because its under ground? and subway, because its the way below the street? likewise its called a submarine because it sail below the surface
i imagine that its also called a highrise because it rises high above the street
use your imagination
anyways where does “jack of all trades” come from? and why is it not “joe of all trades”? since joe is the average guy (G.I. joe and cup of joe) as you explained in a earlier lesson
Let’s apply some simple reasoning.
Above ground is … the railroad. So
underground railroad, as it was called
was shortened, truncated, by use.
Can I get any help about the subway part?
Close the first was the London Underground Railway (we say railway here not railroad) the main use of Subway here is a retail outlet selling sandwiches
you’ve covered “pedigree”, but i wish to know why we call someone a pedophile. it has “ped” in it so it’s got me wondering.. it also got me thinking about a child doctor, or “pediatrician”. what’s with the “ped in these words? why? please tell me!
ok – now we know the time of day.
hmm… wait a tick! Time joke?
I am writing to you in the present
so you will see this in the future
but for you, this will be from the past.
Marina , why is it after my being a member of this forum since March I suddenly feel that you’ve shot us both in the right big toe with this video?
Marina plz reply back to me, how come you did not send out a holdiday card for Halloween?
ueh uoh, cool and kool—coup my coop and court the course to days random lesson>>>>well produced and neat as ever
but obscurity is forever.” – Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821—phooqkyghn 
I always wondered why the English leave out the H sound in the beginning of all their words except “herbal”, the only word I know of that Americans pronounce with a silent H.
Can’t think of another F for U sound, but there are plenty of weird English pronunciations of French. One example: a famous street in London witha French name–Beauchamp Place–should be pronounced “bo shon” place. It is actually pronounced Beecham!
About the pronunciation of the Frebch word “lieu,” Ii’s no “loo” but “leeuh.” Here’s an audio example (with “un” in front) http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Image:Fr-lieu.ogg
Let me try that again: French, that’s better
I don’t agree with your analysis of the different pronunciations of lieutenant. I believe that the two different pronunciations came about for a typographic reason. The English alphabet uses Roman characters, and in Ancient Rome, there was no written distinction between U and V. For example, the word MAXIMUS would be MAXIMVS. Stone chiseled letters from Ancient Rome eventually became printed material. Since French is a Romance language, typographic conventions would carry over. Lieutenant and lievtenant are the same word.
English has Latin and Germanic roots, and in German, V and F have very similar pronunciations. Old English is much closer to German than modern English, so the pronunciation of the French word lieutenant by speakers of Old English could be lieftenant. This is why I think that the British pronunciation is leftenant and the American pronunciation is lieutenant.
While I agree that she did not include the Roman asspect of it, and she made herself sound like a typical “ignore my mind and stare at my tits” type of chick. She basically said what you wrote only a shorter version. She did not sound like a textbook lecturer, and threw out more appeal to her audience. Thus making her a good lecturer. Quit trying to sound smart when you’re not. READ TH?E TEACHINGS OF SOCRETES!
“I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.”
– Socrates
Aren’t we all glad we are getting a “headbanger” of an education….lol
I rate this video with five kisses, keep up the great informative teachings for all – I like it a lot.
riverrat512 out.
As your commanding officer, I think you should let us see your sister!!!
Carry on now!!!
Interesting.
Can any of you tell me how to get a picture into my profile? you know, the icon by your name?
Jeff, go here and sign up/register.
Thanks for that. Don’t I look handsome in my new fur coat ?
Charming!
wordlover where have you been. Everyone here misses you and buzzword. Please come back and banter with us some. You two made for some interesting comments and fun times.
Marina, I have a word request as a result of all this loo talk; Where does the expression “tootle loo” meaning “so long”, “see you later” come from?
I have my own theory, but what does the expert say?
1) Us pesky Brits stole it from France (loanword) tout à l’heure. It is pronounced toodle loo in UK Bob where are you from.
2) It means in England that I need to bugger off quick because I ate and drank too much
3) An Englishman’s desire to find the home of the Mona Lisa
Any of you wise guys got any other ideas ?
Is it number 3…?
What to the Louvre ?
Close
It’s not #3, for sure; that’s Skip to the Loo
Skip to the Louvre?
There’s been a whole heap of fuss in the British media about ‘regrading’ cannabis/mariuana. It makes me wonder – where do words like ’spliff’ and ‘reefer’ come from?
Hello Hot for Words Teacher Marina,
Back in Nam, say 1969, June… daybreak… sun climbing up over the horizon… trenches are quiet… soldier whispers to his partner… “this opium is great man! I had a science-fiction dream last night where this hot teacher in the next century was talkin’ bout WORDS back home and everybody’s happy and stuff. It was too much!”
His partner never replied because he had the…
THOUSAND YARD STARE!
Was this guy dead? (or) Was this guy alive but stuck in a zone known only to himself (shellshock)? (or) was this guy just paying attention to enemy movements over yonder…. say 3000 feet? hmmm?
Would you please investigate?
your writing, i thought was very good
What is the etymolgy of the word GULLIBLE
Why is it not in the Oxford English Dictionary ?
Wow.. Thats interesting.
It’s in mine.
Page 903 of Volume 1.
It means, “capable of being Gulled” which, here in Aberdeen, is being poo-ed on from a great height by a seagull.
I thought it was publish lies about seagulls……
..publishING, that is…
Touche Mr Longshlong !
Bob, You live in Aberdeen, Wa?
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=bsMpHHSLSlc Aberdeen Mississippi Blues
No, Skipper, I live in the real one.
Etymology of Aberdeen – Aber=mouth of a river (No Swedish jokes here, please) + Dee=the name of the river at the mouth of which Aberdeen is situated.
BTW, Is there a River Dee in WA? And do you have to go down to the river to wash?
1. Funny way to play the violin.
2. I know Idi Amin always claimed to be Scottish, but why Aberdeen Mississippi Blues?
3. Is Booker White an oxymoron?
Where does the word goosebumps come from?
Marina:
Could you please explain the phrase kick in the nuts? I’m not sure I quite understand it!
Thanks!
Jimmy
CTO ?
In England nuts is slang for testicles. They are called eggs in Russia.
Needless to say that it would be serious setback. to have the misfortune of being kicked in the nuts or eggs
Can I suggest the word ‘computer’?
The first computer was invented in 2600Bc. I was called and still is called an abacus. Technically a manual difference engine the automatic ones changed their name later to computer but when ?
The first automatic working difference engine was built in 1822 (50 years after it was ‘invented by J H Smith’) in my home town Manchester England Britain. I can answer this one without references because i have seen it . It is as big as a house in the Museum of Science and Industry. 2+2 =I’ll come back next week LOL
So the word origins were introduced some time after that by Captain J. F***nose who decided that the appropriate descriptive verb was to compute. So the noun would be a computer.
Compute is a theft (loanword) from the Latin words computus and computare
Hey 2hfwfc
, did you hear about that early mechanical computer some diver discovered? I was wondering if you knew anything about it? Last I heard they where going to use some special xrays to figure out how it worked without destroying it. 
Computer, at one time. was a job title for those who did interest amortization calculations – important to bankers. An amortization is a string of calculations where each subsequent string is dependent upon variable values created during each pass of calculation. Phew!
I did see a snatch piece about the mechanical computer found by divers. It appeared to be configured like an astrolabe but a few added features are yet to be explained.
Hey captain you are such full of witty gems I was waiting for a punchline.
Good job my cha cha loving friend pointed out that you were serious.
Do you still Cha cha melika ?
samba, rumba, i dip you dip we dip she dip!
and of course, cha cha!
Good morning miss!
This is weird – earlier on, the site wasn’t letting me post my replies but now it is! That’s good.
I’m a new student with an insatiable appetite for learning. Thankyou for the opportunity.
Miss, can you tell me where the word ‘gong’ comes from? That big metal thing that the guy used to bang with a mallet before every movie. And Marc Bolan of course, who told us all to get it on, bang a gong. Is ‘gong’ from the far east or is it a simple onomatopoeia?
Please help! – oysterfond.
Oops. That should have read “Please help! – Oysterfrond.”
Spelling your own name wrong – an inauspicious start. Dunce cap for me, then…
Careful with the pointy end!
gang-a-bong, dude.
I am trying to stop laughing at melikadothechacha’s comments.
I have found about 7 meanings to this already, all pretty rude but illhairyarse non the less.
I also do the chacha Melika
Thank-Q! come back for the 12:15 show.
I gets racier after midnite! I took this name
because if I ever get the TA spot, Marina
will say “Me-Lika-Do-The-Cha-Cha” and
THAT would be SOOO cool!
Yeah, but EVERYTHING Marina says is SOOO cool!
Maybe Marina can cover the etymology of the word Fridge.
That would be cool
Would not freezer be more cool ?
I have heard the origin of the S-word ( s – h – i – t) comes from shipping cow manure and the phrase “Ship High In Transit” was placed on the crates. Is this true or just a hoax?
The origin of any other curse words you may know of could be cool, too.
Thanks!
Hoss
hoss6901, PLEASE read this.
That’s crap LOL
Joking apart I never knew that . thanks word lover always delighted to share knowledge with you.
Crap—-Thomas Crapper the London Plumber’s Merchant to make popular (but not invent) the flushing inside lavatory.
The product was caller ‘the crapper’…..hence verb to crap…
I think that OED lets us down here.
Funny and embarrassing thing is I used to educate people that Ship High in Transit was a fact and later discovered my big mistake when I really got into researching nautical origins. I also learned of many things in school that are just untrue. I feel like I was lied to and not taught a thing.
So now I ways say to people somethings you where taught in school are just false. 
School is always right. They explained Father Christmas very well to me.
(or Santa Claus as it is called some places)
ooooh yikes
we have Hamster Claws visit us on Christmas day
I maked a cookie for Hamster Claws but I eated it…
Now you have to investigate Colonel and Sergeant…………..lol
I would like to know the history of the word “loquacious.” How did it come to mean talkative, babbling, etc?
V/R,
Jeenyice
Stop babbling on about loquacious words……….only messing
We don’t do THAT here – LOL!
Hey as far as comments go that one from you measures the least so far on the babbleometer
Marina,
Please apply your vast philology skills on the words “hysterical” and “pronoia”
Cheers,
RP
pronaoi?
pronoia. I think it’s the opposite of paranoia.
That’s awesome. I never heard that before.
Maybe the maestro will some shed some light upon it.
I’ve heard it a couple of times. Not NEARLY as much as “paranoia” though; people must be out to get me!
Good request. Marina and her sister could act it out, with Marina as Pronoia and her sister as Paranoia—since she’s too camera-shy!
Yea WL, I agree this could be a good one for Marina to do a vid on. Can we search for some possible origins of the word so to reduce Marina work load?
Hey if she doesn’t do the word hysterical don’t get too worked up about it.
Well my cage will be well rattled if she doesn’t
Thanks so much Marina, i really appreciate it!
Now i think it’s time to name your sister.
You names sound kind of aquatic (Marina = a place to dock boats
if that’s wrong maybe you should do a lesson on your own name.
It probalby has a different meaning in Russian)
so perhaps your twin should have something aerial.
I don’t know what it should be, Airport doesn’t have the same ring to is as Marina. Think about it.
Ariel as in Little Mermaid I prefer to aerial !
Ariel Tritanovna (daughter of Triton) Rodina
Aрeл Tриtановна PoДина
you’re a genius! I had the answer right in front of me but i needed you to respell it into a girl’s name.
now we jsut have to convice Marina to start calling her twin Ariel.
i can’t read or speak Russian. sorry.
the only words i know are dah, nyet, dosvidenya
and nichevo which after much research i learned means nothing!
But confusious from Taiwan said that to know more is to learn that you know nothing. So you know the Russian for nothing so you must now know it all LOL
The Russian was just the way that Ariel Tritanovna Rodina would be spelt in Russian. buddy.
Boringly enough nothing more I’m afraid.
I prefer Russian characters to our own.garbage.
They have distinct sounds unlike ours
A as in aye
A as in apple
A as in wade
A as in mark
A as in awkward
Need i say more ?
Angelina
There’s only one Angelina: http://www.hecklerspray.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/angelina-jolie-pregnant.jpg
Bizarro-Marina (Aniram).
It’s no use to insist, Proz; it’s Angelina AND I have her phone number.
Now you know why we so seldom see her in the videos – she’s always on the phone.
Request for word: Turbo
Why? because i love how companies marketing their products say: “Turbo-Charged Grass Seeds!” or “Super-Charged Hunting Knife!” when most consumers have no idea what those words mean, but they automatically assume it is better. i’m not asking for you to tell me what turbochaged means, im asking for turbo. where does it come from, and why do all people see the word “turbo” and immediately they think positively-charged!
That’s not really exact such an idea makes me think about when one is shopping for anything you have to face the marketing illusion that one product is greater or you need to buy two instead of just one. I would want to know if you really think that knowing the origin of turbo is going to change our idea of what an illusion is
some times companies or persons have a way of making you feel a certain way when you see their product or ask a question. The scaring feeling you get abut buying the product flip flops turbo around until you just get confused
It always makes me think of something that makes a vehicle go superfast—VROOOM…
I was into videogames bigtime (still am, actually). Go figure.
Fashionable buzzword ?
Like Hyper in the 70s
Mega in the 80s
Injection in the 90s
Turbocharged 00s
Why would I want to buy turbo charged grass seed .
My lawn grows too fast already ?
Oooops i forgot to include the next decades most promising contender word nossed-up the other day as in NO2 Nitrous Oxide Nos !
2010’s Nossed-up !
Pangalacticsuperhypermegaturbocheeseburger!
Take THAT!
melika – that goes good with a pangalactic gargleblaster, except that when you drink one it’s like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick. It’s the alcoholic equivalent to a mugging.
Uberfast Lieutenant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fJpnIdDVH0
it could from the word: turbine. its first uses are in turbocharger and turbojet (a jet engine) from the 1930’s and 1940’s. both of these inventions operate using a key mechanical components: turbines.
both the turbocharger and turbojet allow the vehicle (aeroplanes especially fighter aircraft) to go fast(er) which in 1940s was a key performance indicator of how good an aircraft was.
DID YOU KNOW that Turbotrump is NOT the Latin word for Whirlwind ?
Awwww! But I LOVE Turbotrump! I have all their Braille colouring books…
Very clever you two
Thank you my Teacher, I got hungry watching you, or was that the food you were eating.
It wasn’t the food. There was a lady with six kids. Her friend observed that men have the same look in there eyes when they’re hungry as when they’re horny. The lady with the kids said “You mean all I had to do was FEED him??”
This was obviously in one of the BM years (before Marina)
Only six times feeling horny ?
Remember during the Paul is Dead era that feeling everybody would get when listening to and trying to decipher the clues that John left in his songs as to what REALLY happened to Paul?
Me neither…
backwards masking ooh ahhh
“there’s been a terrible accident..”
why does the word “blue” (as in phrase: blue movie) mean pornographic? in contrast to that an area of a city that has prostitutes and has pornographic shops/stripclubs etc. is called red light district.
I agree i would love to hear the answer to this question
Me too.
Me three
Me four.
You for what ?????
Thee for two!
Errrrrrrr… somethin’.
I eight it when the jokes get so sick
We’re all looking for a green light on this one.
Go Go Go!!
And why do they now use all “red lights”
to start a Formual 1 grand prix???
Must be the old way. Nowadays they grid up during a pace lap, under yellow, and take the green flag at race speed. Red is used now to indicate to drivers to come to an immediate stop on the track. We only do that if the track is blocked – rarely.
Well when I’m in my drag racer I run k=like the clappers when I see a red light. I think I am in Amsterdam !
That sounds like the translation of a tongue twister.
Y’know. Here, I’ll make one up:
(original Zerbovian version) Bļkas sķlib bkļašs sķļbis bškals!
(English translation) Twelve dirty turnips bite the bald flashlight.
Now Hotforwords is hogging the reefer
Well we DID pay for it!
Wait a second…
heh-heh-heh, I’m just KIDDING… Yeah, that’s the ticket… 
It was just a joke… I don’t know what’s in this Ziploc, it looks like grass clippings… Why would someone keep grass clippings in a sandwich bag? I mean, what would you do with it? Eh-heh-eh-heh 
… HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA… 
Look at the time! Gotta run…
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZIP
Let’s green-light some blue-sky thinking on this one. Then we’ll all be in the pink!
in the pink?
Or at least in a brown study…
All you yellow bellies are looking through rose-colored glasses, and that makes me see red, dammit! I’ve been a little blue, lately, due to the gray skies. However, the clouds have a silver lining, and all you black-hearted greenhorns will soon be raising a white flag, I’m sure.
I think the blue reference has something to do with regulations or restrictions. “Blue laws” mean you can’t buy alcohol on Sundays. Blue movies are those unavailable to young kids. Both are references to restrictions.
I think you’re begging the question. Why is it blue?
I like the sell me some vegitarian food idea i’ll sell you some tofu and soy sauce. I stopped eating lots of tomatoes and potatoes because of the high cianide content they naturally have.
F sound needs a U sound? what about tenure when people who gain it’s privledge use it against others it makes them say FU. Do you copy Lieutenant
Okay i might not think that’s what your asking the class for but it’s all I could think of It might not be very funny to you though Marina in fact i dont mean that as a threat it’s just confusing
Tomatoes and potatoes have high cianide contents? WTF?
Hey wordlover cianide used to be a bedtime drink in England like Horlicks or Cocoa is today..
like Heroin was cough medicine
Made you feel dead drowsy LOL
I agree
What the f* is this message from “cimska” about?
A vegetarian diet or something?
So much for globalization.
90% of the world do not have f*ing clue what the rest are saying!!
I know you’ve told me not to call you thins before but f*** nose !
One thing I did learn buddy is that just because someone speaks English doesn’t mean that someone else that speaks English can understand. Here in England the regional dialect can be so extreme that I moved 50 miles east to Yorkshire and need an English to Yorkshire phrase book !
Can you explain ‘wentup thill baht bahns’ or ‘put wood in thole’
Cyanide.
Sorry but my magenta yellow black and cyan are all Ok.
Why do you want to hide one of the colours ?
Seriously, does anyone notice…
Hmm… Oops, sorry,
tiger-the-viciousMarina.WAIT!
Uh…
Gosh, I forgot what I was gonna…
Strange…
You don’t have to worry about poisons
in your food giving you drain bamage.
It has already affected how you right.
oops write!
melikadothechacha, you need to do a book of poems—I’d buy a copy!
Maybe when he was trying to converse
Twasn’t really meant to be in verse
But by pure chance each and every line
By coincidence just happened to rhyme
Maybe be he’s a natural poet
And just doesn’t quite yet know it.
Oh for God’s sake give the book to hamster.
Mikela doesn’t need it that much !
I wanna be a cute pet
jajaja. Please Marina, Never lose hope and dreams to become your baby pet 
hEy I sEE yOU fOUnd thE shIft kEy! Fantastic…
CAPTAIN MORGAN, I’LL REALLY PREFER TO WRITE THIS WAY, I DON’T KNOW WHY. I ACOSTUMED TO TURN ON CAPSLOCK WHEN WRITE AND THERE’S SOMETHING I DON’T UNDERSTAND. WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WRITING MAYUSCULAS ??? EVERYBODY TELLS ME ABUT IT
great quote today on wit
You don’t know why and there lies the understanding. May I ask you a question Gio? Why do we have Uppercase and Lowercase letters? What is their purpose?
gio – There are two reasons that come to mind to warrant refraining from “all caps” writing.
1. In the etiquette of email, text, IM and message boards, capitalization of all of the letters of a word STRESSES that word and places emphasis on it. When an entire paragraph or passage is capitalized, IT MAKES PEOPLE THINK YOU ARE RAISING YOUR VOICE.
2. In all writing, not just electronic, style has traditionally dictated that people not write in all upper case. This is because it has been demonstrated that all upper case writing is harder to read than mixed case writing. When people read, especially when they read fast, they read the shape of words. They do not read each individual letter. All caps makes everything roughly the same shape, while mixed case provides more variety and the eye is able to scan the text easier.
The fact that “everybody” tells you about it should make you think twice, since those are the people with whom you are trying to communicate.
I’ll add a third reason that is, I believe, my own contribution to this issue. I think that people should strive to communicate in proper style as much as possible. Use complete sentences. Use proper structure and grammar. Learn good and clear style. That doesn’t mean to be perfect or to waste inordinate amounts of time proofreading. All that means is to get into good habits. A lot of people use all caps to avoid having to write properly.
I knew a German online who never capitalized his nouns! Hmpf!
you know one more now.
pspreop11 so you is wrongst been evr mor now bfur yu sayd it domb yu sai tis tym reeely fucking dombh!
LOL
Chinese are particularly offended when we ’shout’ at them in upper case.
Not only is defiance against authority snubbed by their culture there they don’t understand the need for caps at all.
In fact in Taiwan Confucious said in true Yoda style Annoyance shown argument already lost you have.
It’s like giving a ‘v ‘ sign in the UK.
A philologist equiv would know 47,000 characters average chinaman 3000. I struggle on 230. Can you imagine lower and upper case …special desk sized keyboard.
they don’t really use vocal punctuality either because the word’s ’song’ determines it’s meaning.
I always remember first time I said hello the recipient when he had finished rolling around from laughing he explained to my translator that I had pronounced day as shit so was enquiring about the enjoyment factor of his most recent bowel movement !
And I thought my Russian ex-wife was weird when she refused to speak for a week . I apparently touched her bottom (accidentally) in public.thus branding her a whore.
Different things offend different people but low profile offends no one
So go easy gio, easy on our ears (visually)
@Pros, Thanks for your take on all Caps writing. I try to use complete sentences when I can. I’m very weak in sentences structure, grammar, and spelling. I was deprived from taking writing & English classes. I was able to learn some skills from computer programming of all things. I always try to proof read my comments as much as I have time for. I struggle with trying to get all my thought down on the keyboard as quickly as possible before they seep away from my mind. My most hated subject is writing and English speaking and yet now I am an instructor (masculine for teacher?) and I write a lot in these blogs. Who would have known?
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LOL on the bowel movement joke. 
@ 2hfwfc, I always try to look at offending talk as someone who doesn’t understand how their communication or actions effect me. For maybe they really don’t know. When people poke fun at me I get very offended, but knowledge of that they are only having fun, I don’t want to be the party pooper and I try to turn it around and make it fun for me. I sometimes try to be the class clown. Its embarrassing but we need more happy and funny things in our lives so we can die with a smile on our faces.
Hey I thought you were hilarious as always captainjack my learned friend.
It was not a dig at you I loved the multicased text and LMAO It was aimed at MR UPPERCASE but replied to you so that it would appear in the right order for all to read. Sorry if you misunderstood my motives buddy !
Love reading your comments.
As far as the English variety of English goes quite frankly there are absolutely no visual signs of your deprivation whatsoever you very modest fellow.
@2hfwfc, Oh no I didn’t mean I was offended by you. I was just making a general comment about how I see things. Yes I see how you placed your comment in right order. I understood your motives clearly.
About my English, Really? I thought my English sucked! I’m always being corrected by my sister. I even had a girlfriend in the Philippines that corrected me. She knew proper English better than I did. I really prefer telepathy with my sister to communicate thoughts. I have a hard time finding words and putting sentences together to describe my thoughts. Thanks 2hfwfc for your complements.
It’s like you are yelling at people gio.. it’s not polite. Best to type regularly.
Ok, i got it. They say Uppercase is stressing, well, best to type regularly
Atta boy!
Teacher knows best! What a refreshingly mature and civil discussion. If people conducted themselves outside of cyberspace in the same manner as they do on HotForWords, my workweek would be a great deal more pleasant indeed.
Marina, as an attentive student, I must bring to your attention your sentence structure. To advise gio to “type regularly” is to say that he should type every day or type often. Would it perhaps better convey your thought to say to gio that it is best to “type the regular way.” or “type in the regular fashion.” ?
if gio got the gist of the message then WTF?
Buzz word says WTF ?
I think it is ‘tongue in cheek’ NO the other cheek.
Everyone one just wants to agree with teacher here.
Hardly surprising really with teacher’s pet app still open
Люблю тебя всем сердцем, всей душою мaрина LOL
@ Богдан, I think its because when we type we have to slow down and put our thoughts in order. We can even delete sentences after further refection about how this comment will effect others, how will it be understood, is it a complete thought, etc. People need to just slow down and think before having to open mouth and inserting foot.
In regards to 2hfwfc comments but not directed to his comments (wow what a mouthful), I try not to always agree with teacher. I don’t want to be a “Yes man”. It good not to always agree. Its healthy to have differences and to respect others opinions. If we all agreed one way of doing things then the world would be very boring. We all would have the same color of things, work the same jobs, etc, you get the point.
My former relationships with girlfriends, we always had good debates. Sometimes we where able to change each others thinking by really looking at the other persons view. Relationships always lasted longer than when I was a “Yes Man”.
Btw, I like your new avatar.
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Buzzword? Take your shoes off before you type!
OOPS!! Marina actually reads this stuff.
I hope it is not used to determine who is the “Pet Of The Day”
Otherwise this little teddybear is STUFFED!!!!
Take your shoes off before you type.
Very clever melikadotheargentiniantangonext
I thought that was more captainjack’s sense of humour
Enjoyed today’s quote and here’s one back at you.
“Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.” – Samuel Johnson, 1752
Great to see you in uniform again.
I bet that was a lot funnier in 1752.
(he said copulate!) LOL
good quote, tho
Copulate probably had a more innocent meaning then
Cop you later ! 2HFWFC
Thank you very much Marina!
What an honor and a privilege to be your pet.
You have many great students and I am humbled.
Also thanks for the guitar return because it always fires me up.
Please continue your quest to educate and entertain.
You always do a great job.. so thanks again. +5
My world expanding with words
David
Congrats dvdpage.
World expanding? That can’t be the only thing expanding.
Your mind is…. Oh what did you think I meant?
What is it like to be a teachers pet
What kind of things do you do
GIVE ME THE SECRET, I BET YOU ALREADY WAS A PET BEFORE…HMMM
@ Cimska, I don’t know. I have never been one. I hear it many things. Having Marina speak your screen name from her sexy lips maybe. Or everyone congratulating you on being picked as a Pet. I always fantasize her wearing her hot yellow top speaking my name. (btw Marina do you have the same top but in bright green?)
What kind of things you do. Well the normal stuff. Get out of bed. Log on to HFW and contribute your words and thoughts. Thats basically it I imagine. What do you think it should be?
It’s great to have been the teachers pet, Friends laugh at you, you get to show off the video to anybody who will look. My kids look at me a little differently now & I think I may have to email the video to my wife LOL. You guys that haven’t had the priviledge yet still have anticipation on your side. What have I to look forward too
I hope I’m not a forgotten friend. I know Marina will look after her pets even if we are a bit ugly or pesky at times. Thank you & care for your own.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peBuh0rkuk0&feature=related
Fantastic video there BillyB. Really fits the S.O.U.P.
“Mmm! Sooooooooup!” — Hombrero Simpsueño
Beautiful soup – Gene Wilder, Alice in Wonderland
save the cheerleader, save the world – Heroes
You brainstormin’, melikadothechacha?
I love melikadothechacha normally because he makes me laugh but I say have you been smoking the whacky backy tonight our kid ?
Maybe you can just run that by me again in the language of the hwatawawa tribe of Outer Mongolia.
Nothin wacky going on here. Just an observation comparing some of the ideas being expressed by you guys to the framework of thought suggested by the series “Heroes”.
ie. helping the helpless makes us all stand taller.
you can laugh now!
Yehbut, explain the “Beautiful soup – Gene Wilder, Alice in Wonderland” parts…
Gene Wilder played the tortoise and sang
a sad song, about turtle soup, called
“Soup Beautiful Soup”. from the mid ’90’s
What movie?
OK but why was it used in such a random manner like word association.
Exactly! (Thank you, 2hotforwordsfanclub.)
Well, melikadothechacha…?
Stop hogging the reefer melikadothechacha give some others the change to get onto your astral plain
Marina?
I sense Marina has been here. HERE on this moon/thread/post/etc.…
Strange…
I know that you are right WL
Please make me your pet, Marina. I want to know if “sniglets” are allowable in the dictionary.
If so, they would cease to be sniglets.
I think…
what animal is a a snig and do they come in litters herds or packs ?
I don’t know, but elephants come in quarts…
If you meant cum then shame on you WL
There it is again… That… feeling…
Dunno.
What does tittle mean. Is there such a word? What would be the origin of this word. How many tittles are in this sentence. 3?
There are as many tittles in your sentence as there are jots. There are a tittle of jots and tittles.
i got a word like that for you its ketchup or katsup haha just joking that word game is in the SIMPSONS god i love the SIMPSONS maybe more than i love you Marina no i love you better you got big boobs and your prety
Dear Fellow student
You speak like Homer! are you homer? you are homer! I am sure Homer leave this body alone! VADE RETRO HOMER!
Euh sorry… I shouldn’t watch the exorcist so oftenly
Amicalement
Don Felipe
Homer is drunk Bart’s father
He said big boobs !, he cannot say IT or write IT
HEY FELIPIÑO TEACH THAT FELLOW STUDENT DON’T WRITE LIKE HOMERO SIMPSON
Dear fellow student
Gio is right! There’s things that can’t be said right here. She has no big B°°Bz she has serious philological arguments. These are the rules! Here, you must forget the homer that is in you (well this part of your personnality, I mean).
Amicalement
Don Felipe Gonzales
“FELIPIÑOS” ARE THEY RELATED TO JALAPEÑOS?
“Mmmm! Jalapeños! Uh-vuh-vuh-vuh-vuh-vuh…
” —Hombrero Simpsoño. 
Dear fellow student wordlover,
felipinos (sorry for la tilda) is not a chili pepper (well, sometimes,….) a felipino is diminutive of felipe or of Philip but in spanish.
It is also reputed to be the name of an extremely dangerous human being living in Europe that won the “Mister Universe” award during 10 years, but that retired to leave room for the young.
That’s horrible! Sometimes you read things you don’t know if it is a real question or humor! I hope I don’t appear as the one who want to seem ” I know every thing” (sorry if you think that)
Amicalement
Don Felipe Gonzales de la derecha de la mitad del cielo
Where are these mythical rules. I been on every page on this site and haven’t seen them.
Dear stkesjrj1
There is no rules, it was a joke to begin talking with you and everybody. Take no offense.
Amicalement
Don Felipe Gonzales
Don Felipe, I was just making fun of Homer Simpson always thinking/talking about food—as well as eating it.
Dear fellow student
OoOoOops chat is really excellent, every body has problems to understand the others. OK, wordlover! Sorry!
Perhaps our teacher could make an apparition in one of the Simpson episode….(if they still write some)
Amicalement
Don Felipe Gonzales
Don’t worry about it: I’m silly like that!
Carry on Word Lover you make me LMAO, I love the humour
Oh there is so much love here!!!!
Marina doesn’t know what she is missing. Too bad she is to busy with lesson plans to join in. But then the focus would all turn onto her.. Hhmmmm Maybe she should make a fake log-in and pretend to be one of us students. 
Dear fellow student,
You’re right Captain Jack, she should make a fake log-in, a little bit of schyzophrenia is always welcome! The funiest thing would be that the fake log in were elected teacher’s pet !
Amicalement
Don Felipe
Le Cat – stick to what you know.
Les mew, les purr, les Rowr! Rowr!
Can you kiss a pretty girl Pepi boy, Pepi boy
Can you kiss a preety girl yong Pepi?
I believe Marina already has a fake login and it is hdvideo.
Oh, God, please no!
HDVideo is not very nice to me… so I would have to be pretty masochistic to be him!
being mean to Marina grrrr i go kick his ass …..or maybe buy him a beer …depends on how big……maybe we could conjure up a trick word to pull the wool over Marina’s eyes…….Just kidding ,Teacher your the best.
Marina, you don’t deserve that kind of abuse (or any abuse, for that matter)!
hdvideo needs detention! Better yet, s/he need to be expelled! Can I get a “hell yeah”?
I have this theory that Marina logs on as someone else pretending to be a man. She slipped up once by forgetting to relog in under the alter ego.
I don’t believe anyone would do that
Hey, does anyone notice something unusual?
Almost like…
Must be my imagination.
Hell yeah, that reminds me when I Use to play Americas Army if you got to many roe (rules of engagement) points you got sent to a prison cell in Ft Leavenworth. Perhaps Marina should have her own detention hall where you only got to watch one video, of her own choosing for a couple of days…………….wait a minute I would be there every day…….bad idea
I would wanna know the origin of the word hmm “handsome”.
Where does it come from ???
With love..Gio.forever
That is spaghetti, right?
a hot tomatoe eating a ‘mater! LOL
good thing a ‘mater is a vegetable
or that would be canabilism!
I just looked again.
I think those are bean sprouts
in a greens salad, NOT spaghetti!
(Can I get an AMEN?)
Ok ok, Amen
OK – there is DEFINITELY^ spaghetti going on…
must be a salad on the side.
Sometimes I have to eat & work, too
I just don’t have 61 million people
watching me do it!
have you ever tried cooking noodles and then mixing it in a pan with pesto and feta? looks green and tastes great.
No feta (use warmed cocnut oil to mix with the pesto) just pesto mixed the right way and try any indian vegitarian food recipies they are some of the best, anyways who cares about amen, make people say ohmm or namaste for good vegitarian check the thai menu as well
Tofu and soy sauce will always be the most healthy and most well thought of food in the world
tofu? yuck. this stuff is disgusting. smells like all foods of this planet combined gone bad and tastes like … nothing. eat paper instead. at least it doesn’t have that smell. bah.
Pesto? Tofu? Nah – man, uh uh no than-Q!
NOBODY ever said “Tastes like chicken”
about tofu. If they did, they LIED!
Make mine a cheeseburger!
Wasn’t soy sauce getting a bad rap recently in the news, ’cause people consumed to much of it? ’can’t ‘member… ’s anybody know?
I thought that Eminem got the bad rap because he was too saucy !
uh oh – dan quayle syndrome
that should be “tomato”
like potato, only add the
silent “e” when adding
the “s” to make plural.
Asi es, Doc !
potato – potatoes
["That is spaghetti, right?
a hot tomatoe eating a ‘mater! LOL
good thing a ‘mater is a vegetable
or that would be canabilism!']
Eating vegetables is cannibalism. Plants respond to soothing voices and music. Sure tomatoes have no brains as we do but they are living things are they not? Have you ever seen a tomato do a stupid thing? Makes you wonder who the smart one is hu? Isn’t ignorance bliss? Aren’t they like animals? They take in oxygen and expel carbon dioxide (though the non fruit part of the plans does the exact opposite). I sometimes eat edible flowers that my sister brings to me. I feel like im biting off the head of some animal.
Oh sorry thats the green thumb on me talking.
Would someone please pass the chicken wings!
Speaking of tomatoes, I should find a pea patch and grow some tomato plants. I wish I could just grow them on my yacht. Im getting sick and tried of this store bought ethylene gas sprayed tomatoes. Way to much starch and too little sugar.
~~___(\___ oops running into a storm…
tack it down, sailor!
head for the alee side
and shore up your sheets
Isn’t it good to know you have
friends in the vegetable kingdom
Attack of the killer tomatoes
Growing tomatoes on a boat
Growing tomatoes on a boat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56Yq_gba0Pg
I met a very clever root vegetable once.
That was a Turnip for the books
Yo, how about word “russian”, that should be interesting..
She’s done it ….or not ???
Can you please tell me where the word slang comes from?
I think that it may come from the french: “slae langue”, which means “dirty language” but i’m not sure.
Anyway you should have it on your show.
Allso I would want to know were the word LOVE comes from.
Thanks Marina,
You’re a Cook/Chef also?
Or was that sauce from a jar?
This is the first lesson that I have never heard before. I never knew the British say Lefttenant. Thats a new one to me.
The British are funny, always using different words than we use.
I have requested some words but nothing yet. I was wondering about a word that I will request this time. I want to know about the word JUXTAPOSE. How did it come to be? Thanx for all your lessons Marina. You really know how to teach and keep us interested.
What an extremely BIZARRE opinion you have buddy
It brought a smile
The capital city of Britain is London England. There people speak ENGLISH ! Where do you think the language was from America ?
ENGLISH IS FROM ENGLAND (Which is part of Great Britain / United Kingdom / ex bully boy world dominators etc etc. now a piece of crap as we gave it all back US, Africa, India, Far East, Australia, Caribbean etc
When the English colonised North America the English took the language with them to be the main language of the USA except for the French colonies in Canada who naturally adopted French. North America was governed from London, England.
What do you think Independence Day celebrates Independence from ? the Marsians > No from the English at the Boston tea Party where you burnt our supply ships to dissolve our control. In those days because of scurvy our armies couldn’t react effectively
So how could you possibly think that the English are funny and change your words when it is obviously the other way round by the mere language description ? ENGLISH from ENGLAND Britain
The following words are almost never used in England
lobby, hood (cars) gas (cars) sidewalk, cookies, ho, hooker, shopping mall, parking lot, jaywalking, soccer. gasoline.
You changed them from hallway, bonnet, pavement, biscuits, prostitute, shopping centre, carpark, (no term for jaywalking it is totally legal here) football (we call ball with the hands rugby) and petrol.
Lefttenant is the only word I can think that we modified from yours.
Can anyone else think of a word that the English loaned from America that is in common use here….. I can’t. The US loaned the entire language from us.
Before someone is quick to correct me, Yes I admit that the entire English language is on loan from 16 different countries over the last 3000 years and that the true indigenous language of this land is Celtic Welsh from Wales which bears no resemblence to English)
It is the pronunciation stoopid stoodunt was a noosance on the nooz that gets me. (or bugs me for the US readers). We say Styoopid styoodent and nyoosance and nyoos
You made me laugh!
Dear fellow student (well after this monologue I don’t know if you’are a student)
That is a real demonstration. And I must join 2hotforwordsfan, English is from England not USA.
Excuse me for my intervention, but I don’t think it is smart to be so rude with titanpa. Intelligence and knowledge are two different things. You cannot blame him not to know. Before you became so learned where you “styoopid”? I don’t think so.
Well, this is not meant to be insulting. Each time someone overstep his bound, there is a risk that everybody’s fun ends. So please don’t be rude like that.
Amicalement (mais vraiment, sans arrière pensée)
Don Felipe Gonzales
Here’s a little tidbit (titbit) for youse:
The English language as used in the US is closer to the way English was originally spoken. This makes sense, since the place where it was originally spoken has modified it to an alarming degree. In the US, the main modification of English is the vocabulary. True, there are new dialects and we don’t sound the “e” at the end of alot of words that used to have that sound, but American English hasn’t had the opportunity to morph like British English has. Just my 2¢ (or tuppence).
Cheers
I wasn’t aware that i was being rude to Titanpa and certainly didn’t intend to be so..
I just wanted to point out to any Americans who generally (not all) tend to be notorious for their insularity, that England is in Britain and is part of their American ancestry. No offence intended.
FACT Recent polls show that 80% of Americans don’t know that England is part of Britain which is in Europe and 90% of Americans can’t point out their own country on an Atlas and 70% don’t know what they actually celebrate Independence from. As I say insular.
Definately and absolutely not stoopid.
They are a self sufficient country of highly educated people that don’t have any need to know anything about the world around them iutside the US because of their self sufficiency..
Just geographical and historical ignorance strangely enough about the one subject that should interest them, themselves which I find bizarre.
Yes I will be first to admit that Brits are stupid because they look back where Americans look forward . Who knows.
I disagree that knowledge is not intelligence they have the same meaning in one of it’s three contexts, but I think that you use the word intelligence as a faculty of sense and reason as in clever with natural common sense, If so I agree 100% there buddy
Some the most educated people I know display the ultimate trait of stupidity, by being rude and arrogant.
I have no time for anyone that displays either and am extremely sorry that I came over that way. I didn’t mean to.
I have a great respect for wordlover but the fragments of the tuppence worth that I do understand I disagree with staunchly and choice to use his/her favourite word poppycock !.
People post on websites preferred language and show a flag. Why is is often American and come to think of it why is it a British flag ?
Why not an English flag ?
Food for thought
2hotforwordsfanclub, could you specify what part of my “tuppence” you don’t understand?
Be very careful how you use the word tuppence when you speak to an Englishman as it has 2 meanings my learned friend. The other is the infantile polite word for vagina. So avoid discussing your tuppence in public LOL…………
With regards to your tuppence worth of time on the soap box, it was difficult to tune into your wavelength and the e bit that went straight over the head completely. This is because maybe you didn’t learn the rules of the e at an English speaking school.?
As for morphing, occupants of opposite ends of the British Isles haven’t a clue what the other is babbling on about !
It really is that Morphed up.
Somewhere below I covered Cockney Rhyming Slang. The mind boggles. What does our brainstorming friend mikeldoeschacha have to say about this ? Can a see a literal quote coming ?
Nope! Y’all are doing just fine
Its ok. I dont think your rude. Your just trying to correct me. I think you should create a website. HotForHistory. Im sorry if I sounded condescending (which is a good word for Marina to investigate. And why dont we say anything ‘proascending’?)
But pardon me now. I must take the bloody tube to my flat.
Like I said. English is a funny language. LOL
Hmm, 2hotforwordsfanclub. Hmm.
Yes WL there is no adequate word in the English language to describe Marina. As I say she is just too not for words.
Sorry titanpa I didn’t think anyone would think I was being rude but Don Felipe Gonzales did. Maybe a translation error or a culture difference.
Traditionally the French and the English never saw eye to eye despite being neighbours. Neither saw the need as there is a sea between them which stopped Napolean but not Norman.Fortunately it stopped Adolf as well.. The email was replied to you so that it appeared in the right order on the page.
Hey titanpa. Who says I of all people am even remotely qualified to correct you.
I just wanted you to see the point of view from someone across the Atlantic that’s all.
Wordlover please stop humming in class. Marina will get annoyed
Hmm? Wha…?
Hi Marina! Wonderful site. A beautiful woman who’s intelligent and has a great sense of humor who provides me with information about things I didn’t even know I didn’t know.
I do have a request–I’ve always wondered about the phrase “used to” as in “I used to be thin” or “he used to do that”
Also did you know that one of my favorite old science fiction movies, “Forbidden Planet” has as one of the protagonists a philologist. I’ll never be able to watch that movie the same way again.
Thanks and have a great day.
I didn’t know that I didn’t know…….I like that
Hey I was betrothed to Russian Professor of Philology who was super sexy also but as an exact opposite to Marina she was rude arrogant and just had no common sense whatsoever.
I bet that the main protagonist philologist in Forbidden Planet didn’t dress like Marina 2 years before I was born in 1956 ! LOL
LOL
Or I hope not anyway. I would hate to see Walter Pidgeon adjusting his boobs before filming like Marina does on Depilation, or showing his bare bum like on Floccinaocinihilipication. However I think that Walter (or anyone else for that matter) could teach Marina how to wear suzzies properly after watching hotdog !
Oh wow Really? Now Im going to have to see that movie again. I had plan to buy the movie later on but currently have a reason to move it up on my list of must buy movies.
Wouldn’t space philology be like tarzan, or Tonto speak?
Us We we go us we go now you go now us
Hmmm…”Space Philology” sounds like the title to a David Bowie song.
“Ground Control to Major Tomfoolery…”
Wait a minute…tomfoolery–has Mistress Marina done that yet?
But hey, if you haven’t seen “Forbidden Planet” get thee to a DVD rental establishment right this minute, if not sooner.
Hello Hotforme…err…I mean Hotforwords.
This may go back to far in history but I am sure you are up for the challenged.
When did we as a society start refering to Men and “He” and Females and “She?”
Thanks,
xxxooo
Damien Steel
2hotforallofus more like !
Papa loves Mama, Mama loves men!
Marina… I have one. Actually I have two.
Where does the term “Underdog” come from? I don’t understand how being favored to lose relates to your position relative to a canine.
Along the sports theme… what about upset? I have heard two stories. One is that the team that loses when they are supposed to win is always very upset. The other is from the early 1900s, when the only horse to ever beat the great Man O War, was named Upset, and that term came to mean a big UNDERDOG
beating a heavy favorite.
Thanks!
I’d like to know why Russian Kettlebells are called that. The ones I’ve seen are all made in China, not Russia and aren’t a kettle or a bell! What’s up with that? And what’s a pood? “Pood” sounds like something you wouldn’t want to step in. And what are they saying in the lyrics of this video on Youtube? Privyet, Marina, help us keep abreast of what’s going on! Thanks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO61k3EODY4&feature=related
“abreast”—why ain’t nobody used that word here b’fore?
Good question wordlover. Why is “abreast” singular when breasts come in pairs??? Shouldn’t it be “abreasts”? And if it’s just one breast, then what happened to the other one? So many questions, so little time… All I know is that when you say “Marina”, you’ve said a mouthful.
Ain’t it the truth!
Oh My Gawd! Thats so funny no one has brought up that word. I use that word sometimes in class to explain abeam of ship or boats. My bad for not bringing it up sooner.
Bring it up sooner ? Why when did eat them ? Were they tasty ?
Only messin cap
Dear fellow student
I ‘ve just watched the video. It’s incredible! The guy that jumps on one leg is really a strong one !
I now know what I want to be whan I’ll be gown up!
Amicalement
Don Felipe
lootenant marina!!! can u help me understand the word “green thumb” and teacher’s pet would really be awesome
If the English is ‘left’tenant and American is ‘loo’tenant what’s the official Canadian pronounciation?
I think Canadians go with the ‘left’tenant.
HMMM, SO IT IS SIMILIAR TO SPANISH “TENIENTE” -> “TENANT”
INTERESTING MY DEAR PROFESORA
YOUR DEAR STUDENT….GIO FOREVER
From a Canadian, it’s official “left”. That being said Our own media does say it both ways & nobody seems to bat an eye as we get so much American media beamed in that if you don’t think aboat it, it goes unnoticed, “either Loo or Left”. A lot of American tv journalists are Canadian because of our accent and delivery, the most well known http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/07/AR2005080701146.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fImL1EpKC6Q&feature=related
I’ve traveled well south of the boarder a few times & am amazed at how the news anchors sound so different than the locals.
We are BORG. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
We also have hot women. Seven of Nine it hot. I think she wants to assimilate with you. 
We are BORG. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. We are …
were you up too late jack, your not making sence. eg listen to the accents here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHmpaTEoDtk
could you hear the differences
Texas newscast, is this a southern accent?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPeRJb2sn9E or is it just bad.
Be proud of your accent if you are proud of where your from, or even where you are. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ticcOE_0sLw
What are you talking aboot?
A Canadian is walking down the street with a case of beer under his arm. His friend Randy stops him and asks, “Hey Dave! Whatcha got that case of beer for?” “Well, I got it for my wife, you see?” answers Dave. “Wow,” exclaims Randy, “Great trade!”
A baby seal goes into a bar and waddles onto a bar stool.
The bartender says, “What will you have?”
The baby seal says, “Anything but a Canadian Club”
A French guest who was staying in a hotel in Edmonton phoned room service for some pepper. “Black pepper, or white pepper?” asked the concierge. “Toilette pepper!”
The way we are percieved, Hosers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kkYhCX1uqQ Love the letter from Arnold
Hey I use to take my x on dates to Brownwood when we were dating. Thats were i grew up down in central Texas. Little old town called Dublin, its got the worlds oldest DR. Pepper bottling plant.
Thanks all for the replies. I hear both but I do get confused looks if someone says ‘left’tenant. I guess that’s what we get for getting our TV from south of the border.
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Privet marina! i wanted to know where the word ”Fauna” comes from as in ”fauna and flora”, what does it have to do with animals, etc…. Oh! and teacher’s pet would be nice too
Hold the place whilst the superior is away… Hmm. My experience as a Lieutenant (my guys called me LT, “ell tee”) was that I fought the fight while the superior watched me on the wide screen in the toc. But that is another story…
How did we go from angel of death to the grim reaper and why the huge appearence change
Musta been a budget thing…
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Yeah, it has a Goth feel to it. Hmmm…. Gothic?
you might be a banker or a little shopkeeper …
But sooner or later
you’re gonna dance for the Reaper
- Bill&Ted Bogus Journey
Awesome lesson as always Marina
. I was wondering if you could research the reason why pilots say “roger” when they acknowledge something. Thanks! 
Wilco, over and out
“Roger” is like saying “copy”
as in “copy houston”.
Now where did Roger originate?
good question
He was born in Essex I think
argh come on, its called underground, because its under ground? and subway, because its the way below the street? likewise its called a submarine because it sail below the surface
i imagine that its also called a highrise because it rises high above the street
use your imagination
anyways where does “jack of all trades” come from? and why is it not “joe of all trades”? since joe is the average guy (G.I. joe and cup of joe) as you explained in a earlier lesson
Let’s apply some simple reasoning.
Above ground is … the railroad. So
underground railroad, as it was called
was shortened, truncated, by use.
Can I get any help about the subway part?
Close the first was the London Underground Railway (we say railway here not railroad) the main use of Subway here is a retail outlet selling sandwiches
can you say us the origin of the word Subway and Underground)))
you’ve covered “pedigree”, but i wish to know why we call someone a pedophile. it has “ped” in it so it’s got me wondering.. it also got me thinking about a child doctor, or “pediatrician”. what’s with the “ped in these words? why? please tell me!
Marina, i would like to know if possible the origin of the word ” Orgasm”
Thx!!
2:45
what??
Yeah, me too—I didn’t get it…
ok – now we know the time of day.
hmm… wait a tick! Time joke?
I am writing to you in the present
so you will see this in the future
but for you, this will be from the past.
That didn’t help, melikadothechacha…
My bad.
Freeze the video almost at the end at 2:45, maybe that’s the origin of Orgasm.
OK I looked at 2.45 still non the wiser
Can I thaw out my monitor now ?
euphemism