speaking of fish when i was a teenager i worked on a sport fishing boat out of los angeles when the boat was moving between spots to fish i would drag a lure and catch different types of tuna fillet them & chop into pieces cover with soy and people where eating it in less then ten minuts from pulling it out of the water it was fillet & eaten with out cooking yuk.i had a great time fishing but i will not eat them
At last exams just 9-11 students made it, though most of them were working at such jobs before ………..school is different then just put this or that together and write down what you found.
I think I can make it but we will see at Juli/August
Once in Asia after eating some chicken, oh my, mai dee – not good at all. Shall spare the details however felt really unwell for a few days.
Salmon is tasty. I hear Salmon farms actually put dye into the feed so as to enrich the colour of the fish, which is not good. Eat with ones eyes! Is hard to beat in any case.
Love Tuna, mayo, onion and sweetcorn on toast, dam the world feels a better place after a few rounds of that. The Thais certainly know how to cook up some of the best seafood, ever. In fact, I would go as far as saying that Thai cooking is the best the world over. Never two dishes ever the same. Becoming a bit of a dab hand at it too. Met some Thai students at Reading Uni who help me with both language and cooking. Pat (hello/ sawadee) showed me some amazing dishes which made my taste buds over loads with delight. Hungry now…..
Hmmm, must book ticket to Thailand. Promised myself to spend a week in Chang Mai as have reputal cooking classes. In the mean time, I guess The George Cafe will have to do!!
Marina,
You are asking about the word “leap”
Well allow me to shoot for the moon and get mangled and allow my resilence of muscle to reform the bone structure and sping up to normalcy again. Kind of like bungy jumping theoretically speaking of course
Naturaly speaking the salient is when an animal jumps or leaps
Saute’ – a french past praticiple(to share) of sauter is (leap)witch is pronounced satire in latin
A huge percent of fish for consumption are now farm raised. Salmon, shrimp (all shell fish)…if it’s wild you’d know by the taste if it’s inexpensive (& in U.S.) it’s farm raised.
Wild Salmon used to be in every river in California, even the so called L.A. river, and California brown bears would fish them, same bear that’s on the state flag. This was, of course, before Cadillacs & Oldsmobiles took over.
Well now you done gone went and done it. Tore open a number nine can o’ worms, that is. Good thing though. I was just a-fixin’ to head on down to the crawdad hole anyway!
Wow. Sure, sure. I’ll tell you in a second. First, could you just write down the phone # of whoever sold you those brownies? I’d really like to get their recipe.
continuing the trend i hope after you had your date thePenthouse pet dog-of-a-lesbian who thought you knew Du tch meant something other than “split the bill”, but you didn’t and forgot how much to tip that you didn’t get salmonella poisoning…
Orgin is unknown. One theory is it is a derivation of a persons name. Jasbo Brown was a musician who traveled along the Mississippi playing blues/cabaret varient style of music. He ended up in Chicago ultimately. The style evolved from “Jasbo” to “Jazz”; as one theory goes. Others involve varients of Gullah words for excitement and/or jumping.
PETA don’t impress me.
Assigning human characteristics
toi animals is a job for Disney!
Animal ethics – COME ON!
They just want a cut of that
ASPCA money cha-ching!
Sorry roadrunrnch, have been moving these past 2 weeks.. and trying to get settled.. plus I got a new camera and trying to figure out how to work it….. I will get settled in shortly, I promise!
Don’t let life pass you by while you get settled in, Marina.
As a lifelong mover, I know that you never finish settling in until the day you move on again.
Have fun. Be happy. Mwah.
(Why don’t you have a kissy-kissy emoticon? I’m sure that we’d all wear holes in our screens clicking on it for you.)
In the last two weeks I just moved from Southern Cal. to Paris…yippy for me…and I’m basically settled, but what was I thinking? Well, being unsettled is better than being restless, or is it the other way around?
Marina’s busy, no doubt. Me? I’m planting my nose in my old French text book Color me dumb or stangely ambitious…
Well of COURSE I watched “Wild Kingdom,” I mean because who doesn’t? But all that other stuff I said about man-made biological threats compounding the already grave plight of the world’s anadromous fish populations is verifiable. In fact, I do have a little schooling in these matters.
Try googling ‘genetically modified organism.’ After checking in on the latest ‘frankensalmon’ developments, get a load of what Monsanto, Astra-Zeneca, Con-Agra, and some others have done to perpetuate their corporate stranglehold on the seed stock for the global human population’s food supply from now into the indefinite future. It’s eye-opening, to say the least.
A marriage of economy and utility? Wit and wisdom, or entropy and futility? A marriage of punctual puns and tardy circumspection? A marriage of colloquial twang and imminent doom? Crusty euphemism and feisty pugilism? Hahaha, no, I’ve actually never been selected for groom duty, Bob, ya feathery wee winged wiseacre. Thanks for your input, though. Have a Rolling Rock on me!
You’re a gentleman and a scholar, Sir, and I guess, coming from Kentucky, a fine judge of racehorses.
Good looking, too. (for a shrunken head)
Cheers, have one yersel’.
Well, if you’re talking about what the difference is between the two when it comes to what they mean for the spoken language, then here we go:
Pronounce – This describes the general consensus on what the technically correct sound that each letter or each syllable makes in a word.
Enunciate – This describes how well you speak each letter or syllable in a word.
For example: one person can pronounce “Oregon” like “Or-eh-gehn” or like “Or-uh-gone”, but their enunciation is judged solely on how well they articulate those sounds.
Dear teacher,
Thank you soooooooooo much for this one! One of my students asked me this question, and I didn’t kow how to answer…..
Amicalement
Don Felipe Gonzales amateur de saule
Pennslytucky9 you must be some kind of road scholar. With a comment like you made a little further down about the salmon being bred in captivity. I just can’t believe the words that flowed from those mountain man lips..I am at awe with you. Or did you watch Wild Kingdom or something.
Hey,
I would just like to request a word :]]
It’s : Syzygy
Rather strange word meaning, alignment of 3 celestial bodies in a straight line. Was told it by my tutor at uni and wanted to know the origin.
Many thanks
Nikki.
Also love the lesson very good :]
x
HEY
I actually owned a company in the UK called Syzygy Products Ltd and researched the meaning of this bizzare word extensively before forming the company.
I don’t strictly agree with your meaning though. I would say that it is the gravitational balance that keeps these celestial bodies that keeps these 2 or more items in harmony. I don’t agree with the straight line theory, as most of the celestial bodies orbit, and the line is one of the many dimensional gravitational plains that keep the balance together.
Anyway the origin of the word was in 1656 from the Greek word Syzigia (yoke, pair, union of two, harmonious conjunction) and refers to the 3 harmonious components of an egg originally, namely the yoke suspended in the centre of the albumen within the shell.
Formed from the 2 ancient words Syn (together) Zygon (yoke).
Obviously Astronomy put a new slant to the meaning later, but the basic theory is the same
Thanks for the Quick reply :]]
Now i no more about the word.
But I still believe my meaning to be correct as in Astronomy. an alignment of three celestial objects, as the sun, the earth, and either the moon or a planet: Syzygy in the sun-earth-moon system occurs at the time of full moon and new moon.
But that is when the pronunciation is siz-i-jee (spelt frenetically).
Where as when the Pronunciation is sĭz’ə-jē (spelt frenetically) means your gravitational orbit theory.. So maybe they are both correct.
But this was my tutors definition:
syzygy
Noun
The straight line configuration of 3 celestial bodies (as the sun and earth and moon) in a gravitational system.
But yes anyway thanks for the reply and now i no more about the word :]]
You are very welcome Nikki. That is what I remember that I read when I found the word 10 years ago in a dictionary and decided to adopt it as a company name, and I am not too bad at etymology but don’t assume that I am right, as this perfection is more Marina’s domain as we all know.
You have me wondering now…my memory is failing…OED Oxford English Dictionary is the ultimate source and doesn’t list it online despite me finding it in the same paper version 10 years ago.
Your theory about both being right is very polite and definately makes sense, I need to visit a library or find my old 70,000 word OED . You really have me going now….
PS Although the gravity holds everything together it has no relevence whatsover to the word itself of course. Although it was originally from egg yokes the balance however appears to be on one plain between 2 or 3 bodies and therefore on a straight line disproving my theory that it is on one all dimensional plains as a general harmony.
Well done I say
Please tell me Nikki that you are a girl because we need more girls to prove my theory that we are not all a load of perverts that only watch to get an eye full. All the Nikki’s in the UK are girls and males are Nicky.
Syzyzy Syjojy …….oh bugger it sausages I have hod chew many dwinkz.
Little Hamstosh cant hold their liquor
I went on my Hamster’s Imaginary English Dictionary
Syzygy (n) (adj) The alignment of three morning nutritious bodies on a plate in a charming smiley face. Usually comprised of 2 eggs, a rasher of bacon and a sausage.
Hey,
Thanks for replying ever so quickly.
Is strange how many meanings i can find for the word yet there is no one which holds more ground than the other, still i am sticking with the theory that we are both correct as words can have more than one meaning.
And to answer your question i am a Guy not a girl i am afraid, Nikki tends to be female within the UK but my full name is Nicholas and i am known as Nikki as my hero is Nikki Sixx (Bass player for Motley Crue) and people started calling me Nikki due to my style of dress and such..
I shall Join the forum more often, sounds good.
Hi marina, I’d like to request the word apache.
Sense I am “hot for tech” I’ve came across the apache web server program several times, and I know it’s named after an Indian tribe.
There is also a helicopter model with the same name…
I’d like to know what the significance/origin of the name is
u can check my movies at http://www.youtube.com/hotfortech
(And yes I was inspired by you, when I name and opened my YouTube account )
sniperskaya, I read that as well.. but my understanding is that most of the Salmon eaten is of the farmed kind anyway.. so it may not have as detrimental an effect on price some people think.. but who knows?
Marina, Look into what salmon farming has and is doing to our native wild salmon population.Farm raised has no where near the goodies or flavor for you that wild salmon does[they feed them pellet type food].Patagonia’s catalog had a great article on it several years back.King in the spring and summer is the best tasting of all!
All the best Teacher, Scotthorn
Genetically-Modified salmon for farming are generally much faster-growing and quickly grow to an enormous size.
Scotthorn aptly points out how farmed salmon also lack flavor and color, so coloring is often added to make them look real. They pose a serious threat to native populations if (WHEN) they get loose because female fish tend to select mates based upon large size, and the GM salmon are easily twice the size of their naturally-occurring competitors so their recent genetic modifications will soon infect the entire gene pool. One of the more recent modifications will allow them to breed in SALT WATER instead of heading up freshwater streams to spawn as they always have.
When these get out into the biosphere, (because of the aforementioned size differential and the competitive advantage it brings to breeding) it will only be a matter of time before the salmon stop running upstream to breed. A massive collapse of many other animal populations which rely on the annual salmon run will follow: eagle, bear, otter, mink, and hundreds of other species reliant on the flood of nutrients brought up into the headwaters by the mating salmon will perish, falling like dominoes.
BTW, “frankensalmon” have escaped into Norwegian waters so we will soon see the ramifications of this genetic manipulation in the world’s oceans as the new giants outbreed the smaller, naturally-occurring males. Brace for impact.
Oh hell guys the Earth is get ready to go back to the Dynos. Man is a complete flop. We started out on the top of the food chain, and now We are sorry for just being at all. ie It Mans fault for every thing bad, but all the good is ……….lies. ok I;ll stop.
I could only wish you were right about going back to the dinosaurs: I believe (permit me to wildly conjecture here) that the next “geologic layer,” as it were, that will will be laid down by an animal (as opposed to a plant community) species will be that of the social insects. We’re talkin’ the ants, wasps, and bees here. In my view, they are most likely to be the next “mammal” because we mammals are basically the next “dinosaurs” if we don’t somehow manage to grab the wheel and take our foot off the accelerator.
I think the social insects have the best chance of surviving the major species die-offs to come because they are small, omnivorous, guided by a unified will to succeed as a group, fear nothing, and can operate underground for indefinite periods. In these ways they are similar to the original tiny mammals who lived during the last days of the dinosaurs, some 65MYago), plus, they have a short breeding/gestation period and so generations pass by quickly, not like us humans with our 15-30-year generations. The benefit of the short gestation period is that if climatic or other conditions change rapidly, genetic traits for variations in size or characteristics will begin to naturally “select” the next round of survivors, based upon whether the characteristics they have are conducive to, or contrary to survival under the new conditions. It is also important to add that mutations that occur which help them to survive will be more quickly absorbed into the gene pool, so the end result is that they have a better chance of evolving toward a form most suited to their immediate environment. Those that lack the latest and coolest adaptations will decline and eventually disappear. And the faster your species can adapt to change, the better off you’ll be.
Bottom line, time to ease up on the throttle and grab the wheel before it’s over the cliff we go. I’m gonna start thinking about raisin’ some chickens to help keep up a fresh layer o’ poop on the garden.
Insect would rule the world if not for the lack of leadership. They are content with maintaining the status quote. By not standing out and keeping the playing field level, ie( no winners so no losers.) they are happy just to serve the QUEEN. There are some of Us like this, For extra credit, Can you name the forms of Government that use these ideals?
Ah, but there is where you are incorrect. Leadership is something the ants, bees, and wasps do have, and it’s programmed in on an instinctual level. It’s built-in instead of coercive or greed-driven like ours. Remember, I’m talking about the social insects here, not just any old insects. When we’re gone, they’ll still be tirelessly communicating together and cooperating to achieve common goals. And the underlying scenario is that the mammals and large land animals would have already long since died out, so what’s left? Any guesses?
INCORRECT maybe, imprecise yes. sorry. What I should have said; The leadership is not intent on ruling the world. Their leadership’s intent is to care for it’s young. Some ants do conquer others, but for food or slaves. Not world supremacy. More likely Bacteria will end up being left in the end game.. Too start again, again, etc—–>>>inf There are hours of back and forth argument, but in the end Humans intent to destroy them selves is not common in other species. except Fire?
Wow, some good interaction here, Roadrunnerranch. Thanks!
I’m just speculating though. You are correct in pointing out that bacteria will be a strong contender, always was, and will continue to be. And it is true that self-awareness (which eventually leads to oppression of other species, as in animal husbandry and agriculture) and eventual aspiration toward world domination is a trait unique to humans. Excellent observations! 50 million years after the mammals are extinct, who knows how well the social insects will have adapted? I just think they’re most likely to predominate because they have already developed excellent survival strategies of organization, communication and leadership hierarchy. Can’t really think of any other critters that come close, though I’m interested to hear more peoples’ impressions. I’m not sure what you mean about fire…
there’s an old ecological dogma that given enough time and enough food, a population will pollute its environment beyond the carrying capacity of the environment…
aren’t we all glad to know that science has this figured out already?…
now if we could only reach the masses…
oh, wait…maybe the price of gas will help them understand…
Gas is just what we feed our toys. Wait ’til cars are a memory and the price of food goes the same way! Maybe then we’ll start to see some humans reach over to turn off the alarm clock.
Conversation between two blondes, overheard in a dance hall sometime in the fifties:-
1st Girl. I hear your new boyfriend is in the army.
2nd Girl. Yes, he’s in the King’s African Rifles.
1st Girl. Is that a good regiment?
2nd Girl. I think so. They have white officers with black privates.
1st Girl. OOOO! VERY exotic!
Good Hockey game tonight… or should I say games, almost two complete games in one night. O/T Pittsburgh still alive 37 seconds away from elimination, who is “Maxime Talbot” anyways? Not very often you see the goalie pulled & team facing elimination survive. Hollywood can’t write this stuff. The Pittsburgh lottery winning # came up 7171, “Malkins’” # doubled & detroit scoring an own goal… Next game in pitt… must see now.
On a heavy note… Vancouver Canucks, all of Hockey & a small town of 3000 laid to rest a hero & a bright young star today. Luc Bourdon gone so soon, but will not soon be forgotton. RIP Luc
I know, that was very sad. yep, I saw the game winner. That high stick penalty definetly help the pens. Detroit gave it away. I felt bad for Mark Prior. His season ended again with a shoulder injury. He might as well retire. Did you check out Ozzie Guillen’s outburst after losing to the rays? I say Ozzie is a psycho.
Yeah not everyone loves a phsyco, but the media eats it up, almost promotes it, stirs it up , they know Ozzie can’t keep from running off at the mouth. Get it on video… news at 11.
Since we are discussing diseases I would like to request “Gonorrhea”; although just the orgin please. Unless…well…never mind.
It’s literal meaning is interesting. This could segway nicely to “the clap”; where the hell did that come from and what exactly is clapping? Another one I don’t get when looking at the orgin is “Chlamidia”. Hmm
Chacha, Probably your kitchen is the size of my apartment, is EVERYTHING really so big in America?
I’m trying to imagine your oven, capable of baking a V shaped flapjack the size of a doghouse roof. This oven has probably the size of my kitchen…
The word salmon comes from a lady named Ella Salmonbarfburgerberg. Apparently, she found a fish in her bra when she fell into a speedy creek. She took the stiletto heel of one of her “fishin’ shoes” and poked the thing into submission. Later, she skinned and deboned the dam thing looking for her lost mood ring. In a bad mood and left with only mushed fish meat (and stinky fingers), she squeezed it into a quasi-snowball and threw it at her “old man” known as Billy-Bob Salmonbarfburgerberg. He replied ” OK, enough is enough Miss Salmon-Ella. You make me sick. There should be a disease named after you!”
I don’t know how it got from this story and into the dictionary but it sounds either a bit fishy or just another one of those “big fish tales!?… hmmm?
On the old TV show- “MASH” , one episode had everyone sick from eating some bad turkey. The Colonel walked in and talked to this “southern” guy named “Rizzo” and said, “bad news Rizzo, salmonella is in the camp. Rizzo heard “Sam and Ella” and replied; “Oh no, who is they”?
Oh! Oh! Reeealy BAD news.
Warren used the bad word “Bad” about bad fish, bad diction, bad hearing and bad grammar.
I think we’re in for another deep blue.
sleepy+lazy? nah, doesn’t fit
Believe it or not, there actually
are a few honest barristers out
there. It’s the smarmy snakeoil
salesmen types (who are only
interested in a fee and then
do nothing) that give off the
stank you guys are smelling.
Q: what do you call 200
lawyers at the bottom
of the sea?
Salmon are salty
salt was used as salary back in the B.C.
so is that to say Solomon’s Mine
was a river, lake, or sea with fish in it??
Food might have been more important
than jewelry back then
p.s. I’ve one to add
saltation, the movement of sand in a dune is literraly a leaping
Salmon : 1205, from O.Fr. salmun, from L. salmonem (nom. salmo) “a salmon,” possibly originally “leaper,” from salire “to leap,” though some dismiss this as folk etymology. Another theory traces it to Celtic. Replaced O.E. læx, from PIE *lax, the more usual word for the fish (see lox).
Resilience: 1626, from L. resiliens, prp. of resilire “to rebound, recoil,” from re- “back” + salire “to jump, leap” (see salient). Cf. result.
Salient: 1562, “leaping,” a heraldic term, from L. salientem (nom. saliens), prp. of salire “to leap,” from PIE base *sel- “to jump” (cf. Gk. hallesthai “to leap,” M.Ir. saltraim “I trample,” and probably Skt. ucchalati “rises quickly”). The meaning “pointing outward” (preserved in military usage) is from 1687; that of “prominent, striking” first recorded 1840, from salient point (1672), which refers to the heart of an embryo, which seems to leap, and translates L. punctum saliens, going back to Aristotle’s writings. Hence, the “starting point” of anything.
Sauté: 1813, from Fr. sauté, lit. “jumped, bounced” (in reference to tossing while cooking), pp. of sauter “to jump,” from L. saltare “to hop, dance,” freq. of salire “to leap” (see salient).
Insult: c.1570, “triumph over in an arrogant way,” from L. insultare “to assail, to leap upon” (already used by Cicero in sense of “insult, scoff at, revile”), freq. of insilire “leap at or upon,” from in- “on, at” + salire “to leap” (see salient). Sense of “to verbally abuse, affront, assail with disrespect” is from 1620. The noun is recorded 1603 in the sense of “attack;” 1671 as “an act of insulting.” To add insult to injury translates L. injuriæ contumeliam addere.
They’re all related to leap like you said and it comes from the fact that the salmon jump off the water and returns to the river to reproduce. So why, salire, resilience, salient, insult and sauté are related to “to leap” I think what I found about will tell you a lot better than me! And insult for me was the most etymo-instresting word haha!
Vous êtes une tites ganges de comiques vous autres, vous venez de faire la connaissance avec ce qu’est un dictionnaire, tant qu’à écrire des conneries comme le reste du monde, apprend à lire pis tu vas vite te rendre compte que ya pas grand chose de compliqué dans ce qu’elle dit, mais biensur, c’est beaucoup plus intéressant venant d’elle!!
This lesson was both salacious and bodacious. It leapt out at me as something fishy… which it was. I just wish that the guy that discovered Salmonella was named Dr. Barbar, because then it would be known as Barbarella. Might make it easier to stomach that way.
Interesting word request this lesson was based on. My only complaint about this lesson was that the salmon Marina was talking to didn’t twitter like all the other animals she co-mingles with. At least it said ‘Huh?’ lol
Salmon is a good fishy – yum
My favorites are talapia and dolphin.
Salmon don’t make it to Florida,
can’t catch ‘em here
Farm bred salmon sucks!
Tastes like Purina fish chow.
ok – lessee…
resilience… hmmmm…
a person who bounces back from
adversity is said to be resilient.
therefore, bounce=leap – don’t ask me how!
salient:…
a verb – something that stands apart from
the rest, no – not that definition… hmmmm…
Bellagio’s fountains are said to be salient,
so I guess water is leaping upward – that works
Saute: that’s a gimme
saute pan, olive oil, fishy
when you flip the fishy,
the fishy “leaps” into the air
Best I got without cheating
Too tired to think hard, right now.
I have a word request for you marina! ANAMORPHOSIS. This word has always peaked my interest due to the meaning of it. Images that look normal unless looked at a curve have always fascinated me. Optical illusions always seemed fun to me as a child, and I’ve never been able to produce one myself. So please, accept this word request. If not, keep up the awesome videos. Your work is amazing.
Zimmy,
Try making two identical bananna curved pieces of cardboard
or construction paper. make them symetrical or even to the curve.
Place them one over another.
which one is larger or longer?
Now put the top one on the bottom.
wich one is larger or longer?
Anamorphosis!
Hi my full first name is samuel and I notested that many other culthers or religins will have different ways to pronounce the name Sam.I just thought that might be an interesting show.Antway I just wanted to say I know this women named gina and she said we wher like kindred spirits and you remind me of her.I just think your awesome and would love to be teachers pet! Love Sammy G
ouch! Too much homework 4 now, but I did want add that everyone has had salmonella infections at one time or another, just really low grade. It’s when its served in high doses the immune system doesn’t fight it fast enough = problem. God a little time off and I’m smart as a whip.
No, but the restaurant food stuff I’ve got covered pretty well.
I got food poisioning on my honeymoon at a fancy place overlooking the ocean. I had swondfish. By the time I was trying to make it to Lake Tahoe I was seeing stars at Sacramento (about halfway) and we took a room at a hotel. I think I nearly died that night. I don’t know what
poision it was but it sure was bad news. I leaped to the tiolet so it must have been salmonilla. cheers.
dvdpage,
Same here. My wife at the time and were in Bar harbor, Maine and I went local. Ate everything that “they” ate and ended up in the emergency room. I was sick for three days. Those “steamers” should come with a warning label.
That’s a coincidence. I got typhoid fever, which is a form of salmonella, on my honeymoon.
The infection even got into my heart muscle giving me the symptoms of a heart attack, and I’ve been having palpitations and a racing heartbeat ever since.
Of course, watching all these videos of Marina doesn’t help, but what a way to go.
Marina, just a quick question before I go to the homework if I may- are your eyes naturally that blue, or do you wear colored contacts? I see why you go for blue and yellow color combos so much with your blue eyes and blond hair. It works.
aLx, I know about the saturation, I remember Marina discussing it before. But that would make all the colors more saturated and it appears that Marina’s eyes are uncommonly blue. Also she’s appeared in glasses in some other videos I believe. Just props or does she really need them? (Now I wonder if she’s not a real blond?) Nextt
Boys , I would be willing to bet that there is a Scandinavian in Her family tree>; She does not have the Mongoloid cheek bones, thick hair like some Russians. But I would say, She has a temper….strip the hide off a bear. But like the Rose with her thorns, Handle with care less ye be squewed.
This is more of a proper name, but I would still be interested in the derivation of Methistopheles. Love the site – it’s educational and very entertaining indeed.
Don’t worry, Warren, it wasn’t anything you did.
I was referring to a saga which has been going on between Prospero and the Buzzword/aLx axis about the use of the word “bad” in the phrase “bad grammar”
Regarding your question about the word “Scotchman”, the Oxford English Dictionary gives both “Scotchman” and “Scotsman” as meaning a man of Scottish nationality, but most Scotsmen seem to regard “Scotchman” in the same class as the word “Nigger”.
I always remember a Scottish Chief Petty Officer in the Navy telling someone who called him a “Scotchman”, “Laddie, a “Scotchman” is a metal plate on the deck of a ship to prevent the anchor chain from chaffing a hole in it. I am a Scotsman.”
Warren, you have my admiration that you ploughed through the “bad grammar” thread all in one go; I found it quite heavy going even when I was following it more or less in real time. Very interesting though.
The thing about some comments having a reply button and others not is because Marina has limited replies to two levels deep, i.e. you can reply to a comment and to a reply to a comment, but not to a reply ro a reply, if you follow.
The reason is that there is only a narrow frame for the comments to fit into, so each successive reply gets narrower and longer. If there were too many levels, we would be trying to read a reply as a vertical line of single letters.
It’s inconvenient, but it’s a limitation of the software Marina is using so we’re stuck with it. Maybe one day things will get better.
Is this like……. speed dating? Or sex after marriage? Wham bam thank you mam. Or a drive by, 2 mins and gone? ” What the Buck ” is not 1/2 as pretty as you , But [s]he goes on for a little bit. If I might speak for your Minions ,, SLOW IT DOWN. We need a little fore play and then a cuddle after, Is the house on FIRE?
I don’t know what sort of marriage you have, Greedy Bastard , but my advice to anyone contemplating marriage would be, “DON’T”.
When you’re a bachelor, you can have sex whenever you feel like it.
When you’re married it has to be every bloody night!
I am Daniel Bailey. I was adopted, but my birth name was Daniel Cielma. As far as i know my real dad is Polish. i was wondering if you knew the meaning of CIELMA. i hearnd it was French for mother sky, but i hope not, lol! Please help me find out my ancestry.
sincerely,
Daniel Bailey
That’s interesting. Some countries use the image of and angel falling from the sky to name abandonned children. It’s the case of Brazil where any Mr Do Ceu you meet has been found “from the sky”. You have the french word for sky “ciel” in your name, but I don’t think your name is french, looked for it just jound one Cielma born in France before 1940. You say your origin is polish thought sky in po0lish was “niebo”. I’m puzzled! Good luck in your research.
It is J. Lignieres who proposed to use Dr Salmon’s name. Not sure it was ment to honour Dr Salmon….
My bet is that it was to add some confusion, cause some bacteria(s) are named from the Salmon fish, they have the genitive Salmonis in the name:
Piscirickettsia salmonis, Erwinia salmonis, Bacillus salmonis pestis, Eubacterium salmonis, Streptomyces salmonis, Streptoverticillium salmonis
Then the Salmonella family is:
Salmonella bongori Salmonella enterica, Salmonella enterica arizonae, Salmonella enterica diarizonae, Salmonella enterica enterica, Salmonella enterica houtenae, Salmonella enterica indica, Salmonella enterica salamae, Salmonella subterranea.
And specialists discuss to know if “Flexibacter salmonis” is named from the Dr’s name or from the fish…..
That’s an interesting theory particulaly in the case of “Flexibacter salmonis” because it affects fishes. It’s tough to leap from fish to fish inside the water. This leaping bacteria then probably moves by leaping from fish to fish only when two fishes leap simultaneously outside the water. It’s not surprising that the first in proposing this theory is named roadrun, quick and fast and himself full of acrobatic skills….
Of the two other theory discussed before your contribution, one is rather boring the other already funny: Salmonis is the genitive of salmo the fish, this is the boring one. Then the funny one: somebody wanted to honour Dr Salmon (again) and mistakenly used a genitive (poor grammar).
May I also propose my own theory: The guy who discovered it got sick … and it is his widow who named the killer bacteria “salmonis”. Sound logical and on the same time strange there is no bacteria called “killerella” “yougotmeella” “vomitella” “arghella”….
I second this request as eminently suitable for an investigation by the wearer of the shortest filibegs ever seen.
Rastaman36, so you’re “scootish” are you? Does that mean you ride a scooter? And if so, do you wear your kilt when doing so? Must be kind of draughty! It tempts me to ask Marina to investigate the origin of “Jockstrap”.
Hello Bob,
I didn’t catch the “bad’ line. I missed something really good I’m sure.
I admit that I type the way I talk and not the proper way since I figured this was an “Intro to Philology” class and not “English 101″. It seems that I will get a lesson here and there which is good for me- two classes in one!
Was the term Scotchman used at anytime- instead of Scottish?
Why Scotch whisky and not Scott whisky?
Bob,
Thanks for the info. .
I went to the Bad Grammar Video comments and -whoa! I’m now convinced that my thoughts aren’t as deep as many of the minds that visit here.
I stopped reading one string after about the fiftieth post- damn!
One comment was disturbing and made me think that there must be some hidden message in it. Like in a spy movie where the spook leaves a cryptogram to be deciphered by another spook.
I don’t want that to be the last thing I write so…
Poetry had rules and they were broken to make room for prose, right?
Didn’t poetry consist mainly of rhyming verse?
Hi rastaman, what’s your clan? I’ve never beeing in Scottland please tell me is a tartan a kind of warmer tartetatin? And what’s a kilt? is it a cold quiche?
Hi marina, I wonder if you could investigate the origin of the word “Gringo” I’ve heard a version from a friend of mine but I am not sure about. Thanks and have a good time! Superhuper from Switzerland
PRIVEEEET milaya Marina! – ya dolzhen skazat’ 4to segodnyashnie domashnie zadania udivitel’no interessni,zamechatel’no! – Paying attention to the other four words you gave us i realized how can be interesting and easy for French and especially Italian-speaking students to trace this terms back to their origins and use them properly when they speak English!As a matter of fact many Latin words which gave origins to so many English terms have been transmitted unchanged to modern italian. HOWEVER,sauté,from FRENCH sauter,to leap ,from latin saltare,frequentative of salire(iitalian=salire,to leap,so sauté means to make gently leap the content in the pan when we fry lightly. 2)resilient:from Latin resilire,Italian=risalire,adjective or present participle:risalente. it means the ability to recover quickly from ilness,change,misfortune. The property of something,a material that enables it to resume its original shape. it is interesting to remark that in Italian risalire means to come back with mind,thoughts and facts to something in the past! 3) Salient,from the present simple of Latin salire,to leap,to jump on.see also italian salire,to climb,to come up. it therefore means projecting or jutting beyond the line or a surface,es,=projecting towards the enemy lines,protruding up or out,a salient angle,a salient episode,…or even better the salient point in MARINA’S LESSON (when the mistery is solved!) or even salient façades in a cathedral:their profile follow the different heights in the aisles! -4)Insult: it is interesting to see how in its original and archaic form means to make an attack upon,an assault or even to behave arrogantly) it derives from French insulter,Italian=insultare from Latin insultare=to leap on,jump over(also in order to aggresss) i think,Marina,it would be interesing if you compare these words with the terms insurgence,insurrection,insurgent,you will realize that everithing come from the jump up,leap leitmotive! prosti menya pozhaluysta esli mozhet byt’ ya byl osobenno sku4nim segodnya i nadeyus 4to vse bylo interesno. dorogaja Marina ty vsegda gluboko nas obogoshaesh s tvoim dragocennim prepodavaniem! -ya tebya obazhayu-!
kdhrocks, I had that problem with the camera built into my macbook.. I got a new camera and you should start to see more full shots of me as I can put the camera further away.
Marina – I think you should test the new camera out on a few new outfits. It’s best to limit the quantity of fabric in the outfits, of course, in order to get the best exposure with the camera. To much fabric can hurt the lenses and sensitive electronics within the camera. Oh, and make sure you test many different poses, to be sure that the camera can pick them all up.
I know this sounds technical, so I recommend that once you’ve recorded a test video like I’ve described, please send it to me directly so I can view it in detail and make sure everything is recording properly.
prospero811 has both feet in the gutter and his nose in a god damn dictionary. if he ever gets his thumb out of his ass he would see that i have a reasonable argument regarding “standard” english grammar.
By “standard,” do you mean that the first word in a sentence or a proper noun such as the name of a country doesn’t need to be capitalized? Just a rhetorical question.
no, not that standard the other standard. the standard that all standard people use in standard situations. when (standardly speaking mind you) standards are being discussed by standard experts to establish a standard understanding of standards so that the standard person on the standard street can hold a standard conversation with another standard individual and not get any of their standards confused. understand?
Marina there was a url leading to who supplied your music for today at one of my logons this morning. I can’t find it now but I went to that site and about half way down the page there was a picture of a man who looked almost the same as alx. I wonder if he has a twin
First things first, a wild stab at the salireextra credit:
resilience – rise to the occasion
insult – leap to conclusions about someone
salient – well it means jumping doesn’t it…
sauté – if it’s anything like how I cook, to leap out of the frying pan on to the floor
Salmon is the best, especially cedar plank salmon on the BBQ. I’ve never gotten salmonella from salmon, but have from chicken way too often.
I would like to know the origin of the English expression “Dog’s Bollocks”. The English use the word Bollocks in a lot of ways, good and bad, e.g. “Top Bollocks”, “Nevermind The Bollocks”, “That’s Bollocks” and of course the one I am asking about “Dog’s Bollocks”,
I’ll try to think of a nicer word to request next time ;-P.
I could be wrong about this, but isn’t salmonella mostly found from uncooked meat? In the past I have seen salmonella on red meats
Anyways, I will probably be offline soon for a day or so (hopefully the former), as I have removalists coming in about 9 hours, and will be moving to my new flat
I also concur with Capman911, Prospero811 and annuddermale.
However, I’m going for extra credit with saltant, and saltarello, both dances (and associated music) which involve leaping steps, salto (a leap in ice skating), saltatorial (referring to leaping insects), and, I venture to suggest, the Scottish flag, the Saltire (or St.Andrew’s Cross) which comes from one of the meanings of salient, i.e. pointing away from the centre.
I like the idea of adherence to the meaning while maintaining a sharp edge of wit to the discourse. Humor is relative, however, and can also be either inclusive or exclusive depending on one’s personal frame of reference. I guess that’s the part that requires mental effort in the judgment process.
Saltation is a hydrologic term where larger particles like sand grains and pebbles that are too heavy to travel downstream in suspension get picked up and tumbled along the bottom, hopping and jumping their way down the streambed in the swift current.
pennsyltucky9,
You know what?
That going to the office idea I’ve been trying to see if Marina would use that idea on her show. She has a “Teacher’s Pet”, someone that has done well in class. What about the opposite (2nd place, sort of), have a student stay for “Detention”. She could swing a yardstick around and make a “frowny” face (she’d look really cute).
pennsyltucky9,
No, of course it would be very wrong to award negative behavior, I meant that it would be another way (humorous) to acknowledge a contributing student that was constuctive with their comments. Or a student that continued to use levity as a means to express themselves in a way that was relative to the lesson.
I’m back. Oh I hate hang overs. That’s an interesting group of words. ‘Hang over’ or ‘Hung over’. 14 hours of fun just wore me out. I have had jobs that where easier than that. The guys on the Time Bandit love to play hard. After the party I mostly slept and ate a truck load of Ibuprofen. I guess that’s why I don’t party much anymore. Anyways Eddie (coconut), Scott, and Don are fantastic people. I trust them with my life. Im not in their crew, but I am part of the family. For what I seen and done on the boat, one has to be part of the family. They leave for Alaska in a few days. I’m going to miss them. Well except for Scott. I still have to teach him a thing or two. He’ll be going up later in the year.
Thanks Mike. Nice to feel missed. I missed all of you at the party. Really I did. Thats why I took some photos. Sorry I havn’t uploaded them yet. Today is my big move day. Moving from Seattle to Kirkland. I’m starting my next class on the 9th in my new class room the Heritage Hall.
I better get back to work. I have my yacht to move and a class to promote.
For those times when you know you’re headed into tailspin, here’s my favorite “Plan-ahead Hangover cure:”
Drink at least 1 large glass of water before leaving the bar or party. Drink one glass of water before bed, and take 2 aspirin with it.
12 oz. Gatorade in the morning.
Wait 20 minutes before coffee &/or breakfast. Do not agitate.
It really helps to take aspirin the night before your hangover. As far as ibuprofen, etc, I’m not too sure. Aspirin works for really well for me. The biggest problem I’ve found with the plan-ahead method is that one must be sober enough to recognize beforehand that a future actually exists.
I agree with prospero811 who agreed with annuddermale about the answers to your questions. I guess we are cheating off each others papers. Great video Marina and as usual I gave you five stars. and a to you.
I am curious about the origin of the word “god” Nice job. I wish there was a talent show for education. No need to say what place you ‘d have finished Greetings from greece
this is one of my pet peeves…bacteria is the plural of bacterium, which should have been used…it’s a common error, and maybe this is an example of evolving language…with so many using “bacteria” where “bacterium” is appropriate, perhaps the plural will become the singular…
resilience…able to bounce or leap back from adversity…
insult…derogatory comment tossed out at someone…it might make ‘em leap back at you…
salient…prominent…something that leaps out at you…
sauté…hmmm…frying something in a small pan…maybe the grease splatters make you leap back, or it’s the concept of the flavor leaping out at you…
This is a good example for the “bad grammar” argument.
Using the plural when singular is called for is “bad grammar,” in my opinion.
Although, some people arguing about the issue would suggest that it is either (a) not bad grammar because to say “a bacteria” is “just as correct” as “a bacterium” because “anything goes” in English, or (b) since grammar is in each individual’s head, whether it is wrong to say “a bacteria” rather than “a bacterium” depends on what each individual’s grammar consists of. If a person thinks it’s wrong in their own mind, it’s wrong, otherwise it’s not wrong.
My thought on the subject is that it’s wrong because current standard English grammar rules suggest that “a bacterium” is correct. I base that with reference to every major source on the subject. It does not appear to be one that has any degree of debate. Perhaps someday it may change, but presently “a bacterium” is correct.
When someone is describing the condition of an infection using the description “Bacteria” instead of “Bacterium” it seems that is correct. Since they are not talking about a single bacterium in the sense that there many of the bacterium although only one strain.
i’m confused why couldn’t “strain” be used in the same way as “bacteria” since a strain still consists of a multiplicity of bacterium or bacteria. what is the distinction between strain and bacterium which prevents them being interchanged?
Well, a “strain” in this sense means “a variety or type” of microorganism.
Variety and strain are both singular, so you say “a variety” or “a strain” of something.
A microorganism or a bacterium is singular also. So, I think, without actually looking into it, that we would say, “that’s a lethal strain of bacterium” or “these are lethal strains of bacteria.”
Yes prospero, you are right, yet….
Warren argument is valid. For a similar reason nobody says “datum” nowadays, since a datum never comes alone, everybody says “data” even “a” data. Speaking about salmonella where a bacterium is never alone, or I.T. where a datum is never alone, it makes sense forgetting datum and bacterium.
Then there is the fact that the greek bacterium is a rod, bacteria is a microorganism, nothing to do one thing to another, so using the greek singular/plural for something unknown by greeks seems to be a strange idea. I means when a language absord a foreign word, if this word is used in a diferent meaning it is a very good reason for this word being “integrated” quickly. What about for example “media”. Is not “the” media something contemporary? Doesn’t seems right to integrate the word and use an “english” singular or plural in such cases.
Two reasons to understand why “bacterium” is of so little use (except in some medical institution) nowadays.
By the way prospero do you use an agendum, or a criterium, do you say several electra and prota?
People do still refer to “a datum” and a datum can come alone, but it is used in the sense of a point from which to measure other points, for example, a map has a map datum from which all other points on the map are measured, in order to ensure that the map gives as true a representation of reality as is possible, given the limitations of the medium being used.
Data is used more as a collective noun to refer to a number of pieces of information, so you can have a file of data in the same way as you can have a bag of sugar, but you wouldn’t refer to each individual grain of sugar as “a sugar”. However, “a sugar” could be used to refer to an organic substance with a formula which is classified as belonging to a group known as sugars.
Also, there is a connection between bacteria and rods, since many bacteria have a shape which is rod-like.
Of course there is a connection since who named them choose the greek word for rods because he was looking specifically to rod shaped bacteria. If I said “nothing to do” it is because a greek rod has very little to do with a modern microorganism, beside etymology. About datum, you are right, and for similar reason it is likely bacterium will survive in some jargon or specific occasions. Then for I.T. as in data-mining or data-ware-house where it is clear there are several data as for Salmonella it is likely there are several bacteria, not only common people has a tendency to use as a collective noun, but the academy will tolerate a singular usage first in this areas.
speaking of fish when i was a teenager i worked on a sport fishing boat out of los angeles when the boat was moving between spots to fish i would drag a lure and catch different types of tuna fillet them & chop into pieces cover with soy and people where eating it in less then ten minuts from pulling it out of the water it was fillet & eaten with out cooking yuk.i had a great time fishing but i will not eat them
*kiss* *kiss* *kiss* *kiss* *kiss* rate/look.
smells fishy…hows school?
I’m fine……school is more or less fine
At last exams just 9-11 students made it, though most of them were working at such jobs before
………..school is different then just put this or that together and write down what you found.
I think I can make it but we will see at Juli/August
Thanks tedt…..good fortunes to you, I hope .
Peace out of my Pie 
I must be like farming; all depended on Mother nature 
Once in Asia after eating some chicken, oh my, mai dee – not good at all. Shall spare the details however felt really unwell for a few days.
Salmon is tasty. I hear Salmon farms actually put dye into the feed so as to enrich the colour of the fish, which is not good. Eat with ones eyes! Is hard to beat in any case.
Love Tuna, mayo, onion and sweetcorn on toast, dam the world feels a better place after a few rounds of that. The Thais certainly know how to cook up some of the best seafood, ever. In fact, I would go as far as saying that Thai cooking is the best the world over. Never two dishes ever the same. Becoming a bit of a dab hand at it too. Met some Thai students at Reading Uni who help me with both language and cooking. Pat (hello/ sawadee) showed me some amazing dishes which made my taste buds over loads with delight. Hungry now…..
Hmmm, must book ticket to Thailand. Promised myself to spend a week in Chang Mai as have reputal cooking classes. In the mean time, I guess The George Cafe will have to do!!
Marina,
You are asking about the word “leap”
Well allow me to shoot for the moon and get mangled and allow my resilence of muscle to reform the bone structure and sping up to normalcy again. Kind of like bungy jumping theoretically speaking of course
Naturaly speaking the salient is when an animal jumps or leaps
Saute’ – a french past praticiple(to share) of sauter is (leap)witch is pronounced satire in latin
Greg
Farm raise even though it helps is not the answer. When they get out of the farm they damage other salmons.
Interesting. Everyone had asked themselves that question once.
A huge percent of fish for consumption are now farm raised. Salmon, shrimp (all shell fish)…if it’s wild you’d know by the taste if it’s inexpensive (& in U.S.) it’s farm raised.
Wild Salmon used to be in every river in California, even the so called L.A. river, and California brown bears would fish them, same bear that’s on the state flag. This was, of course, before Cadillacs & Oldsmobiles took over.
wOOt! The stars are back. Fixed the bug I guess.
I am going to pretend I was teacher’s pet again because as it happens my first name IS Shane!
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA! (It feels so goooood to hear you say it, btw!!)
-))
very nice post, well done
??????????teach, when you say ” There you go ” GO? “There you are”. or “There It is”. or “That’s It.” maybe , TA DA, There you GO!
I never thought about the word : GO
This is a very useful word.
GO is a true multitasker.
There are a hundred usages
A word worth a look by HFWs
Also curious the triple go went gone etymology.
Well now you done gone went and done it. Tore open a number nine can o’ worms, that is. Good thing though. I was just a-fixin’ to head on down to the crawdad hole anyway!
ummm, do you catch crawdads with worms–#9 or otherwise & if so is there some art to it, send me the link, or a letter or an Art Linkletter.
Wow. Sure, sure. I’ll tell you in a second. First, could you just write down the phone # of whoever sold you those brownies? I’d really like to get their recipe.
Hi Marina,
I reqest word “summer-salt”
A very SALIENT request – it’s another “leaping” word.
Somer-sault. Nothing to do with salt or summer.
continuing the trend i hope after you had your date thePenthouse pet dog-of-a-lesbian who thought you knew Du tch meant something other than “split the bill”, but you didn’t and forgot how much to tip that you didn’t get salmonella poisoning…
betcha wish the trend would stop, ‘eh?…
ok…:wink:
Funny that salmonella is in the news again for the tomatoes. Love the channel!
Hi Marina,
I would like to find out the origin of the word “Jazz”.
Thanks
Ya me 2
Orgin is unknown. One theory is it is a derivation of a persons name. Jasbo Brown was a musician who traveled along the Mississippi playing blues/cabaret varient style of music. He ended up in Chicago ultimately. The style evolved from “Jasbo” to “Jazz”; as one theory goes. Others involve varients of Gullah words for excitement and/or jumping.
Guys , Think She got any hate mail from Animal superiority groups?
ie PETA , for saying it’s OK to eat salmon.
there you go, another………..hey ” rights ” there is a word , the most misunderstood and misused word next to …….lied.
PETA don’t impress me.
Assigning human characteristics
toi animals is a job for Disney!
Animal ethics – COME ON!
They just want a cut of that
ASPCA money cha-ching!
Careful,
tiger-the-vicious might read that.
Don’t make him get off his wheel.
Teach , You must be a very busy little thing of late. Your absents in the posts is noted. May [ i ] WE ask , whats up?
Sorry roadrunrnch, have been moving these past 2 weeks.. and trying to get settled.. plus I got a new camera and trying to figure out how to work it….. I will get settled in shortly, I promise!
Don’t let life pass you by while you get settled in, Marina.
As a lifelong mover, I know that you never finish settling in until the day you move on again.
Have fun. Be happy. Mwah.
(Why don’t you have a kissy-kissy emoticon? I’m sure that we’d all wear holes in our screens clicking on it for you.)
He’s right, You need to throw some scraps to us seagulls or We might FLOCK OFF.
Bob, i already do wear out my screen clickin’ on Marina…
i mean, she’s kinda right there when u click the vid play button, right?…
and Marina, i’ve been movin’ in for two years now…oops…almost three…Life’s for livin’, go have fun while you are young…
sure as hell wish i had…
In the last two weeks I just moved from Southern Cal. to Paris…yippy for me…and I’m basically settled, but what was I thinking? Well, being unsettled is better than being restless, or is it the other way around?
Color me dumb or stangely ambitious…
Marina’s busy, no doubt. Me? I’m planting my nose in my old French text book
Bienvenue a Paris, ami. Bonne chance!
i wanted to know the origin of these words. you can pick one:
hostile
prejudice
paradox
thanks HotForWords!
I request the word “summer-salt”
-Homidog11
i’d like to know the origin of the word “booze” commonly used to refer to alcohol
love your channel
keep it up
i want to know about the word PATRIOT
Hey check out this site on salmonella. Just as we were discussing it. Here crops up a case involving tomatoes.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24951023/
Hi Mike,
Well of COURSE I watched “Wild Kingdom,” I mean because who doesn’t? But all that other stuff I said about man-made biological threats compounding the already grave plight of the world’s anadromous fish populations is verifiable. In fact, I do have a little schooling in these matters.
Try googling ‘genetically modified organism.’ After checking in on the latest ‘frankensalmon’ developments, get a load of what Monsanto, Astra-Zeneca, Con-Agra, and some others have done to perpetuate their corporate stranglehold on the seed stock for the global human population’s food supply from now into the indefinite future. It’s eye-opening, to say the least.
She’s psychic too.
Pronounce vs. enunciate When do you use one over the other?
Thanks,
Ben
I now enunciate you Man and Wife. Hmmm. You’re right, natoreus. HotForWords must investigate.
your right , it should be- I NOW CONDEMN YOU……….
NOW I know what sort of marriage he has.
A marriage of economy and utility? Wit and wisdom, or entropy and futility? A marriage of punctual puns and tardy circumspection? A marriage of colloquial twang and imminent doom? Crusty euphemism and feisty pugilism? Hahaha, no, I’ve actually never been selected for groom duty, Bob, ya feathery wee winged wiseacre. Thanks for your input, though. Have a Rolling Rock on me!
You’re a gentleman and a scholar, Sir, and I guess, coming from Kentucky, a fine judge of racehorses.
Good looking, too. (for a shrunken head)
Cheers, have one yersel’.
I lost $10 at churchill downs. :/
My 2 favorite tips:
1. Don’t bet on the races.
2. Don’t fry bacon in the nude.
Well, if you’re talking about what the difference is between the two when it comes to what they mean for the spoken language, then here we go:
Pronounce – This describes the general consensus on what the technically correct sound that each letter or each syllable makes in a word.
Enunciate – This describes how well you speak each letter or syllable in a word.
For example: one person can pronounce “Oregon” like “Or-eh-gehn” or like “Or-uh-gone”, but their enunciation is judged solely on how well they articulate those sounds.
Does that make any sense?
Why Hello Thar!!!
I’d like to request a word: “Undergrad”
Thanks!!!
Dear teacher,
Thank you soooooooooo much for this one! One of my students asked me this question, and I didn’t kow how to answer…..
Amicalement
Don Felipe Gonzales amateur de saule
shane what do you mean bey expelled
i would like to request a word. it is transvestite
Yes! Finally the teacher’s pet!
For a while there I thought maybe I had been expelled and didn’t know it.
Congratulations, Shane! Here’s your expusion notice, btw…
Oops. Your expuLsion notice.
Pennslytucky9 you must be some kind of road scholar. With a comment like you made a little further down about the salmon being bred in captivity. I just can’t believe the words that flowed from those mountain man lips..I am at awe with you. Or did you watch Wild Kingdom or something.
Pretty Girls love a BAD BOY
No hope for Buzzword and aLx then.
They don’t want to use the word “bad” so they can’t be bad.
Hey,
I would just like to request a word :]]
It’s : Syzygy
Rather strange word meaning, alignment of 3 celestial bodies in a straight line. Was told it by my tutor at uni and wanted to know the origin.
Many thanks
Nikki.
Also love the lesson very good :]
x
HEY
I actually owned a company in the UK called Syzygy Products Ltd and researched the meaning of this bizzare word extensively before forming the company.
I don’t strictly agree with your meaning though. I would say that it is the gravitational balance that keeps these celestial bodies that keeps these 2 or more items in harmony. I don’t agree with the straight line theory, as most of the celestial bodies orbit, and the line is one of the many dimensional gravitational plains that keep the balance together.
Anyway the origin of the word was in 1656 from the Greek word Syzigia (yoke, pair, union of two, harmonious conjunction) and refers to the 3 harmonious components of an egg originally, namely the yoke suspended in the centre of the albumen within the shell.
Formed from the 2 ancient words Syn (together) Zygon (yoke).
Obviously Astronomy put a new slant to the meaning later, but the basic theory is the same
Thanks for the Quick reply :]]
Now i no more about the word.
But I still believe my meaning to be correct as in Astronomy. an alignment of three celestial objects, as the sun, the earth, and either the moon or a planet: Syzygy in the sun-earth-moon system occurs at the time of full moon and new moon.
But that is when the pronunciation is siz-i-jee (spelt frenetically).
Where as when the Pronunciation is sĭz’ə-jē (spelt frenetically) means your gravitational orbit theory.. So maybe they are both correct.
But this was my tutors definition:
syzygy
Noun
The straight line configuration of 3 celestial bodies (as the sun and earth and moon) in a gravitational system.
But yes anyway thanks for the reply and now i no more about the word :]]
Many Thanks
Nikki
x
You are very welcome Nikki. That is what I remember that I read when I found the word 10 years ago in a dictionary and decided to adopt it as a company name, and I am not too bad at etymology but don’t assume that I am right, as this perfection is more Marina’s domain as we all know.
You have me wondering now…my memory is failing…OED Oxford English Dictionary is the ultimate source and doesn’t list it online despite me finding it in the same paper version 10 years ago.
Your theory about both being right is very polite and definately makes sense, I need to visit a library or find my old 70,000 word OED . You really have me going now….
PS Although the gravity holds everything together it has no relevence whatsover to the word itself of course. Although it was originally from egg yokes the balance however appears to be on one plain between 2 or 3 bodies and therefore on a straight line disproving my theory that it is on one all dimensional plains as a general harmony.
Well done I say
Please tell me Nikki that you are a girl because we need more girls to prove my theory that we are not all a load of perverts that only watch to get an eye full. All the Nikki’s in the UK are girls and males are Nicky.
Talking about eyeful I found a very descriptive meaning on
http://www.answers.com/topic/syzygy?cat=technology
Eeeh they never had the internet 10 years ago sheeesh…
I also found a source to reinforce my origin memory which howver spot on.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=syzygy&searchmode=none
Please join the forum more for some eloquent fun with a bunch of lunatics and punoholics.
Regards Markie
Syzyzy Syjojy …….oh bugger it sausages I have hod chew many dwinkz.
Little Hamstosh cant hold their liquor
I went on my Hamster’s Imaginary English Dictionary
Syzygy (n) (adj) The alignment of three morning nutritious bodies on a plate in a charming smiley face. Usually comprised of 2 eggs, a rasher of bacon and a sausage.
Love Tig
Hey,
Thanks for replying ever so quickly.
Is strange how many meanings i can find for the word yet there is no one which holds more ground than the other, still i am sticking with the theory that we are both correct as words can have more than one meaning.
And to answer your question i am a Guy not a girl i am afraid, Nikki tends to be female within the UK but my full name is Nicholas and i am known as Nikki as my hero is Nikki Sixx (Bass player for Motley Crue) and people started calling me Nikki due to my style of dress and such..
I shall Join the forum more often, sounds good.
Many thanks.
Nikki
x
Hi marina, I’d like to request the word apache.
Sense I am “hot for tech” I’ve came across the apache web server program several times, and I know it’s named after an Indian tribe.
There is also a helicopter model with the same name…
I’d like to know what the significance/origin of the name is
u can check my movies at http://www.youtube.com/hotfortech
)
(And yes I was inspired by you, when I name and opened my YouTube account
Isn’t that what you need on your inner tube when your bikey runs over a hedgehog ?
What an apache ?
whoooo whooo whooo
Marina, I hate to break the news to you, but salmon is going to get a LOT more expensive. I think Ella’s prices are still the same…
Salmon Fishing Banned Along U.S. West Coast
Donna Gordon Blankinship in Seatac, Washington
Associated Press
April 11, 2008
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080411-AP-disappearin.html
sniperskaya, I read that as well.. but my understanding is that most of the Salmon eaten is of the farmed kind anyway.. so it may not have as detrimental an effect on price some people think.. but who knows?
p11!
proofread this!
Marina, it could be time to lock up the lox! Or maybe not…
http://www.fishfarmer-magazine.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/1658/Seafood_bank_says_salmon_prices_continuing_to_fall.html
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Marina, Look into what salmon farming has and is doing to our native wild salmon population.Farm raised has no where near the goodies or flavor for you that wild salmon does[they feed them pellet type food].Patagonia’s catalog had a great article on it several years back.King in the spring and summer is the best tasting of all!
All the best Teacher, Scotthorn
Genetically-Modified salmon for farming are generally much faster-growing and quickly grow to an enormous size.
Scotthorn aptly points out how farmed salmon also lack flavor and color, so coloring is often added to make them look real. They pose a serious threat to native populations if (WHEN) they get loose because female fish tend to select mates based upon large size, and the GM salmon are easily twice the size of their naturally-occurring competitors so their recent genetic modifications will soon infect the entire gene pool. One of the more recent modifications will allow them to breed in SALT WATER instead of heading up freshwater streams to spawn as they always have.
When these get out into the biosphere, (because of the aforementioned size differential and the competitive advantage it brings to breeding) it will only be a matter of time before the salmon stop running upstream to breed. A massive collapse of many other animal populations which rely on the annual salmon run will follow: eagle, bear, otter, mink, and hundreds of other species reliant on the flood of nutrients brought up into the headwaters by the mating salmon will perish, falling like dominoes.
BTW, “frankensalmon” have escaped into Norwegian waters so we will soon see the ramifications of this genetic manipulation in the world’s oceans as the new giants outbreed the smaller, naturally-occurring males. Brace for impact.
Oh hell guys the Earth is get ready to go back to the Dynos. Man is a complete flop. We started out on the top of the food chain, and now We are sorry for just being at all. ie It Mans fault for every thing bad, but all the good is ……….lies. ok I;ll stop.
Haha! roadrunrnch,
I could only wish you were right about going back to the dinosaurs: I believe (permit me to wildly conjecture here) that the next “geologic layer,” as it were, that will will be laid down by an animal (as opposed to a plant community) species will be that of the social insects. We’re talkin’ the ants, wasps, and bees here. In my view, they are most likely to be the next “mammal” because we mammals are basically the next “dinosaurs” if we don’t somehow manage to grab the wheel and take our foot off the accelerator.
I think the social insects have the best chance of surviving the major species die-offs to come because they are small, omnivorous, guided by a unified will to succeed as a group, fear nothing, and can operate underground for indefinite periods. In these ways they are similar to the original tiny mammals who lived during the last days of the dinosaurs, some 65MYago), plus, they have a short breeding/gestation period and so generations pass by quickly, not like us humans with our 15-30-year generations. The benefit of the short gestation period is that if climatic or other conditions change rapidly, genetic traits for variations in size or characteristics will begin to naturally “select” the next round of survivors, based upon whether the characteristics they have are conducive to, or contrary to survival under the new conditions. It is also important to add that mutations that occur which help them to survive will be more quickly absorbed into the gene pool, so the end result is that they have a better chance of evolving toward a form most suited to their immediate environment. Those that lack the latest and coolest adaptations will decline and eventually disappear. And the faster your species can adapt to change, the better off you’ll be.
Bottom line, time to ease up on the throttle and grab the wheel before it’s over the cliff we go. I’m gonna start thinking about raisin’ some chickens to help keep up a fresh layer o’ poop on the garden.
Peace.
Insect would rule the world if not for the lack of leadership. They are content with maintaining the status quote. By not standing out and keeping the playing field level, ie( no winners so no losers.) they are happy just to serve the QUEEN. There are some of Us like this, For extra credit, Can you name the forms of Government that use these ideals?
Ah, but there is where you are incorrect. Leadership is something the ants, bees, and wasps do have, and it’s programmed in on an instinctual level. It’s built-in instead of coercive or greed-driven like ours. Remember, I’m talking about the social insects here, not just any old insects. When we’re gone, they’ll still be tirelessly communicating together and cooperating to achieve common goals. And the underlying scenario is that the mammals and large land animals would have already long since died out, so what’s left? Any guesses?
INCORRECT maybe, imprecise yes. sorry. What I should have said; The leadership is not intent on ruling the world. Their leadership’s intent is to care for it’s young. Some ants do conquer others, but for food or slaves. Not world supremacy. More likely Bacteria will end up being left in the end game.. Too start again, again, etc—–>>>inf There are hours of back and forth argument, but in the end Humans intent to destroy them selves is not common in other species. except Fire?
Wow, some good interaction here, Roadrunnerranch. Thanks!
I’m just speculating though. You are correct in pointing out that bacteria will be a strong contender, always was, and will continue to be. And it is true that self-awareness (which eventually leads to oppression of other species, as in animal husbandry and agriculture) and eventual aspiration toward world domination is a trait unique to humans. Excellent observations! 50 million years after the mammals are extinct, who knows how well the social insects will have adapted? I just think they’re most likely to predominate because they have already developed excellent survival strategies of organization, communication and leadership hierarchy. Can’t really think of any other critters that come close, though I’m interested to hear more peoples’ impressions. I’m not sure what you mean about fire…
there’s an old ecological dogma that given enough time and enough food, a population will pollute its environment beyond the carrying capacity of the environment…
aren’t we all glad to know that science has this figured out already?…
now if we could only reach the masses…
oh, wait…maybe the price of gas will help them understand…
Gas is just what we feed our toys. Wait ’til cars are a memory and the price of food goes the same way! Maybe then we’ll start to see some humans reach over to turn off the alarm clock.
hello hot for words i would like to ask where the word confused comes from and its proper origin
Hey TongueTwisler here
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Dear Marina, i was just wondering if you could find out why regular soldiers in the army are known at privates
Hope to hear a reply from you soon.
Kind regards TongueTwisler
Conversation between two blondes, overheard in a dance hall sometime in the fifties:-
1st Girl. I hear your new boyfriend is in the army.
2nd Girl. Yes, he’s in the King’s African Rifles.
1st Girl. Is that a good regiment?
2nd Girl. I think so. They have white officers with black privates.
1st Girl. OOOO! VERY exotic!
jokes are not found in the handbook, Bob…see the response below…
lol, where did you get that one from Bob
? 
cause it’s a real good one
The old ‘uns are the best, I keep telling myself as I get ever older.
hmmm sometimes the old ones are just old. (I liked above though)
Why are you shocked RR? Are you as puzzled as I am about the connection between etymology and hockey?
nope. Salmon and Salmonella are not a match. They’re both different
Good Hockey game tonight… or should I say games, almost two complete games in one night. O/T Pittsburgh still alive 37 seconds away from elimination, who is “Maxime Talbot” anyways? Not very often you see the goalie pulled & team facing elimination survive. Hollywood can’t write this stuff. The Pittsburgh lottery winning # came up 7171, “Malkins’” # doubled & detroit scoring an own goal… Next game in pitt… must see now.
RIP Luc
On a heavy note… Vancouver Canucks, all of Hockey & a small town of 3000 laid to rest a hero & a bright young star today. Luc Bourdon gone so soon, but will not soon be forgotton.
I know, that was very sad.
yep, I saw the game winner. That high stick penalty definetly help the pens. Detroit gave it away. I felt bad for Mark Prior. His season ended again with a shoulder injury. He might as well retire. Did you check out Ozzie Guillen’s outburst after losing to the rays? I say Ozzie is a psycho.
Yeah not everyone loves a phsyco, but the media eats it up, almost promotes it, stirs it up , they know Ozzie can’t keep from running off at the mouth. Get it on video… news at 11.
Hey it’s safe to come out. I can be run over quite severely by a Ferrari but now you have changed you gravatar to a parakeet I am safe !!!
You still have to look out for the bicycles, spikey, by the look of your Gravatar.
BTW, why did the hedgehog cross the road?
Since we are discussing diseases I would like to request “Gonorrhea”; although just the orgin please. Unless…well…never mind.
It’s literal meaning is interesting. This could segway nicely to “the clap”; where the hell did that come from and what exactly is clapping? Another one I don’t get when looking at the orgin is “Chlamidia”. Hmm
For Carson enthusiasts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVkZZsS-66c (This one will have you clapping!)
Not all Johnnys’ interviews were easy, he had to work for his money at times. Oh for a Freefall Easy to watch, but hard to listen to.
I remember all those Carol Wayne guest spots. I think she and Johnny were bosom buddies.
Teach, extra credit question. Is there a plural form for solipsist .?
no takers? hint; fish bowl ?
Are we talking about Self (with a capital letter) or self (without)?
Soles ipsi a la Normande?
quel est un ipsi et qui est normand ?
Je suis normand myself. And thanks for your theory about flexibacter, you got an answer.
Ahhhh… philosophy 101, again
*just board*, I whated to see how deep this well is. ie Her Minions.
Up for a small challenge?
This is one I use to check
for problem solving ability.
You have to think outside the box.
Ready?
How many flapjacks does it take
to cover a doghouse?
That’s it – no more info, now come
up with an answer.
Only two people I met got this.
And the second one cheated
off the first! The first one was
a girl, too…! Sharp cookie…
Get to noodlin’
My first impression was depends how hungry the dog is, then I thought that doghouses are already covered per-se, so guess 0, none.
ONE
Very good roadrunmch!
answers need to be qualified.
the full correct answer is:
“one – if it’s big enough”
Why am I not surprised
you are already good at
thinking outside the box!!
How many Mech Marines will it take to destroy the Flapjack?
Chacha, Probably your kitchen is the size of my apartment, is EVERYTHING really so big in America?
I’m trying to imagine your oven, capable of baking a V shaped flapjack the size of a doghouse roof. This oven has probably the size of my kitchen…
You were too short on the body language and too long on the speaking, no offense taken.
Maia Marina, I must admit i am mystfried on how to answer this perhaps another lesson along these same lines is appropriate and called for?
Marina, Nitey-nite my little vanilla cupcake with milk chocolate frosting and rainbow sprinkles
Do you always talk to your supper ?
Does it answer you on the way down after you have eaten it ?
Good one Tig…know back on your wheel!
Decolletage, because you have such a lovely one
etymology: of insult – to leap upon, of resilience – leap back, saute – simply to leap inna da pan – da fryin pan whenna you flip it up
Hi Marina,
” I don’t know if you knew this but…”
The word salmon comes from a lady named Ella Salmonbarfburgerberg. Apparently, she found a fish in her bra when she fell into a speedy creek. She took the stiletto heel of one of her “fishin’ shoes” and poked the thing into submission. Later, she skinned and deboned the dam thing looking for her lost mood ring. In a bad mood and left with only mushed fish meat (and stinky fingers), she squeezed it into a quasi-snowball and threw it at her “old man” known as Billy-Bob Salmonbarfburgerberg. He replied ” OK, enough is enough Miss Salmon-Ella. You make me sick. There should be a disease named after you!”
I don’t know how it got from this story and into the dictionary but it sounds either a bit fishy or just another one of those “big fish tales!?… hmmm?
Your trusty fan in The Great White North.
On the old TV show- “MASH” , one episode had everyone sick from eating some bad turkey. The Colonel walked in and talked to this “southern” guy named “Rizzo” and said, “bad news Rizzo, salmonella is in the camp. Rizzo heard “Sam and Ella” and replied; “Oh no, who is they”?
Oh! Oh! Reeealy BAD news.
Warren used the bad word “Bad” about bad fish, bad diction, bad hearing and bad grammar.
I think we’re in for another deep blue.
Was Daniel’s wifes name Ella?
are you seeing quirky and mysterious ? more like a sciolistic attempt to curry favor with Teacher.
By the way, I’ve noticed alot of people who post comments say they were or are in the military. Just something curious I noticed.
I love you
So you have a passion for female sheep eh ?
Or maybe yew like abundantly knotted trees.
well done sweetheart i had salmon posion once not tht fun while i waz in tha military lov Augie
Hello Marina, I am a new member.
Where does the word “Sleazy” come from? or like when someone calls somebody a “sleaz-bag” what the hell is a sleaz and where does it come from?
sleaze may be a portmaneau word.
sure sounds like one – what do you
thimk? oops! …tired – too lazy to backspace
what ; slimy + lawyer = sleaze
Does this work with the equation laywer = slime ?
sleepy+lazy? nah, doesn’t fit
Believe it or not, there actually
are a few honest barristers out
there. It’s the smarmy snakeoil
salesmen types (who are only
interested in a fee and then
do nothing) that give off the
stank you guys are smelling.
Q: what do you call 200
lawyers at the bottom
of the sea?
A: A good start
Salmon are salty
salt was used as salary back in the B.C.
so is that to say Solomon’s Mine
was a river, lake, or sea with fish in it??
Food might have been more important
than jewelry back then
p.s. I’ve one to add
saltation, the movement of sand in a dune is literraly a leaping
Thanks for enlightening us Marina.
I just hope that her batteries don’t run out or else we will be kept in the dark for word origins.
She probably plugs it into the mains. (Her pink Apple computer, I mean)
Salmon : 1205, from O.Fr. salmun, from L. salmonem (nom. salmo) “a salmon,” possibly originally “leaper,” from salire “to leap,” though some dismiss this as folk etymology. Another theory traces it to Celtic. Replaced O.E. læx, from PIE *lax, the more usual word for the fish (see lox).
Resilience: 1626, from L. resiliens, prp. of resilire “to rebound, recoil,” from re- “back” + salire “to jump, leap” (see salient). Cf. result.
Salient: 1562, “leaping,” a heraldic term, from L. salientem (nom. saliens), prp. of salire “to leap,” from PIE base *sel- “to jump” (cf. Gk. hallesthai “to leap,” M.Ir. saltraim “I trample,” and probably Skt. ucchalati “rises quickly”). The meaning “pointing outward” (preserved in military usage) is from 1687; that of “prominent, striking” first recorded 1840, from salient point (1672), which refers to the heart of an embryo, which seems to leap, and translates L. punctum saliens, going back to Aristotle’s writings. Hence, the “starting point” of anything.
Sauté: 1813, from Fr. sauté, lit. “jumped, bounced” (in reference to tossing while cooking), pp. of sauter “to jump,” from L. saltare “to hop, dance,” freq. of salire “to leap” (see salient).
Insult: c.1570, “triumph over in an arrogant way,” from L. insultare “to assail, to leap upon” (already used by Cicero in sense of “insult, scoff at, revile”), freq. of insilire “leap at or upon,” from in- “on, at” + salire “to leap” (see salient). Sense of “to verbally abuse, affront, assail with disrespect” is from 1620. The noun is recorded 1603 in the sense of “attack;” 1671 as “an act of insulting.” To add insult to injury translates L. injuriæ contumeliam addere.
They’re all related to leap like you said and it comes from the fact that the salmon jump off the water and returns to the river to reproduce. So why, salire, resilience, salient, insult and sauté are related to “to leap” I think what I found about will tell you a lot better than me! And insult for me was the most etymo-instresting word haha!
So what’s my score??
Did someone get the OED for their birthday here?
Page 357 gave me really bad flatulation
Tiger, if you mean flatulence, it’s on page 765.
Vous êtes une tites ganges de comiques vous autres, vous venez de faire la connaissance avec ce qu’est un dictionnaire, tant qu’à écrire des conneries comme le reste du monde, apprend à lire pis tu vas vite te rendre compte que ya pas grand chose de compliqué dans ce qu’elle dit, mais biensur, c’est beaucoup plus intéressant venant d’elle!!
Hej Marina! Do you know where “cat got your tongue” came from
Hej da
Don’t say anything you may let the cat out of the bag…..it may be a secret
Sorry guys, here it is
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Salmon_Ella
For those of you still interested in Salmon or Salmonella:
<a href=”http://“>
This lesson was both salacious and bodacious. It leapt out at me as something fishy… which it was. I just wish that the guy that discovered Salmonella was named Dr. Barbar, because then it would be known as Barbarella.
Might make it easier to stomach that way. 
Interesting word request this lesson was based on. My only complaint about this lesson was that the salmon Marina was talking to didn’t twitter like all the other animals she co-mingles with. At least it said ‘Huh?’ lol
dear marina,
could u tell me the meaning of a word, shithead
Maybe there is someone intelligent here who’s head is not so far up his arse that he can answer this one
I wrote the answer down on a bit of paper.
It’s dark in here- do you have a match?
OK – read everything here, up to speed.
roadrunmch is being quirky and mysterious
with his posts. Thanks, dude. too tired to do
them myself.
I missed insult on the list so I’m down one?
Waa. Leave it. Brain cramps – ow.
You’re missing an insult? Okay, well then You SuCK!
There. All better now?
Your friend, pennsyltucky9
Maybe he had an insult of his own, but misplaced it, hence the missing insult. I hear Don Rickles suffered from the same problem.
I can’t see!
(I got my eyes closed)
Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk
Oh! A wise guy…
Just being my sciolistic self to curry favor from the Teacher. shhh don’t tell.
just my sciolistic
effort to stand out.
shh don’t tell
ok – be careful
with matches!
sh1t , thought i lost those is cyberspace,
Salmon is a good fishy – yum
My favorites are talapia and dolphin.
Salmon don’t make it to Florida,
can’t catch ‘em here
Farm bred salmon sucks!
Tastes like Purina fish chow.
ok – lessee…
resilience… hmmmm…
a person who bounces back from
adversity is said to be resilient.
therefore, bounce=leap – don’t ask me how!
salient:…
a verb – something that stands apart from
the rest, no – not that definition… hmmmm…
Bellagio’s fountains are said to be salient,
so I guess water is leaping upward – that works
Saute: that’s a gimme
saute pan, olive oil, fishy
when you flip the fishy,
the fishy “leaps” into the air
Best I got without cheating
Too tired to think hard, right now.
Now, off to read what others have posted
ciao
Dear Marina,
What is the origin of the expression “wet behind the ears?”
Bad Squirrel
Hey how are you bad squirrel ?
How do you do I am Tig the hamster.
Do you eat hamsters ?
I have a word request for you marina! ANAMORPHOSIS. This word has always peaked my interest due to the meaning of it. Images that look normal unless looked at a curve have always fascinated me. Optical illusions always seemed fun to me as a child, and I’ve never been able to produce one myself. So please, accept this word request. If not, keep up the awesome videos. Your work is amazing.
Zimmy,
Try making two identical bananna curved pieces of cardboard
or construction paper. make them symetrical or even to the curve.
Place them one over another.
which one is larger or longer?
Now put the top one on the bottom.
wich one is larger or longer?
Anamorphosis!
Can you die from contracting Anamorphosis ?
I’d love for HOT FOR WORDS to investigate the origin of the word ‘catsuit’ I mean it sounds obvious but why name a tight fitting suit after a cat?
Um, something tells me you want your word request explained by Marina while she is wearing a catsuit. Just a hunch…
well it would be an opportunity for her to show off her curves
but i’m genuinely interested, 
My next big career move: cat burglar….
meow…
Let me guess which small aperture you’re dreaming of climbing through.
Baaad Boy!
You get the picture, Bob…
ouch! Too much homework 4 now, but I did want add that everyone has had salmonella infections at one time or another, just really low grade. It’s when its served in high doses the immune system doesn’t fight it fast enough = problem. God a little time off and I’m smart as a whip.
No, but the restaurant food stuff I’ve got covered pretty well.
I got food poisioning on my honeymoon at a fancy place overlooking the ocean. I had swondfish. By the time I was trying to make it to Lake Tahoe I was seeing stars at Sacramento (about halfway) and we took a room at a hotel. I think I nearly died that night. I don’t know what
poision it was but it sure was bad news. I leaped to the tiolet so it must have been salmonilla. cheers.
dvdpage,
Same here. My wife at the time and were in Bar harbor, Maine and I went local. Ate everything that “they” ate and ended up in the emergency room. I was sick for three days. Those “steamers” should come with a warning label.
That’s a coincidence. I got typhoid fever, which is a form of salmonella, on my honeymoon.
The infection even got into my heart muscle giving me the symptoms of a heart attack, and I’ve been having palpitations and a racing heartbeat ever since.
Of course, watching all these videos of Marina doesn’t help, but what a way to go.
Hey I ate swordfish and had stabbing pain in my stomach for days
Marina, just a quick question before I go to the homework if I may- are your eyes naturally that blue, or do you wear colored contacts? I see why you go for blue and yellow color combos so much with your blue eyes and blond hair. It works.
cam’s got a high saturation.
Alx go to this site. Does this guy about halfway down the page any kin to you if that is you on your avatar. Sure looks like a twin maybe.
.http://endorphine.mp3.wp.pl/
lol, capman, it’s me on my gravatar but no relation to that polish dude whatsoever. he looks different.
aLx, I know about the saturation, I remember Marina discussing it before. But that would make all the colors more saturated and it appears that Marina’s eyes are uncommonly blue. Also she’s appeared in glasses in some other videos I believe. Just props or does she really need them? (Now I wonder if she’s not a real blond?) Nextt
sorry, comment posted before I was finished typing- as I was saying, the next thing we know, she’ll be telling us that isn’t a real mouse in her vids!
Boys , I would be willing to bet that there is a Scandinavian in Her family tree>; She does not have the Mongoloid cheek bones, thick hair like some Russians. But I would say, She has a temper….strip the hide off a bear. But like the Rose with her thorns, Handle with care less ye be squewed.
damn can’t spell ( SKEWERED )
I was born a natrual blonde, but I got smarter
sniperskaya, I thought Arnold was a hamster
It could be blue contacts. My eyes are green but I had blue contacts for them. Any way your guess is as good as mine.
They might be “marina” blue
“Marina’s eyes are lovely, no matter what color”…Rule 115.027 in The Marina Sychophant Handbook
Are all these Rules written down somewhere?
The Marina Sychophant Handbook currently is out-of-print…
i happen to own the sole extant copy…perhaps one day i’ll see fit to re-print it for public consumption…much like Heinlein did with Lazarus Long…
meanwhile, you’ll just have to peruse my posts and note them down as you go along…
with the gag…
Think their color could be “marina” blue? ;p
Don’t ever buy salmon from a fishmonger named Ella.
This is more of a proper name, but I would still be interested in the derivation of Methistopheles. Love the site – it’s educational and very entertaining indeed.
bigjgmac,
did you mean: Mephistopheles?
If so it’s from the book “Faust”
Don’t worry, Warren, it wasn’t anything you did.
I was referring to a saga which has been going on between Prospero and the Buzzword/aLx axis about the use of the word “bad” in the phrase “bad grammar”
Regarding your question about the word “Scotchman”, the Oxford English Dictionary gives both “Scotchman” and “Scotsman” as meaning a man of Scottish nationality, but most Scotsmen seem to regard “Scotchman” in the same class as the word “Nigger”.
I always remember a Scottish Chief Petty Officer in the Navy telling someone who called him a “Scotchman”, “Laddie, a “Scotchman” is a metal plate on the deck of a ship to prevent the anchor chain from chaffing a hole in it. I am a Scotsman.”
Warren, you have my admiration that you ploughed through the “bad grammar” thread all in one go; I found it quite heavy going even when I was following it more or less in real time. Very interesting though.
The thing about some comments having a reply button and others not is because Marina has limited replies to two levels deep, i.e. you can reply to a comment and to a reply to a comment, but not to a reply ro a reply, if you follow.
The reason is that there is only a narrow frame for the comments to fit into, so each successive reply gets narrower and longer. If there were too many levels, we would be trying to read a reply as a vertical line of single letters.
It’s inconvenient, but it’s a limitation of the software Marina is using so we’re stuck with it. Maybe one day things will get better.
Reply to Bob: Better not use the word “better”
How about “different”
One day things will be different.
At least I didn’t write “gooder”.
Amen.
you could use a phone……/?//
That would certainly be Fauster.
word request! CHECKMATE
I thought as a lady you were supposed to address her as ‘love’ not ‘mate’
Is this like……. speed dating? Or sex after marriage? Wham bam thank you mam. Or a drive by, 2 mins and gone? ” What the Buck ” is not 1/2 as pretty as you , But [s]he goes on for a little bit. If I might speak for your Minions ,, SLOW IT DOWN. We need a little fore play and then a cuddle after, Is the house on FIRE?
Your humble student; Greedy Bastard
I don’t know what sort of marriage you have, Greedy Bastard
, but my advice to anyone contemplating marriage would be, “DON’T”.
When you’re a bachelor, you can have sex whenever you feel like it.
When you’re married it has to be every bloody night!
There is the old joke,
how do you stop a lady performing fellatio on you ?
Answer marry her
origin of the word skeleton (or skull or bone etc. etc.)?
? 
btw you got amazing videos!
what?…where?…omg, u r right!!!…
I am Daniel Bailey. I was adopted, but my birth name was Daniel Cielma. As far as i know my real dad is Polish. i was wondering if you knew the meaning of CIELMA. i hearnd it was French for mother sky, but i hope not, lol! Please help me find out my ancestry.
sincerely,
Daniel Bailey
That’s interesting. Some countries use the image of and angel falling from the sky to name abandonned children. It’s the case of Brazil where any Mr Do Ceu you meet has been found “from the sky”. You have the french word for sky “ciel” in your name, but I don’t think your name is french, looked for it just jound one Cielma born in France before 1940. You say your origin is polish thought sky in po0lish was “niebo”. I’m puzzled! Good luck in your research.
maybe Salm on Ella street knows…
saute is a cooking term which means to toss in hot fat or butter
I had food poisoning ( I believe it was Salmonella ) from bad peanut butter about a year ago; not much fun for almost 2 days.
I wonder: Why would a doctor name a poison bacteria after himself and not someone he disliked ( unless it was his ex-wife )
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It is J. Lignieres who proposed to use Dr Salmon’s name. Not sure it was ment to honour Dr Salmon….
My bet is that it was to add some confusion, cause some bacteria(s) are named from the Salmon fish, they have the genitive Salmonis in the name:
Piscirickettsia salmonis, Erwinia salmonis, Bacillus salmonis pestis, Eubacterium salmonis, Streptomyces salmonis, Streptoverticillium salmonis
Then the Salmonella family is:
Salmonella bongori Salmonella enterica, Salmonella enterica arizonae, Salmonella enterica diarizonae, Salmonella enterica enterica, Salmonella enterica houtenae, Salmonella enterica indica, Salmonella enterica salamae, Salmonella subterranea.
And specialists discuss to know if “Flexibacter salmonis” is named from the Dr’s name or from the fish…..
more likely the root , too leap is the answer? The way bacteria is communicated.
That’s an interesting theory particulaly in the case of “Flexibacter salmonis” because it affects fishes. It’s tough to leap from fish to fish inside the water. This leaping bacteria then probably moves by leaping from fish to fish only when two fishes leap simultaneously outside the water. It’s not surprising that the first in proposing this theory is named roadrun, quick and fast and himself full of acrobatic skills….
Of the two other theory discussed before your contribution, one is rather boring the other already funny: Salmonis is the genitive of salmo the fish, this is the boring one. Then the funny one: somebody wanted to honour Dr Salmon (again) and mistakenly used a genitive (poor grammar).
May I also propose my own theory: The guy who discovered it got sick … and it is his widow who named the killer bacteria “salmonis”. Sound logical and on the same time strange there is no bacteria called “killerella” “yougotmeella” “vomitella” “arghella”….
ok im scootish and wanted to know the origin of tartan..
ps o u like men in kilts
I second this request as eminently suitable for an investigation by the wearer of the shortest filibegs ever seen.
And if so, do you wear your kilt when doing so? Must be kind of draughty! It tempts me to ask Marina to investigate the origin of “Jockstrap”. 
Rastaman36, so you’re “scootish” are you? Does that mean you ride a scooter?
Better gird up your loins first, Bob.
Hello Bob,
I didn’t catch the “bad’ line. I missed something really good I’m sure.
I admit that I type the way I talk and not the proper way since I figured this was an “Intro to Philology” class and not “English 101″. It seems that I will get a lesson here and there which is good for me- two classes in one!
Was the term Scotchman used at anytime- instead of Scottish?
Why Scotch whisky and not Scott whisky?
Bob,
Thanks for the info. .
I went to the Bad Grammar Video comments and -whoa! I’m now convinced that my thoughts aren’t as deep as many of the minds that visit here.
I stopped reading one string after about the fiftieth post- damn!
One comment was disturbing and made me think that there must be some hidden message in it. Like in a spy movie where the spook leaves a cryptogram to be deciphered by another spook.
I don’t want that to be the last thing I write so…
Poetry had rules and they were broken to make room for prose, right?
Didn’t poetry consist mainly of rhyming verse?
Sorry to bother you again Bob but I was just wondering why some posts have a “reply” “button” and others do not.
Thanks Bob
now how come no one has mentioned that most famous of diddy’s…
The Scotsman’s Song?…
if your from scotland, don’t you mean your scotch? just kidding.
Hi rastaman, what’s your clan? I’ve never beeing in Scottland please tell me is a tartan a kind of warmer tartetatin? And what’s a kilt? is it a cold quiche?
I took a knife and I kilt him. (Just skirting the real issue. Sorry!)
micheldiego, i responded to your query below…
btw, our mutual friend, Escherichia coli said to say, “hello”…
hello…
so like are you a scottish rastafarian? that’s really unusual, dreads and a kilt, bob marley and bag pipes.
Hi marina, I wonder if you could investigate the origin of the word “Gringo” I’ve heard a version from a friend of mine but I am not sure about. Thanks and have a good time! Superhuper from Switzerland
PRIVEEEET milaya Marina! – ya dolzhen skazat’ 4to segodnyashnie domashnie zadania udivitel’no interessni,zamechatel’no! –
Paying attention to the other four words you gave us i realized how can be interesting and easy for French and especially Italian-speaking students to trace this terms back to their origins and use them properly when they speak English!As a matter of fact many Latin words which gave origins to so many English terms have been transmitted unchanged to modern italian. HOWEVER,sauté,from FRENCH sauter,to leap ,from latin saltare,frequentative of salire(iitalian=salire,to leap,so sauté means to make gently leap the content in the pan when we fry lightly. 2)resilient:from Latin resilire,Italian=risalire,adjective or present participle:risalente. it means the ability to recover quickly from ilness,change,misfortune. The property of something,a material that enables it to resume its original shape. it is interesting to remark that in Italian risalire means to come back with mind,thoughts and facts to something in the past! 3) Salient,from the present simple of Latin salire,to leap,to jump on.see also italian salire,to climb,to come up. it therefore means projecting or jutting beyond the line or a surface,es,=projecting towards the enemy lines,protruding up or out,a salient angle,a salient episode,…or even better the salient point in MARINA’S LESSON (when the mistery is solved!) or even salient façades in a cathedral:their profile follow the different heights in the aisles! -4)Insult: it is interesting to see how in its original and archaic form means to make an attack upon,an assault or even to behave arrogantly) it derives from French insulter,Italian=insultare from Latin insultare=to leap on,jump over(also in order to aggresss) i think,Marina,it would be interesing if you compare these words with the terms insurgence,insurrection,insurgent,you will realize that everithing come from the jump up,leap leitmotive! 
prosti menya pozhaluysta esli mozhet byt’ ya byl osobenno sku4nim segodnya i nadeyus 4to vse bylo interesno. dorogaja Marina ty vsegda gluboko nas obogoshaesh s tvoim dragocennim prepodavaniem! -ya tebya obazhayu-!
Please stop cutting off your head in your vids. Try portrait rather than landscape. Your too good looking to chop off your head
kdhrocks, I had that problem with the camera built into my macbook.. I got a new camera and you should start to see more full shots of me as I can put the camera further away.
Marina – I think you should test the new camera out on a few new outfits. It’s best to limit the quantity of fabric in the outfits, of course, in order to get the best exposure with the camera. To much fabric can hurt the lenses and sensitive electronics within the camera. Oh, and make sure you test many different poses, to be sure that the camera can pick them all up.
I know this sounds technical, so I recommend that once you’ve recorded a test video like I’ve described, please send it to me directly so I can view it in detail and make sure everything is recording properly.
prospero811 has a
two track mind,
both tracks in the gutter.
But, what the hell, so do I
I guess a bend and snap
(ala Legally Blonde) is
what we’re looking for here
prospero811 has both feet in the gutter and his nose in a god damn dictionary. if he ever gets his thumb out of his ass he would see that i have a reasonable argument regarding “standard” english grammar.
Nice imagery, Buzz. Uplifting as ever.
By “standard,” do you mean that the first word in a sentence or a proper noun such as the name of a country doesn’t need to be capitalized? Just a rhetorical question.
no, not that standard the other standard. the standard that all standard people use in standard situations. when (standardly speaking mind you) standards are being discussed by standard experts to establish a standard understanding of standards so that the standard person on the standard street can hold a standard conversation with another standard individual and not get any of their standards confused. understand?
I can dig where it is that you’re comin’ to me from at, man.
Nice video Marina, loved it
5*
Again another perfect 5 Stars
what is the meaning of ella in SalmonELLA
just wondering
Marina there was a url leading to who supplied your music for today at one of my logons this morning. I can’t find it now but I went to that site and about half way down the page there was a picture of a man who looked almost the same as alx. I wonder if he has a twin
First things first, a wild stab at the salireextra credit:
resilience – rise to the occasion
insult – leap to conclusions about someone
salient – well it means jumping doesn’t it…
sauté – if it’s anything like how I cook, to leap out of the frying pan on to the floor
Salmon is the best, especially cedar plank salmon on the BBQ. I’ve never gotten salmonella from salmon, but have from chicken way too often.
Hi Marina,
I would like to know the origin of the English expression “Dog’s Bollocks”. The English use the word Bollocks in a lot of ways, good and bad, e.g. “Top Bollocks”, “Nevermind The Bollocks”, “That’s Bollocks” and of course the one I am asking about “Dog’s Bollocks”,
I’ll try to think of a nicer word to request next time ;-P.
Thanks beforehand,
IgorDVR.
I could be wrong about this, but isn’t salmonella mostly found from uncooked meat? In the past I have seen salmonella on red meats
Anyways, I will probably be offline soon for a day or so (hopefully the former), as I have removalists coming in about 9 hours, and will be moving to my new flat
Till next time i drop by, have fun ppls
Smooth moves and happy landings, kaibanator.
thanks for your well wishes pennsyltucky9
just gotta clean pout whats left of the old flat now 
clean out, not pout
Is that what they are really called, “removalists” ?
As far as I know BillyB
They are called ‘removalists’ in aussie anyways
don’t forget the cat
Yikes a cat
thanks warren, the cat is safe and sound…until tiger here gets a whiff of course
hi Marina
I’m curious about the word ‘Artificial Nutrition’. Or just the word ‘curious’.
Or anything else.:)
demogun
I also concur with Capman911, Prospero811 and annuddermale.
However, I’m going for extra credit with saltant, and saltarello, both dances (and associated music) which involve leaping steps, salto (a leap in ice skating), saltatorial (referring to leaping insects), and, I venture to suggest, the Scottish flag, the Saltire (or St.Andrew’s Cross) which comes from one of the meanings of salient, i.e. pointing away from the centre.
Can I agree too?
I started looking the words up and they were covered so I stopped.
Here you can cheat off of my paper Warren.
We don’t want any frowny faces around here. (He scowled).
No-one looks attractive with a frowny face.
SMILE! It adds to your Face Value.
I like the idea of adherence to the meaning while maintaining a sharp edge of wit to the discourse. Humor is relative, however, and can also be either inclusive or exclusive depending on one’s personal frame of reference. I guess that’s the part that requires mental effort in the judgment process.
Let me throw one on the fire.
Saltation is a hydrologic term where larger particles like sand grains and pebbles that are too heavy to travel downstream in suspension get picked up and tumbled along the bottom, hopping and jumping their way down the streambed in the swift current.
pennsyltucky9,
You know what?
That going to the office idea I’ve been trying to see if Marina would use that idea on her show. She has a “Teacher’s Pet”, someone that has done well in class. What about the opposite (2nd place, sort of), have a student stay for “Detention”. She could swing a yardstick around and make a “frowny” face (she’d look really cute).
“Marina looks really cute all the time.”…Rule 7a of The Marina Sychophant Handbook…
pennsyltucky9,
No, of course it would be very wrong to award negative behavior, I meant that it would be another way (humorous) to acknowledge a contributing student that was constuctive with their comments. Or a student that continued to use levity as a means to express themselves in a way that was relative to the lesson.
Any body see Jack. Is he still hung over from the Time bandit party?
Here’s a cup of joe for you Jack and an asperin. 
A gentleman and a true scholar, thanks for letting me peek at your paper. Hope the Teach didn’t see that.
Any time Warren.
Okay, both of you guys: straight to the Principal’s office this moment!
Looks like you might be getting a spanking Warren. Just show me your paper before you go
I’m back.
Oh I hate hang overs. That’s an interesting group of words. ‘Hang over’ or ‘Hung over’. 14 hours of fun just wore me out. I have had jobs that where easier than that. The guys on the Time Bandit love to play hard. After the party I mostly slept and ate a truck load of Ibuprofen. I guess that’s why I don’t party much anymore. Anyways Eddie (coconut), Scott, and Don are fantastic people. I trust them with my life. Im not in their crew, but I am part of the family. For what I seen and done on the boat, one has to be part of the family. They leave for Alaska in a few days. I’m going to miss them. Well except for Scott. I still have to teach him a thing or two. He’ll be going up later in the year.
Thanks Mike. Nice to feel missed. I missed all of you at the party. Really I did. Thats why I took some photos. Sorry I havn’t uploaded them yet. Today is my big move day. Moving from Seattle to Kirkland. I’m starting my next class on the 9th in my new class room the Heritage Hall.
I better get back to work. I have my yacht to move and a class to promote.
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Ahoy, Cap’n,
For those times when you know you’re headed into tailspin, here’s my favorite “Plan-ahead Hangover cure:”
Drink at least 1 large glass of water before leaving the bar or party. Drink one glass of water before bed, and take 2 aspirin with it.
12 oz. Gatorade in the morning.
Wait 20 minutes before coffee &/or breakfast. Do not agitate.
It really helps to take aspirin the night before your hangover. As far as ibuprofen, etc, I’m not too sure. Aspirin works for really well for me. The biggest problem I’ve found with the plan-ahead method is that one must be sober enough to recognize beforehand that a future actually exists.
Pennsyltucky9 clear.
Oh what a great friend you are PT9 of teaching me your technique AFTER THE FACT.
Well, what are friends for?
I agree with prospero811 who agreed with annuddermale about the answers to your questions. I guess we are cheating off each others papers.
Great video Marina and as usual I gave you five stars. and a 
to you.
I am curious about the origin of the word “god” Nice job. I wish there was a talent show for education. No need to say what place you ‘d have finished
Greetings from greece 
I agree with annuddermale’s comments below regarding the homework assignment. No point in restating.
The comment you made about the new camera. You dog you.
*sigh*…as it turns out, Salmonella is a bacteria…
this is one of my pet peeves…bacteria is the plural of bacterium, which should have been used…it’s a common error, and maybe this is an example of evolving language…with so many using “bacteria” where “bacterium” is appropriate, perhaps the plural will become the singular…
resilience…able to bounce or leap back from adversity…
insult…derogatory comment tossed out at someone…it might make ‘em leap back at you…
salient…prominent…something that leaps out at you…
sauté…hmmm…frying something in a small pan…maybe the grease splatters make you leap back, or it’s the concept of the flavor leaping out at you…
i’m thinkin’ assault would be a salient addition…
This is a good example for the “bad grammar” argument.
Using the plural when singular is called for is “bad grammar,” in my opinion.
Although, some people arguing about the issue would suggest that it is either (a) not bad grammar because to say “a bacteria” is “just as correct” as “a bacterium” because “anything goes” in English, or (b) since grammar is in each individual’s head, whether it is wrong to say “a bacteria” rather than “a bacterium” depends on what each individual’s grammar consists of. If a person thinks it’s wrong in their own mind, it’s wrong, otherwise it’s not wrong.
My thought on the subject is that it’s wrong because current standard English grammar rules suggest that “a bacterium” is correct. I base that with reference to every major source on the subject. It does not appear to be one that has any degree of debate. Perhaps someday it may change, but presently “a bacterium” is correct.
When someone is describing the condition of an infection using the description “Bacteria” instead of “Bacterium” it seems that is correct. Since they are not talking about a single bacterium in the sense that there many of the bacterium although only one strain.
That would be “a strain,” but not “a bacteria.”
i’m confused why couldn’t “strain” be used in the same way as “bacteria” since a strain still consists of a multiplicity of bacterium or bacteria. what is the distinction between strain and bacterium which prevents them being interchanged?
Well, a “strain” in this sense means “a variety or type” of microorganism.
Variety and strain are both singular, so you say “a variety” or “a strain” of something.
A microorganism or a bacterium is singular also. So, I think, without actually looking into it, that we would say, “that’s a lethal strain of bacterium” or “these are lethal strains of bacteria.”
Yes?
Yes prospero, you are right, yet….
Warren argument is valid. For a similar reason nobody says “datum” nowadays, since a datum never comes alone, everybody says “data” even “a” data. Speaking about salmonella where a bacterium is never alone, or I.T. where a datum is never alone, it makes sense forgetting datum and bacterium.
Then there is the fact that the greek bacterium is a rod, bacteria is a microorganism, nothing to do one thing to another, so using the greek singular/plural for something unknown by greeks seems to be a strange idea. I means when a language absord a foreign word, if this word is used in a diferent meaning it is a very good reason for this word being “integrated” quickly. What about for example “media”. Is not “the” media something contemporary? Doesn’t seems right to integrate the word and use an “english” singular or plural in such cases.
Two reasons to understand why “bacterium” is of so little use (except in some medical institution) nowadays.
By the way prospero do you use an agendum, or a criterium, do you say several electra and prota?
People do still refer to “a datum” and a datum can come alone, but it is used in the sense of a point from which to measure other points, for example, a map has a map datum from which all other points on the map are measured, in order to ensure that the map gives as true a representation of reality as is possible, given the limitations of the medium being used.
Data is used more as a collective noun to refer to a number of pieces of information, so you can have a file of data in the same way as you can have a bag of sugar, but you wouldn’t refer to each individual grain of sugar as “a sugar”. However, “a sugar” could be used to refer to an organic substance with a formula which is classified as belonging to a group known as sugars.
Also, there is a connection between bacteria and rods, since many bacteria have a shape which is rod-like.
Of course there is a connection since who named them choose the greek word for rods because he was looking specifically to rod shaped bacteria. If I said “nothing to do” it is because a greek rod has very little to do with a modern microorganism, beside etymology. About datum, you are right, and for similar reason it is likely bacterium will survive in some jargon or specific occasions. Then for I.T. as in data-mining or data-ware-house where it is clear there are several data as for Salmonella it is likely there are several bacteria, not only common people has a tendency to use as a collective noun, but the academy will tolerate a singular usage first in this areas.
Maybe “strain” is used for descibing a virus. Many of them have variations.
micheldiego, please see my discussion of your comment below.
Warren – I never said it wasn’t. Bacteria is plural. Bacterium is singular.