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Cookie (Answer)

Here is my answer to the cookie game plus what is a cookie on a computer, and why are they called that?

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  1. peroznio says: 99

    I discovered about this today, I love it :D

    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

  2. leonard says: 98

    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

  3. caratucus says: 97

    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”

  4. 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.

  5. prospero811 says: 95

    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!

  6. 3h5an says: 93

    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.

    • Bob says: 93.2

      Anything to do with Schwartzwaldkirschetort? (Black Forest Cake)
      Better than any cookies.

  7. errin says: 92

    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 : )

    • errin says: 92.1

      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 : )

    • capman911 says: 92.2

      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. :neutral:
      Mike

  8. prospero811 says: 91

    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.

  9. the_prophet says: 90

    No video? What happened?

  10. sammy boy says: 89

    :lol: Buy Evidance eliminater to get rid of cookies

  11. sammy boy says: 88

    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

    • hutchiee says: 88.1

      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.

  12. capman911 says: 87

    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. :?:

  13. E. W. Fox says: 86

    I tried that juice combo… which I would have never thought of before. It’s a little strange but I think I like it!

  14. chris_@ says: 85

    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

  15. nikujaga says: 84

    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

  16. uuilliam says: 83

    I request The Word WAR
    Like is that an Abbreviation for something…

    on a side note, why is abbreviation such a long word!!!

  17. stokesjrj1 says: 82

    Another word request: Enfranchisement

  18. DOROGOMYLAYA MARINA,konechno eto pravil’no,ya sovsem ne hochu osporit’ dovody svoego liubymogo prepodovatelya! :grin: 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? :smile:

  19. stokesjrj1 says: 80

    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

  20. ikarusa says: 79

    I want to request the word poker

  21. Bob says: 78

    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. :lol:

  22. 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!!!!!

    • Bob says: 77.1

      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.

  23. roadrunrnch says: 76

    :smile: ny of you ever look back to the first of these videos? She is losing Her accent. :neutral: Much more confident in Her diction. Mannerisms smooth as glass. But look for your selfs.

  24. 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! :D

  25. errin says: 74

    And here I thought the Dutch were just known for their space cake. :mrgreen:

    Our trusty teacher is looking pretty tasty and refreshing herself in this video. :cool: 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. :twisted: 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! :grin: 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. :razz:

    • pagedoll says: 74.1

      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. :shock: I checked out her site though, pretty good, pretty good indeed :grin: To bad (for me) theres no dates in San Diego :cry:

      • errin says: 74.1.1

        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. :grin: :smile:

  26. robroy87801 says: 73

    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.

  27. lordmonty says: 71

    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.

  28. kaibanator says: 70

    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 :lol:

  29. bobsully says: 69

    Those wacky English! :grin:

    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.

  30. Hello Marina! :smile:
    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. :wink:

  31. stokesjrj1 says: 67

    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.”

  32. 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).

  33. capman911 says: 65

    Marina a quick question. Are you still doing the ring tones? :wink:

  34. doctor bob says: 64

    Very positive lessons, make me looking forward to hearing a new lesson, despite my old age :smile:

  35. jlar says: 63

    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.

  36. What is the origin of one of my favorite words: brouhaha?

  37. reo2552 says: 61

    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!! :mrgreen:
    bye.

  38. 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.

  39. okay4now says: 59

    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.

  40. anaconda19 says: 58

    i want to request the word cannabis as one of the words you use next.

  41. chris_@ says: 57

    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….

  42. chris_@ says: 56

    i’m gonna cooke some cookies :roll:

  43. dragon90815 says: 55

    Then I’d make you one..

  44. johncyk says: 54

    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.

  45. greenbush says: 53

    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.

  46. n4505 says: 52

    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 :roll:

  47. oscard524 says: 51

    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. :smile:

  48. So how about the expression: one smart cookie! Wonder how that came about?

  49. johncyk says: 49

    Can you help me to check on the word “deplorable”

  50. jbrecken says: 48

    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.

  51. Your recent videos are definitely food for thought.

  52. 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….

  53. 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.

  54. micbla202 says: 44

    Can I request the word asfalt.

  55. micbla202 says: 43

    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.

  56. 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!

    • Bob says: 42.1

      Rolling Rocks!
      Marina floats my boat. :lol:

      • 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:cool:

    • found this on the web…

      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”.

      You can see it here >> http://www.english-test.net/forum/ftopic10160.html

  57. vaevictus2 says: 41

    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

  58. therealhuy says: 40

    may i request the word, “Swagger” please?

    -Kid basik

  59. sniperskaya says: 39

    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.

  60. 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

  61. sniperskaya says: 37

    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.

  62. 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… :cool:

  63. pagedoll says: 35

    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 :smile:

  64. r00b0y says: 34

    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!!

  65. 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.

    • 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.

  66. roadrunrnch says: 32

    Teach, Love the new camera (other vids) but don’t forget the Close UPS. CAN’T SEE YOUR BABY BLUES in the wide shots. :sad:

  67. cockydevil says: 30

    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 :smile:

  68. 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.

  69. cognation73 says: 28

    Teacher gets an apple if she can identify the origin and the meaning of the French word “vasisdas.”

  70. roadrunrnch says: 27

    : Completely Gratuitous ?? Teacher??

  71. roadrunrnch says: 26

    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?

  72. pat_the_dog says: 25

    Marina,

    What on Earth does the expression “whoops-a-daisy” really mean and where does it come from?

    Pat

  73. pat_the_dog says: 24

    Hi Marina,

    How about investigating the origin of “cats and dogs”? As used in the expression “it’s raining cats and dogs”……

    Pat

  74. kueikuei says: 23

    Can you tell me the origin of the word “frotteurism”?

  75. 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

  76. shane says: 21

    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?

  77. shane says: 20

    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.

  78. ectoplasm4 says: 19

    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! :grin:

    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

  79. BillyB says: 18

    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 :-}

  80. goosegog says: 17

    the word i want you to know is” HOOKIE MAT”THE WORD IS FROM THE GEORDIE “NORTH EAST ENGLAND” GO FOR IT .FROM GOOSEGOG

  81. alidor says: 16

    Hi, very interesting recipie. I´ll try.

    Regards

    Alidor

  82. chris_@ says: 15

    i just love that drink, and i agree with you, it is sooooo tastyyyy…..its delicious….hunhummmii

  83. That drink is known in my parents’ country as “morirsoñando” or “to die dreaming” because it’s just that good. :grin: Not exactly a milkshake, but still delicious, Bob. :wink: 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. :sad: 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!

  84. 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…

  85. okay4now says: 12

    :shock: WHAT?Teacher’s pet <—–me? There goes my reputation. Really, that’s very cool Marina, thank you.

    It’s kinda fun when it happens & I’d like to buy everyone a cigar. :razz: