In Canada we use a postal code of LetterNumberLetter NumberLetterNumber. The most famous postal code we have is H0H 0H0 which is at the North Pole and gets a lot of mail… for Santa Claus.
When I was at California Institute of Technology, the school had a unique zip code, 91125, and its own system of postal boxes. You could send me mail addressed “P-107, 91125″ and it would get to me without even my name.
Marina what is it in Russia? It seems to be a slightly different system….
I have cousin in Drohobych Ukraine… and you have to put down all kinds of freaky stuff…
In CANADA, we have what we call a postal code… consiting of letters and numbers 3 letters and 3 numbers… but my mail still gets misplaced… ugggg!
probably from the british system?? God save the Queen!
most famous zip code has to be 90210! bev hills baby!
When I was a kid, and there were only 4 or 5 channels one could watch on broadcast TV, there was a show on PBS called “Zoom” with this ZIP code. Since Sesame Street came on just before it, I thought these shows were right next door to each other. There was also “The Electric Company”.
zoot suit yeah i aint in school no morez but i know all about them or other know pachuco suits. them suit are the shit i got a poster of a lot of them. i rock the lowrider hat haha i’m saving money to get a custom one.
The word MOVIE replaced the word CINEMA. CINEMA is the shortened form for CINEMATO-GRAPH “movements-writer”.
Don’t forget the invention of the CINEMA. Pictures started to move !
I think it comes from baseball… if one was a left-handed pitcher, one was a south-paw. Paw refers to the hand, and South refers to the orientation of that hand while the pitcher stood on the mound. Typical baseball diamonds were oriented such that batters faced east, so the sun will not interfere with their play. This meant that left-handed pitchers were using their south-sided hand.
EFFECT is taken from the Latin EFFECTUS = EX+FACTUS = OUT-DONE.
In latin a past participle can become a name. So if English were pure we should say like in Latin : OUTDEED instead of EFFECT.
Imagine : “The outdeeds of this weather are awful.”
For those of you who have not seen Marina’s dance yet, its right here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylfbxhz2M3U
she says the dancer is her sister but I think she is Marina herself.
Ninos, Research Zoot Suites, find out how this subjects relates to the Mexican American community. Who knows, some day you may need a topic for a school paper.
I’ve heard about this, but I don’t know if I should post what I’ve heard, because that might be all Marina’s job. I thought that some of her explanations were quite obvious, but others were more obscure. I’m a linguist as well as good at English spelling and grammar myself.
really cuz if i’m right the mexican mafia started in tracey california by a man named shyan…. they are a copy of the black hand italian mafia. they started it to take control of the drug opperations in the state prisons.
It’s a Greek word : ONOMA “noun” + TOPEIA “location”.
Some sounds can not be expressed by the human language, so if you want to “locate a sound” in the human language as a noun, for instance the sound of an explosion, you have to fabricate a new word like BANG. Try to imitate the sound of an engine !!!!
hello marina how are you doing today?i was wondering what is the origin of when a group of guys going to car and one of them calls out “i got shotgun!!!”can you investigate the origin?
hola princesa, I would like to know the meaning of the word Revolucion
and if you can, can you reply to me by your videos. please love you Corazon Chaooooo
I did some research on the web and I found out the most famous zip code is 90210 from Beverly Hills. Here in Portugal we call that a ‘ZIP code’ or ‘postal code’ to.
U’re great (I mean… I wanna be next teacher’s pet xD)!
2utoday, “Catch 22″ is the name of a book that was made into a film. The meaning comes from that story, so there’s no real point wasting time asking about it on here. Just from memory, it’s about a pilot who will probably die in the near future if he carries on being a pilot so he tries to get discharged on grounds on insanity, but then he’s told that as no sane person would want to continue in a job where they’re likely to be killed, this proves he’s not insane. He’s told this is “Catch 22″, so it either originates in this story or in USAF regulations which govern this situation.
There is a decent synopsis of the book in Wikipedia, you could rent the movie but the book is so much better. Catch-22 by Joesph Heller
Many characters are left out of the movie, one character in the book, ex Private Wintergreen had me rolling on the floor laughing when I read it.
Marina:
I was just wondering: Where did the phrase “catch 22″ come from? I know it means a no-win situation but how did it get started? Please investigate unless you find yourself in a “catch 22″ trying to figure it out. He-he!!
And in the USA,when you say 22 to the authorities,you are letting them know you are old enough to vote,get drunk,or join the military. However,they will probably want to see photo i.d. just to be sure. Oh yeah,they may even want to take your picture and finger prints and forward them on to the FBI and Interpol if you want anything more than buy booze and get drunk. Sometimes, men in black(MIB),may follow you around for days to see if you do anything stupid like buying firearms and other strange stuff. Yeah,you never know who is out there. Yikes!!
“A pertwee”. I hope I’m posting this in the right place. I live in London and I’ve just been told that “a pertwee” is a can of drink which has already been partly drunk. This is the first time I’ve heard of it. The
user of this term said he didn’t know why it was called that. I said it might be something to do with former Doctor Who Jon Pertwee or his son Sean Pertwee. This is the first time I’ve heard of it, so I don’t know if even *you* can find out.
Hey Roughcut your right on the Dr Who idea, but I have never heard of a can drink half drunk called that either. I live in the states and that is the first for me. Maybe Marina can find out more for you so I am going to put the word in bold so she can find it when she looks through all the comments. Word Request “pertwee as in a half drunk can of soda I hope she helps you on this one.
Mike
Thanks, but it wasn’t quite like that. The can of drink was alcoholic and I don’t think much of it had been drunk already. An idea I’ve had about it is that perhaps Jon Pertwee or Sean Pertwee was often a bit drunk, but not drunk enough and was worried about getting “too drunk”, whatever that may mean. Sean Pertwee has appeared in the historical crime series “Cadfael”, but I can’t remember what else he’s appeared in.
i would like to know where the Word “Hell” comes from i have my own lil theory but not sure if it’s correct. i’m thinkin it comes from hte name of the Norse goddess of the underworld Hel jus wonderin if im right or just totally daft
The concept of HELL as a bad place is a monotheistic concept.
Indeed HELL means “clear, bright, luminous, full with light and fire” and his the name as you said it of a Germanic god.
In Canada the postal code format, started in 1971, was alphanumeric – three characters, a letter, then a number, then a letter, then a space and three more characters, a number, a letter and a final number. For mail to Santa, the code H-0-H 0-H-0 fit this format, so it became popular. The Canadian Postal Service receives a million letters every Chrismas and attempts to answer them in the language they were originally submitted in.
I now live in Panama, where we have no postal codes and, in fact have very few street addresses either. It’s all very frustrating, particularly when almost all on-line forms insist on a postal or zip code. Most of the time we use 00000, which, of course, means nothing. It would be nice if Panama came up with at least one postal code that identified the country.
i think i an the first prs to typea connent with speech recognition i have nat removd any mistakes , It seems to be a bit tentrmantal .ihope yu cn make sense ofd .;
oh by the way. FACETIOUS is a good word, only one in english i think with all vowels in order in it. Might be an interesting etymological investigation.
Word request. Back in the 1980’s, some men at work used the phrase
“the tits” or “that’s the tits” like an idiom meaning “the best” or “great” or whatever. Has this ever made any slang or idiom dictionaries or did it just pass by so fast it never hit any officialdom? just curious. have NO idea why it pops into mind when visiting your site. *Rolls eyes* u r the best marina. thanks for site.
In Canada, They are called postal codes or codes postal for the french spealing community! Our postal codes are composed of 6 alternating letters and numbers to form the postal code. For example mine is G1H 6M8 and the 40 appartments in my building have the same one – To prevent errors, there are no I ’s or O’s in canadian postal codes because they could be confused with 1’s and 0’s. The most famous one would probably be H0H 0H0 “HOHOHO” for the north pole (Santa Clause)!
It is in Quebec city, Here is a link for a Canada post reference guide to Canadian postal codes for anyone interested! http://www.canadapost.ca/tools/pg/fsamaps/pdf/Canada.pdf
You can also enter a zip code or a canadian postal code in google map and get the corresponding area map!
most famous? 90210 after the TV show i guess. Think it is Beverly HIlls.
As an aside, it’s a little silly of them to add those four digits at the end
of the five digit number, which they did fairly recently, to identify the exact house i guess. after all there is all ready a number on the house. oh boy
Up here in Canada, we call it postal code. We use the same term as Great Britain. The exception is the French part of Canada which call it something French…(duh!) au francais …aaah… hmmm??? code postal(e) ?
sound’s awful because i didn’t take much care, and i reencoded it twice.
But .. i wanted to give you an example of how using the greenscreen backdrop might look.
(That backdrop could easily be an animation, etc.)
I expect you’re fully aware of the options, but .. you know .. shrug .. i like showing off.
well .. i found a vid that M had made which had a relatively smooth consistent colour background.
Which means i could turn it into a transparency and isolate the figure of M.
Which means in turn, that i can replace the background. I was at the very edges of understanding what i was doing so it’s merely a static background. .. and i made no other modifications.
I dloaded the vid from YouTube (using a Firefox addon).
I seperated out all the frames as png files using Quicktime.
I used a batch program for Paintshop pro which merely pulls in the files and saves where a colour range is set as transparent.
Then i created a cloud background scene the same size as teh frames.
Then i wrote a script for Macromedia fireworks to pull in each frame on top of the cloud background and save it as a new indexed file.
Then i got a free video compression prog which pulled in all the modified individual pic files .. and compressed these as a divx vid.
Then .. for a form which is playable in a browser, i had to convert to a mov file using a free prog called … erm .. (looks to see) … Super (C).
… and i havent mentioned the audio yet .. i had to compress that twice for some reason i cant remember .. prob cos i got lost in the process.
Basically, you take this thing-a-ma-gingy… and zing this to that ding… then flip flop and fly… well sort of!!!
After the firefox add-on part I got confused. This will be another adventure on another day. When I’m driven to accomplish something like this, I’ll figure out the steps… just like when I started using a Lincoln Continental to cook hotdogs!
can anyone make this smiley? —-> =Þ (look at it side ways if u dont see it)
without copying and pasting, i just want to know if anyone else does know how
ill tell u all later today if u would like to know how to make it
This letter was used in Old English: it was one of the two versions of the modern “th” (the smooth one, like in… “smooth” for example). This letter was named “þurisaz” and comes from the Celtic alphabet. It’s still used today in Iceland.
If you want to write it, just type Alt+0254 using your numpad. This is the code of this symbol.
RE-DUX is Latin : RE- “again” + DUX “leader”.
The English word DUKE comes from French DUC and from Latin DUX.
DUCERE means “to lead” in Latin. This Latin root *DUC- is akin to the Germanic (English here) TOW “draw”.
Stevemol ! The meaning is very clear : “Ike was another Gustov for New Orleans”. REDUX here means “comer back” instead of “leader back”. Words can be very flexible.
In Britain it is called “post code” or maybe “postal code”. These days they’re all one or more usually two letters, a one or two digit number, space, one digit, two letters.
Most famous zip code? Probably the one on TV, 90210?
My zip? 79901
Now, Marina, my dear teacher, can you tell us who invented the Zipper, what year it was invented, and why?
ahh another texan …yes…love texas…love the zipcodes too…screw other zip codes texas has the best….zip codes are nice and dont have mice….deep in the heart of texas….so much mail and a lot of hail….deep in the heart of texas….
I’m sure it’s not Marina!
The girl’s legs are a bit crooked, but Marin’s are not!
Trust me. I’m a dancer, so I’m good at distinguishing people’s body shape.
That girl just wanted to show off her asssets
Dancing is easy as cha-cha-cha! Singing is the
same. Start with the Electric Slide, Macarena,
Boot Scoot Shuffle ( LOL!) and work it out from
there. You’ve already got some good moves, now
you need to practise some “lizard” moves – Yeow!
(You DO know what I mean, right?)
A good example of the lizard is the scene in
True Lies where Jamie Lee Curtis dances for
Arnold….(you know, where his eyes bug out!!)
Hello princessseherzada, Marina did a Honeymoon video (game) back in Dec. 07. When you click the Lessons list in the upper left hand corner of the page, the videos are listed under
# Guess The Word Game 7
# Guess The Word Game 7 – Answer
to answer your question: In my country we call the ZIP Code “PLZ” which is also an abbreviation an means “Postleitzahl”. From the length of this word you can figure out that I live in Germany. After our reunion the “PLZ” got five figures (earlier they were only four). Some of them even start with a zero. Small villages and towns have only one “PLZ”. Bigger towns and cities have several “PLZ”.
At the end of my message I want to mention that your appearance in the video was beautiful but I had prefered to see more of you and less of ZIP Codes.
its funny i know alot about zip codes….the most famous zip code….i know the most famous phone number…from that 80s song…768 2309 .. kidding it just fits the …anyway…famous zip code…99999 walalwala washington…hehehe…20101 is dc….let me think…oh yes 90213…bloody tv show in californ I A …..i forgot about that show till recently it came back on and my wife started watching it…..ok what zip codes can you find surprise, love, promise, mars, and somwhere in? i have no idea why i like zip codes…i know too much about them but im learning by reverse um whats it called….where you start at the top and break your way down to understand it…reverse technology…well same idea….i know the first number is the reagion..the second well…an area…it some times goes west to east north to south and sometimes all the hell over the place….the third digit in some places do the same….the last two are cities in alphabetical order depending on the third digit ….and sometimes not even that…hehehehe….mix that with area codes and it narrows it down but if you include cell phones well…dont include cell phones…cause ou can have a person in 75001 which is addison tx….with a cell number starting with 303 which is colorado….75006-10 is carrolton but have a 903 or 940 area code on ones cell…75017 is coppell…then it goes odd….75038 is irving….75043 is garland….75083 is richardson….75025 is plano…but 75063 is irving again…..then they added the extra 4 digits at eh end which describes exactly what mailbox you get mail at….i have no idea why i know this ….but i challenge any of you to test me….give me a 10 digit zip code….and a land line area code and i will send you a green bean in the mail….free of charge….it might take five years….and well first i gtta get my green beans growing….they are in vine stage and that bloody hurricane just flooded out my cilantro and celery…(people lost houses and im bitching about green bean plants which cant think or can they….they are odd…i will put the long vive ina spot where i want it to climb and it goes off and finds a way to wrap itself around the vine next to it 20 times….and then another wants to gwo but i havent let it…so it found its own way….it dug in….the vine went back under the dirt and choled itself around my cuccumber plant…i got it off and pointed it in the right direction…but after the rain today….it looked like it was gonna climb the trolles…but no it switched directions and attacked the cucumber again and sprouted anouther vine that was trying to strangle the base of the older plant 2 feet away from it….the biggerones grew another 4 inches in one hour….god i hope they dont pull my fence down…they dont like the trellsisisis i built for them …they just like to sneak around like snakes….and be a bunch of beans…..who am emailing again….oh yeah…sorry…i went off there…the wild green bean can be located at 75287-0603…..972….send me a green bean…. sorry i forgot who i was typing to again….mom is that you?….i forgot your zip code i need to send you that kid of ours over and he has to make it there by friday…..love you
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Feeling it M, lurve ya “Show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream” she said
“The one that makes me laugh” she said
And threw her arms around my neck
“Show me how you do it
And I promise you I promise that
I’ll run away with you
I’ll run away with you”
Spinning on that dizzy edge
I kissed her face and kissed her head
And dreamed of all the different ways I had
To make her glow
“Why are you so far away?” she said
“Why won’t you ever know that I’m in love with you
That I’m in love with you”
You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Strange as angels
Dancing in the deepest oceans
Twisting in the water
You’re just like a dream
Daylight licked me into shape
I must have been asleep for days
And moving lips to breathe her name
I opened up my eyes
And found myself alone alone
Alone above a raging sea
That stole the only girl I loved
And drowned her deep inside of me
You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Just like heaven
Extra Credit: (OK, I made that up)
Wealthiest ZIP codes:
- Highest Adjust Gross Income: NY 10021, NY 10022
- Highest Income per tax return: NY 10004, Medina, Wash 98039
Richest ZIP Codes:
- Avalon, NJ 08202
- Newport Beach, CA 92661
In about 10 minutes, the Best Weekend Ever contest draws to a close.
I just added my final votes to give Marina’s video 3915 votes.
Then, it will be in the hands of the sponsors of the contest to select the winner. I hope they make the right decision.
I agree. The most famous Zip Code is 90210. My Zip Code is 11793. Prior to July 1993, it was 11520. I live in Wantagh, New York, now, and lived in Freeport then.
Another Zip Code I’ve heard a lot in my life is 90036. As in:
Tickets
The Price is Right
CBS Television City
7800 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Okay, Bob. … Sorry, I got carried away.
Thank you, Marina. I never thought of the true meaning of ZIP before. Interesting. ‘Zone Improvement Plan’ do make sense, because by adding zip code, you can deliver mail faster. My zip code in Taiwan is 23658. Recently, the zip code system here changed from 3 digits to 5 digits to make the zones finer, I think. BTW, is zip code writing a must when you send mail in US? Or is it just an option if you write the address?
For a French speaker, etymologically speaking CHEVROLET means “little CHEVREUIL”. CHEVREUIL = ROEDEER.
The French CHEVREUIL is the evolution of Latin CAPRIOLA “little goat”. CAPRA = GOAT in Latin.
Hello, Marina,
I am curious, about the the word ‘canto’, as in poetry; I know it is the main or large portion of a poem; but where did the word come from and why is it used like the word chapter in Dante’s divine comedy?
Hello, Marina,
I am curious, about the the word ‘canto’, as in poetry; I know it is the main or large portion of a poem; but where did the word come from and why is it used like the word chapter in Dante’s divine comedy?
I have two zipcodes, 33312 and 33334 – both in Florida
Yeah, I don’t know if it’s the most famous, but there was a show called “Beverly Hills 90210″ which I hear was a popular TV show. I sort of lost touch with the TV world in general, I needed my brain for more important tasks and TV is like the newspapers; full of useless information and distraction. This way, I get to go through election cycles without benig continuously annoyed.
You are not alone! LOL!
Erotic, exotic – just what the doctor ordered
Far too often a man will pursue a woman’s interest
only to discover she can be neurotic and / or psychotic!
Marina has a sister? – the jury is still out….
I was thinking that the zip code for Washington,DC would be the most famous but many who have left comments believe it is 90210.
My zip code is 78213. And now the post office have added four more digits making my new zip code 78213-0082. When will it ever end?
haha a felow texan….mid texas….gotta be a city below the letter m…(thats safe)…or in a metropolitain area or suburb…..im also gonna guess your in the north and east part of it….. ill send you a green bean…one day…i gotta do some more research on how to pin point he last four digits of a zip code….but if some one on your street gets a green bean in the mail….let me know…oh yeah ill need your local area code too if you dont mind….
read above…hehehe…im not drunk…just well..i guess i could get drunk…my wife and kid are asleep…i got enough beer…if i can get my kid ready and somehow skip church tommorow ill be in good shape…so what do you say….wait what did i say…..i didnt offer my body again did i?….oh ….no hehehe…zip codes….forgot…sorry…long day at work…ok …ill start in san antonio….close to the interstate…from there…the last four is what gets me…id do better knocking door to door….anyway a green bean is comming…
I believe the post office calls it zip+four. It is suppose to make it easier for the mail carrier to locate your address. Trouble is,only about half(if that many)bother to use the extra four digits. And when people move to a new address,they may use the the old +four digits on their new zip code which only adds confusion for the mail carrier. Also,some online companies do not allow the +four digits to be inserted on your address when you create an account with them. It is turning out to be the old “catch 22″ syndrome. That means you can’t win no matter what you do. I think I’ll go see a movie and think about it tomorrow.
The new england area zips all start with a Zero and many computer programs and even excel spreadsheets get confused with that LEADING ZERO and drop it… I still on occasion get mailings with only 4 digits “4330″ … and this can cause delays… otherwise my mail arrives in
a ZIPpy fashion especially when given “Express” “Priority”
I have a word request please for one of our future lesson, that would be cool i think, it is : a “deja vu”
thx for your work Marina, it’s more important for a language to keep the same meaning for the same word than to check everytime if someone write or spell it well ! sometime i feel like people try to give more importance to the appearance than to the meaning
You scored 39 looks, 59 personality, 14 politics, and 66 sex drive!
You have a great personality and are highly sexual. You have wonderful relationships that seem to be perfect. But in the end somewhere your loved one always ends up leaving…. But don’t stop loving, and being the person that you are. They’ll show up one day, and if you already have them then hold on to them with all you have.
You scored 54 looks, 78 personality, 50 politics, and 57 sex drive!
Awesome Girl II
You don’t seem to either know about or care about politics, but you are beautiful and a good person (so it seems), and you seem to have a high sex drive. You’re probably a great wife or girlfriend, and you know how to make sure that the ones you love are happy. You have a wonderful life ahead of you, make sure you live it to the fullest, and keep being the person that you seem to be.
Your result for The What Kind of Girl are You Test …
The Liberal Beauty
You scored 68 looks, 79 personality, 24 politics, and 89 sex drive!
You’re beautiful, you have a great personality, and youre highly sexual. You’re a liberal with your views and you don’t put morals before everything. You’re probably a great wife or girlfriend, and you know how to make sure that the ones you love are happy. You’re probably fun in a conversation and I’m sure that you are as loveable as you are beautiful.
Your result for The What Kind of Girl are You Test …
PERFECTION!!!!!!!!!
You scored 65 looks, 63 personality, 77 politics, and 53 sex drive!
You are beautiful, have a great personality, know youre politics, and have a high sex drive. You are the girl of any man’s dreams. You know what you are doing in bed, you’re fairly conservative, and you know how to treat your loved one. Men have been waiting for a girl like you all their lives. You probably know how to make sure that the ones you love are happy. You will make someone a great wife or girlfriend someday, if you haven’t already. You’re the kind of girl that everyone wants. You’re probably fun in a conversation and I’m sure that you are as loveable as you are beautiful. You have a wonderful life ahead of you, make sure you live it to the fullest, and keep being the person that you seem to be.
Hehehehe… perhaps I should meet and marry a lesbian and be her bitch…
duh! according to this test … i’m like a great persona with a lot of dildos and other sex toys or something. looks like when i’m not engaged in a conversation, i’m fucking the hell out of people whenever i get the chance. :/
NIHIL means NOTHING in Latin.
Nihilism is the philosophy consisting in saying that the society in which we live is rotten and that the best way to change the society is to destroy everything and to rebuild something new from NIHIL.
A kind of ground zero
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Mike
I have constructed this list of what must be the most famous three zip codes on your web site. They are, in decending order, 10314, 02136, 23453. Can you guess why? Mine is 10032.
I have a special request: you have inspired me to buy the Rosetta Stone “Learn Russian” CDs. So boring! Why don’t you start making “Learn Russian” videos? I would pay $$$:-) for such videos – so would so many of your dear students!
Just think, dear teacher, given the current state of hostilites between our two countries, you could be the instrument of friendship: suddenly, thousands of your dear students, traveling to Russia to perfect their skills; thousands of Americans living in Russia; maybe even, one day, an American with a горяче для слова (don’t laugh too hard ) It only makes my point – your students need Russian videos!
Hey Lucky. I was thinking of buying Rosetta Stone for Russian. You say it’s boring but how is it as far as learning the Cyrillic language. Can you read and write it or just speak it?
Thanks,
Mike
Seriously, it’s not bad, but I’m just starting. On my last trip to Moscow, I was lost without my business associates; I made the resolution to learn this, once and for all. So, ask me again in a few months.
Even better, perhaps our dear teacher will give us both her advice
I have a friend on here his named Superdanielchik who has been trying to teach me Russian. But it’s hard since he goes to school in France and lives in Russia and I in the states. So I down loaded a program BYKI.com something like yours that has flash cards and pronounces the words for you too. It’s a simple basic program but not to hard to learn. After you get so far then they want you to buy the rest of the program. It may be worth it if I can learn the basic words first. Maybe Marina will take us under her wing and teach us the language.
I have been studying Russian for about 18 months now. When I first started, I used BYKI, and I really liked it and still do. However, soon after getting a little vocabulary, you *really* need to learn some grammar. Russian word order is quite a bit more free than English, so knowing the correct endings is critical to determine if, for example, you intend a word to be the subject, direct object or indirect object. However, having said that, I can tell you that with only five months of vocabulary practice, I traveled to Latvia (eastern Latvia, where mostly Russian is spoken) and could communicate on a very basic level with people. As long as you can give a noun and a verb, with a little pointing, you can communicate a surprising amount. Good luck! I love studying Russian, it’s a really interesting language.
Hey OK4N “sir” lol haven’t heard from you in a while. Everything OK I hope. We haven’t heard from Pagedoll in a while either. I think some members are just to busy or just lost interest in the site. That’s a shame to loose good friends. So take care.
Mike
Hi hurricanestrikesyou, Marina answered that a few times in past comments. If you watch all of her videos, you’ll come across her comments.
Since Marina is an etymologist / philologist, she has a passion for words. I guess the name PassionForWords name was just too boring. Being ‘hot’ for something is a passion, so that name fits perfectly with the person who coincidentally is hot as well.
Hello Marina. Love your website and your YouTube lessons! I have a word request for you: “NEWS” — as in “I have news”, or “did you watch the news”. How did this word come to be used? Does it has something to do with the word “new” ? Thanks for enlightening us!
90210 sounds good to me too,never did care for the tv show tho,not my style at all,I like action,sci fi and horror,roll em all into one like Aliens movie and I’m hooked.
My ZIP will be the same as Bumfuct Egypt where the African Desert Bugs reign supreme.
Marina.
It must be 90211 the zip code for Hotforwords
out here in Temecula Wine Country its 92591
Marina you need to come out to the Temecula’s Wine Country
and go to all the Winerys
We have Limo tours and if you like, I could
set you and a friend with a Horse Back Ride to one of the Winery’s
In France we use the “code postal” (post code) with 5 digits. The first two digits indicate the “département” (equivalent of state). The post code of the capital of a département ends with “000″ (44000 for Nantes for example). There are three exceptions: the biggest towns of France are divided into several “arrondissements”: 20 for Paris (from 75001 to 75020), 16 for Marseille (from 13001 to 13016) and 9 for Lyon (from 69001 to 69009).
This explanation for the zip code made me think about the origin of the expression “zip file”. I suppose it’s the same idea of speed but please, could anyone confirm it?
i think hte “zip” as in postal area is an acronym:
ie. Zone (something starting with I that i cant think of) (something starting with P that i cant think of)
v. “zip” as in “zip file”
“zip” is used in the sense of zipping something up in a bag.
cool link capman911 – Your strongest type of intelligence is Visual. You thrive on spatial thinking, shapes, patterns, and form. You’re unlikely to be blind. You can probably think in 3D very easily. You are very likely to be attractive, based on only my most rudimentary anecdotal evidence. And you are likely to appreciate a good body in a lover.
Your specific scores follow. On any axis, a score above 25% means you use that kind of thinking more than average, and a score below 25% means you use it less. It says nothing about cognitive skills, just your interest.
Your brain is roughly:
25% Interpersonal
40%Visual
20%Verbal
15%Mathematical
Matching Summary: Each of us has different tastes. Still, I offer the following advice to the world.
1. Don’t date someone if your interpersonal percentages differ by more than 20%.
2. Don’t be friends with someone if your verbal percentages differ by more than 25%.
3. Don’t have sex with someone if their math percentage is over 50%.
hhmmm…I guess so mijj. Do imagine, visualise pretty much everything but shamefully not any use in my current job….will have to re-think a few things to see where this could lead to. Love photography as with some art but never really got stuck into it before. May replace playing music with a new hobby for a while, ’see’ what happens. What the heck mijj, will attend evening photo classes at my local college. Also, have many hours of video collected over the years when traveling. Some has been edited shown to a few who said they enjoyed the abstract slant I gave it. Most importantly, thinking about it, I really enjoyed creating them as with seeing peoples reactions…hhmmm….thanks for the thought mijj, could be just what I’m looking for….Hollywood here I come!
may replace music? … eek! … i kind of think of music as being strongly visual .. well .. in my case anyway. … i guess there must be a number of ways that music can be perceived.
Hi M, super duper lesson as always, zipped by pretty fast mind. Looking delicous as ever. Post code we Brits call it…- don’t know what you guys over there see but we have an amazingly big fat bright moon this evening with Jupiter hanging low
I found them on the net through various sources… if you guys know of more quote sources I can add them as well… they need to be in a list for where I can grab a whole bunch.
Here is one I try to live by “if a chicken and a half lays and a egg and a half in a day and a half, how long would it take a monkey with a wooden leg to kick the seeds out of a dill pickle?”
In the UK we use a Postcode in the format LLnx nLL (where L is an upper case letter, n is a digit and x is a digit or a letter).
Whereas, in USA, Europe etc. the 5 digit Zip codes only identify a commune or area of a city, in UK a postcode will identify a street or one side of a street. If you then add the house number it identifies the individual property.
Some large properties and business addresses can have a unique postcode if the volume of mail they receive justifies it, so the most famous one in UK would probably be the Queen’s London residence, Buckingham Palace, SW1A 1AA.
My postcode is classified – “For Your Eyes Only”.
Mine is bh21 1yd.. I probably shouldn’t post that lol… And isnt sw1a 1aa type post code just for london places??> I have never heard of a layout like that before bob
W.O.R.D R.E.Q.U.E.S.T
why are words such as “ass, shit, fuck, hell” (mind the swearing) noted as curse words cuss words or swear words, why r they so bad?
Good one Mrsean22795. That’s one way Marina can easily spot a word request. You must have been in on the conversation about how to make it easier for her to recognize a request. Good thinking.
Hello mijj,
Sorry to bother you, I’m catching up right now, I always pester Bob and maybe he needs a break from my comments and questions.
Beans on toast.
I listen to audio books while I work and this one had a line in it that went something like-
“You have an accent that is as British as beans on toast”.
Is that a rude comment? Is that a local snack? Is it an old custom?
I did a search and I get explanations/pictures on how to prepare it not much more.
Thank you
yeh … i guess beans on toast is a typically brit kiddy food for adults.
I.e. something you’d make your kids cos they enjoy it … and it’d be your guilty pleasure too.
Hey .. how come you want to know so much about brit habits? .. are you planning to invade?
Brother-from-another-mother! Like mine, your highest scoring intelligence is Mathematical. You thrive on logic, numbers, things representing numbers, and sets of things that are sets of other things, with numbers nowhere in sight. You probably like the online comic called XKCD, and if you don’t, check it out.
You probably knew you’d score “Mathematical” as you took the test, and mathy types are usually super-high scorers on this axis, and low on the others. Why? Because you (we) yearn for math.
Anyway, your specific scores follow. On any axis, a score above 25% means you use that kind of thinking more than average, and a score below 25% means you use it less. It says nothing about cognitive skills, just your interest.
Your brain is roughly:
15% Interpersonal
20%Visual
30%Verbal
35%Mathematical
Matching Summary: Each of us has different tastes. Still, I offer the following advice to the world.
1. Don’t date someone if your interpersonal percentages differ by more than 20%.
2. Don’t be friends with someone if your verbal percentages differ by more than 25%.
3. Don’t have sex with someone if your math scores differ by over 40%. You might kill them.
well .. i wouldnt say it’s implying you’re a mathematician .. but have that sort of essential viewpoint (even though you may not be educated that way) .. and doing badly at maths at school doesn’t mean you’re not perceptive in that way – could just means you may not have like being bound to the rigid structure of a class.
That *is* very possible,at least in my case. I hated math/s but loved reading,but,pretty much hated all school starting with kindergarten. Ended up in construction and using math often,albeit not the highest level math.
@ Tyrant same here on the math. I hated school from day one. Nothing interested me except hands on projects. I joined shop class, horticulture, anything that I could visibly learn. As it would be when I joined the fire department after graduation, we had to know Algebra to do friction loss in standpipes, fire hose, nozzles and all types of appliances. So I jumped from basic math to algebra in no time if I wanted to advance in my position. It must of worked. But I still don’t like math. Today they get to use calculators in school. We had fingers and toes.
i was a disruptive asshole (as you americans say) at school and did no work. .. i had an affinity for maths and art, i got top qualifications for those – and failed everything else .. i utterly bombed english language – absolutely the worst.
- so i was doomed to a career as a manual laborer. … well … not so much doomed cos i enjoyed the freedom of it .. working and quitting as i saw fit and using my time as i wished and destroying my brain with dangerous drugs
.. but after 7 years of that i got bored of it and made a serious attempt to get back into college. (in those days, there was government encouragement and help). – and i finally learned to string a rudimentary sentence together! (still bloody clumsy, tho)
- so i guess taht proves that, even though i was crap at the english language at school, it’s actually because i am crap at the english language.
Don’t have sex with someone if your math scores differ by over 40%. You might kill them. I am so dumb I don’t even know what this post is about.. Also I am crap at maths so I should be fine
in holland and in duttch language we say post code
and all codes in holland look like this for example 1111 aa or 2222 bb. you know 4 lnumbers and two letters
mine starts with 69 and ends with ET pretty damn funny
[cognitive skill weighting]
4-variable “iq” test – actually not an iq test – it measuring your bias towards your principle cognitive skills.
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Your strongest type of intelligence is Visual. You thrive on spatial thinking, shapes, patterns, and form. You’re unlikely to be blind. You can probably think in 3D very easily. You are very likely to be attractive, based on only my most rudimentary anecdotal evidence. And you are likely to appreciate a good body in a lover.
Your specific scores follow. On any axis, a score above 25% means you use that kind of thinking more than average, and a score below 25% means you use it less. It says nothing about cognitive skills, just your interest.
good link mijj; we think, or see much alike. It can be hard being an attractive himbo at times thankfuly Marina can increase our verbal skills so should re-sit test this time next year to see how we have improved via our trusty teachers lessons. Besides, having sex with a woman who is 50% mathmaticaly greater than one sounds traumatic…..so best avoid number woman however could be a great sqaure root!!!
.. on the other hand .. M has a balanced approach to her word vids .. she doesn’t just sit there spouting verbiage .. there’s lots of presentation quality.
so she’s strong visually as well as verbally. .. so that means there’s not going to be a huge difference in verbal orientation percentages. so i don’t have to fear Marina.
Brother-from-another-mother! Like mine, your highest scoring intelligence is Mathematical. You thrive on logic, numbers, things representing numbers, and sets of things that are sets of other things, with numbers nowhere in sight. You probably like the online comic called XKCD, and if you don’t, check it out.
You probably knew you’d score “Mathematical” as you took the test, and mathy types are usually super-high scorers on this axis, and low on the others. Why? Because you (we) yearn for math.
Anyway, your specific scores follow. On any axis, a score above 25% means you use that kind of thinking more than average, and a score below 25% means you use it less. It says nothing about cognitive skills, just your interest.
Your brain is roughly:
10% Interpersonal
15%Visual
15%Verbal
60%Mathematical
Matching Summary: Each of us has different tastes. Still, I offer the following advice to the world.
1. Don’t date someone if your interpersonal percentages differ by more than 20%.
2. Don’t be friends with someone if your verbal percentages differ by more than 25%.
3. Don’t have sex with someone if your math scores differ by over 40%. You might kill them.
Gee, judging by my scores on this quiz, I should have no desire but every reason to enjoy this forum!
I took Trigonometry and Calculus simultaneously in High School (the Calculus class being my first college credit) and have studied to be a Nuclear Reactor operator for the USN, after that was a Paramedic, as well as a self-taught programmer of CNC turning stations, taught myself C programming language, working on C++, designed a couple of flying model aircraft for fun… wierd enough for you? I recreated a game called ‘Nim” I played as a child with my brothers to test my skill in “C”, and plan to make an accurate Windows-based replica of the German WWII enigma machines (3- and 4- rotor versions) to prove my ability in C++.
hey .. if you weren’t an odd duck, you wouldn’t be posting on this site.
That’s why i like this place .. we’re all a (collective noun for ducks) of odd ducks.
Plus .. i’m (or was) pretty fair with maths (having a maths based degree) and have done a reasonable amount of programming.
- however . i gotta say, my programming was good because i was a bad programmer (i dont mean in astructural sense, but in the details of coding sense) .. i.e. it went wrong in every possible way it could before i got a working version of whatever it was. So, in the end, my stuff was idiotproof.
plus .. i wonder how music maps onto those 4 qualities?
yeah, i was a bit confused by that, too. if you’re good at math, you’re probably good at abstract thinking which involves 3d stuff and the like as well … so, yeah …
Mijj… I’m not so sure I can COMPLETELY agree with you there:
because visual information can be communicated either verbally or mathematically depending on the circumstance. for example I can communicate the Mandelbrodt set (with written verbal instruction) to
In Austria we call it PLZ. This stands for Postleitzahl which means Mail->Divert->Number.
Your hotfordollmakerwords
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90210?
mine is 90650
‘Post Code’ instead
In Canada we use a postal code of LetterNumberLetter NumberLetterNumber. The most famous postal code we have is H0H 0H0 which is at the North Pole and gets a lot of mail… for Santa Claus.
My zip code; 46746
As for the most famous zip; D.C.?
Hey Maria, want to become penpals?
I’m back, been a while since I been to the site. I’m trying to catch up on Videos now via the RSS feed.
In Canada, we have “Postal Codes”. 3 letters, and 3 numbers. They begin with a letter, then a number, then a letter, and so on.
example: V8N 1B8
I’ve been told we have weird zip codes by Americans.
As for the most famous, I would have to say 90210, as it was part of the name of a famous TV show.
When I was at California Institute of Technology, the school had a unique zip code, 91125, and its own system of postal boxes. You could send me mail addressed “P-107, 91125″ and it would get to me without even my name.
day 7! – i went one full week without M-videos!
Marina what is it in Russia? It seems to be a slightly different system….
I have cousin in Drohobych Ukraine… and you have to put down all kinds of freaky stuff…
In CANADA, we have what we call a postal code… consiting of letters and numbers 3 letters and 3 numbers… but my mail still gets misplaced… ugggg!
probably from the british system?? God save the Queen!
most famous zip code has to be 90210! bev hills baby!
p.s. where can we find naked pics of this lady?!
90210!!
Homework: 02134
When I was a kid, and there were only 4 or 5 channels one could watch on broadcast TV, there was a show on PBS called “Zoom” with this ZIP code. Since Sesame Street came on just before it, I thought these shows were right next door to each other. There was also “The Electric Company”.
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zoot suit yeah i aint in school no morez but i know all about them or other know pachuco suits. them suit are the shit i got a poster of a lot of them. i rock the lowrider hat haha i’m saving money to get a custom one.
Greatest podcast ever, well done hot4words!
Now can I humbly ask, if you can check the origin of ‘Ombudsman’ ? Thank you very much
Keep up the good work!
Requested Word:
“Movie”. Why do we say “watch a movie” or “go see a movie” or even “making a movie”?
The word MOVIE replaced the word CINEMA. CINEMA is the shortened form for CINEMATO-GRAPH “movements-writer”.
Don’t forget the invention of the CINEMA. Pictures started to move !
Requested word is Effect plox
Hi Marina,
was wondering where the word “hoarse” (as in: “your voice is hoarse”) comes from. Thanks!
- Mizu
Could you look up the origin of the term ’southpaw’ please? Thanks a lot Marina.
I think it comes from baseball… if one was a left-handed pitcher, one was a south-paw. Paw refers to the hand, and South refers to the orientation of that hand while the pitcher stood on the mound. Typical baseball diamonds were oriented such that batters faced east, so the sun will not interfere with their play. This meant that left-handed pitchers were using their south-sided hand.
I find this video shallow & pedantic
I find that clip shallow and pedantic
you are both shallow and pedantic !
what he said (diction man that is).
The most famous zip code must be 90210?
wherefore 90210?
I wanna request a word, the word *Effect*.
EFFECT is taken from the Latin EFFECTUS = EX+FACTUS = OUT-DONE.
In latin a past participle can become a name. So if English were pure we should say like in Latin : OUTDEED instead of EFFECT.
Imagine : “The outdeeds of this weather are awful.”
I have a word request:
to wear the pants
which origin has this outdated saying?
in which language/country was it used first?
In French we use to say “his wife wears the pants” SA FEMME PORTE LA CULOTTE. But I think the Germans use also this saying.
For those of you who have not seen Marina’s dance yet, its right here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylfbxhz2M3U
she says the dancer is her sister but I think she is Marina herself.
I’m guessing the most famous zip code is probably 90210, from the TV Program, “Beverly Hills 90210 .”
ight will do
Ninos, Research Zoot Suites, find out how this subjects relates to the Mexican American community. Who knows, some day you may need a topic for a school paper.
You probably mean “Zoot suits”. Good request… it will send us back to the early 20th century.
hi how did they came up with the word NYLON as in a nylon string
I’ve heard about this, but I don’t know if I should post what I’ve heard, because that might be all Marina’s job. I thought that some of her explanations were quite obvious, but others were more obscure. I’m a linguist as well as good at English spelling and grammar myself.
really cuz if i’m right the mexican mafia started in tracey california by a man named shyan…. they are a copy of the black hand italian mafia. they started it to take control of the drug opperations in the state prisons.
Ninos, This is not the place for such a topic.
Just Google your subject, there is plenty of information out there.
yes, i’m pretty sure 90210 is the answer…
nice decolettage, btw…
oops, maybe i should zip my lip…
Hello annuddermale,
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Does that mean “decorate the cottage”
Marina would decorate anyone’s life, let alone a mere living space…
can you please explain to me the meaning of the word ONOMATOPOEIA and its origin please.
It means a word based on a sound, like “meow” or “bang.”
It’s a Greek word : ONOMA “noun” + TOPEIA “location”.
Some sounds can not be expressed by the human language, so if you want to “locate a sound” in the human language as a noun, for instance the sound of an explosion, you have to fabricate a new word like BANG. Try to imitate the sound of an engine !!!!
hello marina how are you doing today?i was wondering what is the origin of when a group of guys going to car and one of them calls out “i got shotgun!!!”can you investigate the origin?
The “Shotgun” seat is the one in front, beside the driver, where the man with the firearm sat on Stagecoaches.
hola princesa, I would like to know the meaning of the word Revolucion
and if you can, can you reply to me by your videos. please love you Corazon Chaooooo
Hi Marina!
I did some research on the web and I found out the most famous zip code is 90210 from Beverly Hills. Here in Portugal we call that a ‘ZIP code’ or ‘postal code’ to.
U’re great (I mean… I wanna be next teacher’s pet xD)!
2utoday, “Catch 22″ is the name of a book that was made into a film. The meaning comes from that story, so there’s no real point wasting time asking about it on here. Just from memory, it’s about a pilot who will probably die in the near future if he carries on being a pilot so he tries to get discharged on grounds on insanity, but then he’s told that as no sane person would want to continue in a job where they’re likely to be killed, this proves he’s not insane. He’s told this is “Catch 22″, so it either originates in this story or in USAF regulations which govern this situation.
There is a decent synopsis of the book in Wikipedia, you could rent the movie but the book is so much better.
Catch-22 by Joesph Heller
Many characters are left out of the movie, one character in the book, ex Private Wintergreen had me rolling on the floor laughing when I read it.
I was just wondering: Where did the phrase “catch 22″ come from? I know it means a no-win situation but how did it get started? Please investigate unless you find yourself in a “catch 22″ trying to figure it out. He-he!!
In France when you say 22 it means “the cops are coming”.
“A pertwee”. I hope I’m posting this in the right place. I live in London and I’ve just been told that “a pertwee” is a can of drink which has already been partly drunk. This is the first time I’ve heard of it. The
user of this term said he didn’t know why it was called that. I said it might be something to do with former Doctor Who Jon Pertwee or his son Sean Pertwee. This is the first time I’ve heard of it, so I don’t know if even *you* can find out.
Hey Roughcut your right on the Dr Who idea, but I have never heard of a can drink half drunk called that either. I live in the states and that is the first for me. Maybe Marina can find out more for you so I am going to put the word in bold so she can find it when she looks through all the comments. Word Request “pertwee as in a half drunk can of soda I hope she helps you on this one.
Mike
Thanks, but it wasn’t quite like that. The can of drink was alcoholic and I don’t think much of it had been drunk already. An idea I’ve had about it is that perhaps Jon Pertwee or Sean Pertwee was often a bit drunk, but not drunk enough and was worried about getting “too drunk”, whatever that may mean. Sean Pertwee has appeared in the historical crime series “Cadfael”, but I can’t remember what else he’s appeared in.
The bold letters will still alert her to your original post.
Good luck.
maybe it has all the qualities of part wee
Genious, I would like to know if this word is like creative wonder if I spelled it right.Thanks.PK
i would like to know where the Word “Hell” comes from i have my own lil theory but not sure if it’s correct. i’m thinkin it comes from hte name of the Norse goddess of the underworld Hel jus wonderin if im right or just totally daft
The concept of HELL as a bad place is a monotheistic concept.
Indeed HELL means “clear, bright, luminous, full with light and fire” and his the name as you said it of a Germanic god.
In Canada the postal code format, started in 1971, was alphanumeric – three characters, a letter, then a number, then a letter, then a space and three more characters, a number, a letter and a final number. For mail to Santa, the code H-0-H 0-H-0 fit this format, so it became popular. The Canadian Postal Service receives a million letters every Chrismas and attempts to answer them in the language they were originally submitted in.
I now live in Panama, where we have no postal codes and, in fact have very few street addresses either. It’s all very frustrating, particularly when almost all on-line forms insist on a postal or zip code. Most of the time we use 00000, which, of course, means nothing. It would be nice if Panama came up with at least one postal code that identified the country.
i think i an the first prs to typea connent with speech recognition i have nat removd any mistakes , It seems to be a bit tentrmantal .ihope yu cn make sense ofd .;
I thought it was Steven Hawkin talking there for a minute.
oh by the way. FACETIOUS is a good word, only one in english i think with all vowels in order in it. Might be an interesting etymological investigation.
that’s a nice observation .. i cheated and used a tool to find:
abstemious
abstentious
arsenious
thanks Mijj. this is great to know! nice tool to use.
Word request. Back in the 1980’s, some men at work used the phrase
“the tits” or “that’s the tits” like an idiom meaning “the best” or “great” or whatever. Has this ever made any slang or idiom dictionaries or did it just pass by so fast it never hit any officialdom? just curious. have NO idea why it pops into mind when visiting your site. *Rolls eyes* u r the best marina. thanks for site.
postcode =Dutch
postinumero=Finnish
In Canada, They are called postal codes or codes postal for the french spealing community! Our postal codes are composed of 6 alternating letters and numbers to form the postal code. For example mine is G1H 6M8 and the 40 appartments in my building have the same one – To prevent errors, there are no I ’s or O’s in canadian postal codes because they could be confused with 1’s and 0’s. The most famous one would probably be H0H 0H0 “HOHOHO” for the north pole (Santa Clause)!
Hello mad_621,
For your information… East of Regina… the postal code is S0G 3Z0.
No o’s just zeroes… just like you said.
Where is G1H 6M8 anyway?
It is in Quebec city, Here is a link for a Canada post reference guide to Canadian postal codes for anyone interested!
http://www.canadapost.ca/tools/pg/fsamaps/pdf/Canada.pdf
You can also enter a zip code or a canadian postal code in google map and get the corresponding area map!
most famous? 90210 after the TV show i guess. Think it is Beverly HIlls.
As an aside, it’s a little silly of them to add those four digits at the end
of the five digit number, which they did fairly recently, to identify the exact house i guess. after all there is all ready a number on the house. oh boy
In Australia we just call it ‘Post Code’
Hello Marina,
Up here in Canada, we call it postal code. We use the same term as Great Britain. The exception is the French part of Canada which call it something French…(duh!) au francais …aaah… hmmm??? code postal(e) ?
Marina .. i had a little hack at one of your vids. I hope you don’t mind.
[hack of a tiny segment of a HFW vid clip]
sound’s awful because i didn’t take much care, and i reencoded it twice.
But .. i wanted to give you an example of how using the greenscreen backdrop might look.
(That backdrop could easily be an animation, etc.)
I expect you’re fully aware of the options, but .. you know .. shrug .. i like showing off.
lol that was kinda funny
<—- mrgreen still pwns
!! .. it wasn’t supposed to be funny!
Looks cool.. I got a green screen cloth background.. I just haven’t played with it yet… maybe I will on Monday.
how easy is it for your software to merge in another source and replace the background?
My program does it.. I just have to learn how to do it.
!! .. i was just about to step in and say “lol – you don’t give nothin’ away, do you” .. but you beat me to it.
once you do, will you please share?!
Seriously!
Curious!
How does one hack a video?
well .. i found a vid that M had made which had a relatively smooth consistent colour background.
Which means i could turn it into a transparency and isolate the figure of M.
Which means in turn, that i can replace the background. I was at the very edges of understanding what i was doing so it’s merely a static background. .. and i made no other modifications.
I dloaded the vid from YouTube (using a Firefox addon).
I seperated out all the frames as png files using Quicktime.
I used a batch program for Paintshop pro which merely pulls in the files and saves where a colour range is set as transparent.
Then i created a cloud background scene the same size as teh frames.
Then i wrote a script for Macromedia fireworks to pull in each frame on top of the cloud background and save it as a new indexed file.
Then i got a free video compression prog which pulled in all the modified individual pic files .. and compressed these as a divx vid.
Then .. for a form which is playable in a browser, i had to convert to a mov file using a free prog called … erm .. (looks to see) … Super (C).
… and i havent mentioned the audio yet .. i had to compress that twice for some reason i cant remember .. prob cos i got lost in the process.
when i say “I seperated out all the frames as png files” – i mean i seperated out a subset of all the frames
Yes, well sort of!
Basically, you take this thing-a-ma-gingy… and zing this to that ding… then flip flop and fly… well sort of!!!
After the firefox add-on part I got confused. This will be another adventure on another day. When I’m driven to accomplish something like this, I’ll figure out the steps… just like when I started using a Lincoln Continental to cook hotdogs!
you’re telling me …
.. trying to figure this out is like sitting in the back seat of a car facing the wrong way and trying to drive using a mirror and sticks.
can anyone make this smiley? —-> =Þ (look at it side ways if u dont see it)
without copying and pasting, i just want to know if anyone else does know how
ill tell u all later today if u would like to know how to make it
This letter was used in Old English: it was one of the two versions of the modern “th” (the smooth one, like in… “smooth” for example). This letter was named “þurisaz” and comes from the Celtic alphabet. It’s still used today in Iceland.
If you want to write it, just type Alt+0254 using your numpad. This is the code of this symbol.
On the world list.. Some of the new ones are not there..? this one isnt and nor is sos
That’s because I have to update it manually… I’ll update it now.
I know “redux” means “brought back,” but the word itself seems strange to me. What is the origin of this seemingly recently popular word?
RE-DUX is Latin : RE- “again” + DUX “leader”.
The English word DUKE comes from French DUC and from Latin DUX.
DUCERE means “to lead” in Latin. This Latin root *DUC- is akin to the Germanic (English here) TOW “draw”.
So it means “leader again.” That doesn’t quite make sense the way it is used, like “Hurricane Ike was Gustov Redux for New Orleans.”
Stevemol ! The meaning is very clear : “Ike was another Gustov for New Orleans”. REDUX here means “comer back” instead of “leader back”. Words can be very flexible.
Marina ! All the lovely People !
My first subtitled at last http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=345luD5dFJ4
I hope I will be able to do better all the time !
THANKS TO MARINA !
so it has nothing to do with zipper
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ug3xh3Y2_U0&feature=related
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=LcxYwwIL5zQ&NR=1
Is there a difference between the word “greed” and “avarice”?
the answer to the homework is easy, it urs marina
90211 
<— mrgreen pwns lmfao
nice graphic for the icon, mrsean.
In Britain it is called “post code” or maybe “postal code”. These days they’re all one or more usually two letters, a one or two digit number, space, one digit, two letters.
In Japan, it’s called postal code.
Mine is 130-0001.
Tokyo area starts from “1.”
In India it’s called PIN code (Postal Index Number).
Hi Marina
famous zip code 90120 and my zip code is 61761
Hey hows that dyslexia working out for you? It’s 90210
thanks geronimo for the correction
Hi Marina,
One person you don’t want to give your zip code to is a “bunny boiler”.
It is a strange phrase so any idea of its know it origin.
It came from the movie, Fatal Attraction
My zip: 21030
Most famous zip code? Probably the one on TV, 90210?
My zip? 79901
Now, Marina, my dear teacher, can you tell us who invented the Zipper, what year it was invented, and why?
ahh another texan …yes…love texas…love the zipcodes too…screw other zip codes texas has the best….zip codes are nice and dont have mice….deep in the heart of texas….so much mail and a lot of hail….deep in the heart of texas….
later
I don’t know about the “best” Zip Codes, but we have more and they’re bigger!
Check out Marina’s dance here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylfbxhz2M3U
It looks a lot like Marina, but are you sure it’s her? Marina, is that really you?
Interesting.
A childs burka under a burka.
I’m sure it’s not Marina!
The girl’s legs are a bit crooked, but Marin’s are not!
Trust me. I’m a dancer, so I’m good at distinguishing people’s body shape.
That girl is a much better dancer than I am!
I can also bellydance for Marina ! Not only for Sandra Pearson !
It’s here => http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4566178049808050640
Marina, could you please dance for us in your video?
You sang and did karate, so what we are hoping to see next is your dance!
Btw, have you ever danced ballet?
You’re Russian. Russian people love ballet, and there are so many beautiful ballet dancers in Russia.
Well, she’s better looking anyway
BTW Marina, I can belly dance.
Whenever I dance, that’s the only part of me that moves, my belly!
Amazing bottom.
But what’s the song? It seems not English.
I believe that is your sister you keep locked up in the cellar. She just snuck out and did that dance for us.
+1 capman. Now we know she’s jealous because Marina is more successful.
That girl just wanted to show off her asssets
Dancing is easy as cha-cha-cha! Singing is the
same. Start with the Electric Slide, Macarena,
Boot Scoot Shuffle ( LOL!) and work it out from
there. You’ve already got some good moves, now
you need to practise some “lizard” moves – Yeow!
(You DO know what I mean, right?)
A good example of the lizard is the scene in
True Lies where Jamie Lee Curtis dances for
Arnold….(you know, where his eyes bug out!!)
Its “Zip code” here, and mine is 91761
I was sure yours was 420…
No, lol. 4:20 is just my favorite time of the day
In French we call it CODE POSTAL mine is 60730
Nice belly dance dictionaricdotcom, almost makes me want to do one, but I am to shy and have a tad more belly to shake around.
Mood: confused
Reason: HONEYMOON
Question: where did HONEYMOON originate
Thank you. x
Hello princessseherzada, Marina did a Honeymoon video (game) back in Dec. 07. When you click the Lessons list in the upper left hand corner of the page, the videos are listed under
# Guess The Word Game 7
# Guess The Word Game 7 – Answer
Here are the links the the two great videos.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/12/19/guess-the-word-vii-7/
http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/12/23/happy-holidays/
Dear Marina,
to answer your question: In my country we call the ZIP Code “PLZ” which is also an abbreviation an means “Postleitzahl”. From the length of this word you can figure out that I live in Germany. After our reunion the “PLZ” got five figures (earlier they were only four). Some of them even start with a zero. Small villages and towns have only one “PLZ”. Bigger towns and cities have several “PLZ”.
At the end of my message I want to mention that your appearance in the video was beautiful but I had prefered to see more of you and less of ZIP Codes.
Does anybody think that 619 may be most famous area code? I heard a lot of buzz about 619.
ive never heard of 619 as an area code…
but 619 is a wrestling move… 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvNyxeBbMOg
it is about 6 secs in…
its funny i know alot about zip codes….the most famous zip code….i know the most famous phone number…from that 80s song…768 2309 .. kidding it just fits the …anyway…famous zip code…99999 walalwala washington…hehehe…20101 is dc….let me think…oh yes 90213…bloody tv show in californ I A …..i forgot about that show till recently it came back on and my wife started watching it…..ok what zip codes can you find surprise, love, promise, mars, and somwhere in? i have no idea why i like zip codes…i know too much about them but im learning by reverse um whats it called….where you start at the top and break your way down to understand it…reverse technology…well same idea….i know the first number is the reagion..the second well…an area…it some times goes west to east north to south and sometimes all the hell over the place….the third digit in some places do the same….the last two are cities in alphabetical order depending on the third digit ….and sometimes not even that…hehehehe….mix that with area codes and it narrows it down but if you include cell phones well…dont include cell phones…cause ou can have a person in 75001 which is addison tx….with a cell number starting with 303 which is colorado….75006-10 is carrolton but have a 903 or 940 area code on ones cell…75017 is coppell…then it goes odd….75038 is irving….75043 is garland….75083 is richardson….75025 is plano…but 75063 is irving again…..then they added the extra 4 digits at eh end which describes exactly what mailbox you get mail at….i have no idea why i know this ….but i challenge any of you to test me….give me a 10 digit zip code….and a land line area code and i will send you a green bean in the mail….free of charge….it might take five years….and well first i gtta get my green beans growing….they are in vine stage and that bloody hurricane just flooded out my cilantro and celery…(people lost houses and im bitching about green bean plants which cant think or can they….they are odd…i will put the long vive ina spot where i want it to climb and it goes off and finds a way to wrap itself around the vine next to it 20 times….and then another wants to gwo but i havent let it…so it found its own way….it dug in….the vine went back under the dirt and choled itself around my cuccumber plant…i got it off and pointed it in the right direction…but after the rain today….it looked like it was gonna climb the trolles…but no it switched directions and attacked the cucumber again and sprouted anouther vine that was trying to strangle the base of the older plant 2 feet away from it….the biggerones grew another 4 inches in one hour….god i hope they dont pull my fence down…they dont like the trellsisisis i built for them …they just like to sneak around like snakes….and be a bunch of beans…..who am emailing again….oh yeah…sorry…i went off there…the wild green bean can be located at 75287-0603…..972….send me a green bean…. sorry i forgot who i was typing to again….mom is that you?….i forgot your zip code i need to send you that kid of ours over and he has to make it there by friday…..love you
son wife and the kid
It’s 90210. What the heck is 90213?
The house across the street.
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Feeling it M, lurve ya
“Show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream” she said
“The one that makes me laugh” she said
And threw her arms around my neck
“Show me how you do it
And I promise you I promise that
I’ll run away with you
I’ll run away with you”
Spinning on that dizzy edge
I kissed her face and kissed her head
And dreamed of all the different ways I had
To make her glow
“Why are you so far away?” she said
“Why won’t you ever know that I’m in love with you
That I’m in love with you”
You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Strange as angels
Dancing in the deepest oceans
Twisting in the water
You’re just like a dream
Daylight licked me into shape
I must have been asleep for days
And moving lips to breathe her name
I opened up my eyes
And found myself alone alone
Alone above a raging sea
That stole the only girl I loved
And drowned her deep inside of me
You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Just like heaven
what about deja vu?
That’s for me !
It’s French : DÉJÀ = ALREADY + VU = SEEN
In Psychology the déjà vu phenomenon is the sensation of having already lived a special moment in life.
I don’t know why, but I think I have seen this reply before
Here is the song Deja Vu by CSN&Y not the Beyonce one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiDOMuhpqUo
what doe intelligence mean?
Extra Credit: (OK, I made that up)
Wealthiest ZIP codes:
- Highest Adjust Gross Income: NY 10021, NY 10022
- Highest Income per tax return: NY 10004, Medina, Wash 98039
Richest ZIP Codes:
- Avalon, NJ 08202
- Newport Beach, CA 92661
In about 10 minutes, the Best Weekend Ever contest draws to a close.
I just added my final votes to give Marina’s video 3915 votes.
Then, it will be in the hands of the sponsors of the contest to select the winner. I hope they make the right decision.
The ultimate language translation medium:
[The Babel Fish]
We need something like they had on Farscape where they inject you with microbes and you can understand any language.
i think i’d much prefer a fish in my ear to a bunch of hifalutin microbes.
Looking for that Fish
I agree. The most famous Zip Code is 90210. My Zip Code is 11793. Prior to July 1993, it was 11520. I live in Wantagh, New York, now, and lived in Freeport then.
Another Zip Code I’ve heard a lot in my life is 90036. As in:
Tickets
The Price is Right
CBS Television City
7800 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Okay, Bob. … Sorry, I got carried away.
dang you got it….i siad 90213….im a dummy….same city though just in the hood…hehehe….
It’s okay. Don’t worry about it.
Thank you, Marina. I never thought of the true meaning of ZIP before. Interesting. ‘Zone Improvement Plan’ do make sense, because by adding zip code, you can deliver mail faster. My zip code in Taiwan is 23658. Recently, the zip code system here changed from 3 digits to 5 digits to make the zones finer, I think. BTW, is zip code writing a must when you send mail in US? Or is it just an option if you write the address?
Marina how about chevrolet
57carl check this out http://www.reference.com/search?q=Chevrolet
For a French speaker, etymologically speaking CHEVROLET means “little CHEVREUIL”. CHEVREUIL = ROEDEER.
The French CHEVREUIL is the evolution of Latin CAPRIOLA “little goat”. CAPRA = GOAT in Latin.
Hello, Marina,
I am curious, about the the word ‘canto’, as in poetry; I know it is the main or large portion of a poem; but where did the word come from and why is it used like the word chapter in Dante’s divine comedy?
Thanks – you rock! – 80601
Hello, Marina,
I am curious, about the the word ‘canto’, as in poetry; I know it is the main or large portion of a poem; but where did the word come from and why is it used like the word chapter in Dante’s divine comedy?
Thanks – you rock!
Ok, this one is going to be super hard.
Hello my dear teacher,
Where did the word “Belch” come from.?
I have two zipcodes, 33312 and 33334 – both in Florida
Yeah, I don’t know if it’s the most famous, but there was a show called “Beverly Hills 90210″ which I hear was a popular TV show. I sort of lost touch with the TV world in general, I needed my brain for more important tasks and TV is like the newspapers; full of useless information and distraction. This way, I get to go through election cycles without benig continuously annoyed.
Wait till they start putting out the road signs. Vote me no vote for me. It’s already started here.
mine is 59601
and with out even looking below the most famous is 90210 because of that show from the 90’s
time for a little music to lift the spirit:
[Rob Zombie - Dragula]
That worked!
that song’s a cool frood which knows where it’s towel is.
Not as loud as Disaster Area,
and the Sun didn’t explode
I would say Beverly Hills 90212, even though living in Santa Barbara 93103 is well-known also….!
i said 90213….hehehehe…almost the same wave length you and i….but not quite….still some hot babes there though….
Marina – where did the word EROTIC originate from? For some reason each time I visit your site this enters my mind, why is that?
I’d say the most popular zip code is: 92039, La Jolla, CA.
Mike
You are not alone! LOL!
Erotic, exotic – just what the doctor ordered
Far too often a man will pursue a woman’s interest
only to discover she can be neurotic and / or psychotic!
Marina has a sister? – the jury is still out….
I third that motion! Lol
My zip code is 78213. And now the post office have added four more digits making my new zip code 78213-0082. When will it ever end?
haha a felow texan….mid texas….gotta be a city below the letter m…(thats safe)…or in a metropolitain area or suburb…..im also gonna guess your in the north and east part of it….. ill send you a green bean…one day…i gotta do some more research on how to pin point he last four digits of a zip code….but if some one on your street gets a green bean in the mail….let me know…oh yeah ill need your local area code too if you dont mind….
read above…hehehe…im not drunk…just well..i guess i could get drunk…my wife and kid are asleep…i got enough beer…if i can get my kid ready and somehow skip church tommorow ill be in good shape…so what do you say….wait what did i say…..i didnt offer my body again did i?….oh ….no hehehe…zip codes….forgot…sorry…long day at work…ok …ill start in san antonio….close to the interstate…from there…the last four is what gets me…id do better knocking door to door….anyway a green bean is comming…
In Canada my ‘mailman’ delivers the mail from Canada Post but in the UK the ‘postman’ delivers the post from the Royal Mail…go figure!
they’re messin’ with our heads, man!
Ever wonder why in America they have ‘mailmen’ and in the UK they have postmen? (I suppose that should be mailpeople and postpeople)
The most famous zip code must be 90210 because of the television program of the same name.
Where I live in Canada we have ‘Postal Codes’ and where I used to live in the UK they have ‘Post Codes’.
The most famous zip I presume is 90210…
and my zip is 04330
The new england area zips all start with a Zero and many computer programs and even excel spreadsheets get confused with that LEADING ZERO and drop it… I still on occasion get mailings with only 4 digits “4330″ … and this can cause delays… otherwise my mail arrives in
a ZIPpy fashion especially when given “Express” “Priority”
I think the most popular zip code in the world is 90210, just a guess.
90210
G, is that where you are on the comments list?
No, that was the homework answer. I am at 95677
62024 I’ve told you once,
So ask no more…
I have a word request please for one of our future lesson, that would be cool i think, it is : a “deja vu”
thx for your work Marina, it’s more important for a language to keep the same meaning for the same word than to check everytime if someone write or spell it well ! sometime i feel like people try to give more importance to the appearance than to the meaning
Kiss
Melvyn “ninjamaster”
ok .. time for another weird quiz:
the questions can actually be answered honestly by us guys (yes! i’m a guy. What are you getting at?) without feeling weird.
[What Kind of Girl Are You]
Nice and Sexy
You scored 39 looks, 59 personality, 14 politics, and 66 sex drive!
You have a great personality and are highly sexual. You have wonderful relationships that seem to be perfect. But in the end somewhere your loved one always ends up leaving…. But don’t stop loving, and being the person that you are. They’ll show up one day, and if you already have them then hold on to them with all you have.
ha! .. story of my life!
i think not shaving off my body hair counted against me.
You scored 54 looks, 78 personality, 50 politics, and 57 sex drive!
Awesome Girl II
You don’t seem to either know about or care about politics, but you are beautiful and a good person (so it seems), and you seem to have a high sex drive. You’re probably a great wife or girlfriend, and you know how to make sure that the ones you love are happy. You have a wonderful life ahead of you, make sure you live it to the fullest, and keep being the person that you seem to be.
Your result for The What Kind of Girl are You Test …
The Liberal Beauty
You scored 68 looks, 79 personality, 24 politics, and 89 sex drive!
You’re beautiful, you have a great personality, and youre highly sexual. You’re a liberal with your views and you don’t put morals before everything. You’re probably a great wife or girlfriend, and you know how to make sure that the ones you love are happy. You’re probably fun in a conversation and I’m sure that you are as loveable as you are beautiful.
lol? 89? damn …
lol. ummm …
COMPARED TO OTHER TAKERS
[...]
You scored 89% on Sexuality, higher than 98% of your peers.
wth.
lol : you filthy strumpet!
I think that my Y-chromosome might skew the results for this test…
Ciao,
Fianchetto
but wtf…
Your result for The What Kind of Girl are You Test …
PERFECTION!!!!!!!!!
You scored 65 looks, 63 personality, 77 politics, and 53 sex drive!
You are beautiful, have a great personality, know youre politics, and have a high sex drive. You are the girl of any man’s dreams. You know what you are doing in bed, you’re fairly conservative, and you know how to treat your loved one. Men have been waiting for a girl like you all their lives. You probably know how to make sure that the ones you love are happy. You will make someone a great wife or girlfriend someday, if you haven’t already. You’re the kind of girl that everyone wants. You’re probably fun in a conversation and I’m sure that you are as loveable as you are beautiful. You have a wonderful life ahead of you, make sure you live it to the fullest, and keep being the person that you seem to be.
Hehehehe… perhaps I should meet and marry a lesbian and be her bitch…
Join the club
Your result for The What Kind of Girl are You Test …
The Liberal Beauty
You scored 51 looks, 59 personality, 21 politics, and 60 sex drive!
Awesome Girl
You scored 58 looks, 89 personality, 77 politics, and 40 sex drive!…….
bloody hell .. compared to you lot i look awful and have a crap personality
duh! according to this test … i’m like a great persona with a lot of dildos and other sex toys or something. looks like when i’m not engaged in a conversation, i’m fucking the hell out of people whenever i get the chance. :/
on the positive side .. i have been called a slut by a girlfriend’s girlfriend who, for some reason felt it her duty to make an assessment of me.
i don’t know why, but that pleased me.
90210 is my guess on worlds most famous zip code and my zip code is 85756. My word request / phrase is:
Don’t Have a Cow! where does this come from and how does it really apply to having someone not freak out on a certain subject?
ruNsanefx
word request- nihilism
NIHIL means NOTHING in Latin.
Nihilism is the philosophy consisting in saying that the society in which we live is rotten and that the best way to change the society is to destroy everything and to rebuild something new from NIHIL.
A kind of ground zero
I know what the word means-I was suggesting it as a topic for Marina-to investigate
kook cool and http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=iAJ2AoEwDvY
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Mike
Pick a nice simian, or a FISH!
The shades are optional….
thanks for the link. I think u have to be in the us.. And besides some guy on youtube is helping me sort it out.. He has already got a 3g and an air
ПривEt, My Dear Teacher,
I have constructed this list of what must be the most famous three zip codes on your web site. They are, in decending order, 10314, 02136, 23453. Can you guess why? Mine is 10032.
I have a special request: you have inspired me to buy the Rosetta Stone “Learn Russian” CDs. So boring! Why don’t you start making “Learn Russian” videos? I would pay $$$:-) for such videos – so would so many of your dear students!
Just think, dear teacher, given the current state of hostilites between our two countries, you could be the instrument of friendship: suddenly, thousands of your dear students, traveling to Russia to perfect their skills; thousands of Americans living in Russia; maybe even, one day, an American with a горяче для слова (don’t laugh too hard
) It only makes my point – your students need Russian videos!
Пока,
Lucky
Hey Lucky. I was thinking of buying Rosetta Stone for Russian. You say it’s boring but how is it as far as learning the Cyrillic language. Can you read and write it or just speak it?
Thanks,
Mike
Hi Mike,
Seriously, it’s not bad, but I’m just starting. On my last trip to Moscow, I was lost without my business associates; I made the resolution to learn this, once and for all. So, ask me again in a few months.
Even better, perhaps our dear teacher will give us both her advice
Lucky
I have a friend on here his named Superdanielchik who has been trying to teach me Russian. But it’s hard since he goes to school in France and lives in Russia and I in the states. So I down loaded a program BYKI.com something like yours that has flash cards and pronounces the words for you too. It’s a simple basic program but not to hard to learn. After you get so far then they want you to buy the rest of the program. It may be worth it if I can learn the basic words first. Maybe Marina will take us under her wing and teach us the language.
I have been studying Russian for about 18 months now. When I first started, I used BYKI, and I really liked it and still do. However, soon after getting a little vocabulary, you *really* need to learn some grammar. Russian word order is quite a bit more free than English, so knowing the correct endings is critical to determine if, for example, you intend a word to be the subject, direct object or indirect object. However, having said that, I can tell you that with only five months of vocabulary practice, I traveled to Latvia (eastern Latvia, where mostly Russian is spoken) and could communicate on a very basic level with people. As long as you can give a noun and a verb, with a little pointing, you can communicate a surprising amount. Good luck! I love studying Russian, it’s a really interesting language.
Thanks Californiachelovek for the advice.
I new ZIP code was an acronym. I was right about “Zone”, but I didn’t know what the ‘IP’ stood for.
And my ZIP code is 50322.
HwK: 90210
ExtrA: Fr = code postal – Paris Central = Arrondissements – me=75007
Hey OK4N “sir” lol haven’t heard from you in a while. Everything OK I hope. We haven’t heard from Pagedoll in a while either. I think some members are just to busy or just lost interest in the site. That’s a shame to loose good friends. So take care.
Mike
Just got a little over-Marina’d for a while. Can happen I guess…
Hi, Marina, I was wondering what made you choose the name “HotForWords”.
“Open your eyes”
- Vanilla Sky
Hi hurricanestrikesyou, Marina answered that a few times in past comments. If you watch all of her videos, you’ll come across her comments.
Since Marina is an etymologist / philologist, she has a passion for words. I guess the name PassionForWords name was just too boring. Being ‘hot’ for something is a passion, so that name fits perfectly with the person who coincidentally is hot as well.
the most famous zip code is of course 90210,also my zip code is 41666
I have better a word
the word is “Bruderschaft ” 
That’s German ! BRUDER = BROTHER + SCHAFT = SCAPE (like in landscape).
The SCHAFT ending plays the role of HOOD in BROTHERHOOD.
miss marina,what is the origin of the word dude guys always refer to other guys dudes..”hey dude” or they refer to other guys man…”hey man”
Hello Marina. Love your website and your YouTube lessons! I have a word request for you: “NEWS” — as in “I have news”, or “did you watch the news”. How did this word come to be used? Does it has something to do with the word “new” ? Thanks for enlightening us!
My Word Request is: Corset
A garment worn to reduce the size of the waist.
Aslo, Me thinks ‘90210′ might just be the most famous ZIP Code
That’s French ! CORSET = little body. From CORPS = BODY.
I have a word. It’s my hairstyle. The word is “Dreadlocks”
90210 sounds good to me too,never did care for the tv show tho,not my style at all,I like action,sci fi and horror,roll em all into one like Aliens movie and I’m hooked.
My ZIP will be the same as Bumfuct Egypt where the African Desert Bugs reign supreme.
In Lithuania we call it “Postal Code”
93435 My zip code
90210 Most famous
Meow phst phst phst.
The zipcode or index most famous is the one in your own hometown, the zip code in this area is 79414, via 79423
Marina.
It must be 90211 the zip code for Hotforwords
out here in Temecula Wine Country its 92591
Marina you need to come out to the Temecula’s Wine Country
and go to all the Winerys
We have Limo tours and if you like, I could
set you and a friend with a Horse Back Ride to one of the Winery’s
That sounds like a nice romantic evening Greg.
RRR – Sounds like a class act!
Sets an image of Lady Godiva…….
Hot-Cha-Cha! LOL
In France we use the “code postal” (post code) with 5 digits. The first two digits indicate the “département” (equivalent of state). The post code of the capital of a département ends with “000″ (44000 for Nantes for example). There are three exceptions: the biggest towns of France are divided into several “arrondissements”: 20 for Paris (from 75001 to 75020), 16 for Marseille (from 13001 to 13016) and 9 for Lyon (from 69001 to 69009).
This explanation for the zip code made me think about the origin of the expression “zip file”. I suppose it’s the same idea of speed but please, could anyone confirm it?
i think hte “zip” as in postal area is an acronym:
ie. Zone (something starting with I that i cant think of) (something starting with P that i cant think of)
v. “zip” as in “zip file”
“zip” is used in the sense of zipping something up in a bag.
cool link capman911
– Your strongest type of intelligence is Visual. You thrive on spatial thinking, shapes, patterns, and form. You’re unlikely to be blind. You can probably think in 3D very easily. You are very likely to be attractive, based on only my most rudimentary anecdotal evidence. And you are likely to appreciate a good body in a lover.
Your specific scores follow. On any axis, a score above 25% means you use that kind of thinking more than average, and a score below 25% means you use it less. It says nothing about cognitive skills, just your interest.
Your brain is roughly:
25% Interpersonal
40%Visual
20%Verbal
15%Mathematical
Matching Summary: Each of us has different tastes. Still, I offer the following advice to the world.
1. Don’t date someone if your interpersonal percentages differ by more than 20%.
2. Don’t be friends with someone if your verbal percentages differ by more than 25%.
3. Don’t have sex with someone if their math percentage is over 50%.
lol i like #3
just saying to mijj best to avoid number woman but could offer the best sqaure root!!!!
oo! .. 40% visual is pretty strong!
Do you think that weighting matches reality? .. does the work you do make use of your visual fluency?
hhmmm…I guess so mijj. Do imagine, visualise pretty much everything but shamefully not any use in my current job….will have to re-think a few things to see where this could lead to. Love photography as with some art but never really got stuck into it before. May replace playing music with a new hobby for a while, ’see’ what happens. What the heck mijj, will attend evening photo classes at my local college. Also, have many hours of video collected over the years when traveling. Some has been edited shown to a few who said they enjoyed the abstract slant I gave it. Most importantly, thinking about it, I really enjoyed creating them as with seeing peoples reactions…hhmmm….thanks for the thought mijj, could be just what I’m looking for….Hollywood here I come!
may replace music? … eek! … i kind of think of music as being strongly visual .. well .. in my case anyway. … i guess there must be a number of ways that music can be perceived.
It’s Postal Code here in Sweden, for example 53010 and then town name.
Best Wishes Ath. Oh and I’m curious about the winners in the love letter competition =P
FINALLY!! A lesson where I knew the answer before I watched.
Also: Most famous Zip Code: 90210, Mine is 48237
Hi M, super duper lesson as always, zipped by pretty fast mind. Looking delicous as ever. Post code we Brits call it…- don’t know what you guys over there see but we have an amazingly big fat bright moon this evening with Jupiter hanging low
Miss M who does your quotes that you have at the bottom of the right column? They are a good source of knowledge to live by.
Quote
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke 1729-1797
I found them on the net through various sources… if you guys know of more quote sources I can add them as well… they need to be in a list for where I can grab a whole bunch.
I’ve got one from my childhood. “If You are *really* sorry then You *won’t* do it again!” . Spoken firmly(and often)by tryant’s Mom.
Here’s one site that emails you one quote a day. I’ll look for more.
http://www.quotesland.com/apply.php
Another on. I like this one better.
http://www.brainyquote.com/
http://www.brainyquote.com/
http://www.aphorisms-galore.info/category/altruism-and-cynicism/
a list off the net?
maybe, in the box whre the quote is, you could ask for your students to suggest a quote for the next day .. one that’s found or made up.
just grabbing ‘em off the net seems a bit impersonal.
I love my “Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations” book ISBN 0-316-08277-5, as well, I reccommend “The Quotable Spirit” ISBN 0-02-861206-X
Sorry, I don’t know of any digitalised versions, but these are my own personal faves, and like your ‘bottom-right-hand-corner’ ones as well.
Ciao,
Fianchetto
Here is one I try to live by “if a chicken and a half lays and a egg and a half in a day and a half, how long would it take a monkey with a wooden leg to kick the seeds out of a dill pickle?”
i think the answer is “icicle”, geronimo.
Here’s one !
My motto “I spend the first half part of my life sleeping and the second half part doing nothing”.
A good place to meet men is at the dry cleaners. These men have jobs and usually bathe.
– Rita Rudner
More quotes from professors.
http://thinkexist.com/occupation/famous_professors/
One more and I’ll stop bugging you.
http://www.quotesdaddy.com/?gclid=CPiA1u-A3JUCFQZeswod7kzdDA
ok so me and my cousin would like to know. how did the mexican mafia start?
in france
In the UK we use a Postcode in the format LLnx nLL (where L is an upper case letter, n is a digit and x is a digit or a letter).
Whereas, in USA, Europe etc. the 5 digit Zip codes only identify a commune or area of a city, in UK a postcode will identify a street or one side of a street. If you then add the house number it identifies the individual property.
Some large properties and business addresses can have a unique postcode if the volume of mail they receive justifies it, so the most famous one in UK would probably be the Queen’s London residence, Buckingham Palace, SW1A 1AA.
My postcode is classified – “For Your Eyes Only”.
Mine is bh21 1yd.. I probably shouldn’t post that lol… And isnt sw1a 1aa type post code just for london places??> I have never heard of a layout like that before bob
James here is you a way to get a Mac laptop.
http://www.thinnestlaptop-ever.com/?config=4445&src=WC-47736aaa0008CAE3FD025B0142A5EC51963AFDCE:151801:
W.O.R.D R.E.Q.U.E.S.T
why are words such as “ass, shit, fuck, hell” (mind the swearing) noted as curse words cuss words or swear words, why r they so bad?
Good one Mrsean22795. That’s one way Marina can easily spot a word request. You must have been in on the conversation about how to make it easier for her to recognize a request. Good thinking.
SW1A 0AA – House of Commons
SW1A 1AA – Buckingham Palace
SW1A 2AA – 10 Downing Street, Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury
Hello mijj,
Sorry to bother you, I’m catching up right now, I always pester Bob and maybe he needs a break from my comments and questions.
Beans on toast.
I listen to audio books while I work and this one had a line in it that went something like-
“You have an accent that is as British as beans on toast”.
Is that a rude comment? Is that a local snack? Is it an old custom?
I did a search and I get explanations/pictures on how to prepare it not much more.
Thank you
hi warren.
yeh … i guess beans on toast is a typically brit kiddy food for adults.
I.e. something you’d make your kids cos they enjoy it … and it’d be your guilty pleasure too.
Hey .. how come you want to know so much about brit habits? .. are you planning to invade?
90210….too easy. As for me 90403 palm trees and the Santa Monica bay….too beautiful.
Wikipedia says:
Lowest 00501, Holtsville, NY used exclusively for IRS office there
Highest 99950, Ketchikan, AK
Homework: 10001 New York City, reason is so many people live there.
When writing a letter to Santa use
North Pole, AK 99705
I thought Santa’s Zip code was H0 H0 H0.
HO HO HO is what keeps Santa busy in the off season.
Whats he use the elves ho ho ho
Mathematical
Brother-from-another-mother! Like mine, your highest scoring intelligence is Mathematical. You thrive on logic, numbers, things representing numbers, and sets of things that are sets of other things, with numbers nowhere in sight. You probably like the online comic called XKCD, and if you don’t, check it out.
You probably knew you’d score “Mathematical” as you took the test, and mathy types are usually super-high scorers on this axis, and low on the others. Why? Because you (we) yearn for math.
Anyway, your specific scores follow. On any axis, a score above 25% means you use that kind of thinking more than average, and a score below 25% means you use it less. It says nothing about cognitive skills, just your interest.
Your brain is roughly:
15% Interpersonal
20%Visual
30%Verbal
35%Mathematical
Matching Summary: Each of us has different tastes. Still, I offer the following advice to the world.
1. Don’t date someone if your interpersonal percentages differ by more than 20%.
2. Don’t be friends with someone if your verbal percentages differ by more than 25%.
3. Don’t have sex with someone if your math scores differ by over 40%. You might kill them.
would you say that’s a fair assessment? .. did you ever get round to studying maths (or, as you weird yanks call it: math) seriously?
No I hated math in school. I answered all the questions as I I thought they applied to me and came out a mathematician.
well .. i wouldnt say it’s implying you’re a mathematician .. but have that sort of essential viewpoint (even though you may not be educated that way) .. and doing badly at maths at school doesn’t mean you’re not perceptive in that way – could just means you may not have like being bound to the rigid structure of a class.
That *is* very possible,at least in my case. I hated math/s but loved reading,but,pretty much hated all school starting with kindergarten. Ended up in construction and using math often,albeit not the highest level math.
@ Tyrant same here on the math. I hated school from day one. Nothing interested me except hands on projects. I joined shop class, horticulture, anything that I could visibly learn. As it would be when I joined the fire department after graduation, we had to know Algebra to do friction loss in standpipes, fire hose, nozzles and all types of appliances. So I jumped from basic math to algebra in no time if I wanted to advance in my position. It must of worked. But I still don’t like math. Today they get to use calculators in school. We had fingers and toes.
i think we’re all pretty much on the same level.
i was a disruptive asshole (as you americans say) at school and did no work. .. i had an affinity for maths and art, i got top qualifications for those – and failed everything else .. i utterly bombed english language – absolutely the worst.
- so i was doomed to a career as a manual laborer. … well … not so much doomed cos i enjoyed the freedom of it .. working and quitting as i saw fit and using my time as i wished and destroying my brain with dangerous drugs
.. but after 7 years of that i got bored of it and made a serious attempt to get back into college. (in those days, there was government encouragement and help). – and i finally learned to string a rudimentary sentence together! (still bloody clumsy, tho)
- so i guess taht proves that, even though i was crap at the english language at school, it’s actually because i am crap at the english language.
But you type it very well.
Proud of you Mijj.
lol .. thank you, cap .. it was hard work .. but i got there in the end.
oh .. i think you were poking fun
I’m so keen for approval i didn’t notice.
Don’t have sex with someone if your math scores differ by over 40%. You might kill them. I am so dumb I don’t even know what this post is about.. Also I am crap at maths so I should be fine
That’s right have all the sex you can. Turn nothing down. If you do that will be one that could have a double ziz wheel.
dont listen to him!!
employ at least a little discrimination and concentrate on quality, not quantity.
1600 is very important! Right now it’s the home of a dweeb!
Mine is 30256.
My bad this is the house number.
The zip code is 20500.
in holland and in duttch language we say post code
and all codes in holland look like this for example 1111 aa or 2222 bb. you know 4 lnumbers and two letters
mine starts with 69 and ends with ET pretty damn funny
What’s the lowest zip code, is it in northen Maine?
Is the highest in AK or HI?
I must investigate this.
Good morning
another quiz !! .. no sex involved this time
[cognitive skill weighting]
4-variable “iq” test – actually not an iq test – it measuring your bias towards your principle cognitive skills.
————–
Your strongest type of intelligence is Visual. You thrive on spatial thinking, shapes, patterns, and form. You’re unlikely to be blind. You can probably think in 3D very easily. You are very likely to be attractive, based on only my most rudimentary anecdotal evidence. And you are likely to appreciate a good body in a lover.
Your specific scores follow. On any axis, a score above 25% means you use that kind of thinking more than average, and a score below 25% means you use it less. It says nothing about cognitive skills, just your interest.
Your brain is roughly:
25% Interpersonal
35%Visual
15%Verbal
25%Mathematical
Matching Summary: Each of us has different tastes. Still, I offer the following advice to the world.
1. Don’t date someone if your interpersonal percentages differ by more than 20%.
2. Don’t be friends with someone if your verbal percentages differ by more than 25%.
3. Don’t have sex with someone if their math percentage is over 50%
I guess that means i should avoid the high flying word wizards – like Marina.
good link mijj; we think, or see much alike. It can be hard being an attractive himbo at times
thankfuly Marina can increase our verbal skills so should re-sit test this time next year to see how we have improved via our trusty teachers lessons. Besides, having sex with a woman who is 50% mathmaticaly greater than one sounds traumatic…..so best avoid number woman however could be a great sqaure root!!! 
.. on the other hand .. M has a balanced approach to her word vids .. she doesn’t just sit there spouting verbiage .. there’s lots of presentation quality.
so she’s strong visually as well as verbally. .. so that means there’s not going to be a huge difference in verbal orientation percentages. so i don’t have to fear Marina.
Brother-from-another-mother! Like mine, your highest scoring intelligence is Mathematical. You thrive on logic, numbers, things representing numbers, and sets of things that are sets of other things, with numbers nowhere in sight. You probably like the online comic called XKCD, and if you don’t, check it out.
You probably knew you’d score “Mathematical” as you took the test, and mathy types are usually super-high scorers on this axis, and low on the others. Why? Because you (we) yearn for math.
Anyway, your specific scores follow. On any axis, a score above 25% means you use that kind of thinking more than average, and a score below 25% means you use it less. It says nothing about cognitive skills, just your interest.
Your brain is roughly:
10% Interpersonal
15%Visual
15%Verbal
60%Mathematical
Matching Summary: Each of us has different tastes. Still, I offer the following advice to the world.
1. Don’t date someone if your interpersonal percentages differ by more than 20%.
2. Don’t be friends with someone if your verbal percentages differ by more than 25%.
3. Don’t have sex with someone if your math scores differ by over 40%. You might kill them.
Gee, judging by my scores on this quiz, I should have no desire but every reason to enjoy this forum!
Ciao,
Fianchetto
I never realised exactly HOW far imbalanced I am until I took the quiz….
Ciao,
Fianchetto
yeh .. i think the verbal thing is the hurdle we must face to take part here.
+ that’s a whopping math score .. is that a fair score? … are you studying a tech subject or in a tech job?
I wonder what the penalty is for “Involuntary (Wo)Manslaughter by sex with mathematical difference greater than 40%”?
Or if I could plea “Not Guilty, by reason of not having subjected partner to a mathematics examination prior to intercourse”?
Ciao,
Fianchetto
I took Trigonometry and Calculus simultaneously in High School (the Calculus class being my first college credit) and have studied to be a Nuclear Reactor operator for the USN, after that was a Paramedic, as well as a self-taught programmer of CNC turning stations, taught myself C programming language, working on C++, designed a couple of flying model aircraft for fun… wierd enough for you? I recreated a game called ‘Nim” I played as a child with my brothers to test my skill in “C”, and plan to make an accurate Windows-based replica of the German WWII enigma machines (3- and 4- rotor versions) to prove my ability in C++.
So, I am admittedly an odd duck, and happily so
Ciao,
Fianchetto
hey .. if you weren’t an odd duck, you wouldn’t be posting on this site.
That’s why i like this place .. we’re all a (collective noun for ducks) of odd ducks.
Plus .. i’m (or was) pretty fair with maths (having a maths based degree) and have done a reasonable amount of programming.
- however . i gotta say, my programming was good because i was a bad programmer (i dont mean in astructural sense, but in the details of coding sense) .. i.e. it went wrong in every possible way it could before i got a working version of whatever it was. So, in the end, my stuff was idiotproof.
plus .. i wonder how music maps onto those 4 qualities?
Your result for The 4-Variable IQ Test …
Mathematical
Your brain is roughly:
15% Interpersonal
10%Visual
35%Verbal
40%Mathematical
i think the separation of maths and visual is peculiar .. for me, a significant part of maths is visualisation.
I think they must mean the symbol analysis aspect of maths (and logic).
yeah, i was a bit confused by that, too. if you’re good at math, you’re probably good at abstract thinking which involves 3d stuff and the like as well … so, yeah …
Mijj… I’m not so sure I can COMPLETELY agree with you there:
because visual information can be communicated either verbally or mathematically depending on the circumstance. for example I can communicate the Mandelbrodt set (with written verbal instruction) to