Sorry to be reviving an old word, but I’m having fun so there!
I often wondered about the ‘Loon’ as a name for a bird, but now realize that it’s merely an American name for what we in the UK call a ‘diver’. Which is a type of waterfowl rather than a single species.
Anyway jcnick mentioned folks believing that cats and dogs might be affected by the moon. And this reminded me of a super poem.
The Cat and the Moon
The cat went here and there
And the moon spun round like a top,
And the nearest kin of the moon,
The creeping cat, looked up.
Black Minnaloushe stared at the moon,
For, wander and wail as he would,
The pure cold light in the sky
Troubled his animal blood.
Minnaloushe runs in the grass
Lifting his delicate feet.
Do you dance, Minnaloushe, do you dance?
When two close kindred meet,
What better than call a dance?
Maybe the moon may learn,
Tired of that courtly fashion,
A new dance turn.
Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
From moonlit place to place,
The sacred moon overhead
Has taken a new phase.
Does Minnaloushe know that his pupils
Will pass from change to change,
And that from round to crescent,
From crescent to round they range?
Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
Alone, important and wise,
And lifts to the changing moon
His changing eyes.
Where did Marina get this info? The OED mentions the Dutch word, but says the connection is not certain. They also say that the name of the bird is an alteration of “loom”.
hey marina, i was wondering whats in those DVDs of yours, besides your classes and your bloopers…. im asking cause the covers of the DVDs look quite provocative, with the ‘UNCENSORED’ and ‘PRIVATE LESSON’
Homework revisited: Sitting under the moon with that special someone; well I think the moon can effect our hearts our love for each other. How many of you have been effected by the moon this way?
Hi Marina! I want to know the origin of the word “villain”. I have read in the “Da Vinci Code” book that the Christian church were afraid of people living in “villes” (ville meaning city or town in French). It’s said in the book a ville was back the referring to the countryside. Many people on the countryside had, as opposed to the people in the cities, their own religions based on nature.
The church then spread propaganda in order to supress the older religions. Ville became Villain because the church accused them for being criminals(?), since they had another religion. There are more examples in the book of words they “turned around”.
On Wikipedia, it says something entirely different.. I thought it was interesting to know what is true, maybe both? I hope you can investigate this!
This may seem like a dumb request and I will not be offended if you do not use it. It’s not a question of “why” is more of a “why not.” The word is “fish.” Why is it so wrong in the English language to use “fishes” as a plural? Why does “fish” not have a plural term? That has always bugged me and I was hoping you would know what to say about it.
You’ll be happy to know that it’s not wrong to use “fishes” as the plural, it’s just fallen out of vogue and has been replaced by a more playful idiom, “fishies.” An adult may say to a child, “Look at all the little fishies!” The Bible refers to “all the fishes of the sea,” possibly meaning all the different kinds of fish. Generally, when a shorter word is as acceptable as a longer one, the longer one atrophies from disuse.
Generally, when a shorter word is as acceptable as a longer one, the longer one atrophies from disuse.
no.
if that was the case, you’d have a null suffix to form a plural on all nouns.
sg: child — pl: *child, *childs, children.
you may also take a look at how imperfect tenses are formed in german. people mostly use present perfect tense (not simple past) to express something that happened in the past.
I was referring to instances in which two words are both proper, in which case the shorter tends to prevail. “childs” is not a proper plural for child, but “fishes” is an acceptable plural for fish.
Good request. I’d second that. In medieval times (900 to 1200a.d.), there was a land called Rus which had a capital in Kiev. But the city of Kiev is in the Ukraine, which is now a different country than Russia. Maybe they called themselves Russians from that ancient country called Rus, but the borders are much different now! seesixcm6
What I’m most curious about in this regard is how our English names for many countries vary so much from what those countries call themselves. How did Deutschland become “Germany” to us, f’cryin’ out loud?
Hello drshi,
re: How did Deutschland become “Germany”
The “How” is the easy part. The word Germany comes to us from the Roman word Germani (Germanen) which may be a loan from a Celtic exonym applied to the Germanic tribes, based on a word for “neighbour”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_peoples
The “Why” I have not found an answer for and can only speculate that since German is not a romance language, it is more difficult for English speakers and other countries to pronounce the “Deu” sound, so the roman word Germany is used.
The other reason is political as the Roman Empire occupied that region for some time and the roman (Latinized) names can be seen everywhere. Cologne instead of Köln, Austria instead of Österreich and so on.
P.S.
The many widely-varying names of Germany in different languages, is believed to be perhaps more than for any other European nation. There are many different countries surrounding Germany.
Hi, Pedantickari–
Gee, thanks so much for your time and effort! Seems there is still a lot here for Marina to help clarify. Meanwhile, I finally figured out why we say “Spain” when the country’s name is Espania. In English, we pronounce the letter “S” as “sssss,” while in Spansh, “S” is pronounced “ess” — the same way we say the letter. The rest became truncated and twisted by dialects. Another example of unfamiliar word twisting: I was just watching an old Laurel and Hardy movie and in it, “Hawaii” is pronounced “Ha-woy-ya” (the woy rhymes with “boy”).
Hello Hotforwords,
Just a simple question, where did you find the reference to the dutch word loen?
Since I’m dutch this comment interested me, and I tried to find it in my dutch dictionary, and I couldn’t find it.
An other interesting thing is how is it that the English refer to people from the Netherlands (Nederland or Lage Landen (low lands)) as the Dutch?
Well crows have been known to feed off the soft organs of carcasses throughout history. Maybe the crows’ association with death got its name ‘murder’ for presenting being around a murder investigation in early times.
I have a word request. There is controversy on the etymology and proper orthography of the phrase “he/she has a wild hair/hare up his/her ass”. Although the expression is a bit vulgar I would appreciate your investigation of its propoer form and origin.
Hi mattgoffriller,
Do you know grammar also. That should have been “…how to spell properly.”
Just Kidding mattgoffriller. Don’t get mad.
I couldn’t resist poking fun at the two possible ways of reading that sentence. If I didn’t see the related context of the above paragraph, I might think that proper should have been an adverb (properly), but in the context of your paragraph above, it is an adjective.
Things like that always fascinate me.
In my professional opinion as a psychologist, your compulsion to inject profanity into your discourse is a clear indication of pent-up unconscious rage. Another red flag is your misinterpreting other’s words to suit your own agenda. I did not “tell” you what to do; I merely made a request, which you automatically took as an excuse to express more rage. Finally, though my use of the word “linguistics” was perfectly proper — it involves the nature, structure, and modification of language — you needed to find something to criticize in return, which is a clear sign of emotional immaturity. I trust that all will henceforth know the appropriate attitude to take toward your future posts. Have an angry day!
i don’t really give a shit about requests. maybe you’re used to treat your environment schoolmasterly. whatever. whether or not i use certain words is, and should be, none of your fucking business.
this is not a linguistic site.
what role does it play what kind of site we’re on? exactly: none. your mentioning of this site as a linguistic site (which it isn’t) indicated that “profanity” and linguistics don’t go together. or something to that effect. care to elaborate on that?
maybe you should try not to judge other people by a few lines, because that is, i’m sure you know, impossible.
try to take the stick out of your ass. it does say a lot, though, that you apparently just HAD to mention your “status”, your “professional opinion.”
in my unprofessional opinion you’re just another uptight babbler.
drishi … i think you need to spend a few days in passive observation before you make assumptions about the particular flavour of the site and pronouncements about the tone of various individuals.
The TA’s here monitor the tone of the site. I think they prefer a more familiar and robust style conducive to creativity rather than a clinical formal analytic style.
The people you’re criticizing have been around a fair while and are more close to Marina than anyone else here so really, in their case, you’re not really defending her from vandals, you’re getting in the way of her friends.
You lucked out with pulling me up mainly because i was being unnecessarily personal and knew it.
Wow, thanks for the heads-up, mijj. If Marina’s comfortable with the likes of aLx, then perhaps your criticism of her is not as unjust as I thought. Like you, I have a tendency to speak my mind and let the cards fall where they may; but I’m also open to criticism, so — if many of those closest to her are the very ones I’ve thought to be antithetical to the ambiance she deems appropriate for her site, then I’m the one who doesn’t fit. From now on, I’ll just stick to enjoying her videos (as long as that lasts) and steer clear of venturing into her posse’s realm. Thanks again.
actually it isn’t clear whether it should be “wild hair” or “wild hare”. apparently hares do wacky things and are especially excitable when rutting about. so the original might be “hare”.
I would hate to have a wild hare up my ass. I can think of the gerbil thing that was going around at one time where people were putting gerbils up there anuses. On purpose even.
Sorry, I meant the above for an earlier post, not yours. RE cantaloupe: Merriam-Webster says it’s derived from Cantalupo, former papal villa near Rome, Italy Date: 1739. Presumably this is where the melon was developed.
the Dutch word loon does not mean crazy atleast not that i know xd
and im a dutchman born and raised and 31 years old.
maybe it ment grazy years ago but nowdays it means the amount of money you earn at work we call your loon. im not kidding its not grazy
only we pronounce loon as loan as in credit loan. okee?
I don’t think the food they serve at Hooters is all that great. With the way the waitresses look and what they wear, they can replace the popular chicken wings for owl wings and guys would still eat it.
Word Request
Debate
How many of you watched the debate last night?
I don’t think was a clear winner and neither candidate changed voters minds. One thing is certain our next President will be a better speaker than our present President!
Marina Video Request:
A few comments below, Bob made a great comment about the etymology of Thailand, which got me to think about Deutschland having a similar meaning. The video request would be something like this:
1. Pick about 5 or 10 countries where the etymology of those counties means “The Land of the People”. (Deutschland, Thailand, … ?)
– or –
2. Pick 5 or 10 countries identifying interesting related etymologies.
America you have already done.
Since we don’t want people to get mad at you and since there are about 194 countries in the world, if you did 5 countries per video, that would make a series of 39 videos about countries origins. Boy are you going to be busy, as if you weren’t already.
AAAAARGHH! What is it with fetishists!! I have just had a leather glove fetishist and yesterday I had a pillow fetishist! I get them all In my next video.. I shall be telling them all to piss off. I already said in my most recent video that fetish people shouldnt bother… GRRR!!
OK, here’s another, with a story. I was souvenir shopping by Red Square with a Russian lady, and I said: “Look at the nice china.” Indignant, she said: “NeeEE China!! RUSSIA!!”
So anyway, where does “china” come from?
I’m guessing it is from tea service: чайняя чашка, чайник.
Probably the country China also comes from from tea: chai (чай). Although many Chinese names seem to resemble the country name: Chin, etc.
“Thailand” probably come from tea = French “the”.
Wrong about Thailand, which used to be called Siam.
At some point during WWII (I think) the name was changed to Thailand.
There is a story that the name was changed to indicate that the country had never been occupied by a colonial power (from the west – presumably wartime occupation by Japan doesn’t count!), because “tai”, in the Thai language, means freedom.
However, “tai” is also the name of the majority ethnic group and, in some parts of Thailand, is used to simply mean “people”.
So the name “Thailand” simply means “The Land of the People” and is analogous the name-meaning of other countries, for instance “Kalaallit Nunaat” is the new name for Greenland (since partial autonomy was granted by Denmark) which means Land of Men (generic not sexist). Etymology of Thailand 1 Etymology of Thailand 2 This site has an interesting forum thread on the origin of etymology of countries.
How about doing some word family; e.g. (exempli gratia…you knew that) “Guest”…Гостиная, гостиница, poltergeist, ghost, hostel*, hotel**, host**, и т.д.?
* G and H interchange somewhere in eastern Europe. Herman becomes Герман, and Bahamas becomes Багамы.
** French words with circumflex (that little hat accent mark) add an “S” when imported to English: Etat –> Estate, Chateau –> Castle, Hotel –> Hostel.
*** How did “host” (хозяин?) change meaning from that of the guest?
My great granddaddy was a bootlegger. I know what and who they were and are, but I’ll let Marina do the etymology on that word for you so I want spoil it when she does the video. Great word request. Durak I second the request on that one.
I wanted to know why in the UK they spell it ‘mummy’ but in Canada and the US they spell it ‘mommy’ Of course, I am meaning the use of this word to mean mother. Who has the traditional spelling?
Yeah I got a word request. In chemistry class there is this little rubber scraper you put on the end of your stirring rod called a “rubber policeman”. Where did it come from and why such a strange name? I’m a new student of yours and I would be very grateful if you looked up this form me.
That “Thing” is fascinating! So many “Things” going on at once. What a time waster!
The butterfly must have been the inspiration for modern windsurfer and sailboat sails.
yeh .. and there’s something weird about that cat too .. it’s almost, but not quite, like an alien creature – it seems to have a certain intelligence to its look.
Marina did you go through and flag most of your older videos with “This video may not be suitable for minors.” as I was watching some of the older videos the site had to check my age. Didn’t know if you knew or not.
I noticed too… checked out the “honeymoon game” & it was flagged… I guess there is an appropriate age to get married in the youtube community.
Somebody must be hassling Marina’s you/tube site. y’know if somebody is a you/tube partner & they can be trustworthy as Marina has proved… the flagging thing should be turned off so people couldn’t randomly flag stuff.
surely they dont comply with setting up a flag just because someone requests it .. they’d check it out, wouldn’t they? – or maybe it’s based on the number of requests. Are there guidelines or do they make it up as they go along?
don’t know… I won’t flag stuff myself, if it doesn’t appeal to me I’ll either watch with a jaundiced eye, or quickly change up. I’ll watch & listen to stuff I disagree with to get a little context of where the person or group is coming from, as it were. I don’t want to censore peoples views… but sometimes having a little perspective as to why they hold those views is, to me, a good thing.
In the past few months I sent a message to YT to request the unflagging of a video and they would unflag Marina’s videos within four hours of my request. That message text box is now no longer there and it seems to me that YT is trying to distance themselves from those and other requests.
I’ve read somewhere that flagged videos are now pretty much in granite after they are reviewed by YT as the YT policies seem to be getting more strict or getting more enforced as time goes on.
If anybody else knows anything about the YT flagging let me know.
Hello Marina, I just sent YT a message to unflag three of your videos. There are many more of your videos flagged. I want to see when they unflag these.
Guess what? The Antidisestablishmentarianism video which is 3rd in the Google search is also flagged. I didn’t request to unflag it yet, but I will.
The YT flagging system is broken. Just like gun control where the criminals own guns, on YT the hardcore pervs don’t get flagged.
I’ve been trying to figure out the TubeMogul graphs and I’m puzzled.
Would have expected a huge spike with O’Reilley. Could be that the video flagging is having an affect?
I spent all morning cataloging all my videos that are flagged.. over 160 of them. It is outright, blatant harassment directed at me.. and it’s really annoying. I will hopefully have it all fixed shortly.
Thank you Marina for your feedback. I will also continue sending messages to YT and I will also send them emails and letters to remind them that they really need to fix the flagging system.
You are the greatest, most chivalric, most painstakingly righteous hero of your time that it’s borderline annoying just how great you are. You help the weak and punish the wicked.
Wherever there is evil, you will be there to stop it.
Wherever a wrong is done, you will be there to make it right.
Wherever a kitten is stuck in a tree… well, you see where this is going.
You’ve got a moral compass that you refuse to stray from, and your convictions are your lifelong guide. Peace is always with you in the mere knowledge that you have attained an inner balance and paladin code.
Oh crap… 95% on pure 97% higher than peers… I’m never going to be able to make enough money to retire.
You are the greatest, most chivalric, most painstakingly righteous hero of your time that it’s borderline annoying just how great you are. You help the weak and punish the wicked.
Wherever there is evil, you will be there to stop it.
Wherever a wrong is done, you will be there to make it right.
Wherever a kitten is stuck in a tree… well, you see where this is going.
You’ve got a moral compass that you refuse to stray from, and your convictions are your lifelong guide. Peace is always with you in the mere knowledge that you have attained an inner balance and paladin code.
You scored 53% on Pure, higher than 40% of your peers.
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i’m suspicious, BillyB … i wonder if this is the only result?
Some people scored a good result ie:
The Great Deceiver
You can con your way through the Kingdom without so much as breaking a sweat. You profess knowledge in areas you know nothing about, and you can swindle water from a bag of sand.
You could sell sand to a camel.
You could sell snow to an Eskimo.
You could convince a total stranger that their mother is a giant, mutated radish that’s out to kill them. You’re THAT good at what you do, and you don’t care who says otherwise. You know why?
Because you can change their freakin’ mind, that’s why.
Oh great. I just heard the bank I keep all my money in was Seized and then Sold. Im talking about WaMu. Now if you look at their website it says welcome to JPMorgan Chase. I hate Chase!
What will change?
* You’ll be able to use over 9,300 Chase ATMs fee-free – jointly, that’s 14,000 ATMs for your banking convenience!
* You’ll begin to see the Chase name on your statements, online, and on your credit cards as they reissue.
* Your branch will be re-named Chase and you’ll be re-issued new debit cards with the Chase name. Until then, bank as you do today.
* As our systems merge, you’ll be able to use any of the Chase branches nationwide. This won’t take place this year, and we’ll let you know well in advance of any changes.
* Oh and will try our hardest to make your experiences as horrible as we did before. Welcome to hell bank.. Im mean Chase.
Is there a better evil bank out there that I can choose?
CaptainJack, when I was young, I was advised to “diversify.” I have small savings at Wamu, and also in a credit union, Wells Fargo and elsewhere. Too bad I bailed out of the stock market and gold many years ago. If I held on to them, I could be typing this from my Beverly Hills mansion, with movie starlets for household staff. seesixcm6
I used to bank at Well Fargo when I lived in Long Beach, Ca. I dumped them when I move because they where charging me to have an account with them. I went to a credit union for about 12 years. Then I started with WaMu. Im thinking about trying Well Fargo because they treated me better than US Bank. USB charged me $5 bucks to cash one of their own checks. They even tried to make me open an account. She even knew that I was banking with WaMu because I showed her my wamu card for ID. Then I received a check from WF and they didn’t charge me a dime and never begged me to open an account. That really impressed me. If I go to another branch and experience the same thing they I might move to them.
Captain ! I can tell you that in my opinion all the banks are hellish. Hellish yesterday, hellish today, hellish tomorrow.
As said by Chevolay, your best investment is certainly your boat or your house if you have no credit to pay.
The winner is the man who has nothing to do with a bank. Of course, I know it’s not easy to get rid of this plague/necessity called a bank.
Hey Jack if you will check out the comments on this site today you will see where one of flamers has gotten into a war with Alx and Mijj. Thanks for the backup.
Believe it or not, I just happened to see this discussed during a TV game. Seems that in the old general stores the canned corn was usually stored on a high shelf so more appealing goods could be more easily accessed. To get a can for a customer, the storekeeper would use a long-handled grabber to snag it. Thus, in baseball a can of corn is a fly ball that can be caught as easily as snagging it with a grabber. I also heard “Sunday hop” discussed, and it refers to a ground ball that, as it approaches the fielder, it bounces in such a way as to make it effortless to catch. Since Sunday is A Day of Rest, and in the past no one worked on that day, fielding a Sunday hop requires no work.
Where does the word HORNY come from. As in when u are feeling HORNY please could u investigate please please. Me and my friends have been having a bet to see who gets it right.
basically .. this site is a sequence of videos with associated threads of discussion sparked from the theme of the video.
It seems like – well “seems” ha! . it’s bleedin’ obvious the form is very successful.
It’s different from the general themed forums in that it’s kept fresh by the video/theme of the day .. so we become trapped where in a normal forum all discussion fades and dies.
Are there other sites that follow this form? – i’ll bet there are and they’re common knowledge and i’m being thick.
Did that one episode of talking Yoda make you want to talk to yourself. You carry on conversations as though you were speaking to another person, which is nice I guess because you’ll never be alone. Making conversation with oneself can be enlightening. You never have to disagree with the other opponent if you don’t want to. So I’ll leave you two to your conversations and talk to you later pal.
.. it’s useful to have the thoughts made explicit anyway – i’m making this up as i go along .. getting it out so i can see it helps me get a little further
Sorry to sound that way Mijj. I didn’t mean any different tone towards you. I was just picking at you and I guess it may have came out wrong. I would never take a hostile attitude or discussion with you. Sorry to have offended you Mijj.
He just likes emails from HFW in his inbox & when you respond to yourself, you are always pleasantly surprised to see a new item in the inbox… I open my own as expectantly as if it were from someone else.
Don’t y’all ever make notes when you’re struggling to figure something out? – the idea is to scribble it out as you go along and don’t tidy up or cross out stuff.
Thanks for the link Mijj; highly amusing but, of course, in this country that sort of creativity would be stomped on by the squares at Town Planning.
Also, I loved that quote from Albert Einstein – “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” Kind of like W.Somerset Maugham’s “The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
Right! Give that kid a cigar! … chocolate, of course. Sorry we got off on the wrong foot, but just think about what your comment meant to the questioner if she owns a chihuahua. Truce?
What is the origin of the term bailout? In aviation it seems to mean jumping out with a chute as the plane crashes. At sea it means tossing water out of a ship to keep it afloat. In Washington it seems to mean throwing huge amounts of taxpayer money into businesses ruined by greed. So, how about it? What is a bailout?
The word “bail” is from the Middle English “baille,” from the Anglo-French, “bucket,” from Medieval Latin “bajula” a water vessel, and from the feminine of the Latin bajulus meaning porter or carrier. Thus, a bail is a container used to remove water from a boat to keep it from sinking.
Thanks! I still wonder why Uncle Sam thinks a bailout is putting something in (e.g. taxpayer money) even though it typically means taking something out (e.g. water from a boat).
Well, bailout also applies to paying money to bail someone out of jail. In this case, I guess we’re bailing bad paper out of the floundering companies to keep them afloat, and also pouring in big bucks to … oh, hell .. why bother trying to make sense out of such a monumental screwup?
Lucky Bamboo… not just because it’s in Marina’s bedroom
I had to look it up, funny thing is, the first time I noticed that plant in one of M’s vids, my wife brought one home & I was more than a little surprised… Ours looks very simmilar, but has two little sprouts growing out the top.
I checked out your web page & liked it. Had a few english cars in my youth, midget, TR6 & Mini… never drove the mini. Bought it in parts & while I was rebuilding the 997 cooper engine, some delinquints beat up the body real bad… so ended up giving my brother’s mini a heart transplant. Hope your neice, the sportsman racer, gets her car back to victory square again real soon, she’s in the big race, is it, this weakend?
Check this girl out, I subbed to her youtube channel a while back, she’s 19 I think & can make a uke’ do things I didn’t think they were designed to do. Taimane Gardiner tell me what you think? I know the sound on this one’s not the best, but story is, she developed her chops playing on the street & was discovered by Don Ho & performed in his shows (rest his soul).
Cute, neither Dark nor Light, and Artsy, the Art student doesn’t have the inherent darkness of the Suicide Girl, but she’s not bright and shiny like the New Age Girl either. You’ve probably seen her wandering around town in her unique outfits with her portfolio under her arm, and found yourself wondering if she’s ever posed in the nude.
Your result for The Your Type of Girl Test …
The Goth Girl
38% Sexy-Cute, 26% Dark-Light, 28% Artsy-Stylish
Sexy, Dark and Artsy, the Goth Girl definitely catches your eye. And who can blame you, with her black eyeshadow, black clothes, and black expression? The Goth Girl tempts with the promise of sinful satisfaction.
Sexy, neither Dark nor Light, and Stylish. OhMyGod! It’s the Sorority Girl! These Gap low-rise jeans totally make my ass look great, and they show off my designer thong… Don’t you love my shawl? So trendy! Let’s get those cute guys in the striped button-downs to buy us another Cosmo!
The Cheerleader
58% Sexy-Cute, 68% Dark-Light, 68% Artsy-Stylish
Cute, Light and Stylish, the Cheerleader is an alpha-personality wherever she goes. She dresses well, has a great smile, and seems perpetually perky. Even better: the dancing, gymnastics, and other acrobatics involved in cheerleading keep her body smoking hot
Thats a funny result, kinda, i’ve been married 26 years to a former football cheerleader & one time “Miss Innertubes”… an honourable bestowment of the executive or the local inner tube races.
Cute, Dark, and neither Artsy nor Stylish, it’s the Bad Girl. You can’t confine her to one specific ‘look,’ but you know her when you see her… and for some people, it’s love (or its hotter, sweatier cousin: lust) at first site.
Hi Marina
Listening to to the radio the other day I heard the phrase “bought the farm”. It usually means someone has been killed in some fashion but where does it come from?
Thx!
Livewire
It’s a term of military slang, means you got killed in war and the funds from the government will pay off the mortgage on your parents’ farm, although I doubt that they would pay that much.
My cellphone (Sprint Sanyo SCP 8400) got injured yesterday. I dropped it in the alley when I was helping my sister move some stuff into storage. When I discover it was missing I had just looked over to the alley and watch a garbage truck run over it. Surprisingly it survived, well sort of. Other than a few scratches it looked ok. But the screens have cracks like a spiderweb. I can see anything but black and white. Interestingly enough I can still make calls from the speed dial or with my voice dialing. The ringer doesn’t work because it used the external speaker that is not functioning. But it still vibrates. Now I have to figure out what I want to do with it. 1# I can buy a new one and figure out if there is a way to move all the data from the old phone to the new one. 2# Send it in to Sprint to be repaired. #3 Wait until February to dump Sprint and get an iPhone. What should I do?
Yea I plan to, but there is this contract I signed that if I break it I have to pay $250 bucks to do it. I don’t want to give the company an extra departing gift!
My friend Jacob had something happen to that, yet, his phone didn’t go through quite as much as your poor phone did. His story is that he got a penny stuck in between the two screens and it messed his phone up, but it still works just fine.
In my opinion, if it’s still of any use, just keep using it. February isn’t too far away, so you might as well keep it until you can get an iPhone.
I have mac on my boat. Would it be smarter to use a phone that directly syncs with my computer? I still hate windows, I’m tired of pulling out my hair from dealing with fixing their crappy systems.
Oh dude, you got the bug bad! You have the mac bug. hehehe This always happens. Grasshopper if you are at peace with your inner chi then a mac will appear in your life.
Anyone know how I can get all the data off the phone? My phone book is freaking huge. I can save the photos because they are on the memory chip, that’s easy. Also the ring tones and audio recordings of my notes are on there. If I could just pull all the data to the chip and open it with some program I’ll can import it to my mac and when I get an Iphone I’ll be set. This thing died at the wrong time. I have some many students and clients to contact in the next two weeks, it just unbelievable. Oh well I hate talking on the phone anyways.
Jack if you can get it to the phone shop and buy you another phone then they can transfer all of the data to the new phone. I have done this with all of my cell phones that I get new every two years. Sounds like you are having another bad week. New bank, bad phone I hope it starts getting better for you.
I don’t know if my phone automatically copies to my SD card. I read the manual and it says you can copy the data, its just you have to be able to read the damn screen to do that.
Only GSM phones have sim cards. In the US many companies used TMDA and CDMA which don’t use sim cards. The phone companies wanted more control over their products so you can only buy their phones. That why the industry was so pissed off when Apple released the iPhone. Sprint almost had to file bankruptcy.
Oh dude, you got the bug bad! You have the mac bug. hehehe This always happens. Grasshopper if you are at peace with your inner chi then a mac will appear in your life.
Of course I am at mother fuckin peace with my bastard chi.
“Cyber” is from the Greek word for navigator. Norbert Wiener coined “cybernetics” around 1948 to denote the study of “teleological mechanisms” [systems that embody goals].
WHAT !!! Stop flaming!! I am not flaming at all!! were you here when there was a flame war every day?? Im guessing.. NO
It’s not a place for those who try to raise themselves up by putting others down.
What ever success I have made, will make, or did make is down to ME and MARINA!
I was simply pointing out that a chauwawa is typicaly owned by wannabes. Like Paris Hilton.. You will never see a 6′5 builder who whistles at women with one.. But you bet unless you live in a make up box or as gay as gay can be.. Then one must be around somewhere.
Sorry I misinterpreted your comment, but don’t you see that you are making light of a serious question? BTW when I was growing up, my family had two chihuahuas; one was a skinhound who prowled the neighborhood on a constant booty call, and the other was one of the dearest little critters I’ve ever known. In any case, not only are you gay bashing, but you are also making a judgment about a breed simply because it isn’t typically the choice of adult males, and because one is treasured by Paris Hilton who, though she’s a bit simple-minded, is really a very sweet person who treats everyone as equals and has no prejudices — unlike yourself.
James is harmless. Have you seen his videos where Marina got him to eat Jello with his bare hands? Or eat spaghetti without a fork? We all tend to play around here a bit between the lessons. Its to keep us occupied until the next lesson comes out.
Hi, Jack. Thanks for the headsup re off-topic time fillers; but, in the case in question it’s quite possible that the questioner is a female who has a chihuahua of her own, which would mean that James’ comment would be quite hurtful and insulting to her.
Drshi, I see you point and your right. He should have put more thought before he posted. He is normally not this way. I think its the time of his life when young men get … well you know.
I saw a loon today. They are showing their fall foliage. I can’t get over their little red beady eyes. Last night a big blue heron scared the heck out of me. They are alway sneaking up on me. I think I hear them laughing at me when they talk about how they get me to jump out of my socks.
Whoops! I didn’t think frieght looked right, make that fright – sorry teach!
Werewolves, also known as lycanthropes, are mythological or folkloric humans with the ability to shapeshift into wolves or wolf-like creatures, either purposely, being bitten by another werewolf or after being placed under a curse. This transformation is often associated with the appearance of the full moon, as popularly noted by the medieval chronicler Gervase of Tilbury, although it may have been recognized in earlier times among the ancient Greeks through the writings of Petronius.
Predicting the tides is something I teach in my captain’s class. If anyone cares, here is a bit of info about the types of Tides. On of the question on my exam is “What is a Neap tide?”
Spring Tides
When the moon is full or new, the gravitational pull of the moon and sun are combined. At these times, the high tides are very high and the low tides are very low. This is known as a spring high tide. Spring tides are especially strong tides (they do not have anything to do with the season Spring). They occur when the Earth, the Sun, and the Moon are in a line. The gravitational forces of the Moon and the Sun both contribute to the tides. Spring tides occur during the full moon and the new moon.
Neap Tides
During the moon’s quarter phases the sun and moon work at right angles, causing the bulges to cancel each other. The result is a smaller difference between high and low tides and is known as a neap tide. Neap tides are especially weak tides. They occur when the gravitational forces of the Moon and the Sun are perpendicular to one another (with respect to the Earth). Neap tides occur during quarter moons.
The Proxigean Spring Tide is a rare, unusually high tide. This very high tide occurs when the moon is both unusually close to the Earth (at its closest perigee, called the proxigee) and in the New Moon phase (when the Moon is between the Sun and the Earth). The proxigean spring tide occurs at most once every 1.5 years.
Now you know just a bit more about they types of tides we have. Question: Why would we need to know what the tide is going to be? What use is it to us?
Jack, you mentioned that Spring Tides have nothing to do with the season Spring, but you didn’t say why they are called Springs; isn’t there a connection with the mooring lines called Springs?
I just checked one of my books and I didn’t find anything that mentions spring tides. I think it will require further investigation. I don’t think there is a connection with spring lines for the fact the lines to act as a spring for the ships movement fore and aft. I still have one other book to check but I suspect it won’t be in there either. We might have to ask Marina about that one. She has found things that even I was unable to find.
Not necessary, if the spring lines are position properly. Spring lines really work best with large tide changes. Breast lines should not be used because they would part at low tide. Extended Bow line and Stern lines if long enough will work in place of Breast lines keeping the vessel close to the dock. The elasticity of all your dock lines will stretch quite a bit if they are long and made of nylon.
I just checked my other books and didn’t find any connection with Spring tides & Spring lines. I think someone else can answer this question better than I can.
I have a question for Marina. Can Oxford Companion books be trusted? Im beginning do doubt mine.
Captain’s Homework:
Q: Importance of knowledge of tides?
A: Because boats have bottoms, and shoals have tops, and at low tides, often the twain do meet.
Very funny Fianchetto, and your right. If the cruise ship I worked on ever hit bottom at low tide it would damage the propellers. The cost to repair would be over 100,000. I know because we had to fix them when the ship ran aground once.
Also knowing tide tables are good for clam digging. Have you ever had Pacific Northwest razor clams? Fun little guy to dig for. Good eating also.
Well, my dear teacher, I was reading an article about the Titanic and I was thinking about words that I would love to know the origin of.
I have a vague idea of where it comes from, but why, I have no clue.
Marina, I would like to request that you find the origin of the word “Titan”. I know about the Titans of Greek mythology, and I know why they were called that. I just have no clue as to why the word Titan was picked.
Anyways, if you could help clear this up… Well, it’d make my day!
You got me thinking of that show ‘American Gladiators’, which I think is a bit over-rated with a lot of the contenders letting that show got to their heads.
All that smack talk they do on that show is pretty cheesy. I can picture a contender saying something of a lame trash-talk line for Titan on the Joust event, right before getting his own head knocked off:
“If Titan is short for ‘Titanic’, then he is about to face the tip of the iceberg!”
Hi Marina!
Just found out about your sight a few days ago from The O’Reilly (misspelled?) Factor. I love it, sooooooo good to know how many other people are interested in words! I was wondering if you could look up the etymologies of some of these words I’ve worked with for a while, but never found the origins of:
I would like to request the word kerfuffle. Not sure if this is widely used in the States or not but i do know it means to be in a muddle about something.
Yep — the moon is the sole cause of the tides. As it circles the earth its gravity pulls the earth’s waters toward it; and, as it moves away from an area, its waters return to normal. The moon circles earth twice a day, so we have two high-and-low tide cycles each day.
srry but uuuh, lol It was understandable but you kinda sounded like someone from The Netherlands Antilles not like a french person at all.
GOOD tough, nothing bad, just funny
oh and uh…wy the yelling :S it’s not something typicaly dutch if you think so
I suspect it has to do with some ancient ritual that involved actually binding two people together with a rope as part of the wedding ceremony; however, my dark side suggests something a bit more cynical, such as marriage being akin to having a noose tied around one’s neck.
Great lesson, Marina – but I have to wonder at the pronunciation. I don’t know how different the pronunication of old dutch is compared to modern dutch, but taking the modern dutch as an example, “loen” would be pronounced as the english “loon”.
“oe” in dutch is pronounced as the “oo” in loon.
“oo” in dutch is pronounced as the “o” in home.
“o” in dutch is usually pronounced as the “o” in mockingbird, but sometimes also as the “o” in home (to confuse foreigners, no doubt )
Can you remember that for the next time you use a dutch word as reference? It would be really cool if you pronounced all those words in all those different languages correctly.
P.S. Then maybe there are all sorts of words for parts of cars that are different in American and British English – bumper/fender and hood/bonnet and trunk/boot and probably a bunch of others in that category.
Hi Marina!
How are you doing? I was wondering how the calendar is coming along Can’t wait to get one! Also, thanks again the AWESOME lesson on the word zipper! Good luck on your Maxim Radio Show!!!
This one is for me ! QUICK in Old Saxon had the meaning of ALIVE. That’s why you have QUICK HEDGE, QUICK SAND, and CUT TO THE QUICK.
CUT TO THE QUICK means the living flesh is touched, deeply so you nerves can feel the offense. The cut is not superficial like on a nail or an unsensitive part of the body, mainly the hair and the horny part of the skin. (I feell this HORNY is going to give birth to a dispute)
mijj
You gave me a moment to ask my self why do I can to Marinas site?
Word origins……….no
A hot 29 year old that acts and dresses 19 ??……..will maybe.
Mostly it is because there are some intell/people here to talk with
when I am bored.
Hi Marina ^^
I think you have invented a new and effective form of teaching, and that charisma of yours just make your videos even more pedagogical..NEVER lose that russian accent! ;D
Anyway, i was wondering if you could please check up on the word “Economy”? Pretty please?
Have a nice weekend teacher!
If loony is from lunatic which is derived from luna, a loon is a bird, how do we get this situation: the Canadian one dollar coin is the loonie, because it has a picture of a loon on one side.
Hello mskov89, Marina has already done a video on the word honeymoon. I answered someone below regarding that question. Here is the link to my comment that contain links to the honeymoon videos.
Rocketman.
It’s not exactly flying, is it? More of a jet propelled parachute jump.
I’ll be more impressed when he can take off and land without external assistance. Nevertheless, a stunt.
I want his jet pack! BtW I notice the purple engines on his wing. They are the same used on radio controlled model jets that im very familiar with. That’s cool that someone has done it. The big question of man kind for years was “Where’s my Jet Pack!”
Can you explain why the word loon is used as a general name for a young man or boy in the northeast of Scotland much the same way as lad is used in the rest of the UK.
See my post below. Maybe boys are regarded as being “not fully a man” or “a deficient version of a man”, and therefore worthless persons.
(I suppose that I have now opened the floodgates for a deluge of feminist invective, propaganda and jokes. Oh dear! Sorry guys. )
[[["Made in America"]]]…is it ?…[goon]
I’m certainly a lunatic by all definitions. Proud of it.
A ‘Moon Child’ by birth (Cancer).
Other aspects would require investigation.
Sorry to be reviving an old word, but I’m having fun so there!
I often wondered about the ‘Loon’ as a name for a bird, but now realize that it’s merely an American name for what we in the UK call a ‘diver’. Which is a type of waterfowl rather than a single species.
Anyway jcnick mentioned folks believing that cats and dogs might be affected by the moon. And this reminded me of a super poem.
The Cat and the Moon
The cat went here and there
And the moon spun round like a top,
And the nearest kin of the moon,
The creeping cat, looked up.
Black Minnaloushe stared at the moon,
For, wander and wail as he would,
The pure cold light in the sky
Troubled his animal blood.
Minnaloushe runs in the grass
Lifting his delicate feet.
Do you dance, Minnaloushe, do you dance?
When two close kindred meet,
What better than call a dance?
Maybe the moon may learn,
Tired of that courtly fashion,
A new dance turn.
Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
From moonlit place to place,
The sacred moon overhead
Has taken a new phase.
Does Minnaloushe know that his pupils
Will pass from change to change,
And that from round to crescent,
From crescent to round they range?
Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
Alone, important and wise,
And lifts to the changing moon
His changing eyes.
– William Butler Yeats
The moon effects the tides but since we are a large percent water in are body I would guess we also are effected be the moon
I got it the 1st time, but I enjoyed listening to the recap. explanation too
Foppish…..
This is the last post on iTunes. Is it a problem with iTunes or is there a new feed?
WTF .. i don’t think i can have seen this video properly before now!!! … Marina .. did you label Bill O’Reilly a loon?
oh … i had the sound off. .. you were just highlighting what he said.
I guess it was too good to be true.
Where did Marina get this info? The OED mentions the Dutch word, but says the connection is not certain. They also say that the name of the bird is an alteration of “loom”.
hey marina, i was wondering whats in those DVDs of yours, besides your classes and your bloopers…. im asking cause the covers of the DVDs look quite provocative,
with the ‘UNCENSORED’ and ‘PRIVATE LESSON’ 
Homework revisited: Sitting under the moon with that special someone; well I think the moon can effect our hearts our love for each other. How many of you have been effected by the moon this way?
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HOOOOOOOWWWWWLLL!!!
Hello Marina,
Some studies say that some animals, I. e (Cats and Dogs) could be affected by the moon.
Beautiful as ever!
ı love Marina
new vid is up, in case you dint notice.
WORD REQUEST: Antithesis
You can find its etymology at http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/
Did I just see you add an RSS feed to CoComment widget? I did, I did see it. I like it.
WORD REQUEST: gong
as in
BANG A GONG
original
It’s an onomatopoiia (word derived from the sound it makes).
Hi Marina! I want to know the origin of the word “villain”. I have read in the “Da Vinci Code” book that the Christian church were afraid of people living in “villes” (ville meaning city or town in French). It’s said in the book a ville was back the referring to the countryside. Many people on the countryside had, as opposed to the people in the cities, their own religions based on nature.
The church then spread propaganda in order to supress the older religions. Ville became Villain because the church accused them for being criminals(?), since they had another religion. There are more examples in the book of words they “turned around”.
On Wikipedia, it says something entirely different.. I thought it was interesting to know what is true, maybe both? I hope you can investigate this!
Love your show, keep going! / Rexy
You can look up its etymology at http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/
Hey!
This may seem like a dumb request and I will not be offended if you do not use it. It’s not a question of “why” is more of a “why not.” The word is “fish.” Why is it so wrong in the English language to use “fishes” as a plural? Why does “fish” not have a plural term? That has always bugged me and I was hoping you would know what to say about it.
Thanks, have a good one!!
<3, Lilly.
You’ll be happy to know that it’s not wrong to use “fishes” as the plural, it’s just fallen out of vogue and has been replaced by a more playful idiom, “fishies.” An adult may say to a child, “Look at all the little fishies!” The Bible refers to “all the fishes of the sea,” possibly meaning all the different kinds of fish. Generally, when a shorter word is as acceptable as a longer one, the longer one atrophies from disuse.
no.
if that was the case, you’d have a null suffix to form a plural on all nouns.
sg: child — pl: *child, *childs, children.
you may also take a look at how imperfect tenses are formed in german. people mostly use present perfect tense (not simple past) to express something that happened in the past.
I was referring to instances in which two words are both proper, in which case the shorter tends to prevail. “childs” is not a proper plural for child, but “fishes” is an acceptable plural for fish.
WORD REQUEST:
Russia.
Befitting, since the beautiful HotForWords is Russian, I’ve always wondered about several countries names and their origins.
Good request. I’d second that. In medieval times (900 to 1200a.d.), there was a land called Rus which had a capital in Kiev. But the city of Kiev is in the Ukraine, which is now a different country than Russia. Maybe they called themselves Russians from that ancient country called Rus, but the borders are much different now! seesixcm6
What I’m most curious about in this regard is how our English names for many countries vary so much from what those countries call themselves. How did Deutschland become “Germany” to us, f’cryin’ out loud?
Hello drshi,
re: How did Deutschland become “Germany”
The “How” is the easy part. The word Germany comes to us from the Roman word Germani (Germanen) which may be a loan from a Celtic exonym applied to the Germanic tribes, based on a word for “neighbour”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_peoples
The “Why” I have not found an answer for and can only speculate that since German is not a romance language, it is more difficult for English speakers and other countries to pronounce the “Deu” sound, so the roman word Germany is used.
The other reason is political as the Roman Empire occupied that region for some time and the roman (Latinized) names can be seen everywhere. Cologne instead of Köln, Austria instead of Österreich and so on.
P.S.
The many widely-varying names of Germany in different languages, is believed to be perhaps more than for any other European nation. There are many different countries surrounding Germany.
For example in some of the slavic countries, the name for Germany is Nemci which is derived from “nem” meaning mute. In other words when a slav talked to a German, the slav did not understand the German considering the reply as incomprehensible (dumb) or mute.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_Germany
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Various_terms_used_for_Germans
Hi, Pedantickari–
Gee, thanks so much for your time and effort! Seems there is still a lot here for Marina to help clarify. Meanwhile, I finally figured out why we say “Spain” when the country’s name is Espania. In English, we pronounce the letter “S” as “sssss,” while in Spansh, “S” is pronounced “ess” — the same way we say the letter. The rest became truncated and twisted by dialects. Another example of unfamiliar word twisting: I was just watching an old Laurel and Hardy movie and in it, “Hawaii” is pronounced “Ha-woy-ya” (the woy rhymes with “boy”).
Hello Hotforwords,
Just a simple question, where did you find the reference to the dutch word loen?
Since I’m dutch this comment interested me, and I tried to find it in my dutch dictionary, and I couldn’t find it.
An other interesting thing is how is it that the English refer to people from the Netherlands (Nederland or Lage Landen (low lands)) as the Dutch?
What’s the “rush”? You’re not rushin’ this word request for this Russian, are you?
(Sorry… bad joke)
How about explaining how a group of crows came to be called a “murder”?
Good one!!
Would it have anything to do with that Hitchcock movie??
Well crows have been known to feed off the soft organs of carcasses throughout history. Maybe the crows’ association with death got its name ‘murder’ for presenting being around a murder investigation in early times.
My dear teacher,
I have a word request. There is controversy on the etymology and proper orthography of the phrase “he/she has a wild hair/hare up his/her ass”. Although the expression is a bit vulgar I would appreciate your investigation of its propoer form and origin.
Your devoted student,
Matteo Goffriller
PS Forgive the fingerslip, I do know how to spell proper.
Hi mattgoffriller,
Do you know grammar also. That should have been “…how to spell properly.”
Just Kidding mattgoffriller.
Don’t get mad.
I couldn’t resist poking fun at the two possible ways of reading that sentence. If I didn’t see the related context of the above paragraph, I might think that proper should have been an adverb (properly), but in the context of your paragraph above, it is an adjective.
Things like that always fascinate me.
yes, i enjoy those ambivalent constructions also. thanks for pointing it out.
now, what in the fuck is a “wild hair” supposed to be? a hair ain’t wild. and what effect would it have being up someone’s ass?
I guess that’s why they’re asking.
It would be great if you could tone down your language, please. This IS a linguistic site, after all, and there are ladies present. Thanks.
it would be great if you could just look into a book to see what linguistics is about.
thanks.
who the hell are you to tell me what the fuck to do, anyway?
In my professional opinion as a psychologist, your compulsion to inject profanity into your discourse is a clear indication of pent-up unconscious rage. Another red flag is your misinterpreting other’s words to suit your own agenda. I did not “tell” you what to do; I merely made a request, which you automatically took as an excuse to express more rage. Finally, though my use of the word “linguistics” was perfectly proper — it involves the nature, structure, and modification of language — you needed to find something to criticize in return, which is a clear sign of emotional immaturity. I trust that all will henceforth know the appropriate attitude to take toward your future posts. Have an angry day!
i don’t really give a shit about requests. maybe you’re used to treat your environment schoolmasterly. whatever. whether or not i use certain words is, and should be, none of your fucking business.
this is not a linguistic site.
what role does it play what kind of site we’re on? exactly: none. your mentioning of this site as a linguistic site (which it isn’t) indicated that “profanity” and linguistics don’t go together. or something to that effect. care to elaborate on that?
maybe you should try not to judge other people by a few lines, because that is, i’m sure you know, impossible.
try to take the stick out of your ass. it does say a lot, though, that you apparently just HAD to mention your “status”, your “professional opinion.”
in my unprofessional opinion you’re just another uptight babbler.
Too bad there isn’t a Nobel Prize for Cluelessness; you’d be $100,000 richer.
it would be great if you could try not to insult me with really lame “comebacks”. thanks.
speaks volumes, though. thanks again. hehehe. fucking hypocrite.
Man, how old are you? Like 10?
drishi … i think you need to spend a few days in passive observation before you make assumptions about the particular flavour of the site and pronouncements about the tone of various individuals.
The TA’s here monitor the tone of the site. I think they prefer a more familiar and robust style conducive to creativity rather than a clinical formal analytic style.
The people you’re criticizing have been around a fair while and are more close to Marina than anyone else here so really, in their case, you’re not really defending her from vandals, you’re getting in the way of her friends.
You lucked out with pulling me up mainly because i was being unnecessarily personal and knew it.
Wow, thanks for the heads-up, mijj. If Marina’s comfortable with the likes of aLx, then perhaps your criticism of her is not as unjust as I thought. Like you, I have a tendency to speak my mind and let the cards fall where they may; but I’m also open to criticism, so — if many of those closest to her are the very ones I’ve thought to be antithetical to the ambiance she deems appropriate for her site, then I’m the one who doesn’t fit. From now on, I’ll just stick to enjoying her videos (as long as that lasts) and steer clear of venturing into her posse’s realm. Thanks again.
actually it isn’t clear whether it should be “wild hair” or “wild hare”. apparently hares do wacky things and are especially excitable when rutting about. so the original might be “hare”.
do you mean like the animal Hare or the stuff that grows on your head… and some other body parts….
that’s the problem….. it is used both ways. which is the oroginal?
I would hate to have a wild hare up my ass. I can think of the gerbil thing that was going around at one time where people were putting gerbils up there anuses. On purpose even.
Word Request: cantaloupe, as in “Marina and I can’t elope cause neither can a cantaloupe elope.” OK, just kidding.
Cantaloupe is a funny word and I had to look it up as the spelling is strange. What is the origin of this melon?
Say what? You expected me to say what about melons?
It would be great if you would tone down your language, please. This IS a linguistic site, after all, and there are ladies present. Thanks.
Sorry, I meant the above for an earlier post, not yours. RE cantaloupe: Merriam-Webster says it’s derived from Cantalupo, former papal villa near Rome, Italy Date: 1739. Presumably this is where the melon was developed.
Now for the origin of “honey dew” melon.
the Dutch word loon does not mean crazy atleast not that i know xd
and im a dutchman born and raised and 31 years old.
maybe it ment grazy years ago but nowdays it means the amount of money you earn at work we call your loon. im not kidding its not grazy
only we pronounce loon as loan as in credit loan. okee?
Jawohl ! German LOHN !
I was watching your video, and don’t know what made me think of this word, but “hooters” came to mind. (wink-wink)
So… you like owls too, huh?
I don’t think the food they serve at Hooters is all that great. With the way the waitresses look and what they wear, they can replace the popular chicken wings for owl wings and guys would still eat it.
Word Request
Debate
How many of you watched the debate last night?
I don’t think was a clear winner and neither candidate changed voters minds. One thing is certain our next President will be a better speaker than our present President!
Marina Video Request:
A few comments below, Bob made a great comment about the etymology of Thailand, which got me to think about Deutschland having a similar meaning. The video request would be something like this:
1. Pick about 5 or 10 countries where the etymology of those counties means “The Land of the People”. (Deutschland, Thailand, … ?)
– or –
2. Pick 5 or 10 countries identifying interesting related etymologies.
America you have already done.
Since we don’t want people to get mad at you and since there are about 194 countries in the world, if you did 5 countries per video, that would make a series of 39 videos about countries origins. Boy are you going to be busy, as if you weren’t already.
No rest for the weary!
Not wishing to steal My Lady’s thunder, I’ll add no more than that Russia has an interesting origin.
[The Mighty Boosh - Cars]
brilliant!
[Noel Fielding (Mighty Boosh) interviews Gary Numan]
[The Mighty Boosh - Ice Flow Song]
AAAAARGHH! What is it with fetishists!! I have just had a leather glove fetishist and yesterday I had a pillow fetishist! I get them all
In my next video.. I shall be telling them all to piss off. I already said in my most recent video that fetish people shouldnt bother… GRRR!!
…YIIIKES! I don’t even want to know what your deal is.
OK, here’s another, with a story. I was souvenir shopping by Red Square with a Russian lady, and I said: “Look at the nice china.” Indignant, she said: “NeeEE China!! RUSSIA!!”
So anyway, where does “china” come from?
I’m guessing it is from tea service: чайняя чашка, чайник.
Probably the country China also comes from from tea: chai (чай). Although many Chinese names seem to resemble the country name: Chin, etc.
“Thailand” probably come from tea = French “the”.
Wrong about Thailand, which used to be called Siam.
At some point during WWII (I think) the name was changed to Thailand.
There is a story that the name was changed to indicate that the country had never been occupied by a colonial power (from the west – presumably wartime occupation by Japan doesn’t count!), because “tai”, in the Thai language, means freedom.
However, “tai” is also the name of the majority ethnic group and, in some parts of Thailand, is used to simply mean “people”.
So the name “Thailand” simply means “The Land of the People” and is analogous the name-meaning of other countries, for instance “Kalaallit Nunaat” is the new name for Greenland (since partial autonomy was granted by Denmark) which means Land of Men (generic not sexist).
Etymology of Thailand 1
Etymology of Thailand 2
This site has an interesting forum thread on the origin of etymology of countries.
Hey Bob, thanks for the great writeup. That got me to think about how many other countries refer to themselves as “The Land of the People”.
For example, Deutschland means the same thing; i.e. the land of the people or the land of the folk.
Deutsch = diutisc, thioda, theod, tuoth (related to Teuton referring to people, folk)
I hope you don’t mind, I’m going to make a video request up above regarding this notion of country etymologies.
How about doing some word family; e.g. (exempli gratia…you knew that) “Guest”…Гостиная, гостиница, poltergeist, ghost, hostel*, hotel**, host**, и т.д.?
* G and H interchange somewhere in eastern Europe. Herman becomes Герман, and Bahamas becomes Багамы.
** French words with circumflex (that little hat accent mark) add an “S” when imported to English: Etat –> Estate, Chateau –> Castle, Hotel –> Hostel.
*** How did “host” (хозяин?) change meaning from that of the guest?
Can you do the word “Bootlegger”?
My great granddaddy was a bootlegger.
I know what and who they were and are, but I’ll let Marina do the etymology on that word for you so I want spoil it when she does the video. Great word request. Durak I second the request on that one. 
Hi Hotforwords,
I wanted to know why in the UK they spell it ‘mummy’ but in Canada and the US they spell it ‘mommy’ Of course, I am meaning the use of this word to mean mother. Who has the traditional spelling?
Marina replied on September 26th, 2008 6:17 am:
Gravity perhaps? That darn moon pulling my head every 28 days!
I wonder why as well…??
Marina, does the full moon have more gravity?
yup
the earth,the moon and the sun are alighned and amplify each others forces.
ha ha ha ha…… Right I forgot
Yeah I got a word request. In chemistry class there is this little rubber scraper you put on the end of your stirring rod called a “rubber policeman”. Where did it come from and why such a strange name? I’m a new student of yours and I would be very grateful if you looked up this form me.
[ultra pretty kitty]
[butterfly]
[rome church ceiling]
[bee v. bear]
[thing]
That “Thing” is fascinating! So many “Things” going on at once. What a time waster!
The butterfly must have been the inspiration for modern windsurfer and sailboat sails.
yeh .. and there’s something weird about that cat too .. it’s almost, but not quite, like an alien creature – it seems to have a certain intelligence to its look.
Marina did you go through and flag most of your older videos with “This video may not be suitable for minors.” as I was watching some of the older videos the site had to check my age. Didn’t know if you knew or not.
I noticed too… checked out the “honeymoon game” & it was flagged… I guess there is an appropriate age to get married in the youtube community.
Somebody must be hassling Marina’s you/tube site. y’know if somebody is a you/tube partner & they can be trustworthy as Marina has proved… the flagging thing should be turned off so people couldn’t randomly flag stuff.
surely they dont comply with setting up a flag just because someone requests it .. they’d check it out, wouldn’t they? – or maybe it’s based on the number of requests. Are there guidelines or do they make it up as they go along?
don’t know… I won’t flag stuff myself, if it doesn’t appeal to me I’ll either watch with a jaundiced eye, or quickly change up. I’ll watch & listen to stuff I disagree with to get a little context of where the person or group is coming from, as it were. I don’t want to censore peoples views… but sometimes having a little perspective as to why they hold those views is, to me, a good thing.
Like you, i don’t agree with censorship, but content warnings seem ok – if they’re apt. – but i bet with YouTube, whoever makes the most noise wins.
I dont actually look at much on youtube – mainly music, random old tv stuff and stuff that comes up on Reddit.
In the past few months I sent a message to YT to request the unflagging of a video and they would unflag Marina’s videos within four hours of my request. That message text box is now no longer there and it seems to me that YT is trying to distance themselves from those and other requests.
I’ve read somewhere that flagged videos are now pretty much in granite after they are reviewed by YT as the YT policies seem to be getting more strict or getting more enforced as time goes on.
If anybody else knows anything about the YT flagging let me know.
are they flagging because of the crude comments? I can’t believe the flow of filth sometimes.
Hello Marina, I just sent YT a message to unflag three of your videos. There are many more of your videos flagged. I want to see when they unflag these.
Guess what? The Antidisestablishmentarianism video which is 3rd in the Google search is also flagged. I didn’t request to unflag it yet, but I will.
The YT flagging system is broken. Just like gun control where the criminals own guns, on YT the hardcore pervs don’t get flagged.
I’ve been trying to figure out the TubeMogul graphs and I’m puzzled.
Would have expected a huge spike with O’Reilley. Could be that the video flagging is having an affect?
I spent all morning cataloging all my videos that are flagged.. over 160 of them. It is outright, blatant harassment directed at me.. and it’s really annoying. I will hopefully have it all fixed shortly.
It has happened to me numerous times before,
Thanks for pointing it out.
Thank you Marina for your feedback. I will also continue sending messages to YT and I will also send them emails and letters to remind them that they really need to fix the flagging system.
I’ve been seeing and hearing the word pragmatic a lot lately. I understand the word but think the word may have an interesting origin.
[the Bailout]
Who will bail us out after Congress & Uncle Sam are finished? Q
russia or china.
i like this little bit of insight:
: wall street profits are privatised
: wall street losses are socialised
charlatan-test
The Righteous Gentleman
You are the greatest, most chivalric, most painstakingly righteous hero of your time that it’s borderline annoying just how great you are. You help the weak and punish the wicked.
Wherever there is evil, you will be there to stop it.
Wherever a wrong is done, you will be there to make it right.
Wherever a kitten is stuck in a tree… well, you see where this is going.
You’ve got a moral compass that you refuse to stray from, and your convictions are your lifelong guide. Peace is always with you in the mere knowledge that you have attained an inner balance and paladin code.
Oh crap… 95% on pure 97% higher than peers… I’m never going to be able to make enough money to retire.
The Noble Hero
The Righteous Gentleman
You are the greatest, most chivalric, most painstakingly righteous hero of your time that it’s borderline annoying just how great you are. You help the weak and punish the wicked.
Wherever there is evil, you will be there to stop it.
Wherever a wrong is done, you will be there to make it right.
Wherever a kitten is stuck in a tree… well, you see where this is going.
You’ve got a moral compass that you refuse to stray from, and your convictions are your lifelong guide. Peace is always with you in the mere knowledge that you have attained an inner balance and paladin code.
You scored 53% on Pure, higher than 40% of your peers.
——
i’m suspicious, BillyB … i wonder if this is the only result?
Some people scored a good result ie:
The Great Deceiver
You can con your way through the Kingdom without so much as breaking a sweat. You profess knowledge in areas you know nothing about, and you can swindle water from a bag of sand.
You could sell sand to a camel.
You could sell snow to an Eskimo.
You could convince a total stranger that their mother is a giant, mutated radish that’s out to kill them. You’re THAT good at what you do, and you don’t care who says otherwise. You know why?
Because you can change their freakin’ mind, that’s why.
this test must be crap.
Your result for The Charlatan Test …
The Noble Hero
The Righteous Gentleman
Oh great.
I just heard the bank I keep all my money in was Seized and then Sold. Im talking about WaMu. Now if you look at their website it says welcome to JPMorgan Chase. I hate Chase! 
What will change?
* You’ll be able to use over 9,300 Chase ATMs fee-free – jointly, that’s 14,000 ATMs for your banking convenience!
* You’ll begin to see the Chase name on your statements, online, and on your credit cards as they reissue.
* Your branch will be re-named Chase and you’ll be re-issued new debit cards with the Chase name. Until then, bank as you do today.
* As our systems merge, you’ll be able to use any of the Chase branches nationwide. This won’t take place this year, and we’ll let you know well in advance of any changes.
* Oh and will try our hardest to make your experiences as horrible as we did before. Welcome to
hellbank.. Im mean Chase.Is there a better evil bank out there that I can choose?
Bank of America, held the title of an evil bank once.
What money? All your money is in your yacht.
[jump]
Now that was funny as hell!
CaptainJack, when I was young, I was advised to “diversify.” I have small savings at Wamu, and also in a credit union, Wells Fargo and elsewhere.
Too bad I bailed out of the stock market and gold many years ago. If I held on to them, I could be typing this from my Beverly Hills mansion, with movie starlets for household staff. 
seesixcm6
I used to bank at Well Fargo when I lived in Long Beach, Ca. I dumped them when I move because they where charging me to have an account with them. I went to a credit union for about 12 years. Then I started with WaMu. Im thinking about trying Well Fargo because they treated me better than US Bank. USB charged me $5 bucks to cash one of their own checks. They even tried to make me open an account. She even knew that I was banking with WaMu because I showed her my wamu card for ID. Then I received a check from WF and they didn’t charge me a dime and never begged me to open an account. That really impressed me. If I go to another branch and experience the same thing they I might move to them.
Captain ! I can tell you that in my opinion all the banks are hellish. Hellish yesterday, hellish today, hellish tomorrow.
As said by Chevolay, your best investment is certainly your boat or your house if you have no credit to pay.
The winner is the man who has nothing to do with a bank. Of course, I know it’s not easy to get rid of this plague/necessity called a bank.
you might be interested in this ..
[Thinking the Unthinkable: A Debt Write Down, and Jubilee Year Clean Slate]
Hey Jack if you will check out the comments on this site today you will see where one of flamers has gotten into a war with Alx and Mijj. Thanks for the backup.
I would like to know the orgin of “Charlie Horse” THX
Isn’t THX a type of sound quality standard
Marina, where does the phrase “Can of Corn” used in baseball to for an easy flyball to the outfield?
Thanks, Ms. HFWQQQ
Believe it or not, I just happened to see this discussed during a TV game. Seems that in the old general stores the canned corn was usually stored on a high shelf so more appealing goods could be more easily accessed. To get a can for a customer, the storekeeper would use a long-handled grabber to snag it. Thus, in baseball a can of corn is a fly ball that can be caught as easily as snagging it with a grabber. I also heard “Sunday hop” discussed, and it refers to a ground ball that, as it approaches the fielder, it bounces in such a way as to make it effortless to catch. Since Sunday is A Day of Rest, and in the past no one worked on that day, fielding a Sunday hop requires no work.
Where does the word HORNY come from. As in when u are feeling HORNY please could u investigate please please. Me and my friends have been having a bet to see who gets it right.
The word horny was already covered in a previous lesson. If you check the list of words already done, it should be under the H category.
How would this kind of site be described?
It’s a single theme site?
An ego site?
basically .. this site is a sequence of videos with associated threads of discussion sparked from the theme of the video.
It seems like – well “seems” ha! . it’s bleedin’ obvious the form is very successful.
It’s different from the general themed forums in that it’s kept fresh by the video/theme of the day .. so we become trapped where in a normal forum all discussion fades and dies.
Are there other sites that follow this form? – i’ll bet there are and they’re common knowledge and i’m being thick.
i guess for video themed thread based sites .. the obvious thing to do is check for YouTube channels! … i’m so fresh to YouTube it didn’t occur to me.
I guess there must be trillions of thread-of-the-day sites based on YouTube channels.
… next question ? .. is there an index of some sort?
(..awful lot of guessing in there..)
hmmm ..
… the trick to “not thinking of elephants” is to pick some other animal of fascination.
bloody hell yes!
[millions of YouTube channels] .. there’s bound to be lots with associated video thread sites ..
Did that one episode of talking Yoda make you want to talk to yourself. You carry on conversations as though you were speaking to another person, which is nice I guess because you’ll never be alone. Making conversation with oneself can be enlightening. You never have to disagree with the other opponent if you don’t want to. So I’ll leave you two to your conversations and talk to you later pal.
i’m hoping for responses ..
plus
.. it’s useful to have the thoughts made explicit anyway – i’m making this up as i go along .. getting it out so i can see it helps me get a little further
… plus .. you seem a little hostile there, Cap .. what’s the problem?
if you enjoyed that little bit of stream of consciousness jabbering, you might enjoy this too …
http://www.mijj.me.uk/__OU/wk_6/_trail/_trail.html
(all 100% hand crafted too, using Notepad++ for keyword highlighting)
(polishes fingernails)
… new vid is up .. i expect you’ll skip this .. still .. it’s here.
Very smart thinking and idea.
Sorry to sound that way Mijj. I didn’t mean any different tone towards you. I was just picking at you and I guess it may have came out wrong. I would never take a hostile attitude or discussion with you. Sorry to have offended you Mijj.
lol
ok, Cap.
He just likes emails from HFW in his inbox & when you respond to yourself, you are always pleasantly surprised to see a new item in the inbox… I open my own as expectantly as if it were from someone else.
Don’t y’all ever make notes when you’re struggling to figure something out? – the idea is to scribble it out as you go along and don’t tidy up or cross out stuff.
[what furniture does when you're not looking]
Is that Gaudi or Dali?
… erm .. i feel foolish .. i saw the pretty pic and referenced it .. but didn’t keep a ref to the source ..
… i think it’s something to do with an art exhibition : materials “thrown out of window” .. if that makes sense.
[Defenestration in San Francisco]
Thanks for the link Mijj; highly amusing but, of course, in this country that sort of creativity would be stomped on by the squares at Town Planning.
Also, I loved that quote from Albert Einstein – “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” Kind of like W.Somerset Maugham’s “The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
lol .. yeh .. it’s like being credited for posting a link to something amusing isn’t it.
so that quote needs updating ..
“the ability to post a link is a serviceable substitute for creativity”
Spot the new HFW..
Spot the kid who thinks he’s funny
ME!!!!
Right! Give that kid a cigar! … chocolate, of course. Sorry we got off on the wrong foot, but just think about what your comment meant to the questioner if she owns a chihuahua. Truce?
Huh? Where?
Dear Marina,
What is the origin of the term bailout? In aviation it seems to mean jumping out with a chute as the plane crashes. At sea it means tossing water out of a ship to keep it afloat. In Washington it seems to mean throwing huge amounts of taxpayer money into businesses ruined by greed. So, how about it? What is a bailout?
Q
The word “bail” is from the Middle English “baille,” from the Anglo-French, “bucket,” from Medieval Latin “bajula” a water vessel, and from the feminine of the Latin bajulus meaning porter or carrier. Thus, a bail is a container used to remove water from a boat to keep it from sinking.
Thanks! I still wonder why Uncle Sam thinks a bailout is putting something in (e.g. taxpayer money) even though it typically means taking something out (e.g. water from a boat).
Well, bailout also applies to paying money to bail someone out of jail. In this case, I guess we’re bailing bad paper out of the floundering companies to keep them afloat, and also pouring in big bucks to … oh, hell .. why bother trying to make sense out of such a monumental screwup?
What is the funny, twisty little plant behind you?
Lucky Bamboo… not just because it’s in Marina’s bedroom
I had to look it up, funny thing is, the first time I noticed that plant in one of M’s vids, my wife brought one home & I was more than a little surprised… Ours looks very simmilar, but has two little sprouts growing out the top.
I checked out your web page & liked it. Had a few english cars in my youth, midget, TR6 & Mini… never drove the mini. Bought it in parts & while I was rebuilding the 997 cooper engine, some delinquints beat up the body real bad… so ended up giving my brother’s mini a heart transplant. Hope your neice, the sportsman racer, gets her car back to victory square again real soon, she’s in the big race, is it, this weakend?
Check this girl out, I subbed to her youtube channel a while back, she’s 19 I think & can make a uke’ do things I didn’t think they were designed to do. Taimane Gardiner tell me what you think? I know the sound on this one’s not the best, but story is, she developed her chops playing on the street & was discovered by Don Ho & performed in his shows (rest his soul).
I’m going to get one of those bamboo plants, really charming!
Sherry is racing this weekend. Their US Open was rained out and this is the rain date.
Taimane Gardiner is magnificent, superb and a little bit scary!
Are you on myspace?
ok … quiz time, if anyone’s interested …
(i can’t remember if we’ve done this before …)
[The Your Type of Girl Test]
The Art Student
47% Sexy-Cute, 40% Dark-Light, 24% Artsy-Stylish
Cute, neither Dark nor Light, and Artsy, the Art student doesn’t have the inherent darkness of the Suicide Girl, but she’s not bright and shiny like the New Age Girl either. You’ve probably seen her wandering around town in her unique outfits with her portfolio under her arm, and found yourself wondering if she’s ever posed in the nude.
art student? pussy. ;P
Your result for The Your Type of Girl Test …
The Goth Girl
38% Sexy-Cute, 26% Dark-Light, 28% Artsy-Stylish
Sexy, Dark and Artsy, the Goth Girl definitely catches your eye. And who can blame you, with her black eyeshadow, black clothes, and black expression? The Goth Girl tempts with the promise of sinful satisfaction.
lol yeh .. embarrassing revelation.
at least i didnt get the bright and shiny new-age girl.
not sure what those percentages are supposed to mean.
The Sorority Girl
30% Sexy-Cute, 53% Dark-Light, 66% Artsy-Stylish
Sexy, neither Dark nor Light, and Stylish. OhMyGod! It’s the Sorority Girl! These Gap low-rise jeans totally make my ass look great, and they show off my designer thong… Don’t you love my shawl? So trendy! Let’s get those cute guys in the striped button-downs to buy us another Cosmo!
I am doing it now … QUESTION 2 who is sexier… URM SHAKIRA OMG SHAKIRA I AM CLICKING THAT BOX 1 MILLION TIMES
maybe it’s like … “38% sexy-cute” means, it’s closer to sexy than to cute. like:
|——-x—————|
s c
ah, shit. again.
maybe it’s like … “38% sexy-cute” means, it’s closer to sexy than to cute. like:
|——-x—————|
s……………………..c
d’oh! .. of course! proportion along the axis. I must be asleep.
i think they could have analysed another couple of axes .. eg. amenable-bitch. (i like greater proportion bitch)
The Girl Next Door
49% Sexy-Cute, 62% Dark-Light, 64% Artsy-Stylish
*g*
at least it’s gonna be easier for you to find a girl, huh. :/
uuhm, not really ,i’m probably the most picky person you will ever meet
it’s really bad 
The Cheerleader
58% Sexy-Cute, 68% Dark-Light, 68% Artsy-Stylish
Cute, Light and Stylish, the Cheerleader is an alpha-personality wherever she goes. She dresses well, has a great smile, and seems perpetually perky. Even better: the dancing, gymnastics, and other acrobatics involved in cheerleading keep her body smoking hot
Thats a funny result, kinda, i’ve been married 26 years to a former football cheerleader & one time “Miss Innertubes”… an honourable bestowment of the executive or the local inner tube races.
lol – “miss innertubes” .. that’s great! .. for a moment there i thought she must have been the prettiest surgeon specializing in the intestines.
The Bad Girl
47% Sexy-Cute, 34% Dark-Light, 42% Artsy-Stylish
Cute, Dark, and neither Artsy nor Stylish, it’s the Bad Girl. You can’t confine her to one specific ‘look,’ but you know her when you see her… and for some people, it’s love (or its hotter, sweatier cousin: lust) at first site.
And here I thought geeky goth girls a better fit…
How about the word “piscathology”
Nothing to do with urinating cats, I’m sure. My guess, without doing a search, is that it relates to the study of fish.
Well, drop the “h” and you have a pseudo-word meaning the science of fishing. It’s like calling a housewife a domestic engineer.
can all the people with a colour border please reply here so there is a nice colour thing going on,, I WANNA SEE IT YAYAYAYAY
here’s a black one…
Hey James
What’s up James??
Hi Marina
Listening to to the radio the other day I heard the phrase “bought the farm”. It usually means someone has been killed in some fashion but where does it come from?
Thx!
Livewire
It’s a term of military slang, means you got killed in war and the funds from the government will pay off the mortgage on your parents’ farm, although I doubt that they would pay that much.
Brahma
If the red slayer think he slays,
Or if the slain think he is slain,
They know not well the subtle ways
I keep, and pass, and turn again.
Far or forgot to me is near;
Shadow and sunlight are the same;
The vanished gods to me appear;
And one to me are shame and fame.
They reckon ill who leave me out;
When me they fly, I am the wings;
I am the doubter and the doubt,
And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
The strong gods pine for my abode,
And pine in vain the sacred Seven;
But thou, meek lover of the good!
Find me, and turn thy back on heaven.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(…finding poems is tough if you cant remember the title or the author or any of the text, but just the mood…)
My cellphone (Sprint Sanyo SCP 8400) got injured yesterday.
I dropped it in the alley when I was helping my sister move some stuff into storage. When I discover it was missing I had just looked over to the alley and watch a garbage truck run over it. 
Surprisingly it survived, well sort of. Other than a few scratches it looked ok. 
But the screens have cracks like a spiderweb. I can see anything but black and white. Interestingly enough I can still make calls from the speed dial or with my voice dialing. The ringer doesn’t work because it used the external speaker that is not functioning. But it still vibrates. Now I have to figure out what I want to do with it. 1# I can buy a new one and figure out if there is a way to move all the data from the old phone to the new one. 2# Send it in to Sprint to be repaired. #3 Wait until February to dump Sprint and get an iPhone. What should I do? 
GET AN IPHONE!! That phone is as old as the hills
Yea I plan to, but there is this contract I signed that if I break it I have to pay $250 bucks to do it. I don’t want to give the company an extra departing gift!
My friend Jacob had something happen to that, yet, his phone didn’t go through quite as much as your poor phone did. His story is that he got a penny stuck in between the two screens and it messed his phone up, but it still works just fine.
In my opinion, if it’s still of any use, just keep using it. February isn’t too far away, so you might as well keep it until you can get an iPhone.
Anyways, I hope your phone turns out alright.
Cheers.
I found the same phone on Craigslist for $50 bucks I think I’ll get that and try to transfer all the data over.
how about a windows based phone? heh.
I have mac on my boat. Would it be smarter to use a phone that directly syncs with my computer?
I still hate windows, I’m tired of pulling out my hair from dealing with fixing their crappy systems. 
Or I will give my soul to the devil
and you can buy me a mac 
Oh dude, you got the bug bad!
You have the mac bug. hehehe This always happens. Grasshopper if you are at peace with your inner chi then a mac will appear in your life. 
Or you could just get a sony k850i I have one..Brilliant
Anyone know how I can get all the data off the phone? My phone book is freaking huge. I can save the photos because they are on the memory chip, that’s easy. Also the ring tones and audio recordings of my notes are on there. If I could just pull all the data to the chip and open it with some program I’ll can import it to my mac and when I get an Iphone I’ll be set. This thing died at the wrong time. I have some many students and clients to contact in the next two weeks, it just unbelievable. Oh well I hate talking on the phone anyways.
Jack if you can get it to the phone shop and buy you another phone then they can transfer all of the data to the new phone. I have done this with all of my cell phones that I get new every two years. Sounds like you are having another bad week. New bank, bad phone I hope it starts getting better for you.
Mike
didn’t you save the phonebook on your sim card?
That is always what I try to do.. Put my contacts automatically on the sim.. That way if the phone is destroyed then its ok for the contacts
I don’t know if my phone automatically copies to my SD card. I read the manual and it says you can copy the data, its just you have to be able to read the damn screen to do that.
Only GSM phones have sim cards. In the US many companies used TMDA and CDMA which don’t use sim cards. The phone companies wanted more control over their products so you can only buy their phones. That why the industry was so pissed off when Apple released the iPhone. Sprint almost had to file bankruptcy.
Oh dude, you got the bug bad!
You have the mac bug. hehehe This always happens. Grasshopper if you are at peace with your inner chi then a mac will appear in your life. 
Of course I am at
mother fuckinpeace with mybastard chi.I am a very
pissycalm person.never used this beforeMarina, You might want to get rid of the video response to your “slap her behind with a shaggy thong day” video.
HookeyLookey here……… He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.” – Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865……… http://www.oag.state.tx.us/oagNews/release.php?print=1&id=2606
What has that got to do with this post?
word request : cybernetics
and i don’t mean anything to do with sci-fi .. i mean the area of inter-discipline study created by … i can’t remember his name!!
i think it had its origins in WWII.
“Cyber” is from the Greek word for navigator. Norbert Wiener coined “cybernetics” around 1948 to denote the study of “teleological mechanisms” [systems that embody goals].
d’oh! .. of course Norbert Weiner. … all i had to do was see “Norbert” and the rest fell into place.
Is this something you yourself have knowledge of?
Only as it applies to psychology and philosophy. Its applications relative to the physical sciences are all Greek to me.
where did the word chihuahua come from? Like the dog.
From the jamesingtonite word.. ” ownedbyattentionseekingwhores”
Stop flaming this educational site. It’s not a place for those who try to raise themselves up by putting others down.
WHAT
!!! Stop flaming!! I am not flaming at all!! were you here when there was a flame war every day?? Im guessing.. NO
What ever success I have made, will make, or did make is down to ME and MARINA!
I was simply pointing out that a chauwawa is typicaly owned by wannabes. Like Paris Hilton.. You will never see a 6′5 builder who whistles at women with one.. But you bet unless you live in a make up box or as gay as gay can be.. Then one must be around somewhere.
Sorry I misinterpreted your comment, but don’t you see that you are making light of a serious question? BTW when I was growing up, my family had two chihuahuas; one was a skinhound who prowled the neighborhood on a constant booty call, and the other was one of the dearest little critters I’ve ever known. In any case, not only are you gay bashing, but you are also making a judgment about a breed simply because it isn’t typically the choice of adult males, and because one is treasured by Paris Hilton who, though she’s a bit simple-minded, is really a very sweet person who treats everyone as equals and has no prejudices — unlike yourself.
Chihuahua is a state in northern Mexico where the breed was developed.
James is harmless. Have you seen his videos where Marina got him to eat Jello with his bare hands? Or eat spaghetti without a fork? We all tend to play around here a bit between the lessons. Its to keep us occupied until the next lesson comes out.
Its happened again! What is jello? I ate a a tiramisu and spaghetti bolognase with my hands….
Hi, Jack. Thanks for the headsup re off-topic time fillers; but, in the case in question it’s quite possible that the questioner is a female who has a chihuahua of her own, which would mean that James’ comment would be quite hurtful and insulting to her.
Drshi, I see you point and your right. He should have put more thought before he posted. He is normally not this way. I think its the time of his life when young men get … well you know.
Why would anyone want to make a crappy movie like ‘Beverly Hills Chihuahua’? (That’s the name of that movie, right? I don’t even want to see it!)
I saw a loon today.
They are showing their fall foliage. I can’t get over their little red beady eyes. Last night a big blue heron scared the heck out of me. 
They are alway sneaking up on me. I think I hear them laughing at me when they talk about how they get me to jump out of my socks. 
I saw that Blue Heron again today. I think he is stalking me. Im scared. If you ever walked up to one of them you would know what I mean.
Where does the word “hickey” come from?
I didn’t see anyone mention it, but don’t you know werewolves come out during a full moon? Jeepers creepers, gives piggies a frieght!
Whoops! I didn’t think frieght looked right, make that fright – sorry teach!
Werewolves, also known as lycanthropes, are mythological or folkloric humans with the ability to shapeshift into wolves or wolf-like creatures, either purposely, being bitten by another werewolf or after being placed under a curse. This transformation is often associated with the appearance of the full moon, as popularly noted by the medieval chronicler Gervase of Tilbury, although it may have been recognized in earlier times among the ancient Greeks through the writings of Petronius.
Sort of Homework:
Predicting the tides is something I teach in my captain’s class. If anyone cares, here is a bit of info about the types of Tides. On of the question on my exam is “What is a Neap tide?”
Spring Tides
When the moon is full or new, the gravitational pull of the moon and sun are combined. At these times, the high tides are very high and the low tides are very low. This is known as a spring high tide. Spring tides are especially strong tides (they do not have anything to do with the season Spring). They occur when the Earth, the Sun, and the Moon are in a line. The gravitational forces of the Moon and the Sun both contribute to the tides. Spring tides occur during the full moon and the new moon.
Neap Tides
During the moon’s quarter phases the sun and moon work at right angles, causing the bulges to cancel each other. The result is a smaller difference between high and low tides and is known as a neap tide. Neap tides are especially weak tides. They occur when the gravitational forces of the Moon and the Sun are perpendicular to one another (with respect to the Earth). Neap tides occur during quarter moons.
The Proxigean Spring Tide is a rare, unusually high tide. This very high tide occurs when the moon is both unusually close to the Earth (at its closest perigee, called the proxigee) and in the New Moon phase (when the Moon is between the Sun and the Earth). The proxigean spring tide occurs at most once every 1.5 years.
Now you know just a bit more about they types of tides we have. Question: Why would we need to know what the tide is going to be? What use is it to us?
Jack, you mentioned that Spring Tides have nothing to do with the season Spring, but you didn’t say why they are called Springs; isn’t there a connection with the mooring lines called Springs?
I just checked one of my books and I didn’t find anything that mentions spring tides. I think it will require further investigation. I don’t think there is a connection with spring lines for the fact the lines to act as a spring for the ships movement fore and aft. I still have one other book to check but I suspect it won’t be in there either. We might have to ask Marina about that one. She has found things that even I was unable to find.
Logically SPRING means JUMP. So if the tide is very high, it is like a springing water, a jumping water.
I just think I remember reading that you must slacken your springs more when there is a big tidal range. Maybe just coincidence.
Not necessary, if the spring lines are position properly. Spring lines really work best with large tide changes. Breast lines should not be used because they would part at low tide. Extended Bow line and Stern lines if long enough will work in place of Breast lines keeping the vessel close to the dock. The elasticity of all your dock lines will stretch quite a bit if they are long and made of nylon.
I just checked my other books and didn’t find any connection with Spring tides & Spring lines. I think someone else can answer this question better than I can.
I have a question for Marina. Can Oxford Companion books be trusted? Im beginning do doubt mine.
Captain’s Homework:
Q: Importance of knowledge of tides?
A: Because boats have bottoms, and shoals have tops, and at low tides, often the twain do meet.
Ciao,
Fianchetto
Very funny Fianchetto, and your right. If the cruise ship I worked on ever hit bottom at low tide it would damage the propellers. The cost to repair would be over 100,000. I know because we had to fix them when the ship ran aground once.
Also knowing tide tables are good for clam digging. Have you ever had Pacific Northwest razor clams? Fun little guy to dig for. Good eating also.
Never digged/dag/dug for clams, eaten several varieties, but not razor clams.
{compiling list of things to eat}
-sushi tomorrow
-razor clams soon
-warm hummus when I get into the new house
the tides are effected by the moon.
iguana
gecko
chameleon
Tokay
Well hello Marina!
First time commenting, glad to be here, actually.
Well, my dear teacher, I was reading an article about the Titanic and I was thinking about words that I would love to know the origin of.
I have a vague idea of where it comes from, but why, I have no clue.
Marina, I would like to request that you find the origin of the word “Titan”. I know about the Titans of Greek mythology, and I know why they were called that. I just have no clue as to why the word Titan was picked.
Anyways, if you could help clear this up… Well, it’d make my day!
Thanks.
You got me thinking of that show ‘American Gladiators’, which I think is a bit over-rated with a lot of the contenders letting that show got to their heads.
All that smack talk they do on that show is pretty cheesy. I can picture a contender saying something of a lame trash-talk line for Titan on the Joust event, right before getting his own head knocked off:
“If Titan is short for ‘Titanic’, then he is about to face the tip of the iceberg!”
Hi Marina!
Just found out about your sight a few days ago from The O’Reilly (misspelled?) Factor. I love it, sooooooo good to know how many other people are interested in words! I was wondering if you could look up the etymologies of some of these words I’ve worked with for a while, but never found the origins of:
Epistemology,
Ontology,
Aggrandize,
Semantic,
Enumerate,
Culpable,
I can think of more, but these are a few prominent ones. Thanks. Again, love your site! (And your motto!)
Welcome to HFW Magnum. You picked some interesting words. I don’t even know off hand what they are. Maybe she will pick one or two.
Those are good requests
Semantic,.. Isnt that an anti virus
Hi, Magnum — just go to http://www.merriam-webster.com
and the origins of all your words will appear under “Etymology.”
I would like to request the word kerfuffle. Not sure if this is widely used in the States or not but i do know it means to be in a muddle about something.
So, the origin of Earth? I request that, you mentioned the Moon so…
big bang
Does the moon not effect the tide of the sea?
Yep — the moon is the sole cause of the tides. As it circles the earth its gravity pulls the earth’s waters toward it; and, as it moves away from an area, its waters return to normal. The moon circles earth twice a day, so we have two high-and-low tide cycles each day.
Answer for nighteye and help for Marina :
There you go … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzSN-t_gYHE
Don’t be rough with Marina !
srry but uuuh, lol
It was understandable but you kinda sounded like someone from The Netherlands Antilles 
not like a french person at all.
GOOD tough, nothing bad, just funny
oh and uh…wy the yelling :S it’s not something typicaly dutch if you think so
Mr Moonlight
The main two that comes to mind; werewolf’s and people who call business to complain about anything.
The Big Loonie
My Dear Teacher,
I was wondering. Where did the phrase, “tie the knot” come from? As in getting married.
Thank You
Your Dear Student
I suspect it has to do with some ancient ritual that involved actually binding two people together with a rope as part of the wedding ceremony; however, my dark side suggests something a bit more cynical, such as marriage being akin to having a noose tied around one’s neck.
Great lesson, Marina – but I have to wonder at the pronunciation. I don’t know how different the pronunication of old dutch is compared to modern dutch, but taking the modern dutch as an example, “loen” would be pronounced as the english “loon”.
“oe” in dutch is pronounced as the “oo” in loon.
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“oo” in dutch is pronounced as the “o” in home.
“o” in dutch is usually pronounced as the “o” in mockingbird, but sometimes also as the “o” in home (to confuse foreigners, no doubt
Can you remember that for the next time you use a dutch word as reference? It would be really cool if you pronounced all those words in all those different languages correctly.
Can you add me on PS3 now Marina? Its been pending for like 4 months!
wat’s your psn name, maybe she has reached the 100 friends limit
protac6. haha and if you want to add me on anything its protac6. alldayyyyyy
I have returned Marina. Been real busy.
CAR
TRUCK
VAN
And bus. And to add a more British one, Lorry.
Nick
P.S. Then maybe there are all sorts of words for parts of cars that are different in American and British English – bumper/fender and hood/bonnet and trunk/boot and probably a bunch of others in that category.
In New Orleans for trunk they call it a cooter shell.
How are you doing? I was wondering how the calendar is coming along
for the AWESOME lesson…
I love the little emoticons especially this one
I use this one ALOT!!!!!
I would like to know what the word “quick” means when someone says “you have cut me to the quick”
thank you I hope this isnt a dumb request
This one is for me !
QUICK in Old Saxon had the meaning of ALIVE. That’s why you have QUICK HEDGE, QUICK SAND, and CUT TO THE QUICK.
CUT TO THE QUICK means the living flesh is touched, deeply so you nerves can feel the offense. The cut is not superficial like on a nail or an unsensitive part of the body, mainly the hair and the horny part of the skin. (I feell this HORNY is going to give birth to a dispute)
I found where Marina stores all her modelling photos
always room for a few more
… music break …
[The Who - Baba O'riley] (including Moon, the Loon)
Did someone say once in a Blue Moon?
Here is the Blue Man Group doing Baba O’Riley – Live.
oh? … this’ll be interesting …
lol .. pretty good .. needs wild exuberance for the singing tho, rather than the measured, calm style.
mijj
You gave me a moment to ask my self why do I can to Marinas site?
Word origins……….no
A hot 29 year old that acts and dresses 19 ??……..will maybe.
Mostly it is because there are some intell/people here to talk with
when I am bored.
COME
Hi Marina ^^
I think you have invented a new and effective form of teaching, and that charisma of yours just make your videos even more pedagogical..NEVER lose that russian accent! ;D
Anyway, i was wondering if you could please check up on the word “Economy”? Pretty please?
Have a nice weekend teacher!
Hey Marina, where does the word “apocalypse” come from??
apocalypse is what you wear on your trousers when using a pedal cycle.
submit more information regarding Lincolns quote—
thank you oh teature
Fantastic as usual Marina. I have a word request for:
Gongoozler
Pretty pretty PLEASE with a cherry on top!
would you investigate Denali?
I’m in denial about Denali
Phrase request: ‘Straight from the horse’s mouth’.
Absentmindedprof
Btw, I assume this isn’t a refernece to Mr. Ed, the talking horse of tv sitcom fame.
If loony is from lunatic which is derived from luna, a loon is a bird, how do we get this situation: the Canadian one dollar coin is the loonie, because it has a picture of a loon on one side.
Dear Marina, one of my best firends just got married, and I was wonderig why it’s called honeymoon?
Thanks
Hello mskov89, Marina has already done a video on the word honeymoon. I answered someone below regarding that question. Here is the link to my comment that contain links to the honeymoon videos.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/09/25/loon/#comment-64372
Lunatic Fringe
I know your out there.
The moon and its goons went hunting for coons and found their spoons in the month of June by the tune of dried dunes. I’m done.Good job Marina.
[Eric Van Loon, Esq.]
Quick look out your window, it’s Jet Man
wha..?
You never watch the tele, a guy just flew over the English Channel with a Jet Pack and wings.
Rocketman.
stunt.
It’s not exactly flying, is it? More of a jet propelled parachute jump.
I’ll be more impressed when he can take off and land without external assistance. Nevertheless, a
I want his jet pack! BtW I notice the purple engines on his wing. They are the same used on radio controlled model jets that im very familiar with. That’s cool that someone has done it. The big question of man kind for years was “Where’s my Jet Pack!”
Where’s my flying car
oh … i heard something on the radio a little after my “wha..?”.
is he the same guy who did that jet assisted glide over the alps a little while ago?
Rocketman 2
Flying car – Simulator.
the real deal.
Can you explain why the word loon is used as a general name for a young man or boy in the northeast of Scotland much the same way as lad is used in the rest of the UK.
See my post below. Maybe boys are regarded as being “not fully a man” or “a deficient version of a man”, and therefore worthless persons.
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(I suppose that I have now opened the floodgates for a deluge of feminist invective, propaganda and jokes. Oh dear! Sorry guys.
how about FUNNY BONE as in i hit by funny bone, its not funny it just hurts :S
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouiBd1Ln1NQ
In dutch we call it phone bone :S that’s weird to,maybe because you only bump it when your elbow is bend like when holding a telephone