Such a tease Marina. Reminds me of HFP. Great lesson though. I always love the first use part of the word lesson. Seems to give you a little insight on the peoples of that time.
moobi on
October 10th, 2008 9:00 pm
If Carlyle was speaking of Congress, he may have a point:
Thank you, Marina, for doing ‘feckless’, and bringing up Carlyle. I’d heard the name but never looked into him. It was good to wikipedia Carlyle, but he’ll not make it on my reading list because the genetics question is a loser. It’s a rationale created to justify prejudice. Prejudice is a form of laziness. It’s feckless. It’s quicker and easier to pre-judge people as homogenous members of groups than it is to invest the effort to listen and observe individuals. Since I’ve recently devoted my reading primarily to U.S. History from the Revolution to the Civil War, it interested me that Carlyle was embraced by some slave holders in the South. Happily he was shunned in his own country after advocating slavery.
tosterr on
September 1st, 2008 1:42 pm
Марина, расскажи пожалуйста про происхождение слова “шизлонг” и… какая связь между воровствой и битьем в слове “Воробей”?
wayne1987 on
September 1st, 2008 1:39 pm
i wud like 2 know were the word rain check come from. and keep up the good work.
Our Marina isn’t a lizard. And we don’t want her to end up looking like one.
davemarkwz replied on September 1st, 2008 2:02 pm:
I’m guessing to say that you live in the U.K., mijj ?
Quote:
“Come, children! Step into the light! All are welcome!!”
At least for a vacation and different variety of teas and beers!
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England’s mountain green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England’s pleasant pastures seen?
And did the countenance divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among those dark satanic mills?
Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire!
I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England’s green and pleasant land.
To curtail my sometimes bad habit of swearing when I feel very intense about something, I am trying something new. When I want to say something like… “You are fawkin’ hilarious!”… I will now rephrase my expressions to use the word feck!
Like… “the feckin’ cat had a turd hanging off his feckin’ butt and sat on my feckin’ lap. That stinky little feckin’ shet thinks it’s hilarious. Feeeeeck!
davemarkwz replied on September 1st, 2008 2:07 pm:
Oh, say now, is that wherrrrre your from, Dublin ’tis it?
lightnjack on
September 1st, 2008 10:41 am
You mentioned the “gringo” in one of your latest videos. What is it’s origin?
gregory g mcbride on
September 1st, 2008 10:39 am
Marina,
I thought that I would be able to answer your question concearning Speaker of The House John Griffin Carlisle Senatotor from Kentucky retired NY Lawyer
I looked through the Pullman Strike where President Glover Cleavland was forced to use The US Troops !!
I went through the KKK era going from the Civil War through World War 1.
The Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 and the effects on labor laws.
But their was simply no veiws from the senator who was appointed after Senator John B Keck had Passed away.
Greg
khanhdumbb on
September 1st, 2008 10:24 am
Haha, you say feck funny. =) What’s the origin of the word CONDOM.
guitarfanatic on
September 1st, 2008 10:09 am
I’d Like t request the word: Root Beer
amberspetsloth on
September 1st, 2008 10:05 am
I have a request, what is the origin of the word Sloth? Where did the animal get it’s name from, was it from being seen as one of the seven deadly sins?
—Amber
This is an interesting bit on Auto-Tune that is USED so much in music these days.. first heard in the Cher “Believe” song… where everyone’s voice sounds so electronic these days.
I added it to the tail-end of my karaoke post as well.
seesixcm6 replied on September 1st, 2008 9:26 am:
Wow! Auto-tune might perfect my guitar music! (Use the software instead of hours of practice!) I’ll check it out, thanks! seesixcm6
BillyB replied on September 1st, 2008 9:51 am:
Don’t neglect the hours of practice if you want to get “really good”. Treat help software like steroids…be carefull not to get hooked. Eric talks about tne new technology circa 1968.
seesixcm6 replied on September 1st, 2008 9:55 am:
BillyB, Even I know there’s no substitute for hours of practice, sadly. seesixcm6
Homework: Carlyle’s view depends on the assumption that those enslaved would have less feck than not enslaved. Since he did not base that opinion on any empirical evidence of human feck levels, then I suspect it was merely a racist view. We know today that there are essentially no differences between races of humans at the genetic level, and there really is only one human race (we are all 99.9% the same genetically). So, without any evidence that certain groups are predisposed to fecklessness than other groups, Carlyle’s conclusion must be rejected as unsupported.
Further, even if there was evidence for his view, humans have an inalienable right to be feck-challenged as they like and it is not for Carlyle to be the arbiter of who is and is not sufficient full of feck to warrant freedom.
There you go, another opinion shamelessly posted by your trusty Prospero the Wizard.
bobsully on
September 1st, 2008 8:30 am
I’m not sure what has happened, but the video window doesn’t come up for any of the lessons. I haven’t really upgraded anything lately. I am using FireFox3 and Windows XP/SP3. Maybe I will test IE. I don’t get any errors or anything. There is simply no embedded video.
bobsully replied on September 1st, 2008 8:32 am:
Interesting. IE7 seems to be working fine. Are there any Firefox specific settings that you or other students could recommend?
Do you have the latest flash? I don’t have ff3 on xp.. so I can’t test it.
bobsully replied on September 1st, 2008 9:29 am:
I reinstalled Flashplayer and this didn’t help. I will send you an attachment of what my screen looks like.
bobsully replied on September 1st, 2008 9:36 am:
Your previous email account in inactive so I couldn’t send the attachment. It generally just says has the name of the title where you normally see the YouTube embedded video.
bobsully replied on September 1st, 2008 9:37 am:
If there are any other FireFox3 users out there maybe we could determine if it is an issue with others or just myself.
just updated to ff v 3.0.1. no problems here, works just fine. sometimes things don’t work if they’re installed in a certain order. did you update to ff or did you download and install it?
bobsully replied on September 1st, 2008 10:09 am:
Thanks aLx. I found that on other sites such as LiveJournal embedded videos from YouTube are playing just fine. I install FF3 when it first came out, with updates as required. I did install XP/SP3 after that so maybe I will try to reinstall the FF3. If things are working well for you it narrows it down to my computer and not everyone’s which is a good thing.
yeah, try reinstalling ff. not just running the setup file again — remove it, then reinstall it. if it still doesn’t work, i’d remove and reinstall flash player.
bobsully replied on September 1st, 2008 10:36 am:
Very strange but although videos seemed to work everywhere else, they did not here. But as you recommended I completely removed Flashplayer and reinstalled it and that did the trick!
Teacher I recommend you give aLz a gold star or a kiss on the forehead for his assistance.
Have a great holiday and thanks again!
hutchiee replied on September 17th, 2008 6:39 am:
Using FF 3.0.1 on Vista, have the same problem on FF 3.0.1 on XP - for me it’s embedded Flash only, and disabling Adblock brings it back. I’ve tried reinstalling Adblock, hasn’t fixed it, next step will be reinstall of Flash player.
wetsuit5 on
September 1st, 2008 8:09 am
@ 1986
#2 @ 1486
#3 @ 1093
jojokerus on
September 1st, 2008 7:59 am
I think Thomas Carlyle should have got of his feckless behind and done some hard labour. Tote that bail Tommy boy or we gonna tie you to the whippin’ post!
kissofdeathxx on
September 1st, 2008 7:30 am
Ellooo. I was wondering if you can tell me where the word schmuck came from. lol. I get the meaning… But I don’t get the origin or anything.
Thanks
tayljim on
September 1st, 2008 7:22 am
10 more votes
total now 1931
lionheart4826 on
September 1st, 2008 7:10 am
Hello, Marina, I also wanted to know about the word onomatopoeia for basically the same reason as dsolaris. Why such an interesting word for a word that sounds like what it is?
maxeaus on
September 1st, 2008 6:59 am
G’day, could you tell me what the word ” VIBES” stands for please and it’s origin. You often hear people say, “Im getting bad vibes” with this or that. Thankyou. X0X0.
That is a good word dsolaris.. I started to record a collaboration with Venetian Princess and need to finish my end.. thanks for reminding me!
kaibanator replied on September 1st, 2008 8:34 am:
Woohoo!!
I remember requesting this word months ago, thanks for keeping the request alive
matilda on
September 1st, 2008 6:33 am
Hello, Marina.
Thank you for your great lessons!
Could you tell me the origin of the word “longman?” It’s the name of the famous dictionary, but does this have some special meaning?
whatamack on
September 1st, 2008 6:22 am
Hello, my teacher. I’ve been seeing the word hegemony used in political discussions and newspaper columns, and would love it if you could take some time to investigate.
XYLOS “wood” (as a material) + PHONÊ “voice”. It’s Greek.
cufan71 on
September 1st, 2008 6:01 am
Have a happy & safe Labor Day Marina!!!
okay4now on
September 1st, 2008 5:16 am
Hey Marina,
Just to let you know, most likely you already do, that I just heard James at War’s Bad Grammar coming over the radio at my tiny local market down the street–remember I’m in Paris. too funny
annuddermalereplied on September 1st, 2008 5:21 am:
and it was actually Jame’s At War’s version?…not the Timberland original the way i are?…
good news, if true…maybe tastes are turnin’ ’round…
okay4now replied on September 1st, 2008 5:48 am:
Unless I transplaced J@W lyrics over the song in my own mind, which would make more sense. My English etc. has been a little screwed-up lately. Who knows…
nighteye on
September 1st, 2008 4:39 am
Well, it’s a good view, in a way. You see, even with the abolishment of traditional slavery, most people are still slaves - to the economy. We’re slaves of kapitalism, forced to work because we have to make money to buy the food we need to stay alive.
Carlyle’s view still holds true, even if the type of slavery changed.
londondude119 on
September 1st, 2008 4:29 am
Hey, I was wondering about the origin of the word “Television”
Thanks!!
pedantickarl replied on September 1st, 2008 4:54 am:
I think you meant: tele- from Greek meaning far, distance.
celebornmars replied on September 1st, 2008 5:27 am:
The prefix tele- has a Greek origin (means “distant”, “far away”) and the root of “vision” is Latin (and comes from a Proto-Indo-European form *weid, with two possible meanings: to see or to know; “video” and “vision” have the same origin).
Marina. Did you have a word with misscupcake? I did too. I said.. “What if Marina stopped making videos because of abuse.. she just ignores it because there are so many more people that like her than hate her” I also mentioned how sometimes if people steal your videos other people who may not have seen you otherwise may be drawn towards your channel giving you more subscribers. Thanks Marina. It is good to have misscupcake back
I think a bunch of us emailed her James, I know I did. She told me Marina talked to her and was her biggest inspiration for coming back and told her to ignore ares wipes like that. So we need to get behind Misscupcake1 and help her out for a while till she gets her spirit back up.
She’s cool… it’s what everybody who starts to get any level of success on YouTube (and the net) goes through. It’s different from the real world where if you start to achieve a level of notoriety (fame), everyone around you becomes a “yes” man, “you are so great”, etc.. so you start to get a distorted view of the world, thinking everybody loves you.
On YouTube (and the net) when you start to achieve any level of success you also get the fans who compliment you, and that makes you feel good, but you also get the anonymous posters, who attack you.. and they most often OUTNUMBER the fans, and getting a barrage of negativity thrown at you that exceeds the positives, makes you think that everyone HATES you!
But that is not the case… there are still the people that love you and nobody ever really HATES you.. unless they are secretly in love with you, or jealous… That’s why they say there is a fine-line between love and hate. When have you EVER taken the time to write someone on YouTube to call them a whore, to say that their work sucks? You just move on and click on another video, right?
So, I told her not even see the negative comments… just see the positive ones.. and it works.. I don’t even see the negative comments anymore… actually, when I do, I laugh at them as they are so funny!
Good points.. My mum (loves familoy history) has found out that some of our relatives were friends with jane austen. (she mentioned them in some kind of memoirs) but that aside.. I get those comments sometimes. I delete them.. It gives me something to do..!! Thanks for accepting the response by the way
Marina, first off just wanted to say you’re awesome and im a huge fan!
So i was curious about the origin of “pet peeve”
pedantickarl on
September 1st, 2008 4:03 am
Marina, I just noticed that misscupcake has her videos back and she thanked you on her YT profile page. I know that you have helped a lot of people. Thank you for being an amazing and awe-inspiring woman.
athoorth on
September 1st, 2008 3:43 am
You’re awesome as always Marina.
Word request: The word “Halsband”, it excists is Swedish as well, with the same meaning too, so I’d guess it has the same origin.
Halse is found in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, meaning a neck in the sense of a narrow body of land or water, or throat.
The two volume Shorter OED doesn’t give halsband, but it might appear in the twenty volume edition.
Halsband is an english word (try dictionary.com) and it has the same meaning as the Swedish word Halsband and the German Halsband, and as said above it is Neck + Lace, so it might be that origin.
[1]
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary collar² [ˈkolə] noun
something worn round the neck
Example: The dog’s name was on its collar.
German: das Halsband
Icelandic: hálsband
Norwegian: halsbånd, kjede, klave
Swedish: halsband, halsring
[2] ˈnecklace [-ləs] noun
a string of jewels, beads etc worn around the neck
Example: a diamond necklace
German: d[ie] Halskette
Icelandic: hálsmen
Norwegian: halsbånd, kjede, smykke
Swedish: halsband
[3] pendant² [ˈpendənt] noun
the ornament and the necklace together
Example: She fastened a gold pendant round her neck.
German: eine Kette mit Anhänger
Icelandic: hálsmen
Norwegian: halskjede
Swedish: hängsmycke, halsband
———–
Not to be rude,but is there a connection between being a dick and being cocky?
smokey36bearreplied on September 1st, 2008 3:00 am:
This question is also posed by my friend Larry.
DeadlyDad on
September 1st, 2008 1:56 am
It might be a good idea for you to explain the difference between “its” and “it’s”, as a lot of people mix the two up. It would also be interesting to know how and why the decision was made to differentiate between the two.
smokey36bearreplied on September 1st, 2008 3:39 am:
ITS is a possive while IT’S is a contraction of IT and IS
DeadlyDad replied on September 2nd, 2008 6:26 pm:
Well, I know that, and you know that, but I come across people every day who don’t seem to have a clue which is which. I just thought that everybody’s favorite teacher might be able to make it stick.
andychicoo on
September 1st, 2008 1:34 am
can you tell me what means the word “zombie” ?
pedantickarl on
September 1st, 2008 1:14 am
Hey Kobe fluffy fluff, tell your mom that she has widened the voting gap by 471 votes to 1911 votes. Thanks for your vote too.
I have no intention of changing it; it’s the best place to be with my ear next to Marina’s heart …
Boom boody boom boody boom boom boom. Goodness gracious me!
Dez on
September 1st, 2008 12:52 am
Carlyle can go feck himself. And if he ever used slaves, it is ironic that such labor would have caused him (as the slave owner) to become as feckless as his opinion of slavery. If Carlyle had known the life and testimony of John Newton, it is possible that he would not have held such an ignorant view.
okay4now on
September 1st, 2008 12:51 am
I’m different, [hearing site-wide chuckles] but I believe that at work is where we can have our greatest impact in, among and on the world. Many people need to be driven or ENCOURAGED to perform, but that doesn’t automatically make them slaves driven by a master. Too often people think that labor and growth are contrapositive and they gasp for free time like someone drowning gasps for air, “Get me to the weekend…” Sat. & Sun. is when we’re free & experience church & visit friends & wash the dog (& carrying case), so people reason that’s when the real meaning of life takes place, but to excess leisure doesn’t satisfy or explain our reason for being. Maybe life is just balancing our “feck”, maybe patnership is finding a “feck” buddy… Anyway, if this is what ol’ Carlyle was referring to he had a point; but, to equate the argument with slavery is just putting blinders on.
celebornmars on
September 1st, 2008 12:41 am
The word “topless” probably deserves deeper investigation
You are both clever and attractive, so we can say you are a fox. But do you know how the word “fox” has been used for an attractive woman? Is there still a link with the animal in this meaning? Another X-File (reference to FOX Mulder) for you…
kaibanator replied on September 1st, 2008 8:40 am:
The Truth Is Out There
nicknackman on
September 1st, 2008 12:27 am
Hi Marina…I’m quite the badminton athlete/fanatic and would love to know where the word badminton comes from. Thanks a bunch!
celebornmars replied on September 1st, 2008 12:50 am:
This is not the addition of “bad” and “minton”
The name comes from an estate of the Duke of Beaufort where the first games were organised in Great Britain (the game had been picked up from India). The etymological signification of the name Badminton is: “estate of (a men called) Baduhelm”
annuddermalereplied on September 1st, 2008 4:21 am:
May I remind that New Orleans was founded by my country. It is a French city ! You Americans stole it from us ! Napoleon was blind and sold Louisiana for almost nothing. And the tzar was blind and sold Alaska ! They had really feckless brains !
smokey36bearreplied on September 1st, 2008 12:24 am:
we DID NOT steal shit….. It was SOLD to us…………….
danielpool52 replied on September 1st, 2008 12:31 am:
may i remind you all that America done for your country and the hole world in the world wars America stole nothing frome your country your brains are feckless and shit fuck you
danielpool52 replied on September 1st, 2008 1:54 am:
may i remind you that you are a french asshole
smokey36bearreplied on September 1st, 2008 3:46 am:
Yes I agree with danielpool52 we bailed your ASS out of both world wars and then get shafted when we need help after 9/11
smokey36bearreplied on September 1st, 2008 12:28 am:
Hey if you live where a sign says “Welcom to (your town here) evevation -xxxxfeet (that is BELOW sea level) then I think it is time to move.
celebornmars replied on September 1st, 2008 5:14 am:
The French part of the city was built ABOVE the sea level
Ok gentlemen lets be nice here. We don’t need to start any flame wars over a little joke that dictionaricdotcom was making. I am sure his comment was all in jest. I am posting on your comment dictionaricdotcom because it’s below everyone elses and maybe they will all see it.
i would love to know the origin of onomatopoeia. thx keep up the amazing work.
mgvariantgm on
August 31st, 2008 10:17 pm
I’m a new subscriber and I couldn’t help but notice how, “Striking” your eyes are. Could you explain to me how such a violent word could be used as something so beautiful?
mumanate on
August 31st, 2008 10:03 pm
I would like to see the origin of disappointed.
If you are not disappointed, why aren’t you appointed?
The root is POINT : when you are not on the point, you are not okay.
POINT from the Latin PUNCTUS SUM “I appeared like a point” (like the sun in the morning).
No appointment with the sun is a big disappointment.
celebornmars replied on September 1st, 2008 1:10 am:
The word probably comes from the old French verb “désapointer” (I didn’t find its origin but you’ll certainly can do it). I quote “Examen critique des dictionnaires de la langue française” from Charles Nodier:
“Désapointement, désapointer: mots consacrés par Montaigne, par Amyot, et que les Anglois se sont bien gardés de perdre comme nous”
That means that Montaigne and Amyot introduced these words in French, which were borrowed by English and are still used today
Such a tease Marina. Reminds me of HFP. Great lesson though. I always love the first use part of the word lesson. Seems to give you a little insight on the peoples of that time.
If Carlyle was speaking of Congress, he may have a point:
Uncle Jay Explains Congressional Recess
Marina, i think your style in this vid inspired [this guy]
Mr Carlyle, by his comment, apparently thinks africans would be lazy if not slaves. Nuttin but bullshit and lack of observation.
people always do better operating under their choice and decision
than as slaves.
Mr Carlyle is a very poor observer and a lazy thinker with this thought.
slaves or slavics?
productivity and keeping up to the bosses or waitng for the other person to do it. http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=5i3UKmcZU_0
Thank you, Marina, for doing ‘feckless’, and bringing up Carlyle. I’d heard the name but never looked into him. It was good to wikipedia Carlyle, but he’ll not make it on my reading list because the genetics question is a loser. It’s a rationale created to justify prejudice. Prejudice is a form of laziness. It’s feckless. It’s quicker and easier to pre-judge people as homogenous members of groups than it is to invest the effort to listen and observe individuals. Since I’ve recently devoted my reading primarily to U.S. History from the Revolution to the Civil War, it interested me that Carlyle was embraced by some slave holders in the South. Happily he was shunned in his own country after advocating slavery.
Марина, расскажи пожалуйста про происхождение слова “шизлонг” и… какая связь между воровствой и битьем в слове “Воробей”?
i wud like 2 know were the word rain check come from. and keep up the good work.
what’s the background to the name for our world: “earth” [the Third Stone from the Sun]?
ps …
Marina, why did you reject the UK and chose to live in the US?
She’s a beautiful people, Mijj, she has to live in the Californian sun and not the fog and rain.
too!
pah! … California sun! {spits on California sun}
Our Marina isn’t a lizard. And we don’t want her to end up looking like one.
I’m guessing to say that you live in the U.K., mijj ?
Quote:
“Come, children! Step into the light! All are welcome!!”
At least for a vacation and different variety of teas and beers!
lol
Didn’t Marina read the brochure?
damn! .. forgot about blockquote messin’ up line spacing!!
Probably because she’s such a winner and what is she going to do now? She’s going to DISNEYLAND! That’s what winners do right?
noooooooooo!
not Disneyland?! … surely not.
{image of Marina takes a nosedive}
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UXk4nLIv5jo&feature= email
lol .. those wacky bobbies.
Hi!
I love your site because it encourages such curiosity and as a teacher, I love that!
Please enlighten me; what exactly is the origin of the word “hamburger?” There is no pork in a hamburger, so why HAMburger?
THANKS for your work
This is not because of the ham but because of the German town Hamburg…
hi marina!
I´d like to request the origin of the words : YELLOW-BELLIED(a man who is weak-hearted or timid) and the word: YETI (bigfoot)
cheers
I was wondering the origin of the word: OOPS
word request- hip-hop/rap
word request-literal
Hey Marina,
Can you describe the origin of the term “high-tailing,” which is used basically to describe leaving in a great hurry?
Thanks in advance.
Does anybody know how to turn on the add friend or block user feature on my utube account.
That’s ok, Don’t everyone answer at once now. I figure it out for myself.
This is a reply to the one you put waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down on the list RAGTIME
Help-My Account
Invite Friends
Blocked Users
YouTube
Joined: 31 December 1969
How do they do that??
They use the De Lorean , the Doc is on their side.
Where did the phrase “Bought the Farm” come from in reference to someone dying?
Hi Marina,
To curtail my sometimes bad habit of swearing when I feel very intense about something, I am trying something new. When I want to say something like… “You are fawkin’ hilarious!”… I will now rephrase my expressions to use the word feck!
Like… “the feckin’ cat had a turd hanging off his feckin’ butt and sat on my feckin’ lap. That stinky little feckin’ shet thinks it’s hilarious. Feeeeeck!
Oh, say now, is that wherrrrre your from, Dublin ’tis it?
You mentioned the “gringo” in one of your latest videos. What is it’s origin?
Marina,
I thought that I would be able to answer your question concearning Speaker of The House John Griffin Carlisle Senatotor from Kentucky retired NY Lawyer
I looked through the Pullman Strike where President Glover Cleavland was forced to use The US Troops !!
I went through the KKK era going from the Civil War through World War 1.
The Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 and the effects on labor laws.
But their was simply no veiws from the senator who was appointed after Senator John B Keck had Passed away.
Greg
Haha, you say feck funny. =) What’s the origin of the word CONDOM.
I’d Like t request the word: Root Beer
I have a request, what is the origin of the word Sloth? Where did the animal get it’s name from, was it from being seen as one of the seven deadly sins?
—Amber
commet 200! Marina I have a request. Why do is disk/disc sometimes spelled “disc” or “disk” When they both mean the same thing
Yay for my channel
Channel Views: 4,000
Good job James
That was a Nice video Hot4Words
I’d like to request : Mesonoxian
This is an interesting bit on Auto-Tune that is USED so much in music these days.. first heard in the Cher “Believe” song… where everyone’s voice sounds so electronic these days.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/2008/06/09/080609o n_audio_frerejones
I added it to the tail-end of my karaoke post as well.
Wow! Auto-tune might perfect my guitar music! (Use the software instead of hours of practice!) I’ll check it out, thanks! seesixcm6
Don’t neglect the hours of practice if you want to get “really good”. Treat help software like steroids…be carefull not to get hooked.
Eric talks about tne new technology circa 1968.
BillyB, Even I know there’s no substitute for hours of practice, sadly. seesixcm6
I think that people doing that is very misleading..
Feck Off!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T5snc_LYSY
So funny!
Homework: Carlyle’s view depends on the assumption that those enslaved would have less feck than not enslaved. Since he did not base that opinion on any empirical evidence of human feck levels, then I suspect it was merely a racist view. We know today that there are essentially no differences between races of humans at the genetic level, and there really is only one human race (we are all 99.9% the same genetically). So, without any evidence that certain groups are predisposed to fecklessness than other groups, Carlyle’s conclusion must be rejected as unsupported.
Further, even if there was evidence for his view, humans have an inalienable right to be feck-challenged as they like and it is not for Carlyle to be the arbiter of who is and is not sufficient full of feck to warrant freedom.
There you go, another opinion shamelessly posted by your trusty Prospero the Wizard.
I’m not sure what has happened, but the video window doesn’t come up for any of the lessons. I haven’t really upgraded anything lately. I am using FireFox3 and Windows XP/SP3. Maybe I will test IE. I don’t get any errors or anything. There is simply no embedded video.
Interesting. IE7 seems to be working fine. Are there any Firefox specific settings that you or other students could recommend?
Do you have the latest flash? I don’t have ff3 on xp.. so I can’t test it.
I reinstalled Flashplayer and this didn’t help. I will send you an attachment of what my screen looks like.
Your previous email account in inactive so I couldn’t send the attachment. It generally just says has the name of the title where you normally see the YouTube embedded video.
If there are any other FireFox3 users out there maybe we could determine if it is an issue with others or just myself.
just updated to ff v 3.0.1. no problems here, works just fine. sometimes things don’t work if they’re installed in a certain order. did you update to ff or did you download and install it?
Thanks aLx. I found that on other sites such as LiveJournal embedded videos from YouTube are playing just fine. I install FF3 when it first came out, with updates as required. I did install XP/SP3 after that so maybe I will try to reinstall the FF3. If things are working well for you it narrows it down to my computer and not everyone’s which is a good thing.
yeah, try reinstalling ff. not just running the setup file again — remove it, then reinstall it. if it still doesn’t work, i’d remove and reinstall flash player.
Very strange but although videos seemed to work everywhere else, they did not here. But as you recommended I completely removed Flashplayer and reinstalled it and that did the trick!
Teacher I recommend you give aLz a gold star or a kiss on the forehead for his assistance.
Have a great holiday and thanks again!
Using FF 3.0.1 on Vista, have the same problem on FF 3.0.1 on XP - for me it’s embedded Flash only, and disabling Adblock brings it back. I’ve tried reinstalling Adblock, hasn’t fixed it, next step will be reinstall of Flash player.
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I think Thomas Carlyle should have got of his feckless behind and done some hard labour. Tote that bail Tommy boy or we gonna tie you to the whippin’ post!
Ellooo. I was wondering if you can tell me where the word schmuck came from. lol. I get the meaning… But I don’t get the origin or anything.
Thanks
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Hello, Marina, I also wanted to know about the word onomatopoeia for basically the same reason as dsolaris. Why such an interesting word for a word that sounds like what it is?
G’day, could you tell me what the word ” VIBES” stands for please and it’s origin. You often hear people say, “Im getting bad vibes” with this or that. Thankyou. X0X0.
Short for vibrations.
Cheers for that, Marina, would you like to ad anything to this, maybe Vibe and Vibes, the origin/s?
Hello my teacher,
Could you look up the origin of onomatopoeia. I know what it means but it seems a tad unusual for such a simple concept.
That is a good word dsolaris.. I started to record a collaboration with Venetian Princess and need to finish my end.. thanks for reminding me!
Woohoo!!
I remember requesting this word months ago, thanks for keeping the request alive
Hello, Marina.
Thank you for your great lessons!
Could you tell me the origin of the word “longman?” It’s the name of the famous dictionary, but does this have some special meaning?
Hello, my teacher. I’ve been seeing the word hegemony used in political discussions and newspaper columns, and would love it if you could take some time to investigate.
Hi Marina, my word is xylophone
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XYLOS “wood” (as a material) + PHONÊ “voice”. It’s Greek.
Have a happy & safe Labor Day Marina!!!
Hey Marina,
Just to let you know, most likely you already do, that I just heard James at War’s Bad Grammar coming over the radio at my tiny local market down the street–remember I’m in Paris. too funny
and it was actually Jame’s At War’s version?…not the Timberland original the way i are?…
good news, if true…maybe tastes are turnin’ ’round…
Unless I transplaced J@W lyrics over the song in my own mind, which would make more sense. My English etc. has been a little screwed-up lately. Who knows…
Well, it’s a good view, in a way. You see, even with the abolishment of traditional slavery, most people are still slaves - to the economy. We’re slaves of kapitalism, forced to work because we have to make money to buy the food we need to stay alive.
Carlyle’s view still holds true, even if the type of slavery changed.
Hey, I was wondering about the origin of the word “Television”
Thanks!!
tele (communication) vision (vision)
I think you meant: tele- from Greek meaning far, distance.
The prefix tele- has a Greek origin (means “distant”, “far away”) and the root of “vision” is Latin (and comes from a Proto-Indo-European form *weid, with two possible meanings: to see or to know; “video” and “vision” have the same origin).
Marina. Did you have a word with misscupcake? I did too. I said.. “What if Marina stopped making videos because of abuse.. she just ignores it because there are so many more people that like her than hate her” I also mentioned how sometimes if people steal your videos other people who may not have seen you otherwise may be drawn towards your channel giving you more subscribers. Thanks Marina. It is good to have misscupcake back
I think a bunch of us emailed her James, I know I did. She told me Marina talked to her and was her biggest inspiration for coming back and told her to ignore ares wipes like that. So we need to get behind Misscupcake1 and help her out for a while till she gets her spirit back up.
She’s cool… it’s what everybody who starts to get any level of success on YouTube (and the net) goes through. It’s different from the real world where if you start to achieve a level of notoriety (fame), everyone around you becomes a “yes” man, “you are so great”, etc.. so you start to get a distorted view of the world, thinking everybody loves you.
On YouTube (and the net) when you start to achieve any level of success you also get the fans who compliment you, and that makes you feel good, but you also get the anonymous posters, who attack you.. and they most often OUTNUMBER the fans, and getting a barrage of negativity thrown at you that exceeds the positives, makes you think that everyone HATES you!
But that is not the case… there are still the people that love you and nobody ever really HATES you.. unless they are secretly in love with you, or jealous… That’s why they say there is a fine-line between love and hate. When have you EVER taken the time to write someone on YouTube to call them a whore, to say that their work sucks? You just move on and click on another video, right?
So, I told her not even see the negative comments… just see the positive ones.. and it works.. I don’t even see the negative comments anymore… actually, when I do, I laugh at them as they are so funny!
That’s a brilliant attitude, Marina.
Good points.. My mum (loves familoy history) has found out that some of our relatives were friends with jane austen. (she mentioned them in some kind of memoirs) but that aside.. I get those comments sometimes. I delete them.. It gives me something to do..!! Thanks for accepting the response by the way
you are so smart
Left to their own devices, people either feck around or are refecked…
i think we all need a refecktory…
‘course, Marina’s pics are enough to feck me up…several times…
but Carlyle was just a man of his times, which was mucked up…no way, no time, no how is slavery ever an option…
volunteerism, tho’, is…
and i volunteer…
Marina, first off just wanted to say you’re awesome and im a huge fan!
So i was curious about the origin of “pet peeve”
Marina, I just noticed that misscupcake has her videos back and she thanked you on her YT profile page. I know that you have helped a lot of people. Thank you for being an amazing and awe-inspiring woman.
You’re awesome as always Marina.
Word request: The word “Halsband”, it excists is Swedish as well, with the same meaning too, so I’d guess it has the same origin.
Best wishes Ath.
halsband is a dutch word meaning collar in english….I have never heard of it in any other language…
Halsband in Swedish means formost Necklace, but also Collar…
And a lot of Swedish words does come from Germany due to the old relations with the Hansa.
But would still be fun to see what Marina could digg out of it. ^^
yeah…But I think she only does English words….
Halse is found in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, meaning a neck in the sense of a narrow body of land or water, or throat.
The two volume Shorter OED doesn’t give halsband, but it might appear in the twenty volume edition.
german.
hals + band –> halsband.
hmmm…and perhaps “hals” is the source-word for ‘halter”?…
here’s a pic to go with it.
(don’t click if you don’t like boobs.) ^^
Halsband is an english word (try dictionary.com) and it has the same meaning as the Swedish word Halsband and the German Halsband, and as said above it is Neck + Lace, so it might be that origin.
i tried.
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3 results for: halsband
[1]
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary
collar² [ˈkolə] noun
something worn round the neck
Example: The dog’s name was on its collar.
German: das Halsband
Icelandic: hálsband
Norwegian: halsbånd, kjede, klave
Swedish: halsband, halsring
[2]
ˈnecklace [-ləs] noun
a string of jewels, beads etc worn around the neck
Example: a diamond necklace
German: d[ie] Halskette
Icelandic: hálsmen
Norwegian: halsbånd, kjede, smykke
Swedish: halsband
[3]
pendant² [ˈpendənt] noun
the ornament and the necklace together
Example: She fastened a gold pendant round her neck.
German: eine Kette mit Anhänger
Icelandic: hálsmen
Norwegian: halskjede
Swedish: hängsmycke, halsband
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so … uh … where’s the english word “halsband”?
Not to be rude,but is there a connection between being a dick and being cocky?
This question is also posed by my friend Larry.
It might be a good idea for you to explain the difference between “its” and “it’s”, as a lot of people mix the two up. It would also be interesting to know how and why the decision was made to differentiate between the two.
ITS is a possive while IT’S is a contraction of IT and IS
Well, I know that, and you know that, but I come across people every day who don’t seem to have a clue which is which. I just thought that everybody’s favorite teacher might be able to make it stick.
can you tell me what means the word “zombie” ?
Hey Kobe fluffy fluff, tell your mom that she has widened the voting gap by 471 votes to 1911 votes. Thanks for your vote too.
1916 now.
I see you have a new gravatar - are you Marina’s new knight in shining armour?
Don’t ever change your gravatar. You’ve had that one a long time.
I have no intention of changing it; it’s the best place to be with my ear next to Marina’s heart …
Boom boody boom boody boom boom boom.
Goodness gracious me!
Carlyle can go feck himself. And if he ever used slaves, it is ironic that such labor would have caused him (as the slave owner) to become as feckless as his opinion of slavery. If Carlyle had known the life and testimony of John Newton, it is possible that he would not have held such an ignorant view.
I’m different, [hearing site-wide chuckles] but I believe that at work is where we can have our greatest impact in, among and on the world. Many people need to be driven or ENCOURAGED to perform, but that doesn’t automatically make them slaves driven by a master. Too often people think that labor and growth are contrapositive and they gasp for free time like someone drowning gasps for air, “Get me to the weekend…” Sat. & Sun. is when we’re free & experience church & visit friends & wash the dog (& carrying case), so people reason that’s when the real meaning of life takes place, but to excess leisure doesn’t satisfy or explain our reason for being. Maybe life is just balancing our “feck”, maybe patnership is finding a “feck” buddy… Anyway, if this is what ol’ Carlyle was referring to he had a point; but, to equate the argument with slavery is just putting blinders on.
The word “topless” probably deserves deeper investigation
You are both clever and attractive, so we can say you are a fox. But do you know how the word “fox” has been used for an attractive woman? Is there still a link with the animal in this meaning? Another X-File (reference to FOX Mulder) for you…
The Truth Is Out There
Hi Marina…I’m quite the badminton athlete/fanatic and would love to know where the word badminton comes from. Thanks a bunch!
This is not the addition of “bad” and “minton”
The name comes from an estate of the Duke of Beaufort where the first games were organised in Great Britain (the game had been picked up from India). The etymological signification of the name Badminton is: “estate of (a men called) Baduhelm”
so why “shuttlecock”?…
Hi Marina I would love to know the origin of the word “Conservative” given all the political talk around here.
ey what up Marina , ive been seing and hearing this phrase alot and was wondering what it meant and why it is, the phrase is “in the pink”
it has to do with how a person fees, but I dunno if its good or bad…so..yea just wonderin if you could lend your knowledge, thanks and Peace!
feeing= feeling :p my bad
Whats the origin behind the term “hacky sack”?
I agree–once was too much, twice adds insult to injury
May I remind that New Orleans was founded by my country. It is a French city ! You Americans stole it from us ! Napoleon was blind and sold Louisiana for almost nothing. And the tzar was blind and sold Alaska ! They had really feckless brains !
we DID NOT steal shit….. It was SOLD to us…………….
may i remind you all that America done for your country and the hole world in the world wars America stole nothing frome your country your brains are feckless and shit fuck you
may i remind you that you are a french asshole
Yes I agree with danielpool52 we bailed your ASS out of both world wars and then get shafted when we need help after 9/11
Hey if you live where a sign says “Welcom to (your town here) evevation -xxxxfeet (that is BELOW sea level) then I think it is time to move.
The French part of the city was built ABOVE the sea level
May I indicate to smokey36bear that 9/11 is an inside job !
We French do not want to interfere in your internal affairs
Ok gentlemen lets be nice here. We don’t need to start any flame wars over a little joke that dictionaricdotcom was making. I am sure his comment was all in jest. I am posting on your comment dictionaricdotcom because it’s below everyone elses and maybe they will all see it.
Thank you Sir !
i would love to know the origin of onomatopoeia. thx keep up the amazing work.
I’m a new subscriber and I couldn’t help but notice how, “Striking” your eyes are. Could you explain to me how such a violent word could be used as something so beautiful?
I would like to see the origin of disappointed.
If you are not disappointed, why aren’t you appointed?
The root is POINT : when you are not on the point, you are not okay.
POINT from the Latin PUNCTUS SUM “I appeared like a point” (like the sun in the morning).
No appointment with the sun is a big disappointment.
The word probably comes from the old French verb “désapointer” (I didn’t find its origin but you’ll certainly can do it). I quote “Examen critique des dictionnaires de la langue française” from Charles Nodier:
“Désapointement, désapointer: mots consacrés par Montaigne, par Amyot, et que les Anglois se sont bien gardés de perdre comme nous”
That means that Montaigne and Amyot introduced these words in French, which were borrowed by English and are still used today