[creole] is my word request…ain’t soul —ent-it…Here in wisconsin with the Menominee Natives; they seem to talk a bit frenchy or is it more latin of the romance languages?…how JA be?
I ain’t never did see me not say never hear speak dem flabber floopy wibbly wobbly doo da dingle dangle shimmy shoo lamb shoe shangle lippy loppy floop flang… sorry what was the question? beat that random string!
I agree that the word “ain’t” is the contraction for the phrase “am not”. However, I disagree with it’s use for the plural, present tense of the verb to be, “are”, as in the phrase “are not”. Isn’t the contraction “aren’t” better in that case. Thanks for all the good research you do.
That outfit is ridiculous but she makes it work somehow. I wish the hotforprofits chick would try getup’s like that. She “aint” no Marina though. I like both their styles though.
I can’t post on your calendar page for some reason. Says I need to be logged in, but if I go to any other page, it works. I have no idea why that happens.
Hi prospero811,
That happens to me also occasionally. I’ll log in and when I navigate to another page, there is no comment text box as if I were logged out, even though I just logged in.
What works for me 99% of the time is to just do a page refresh and the comment box appears. Occasionally, I have to clear the cookies and / or the browser cache, at which point I would need to log in again. The reason that happens is expired/outdated cookies and session IDs .
I don’t have any word request. I just wanted to say that there are those who write stuff in comments like this just to get attention or to stir up stuff among others who really want to have a dialog of important matters so that everyone can get to the truth of the matter. No matter what you are talking about, the truth must come out and we need to make room for those who really have a voice to communicate. That is what free speech is all about and I just want to say that I support free speech and great places like this so we can all have a place to exercise this great freedom. OK,that is all I have to say. Have a great day everybody!!!!
Hi Marina, Thank you for what you’re doing,it is good stuff.My suggestion would be the word: PYRAMID. I’ve heard it has no real origin or something but i’m not very sure of that.I ask for an investigation.Thanks.bye bye teacher.
Maria, first off your a beautiful. You probably hear it every minute of every day but it still wouldn’t be enough.
I am a student of languages and linguistics. Etymology and Philology have always been hobbies of mine however there are several words I have not yet been able to determine the origins to. Perhaps you can help me out here.
hello, this is not a word its my name “ITZEL” and i have search it and i have had diffrent answers maybe you can help me and tell me the right one what I have found is
1. Most beautiful shineist star in the sky
2. Rainbow
3. Most beautiful female worrrior
if you can help me that would be great thanks for your time =)
um no viewing your music library didn’t help, i was wondering more about where the word came from, not the rednex techo country music but thanks for the reply
actually i heard a really different reason where the Term Redneck originated from, Back in the 1940’s there was a Coal mining operation and a faction of people who didn’t conform to the strike wore red neckerchiefs around there neck and thus where the term redneck came from, so i guess i have to recind my request for a word origin toodles
Just a reminder for everyone some of us TAs are retyping your word/phase request because your comment lacked the keyword ‘request’ that we are using to search for words that you are asking for HFW to do. If you did put the keyword ‘request’ in your comment then we have logged your comment.
i suggest a notice on the Left Hand Side titled “Word Requests” .. followed by the rules for making a clear word request that can be easily found.
.. and maybe some indication of how word requests are gathered up and printed out on slips of paper. Marina takes them all to bed with her and she rummages through them and sifts them for her cherished selections. (may as well create some enticing imagery to go along with it all.)
You know if we could figure that firebug program out all we would have to do is just add word request to their comment instead of making a whole new comment.
nooooo .. that isn’t how it works .. anything added to the page has to go through the correct procedures. You cant just add stuff to the page held in the server.
If there isn’t a thing on the page that allows you to modify text (from the server) on the page, then you cant do that in firebug on firefox.
Im not sure if Firebug could help because Im not sure if it can change someones comment. Their is one other option might be on the back end of the servers. Anyways, this it better discussed off site.
You did use it incorrectly. But, only by your rules. I use Scrabble rules, and in america, if it is a word in common usage, with a common use, that’s what it is and what it means.Ain’t is a complete negative. It can be used for is not, shouldn’t be, anything. It ain’t unusable. It’s kind of like “fuck” in that it is infinitively adaptable. I think the history of words is interesting in that the means of communication is expanded, but maybe you should bring a little more common usage into it.
Er,forget what I just said in my previous comment. I ain’t thinking right when I made the previous comment. It must of been some strange entity from a distant star system that wuz messin with my head and I ain’t gonna let them do it. Sorry about any confusion it must of created!!
Say what,man? You ain’t one of those outer space dudes from way out are ya? I said all I wuz gonna say to the last bunch of em that came knocking on my door at 3am one stormy night in the middle of winter. They didn’t git nuttin from me then. I just kept yakkin about X-Files and how Fox whats-his-name was gonna git em and they finally left me alone shaking their heads in disbelief. If you can’t beat em you got to outsmart em my dear old dad always told me. And it works!!
I ain’t going to comment on this word because I ain’t ever gonna use ain’t in any sentence and you ain’t going to make do it. So any of your efforts to make me use this word ain’t going to have any affect whatsoever. And that’s the truth!!
I have a word to request! “Malarkey” I’d like to know wtf is up with that word. btw your youtube vids are extremely interesting and hilarious Keep em coming!
Hi Marina, many months ago you had talked about using profane words and that you should be able to say them as it is in the context of teaching about words, and then you mentioned that bleeping out every other word just wouldn’t work.
Marina you said earlier you are a good cook.
Beautiful a good cook, smart ,young and yet you are unattached, unmarried, unwed, footloose and fancy-free.
Are you just to picky?
Maybe you’re just a little cinchy?
Do you have any good home style Russian recipes you can share.
I know a few Russian dishes. But I cook Southern,Tex-Mex, Italian and BBQ for the most part.
I was just thinking about the disasterous aftermath of the Athens’ Olympic arenas, that was reported weeks ago. You know, with all the abandonement, finances with maintenance costs, vandalism, and the looting by GYPSIES.
And it got me thinking… where does the word GYPSY come from? It’s a strange word, there aren’t any vowels in it.
just as “a” can be pronounced differently in different words (fart, ass), “y” can stand for different sounds. in english, “y” is an ordinary vowel as well as a glide. a glide is something between a vowel and a consonant, that’s why it’s sometimes also called “semivowel”.
y as a vowel: gypsy, fly, hyper.
y as a glide: yawn, yard, yeah.
Actually, I was only trying to ’second’ the motion, and ensure that it had the word “request” included. I will abide the format you reccommended in your email henceforth:-)
i started going through them from the beginning – then i realised maybe i shoud’ve started at the other end … and then got distracted by a shiny thing.
In an unrelated topic (sorry, the FAQ said the best way to get in touch with you is to post on the latest word), as someone genuinely interested in philology, would you mind posting a bibliography or syllabus of some sort, so that I might one day be as smart and attractive as you? (Philology makes people hotter, right? Well, Nietszche was a philologist, so maybe it’s something else.)
Hey barnkat36. Just double click on the monster in front of your name and it will take you to http://www.gravatar.com. There you will put in your emaill address that you use for Marina’s site and a password. Once you have registered then go to your computer, or your desktop or pick you a picture from the web down load it to your desk top then up load it to the gravatar site. It will show you how to crop and size the gravatar to me your needs. If you have any more problems let me know.
Mike
Now if you want to you can add a web site to your name by going to the Dashboard at the top of the page and clicking on it. When it opens go to the profile page. Under your email address is a place for a web site. Just copy and paste whatever web site you want people on here to see if they click on your name. Your name will turn blue after you add a web site. I have my You Tube site attached to mine.
Mike
Teacher Sweet, If I understand this correctly the saying, “ain’t ain’t a word ” is actually an inproper use of ain’t!! Help I’m confused, my english teacher in grammer school has been my problem all along
JonX0X0X0
…love the way the Brits had rid this ‘ain’t’ word …we ain’t no longer ammused by this word so orff with its etymology.. …
..ain’t what you do it’s the way that you do it, that’s what gets results…..:smile: – ‘ain’t no sunshine when shes gone, its not warm when she’s away, ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone, and she’s always gone too long anytime she goes away…..could gloze on, but I ain’t…….
Gentata…just because another member shares the etymology with another member does not mean it’s not a fine suggestion, nor does it prohibit Our Dear Teacher from making a video of it
Hey Marina from Bulgaria,
Excellent job you’re doing so far,but I didn’t help but notice that you haven’t still investigated the word “tennis”.As I used to play professional tennis,I am intrigued by the origin of this noble sport(It was first played in the french court by the nobles and even kings,right?),but I’m not sure about the word itself…
A trusty student of yours,
Evgeny
This French game was called “jeu de paume” because it was played with the palm of the hand. When people played, they used to say “Tenez!” to their opponent (which could be translated approximately by the expression “here it is”) and when the English version was developed, the word “tenez” became “tennis”.
In my grammar school, using ain’t resulted in:
(1st offence) writing it 50 times
(2nd offence) writing is twice the first offence or 100 times.
(3rd offence) writing it three times the first and second offences combined, or 450 times.
(4th offence) was a meeting with the parents and writing it 1000 times. I never quite got the mathematical rationale for that.
Again, like lostinhere, it’s a Catholic school thing…
Was traveling, Doroguya, so I have a lot of schooling to catch up on… nice to view you again.
What is the term for a word (I will call it a word, because there are no spaces in it as would be in a phrase) that is a sentence run together for humerous effect? It is not a portmanteau, but a mongrelization of a commonly used (and thus easily recognized) saying. Example: “It started raining ten minutes after I washed my car, but whattayagonnado?
Don’t tell me this doesn’t exist. (Maybe it doesn’t, but I don’t want you to tell me.)
Warner Bros. was one of the first Tv studios. They only had silent films back then. So he couldn’t understand why people would want to hear them talk when the films were using subtitles.
You seem a little disappointed that info can be more effectively communicated when modulated using sexuality. (though maybe your opinion is that the attention is grabbed, but the info isnt getting through)
But i’m not sure why you’re disappointed. You’re just discovering that dry recitation of information doesn’t fix in the mind. It needs the senses to make it meaningful.
And sexuality heightens sensitivity/imagination/presence .. all the good stuff the brain finds useful when acquiring information. (of course, there’s sexuality, and there’s sexuality – it doesn’t have to be blatant to be effective .. in fact subtle is probably better)
Making broad use of the senses when communicating info makes it more real and not just dry abstracted detail. Of course, to be effective it should be modulated in an intelligent way.
“You seem a little disappointed that info can be more effectively communicated when modulated using sexuality. (though maybe your opinion is that the attention is grabbed, but the info isnt getting through)
But i’m not sure why you’re disappointed. You’re just discovering that dry recitation of information doesn’t fix in the mind. It needs the senses to make it meaningful.
And sexuality heightens sensitivity/imagination/presence .. all the good stuff the brain finds useful when acquiring information. (of course, there’s sexuality, and there’s sexuality – it doesn’t have to be blatant to be effective .. in fact subtle is probably better)
Making broad use of the senses when communicating info makes it more real and not just dry abstracted detail. Of course, to be effective it should be modulated in an intelligent way.”
i used up my daily allocation of meandering prose.
basically .. sex isn’t just a valid influence/method of modulating communication, it’s essential (in the sense of indispensible) .. of course, i mean in the broadest sense, not just the bawdy blatant sense.
maybe you incorrectly guaged my mood in that ’sex sells’ video?
i didnt intend to come across as though i am disappointed that sex is more interesting than… well, no sex.
the primary reason for making that video was to prove that i personally do not use sex to get attention on youtube, because someone had recently started commenting my videos and accusing me of having no talent, because ‘only guys watch my videos because of the way i look’
i was insulted he said that to me, because i AM talented with voices, and until that ’sex sells’ video, i had not intentionally tried to lure viewers in by looking or sounding sexy. im flattered to think that guys watch me because they find me attractive, but i have never intentionally used my appearance to get views. Im on youtube for my voices and acting, not because of how i look. besides, im not that good looking in real life anyways.
it was just to prove a point. and you know what? it worked.
as for being disappointed that sex sells.. im not disappointed really. i think its a shame that someone as intelligent and pleasant and lovely as marina gets alot of views solely because of her appearance, because i know what a great person she is on the inside. i originally started watching her because someone dared me to try her voice. i didnt think i would ever be able to do it but after marina encouraged me, i did it! (like.. 10 times now.. im a bit obsessed with marinas voice now )
but i know the facts about life. im guilty of it myself; if theres a sexy thumbnail on a youtube video i am 10000000000000000000000 times more likely to click it than if it’s a thumbnail of say, a car or something else im not that interested in.
even a silly cupcake girl like me is a prime example of how sex does sell and im not ashamed to admit it.
-MC crosses her fingers that the comment will work because it took her ages to type-
he’s a pretty cool guy. was a cook, chef, whatever … wrote books. one of them is “kitchen confidential”. funny and interesting. he’s got this tv show where he’s traveling all over the world … eating food and all.
Given the choice of 15 euros now or a larger chunk of change later, men who had just handled bras valued an immediate payoff more highly than did guys who’d been stuck fondling T-shirts.
ok .. i’m going to forge ahead in the vague exploratory style that aLx dislikes so much …
i think its a shame that someone as intelligent and pleasant and lovely as marina gets alot of views solely because of her appearance
I dont think that’s true. No offence to Marina, but superficially attractive girls are a dime a dozen. Marina makes use of her appearence with wit and intelligence and provides a tongue-in-cheek exaggurated (sort of self parody on occasion) style of communicating. (I’m assuming this is deliberate – she’s an intelligent person.) And i think it’s that combination that is making her popular, not simply her appearance.
And i think that’s an essential combination. Superficial appearance wont keep people coming back. There’s no communication there. And, i guess, in essence effective communication is a sort of psychic sexual (in the heady sense rather than the body sense) encounter. And the more effective the communication, the greater the sexual undercurrent (theory #392). So i guess, if you’re effectively communicating your material .. then there will be people who will accuse you of succeeding because of your looks. But that’s because they don’t know what’s going on within themselves. They confuse communication with overt sexuality and sexuality with looks.
ps .. when i say communicating .. i mean .. where what is said has significance and meaning as opposed to being just a sequence of sounds representing data.
(ps .. i write stuff into Notepad first then copy it across .. i always assume i’ll mess up)
dude, i think your trying to make this more complicated than what it is. humans have a sexual imperative. exploit this imperative if you want to get the attention of a human. simple as sex and candy. sex is the most basic uncomplicated activity humans have got left. before one’s intellect can ponder psychic sexual communication, the monkey brain grunts ” fuck good ” gets stoned on dopamine, leaving the intellect to reclaim some dignity by spouting something about the subjective interpretation of theme and character of consensual psycho-sexual social roles.
ps. this was my alternative sex and candy link, had to go with bow wow wow, though. she’s cute and i’m a fucking ape.
psychic sexuality isn’t a separable quality .. it’s an aspect of any part of our world view (to some degree or other) and behaviour.
There may be blunt overt sex reward systems that psychologists have managed to bump up against … but that doesn’t bely the subtlety of the all pervasiveness of psychic sexuality in our perceptions.
i ask in a leisurely manner without interest in provoking an argument that interrupts the entertaining nature of this discussion. could you explain “psychic sexuality”?
dude, you jest! i mean no ill intent. that bird does have a pretty song, i found myself occupied by it. imagine our conversation in a pub, among acquaintances, really, disagreements can make the conversation all the more enjoyable. here is a cardinal
.. my stuff was meandering and unstructured .. the complications were more about my lack of clarity than any complication in what i was describing (my poor use of english).. but .. because i’m just vaguely inventing and examining ideas means it’s flimsy and is more for building on rather than defending .. (because it’s a vague exploration, there’s no defense of it) ..
plus my friend in MA came on .. so i ran away and hid.
i guess normally criticism is useful for clearing up vague ideas, but i think i created such a huge mishmash of vague notions that the idea of going into detail in any of it made me feel weary and scared.
I still like the idea of all pervading psychic sexuality as the basis for all perception / activity / and communication .. i just have to figure out what it means.
lol .. yeh .. well .. .. ready for more unstructured random exloratory waffling?
.. i have this “thing”, you know .. where .. you can invent a phrase that has some instinctive resonance, and then discover its explicit meaning in a way that may or may not satisfy reason.
Tho, i have to stress .. i place far greater importance on instinct and feeling than i do on explicit reasoning and logic, etc. .. you know the drill.
so .. psychic sexuality .. i guess that goes along with my idea that sexuality is a fundamental force of the universe, not merely some organic mess of chemical reactions evolved to induce behavior resulting in reproduction.
psychic? … basically to accent that it’s not founded on physical .. and has that tinge of wacky paranormal to it that leads it nicely away from the realm of normal scientific definition.
and sexuality? .. because the forces of attraction, bonding and closeness, etc are fundamental in the non-scientific subjective universe. Human qualities are as elemental in the subjective universe as photons or quarks are in the “objective” energy measurement scientific analysis universe.
I have always wondered, since at some point words like :
have not was changed to haven’t
does not was changed to doesn’t
could not was changed to couldn’t
can not was changed to can’t
would not was changed to wouldn’t
has not was changed to hasn’t
are not was changed to aren’t
should not was changed to shouldn’t
shall not was changed to shan’t (I could be wrong about that one)
Then, how come ‘will not’ wasn’t changed to ‘willn’t'?
Straight man: “You shan’t do that.”
Hope: “Oh, yes I shan!”
It’s documented here. You just weren’t (you missed that one!) born soon enough to have enjoyed it. I think it died because after speaking it, your tongue feels like you just asked it to do something unnatural.
The Brits still use whilst, which, although not a contraction, somehow looks like one.
The same in French : Normally and officially I AM = JE SUIS but in Picardy where I live many people say EUJ CHUS. All this from Latin EGO SUM = I AM.
The number of dialects in a country depends not on the size of the country but rather on the number of isolated areas. So in Moscow and Vladivostock they speak the same Russian. But in Kavkaz every valley has a different dialect or even a different language.
Don’t stop there!
taupe
mauve
fuscia
chartreuse (The color of a phony treasure map?)
maroon (The color of a shipwrecked person after ten years in the sun?)
magenta
cerise
cyan
Actually “cherv” doesn’t mean “worm” but larval phase of insects.
CHERVËN mainly means “red” in several slavic languages.
Polish “Armia Czerwona” Croation “Crvena armija” (probably Serbian and Bosniac as well) for “The Red Army”.
Western and southern slavic word for “June” is usually very similar to CHERVËN.
Thanks, liquidruby and CampKohler , for your WORD REQUESTS :
Vermillion
taupe
mauve
fuscia
chartreuse (The color of a phony treasure map?)
maroon (The color of a shipwrecked person after ten years in the sun?)
magenta
cerise
cyan
I have to know. What is the origin of the word seven. Not the value but why is seven, seven. Its my favorite number and it is tattooed on my arm. I would be so grateful.
LANGUAGE is taken from the French LANGAGE “speech”. LANGUE = TONGUE.
In 1066 the French invaded England and brought with them many words that replaced the old-saxon words.
For example FRITH has been replaced by PEACE (in French PAIX).
Like the world the US doesn’t use words in some of the different regions. Ain’t… isn’t commonly used in the western area only in the southern areas as far as I know. I don’t think I’ve used ain’t since elementary school.
Where the heck is PAGEDOLL! Did he fall of the face of the earth? Did he go on vacation without checking out with me. Damn! Where is the hall monitor when you need one?
Hello hot for words, being that yesterday was talk like I pirate day, and that pirates are both exciting and fun, I wanted to know the origin of the the phase “Me Hartys”. I maybe be easy but thought it might be fun as well. love what you do for internet by not only educating but doing while being smart and beautiful.
Hope you had a chance to speak like a pirate with that beautiful russian accent.
I “ain’t” surprised that there was confusion. There is much confusion in words that may “sound” bad but not necessary be bad or even misused. “Ain’t” containing a “not” derivative comes off negatively. Some words have hard consonants that sounds bad like “puss” or “cock” (as related to guns, of course). Some words have an unintended cultural bias embedded in them, like “niggardly” meaning miserly or cheap which I think originated from Sweden. Some words have taken on derogatory implications from TV shows, like he’s so “gay” which now means he is stupid from South Park. So, to be PC (politically correct), do we avoid these words? English is a movable feast… just be aware that your target audience may have a political agenda.
but that isn’t
“Ain’t” am not so bad
or
“Ain’t” are not so bad
so your
“Ain’t” ain’t so bad
has improper useage of “ain’t” !!
Am i right? Did i learn correctly from your lesson?
did i catch a deliberate error? (style, rather than grammar, for titles)
do i get a pat on the head?
Word request: “Marm” as in “School-marm”. I know what it means; but why are there only school marms? Why not office-marms, or business-marms, etc.
Do you consider yourself a marm?
Without even looking it up, I’m going to guess it is a vocal smooshing of the word madame in the Old West. Perhaps the term school-madame was a little to close for comfort to that other kind of madame they often had* in those times.
I do not use the word. I am a school teacher, and I do a lot of formal writing so I try not to use any contractions. It makes it a real pain when I e-mail or text my students. They are so much faster than I am anyway.
Tah, instead of pronouncing to in becoming popular.
Bush uses it all the time, it may well be a regional dialect for some parts of the country.
If one would use tah, ain’t or other mispronunciation of English words a linguistic profiler could find out much about the speaker.
It’s easier to write and people tend to be lazy in a since that it makes typing faster to shorten words in a comment or forum. I tend to use it quit a bit but auto spell checker corrects it for me or at least underlines it
so I will correct it.
I firmly disagree with Marina on this one.
“Ain’t” is best kept in the improper usage department in the English language and used like a sword for heavy handed emphasis. Like when possibly-soon-to-be V.P. Senator Joe Biden (D. DE) said in a speech something to the effect that it was patriotic to pay taxes, somebody, like myself, would likely get disgusted and might make use of the term in question this-a-way: “I ain’t buying that for a second.” And if I was chewing tobacco, a juicy gob o’ spit on the ground would fit as finalizing punctuation to the retort. Except I hain’t ever chewed tobacco, so that wouldn’t never been commited by yours’ truly.
I use the word ain’t a lot! And I think since the word is so commonly used, and language changes over time, that these days it should be correct in all of those uses. I mean, I ain’t a philolgist, but it ain’t like I ain’t making a good point. Ain’t I?
Thanks for the Wexner Center ref buzzword.
I see that they are showing the “Andy Warhol: A Documentary film” which I’ve missed on PBS in the past. I see Laurie Anderson narrates the film. I think it is this Laurie Anderson.
Laurie Anderson – O Superman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hhm0NHhCBg
yeah i think your right. i first saw laurie anderson when i was a kid staying up late watching pbs. it was o superman, i didn’t know what the hell any of it meant but i loved it then.
i was taking a performing arts class and we were to create and perform our own work. a student who was a lesbian did a piece about female sexuality, she told us to close our eyes, she passed out flowers and had us explore the flower… symbol for femininity. she said in a soothing voice, “explore the flower, touch, smell, taste the flower” so i popped the whole damn thing in my mouth chomped on it and swallowed. i fucking loved that class. my performance piece included blood, as all really bad performance art should, that and nudity. i wasn’t naked.
the andy warhol exhibit is supposed be huge, a weeks worth of material available. i shouldn’t pass up the opportunity. some cool shit for sure.
Don’t like to let myself venture too far into the night to defy laws of tradition … but the bass player aint no slouch.
I have vague memories of Laurie Anderson…Lost Art of Conversation, stiil at it , seems.
well mr buzzword .. i cant say i like warhol too much … i like the ideas of his though… i’m not very keen on Art, though i do like art.
my preferences were with surrealism .. the surrealists were like the kind of heavy metal of the art world .. … i’m not particularly sophisticated. Salvador Dali and Miro and that lot will do me fine.
Hi Sisi! Great screen name
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You should get rid of the computer
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I’m a fish and you’re a bird! TFM
FYI, aLx is a long-timer from Germany.
He also was an exchange student at
one time, much as Maren is. Maren
is a student from near Dusseldorf who
is staying with my Mom and spending
the next three monthes going to schule
here in Ft. Lauderdale. Ah yes, the
wonders of cultural exchange
People are always talking about how their conscience nags at them, and I would love to know where the word conscience comes from. All I can ever think of is the part in the movie As Good As It Gets when Helen Hunt is trying to spell the word and her line is, “Con and Science? That CAN’T be right!” LOL. Thanks!
lol in english creole, its said like ent, and i realised that today. and most i use itin the rong context
[creole] is my word request…ain’t soul —ent-it…Here in wisconsin with the Menominee Natives; they seem to talk a bit frenchy or is it more latin of the romance languages?…how JA be?
So it is to be….In Wisconsin the Meskwaki gained control of the Fox River system. This river was vital for the fur trade between French Canada and the interior of North America, because it allowed travel from Green Bay in Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River. At first contact, the French estimated the number of Meskwaki as about 6,500. By 1712, the Meskwaki were down to 3,500. …”one world starves like all worlds”…D.I. Pussy
mankind is lead by women-KIND 
I ain’t never did see me not say never hear speak dem flabber floopy wibbly wobbly doo da dingle dangle shimmy shoo lamb shoe shangle lippy loppy floop flang… sorry what was the question?
beat that random string!
I ain’t used the word much at all hehe.. in fact, aside from quoting someone, that’s (or that is), the first time I’ve used it.
you look sexy why not do a video on pussy (women’s vagina
I don’t use the word ain’t much… i never remember when to use it. XD
I agree that the word “ain’t” is the contraction for the phrase “am not”. However, I disagree with it’s use for the plural, present tense of the verb to be, “are”, as in the phrase “are not”. Isn’t the contraction “aren’t” better in that case. Thanks for all the good research you do.
I don’t use the word ain’t often.
That outfit is ridiculous but she makes it work somehow. I wish the hotforprofits chick would try getup’s like that. She “aint” no Marina though. I like both their styles though.
I ain’t never gonna quit watching you!
First comment!
Hmmm, ain’t for sure yet.
I can’t post on your calendar page for some reason. Says I need to be logged in, but if I go to any other page, it works. I have no idea why that happens.
by the way – November 7 is National Martini Day.
Hi prospero811,
That happens to me also occasionally. I’ll log in and when I navigate to another page, there is no comment text box as if I were logged out, even though I just logged in.
What works for me 99% of the time is to just do a page refresh and the comment box appears. Occasionally, I have to clear the cookies and / or the browser cache, at which point I would need to log in again. The reason that happens is expired/outdated cookies and session IDs .
How about the word etymology… I probably mispelled that.
I ain’t got no word request right now!
WHAT THE…..? !!!! I’m the 465th commentor? !!!
OH,,,How the mighty have fallen….
Hi Marina, Thank you for what you’re doing,it is good stuff.My suggestion would be the word: PYRAMID. I’ve heard it has no real origin or something but i’m not very sure of that.I ask for an investigation.Thanks.bye bye teacher.
Maria, first off your a beautiful. You probably hear it every minute of every day but it still wouldn’t be enough.
I am a student of languages and linguistics. Etymology and Philology have always been hobbies of mine however there are several words I have not yet been able to determine the origins to. Perhaps you can help me out here.
Flirt
G-String
Turmoil
Stash
bug
dweeb
cuddle
condom
jazz
snooze
jiffy.
Sorry I have a much longer list but maybe you can help me shorten it.
Ciao
hello, this is not a word its my name “ITZEL” and i have search it and i have had diffrent answers maybe you can help me and tell me the right one what I have found is
1. Most beautiful shineist star in the sky
2. Rainbow
3. Most beautiful female worrrior
if you can help me that would be great thanks for your time =)
word request Redneck
THIS might help
um no viewing your music library didn’t help, i was wondering more about where the word came from, not the rednex techo country music but thanks for the reply
Farmers working in the field under the sun. Sun burned necks.
actually i heard a really different reason where the Term Redneck originated from, Back in the 1940’s there was a Coal mining operation and a faction of people who didn’t conform to the strike wore red neckerchiefs around there neck and thus where the term redneck came from, so i guess i have to recind my request for a word origin toodles
You’re helping me so much thank you! can you explain the word Copacetic ?
word request- pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
it really is a word… good luck
Hello person15,
Marina answered that in a comment in April. Here is the link to that question and Marina’s comment.
Thanks PK!
I might have answered that very common word with a sarcastic comment. 
hello marina
i have a word request for you
afterlife
Marina! i want to know the origen of the phrase “Thats what they say.”,……and if there is,… who the hell is “They’… THANKS!
I don’t know who they is (are), but they talk alot… Don’t they
haha hell yeah THEY do! lol
word request – tutor
hey marina what is this?
To request? to re-quest
quest: the pursuit of
inquest: a legal inquiry,
request: To ask for
tain’t will this work?
No
request for the for ( with out cost ) Like sun light, airfor the word
Just a reminder for everyone some of us TAs are retyping your word/phase request because your comment lacked the keyword ‘request’ that we are using to search for words that you are asking for HFW to do. If you did put the keyword ‘request’ in your comment then we have logged your comment.
isn’t thanking everybody who makes a word request tedious?
No.
i think it’s a very good idea.
if you don’t get some kind of confirmation you soon get the feeling your contribution is inconsequential and give up.
You wouldn’t want that, would you? You monster!
mijj you would think that.
i suggest a notice on the Left Hand Side titled “Word Requests” .. followed by the rules for making a clear word request that can be easily found.
.. and maybe some indication of how word requests are gathered up and printed out on slips of paper. Marina takes them all to bed with her and she rummages through them and sifts them for her cherished selections. (may as well create some enticing imagery to go along with it all.)
I have a phrase request:
“Net Neutrality”
What is it and what does it mean?
nooooooooo!!
There don’t seem to be any Marina headshots against a greenscreen background!!
thanxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Marina you are the best
hey marina
the word stripper , ?????
Thank you stolla for your word request of stripper.
You know if we could figure that firebug program out all we would have to do is just add word request to their comment instead of making a whole new comment.
nooooo .. that isn’t how it works .. anything added to the page has to go through the correct procedures. You cant just add stuff to the page held in the server.
If there isn’t a thing on the page that allows you to modify text (from the server) on the page, then you cant do that in firebug on firefox.
… if you get my drift.
Im not sure if Firebug could help because Im not sure if it can change someones comment. Their is one other option might be on the back end of the servers. Anyways, this it better discussed off site.
I would like to request the origins of a phrase if I may.
Who coined the phrase “coined the phrase”?
A fan of your spin on education!!!
I don’t know if you can check out this word on not
“Dildo”.
Michael Scott
You did use it incorrectly. But, only by your rules. I use Scrabble rules, and in america, if it is a word in common usage, with a common use, that’s what it is and what it means.Ain’t is a complete negative. It can be used for is not, shouldn’t be, anything. It ain’t unusable. It’s kind of like “fuck” in that it is infinitively adaptable. I think the history of words is interesting in that the means of communication is expanded, but maybe you should bring a little more common usage into it.
time for a little hoomer…
[Stand up comedy: Al Murray considers the American Dream]
Go to bed you old goat.
i just got up!!
What up Mikey!?! Hope you’re doing good. I’ve noticed you”ve made some major brownie points! Thats cool.
Have a good one 
wanker.
lol – brilliant! … i’ve never heard that before!
( i dont mean “wanker” .. i mean the Monty P track)
I have a word to request! “Malarkey” I’d like to know wtf is up with that word. btw your youtube vids are extremely interesting and hilarious
Keep em coming! 
is that your nipple i see in the top left, or just a good shade of light?
you need more info on your DVD’s like expected release and content.
Oh ain’t she sweet,
Well see her walking down that street.
Yes I ask you very confidentially:
Ain’t she sweet?
Oh ain’t she nice,
Well look her over once or twice.
Yes I ask you very confidentially:
Ain’t she nice?
Just cast an eye
In her direction.
Oh me oh my,
Ain’t that perfection
Oh I repeat
Well don’t you think that’s kind of neat?
Yes I ask you very confidentially:
Ain’t she sweet?
All right back at the top……..
OK now just the girls….
Now everybody Ain’t She Sweet
A poet and don’t know it make a rhyme every time. Cool Pal
This song was written in 1927, Frank Sinatra and the Beatles did a cover version.
Hi Marina, many months ago you had talked about using profane words and that you should be able to say them as it is in the context of teaching about words, and then you mentioned that bleeping out every other word just wouldn’t work.
Here is a video of a guy regressing words back to letters.
No bleeps needed. Letters=Words
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw5MyKbxSxo
I wonder what we can pick up on that tv screen on her belly. Us going to Vegas.
Has anyone noticed that, in the video still screen above, Marina looks like a Teletubby?
I wonder what we can pick up on that tv screen on her belly. More Hot For Words
I ain’t seen no teletubby that looks half as good as our M.
Nick
You got that right
Sexy Teletubby
That’s gross.
Nick
Hello Bob,
I can’t see the picture. The only thing I see is
spinng wheel
Marina you said earlier you are a good cook.
Beautiful a good cook, smart ,young and yet you are unattached, unmarried, unwed, footloose and fancy-free.
Are you just to picky?
Maybe you’re just a little cinchy?
Do you have any good home style Russian recipes you can share.
I know a few Russian dishes. But I cook Southern,Tex-Mex, Italian and BBQ for the most part.
I sometimes say ain’t, but not today.
I was just thinking about the disasterous aftermath of the Athens’ Olympic arenas, that was reported weeks ago. You know, with all the abandonement, finances with maintenance costs, vandalism, and the looting by GYPSIES.
“Y” is a substitute vowel,
A E I O U & sometimes Y
Therefore, Gypsy sometimes has vowels, and sometimes doesn’t. Perhaps our Dear Teacher will do a vid for each case?
WORD REQUEST: Gypsy
Hey Fianchetto1. Don’t forget there name. So we can reference back to them.
Tnks Capt. I was watching too.
Think of it as an alternate player, the 2nd string of a basketball team.
When the 1st string team is off the floor the 2nd string comes in to play.
just as “a” can be pronounced differently in different words (fart, ass), “y” can stand for different sounds. in english, “y” is an ordinary vowel as well as a glide. a glide is something between a vowel and a consonant, that’s why it’s sometimes also called “semivowel”.
y as a vowel: gypsy, fly, hyper.
y as a glide: yawn, yard, yeah.
in german, “y” is a vowel only.
Thank you animalntaz for your word request of gypsy.
Actually, I was only trying to ’second’ the motion, and ensure that it had the word “request” included. I will abide the format you reccommended in your email henceforth:-)
Thanks, guys.
Ciao,
Fianchetto
Oh..Ok thats ok then. You can second the request. Marina encourages that by making all word request show up on the current lesson.
does anyone have any idea when did M do her first plain background vid? … how far back should i start looking? weeks? … months? .. always did them?
Hey Mijj as far as I can tell the Karaoke video was the first with a plain back ground. I went through the rest and they all had backgrounds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tuZcK1ywB0
Thanks, Cap .. i was beginning to suspect that.
i started going through them from the beginning – then i realised maybe i shoud’ve started at the other end … and then got distracted by a shiny thing.
Hi, where did the phrase “Cat’s got your tongue” come from?
Thanks! Joe 409
Thanks Joe409 for the phrase request of Cat got your tongue.
In an unrelated topic (sorry, the FAQ said the best way to get in touch with you is to post on the latest word), as someone genuinely interested in philology, would you mind posting a bibliography or syllabus of some sort, so that I might one day be as smart and attractive as you? (Philology makes people hotter, right? Well, Nietszche was a philologist, so maybe it’s something else.)
Hello again, Marina
I’d like to know the origin of the word “witch” and “witcher”. Is “witcher” a proper masculine form of “witch”?
Did you play or read “The Witcher”?
And another request:
What is you favourite slavic-origin word? And is there any slavic-origin word you hate or you are shame on?
Which witch?
Which or witcher?
(Sorry. I had to do a play on words.)
Thanks for the word request of witch or witcher.
To anyone it may concern or consider, I woyuld like to change the little thing in front of my name
But I’m unable to figure it out 
Hey barnkat36. Just double click on the monster in front of your name and it will take you to http://www.gravatar.com. There you will put in your emaill address that you use for Marina’s site and a password. Once you have registered then go to your computer, or your desktop or pick you a picture from the web down load it to your desk top then up load it to the gravatar site. It will show you how to crop and size the gravatar to me your needs. If you have any more problems let me know.
Mike
Thanks Capman911, Thats not to difficult
Jon
You did it. Nice fish, It looks like a fish.
Oh Yeah 40# Chinnok salmon
mmmm nice eating congratz.
Now if you want to you can add a web site to your name by going to the Dashboard at the top of the page and clicking on it. When it opens go to the profile page. Under your email address is a place for a web site. Just copy and paste whatever web site you want people on here to see if they click on your name. Your name will turn blue after you add a web site. I have my You Tube site attached to mine.
Mike
Thx, Capman…I’ve been trying to figure out how you guys did the blue-name=link thing
Ciao,
Fianchetto
Teacher Sweet, If I understand this correctly the saying, “ain’t ain’t a word ” is actually an inproper use of ain’t!! Help
I’m confused, my english teacher in grammer school has been my problem all along 
JonX0X0X0
Okay, this time I haven’t resorted to OED. The word I am interested in is “Haywire”, as in “My knitting machine has gone haywire!”.
Can you crack it?
Paul
Thanks Paulfwb for your word request of Haywire.
…love the way the Brits had rid this ‘ain’t’ word
…we ain’t no longer ammused by this word so orff with its etymology.. 
…
..ain’t what you do it’s the way that you do it, that’s what gets results…..:smile: – ‘ain’t no sunshine when shes gone, its not warm when she’s away, ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone, and she’s always gone too long anytime she goes away…..could gloze on, but I ain’t…….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIdIqbv7SPo
‘She hit me in the nuts man, in the nuts!’
— Every time I hear this Chevolay……every time…… 
..now, get back to having a lovelyday 
Thanks for the link
I ain’t gonna say it.
BTW…
Do you know what a haint is??
Thanks mitttheman for your word request of haint
I don’t use the word aint at all
In fact I think that if everybody starts using the word ain’t, it will be accepted is matter of popularity …
I never use “ain’t” as it makes the user sound a little less intelligent than they really are.
i dont use aint because i am a saint…
Saint Felicity . Congratz you really are a saint.
i seldom use ain’t in everyday speech, unless i feel in the mood to speak dialectually or am emotionally-charged…
and i ain’t gonna agree with those that say your outfit in this vid was distractin’…
it ain’t the outfit, it’s you…
Ok then,how about this one…
Chrononhotonthologos
Спасиба,
Евгений
Thanks, gendata, for your WORD REQUEST: Chrononhotonthologos
Ciao,
Fianchetto
Gentata…just because another member shares the etymology with another member does not mean it’s not a fine suggestion, nor does it prohibit Our Dear Teacher from making a video of it
Ciao,
Fianchetto
Hey Marina from Bulgaria,
Excellent job you’re doing so far,but I didn’t help but notice that you haven’t still investigated the word “tennis”.As I used to play professional tennis,I am intrigued by the origin of this noble sport(It was first played in the french court by the nobles and even kings,right?),but I’m not sure about the word itself…
A trusty student of yours,
Evgeny
This French game was called “jeu de paume” because it was played with the palm of the hand. When people played, they used to say “Tenez!” to their opponent (which could be translated approximately by the expression “here it is”) and when the English version was developed, the word “tenez” became “tennis”.
Thanks celebornmars,it turns out I was close with my suggestions :p
Thanks, gendata, for your WORD REQUEST: Tennis
Ciao,
Fianchetto
Very interesting indeed! But I have to admit that your outfit today was distracting (thank you very much)
and I ain’t lying. 
In my grammar school, using ain’t resulted in:
(1st offence) writing it 50 times
(2nd offence) writing is twice the first offence or 100 times.
(3rd offence) writing it three times the first and second offences combined, or 450 times.
(4th offence) was a meeting with the parents and writing it 1000 times. I never quite got the mathematical rationale for that.
Again, like lostinhere, it’s a Catholic school thing…
Was traveling, Doroguya, so I have a lot of schooling to catch up on… nice to view you again.
100 times = …
ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t
ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t
ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t
ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t
ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t
ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t
ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t
ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t
ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t
ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t ain’t
… that’s a lotta “ain’t”s
Watch out that they don’t bite. Especially if there red ain’ts
must be a picnic somewhere….
writing it 50 times is as easy as this:
“it 50 times”
That one got a detention. . .
What is the term for a word (I will call it a word, because there are no spaces in it as would be in a phrase) that is a sentence run together for humerous effect? It is not a portmanteau, but a mongrelization of a commonly used (and thus easily recognized) saying. Example: “It started raining ten minutes after I washed my car, but whattayagonnado?
Don’t tell me this doesn’t exist. (Maybe it doesn’t, but I don’t want you to tell me.)
…and a bird dumped on it, too!
tellmeaboutit
conjoint words perhaps?
Ihavenoideaiamonlyguessingherelol
Hello Campkohler,
Might as well- fuggedabouit
for another video could you find out about the origin if the word “dominatrix” thanks (russian women are the best)
Like these Russian Girls are masters.
Well, I know “domina-” refers to dominate and “-trix” is feminine. Or at least I think it is.
Thanks, the apprentice , for your WORD REQUEST: Dominatrix
Ciao,
Fianchetto
that was a great video u look so hot and sexy and that is the word i want u to findout about the origin of the word “sexy”
I went to a Catholic grade school, and they burned “ain’t” out of my vocabulary.
Marina whats this???
I am sorry… I will shut up now then..
Warner Bros. was one of the first Tv studios. They only had silent films back then. So he couldn’t understand why people would want to hear them talk when the films were using subtitles.
hey marina, what about calves?
as in.. theres a baby cow thats called a calf right? and i think a baby whale is also a calf.
but then we have the muscles in our legs called that too
(i only ask because my calves are aching like hell)
Why are they aching?
Perhaps they got separated from the herd.
LOL@campkohler
i did some stretching so they hurt
Welcome Back Missy.
Mike
I had a look at your: [Sex Sells - What Youtube Has Taught Me]
You seem a little disappointed that info can be more effectively communicated when modulated using sexuality. (though maybe your opinion is that the attention is grabbed, but the info isnt getting through)
But i’m not sure why you’re disappointed. You’re just discovering that dry recitation of information doesn’t fix in the mind. It needs the senses to make it meaningful.
And sexuality heightens sensitivity/imagination/presence .. all the good stuff the brain finds useful when acquiring information. (of course, there’s sexuality, and there’s sexuality – it doesn’t have to be blatant to be effective .. in fact subtle is probably better)
Making broad use of the senses when communicating info makes it more real and not just dry abstracted detail. Of course, to be effective it should be modulated in an intelligent way.
so what are you saying?
what i’m saying is …
“You seem a little disappointed that info can be more effectively communicated when modulated using sexuality. (though maybe your opinion is that the attention is grabbed, but the info isnt getting through)
But i’m not sure why you’re disappointed. You’re just discovering that dry recitation of information doesn’t fix in the mind. It needs the senses to make it meaningful.
And sexuality heightens sensitivity/imagination/presence .. all the good stuff the brain finds useful when acquiring information. (of course, there’s sexuality, and there’s sexuality – it doesn’t have to be blatant to be effective .. in fact subtle is probably better)
Making broad use of the senses when communicating info makes it more real and not just dry abstracted detail. Of course, to be effective it should be modulated in an intelligent way.”
oho, in a funny mood today, eh?
what’s your goddamn fucking point?
lol, yeh.
i used up my daily allocation of meandering prose.
basically .. sex isn’t just a valid influence/method of modulating communication, it’s essential (in the sense of indispensible) .. of course, i mean in the broadest sense, not just the bawdy blatant sense.
so, what’s the broadest sense of sex, then?
i .. i don’t know!
what do you reckon?
what the hell? you came up with it, so you ought to have some idea of what you’re talking about.
i don’t think i ever tried to convince anyone that i knew what i was talking about.
don’t you ever do that? .. ramble on and see where it goes? .. or do you always make sense?
aLx always makes sense
maybe you incorrectly guaged my mood in that ’sex sells’ video?
i didnt intend to come across as though i am disappointed that sex is more interesting than… well, no sex.
the primary reason for making that video was to prove that i personally do not use sex to get attention on youtube, because someone had recently started commenting my videos and accusing me of having no talent, because ‘only guys watch my videos because of the way i look’
i was insulted he said that to me, because i AM talented with voices, and until that ’sex sells’ video, i had not intentionally tried to lure viewers in by looking or sounding sexy. im flattered to think that guys watch me because they find me attractive, but i have never intentionally used my appearance to get views. Im on youtube for my voices and acting, not because of how i look. besides, im not that good looking in real life anyways.
it was just to prove a point. and you know what? it worked.
as for being disappointed that sex sells.. im not disappointed really. i think its a shame that someone as intelligent and pleasant and lovely as marina gets alot of views solely because of her appearance, because i know what a great person she is on the inside. i originally started watching her because someone dared me to try her voice. i didnt think i would ever be able to do it but after marina encouraged me, i did it! (like.. 10 times now.. im a bit obsessed with marinas voice now
)
but i know the facts about life. im guilty of it myself; if theres a sexy thumbnail on a youtube video i am 10000000000000000000000 times more likely to click it than if it’s a thumbnail of say, a car or something else im not that interested in.
even a silly cupcake girl like me is a prime example of how sex does sell
and im not ashamed to admit it.
-MC crosses her fingers that the comment will work because it took her ages to type-
i saw the words sex and candy and became interested LOL (lmw)
man, i didnt think this would turn into such a debate haha.
i just want my smilie cookie now.
sure thing.
Thanks Misscupcake for the word request of calf or calves.
can i have some cookies as a reward
All you want and I will help you eat them.
I’ll bring the milk.
ya.
lmw!
das schmeckt sehr gut! 
ahahahaa you always have smilie cookies and cakes for me now. ahahaha
i bet it does. :/
i should’ve become a cook or something. hey, you know anthony bourdain?
Nein, wer ist er?
he’s a pretty cool guy. was a cook, chef, whatever … wrote books. one of them is “kitchen confidential”. funny and interesting. he’s got this tv show where he’s traveling all over the world … eating food and all.
sex sells
lol … i love this bit of research ….
ok .. i’m going to forge ahead in the vague exploratory style that aLx dislikes so much …
I dont think that’s true. No offence to Marina, but superficially attractive girls are a dime a dozen. Marina makes use of her appearence with wit and intelligence and provides a tongue-in-cheek exaggurated (sort of self parody on occasion) style of communicating. (I’m assuming this is deliberate – she’s an intelligent person.) And i think it’s that combination that is making her popular, not simply her appearance.
And i think that’s an essential combination. Superficial appearance wont keep people coming back. There’s no communication there. And, i guess, in essence effective communication is a sort of psychic sexual (in the heady sense rather than the body sense) encounter. And the more effective the communication, the greater the sexual undercurrent (theory #392). So i guess, if you’re effectively communicating your material .. then there will be people who will accuse you of succeeding because of your looks. But that’s because they don’t know what’s going on within themselves. They confuse communication with overt sexuality and sexuality with looks.
ps .. when i say communicating .. i mean .. where what is said has significance and meaning as opposed to being just a sequence of sounds representing data.
(ps .. i write stuff into Notepad first then copy it across .. i always assume i’ll mess up)
she was talking about views. not about people coming back. that’s different. you’re talking about something else.
anyway, despite your missing the subject, though … how about elaboraing on this:
my question is, how do you know what’s going on in people, and they themselves don’t?
unrelated, but this came to mind.
dude, i think your trying to make this more complicated than what it is. humans have a sexual imperative. exploit this imperative if you want to get the attention of a human. simple as sex and candy. sex is the most basic uncomplicated activity humans have got left. before one’s intellect can ponder psychic sexual communication, the monkey brain grunts ” fuck good ” gets stoned on dopamine, leaving the intellect to reclaim some dignity by spouting something about the subjective interpretation of theme and character of consensual psycho-sexual social roles.
ps. this was my alternative sex and candy link, had to go with bow wow wow, though. she’s cute and i’m a fucking ape.
well .. my position is simply:
psychic sexuality isn’t a separable quality .. it’s an aspect of any part of our world view (to some degree or other) and behaviour.
There may be blunt overt sex reward systems that psychologists have managed to bump up against … but that doesn’t bely the subtlety of the all pervasiveness of psychic sexuality in our perceptions.
… and that goes double for communication.
i ask in a leisurely manner without interest in provoking an argument that interrupts the entertaining nature of this discussion. could you explain “psychic sexuality”?
‘This video is not available in your country.’
(sex and candy)
“i want candy” by bow wow wow & “sex and candy” by marcy playground
misscupcake eating her cookie
{ … mijj listens to pretty
[British Song Thrush[ whilst under attack from aLx and buzzword …)
sexy li’l critter
kitty
[this cat hates your dancing kitty]
dude, you jest! i mean no ill intent. that bird does have a pretty song, i found myself occupied by it. imagine our conversation in a pub, among acquaintances, really, disagreements can make the conversation all the more enjoyable. here is a cardinal
lol .. basically .. i ran away to hide …
.. my stuff was meandering and unstructured .. the complications were more about my lack of clarity than any complication in what i was describing (my poor use of english).. but .. because i’m just vaguely inventing and examining ideas means it’s flimsy and is more for building on rather than defending .. (because it’s a vague exploration, there’s no defense of it) ..
plus my friend in MA came on .. so i ran away and hid.
ky’s state bird! go cards!
bill the cat
thats cool, needed an escape. don’t look at it as an argument. just another means of exploring concepts. what in the hell do any of us have to defend?
i guess normally criticism is useful for clearing up vague ideas, but i think i created such a huge mishmash of vague notions that the idea of going into detail in any of it made me feel weary and scared.
I still like the idea of all pervading psychic sexuality as the basis for all perception / activity / and communication .. i just have to figure out what it means.
yeah, let me know. the idea sounds very surreal challenging to simply define that. may cause more harm to your concept than good.
lol .. yeh .. well .. .. ready for more unstructured random exloratory waffling?
.. i have this “thing”, you know .. where .. you can invent a phrase that has some instinctive resonance, and then discover its explicit meaning in a way that may or may not satisfy reason.
Tho, i have to stress .. i place far greater importance on instinct and feeling than i do on explicit reasoning and logic, etc. .. you know the drill.
so .. psychic sexuality .. i guess that goes along with my idea that sexuality is a fundamental force of the universe, not merely some organic mess of chemical reactions evolved to induce behavior resulting in reproduction.
psychic? … basically to accent that it’s not founded on physical .. and has that tinge of wacky paranormal to it that leads it nicely away from the realm of normal scientific definition.
and sexuality? .. because the forces of attraction, bonding and closeness, etc are fundamental in the non-scientific subjective universe. Human qualities are as elemental in the subjective universe as photons or quarks are in the “objective” energy measurement scientific analysis universe.
what started this discussion anyway?
I have always wondered, since at some point words like :
have not was changed to haven’t
does not was changed to doesn’t
could not was changed to couldn’t
can not was changed to can’t
would not was changed to wouldn’t
has not was changed to hasn’t
are not was changed to aren’t
should not was changed to shouldn’t
shall not was changed to shan’t (I could be wrong about that one)
Then, how come ‘will not’ wasn’t changed to ‘willn’t'?
because english is just one of those annoying languages that breaks all its own rules
hehe
Bob Hope had a skit on TV:
Straight man: “You shan’t do that.”
Hope: “Oh, yes I shan!”
It’s documented here. You just weren’t (you missed that one!) born soon enough to have enjoyed it. I think it died because after speaking it, your tongue feels like you just asked it to do something unnatural.
The Brits still use whilst, which, although not a contraction, somehow looks like one.
Thanks for showing me this CampKohler.
Yeah I forgot bout weren’t 
Who da thunk it? 
or ..will not = win’t
“This square peg win’t go in that round hole!”
if the od of the square peg is smaller than the id of the hole it will go in that round hole.
that’s useful information, stoke.
thanks.
Funny you mentioned the square peg reference mijj. Just the other day I saw this on tv Square Peg, Round Hole
the link should have worked
try this instead http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=AKcAbWeHgVY
lol … great shot!
AIN’T SHE SWEET !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP8s4FoKenU
The same in French : Normally and officially I AM = JE SUIS but in Picardy where I live many people say EUJ CHUS. All this from Latin EGO SUM = I AM.
The number of dialects in a country depends not on the size of the country but rather on the number of isolated areas. So in Moscow and Vladivostock they speak the same Russian. But in Kavkaz every valley has a different dialect or even a different language.
I just wanted to say thanks for all that you do and request a word. Vermilion. Keep up the great work.
VERMILION is Latin : In latin VERMIS = WORM.
Some worms were used for making a red color.
In Slavic CHERV’ means “worm” and CHERVËN “red vermilion”.
Don’t stop there!
taupe
mauve
fuscia
chartreuse (The color of a phony treasure map?)
maroon (The color of a shipwrecked person after ten years in the sun?)
magenta
cerise
cyan
Now you can stop.
Hi, dictionaricdotcom
Actually “cherv” doesn’t mean “worm” but larval phase of insects.
CHERVËN mainly means “red” in several slavic languages.
Polish “Armia Czerwona” Croation “Crvena armija” (probably Serbian and Bosniac as well) for “The Red Army”.
Western and southern slavic word for “June” is usually very similar to CHERVËN.
Taupe – adhesive used to mend a faux pas
mauve – How you get all your belongins from your old chateau to your new chateau
fuscia – atomic process of joining two French atoms to produce vast amounts of energ
chartreuse (The color of a phony treasure map?)
maroon (The color of a shipwrecked person after ten years in the sun?)
magenta – a genta that belongs to me
cerise – the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt, and the only one that is spheroid
cyan – Pining for a lover, I cyan I cyan if she loves me, she does, too
Ciao,
Fianchetto
Very nicely done. I didn’t have any idea there was so much behind aint!
Hotforwords,
I have to know. What is the origin of the word seven. Not the value but why is seven, seven. Its my favorite number and it is tattooed on my arm. I would be so grateful.
My word request is the most complicated word I’ve come across that a dictionary never helped me comprehend: nihilistically
Latin once again : NIHIL means NOTHING.
NIHILISM is a political state of mind aiming to destroy everything for building a new world.
Perhaps the video on floccinaccilihinihilipification would be a good idea
my word is language? where did that come from?
LANGUAGE is taken from the French LANGAGE “speech”. LANGUE = TONGUE.
In 1066 the French invaded England and brought with them many words that replaced the old-saxon words.
For example FRITH has been replaced by PEACE (in French PAIX).
where do ipost a word
Hi, Just post a word here
Like the world the US doesn’t use words in some of the different regions. Ain’t… isn’t commonly used in the western area only in the southern areas as far as I know. I don’t think I’ve used ain’t since elementary school.
Where the heck is PAGEDOLL! Did he fall of the face of the earth? Did he go on vacation without checking out with me. Damn! Where is the hall monitor when you need one?
OH yea where is pd
I email him a while back on his YouTube page and he didn’t respond. So He may have just quit all together.
There’s 2 types of ain’t s I like
1. “You ain’t so bad”.
2. “You ain’t nothing”.
I’d like to request the word “rocking chair”
Ciao,
Fianchetto
this is fucking annoying.
Correction: It may be easy, but thought it would be fun as well.
Hello hot for words, being that yesterday was talk like I pirate day, and that pirates are both exciting and fun, I wanted to know the origin of the the phase “Me Hartys”. I maybe be easy but thought it might be fun as well. love what you do for internet by not only educating but doing while being smart and beautiful.
Hope you had a chance to speak like a pirate with that beautiful russian accent.
Warm Regards,
B.Solace
Ciao,
Fianchetto
I “ain’t” surprised that there was confusion. There is much confusion in words that may “sound” bad but not necessary be bad or even misused. “Ain’t” containing a “not” derivative comes off negatively. Some words have hard consonants that sounds bad like “puss” or “cock” (as related to guns, of course). Some words have an unintended cultural bias embedded in them, like “niggardly” meaning miserly or cheap which I think originated from Sweden. Some words have taken on derogatory implications from TV shows, like he’s so “gay” which now means he is stupid from South Park. So, to be PC (politically correct), do we avoid these words? English is a movable feast… just be aware that your target audience may have a political agenda.
Marina! … one little detail about your vid!
from the content:
ain’t = “am not” or “are not”
Your video title is:
“Ain’t” ain’t so bad
but that isn’t
“Ain’t” am not so bad
or
“Ain’t” are not so bad
so your
“Ain’t” ain’t so bad
has improper useage of “ain’t” !!
Am i right? Did i learn correctly from your lesson?
did i catch a deliberate error? (style, rather than grammar, for titles)
do i get a pat on the head?
you said it was wrong under the video!!
Perhaps ain’t ain’t so bad? But, I’m using it incorrectly here, right?
You get a pat of butter on your head.
hears one for the lady of the harbor , http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqu3U05tkAw&feature=related
Word request: “Marm” as in “School-marm”. I know what it means; but why are there only school marms? Why not office-marms, or business-marms, etc.
Do you consider yourself a marm?
Without even looking it up, I’m going to guess it is a vocal smooshing of the word madame in the Old West. Perhaps the term school-madame was a little to close for comfort to that other kind of madame they often had* in those times.
*Yes, I know.
Ciao,
Fianchetto
hey torontosadist aka erniefitz aka efitzgerald aka efitzgerarld aka randomletters99 aka torontosadist..how’s the aircraft inspector job goin, ya drunk?
“Not to bad”
I think that is what you mean to say
“Not too bad” would be better.
ain’t nothing at all, http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=0cWzxJvgWc8
I wonder what’s the story of the origin of the word numeracy and why the word Innumeracy is not in my dictionary,… are they illiterate?
Ciao,
Fianchetto
when marina was asked what her future plans were she responded, i ain’t going to stop till i’m number 1 in deutschland
The future disclaimer, rather dark. does not reflect the belief system of the poster…yet raises some interesting thought…
wow … that’s great!! .. favorited!
I do not use the word. I am a school teacher, and I do a lot of formal writing so I try not to use any contractions. It makes it a real pain when I e-mail or text my students. They are so much faster than I am anyway.
Word Request: CENTS & PENCE
Do you mean SCENTS and PENIS ?
You sound like a redneck if you use ain’t! Here’s another word for you. “Oofda” That will make you sound norwegian.
Tah, instead of pronouncing to in becoming popular.
Bush uses it all the time, it may well be a regional dialect for some parts of the country.
If one would use tah, ain’t or other mispronunciation of English words a linguistic profiler could find out much about the speaker.
a linguist would never say that those are “mispronunciatons”.
sorry…meant that last post but add (not ad) the word “is”
Why does everyone say your when it you’re?
or yore
It’s easier to write and people tend to be lazy in a since that it makes typing faster to shorten words in a comment or forum. I tend to use it quit a bit but auto spell checker corrects it for me or at least underlines it
so I will correct it.
Perhaps that is why you use “your” instead of “you’re”, but I think most people don’t even get the difference between those 2 words…IMHO
hey erniefitz….you the same drunken inspector that goes in half crocked everyday at De Haviland? Fk off…seriously…go find another job old FART!
for all the computer nerds in the house, datarock
lol .. very nice
and more music by computer nerds …
[Kraftwerk - Radioactivity]
dude, i think the link may stink.
oops .. try again
[Kraftwerk - Radioactivity]
What? No 8-inch floppies? Slackers!
Seriously, that was a well-made video, if a little puppy-lovish.
I firmly disagree with Marina on this one.
“Ain’t” is best kept in the improper usage department in the English language and used like a sword for heavy handed emphasis. Like when possibly-soon-to-be V.P. Senator Joe Biden (D. DE) said in a speech something to the effect that it was patriotic to pay taxes, somebody, like myself, would likely get disgusted and might make use of the term in question this-a-way: “I ain’t buying that for a second.” And if I was chewing tobacco, a juicy gob o’ spit on the ground would fit as finalizing punctuation to the retort. Except I hain’t ever chewed tobacco, so that wouldn’t never been commited by yours’ truly.
I use the word ain’t a lot! And I think since the word is so commonly used, and language changes over time, that these days it should be correct in all of those uses. I mean, I ain’t a philolgist, but it ain’t like I ain’t making a good point. Ain’t I?
fuck proper.
Thanks for the Wexner Center ref buzzword.
I see that they are showing the “Andy Warhol: A Documentary film” which I’ve missed on PBS in the past. I see Laurie Anderson narrates the film. I think it is this Laurie Anderson.
Laurie Anderson – O Superman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hhm0NHhCBg
yeah i think your right. i first saw laurie anderson when i was a kid staying up late watching pbs. it was o superman, i didn’t know what the hell any of it meant but i loved it then.
i was taking a performing arts class and we were to create and perform our own work. a student who was a lesbian did a piece about female sexuality, she told us to close our eyes, she passed out flowers and had us explore the flower… symbol for femininity. she said in a soothing voice, “explore the flower, touch, smell, taste the flower” so i popped the whole damn thing in my mouth chomped on it and swallowed. i fucking loved that class. my performance piece included blood, as all really bad performance art should, that and nudity. i wasn’t naked.
the andy warhol exhibit is supposed be huge, a weeks worth of material available. i shouldn’t pass up the opportunity. some cool shit for sure.
mijj, you know of laurie anderson?
yeh .. i remember the O, Superman thing. .. but that’s about all.
do you remember anything about andy warhol? he’s a artist.
Don’t like to let myself venture too far into the night to defy laws of tradition … but the bass player aint no slouch.
I have vague memories of Laurie Anderson…Lost Art of Conversation, stiil at it , seems.
the bass player is good! never encountered this reed & anderson piece.
lou reed, yeah. love lou reed. and that brings us back to andy warhol doesn’t it?
well mr buzzword .. i cant say i like warhol too much … i like the ideas of his though… i’m not very keen on Art, though i do like art.
my preferences were with surrealism .. the surrealists were like the kind of heavy metal of the art world ..
… i’m not particularly sophisticated. Salvador Dali and Miro and that lot will do me fine.
well at least you got to appreciate andy’s hair
lol yeh .. his hair was tremendous. Didn’t he have various coloured wigs for various occasions?
damn fine idea!
Andy?…Kobe?
I like to know the origin of the word MACHO or MACHO MEN
Thank you
MACHO, MACHO MAAAAAAAN…
I WANT TO BE… A MACHO MAN…
Thanks nopalyto1 for the word request of MACHO or MACHO MEN
OOoooh-yeeeaAAH!
SNAP INTO A SLIM JIM!
Hey how about tain’t
I watched the video twice,
to be sure of the tenses.
I ain’t got a clue… is bad grammar (have not rule)
I ain’t distracted : a correct usage (am not rule)
Marina!? What are you teaching me??? LMAO
Why does Amberlyn from Alabama
rermind me of Miss Cupcake? LOL!
I ain’t got time for that.
Hi Sisi! Great screen name
Glad to see you subscribed.
You should get rid of the computer
generated Gravatar; find one that
lets the boys know you are a girl!
(this is my sister, fellas – be nice)
a/s/l?
umm … scratch the “s”.
I did gravatar! Found a gus pic. Such a cutie. Don’t know if it will show up.
Hi Miss ChaCha
I’m a fish and you’re a bird! TFM
FYI, aLx is a long-timer from Germany.
He also was an exchange student at
one time, much as Maren is. Maren
is a student from near Dusseldorf who
is staying with my Mom and spending
the next three monthes going to schule
here in Ft. Lauderdale. Ah yes, the
wonders of cultural exchange
People are always talking about how their conscience nags at them, and I would love to know where the word conscience comes from. All I can ever think of is the part in the movie As Good As It Gets when Helen Hunt is trying to spell the word and her line is, “Con and Science? That CAN’T be right!” LOL. Thanks!
Together or,
to get her
Is that the movie with one of Jack Nicholson’s famous lines?
blonde chick: “How do you write women so well?”
Jack Nicholson, “I think of a man… and I take away reason and accountability.”
Thanks scooter_1977 for the word request of conscience
I’d like to request “Indian Summer” . What is the origin of this expression? (Yes, I know it’s fall
)
I ain’t a user of the word. I ain’t got friends that use it either.