random lesson….I was asking somebody who is an old school geek about cookies and he said “its a tracking devise” and more, but not desert…from The Philosophy of Schopenhauer—-THE METAPHYSICS OF THE LOVE OF THE SEXES “Ye wise men, highly, deeply learned, Who think it out and know, How, when, and where do all things pair? Why do they kiss and love? Ye men of lofty wisdom, say What happened to me then; Search out and tell me where, how, when, And why it happened thus” ___Burger
Good point birchbeertree. Think I’m gonna have to start using that. Though I think that could be attributed to a whole phase that spawned phrases like cutie/sugar pie, honeybun, cupcake etc etc. HFW and HFP are my sweet cheeks “slap”
You left out the American usage of cookie back in the 50’s. Cookie was use as a compliment to a cute girl or good looking girl, used as in. Hey there cookie, or heres look’in at you cookie, used as in a come on. Ya get my meaning cookie.
Yep….I’m sure… I consulted the stars, the tarot cards, and the entrails of a sparrow, and they all point to the same thing – the next word will be “cocaine.”
I could tell you, Warren, but then I’d have to kill you.
Besides, these supreme mental powers that I have at my disposal are not safe in the hands of mere mortals. I am only now attempting to harness this power, and use it for good.
Response to Tort. Tort is a claim to an injustice or intentional injury caused by the courts or government employees etc. It is a claim of wrong doing by the government. It is a body of law that creates remedy for, civil wrongs. A person who is legal injured may find remedy through a TORT.
A friend of mine saw this lesson and commented that the second half of the video seems like Marina’s take on internet dating, or at least hanging out with her student body. Such an intersting dynamic going on here at HotForWords.com. Reminds me of the song ‘Personal Jesus’ by Depeche Mode, only with a internet tilt…
Reach out touch faith
Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who cares
Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who’s there
Feeling unknown
And you’re all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
I’ll make you a believer
Take second best
Put me to the test
Things on your chest
You need to confess
I will deliver
You know I’m a forgiver
Errin could you please explain a little more on what you wrote. I didn’t quite get what you were try to get across. Sorry I am a little slow at these things.
Mike
A “cookie” is a text-only string that gets entered into the memory of a browser.
According to an article written by Paul Bonner for Builder.Com on 11/18/1997: “Lou Montulli, currently the protocols manager in Netscape’s client product division, wrote the cookies specification for Navigator 1.0, the first browser to use the technology. Montulli says there’s nothing particularly amusing about the origin of the name: ‘A cookie is a well-known computer science term that is used when describing an opaque piece of data held by an intermediary. The term fits the usage precisely; it’s just not a well-known term outside of computer science circles.’”
He got the term from the term “magic cookies” used by Unix programmers.
However, some people may believe that each individual person may define the word “cookie” differently, and no definition is correct or incorrect, except in the mind of the person defining it. I say, “may believe” since it is impossible to know one way or the other.
HTTP cookies, or more commonly referred to as Web cookies, tracking cookies or just cookies, are parcels of text sent by a server to a web client (usually a browser) and then sent back unchanged by the client each time it accesses that server. HTTP cookies are used for authenticating, session tracking (state maintenance), and maintaining specific information about users, such as site preferences or the contents of their electronic shopping carts. The term “cookie” is derived from “magic cookie,” a well-known concept in UNIX computing which inspired both the idea and the name of HTTP cookies.
Cookies have been of concern for Internet privacy, since they can be used for tracking browsing behavior. As a result, they have been subject to legislation in various countries such as the United States and in the European Union. Cookies have also been criticized because the identification of users they provide is not always accurate and because they could potentially be a target of network attackers. Some alternatives to cookies exist, but each has its own uses, advantages and drawbacks.
Cookies are also subject to a number of misconceptions, mostly based on the erroneous notion that they are computer programs. In fact, cookies are simple pieces of data unable to perform any operation by themselves. In particular, they are neither spyware nor viruses, despite the detection of cookies from certain sites by many anti-spyware products.
Most modern browsers allow users to decide whether to accept cookies, but rejection makes some websites unusable. For example, shopping carts implemented using cookies do not work if cookies are rejected
lol see ya
A lot of people like to delete their cookies thinking it makes them safer. Perhaps it does, marginally, but the biggest impact is you lose your session on sites. As an example, if I delete my cookies, I have to log back in to this site every time I visit, if I don’t, I remain logged in as long as WordPress allows. I’d rather have the convenience of cookies than some pre-Netscape 4 rational behind cookie security.
Hmmmm. Are you sure it doesn’t have anything to do with eaves of a house? What if someone up on the roof were to hang (or drop, as it were) their head down from the eaves outside an open window at night in order to overhear a conversation going on in an upstairs room? Just a guess. Of course, I’d rather speculate about it than actually look up the origin myself… It’s my day off.
an eavesdrop was the area around a house under the eaves that had to be kept clear for rain to drop so to hear what someone was saying in the house they hung around the eavesdrop to listen.
So much for my wild-ass-guess… the imagery of Capman911 dangling his fishbowl-covered noggin from the roof is fast fading. Fun while it lasted, though! Good-on-ya, peridotite magma! Stick around.
cd is also the abbreviation for “candela” meaning “a unit of luminous intensity equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a blackbody radiating at the temperature of solidification of platinum (2,046°K). Also called candle.”
Marina,
Love your stuff. Not really a word request, just thought I’d tell you about a little game we used to play back in school called “Fictionary Dictionary”. Get a group of at least 6 people. One person leads each round. The leader looks through a dictionary for a word they don’t know. When they do, they ask the group if anyone knows it. If someone does, they keep looking until they find one that nobody knows.
When they find a word that is a complete mystery for everyone, the leader writes out the definition on a piece of paper. Everyone else makes up and writes their own definition on separate pieces of paper. The leader collects them, mixes them up and then reads each one to the group. Then everyone chooses which definition they think is the real one.
The leader gets 10 points for each person who doesn’t choose the real definition and other people get 10 points for choosing the correct definition. For each peson who chooses a made up definition, that author gets 5 points.
Continue until everyone has had a chance to be the leader. The winner is the person with the most points at the end of the circuit.
The word has about 6 origins all similar from 6 different countries, but the word is so ancient it is impossible to verify which one came first.
See my comments below on this word.
DOROGOMYLAYA MARINA,konechno eto pravil’no,ya sovsem ne hochu osporit’ dovody svoego liubymogo prepodovatelya! no pover’ mne: the Dutch word ”koekje” acquired by the American English was originated by the old French word ”COCAIGNE” which certainly derives from the Latin verb -COQUERE-…anyway i don’t want to be so boring! kstati..Marina, your own personal motto is -MENS SANA IN CORPORE SEXY- isn’t it?
Maia Marina,
Contradictory answer you’ve given here to the word cook not having anything to do with little cake. Your words say one thing but you give a yes nod with your head at the same time.
New Word Requests: hoecake, maize, corn. milo, hoe , blackstrap molasses
Marina, errin has used an interesting word in his post below, namely “segueway”.
Do you accept this as a valid word or do you, like me, find it a redundant usage?
My point is that the first part, “segue”, stands on its own as the meaning of “segueway” and is pronounced “seg-way”, so if you use “segueway” you are actually saying “seg-way-way”.
I find this a bit way out.
People use this word to descirbe me (& i’m sure tons of other girls hear it as well, including you) a lot: BABE
Care to check it out for me? Thanks!!!!!
The following passage could be a large part of the reason why men call attractive females “Babe” or “Baby” (or “Baby Girl” as in the “Bad Grammar” video):-
An explanation for our attraction to “beautiful” people is that the traits we find beautiful are linked to successful reproduction (the evolutionary argument). If so, we would expect people all over the world to share universal ideals of beauty – which appears to be the case. Cunningham (1986) asked men to rate photographs of women; high ratings of physical attractiveness were associated with distinctive features: large eyes, a small nose and chin, prominent cheekbones, high eyebrows and a big smile. Similar traits are rated as attractive by different cultural groups (Langlois and Roggman, 1990).
The reason for universal agreement may not, however, be because such features indicate fertility – they are also associated with a “baby face”; a high forehead, big eyes and a small nose and chin. Adults may well have evolved a preference for “baby” features because this ensures that we care for our young, and for this reason such features elicit feelings of attraction.
On sexual evolution the “utilitarian” theory is not a stand-alone theory. If sexual evolution interresses you you can look here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni7F-9OeH_s
And play with this game: http://www.swimbots.com/
Then about human evolution it is to notice something strange: in almost every species it is the male who tries to seduce by showing off (colours, strength, peacock feathers, horns etc etc…) while human females are the ones who spend more time trying to diferenciate one another (make-up, high heels, wonder-bras, outfits etc ….).
This is an indication that beside the biological sexual evolution, the cultural gender role gameplay is at work.
ny of you ever look back to the first of these videos? She is losing Her accent. Much more confident in Her diction. Mannerisms smooth as glass. But look for your selfs.
Hey Marina, how r u? i just wanted to request a word.
I wannted to know about the phrase ‘Bless you’ as in when you sneeze and someone around you says it.
please do this word! thatnks a lot, and keep up the great work!
And here I thought the Dutch were just known for their space cake.
Our trusty teacher is looking pretty tasty and refreshing herself in this video. Interesting juice concoction you got going there, Marina. Your health is your wealth, as they say, so it’s nice to see you are taking good care of yourself with diet and exercise. No, really, it’s quite nice to see how well you are taking care of yourself and staying in shape. Quite nice indeed. Oh ya, and your makeup has really been awesome and colorful lately. Great read on the intro lines to this lesson. HotForWords just keeps on getting better and better! Keep up the good work with the games and lessons, Ms. Orlova. Peace, Errin : )
p.s. I believe “I’m going to make myself juice” is the better grammar, but “I’m going to make me juice” works fine. Either way, very cute segment, like a free cookie for those who played this game.
errin, I agree the makeup is good, but the less makeup the better for this kid. BTW, how was you’re friends gig? I would have come but just didn’t feel like driving for three hours each way. I checked out her site though, pretty good, pretty good indeed To bad (for me) theres no dates in San Diego
Aimee’s in-store gig went great. I unfortunately caught it a little late due to traffic, but only missed a couple songs. It was a small set of six songs, so it would indeed not have been worth going all that way, unless you wanted to get her autograph in the line after the show, or were really into her music. Thing is, the store she played at, Amoeba Records, had a live stream webcast of the show which may still be online for watching. I’ll see if I can find it and provide a link, as I wouldn’t mind watching it online if it’s there.
You should check out Aimee’s latest CD, @#%&*! Smilers, as it is a truly excellent album, her best so far in my opinion. My compliments to your choice in music.
This is a participation-oriented forum. If you don’t visit the site, you won’t know the outcome of the game. No one gets mail regarding the answers, but she does notify us when someone responds to our personal comments or when a new video posts. But the biggest loss if you don’t actively participate is that we lose your input.
So what do you think? Make some comments on what you read here, or on the video post. Give Marina a few word suggestions for her next videos.
Oh, last night I was at a Red Rooster place (Like KFC), and I heard timbaland’s – The Way I are, and I couldn’t help thinking of the “Bad Grammar” song
A computer cookie was names after the fortune cookie. It stores information about pages viewed on a website as well as some personal information you enter.
Hello Marina!
How are you? I just signed up here, and hope you don’t find this request worthy of detention, but…
Where did the word “Puss” originate, and how does that relate to these other words? “Pussy Cat”, “Pussy Willow”, and “Pussyfoot”. What is the common denominator with the root of this word “puss”, or “pussy”?
I understand if you cannot reply publicly about the slang version of this, but if you have the time, I would like to know about the slang version after class.
Maia Marina, This is what a cookie on the computer is, “cookie (kk)
A collection of information, usually including a username and the current date and time, stored on the local computer of a person using the World Wide Web, used chiefly by websites to identify users who have previously registered or visited the site. Cookies are used to relate one computer transaction to a later one.
But the whole point of Marina’s work is to teach you the words so you can learn to string them together to communicate ideas.
Make an effort; Stoker, More steam.
Hmmm… Foul Ball! I think 1 and 3 are saying the same thing and are both correct. Granted 1 is in English and 3 is in Dutch but doesn’t the Dutch word that means “little cake” also come from the Dutch word for “to cook?” Also, isn’t it likely that the English word “cook” comes from the same ancient word as the Dutch word for “cook?” Even the diminutive “ie” is given an equivalent in the Dutch word making it mean “little cake.”
I also wondered why kitchen and cook wouldn’t stem from the same Germanic root (Kuche, Koch) as the Dutch. Dutch language derives largely from das Deutsch, hence the similarity between the words “Dutch” and “Deutsch” unless I’m missing a major puzzle piece somewhere (which is well possible).
Nope, biscuits are definitely not in my diet, sorry. No cookies, no chips, no candy, no (sniffle) pizza. Arrgh. But on the positive side, I know how it feels to live forever, though. It’s definitely been forever since I had an Orange Julius. Case closed.
Great video as always. I have a word request. Can you tell the origin of the phrase “cold feet”, as in to change your mind about doing something at the last moment. I get cold feet a lot so I was wondering where the phrase comes from haha.
By the way are you and the group ok now (2HFWFC). Sounds like how I felt a week or so ago. Little butt still sore. Everyone has to vent every now and again. But the group stills sticks together.
Mike
Forget it. It was just a freudian typo, that’s all. He didn’t mean it.
He’s right in a way. This is an easy one to look up. Plus, I think she covered it already in one of her Maxim Radio shows, if I’m not mistaken. Correct me if I’m wrong, guys?
The word photography comes from the French photographie which is based on the Greek φώς (phos) light + γραφίς (graphis) stylus,paintbrush or γραφή (graphê) representation by means of lines or drawing, together meaning drawing with light.Traditionally, the product of photography has been called a photograph, commonly shortened to photo
It was successful translation.I do not know english language as well as Marina therefore I translate with the dictionary.In russian the sense and beauty of a phrase depends on a word order in the offer, it means that not changing words it is possible to change sense, it is difficult for translating. Here also I apologize for my english
Your English is understandable, suvorovevgeniy. There is no need to apologize. It is interesting that in Russian, the meaning of a sentence may be changed by rearranging the same words. This is also true in English in many cases, and the arrangement of the words can also greatly affect whether we perceive it to be beautiful poetry or mere information. It is good to hear from you. Thanks for joining us.
I vote for mango, or, maybe, guave depending on the day. Then there is also unfiltered apple–a very juicy juice (also fun to say).
Trying to find ‘not made from concentrate’ in the U.S. is hard but can be done; otherwise, it’s like trying to blow up a balloon all over again and the poor juice gets tired.
The word cookies in the website are used for authenticating, session tracking (state maintenance), and maintaining specific information about users, such as site preferences or the contents of their electronic shopping carts.
Cookies leave traces, crumbs, on fingers, face, lips, table setting, of the user. Likewise on a PC, cookies help direct us to and back again to where we were. Healthy food for healthy people. You can drink soy(bean) milk with grapefruit juice, not me! Tummy says no.
I agree with you roadrunmch on your comment about hurting Marina feelings on utube. She has feelings too. She’s a friend, sister,
daughter and a comrad so we look after her.
Marina, can you please unblock me on youtube? I’m sorry i was mean to you and said bad things because i didn’t like your advertising videos but now i kinda miss your videos popping up at my subscription list and i realised that you were like a part of my everyday routine at work. So it would be very kind of you if you unblocked me otherwise i’ll have to make a new account.. thanks
I think he should repeat this on youtube, So like all the rest of the free loading ( I what it for free ) I don’t care that you sent all your time making these videos for ME, And all you ask, is watch My videos. NO………….!!!!!! I must bitch………..S.O.B. The Hounds of HELL are on you….. ok I feel better now
Marina I would like to request a series of phrases
1. “Ballpark Figure”
2. “Happy Hour”-is it an hour when most people are happy or what?
3.This one I read in an article it’s “Nudiustertian” I thought it was funny is it like a nude religion…?
4. “Agliff”
5. “Houghmandy” and how it’s related to someone promiscuous.
Well these are my suggestions for words and phrases you might like to do.
Yes and pleurer comes from “pluit” the rain, all from latin.
“Il pleure dans mon coeur
Comme il pleut sur la ville
Quelle est cette langueur
Qui pénètre mon coeur ?”
Verlaine
I was wondering why a vertical four-sided figure is called a “diamond,” when the gemstone never comes in that shape. Since they’re a girl’s best friend, maybe you know.
I’m not too sure about this video, Marina. Your face is overexposed, and your bosom is underexposed (except for the teacher’s pet segment, which double compensates.) Now that I’ve got that off my chest, I’ll get back in touch with my intellect….
I was wondering about the word “booger” and if it has any relation to the word “bogey” like “bogeyman?” I would think that they are because they are both pretty nasty things.
Well as you said Its name derives from the Dutch word koekje or koekie which means little cake, and arrived in the English language through the Dutch in North America. It spread from American English to British English where biscuit is still the more general term.
Why does “therealguy” need Marina to look up swagger? asks the Reverend Swagger. You have my permission to indulge the dolt my dear teacher. As for me I would like the herd/flock cow/sheep mystery solved by our trusted HOTFORWORDS. ( I requested it a few days ago )
well, Rolling Rock is okay…a bit watered-down for my taste, though…
oh, and…
“Marina’s beauty could float a fleet of battleships.”…Rule 16.54 subsection Bathing suits and other watersport dreams in The Marina Sychophant Handbook…
Collective nouns for animals are notoriously arbitrary, Gabi. We have flocks of sheep, herds of cattle, gaggles of geese, and tintinnabulations of starlings.
Both flock and herd come from earlier words meaning ‘group’, flock from early German, and herd (presumably) all the way from Indo-European.
Rather odd in this particular instance, since flocks of sheep are supervised by shepherds (’sheep-herders’)!
Other sites seemed to indicate that you could use herd or flock interchangeably for cattle…
IMO, sheep are probably thought of as flocking because they are notorious for gathering together so closely – like a flock of birds…
i guess i should have posted the reason “gabi” questioned the “flock” thing herself…seems she missed an Elementary English question ’cause she answered “sheep” to “The flock of ____ stayed together.” and the program said the correct answer was “cow”.
im not sure if my spelling is correct, but disestablishumanitarianism? a word similar to that has bothered me for a while. maybe because it is the longest word in the english language
A cookie is a file that a web server puts in your hard drive when your web browser accesses a web page. It tracks information about the individual user, their preferences, etc., and can be used to store passwords, log in ID’s etc. The name comes from UNIX magic cookies.
If you pour a glass of milk into your computer the computer will blow up! This is one of the few times that milk and cookies do not go well together.
Sorry Miss I haven’t done my homework and don’t intent to either
Pointless exercise
I have been first person to answer correctly on the forum twice now and the only person to ever do so.
No teacher’s Pet for the day, once let alone twice.
So how do you give out this award ? At random ?
It certainly isn’t given to the person that gives the correct answer.
I even answered the golf homework 48 hours before you asked the question.The other I answered within 3 minutes of you posting the lesson was the tip game. I skipped the legs bit on the video got straight to the lesson and beat the Botious by 6 minutes. Was there any point ? Obviously not
He rattled my cage and didn’t move his lips.
Is it time to do the homework answer ?
Why not use his real name Markie Warkie if you don’t like 2HFWFC ??
And if you were chosen for Teacher’s Pet, wouldn’t you suffer something akin to postpartum depression afterwards? Never mind. I guess we’re all ready to suffer…..
Marina, nice smoothie. Appropriate since you are such a smoothie. May I recommend you try guava sometime if you haven’t already done so? Have you had an Orange Julius? Bananas and strawberries are good together too. If you shop at a store that carries food from Mexico you can find Valle brand juices sold in paper containers like milk is in Europe.
I have found a drinkable yogurt smootie called KIFIR. Very tasty, organic and full of live active cultures (10) actually. I think the family business was started in Chicago by Georgian immigrants. (Not southern hillbillies from north of ‘lanner Jawja )
computer cookies are lil’ gifts websites like to give you so they recognize you when you show up again…
some are transitory and are gone when you close your browser…sorta like Girl Scout Thin Mints…when they’re in the house, they’re gone in the blink of annudder’s eye…
other computer cookies stick around…like the one(s) from this website that let you stay logged in without having to type your username and pw all the type…sorta like any peanut butter cookie would in my house…i cringe at the smell…
Hey guys, remember a few lessons ago when Marina asked us if we could find or see a “trend”? What was the trend? Do we know? Was there an answer ever given?…just wondering
Food and eating. Tip, Cookie, Salmon, Bistro, going Dutch (some cretin made her pay for her own meal!) etc. The poor girl is starving for some nice guy to take her out and buy her a good meal at an expensive restaurant, and leave the waitress a nice big tip!
Marina, I hope you aren’t going to let your site devolve into some juvenile, wise cracking, wannabe pot head site. You’re too classy a lady to be promoting illegal activities.
oh, and i guess the trend is that you had a date with a lesbian who turned out to be a Penthouse pet, took you to a bistro, asked if you wanted to go Dutch and you misunderstood her wink, so you split the bill but you had to pay the tip and got flummoxed ’cause you didn’t know the correct protocol…and you ended up thinking the lesbian was a dog, anyway…
some hillbilly who shall remain nameless thought it was funny…
That’s not it guys. Look at it from her perspective. She just moved to a new country. She’s selecting material of interest to Marina and Marina alone, and presenting it in a format that she designs and controls. Her door to the world, linguistics and philology, allow her an excellent viewpoint from which to examine the subtleties of those aspects of cultural variety about which she is curious, using her blog as a device to enhance and accelerate cultural and intercultural comparison discourse. It’s brilliant, really.
glad to see that at least one person besides buzzword on here is able to distinguish (between?) linguistics and philology. though she seems to be more of a philologist, huh?
my opinion, marina is more philologist. and prospero811, he’s a white night riding a dead horse. put the argument to rest prospero811 it is starting to rot.
Thanks for the great site, I was just wondering if anyone has ever asked the meaning of “tit for tat” ? If you’ve already covered this one, I’d appreciate a link to the previous answer, and if this has yet to be covered I look forward to the origin!!
I learnt this whilst visiting the 5 Sharespeare houses in England UK.
From the middle ages when the Chairman of the board (the master of the house) had a board to go on a trellis from which to eat.(Later called a table of course) Traditionally he ate from one side and slept on the other side (”full board” “half board” hotel terms for both sides of the board (with meals) and lodgings only using only the sleeping side of the board.)
Anyway when the board was used by the master of the house he would turn the board or table so that the servants could eat off the sweaty side he slept on. So it is like one extreme to the other.
Edgar Varese did some experimentation in turning tables.But the phrase “turn the tables” date to the ancients DJ’s. Grand Wizard Theodore is said to be the first in succesfully inovating the holy grail in turning tables: the scratch. But it is unsure maybe it was Grand Mixer DXT. Keep working on the tables bro.
This expression each time you want to consult the spirits. For example when grandpa forget to tell you where he put the money before dying, you call a couple of mediums of your friends and say “let’s turn the tables”. The exact origin of the phrase is unknown as the initial experimentations where unsuccesfull the experience was rare occasional. It is only with Alain Kardec and the invention of the “gueridon” (basically a smaller table) that suddenly from Paris to Brazil it become common to turn the table.
Really enjoy your videos HotForWords, very interesting and i think this is the first time i’d actually want to be a teachers pet! heres a phrase that i’d like to know where it originated from, “holy smoke!” thanks Marina
For the record the word Cookie doesn’t exist in England, the English word “biscuit” also means “little cake” and originated from the French to be used here , in the same way as Dutch settlers took this word to the US to use there.
That’s the spirit!!!
See what Americans did to your biscuits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardtack
And after spoiling the biscuit they want to replace the word itself by a so-called “cookie”.
Resist boy!!!
The funniest story I heard about it is that this very french item was unknonw in Germany. And one day a german guy on a trip to Pigalle saw the thing and said (loudly) “What the heck!!!” (in german).
So what’s french not german? Qu’est ce que c’est?
As we all know, the Germans have long had a habit of, well, invading Paris, crushing the gov’t under their jackbooted heels & then, uh…chilling out and basically behaving like reasonably well-mannered (albeit heavily armed) tourists. Now, the way the story goes, German occupation forces were perplexed by the little windowed half-doors French shop-keepers favored. Ergo, they would look at each other & say, “Vas is dad?” So frequently did the Germans occupy France that “vasisdas” was eventually added to the French lexicon to describe these funny little half-doors. I might be off on one or too small details but this is the gist of it.
A little shit storm on youtube, about the co-Comment add. They have a problem with You trying to make a living. FREE> This the word of the day. Why does everyone expect you to do this for FREE?
Actually, my watch question brings up another question.
Where did we come up with o’clock?
Why don’t we just saw at 4pm? Why do we say at 4 o’clock? 4pm would be more precise since 4 o’clock could refer to 4am or 4pm. So where did that come from?
Abbreviation for Latin …..Ante Merdien before noon first used in 1762
Pot Meridien is afternoon first recorded 1647
Etc is et cetera ” and the others” first recorded 1418
eg is example “to take out” 1382
To name a few other Latin acronyms/abbreviations
Why is a wristwatch not called a wristclock? Or a pocket watch not called a pocket clock?
I assume the word watch was first used as in watching something. Watching a sporting event, etc. This must have been used long before the first clocks were made.
So when did clocks start being referred to as watches? Was it when they started being made smaller and portable as way to differentiate? If so, why was the word watch adopted? Did people just sit there and watch their clocks?
No Shane the word comes from the only ancient meaning of the word “watch” meaning to “wake up sleepers” first recorded in 1440 to develop 100 years later into the name for a small timepiece because almost all small timepieces were portable alarm clocks .
So it’s real meaning is portable alarm clock or watch
60 years later the word watch developed from “wake up sleepers” to “stay awake to observe vigilantly” which more or less is the way that the word is used today. Whether it mean observe or guard something, this fits within the “stay awake to observe vigilantly”. Not to be confused with look which can be a glance.
Hope this helps buddy
Incidentally the term clock was first recorded in 1371 as a large time piece usually in a church tower and developed from the Celtic word Clocca from the 7th century meaning bell and slowly changed it’s spelling and meaning as people were more interested in the clock than the bell within and linked them together.
The celtic is claggaim who gave clock (english), clog (irish, gaelic), clock (welsh, corn.)
Then the low latin clocca gave klukka (iceland) cloche (france), klokke (danish), klocka (swedish), klok (dutch), glocke (german)
The latin campana gave campana (spanish, italian)
yay! I got it right! Oh and I did try that recipe and it actually was very tasty. Thanks Marina for the drink idea! I guess you help me in more things than words!
Oh and for the homework: I found out that the name cookies on the computer was invented from Cookie Monster from Sesame Street. It was based off of a practical office joke where, when activated, would make the computer say “Me want cookie” every so often. The more you ignored it, the more it would say it. This was a huge nuisance to co-workers. You would ask what was wrong and the co-working would say that his computer keeps on saying “Me want cookie” and it won’t do what it wants it to do. Then you would say “Well just give it a cookie.” They would ask what you meant and you would tell them to type in the word “OREO” having nothing else to do they would type in OREO and the program would deactivate. Cookies work on a computer when you ask for a URL. The website will send a URL cookie to your computer and the cookie will send itself back to the URL. This is used for when you might want to have your account only be able to go on a certain part of a website. Much like a “Remember Me” type thing. It is mostly like an ID number.
I was worng again, #3 is supposed to be the best made up story, I must rethink my strategy for guessing. Cookies, I’m told are’nt good to leave on (in) your computer. They are, simply put, crummy. I must get Dell to eat them :-}
That drink is known in my parents’ country as “morirsoñando” or “to die dreaming” because it’s just that good. Not exactly a milkshake, but still delicious, Bob. The recipe calls for equal parts milk and orange juice, sugar, and a touch of vanilla extract, although there is an alternative which substitutes the orange juice for lime juice or passion fruit juice. But one must make sure the acid in the citrus does not make the milk curdle. My dad makes it with soy milk because he’s lactose intolerant. Either way, it’s so delicious. It’s so cool that u enjoy morirsoñando as well professor!
I could be wrong, but I think cookies act as markers that show the places we’ve been before and also carry demographic clues as to who we are and our personal preferences of material we take an interest in. I think the reason they are called cookies is because cookies are seen as a fairly inconsequential food item due to their usually diminutive size. If the bits of information webpages leave as markers in our computers’ memories were nicknamed otherwise people might see them for what they really are: telltale bits of information that help the network keep tabs on where we go and what we do. This may normally be viewed as undesirable spying by the average person, so we would probably be less likely to accept them and since cookies (the food item) are generally well-liked by most, come in small increments so they can be enjoyed without making a big commitment (as opposed to, for example, a 3-course meal), and they sound innocuous and non-threatening, it was probably seen as a perfect nickname. The first time I heard “do you want cookies?” coming from my computer, I became highly suspicious and remain skeptical to this day of their overall benefits to the user. But they’re built-in, so as such, a necessary evil…
I discovered about this today, I love it
But, for this one..
Did you know the dutch ‘koekje’ comes from ‘kaakje’ which means basically the same.. and as far as I know.. ‘kaakje’ comes from ‘cake’
Also, I wouldn’t translate ‘koekje’ as ‘little cake’… basically because you can just translate it as.. (little) cookie
random lesson….I was asking somebody who is an old school geek about cookies and he said “its a tracking devise” and more, but not desert…from The Philosophy of Schopenhauer—-THE METAPHYSICS OF THE LOVE OF THE SEXES “Ye wise men, highly, deeply learned, Who think it out and know, How, when, and where do all things pair? Why do they kiss and love? Ye men of lofty wisdom, say What happened to me then; Search out and tell me where, how, when, And why it happened thus” ___Burger
Good point birchbeertree. Think I’m gonna have to start using that. Though I think that could be attributed to a whole phase that spawned phrases like cutie/sugar pie, honeybun, cupcake etc etc. HFW and HFP are my sweet cheeks “slap”
You left out the American usage of cookie back in the 50’s. Cookie was use as a compliment to a cute girl or good looking girl, used as in. Hey there cookie, or heres look’in at you cookie, used as in a come on. Ya get my meaning cookie.
My psychic powers will let me guess the next word Marina will discuss in a video….
…… let me think hard on this one… hmmmm….
I think it’s going to be drug -related… yes… I’m getting something….
Could it be… “cocaine?”
Hmmm…. let’s see if my psychic powers work!
Yep….I’m sure… I consulted the stars, the tarot cards, and the entrails of a sparrow, and they all point to the same thing – the next word will be “cocaine.”
Bets?
Bets?
Is that the name of your GF?
Anyway, I know how you did that.
How did you know?
I could tell you, Warren, but then I’d have to kill you.
Besides, these supreme mental powers that I have at my disposal are not safe in the hands of mere mortals. I am only now attempting to harness this power, and use it for good.
Funny!
But I think I’ve found out your secret.
It has something to do with a Tin Foil Cap.
javascript:void(0)
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I goofed. I was trying out some of the html code and didn’t put something in right.
hi there.
just curious about word ”Tort.”
appreciate if you could get background meaning of it.
cheers
Response to Tort. Tort is a claim to an injustice or intentional injury caused by the courts or government employees etc. It is a claim of wrong doing by the government. It is a body of law that creates remedy for, civil wrongs. A person who is legal injured may find remedy through a TORT.
Anything to do with Schwartzwaldkirschetort? (Black Forest Cake)
Better than any cookies.
A friend of mine saw this lesson and commented that the second half of the video seems like Marina’s take on internet dating, or at least hanging out with her student body. Such an intersting dynamic going on here at HotForWords.com. Reminds me of the song ‘Personal Jesus’ by Depeche Mode, only with a internet tilt…
Reach out touch faith
Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who cares
Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who’s there
Feeling unknown
And you’re all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
I’ll make you a believer
Take second best
Put me to the test
Things on your chest
You need to confess
I will deliver
You know I’m a forgiver
Reach out touch faith
Reach out touch faith
I will deliver
You know I’m a forgiver
Reach out touch faith
Your own personal Jesus
Reach out touch faith
Peace, Errin : )
And, on the flip side, the lyrics to a different Depeche Mode song called ‘Dream On’…
Can you feel a little love?
As your bony fingers close around me
Long and spindly
Death becomes me
Heaven can you see what I see
Hey you pale and sickly child
You’re death and living reconciled
Been walking home a crooked mile
Paying debt to karma
You party for a living
What you take won’t kill you
But careful what you’re giving
There’s no time for hesitating
Pain is ready, pain is waiting
Primed to do it’s educating
Unwanted, uninvited kin
It creeps beneath your crawling skin
It lives without it lives within you
Feel the fever coming
You’re shaking and twitching
You can scratch all over
But that won’t stop you itching
Can you feel a little love?
Can you feel a little love?
Dream on dream on
Blame it on your karmic curse
Oh shame upon the universe
It knows its lines
It’s well rehearsed
It sucked you in, it dragged you down
To where there is no hallow ground
Where holiness is never found
Paying debt to karma
You party for a living
What you take won’t kill you
But careful what you’re giving
Can you feel a little love?
Can you feel a little love?
Dream on dream on
Can you feel a little love?
Can you feel a little love?
Dream on dream on
Dream on dream on
Peace, Errin : )
Errin could you please explain a little more on what you wrote. I didn’t quite get what you were try to get across. Sorry I am a little slow at these things.
Mike
it’s the beer…
‘er…hate to break the sad news to ya, but beer dehydrates ya, not hydrates ya…
not that that’s ever stopped me, either…
A “cookie” is a text-only string that gets entered into the memory of a browser.
According to an article written by Paul Bonner for Builder.Com on 11/18/1997: “Lou Montulli, currently the protocols manager in Netscape’s client product division, wrote the cookies specification for Navigator 1.0, the first browser to use the technology. Montulli says there’s nothing particularly amusing about the origin of the name: ‘A cookie is a well-known computer science term that is used when describing an opaque piece of data held by an intermediary. The term fits the usage precisely; it’s just not a well-known term outside of computer science circles.’”
He got the term from the term “magic cookies” used by Unix programmers.
However, some people may believe that each individual person may define the word “cookie” differently, and no definition is correct or incorrect, except in the mind of the person defining it. I say, “may believe” since it is impossible to know one way or the other.
No video? What happened?
Never on a Sunday, Prophet.
exactly…Never On A Sunday…
Did you know that atheists only form non-prophet organizations?
HTTP cookies, or more commonly referred to as Web cookies, tracking cookies or just cookies, are parcels of text sent by a server to a web client (usually a browser) and then sent back unchanged by the client each time it accesses that server. HTTP cookies are used for authenticating, session tracking (state maintenance), and maintaining specific information about users, such as site preferences or the contents of their electronic shopping carts. The term “cookie” is derived from “magic cookie,” a well-known concept in UNIX computing which inspired both the idea and the name of HTTP cookies.
Cookies have been of concern for Internet privacy, since they can be used for tracking browsing behavior. As a result, they have been subject to legislation in various countries such as the United States and in the European Union. Cookies have also been criticized because the identification of users they provide is not always accurate and because they could potentially be a target of network attackers. Some alternatives to cookies exist, but each has its own uses, advantages and drawbacks.
Cookies are also subject to a number of misconceptions, mostly based on the erroneous notion that they are computer programs. In fact, cookies are simple pieces of data unable to perform any operation by themselves. In particular, they are neither spyware nor viruses, despite the detection of cookies from certain sites by many anti-spyware products.
Most modern browsers allow users to decide whether to accept cookies, but rejection makes some websites unusable. For example, shopping carts implemented using cookies do not work if cookies are rejected
lol see ya
A lot of people like to delete their cookies thinking it makes them safer. Perhaps it does, marginally, but the biggest impact is you lose your session on sites. As an example, if I delete my cookies, I have to log back in to this site every time I visit, if I don’t, I remain logged in as long as WordPress allows. I’d rather have the convenience of cookies than some pre-Netscape 4 rational behind cookie security.
And I thought I was the only one that stayed logged in all the time.
Marina how about the word eavesdrop. t doesn’t have anything to do with the eave of a house or the night before which is spelled eve.
Hmmmm. Are you sure it doesn’t have anything to do with eaves of a house? What if someone up on the roof were to hang (or drop, as it were) their head down from the eaves outside an open window at night in order to overhear a conversation going on in an upstairs room? Just a guess. Of course, I’d rather speculate about it than actually look up the origin myself… It’s my day off.
When I do it the blood rushes to my head and I get dizzy.
So is that when you’d drop from the eaves into the alligator-filled moat below? I’m starting to see a word origin: it’s “drop-down menu.”
There you go. You’r not really off duty.
Pyback is hell my friend.
I can’t even spell pay I was laughing so hard.
an eavesdrop was the area around a house under the eaves that had to be kept clear for rain to drop so to hear what someone was saying in the house they hung around the eavesdrop to listen.
Sounds like a sound idea
So much for my wild-ass-guess… the imagery of Capman911 dangling his fishbowl-covered noggin from the roof is fast fading.
Fun while it lasted, though! Good-on-ya, peridotite magma! Stick around.
Please be careful not to drop your eaves.
I wear suspenders
My eaves need a little more support than just suspenders. Supported but free, you know?
I tried that juice combo… which I would have never thought of before. It’s a little strange but I think I like it!
i’m a lil’ strange and sometimes people like me, too…
HIc, could be. It’s 102 here today so we have to stay hydrated some how.
So we drink more to try and keep up. Never ending cycle. but a good one.
i want to know the origin of the word “cd”.. why a cd was called cd? what ws the origin of the word cd ? Marina plz help me….. :roll
‘er…Compact Disc?…or Certificate of Deposit…
or, as i’ve sometimes heard, Certifiable Dumbarse…
Now, Now, annuddermale,
Cool Down.
thankx
Compact Disk
Oops. Apparently both “disc” and “disk” are correct.
Civil Defense?
Community Development?
The chemical symbol for cadmium?
Congressional District?
cd is also the abbreviation for “candela” meaning “a unit of luminous intensity equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a blackbody radiating at the temperature of solidification of platinum (2,046°K). Also called candle.”
Or, do you mean the French corps diplomatique?
disc or disk?…a cultivator uses a disk, but a disc jockey shuffles platters, or discs…
all i will say is tsk-tsc!…
Marina,
Love your stuff. Not really a word request, just thought I’d tell you about a little game we used to play back in school called “Fictionary Dictionary”. Get a group of at least 6 people. One person leads each round. The leader looks through a dictionary for a word they don’t know. When they do, they ask the group if anyone knows it. If someone does, they keep looking until they find one that nobody knows.
When they find a word that is a complete mystery for everyone, the leader writes out the definition on a piece of paper. Everyone else makes up and writes their own definition on separate pieces of paper. The leader collects them, mixes them up and then reads each one to the group. Then everyone chooses which definition they think is the real one.
The leader gets 10 points for each person who doesn’t choose the real definition and other people get 10 points for choosing the correct definition. For each peson who chooses a made up definition, that author gets 5 points.
Continue until everyone has had a chance to be the leader. The winner is the person with the most points at the end of the circuit.
mata, ne.
nikujaga
I request The Word WAR
Like is that an Abbreviation for something…
on a side note, why is abbreviation such a long word!!!
The word has about 6 origins all similar from 6 different countries, but the word is so ancient it is impossible to verify which one came first.
See my comments below on this word.
On the same note why is “long” such a short word ?
It’s all relative.
Another word request: Enfranchisement
DOROGOMYLAYA MARINA,konechno eto pravil’no,ya sovsem ne hochu osporit’ dovody svoego liubymogo prepodovatelya!
no pover’ mne: the Dutch word ”koekje” acquired by the American English was originated by the old French word ”COCAIGNE” which certainly derives from the Latin verb -COQUERE-…anyway i don’t want to be so boring! kstati..Marina, your own personal motto is -MENS SANA IN CORPORE SEXY- isn’t it? 
Maia Marina,
Contradictory answer you’ve given here to the word cook not having anything to do with little cake. Your words say one thing but you give a yes nod with your head at the same time.
New Word Requests: hoecake, maize, corn. milo, hoe , blackstrap molasses
Here is an article which might interest your intellect: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Two+Fat+Ladies
I want to request the word poker
that’s a rude thing to do…just nudge ‘er…
As the sign outside the bar said:
Liquor in the Front
Poker in the Rear
Marina, errin has used an interesting word in his post below, namely “segueway”.
Do you accept this as a valid word or do you, like me, find it a redundant usage?
My point is that the first part, “segue”, stands on its own as the meaning of “segueway” and is pronounced “seg-way”, so if you use “segueway” you are actually saying “seg-way-way”.
I find this a bit way out.
Segue more complicated than it needs to be, eh?
People use this word to descirbe me (& i’m sure tons of other girls hear it as well, including you) a lot: BABE
Care to check it out for me? Thanks!!!!!
The following passage could be a large part of the reason why men call attractive females “Babe” or “Baby” (or “Baby Girl” as in the “Bad Grammar” video):-
An explanation for our attraction to “beautiful” people is that the traits we find beautiful are linked to successful reproduction (the evolutionary argument). If so, we would expect people all over the world to share universal ideals of beauty – which appears to be the case. Cunningham (1986) asked men to rate photographs of women; high ratings of physical attractiveness were associated with distinctive features: large eyes, a small nose and chin, prominent cheekbones, high eyebrows and a big smile. Similar traits are rated as attractive by different cultural groups (Langlois and Roggman, 1990).
The reason for universal agreement may not, however, be because such features indicate fertility – they are also associated with a “baby face”; a high forehead, big eyes and a small nose and chin. Adults may well have evolved a preference for “baby” features because this ensures that we care for our young, and for this reason such features elicit feelings of attraction.
Source:- Psychology A2: The Complete Companion
By Mike Cardwell, Cara Flanagan
On sexual evolution the “utilitarian” theory is not a stand-alone theory. If sexual evolution interresses you you can look here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni7F-9OeH_s
And play with this game:
http://www.swimbots.com/
Then about human evolution it is to notice something strange: in almost every species it is the male who tries to seduce by showing off (colours, strength, peacock feathers, horns etc etc…) while human females are the ones who spend more time trying to diferenciate one another (make-up, high heels, wonder-bras, outfits etc ….).
This is an indication that beside the biological sexual evolution, the cultural gender role gameplay is at work.
Hey Marina, how r u? i just wanted to request a word.
I wannted to know about the phrase ‘Bless you’ as in when you sneeze and someone around you says it.
please do this word! thatnks a lot, and keep up the great work!
And here I thought the Dutch were just known for their space cake.
Our trusty teacher is looking pretty tasty and refreshing herself in this video.
Interesting juice concoction you got going there, Marina. Your health is your wealth, as they say, so it’s nice to see you are taking good care of yourself with diet and exercise. No, really, it’s quite nice to see how well you are taking care of yourself and staying in shape. Quite nice indeed. 
Oh ya, and your makeup has really been awesome and colorful lately. Great read on the intro lines to this lesson. HotForWords just keeps on getting better and better! 
Keep up the good work with the games and lessons, Ms. Orlova. Peace, Errin : )
p.s. I believe “I’m going to make myself juice” is the better grammar, but “I’m going to make me juice” works fine. Either way, very cute segment, like a free cookie for those who played this game.
errin, I agree the makeup is good, but the less makeup the better for this kid. BTW, how was you’re friends gig? I would have come but just didn’t feel like driving for three hours each way.
I checked out her site though, pretty good, pretty good indeed 
To bad (for me) theres no dates in San Diego 
Aimee’s in-store gig went great. I unfortunately caught it a little late due to traffic, but only missed a couple songs. It was a small set of six songs, so it would indeed not have been worth going all that way, unless you wanted to get her autograph in the line after the show, or were really into her music. Thing is, the store she played at, Amoeba Records, had a live stream webcast of the show which may still be online for watching. I’ll see if I can find it and provide a link, as I wouldn’t mind watching it online if it’s there.
You should check out Aimee’s latest CD, @#%&*! Smilers, as it is a truly excellent album, her best so far in my opinion. My compliments to your choice in music.
The answer to the computer “cookie” has already been posted , rats.
Btw, did not get mail in regards to the answer, I had to visit your site. What happened?
Hi robroy87801,
This is a participation-oriented forum. If you don’t visit the site, you won’t know the outcome of the game. No one gets mail regarding the answers, but she does notify us when someone responds to our personal comments or when a new video posts. But the biggest loss if you don’t actively participate is that we lose your input.
So what do you think? Make some comments on what you read here, or on the video post. Give Marina a few word suggestions for her next videos.
See you around the campus.
Hey I’ve seen you somewhere before
Blue…Blue?…blue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGsdmatheSk 
That was cute Pagedoll.
So was the Blue Baby-doll nighty.
I’d like to know more about the word Meridian because I moved here a while ago and I think it the word has an interesting sound.
sweet, it was number 3
Oh, last night I was at a Red Rooster place (Like KFC), and I heard timbaland’s – The Way I are, and I couldn’t help thinking of the “Bad Grammar” song
Those wacky English!
A computer cookie was names after the fortune cookie. It stores information about pages viewed on a website as well as some personal information you enter.
Hello Marina!
How are you? I just signed up here, and hope you don’t find this request worthy of detention, but…
Where did the word “Puss” originate, and how does that relate to these other words? “Pussy Cat”, “Pussy Willow”, and “Pussyfoot”. What is the common denominator with the root of this word “puss”, or “pussy”?
I understand if you cannot reply publicly about the slang version of this, but if you have the time, I would like to know about the slang version after class.
Don’t forget the famous novelty ice cream cake known as Cookie Puss. It’s a slightly better segueway given the current lesson.
Maia Marina, This is what a cookie on the computer is, “cookie (kk)
A collection of information, usually including a username and the current date and time, stored on the local computer of a person using the World Wide Web, used chiefly by websites to identify users who have previously registered or visited the site. Cookies are used to relate one computer transaction to a later one.
The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.”
Note the quotation marks, sorry for the cut and paste I was having a hard time putting it in my own words…….
But the whole point of Marina’s work is to teach you the words so you can learn to string them together to communicate ideas.
Make an effort; Stoker, More steam.
Hmmm… Foul Ball! I think 1 and 3 are saying the same thing and are both correct. Granted 1 is in English and 3 is in Dutch but doesn’t the Dutch word that means “little cake” also come from the Dutch word for “to cook?” Also, isn’t it likely that the English word “cook” comes from the same ancient word as the Dutch word for “cook?” Even the diminutive “ie” is given an equivalent in the Dutch word making it mean “little cake.”
I also wondered why kitchen and cook wouldn’t stem from the same Germanic root (Kuche, Koch) as the Dutch. Dutch language derives largely from das Deutsch, hence the similarity between the words “Dutch” and “Deutsch” unless I’m missing a major puzzle piece somewhere (which is well possible).
Marina a quick question. Are you still doing the ring tones?
Very positive lessons, make me looking forward to hearing a new lesson, despite my old age
You can’t never be to old to learn from Marina. Look I have this pain in my, no just kidding welcome aboard.
Mike
Hi Mike,
Nope, biscuits are definitely not in my diet, sorry. No cookies, no chips, no candy, no (sniffle) pizza. Arrgh. But on the positive side, I know how it feels to live forever, though. It’s definitely been forever since I had an Orange Julius. Case closed.
French roast?
Not the franchise, the recipe. Anyone can make one, but it’s off limits for me. Unless I want to give up beer.
Don’t tell me you’re (dark heavy organ chords here) over 20 (surprise music here)!!! OMG!
Don’t feel bad my friend I’ve never had an Orange Julius. I don’t think we have one her in Fayetteville. Could be wrong through.
Great video as always. I have a word request. Can you tell the origin of the phrase “cold feet”, as in to change your mind about doing something at the last moment. I get cold feet a lot so I was wondering where the phrase comes from haha.
What is the origin of one of my favorite words: brouhaha?
hey marina HotForWords I´d like to know the origin of the word “fuck”.
I´d like to know the meaning from this word.
gretings!!
bye.
Already done. Go to lessons on this website.
Man this word never goes away does it TTV
By the way are you and the group ok now (2HFWFC). Sounds like how I felt a week or so ago. Little butt still sore. Everyone has to vent every now and again. But the group stills sticks together.
Mike
Tig Vicious and the Water Pistols are fine thank you
We just went out for a for a four hour dance,….now I am dizzy Markie Warkie (2HFWFC) is learning to dance as a lady so I get spun a lot in his pocket.
Hey man I dance to Bob Marley man.
Really, this word is requested sometimes 2 or 3 times a lesson. So dude, maybe you ought to just go and look-up fuck yourself.
so what do you mean?
I guess I meant to be clever & a little offensive at the same time.
Forget it. It was just a freudian typo, that’s all. He didn’t mean it.
He’s right in a way. This is an easy one to look up. Plus, I think she covered it already in one of her Maxim Radio shows, if I’m not mistaken. Correct me if I’m wrong, guys?
I would like to know the origin of the word “Photography” for one of my good friends who is 22, he is a big photographer.
The word photography comes from the French photographie which is based on the Greek φώς (phos) light + γραφίς (graphis) stylus,paintbrush or γραφή (graphê) representation by means of lines or drawing, together meaning drawing with light.Traditionally, the product of photography has been called a photograph, commonly shortened to photo
sorry for my english
What do you mean sorry for your English. It is better than ours !
But I bet you can’t speak hamsterian though.
It was successful translation.I do not know english language as well as Marina therefore I translate with the dictionary.In russian the sense and beauty of a phrase depends on a word order in the offer, it means that not changing words it is possible to change sense, it is difficult for translating. Here also I apologize for my english
Your English is understandable, suvorovevgeniy. There is no need to apologize. It is interesting that in Russian, the meaning of a sentence may be changed by rearranging the same words. This is also true in English in many cases, and the arrangement of the words can also greatly affect whether we perceive it to be beautiful poetry or mere information. It is good to hear from you. Thanks for joining us.
I vote for mango, or, maybe, guave depending on the day. Then there is also unfiltered apple–a very juicy juice (also fun to say).
Trying to find ‘not made from concentrate’ in the U.S. is hard but can be done; otherwise, it’s like trying to blow up a balloon all over again and the poor juice gets tired.
i want to request the word cannabis as one of the words you use next.
Wikipedia has it worked out for ya…
don’t inhale…
too late i inhailed and now i cant learn anything without an angel such as marina telling me the info…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlytzNP5qWE
hahaha…that was good, 2HFWFC…
based, of course, on the beer commercial classic…
Far out man
Far out ?
How many light years ?
For some reason I just got the munchies.
Contact altitude, dude.
Hey dude ……….course ya got da munchies
I is tinkin dat bitch is a real tasty man.
Oooops I didn’t mean she is a man. I mean blow away the ‘a’ man.
She’s really tasty man. Even give a non Rasta the munchies.
cookie is a small text file stored on your hard drive when you visit a web page. He stores data from your navigation like the day and the hour….
i’m gonna cooke some cookies
I’m gonna smoke some cookies
I spent a night in the pokey in the Great Smokies.
Ever smoked a ham or smoked a sausage or smoked Lox.
Hey give me some space cookies any day. Give me room for them
Space cookies my favourite
Space Ghost always smoked the bad guys…
Then I’d make you one..
The word cookies in the website are used for authenticating, session tracking (state maintenance), and maintaining specific information about users, such as site preferences or the contents of their electronic shopping carts.
Cookies leave traces, crumbs, on fingers, face, lips, table setting, of the user. Likewise on a PC, cookies help direct us to and back again to where we were. Healthy food for healthy people. You can drink soy(bean) milk with grapefruit juice, not me! Tummy says no.
this is a very good explanation and why don’t we call that crap CRUMBS not cookies???
I agree with you roadrunmch on your comment about hurting Marina feelings on utube. She has feelings too. She’s a friend, sister,
daughter and a comrad so we look after her.
Mike
Marina, can you please unblock me on youtube? I’m sorry i was mean to you and said bad things because i didn’t like your advertising videos but now i kinda miss your videos popping up at my subscription list and i realised that you were like a part of my everyday routine at work. So it would be very kind of you if you unblocked me otherwise i’ll have to make a new account.. thanks
You are unblocked. I typically don’t block people, but I noticed you were blocked, so I unblocked you
I think he should repeat this on youtube, So like all the rest of the free loading ( I what it for free ) I don’t care that you sent all your time making these videos for ME, And all you ask, is watch My videos. NO………….!!!!!! I must bitch………..S.O.B. The Hounds of HELL are on you…..
ok I feel better now
roadrunmch that’s cool… every time you leave HotForWords.com you are suppose to feel better.
[the hounds of hell part made me laugh 
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Marina I would like to request a series of phrases
1. “Ballpark Figure”
2. “Happy Hour”-is it an hour when most people are happy or what?
3.This one I read in an article it’s “Nudiustertian” I thought it was funny is it like a nude religion…?
4. “Agliff”
5. “Houghmandy” and how it’s related to someone promiscuous.
Well these are my suggestions for words and phrases you might like to do.
2. is already explained in the interview at Fox Happy Hour: http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/01/08/fox-happy-hour-in/
Nudiustertian is from the Latin phrase, “three days earlier”.
So how about the expression: one smart cookie! Wonder how that came about?
Can you help me to check on the word “deplorable”
In French, pleurer means to cry.
Yes and pleurer comes from “pluit” the rain, all from latin.
“Il pleure dans mon coeur
Comme il pleut sur la ville
Quelle est cette langueur
Qui pénètre mon coeur ?”
Verlaine
I was wondering why a vertical four-sided figure is called a “diamond,” when the gemstone never comes in that shape. Since they’re a girl’s best friend, maybe you know.
In fact, that is the natural shape of a diamond crystal.
Your recent videos are definitely food for thought.
I’m not too sure about this video, Marina. Your face is overexposed, and your bosom is underexposed (except for the teacher’s pet segment, which double compensates.) Now that I’ve got that off my chest, I’ll get back in touch with my intellect….
I was wondering about the word “booger” and if it has any relation to the word “bogey” like “bogeyman?” I would think that they are because they are both pretty nasty things.
As Johnny on WKRP once said, He said BOOGER
Oh booger it ! I don’t know this word man
Can I request the word asfalt.
Do you mean asphalt? yeah. it’s a hip disease!
Mine sure is cracked…
it’s not asphalt…it’s pennslltucky9’s fault…
oh, now maybe it is asphault…entirely mine, ‘course…
Well as you said Its name derives from the Dutch word koekje or koekie which means little cake, and arrived in the English language through the Dutch in North America. It spread from American English to British English where biscuit is still the more general term.
Why does “therealguy” need Marina to look up swagger? asks the Reverend Swagger. You have my permission to indulge the dolt my dear teacher. As for me I would like the herd/flock cow/sheep mystery solved by our trusted HOTFORWORDS. ( I requested it a few days ago )
Marina Rocks!
Rolling Rocks!
Marina floats my boat.
well, Rolling Rock is okay…a bit watered-down for my taste, though…
oh, and…
“Marina’s beauty could float a fleet of battleships.”…Rule 16.54 subsection Bathing suits and other watersport dreams in The Marina Sychophant Handbook…
found this on the web…
Other sites seemed to indicate that you could use herd or flock interchangeably for cattle…
IMO, sheep are probably thought of as flocking because they are notorious for gathering together so closely – like a flock of birds…
i guess i should have posted the reason “gabi” questioned the “flock” thing herself…seems she missed an Elementary English question ’cause she answered “sheep” to “The flock of ____ stayed together.” and the program said the correct answer was “cow”.
You can see it here >> http://www.english-test.net/forum/ftopic10160.html
What the flock…?
im not sure if my spelling is correct, but disestablishumanitarianism? a word similar to that has bothered me for a while. maybe because it is the longest word in the english language
thought Floccinaucinihilipilificationism is? teach did this one.
I thought it was disestablishmentarianism. Anyway, I believe she did a video on that one. I do think, though, that your word rings more human…
Antidisestablishmentarianism. See the Lessons page.
what?…what ever happened to Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
?…
Chemistry rules:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetylseryltyrosylserylisoleucylthreonylserylprolylserylglutaminyl
That was a good one about the John Wayne come back. He was a litttle portly in his older movies.
may i request the word, “Swagger” please?
-Kid basik
Or even jimmy swagger, for that matter.
The best cowboy ever to ride a horse John Wayne had a great swagger.
It was mostly his horse that swaggered. He could sure belly up to a bar, though!
A cookie is a file that a web server puts in your hard drive when your web browser accesses a web page. It tracks information about the individual user, their preferences, etc., and can be used to store passwords, log in ID’s etc. The name comes from UNIX magic cookies.
If you pour a glass of milk into your computer the computer will blow up! This is one of the few times that milk and cookies do not go well together.
Sorry Miss I haven’t done my homework and don’t intent to either
Pointless exercise
I have been first person to answer correctly on the forum twice now and the only person to ever do so.
No teacher’s Pet for the day, once let alone twice.
So how do you give out this award ? At random ?
It certainly isn’t given to the person that gives the correct answer.
I even answered the golf homework 48 hours before you asked the question.The other I answered within 3 minutes of you posting the lesson was the tip game. I skipped the legs bit on the video got straight to the lesson and beat the Botious by 6 minutes. Was there any point ? Obviously not
Teacher can’t call on you, She will look like She was playing favorites because of your name..like calling on Herself..? Lots of fragile egos.
So what is wrong with saying 2HFWFC ?
As long as I know who I am I don’t care.
Never mind. Next time the opportunity to be first I will rattle Tig’s cage.
He rattled my cage and didn’t move his lips.
Is it time to do the homework answer ?
Why not use his real name Markie Warkie if you don’t like 2HFWFC ??
You look wheely pissed off 2HFWFC.
It wasn’t me that burst your bubble Markie
And if you were chosen for Teacher’s Pet, wouldn’t you suffer something akin to postpartum depression afterwards? Never mind. I guess we’re all ready to suffer…..
You suffer. Now Markie has a finger puppet and my arse hurts
Don’t take the pet, despite your pet peeve keep the good job, don’t peter out.
vying for Teacher’s (or her sister’s) attention is a lesson in itself…
do not expect…but appreciate…
that is the heart of a true student…
Appreciate what ? Hamster shit on my finger for the next few weeks ?
It smells.
u must have a tiny finger…i hope that’s not indicative of anything…
“appreciate” that Teacher even exists, dabnabit, and quit ur whinin’…
Teacher’s pet likes cheese, not whine…
Hey man you crack me up
Marina, nice smoothie. Appropriate since you are such a smoothie. May I recommend you try guava sometime if you haven’t already done so? Have you had an Orange Julius? Bananas and strawberries are good together too. If you shop at a store that carries food from Mexico you can find Valle brand juices sold in paper containers like milk is in Europe.
I have found a drinkable yogurt smootie called KIFIR. Very tasty, organic and full of live active cultures (10) actually. I think the family business was started in Chicago by Georgian immigrants. (Not southern hillbillies from north of ‘lanner Jawja )
Try some – thank me later.
I’m more interested in zombie cultures.
Kefir also is marketed on the West Coast USA and is offered in various fruit flavors, usually in quart containers just like milk.
computer cookies are lil’ gifts websites like to give you so they recognize you when you show up again…
some are transitory and are gone when you close your browser…sorta like Girl Scout Thin Mints…when they’re in the house, they’re gone in the blink of annudder’s eye…
other computer cookies stick around…like the one(s) from this website that let you stay logged in without having to type your username and pw all the type…sorta like any peanut butter cookie would in my house…i cringe at the smell…
okay…gotta go have a vanilla creme wafer now…
Hey guys, remember a few lessons ago when Marina asked us if we could find or see a “trend”? What was the trend? Do we know? Was there an answer ever given?…just wondering
Food and eating. Tip, Cookie, Salmon, Bistro, going Dutch (some cretin made her pay for her own meal!) etc. The poor girl is starving for some nice guy to take her out and buy her a good meal at an expensive restaurant, and leave the waitress a nice big tip!
I would like to apply for that honor.
Hey the tip’s the best bit to smoke man. Give me the tip bud
Marina, I hope you aren’t going to let your site devolve into some juvenile, wise cracking, wannabe pot head site. You’re too classy a lady to be promoting illegal activities.
Seen.
my thoughts were:
some hillbilly who shall remain nameless thought it was funny…
btw, where’s pennsyltucky9?…
ooohhh, ok. Thanks
That’s not it guys. Look at it from her perspective. She just moved to a new country. She’s selecting material of interest to Marina and Marina alone, and presenting it in a format that she designs and controls. Her door to the world, linguistics and philology, allow her an excellent viewpoint from which to examine the subtleties of those aspects of cultural variety about which she is curious, using her blog as a device to enhance and accelerate cultural and intercultural comparison discourse. It’s brilliant, really.
glad to see that at least one person besides buzzword on here is able to distinguish (between?) linguistics and philology. though she seems to be more of a philologist, huh?
Hard to tell without an overview of published works. As far as I can see, she defies description pretty much on general principle.
Everyone is correct, aLx.
my opinion, marina is more philologist. and prospero811, he’s a white night riding a dead horse. put the argument to rest prospero811 it is starting to rot.
Have you figured it out by now? All I can think of is something havineg to do with food
Thanks for the great site, I was just wondering if anyone has ever asked the meaning of “tit for tat” ? If you’ve already covered this one, I’d appreciate a link to the previous answer, and if this has yet to be covered I look forward to the origin!!
Where did the phrase “turn the tables” come from?
I learnt this whilst visiting the 5 Sharespeare houses in England UK.
From the middle ages when the Chairman of the board (the master of the house) had a board to go on a trellis from which to eat.(Later called a table of course) Traditionally he ate from one side and slept on the other side (”full board” “half board” hotel terms for both sides of the board (with meals) and lodgings only using only the sleeping side of the board.)
Anyway when the board was used by the master of the house he would turn the board or table so that the servants could eat off the sweaty side he slept on. So it is like one extreme to the other.
Or what about “by and large” ? Who started that?
I heard that when King Arthur was away from the castle, his knights liked to turn the tables.
Edgar Varese did some experimentation in turning tables.But the phrase “turn the tables” date to the ancients DJ’s. Grand Wizard Theodore is said to be the first in succesfully inovating the holy grail in turning tables: the scratch. But it is unsure maybe it was Grand Mixer DXT. Keep working on the tables bro.
Hey cool dude man
This expression each time you want to consult the spirits. For example when grandpa forget to tell you where he put the money before dying, you call a couple of mediums of your friends and say “let’s turn the tables”. The exact origin of the phrase is unknown as the initial experimentations where unsuccesfull the experience was rare occasional. It is only with Alain Kardec and the invention of the “gueridon” (basically a smaller table) that suddenly from Paris to Brazil it become common to turn the table.
Hey I don’t consult the spirits man, I don’t even like beer , I listen to the vibes from the green natural stuff man
Teach, Love the new camera (other vids) but don’t forget the Close UPS. CAN’T SEE YOUR BABY BLUES in the wide shots.
72nd!!!
Congratulations!
Thank you. It took a great deal of planning to get the timing just perfect.
Really enjoy your videos HotForWords, very interesting and i think this is the first time i’d actually want to be a teachers pet! heres a phrase that i’d like to know where it originated from, “holy smoke!” thanks Marina
A bishop that blows smoke rings ???????
Why is that so hard to imagine? I have a pickup with blown rings. It blows pretty blue smoke.
Better than a priest who blows altar boys.
Yes that ALTARS your perfective on the church doesn’t it
…for pennsyltucky9…
Holy smoke, Batman! You failed the smog test!
This is an very old story:
http://www.cannabisculture.com/magazine/cc11/christ.html
Just waxin’ prosaic there boys. I drive a used Corolla. My other car is a canoe.
Hey Jesus welcome to da brotherhood man.
Get a tonk on this reefer man.
For the record the word Cookie doesn’t exist in England, the English word “biscuit” also means “little cake” and originated from the French to be used here , in the same way as Dutch settlers took this word to the US to use there.
That’s the spirit!!!
See what Americans did to your biscuits:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardtack
And after spoiling the biscuit they want to replace the word itself by a so-called “cookie”.
Resist boy!!!
Teacher gets an apple if she can identify the origin and the meaning of the French word “vasisdas.”
What is that?
I thought that this was German not French
From the German I reckon.
You probably wanted to say vasistas, and gave some clue….
ya dieses ist german; bad spelling, ( Was ist das) what is that,
The French word vasistas was first used in 1784. It does indeed come from the German, was ist das?
The funniest story I heard about it is that this very french item was unknonw in Germany. And one day a german guy on a trip to Pigalle saw the thing and said (loudly) “What the heck!!!”
(in german).
So what’s french not german? Qu’est ce que c’est?
Das ist das.
Stupid ist as stupid das.
Vas de Fook ?
This is a good one.
As we all know, the Germans have long had a habit of, well, invading Paris, crushing the gov’t under their jackbooted heels & then, uh…chilling out and basically behaving like reasonably well-mannered (albeit heavily armed) tourists. Now, the way the story goes, German occupation forces were perplexed by the little windowed half-doors French shop-keepers favored. Ergo, they would look at each other & say, “Vas is dad?” So frequently did the Germans occupy France that “vasisdas” was eventually added to the French lexicon to describe these funny little half-doors. I might be off on one or too small details but this is the gist of it.
: Completely Gratuitous ?? Teacher??
A little shit storm on youtube, about the co-Comment add. They have a problem with You trying to make a living. FREE> This the word of the day. Why does everyone expect you to do this for FREE?
She has to earn a living like everyone else.
I don’t know anyone else that makes a living like her.
It was my understanding the Cocomment did offer FREE registration. It was only the WhiteSmoke Grammar checker that Marina was getting a commission on
Freeloaders bitch the loudest of all. and want to be paid first.
Marina,
What on Earth does the expression “whoops-a-daisy” really mean and where does it come from?
Pat
Good question
Daisies are not scary at all…….
As a hamster I say whoops a cat……………….
That would you say Whoops a Tiger ? That’s my name
Hi Marina,
How about investigating the origin of “cats and dogs”? As used in the expression “it’s raining cats and dogs”……
Pat
Sorry she has done this already.
Go to previous lessons . Where is archive expert Pennysitucky69?
I like the 69 better added to his name Tiger.
But whats he going to do about all the rocks in his girlfriend throat 
As her to spit them out for a minute so he can use the toilet ????
Howabout Pencilcasefukkie69 is I a bit ride there ?
Me meant to say was that a bit rude.
Is me allowed to say dat man ?
Say what you mean.
Cats and Dogs video is at
http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/12/30/cats-and-dogs
Thanks, killabar.
I wasn’t EVEN gonna wade into that conversation… After triple entendre I draw the line!
Whoops……guess I should’ve checked the list under “R” rather than “C”…
Woof, woof….
Can you tell me the origin of the word “frotteurism”?
Dear Marina & Hot For Words,
Could you please tell me where the phrase “The worm will turn” came from, and has it always had a negative connotation?
Thank you for your time
Double_Tap_Jack
Actually, my watch question brings up another question.
Where did we come up with o’clock?
Why don’t we just saw at 4pm? Why do we say at 4 o’clock? 4pm would be more precise since 4 o’clock could refer to 4am or 4pm. So where did that come from?
Also, what does am and pm stand for?
Abbreviation for Latin …..Ante Merdien before noon first used in 1762
Pot Meridien is afternoon first recorded 1647
Etc is et cetera ” and the others” first recorded 1418
eg is example “to take out” 1382
To name a few other Latin acronyms/abbreviations
Hey man I’ll order what ever you are eating
I have another word request.
Why is a wristwatch not called a wristclock? Or a pocket watch not called a pocket clock?
I assume the word watch was first used as in watching something. Watching a sporting event, etc. This must have been used long before the first clocks were made.
So when did clocks start being referred to as watches? Was it when they started being made smaller and portable as way to differentiate? If so, why was the word watch adopted? Did people just sit there and watch their clocks?
No Shane the word comes from the only ancient meaning of the word “watch” meaning to “wake up sleepers” first recorded in 1440 to develop 100 years later into the name for a small timepiece because almost all small timepieces were portable alarm clocks .
So it’s real meaning is portable alarm clock or watch
60 years later the word watch developed from “wake up sleepers” to “stay awake to observe vigilantly” which more or less is the way that the word is used today. Whether it mean observe or guard something, this fits within the “stay awake to observe vigilantly”. Not to be confused with look which can be a glance.
Hope this helps buddy
Incidentally the term clock was first recorded in 1371 as a large time piece usually in a church tower and developed from the Celtic word Clocca from the 7th century meaning bell and slowly changed it’s spelling and meaning as people were more interested in the clock than the bell within and linked them together.
I think you are mixing clocca and claggaim
The celtic is claggaim who gave clock (english), clog (irish, gaelic), clock (welsh, corn.)
Then the low latin clocca gave klukka (iceland) cloche (france), klokke (danish), klocka (swedish), klok (dutch), glocke (german)
The latin campana gave campana (spanish, italian)
And what about bell?
It makes a noise
yay! I got it right! Oh and I did try that recipe and it actually was very tasty. Thanks Marina for the drink idea! I guess you help me in more things than words!
Love, Mat
Oh and for the homework: I found out that the name cookies on the computer was invented from Cookie Monster from Sesame Street. It was based off of a practical office joke where, when activated, would make the computer say “Me want cookie” every so often. The more you ignored it, the more it would say it. This was a huge nuisance to co-workers. You would ask what was wrong and the co-working would say that his computer keeps on saying “Me want cookie” and it won’t do what it wants it to do. Then you would say “Well just give it a cookie.” They would ask what you meant and you would tell them to type in the word “OREO” having nothing else to do they would type in OREO and the program would deactivate. Cookies work on a computer when you ask for a URL. The website will send a URL cookie to your computer and the cookie will send itself back to the URL. This is used for when you might want to have your account only be able to go on a certain part of a website. Much like a “Remember Me” type thing. It is mostly like an ID number.
=P
Isn’t and Oreo a black man that behaved like a white one ?
I was worng again, #3 is supposed to be the best made up story, I must rethink my strategy for guessing. Cookies, I’m told are’nt good to leave on (in) your computer. They are, simply put, crummy. I must get Dell to eat them :-}
the word i want you to know is” HOOKIE MAT”THE WORD IS FROM THE GEORDIE “NORTH EAST ENGLAND” GO FOR IT .FROM GOOSEGOG
Hi, very interesting recipie. I´ll try.
Regards
Alidor
i just love that drink, and i agree with you, it is sooooo tastyyyy…..its delicious….hunhummmii
Yeah, it makes me want to find a mango tree and lounge around all day.
Go, man. Go.
We have Mango trees in the garden at our house in Thailand.
So does a mango and pick them in the morning ?
No it is a woman
That drink is known in my parents’ country as “morirsoñando” or “to die dreaming” because it’s just that good.
Not exactly a milkshake, but still delicious, Bob. 
The recipe calls for equal parts milk and orange juice, sugar, and a touch of vanilla extract, although there is an alternative which substitutes the orange juice for lime juice or passion fruit juice. But one must make sure the acid in the citrus does not make the milk curdle. 
My dad makes it with soy milk because he’s lactose intolerant. Either way, it’s so delicious. 
It’s so cool that u enjoy morirsoñando as well professor!
There are known here in the states as “Orange Julius” among others.
YES! I got it right, it was #3.
I could be wrong, but I think cookies act as markers that show the places we’ve been before and also carry demographic clues as to who we are and our personal preferences of material we take an interest in. I think the reason they are called cookies is because cookies are seen as a fairly inconsequential food item due to their usually diminutive size. If the bits of information webpages leave as markers in our computers’ memories were nicknamed otherwise people might see them for what they really are: telltale bits of information that help the network keep tabs on where we go and what we do. This may normally be viewed as undesirable spying by the average person, so we would probably be less likely to accept them and since cookies (the food item) are generally well-liked by most, come in small increments so they can be enjoyed without making a big commitment (as opposed to, for example, a 3-course meal), and they sound innocuous and non-threatening, it was probably seen as a perfect nickname. The first time I heard “do you want cookies?” coming from my computer, I became highly suspicious and remain skeptical to this day of their overall benefits to the user. But they’re built-in, so as such, a necessary evil…
I would be inclined to compare them to a biscuit crumb trail to say where you have been.
Exactamundo.
It’s kinda fun when it happens & I’d like to buy everyone a cigar.
Congratulations!
Thanks, I don’t know how she did it but her timing was pretty good on this one
Yeah ditto what he said, okay4now!
PT9 and I would rather have a beer. Please.
Hamsters don’t smoke cigars voluntarily.
My cousin got a job in a science lab and got Lung Cancer
Another cousin got a job powering New York for a while
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Tvj4Rv3Yg
Hell, as long as the bar’s open, make that a Stoli straight up with a Rolling Rock chaser. Nazdorovye!
well, congrats…but, ‘er…i don’t smoke…
that’s alright, tho’…”Marina is smokin’“…Rule 49.821 “Pipe Dreams” in The Marina Sychophant Handbook…
congrats again!…
et al.; Thanks! Cigar, beer, hampster treats….whatever’s fine, help yourself to anything you’d like–from the ‘top shelf’.
So what is a hampster okay4now, is it a hamster that has drunk too much that is dying to get rid of a pee ?
Yeah, T.-the-V.
we should most likely both drop the “pee”.
And he dropped the pee on my shoulder. I have a wet patch.. Just near Gromit’s hand
well, just tell ‘im, “piss-off”…
shouldn’t that be “piss on”?