[*T*H*O*U*G*H*T] and [t*a*u*g*h*t] and [T*a*S~T~e*D]
…The word person in its Greek form prosopon might stand for a juridical or fictitious unity; it does not necessarily imply what the word person implies to us, that is, the unity of the subject of consciousness and of all the internal and external activities. Hence we are not surprised to find that Diodorus admitted two Sons, and that Theodore practically made two Christs, and yet that they cannot be proved to have really made two subjects in Christ. Two things are certain: first, that, whether or no they believed in the unity of the subject in the Incarnate Word, at least they explained that unity wrongly; secondly, that they used most unfortunate and misleading language when they spoke of the union of the manhood with the Godhead — language which is objectively heretical, even were the intention of its authors good. copied from thinkers Is taste a color and skyed!…by, be gone
Loved this video. Not only for the very interesting topic, but also for the style and presentation. I loved the wider angle. You are very beautiful and it was great to see more of you than just your face and… well, you get the picture.
Hello hot for words, I am 0+. I have shown my kids, 8 of them, and my husband your youtube videos. My husband isn’t interested. lol But my kids love you. Guess I better come up with some words for you. How about the word possum. Or the phrase playing possum. My grandfather was a hunter but he would never hunt possums. He called them his granddaughters. I never understood this, for I was his only granddaughter and felt like he compared the possum to me. So, if you can, where did the word possum come from, and the phrase playing possum come from? Hope hot for words can solve this mystery. The kids hope you can. Take care, Zoe
Is that true blood show any good? I hear AnnaP gets naked what! lolol HFW and HFP take a hint jkjk haha I love how kobe showed up a little into the video.
Thank you!
It’s 0 (zero) all around.
This video should change the way schools teach their pupils. Enough with the indulgence of falsities in the English language!
OMG Marina watches True Blood! That’s so cool. Actually I had no interest in seeing the series (yet another vampire series destined to fail, bah boooring) until I saw “Sookie Stackhouse” in the synopsis and i was like immediately changed mind, since I have actually read the first 3 books, and have the second 2 (will get the rest soon)
There are so many blood subsitutes out there now that are safer for the user and it’s cheaper and more readily availible that it makes no sence to use real blood anymore.
I am blood type A pos. It is a good thing to know your blood type in case of an accident and a friend or family member needs your type right now, you can roll up the sleeve and drain a pint.
I found my old dog tags, and my blood group is “A neg”.
So I went to Wikipedia to look up A negative in blood types,
and soon regretted it. All those big words that I don’t know the meaning of. There’s all kinds of blood types, and different systems of classifying them. So, I had to have a beer. I opened up a HotForWords Hefeweizen beer. Pyramid Hefeweizen. Made from wheat. Not bad: a lager-style beer, crispy ‘n’ flavorful. Not really my kind of beer, though (probably because of my blood type). I purchased another wheat beer to compare with it, Belgian White Blue Moon Ale, and am opening it as I type….(glug-glug…ahhh). Awful. Tastes like Tuna fish salad. Well then, if you need a wheat beer, go for the Hefeweizen.
Hi, Marina, i want to know what means Capoeira, where it comes from and is Capoeira and Capoeria the same thing? Sorry for my english and thanx!
Kisses Muah!
Here is a word request: “bicameral” as in the study of mind, or less conceptual Neurophysiology. I am inspired to ask you this due to the book by Julian Jaynes “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind” (1976). Would be great to get a lot of people thinking about this.
If you are looking for a big vocabulary, you might check my writing and videos at my currently inactive, but still online blog called “The Last Gas Station” which is found at -http://www.thelastgasstation.typepad.com-
I am a word freak myself and I dig your site.. If you choose to use “Bicameral” or any of the other concepts or ideas from my blog please let me know by contacting me at robertrun@fastmail.us.
Finally, while I do my best to avoid circumlocution, let me say that I appreciate your euphonious expression, as well as the intellectual and visual.
I actually had a discussion about this a couple years ago in college. I’ve been calling it zero since and when I mention it people look at me confused. lol
I’m a A- which does bring a question. What do the + and – stand for?
Hey, what does the word Islam mean. I know its a religion, but someone told me once that it had a meaning and where did its roots come from, ex.Greek, Chineese… Thank you
Islam
Noun
1. the Muslim religion teaching that there is only one God and that Mohammed is his prophet
2. Muslim countries and civilization [Arabic: surrender (to God)]
hello my dear teacher & fellow students I dont know what blood type I am..but I intend to find out soon, I havent been attending classes the recent blood type video caught my eye Anyway, Im glad to see our teacher is still going strong (what blood type is our teacher?) regards
In Karl’s day maybe the rules of notation weren’t in place.
In the science field when you write a zero one must put the diagonal line in it.
Also when a scientist writes point some number, (.7) it is always written as 0.7. Of course with the diagonal line in the zero.
If I knew where how do it on the keyboard I write it proper.
Just to say… Marina your lessons have been great as usual, I’m getting asked at work nowadays, if I’ve seen the latest lesson on “—” and I’m not the first one at work to see them anymore, I’m getting told before I get a chance to sit down & watch…
…Share a little letter I found in my email…
To my darling husband,
Before you return from your business trip I just want to let you know about the
Small accident I had with your pick up truck when I turned into the driveway.
Fortunately not too bad and I really didn’t get hurt, so please don’t worry too much about me.
I was coming home from Wal-Mart, and when I turned into the driveway I
Accidentally pushed down on the accelerator instead of the brake.
The garage door is slightly bent but the pick up fortunately came to a halt when
It bumped into your car.
I am really sorry, but I know with your kind-hearted personality you will
Forgive me. You know how much I love you and care for you my sweetheart.
No, not the channel comments, foxbow. Marina added “what people have said” on the left side in her profile section. These are comments made by various well known people. It’s a great addition and worthy of being also put into the quote section on this page lower right. Captain can get on that right away.
Not the channel comments… probably she’s thought about turning them off, as you say, most are a turn off. Look up on the left, under the profile. I noticed it the other day too. we should go write some nice channel comments to counter all the crap ones.
The Sarah Palin e-mail hacker has made me wonder where the word ‘indict’ comes from? Also, why is it not spelt like it sounds, even in America? Can you please investigate for me?
How are you? Last night on The Factor, BO’R expressed his intrigue with the word “nefarious.” I fancy myself pretty good at roots and such, but I can’t put a fix on this one. If I had to guess, maybe French origin? Might you look into this one for me and for Bill?
All my best,
Louie
P.S. I made a mistake with a prior word request. I said “hotty toddy” but it is really “hot toddy.” I am sorry for any confusion.
i remember seeing Roy Harper yonks ago at Clitheroe Castle doing a small open air concert. At one point he stopped one of his long involved acoustic guitar thrashy things to tell us off for not paying attention. … because, as one man, the entire audience had turned round to watch some bloke at the back throwing up against some bushes.
mijj, great upload!! I have never heard of Roy before (“the longest running underground act in the world”). Had to wiki him.
I loved the coronet or was it a trumpet or other instrument filling in the background. Excellent! (ditto on Bob’s letter)
yeh .. that’s a north england tradition of towns having brass bands .. Dates back to 19th century coal mining days when collieries would have their own brass bands.
Thank you mijj on the congrats. I feel your passion.
By the way, your comment on the winner announcement page;
“i’m so unhappy that i didn’t win. maybe i should have entered the contest.”
That struck my funny bone as being very funny, but I empathize with your regrets.
A teacher is explaining biology to her 4th grade students. ‘Human Beings are the only animals that stutter,’ she says A little girl raises her hand. ‘I had a kitty-cat who stuttered.’The teacher, knowing how precious some of these stories could become, asked the girl to describe the incident ‘Well’, she began, ‘I was in the back yard with my kitty and the Rottweiler that lives next door got a running start and before we knew it, he jumped over the fence into our yard!’ ‘That must’ve been scary,’ said the teacher ‘It sure was,’ said the little girl. ‘My kitty raised his back, went Sssss, Sssss, Sssss’ and before he could say ‘Shit,’ the Rottweiler ate him The teacher wet her pants laughing.
That reminds me about the angelic little girl who had a skinny, scrawny dog named “Porky”.
Use your imagination to divine why … the explanation is rather rude.
word request : hyperbole … i gives me untold joy to use hyperbole whenever making even the most humble, groveling post here in HFW. So, what’s with the word “hyperbole” … “hyper” – yes … “bole” – huh?
e.g. M’s breathtaking, enchanting beauty causes my heart to fracture into thousands of scintillating, psychedelic shards of pure bliss = Marina is rather attractive.
Changing the last letter in hyperbole gives hyperbola, a word with a totally different meaning. I wonder if there is a relationship between the two words. Maybe the word hyperbola is worthy to be included in the hyperbole lesson.
eek! .. i’ve always recognise that word – once it entered my brain – as “hyparabola” .. only just now, after all those years of maths, realise it’s always been “hyperbola” !!
Word Request: this is a three word request, however they are related words in meaning, not sure about origin. The words hegemony, empire, and suzerainty. Hegemony would be the second word for H, so far you’ve only done “hot dog”
Hey kalkwarf412 there are more H words. Just follow the first line of words to the bottom and you will find the rest.
* Hair of the Dog
* Halloween
* Handicap (Answers)
* Handicap (Game)
* Happy as a clam
* Hara-Kiri
* Hari-Kari
* Harlequin
* Head Over Heels
* Hello
* Heroin
* Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
* Honeymoon
* Honeymoon pt 2
* Hooker (Answer)
* Hooker (Game)
* Horny (Answer)
* Horny (Game)
* Horse Opera
* Hot
* Hot (Synonyms)
below, in the thread, buzzword said:
“mijj, have you ever listened to dead can dance? the women often sings by making up words. thought you would appreciate that.”
.. to which i say: “yes i do.” .. it’s very cellar door (english pronunciation) (ref: tolkein)
i rarely make the effort to work out the lyrics of a song .. for me, the words are merely to modulate the voice.
The Cocteau Twins singer had that habit too.
one of my favorite girly albums is Cocteau Twins – Treasure … and this is one of my favorite tracks from this album. [Cocteau Twins - Ivo]
Word Request ythonesque … some of M’s videos are Pythonesque, (in my opinion)
e.g. beautiful woman in skimpy clothing seductively elucidates the etymology of an interesting word = Pythonesque.
lawnmower sliding into view for no apparent reason during a word examination = Pythonesque
… and i love Pythonesque stuff – it suits my sense of humour.
I used the word in the thread below and chevolay said: “Wow! it’s a real word, it’s in the dictionary and I thought you were high ”
… so i think Pythonesque is worthy of examination becuase:
i think M would find this one fun to do.
more people should be educated in the use of this word
… and … emmm … other reasons i can’t think of right now.
Don’t you get the idea from that, that “God” is trying to tell you not to waste your time with your illusions?
Eventually “He” gives up because “He” recognises it’s a design fault.
couldn’t this just as easily be : “take care to match the details of your fantasy/illusion to the details of cold hard reality if you’re to manifest them”.
Jack and I have been trying to come up with a new poll, where the column says vote . The one on the favorite days of the week has been up for ages, Can you think of anything new to replace it?
that “favorite days of the week” has surely to be one of the worst polls i’ve ever seen! … why couldn’t you have gone the extra yard and had “favorite direction: up down left right fore aft”
ok .. poll, eh? … well .. just blowin’ in the wind mind, but i have a thing about an element of student influence on M’s vids ..
… e.g. M chooses the words she’s going to examine according to whatever mysterious process she chooses.
.. maybe there could be a thing where every .. i dunno .. 10th vid .. the word is decided by a poll, who’s choices are determined by the TAs from the comments in the threads. – and M has to do the poll winner word no matter how awful a choice she thinks it is.
I’m not sure i’d hold out too much hope considering how personal M’s vids are i think consideration even if it’s for rejection.
.. plus ..there’s only one managing director .. your managing director will take into account input from the other sources, but will ultimataly be responsible for teh decision.
in my case, i go for instinct. – i don’t trust intelligence and emotion is just too easily swayed by detail.
oh yeh .. plus .. i liked jame’s video .. (can’t remember what it’s called) …
.. but it put me in the frame where it might be fun to have James as a Student Representative (obviously as a “fun” thing, not to be taken seriously). .. where, if he’s agreeable, could make vids for M where he voices our collective opinion, concerns etc (always being aware this is a fun thing).
.. depends entirely on James tho. – but that’s my prelim thought on the subject .. maybe there are other students who make vids that could do the job.
Polls are a waste of time if they don’t give all possible choices; for example, I didn’t vote on the days of the week because, for me being retired, they’re all the same.
Another example, Mijj’s suggestion above
hello my dear teacher how was your day i hope all is dandy for you and all my classmates that is a good subject to know because if you get in an accident and you need a blood transfusion immidiately well its going to take time to find out i think the dmv labels your drivers license, and i havent got a clue what kind of blood i have but thank you Marina that will be my homework to find that out, very important to know this. love always my princess
Good morning teacher, I tried to get you something a little different for class today instead of the usual apple, but unfortunately there was a little frost on the pumpkin! I will bring it in the house and you can bet it will be on your desk first thing tomorrow I promise.
Me? I’m type C2H5OH, if you know what that means! hahaha Oh, by the way the numbers 2 and 5 are normally written as subscript (That might give you a clue).
Hey Marina! I’d like to request the word jaded. Is it in any way correlated with the jade stone? Please and thank you! Keep up the great work Marina, I love your lessons!
My fav vampire stories are the Necroscope Series by Brian Lumley,books 2 – 6 are wayyyyyy good.Faether Ferency is an awesome character considering He is a long dead Wampheri! his “son” Thibor*(The Walach)was ok too but His son Janos was just a lame duck. In the alternate universe full of Gypsies and Wampheri there are some cool charachters too. Good ole Harry Keogh has His work cut out for Him and no mistake there.
IMO if a letter denotes and entire thing or concept then it can be used as a word,,why not? Plus Marina does phrases often and “type O” is pretty-much a phrase eh? Cool Yer jats there big fella,it’s all good.
I thought I was trying to help you because you didn’t know why the Germans kept saying nine. But evidently by your reply you seem a little hostile toward my answer to you. So I’ll not try to help you any more.
O-Negative I frequently give my blood away and I used to donate plasma twice a week for over a year for a little pocket money.
WORD REQUEST: With the weather turning quickly up here in Canada, far different than what I was born in in Texas, how about the word Equinox, or even Solstice? Thanks, Marine, beautiful as always.
Marina,
Could you explain where the terms “height” and “weight” come from? Also, is there a connection etymologically considering they both describe the physical characteristics of a living thing?
Request: Do you know the origin of “gut instinct” or “going with your gut” is? It’s a phrase that means you use intuition… but what does your gut have to do with it?
It probably just means that because they are not using their head they must be using something else, like their guts. I guess they could just as easily call it left big toe instinct.
I have a theory on this;;the sub-concious supposedly remembers *everything*,so,a “gut feeling” is really the sub-concious warning that the signs are pointing in a bad direction,or possibly,a good direction. Kinda like a strong feeling wether to buy/sell stocks after reading the news.
I have always understood it to refer to the feeling of tightness one feels in the pit of the stomach (actually in the solar plexus) when one is anxious or uncertain about something.
You know subconsciously that something is not right and and this causes a tension in that area which is referred to as the gut.
Not much support for the Teacher at Urban Dictionary.com. ONE comment is all she gets? Poor little Marina her minions are getting complacent. but Marina has not gone there aether.
Miss you, brother!… probably won’t be able to get online for another 24 hrs, but til then, I read a nifty article today, and even posted my own comment. What do YOU think on the matter?
hi Fianchetto … hey .. didn’t you used to have a “1″ after your name?
yeh .. good for you … i think rituals/rites/chivalry, etc is important, too.
We’re more than mere biological organisms which are ruled by the laws of physics. We’re human beings, god damn it!! We have a right to foibles, idiosyncrasies, rituals, etc… it makes us what we are.
Yes, used to be a 1. on Youtube, Fianchetto(sans ‘1′) had already been taken when I signed on. So, when I signed on here, I tried it with the ‘1′ first, and it worked. I found I could change my nickname, and make my new nickname the publicly displayed name, and did so to eliminate the ‘1′ and capitalise the initial ‘F’
That was a fascinating article, and gives lots of insights into the differences between the genders. There is no point in denying that there are differences, and anyone who fails to take account of them does so at their peril.
Nevertheless, I welcome the trend to treat all people as individuals, to read the situation and avoid assuming that people fit into stereotypical boxes, because the differences between individuals are even greater than between the genders.
I am type zero. Although, the thing that sucks is, that I spent a few years in the UK when I was little and so that eliminates me from giving blood in this country.
I was in the Navy, seen many foreign ports of call, but still am eligible to give blood…While I am curious as Daniel, no disrespect will be taken should you, for whatever reason, simply choose not to reply.
Well, I was there during the years Mad Cow was a big scare apparently. Now I didn’t know that eliminates me as a donor till I was in High School, and went to give blood. I looked over the forms I had to sign and it said because of the condition, I couldn’t give blood.
Mad cow is due to conversion of good proteins to bad proteins in the brain. It is not an organism and therefore is extremely hard to “kill” (you can’t kill what isn’t alive). The agent that causes this can be transmitted through blood.
Until it was forbidden to feed cows to cows, the U.S. was ripe for it, but we got lucky. Lesson: NEVER EAT THE BRAIN OF PERSON WITH MAD COW!!! I can’t emphasize this too much.
My blood type has been highly classified by the powers at be and I am unable to divulge what it is. Lets just say it is really cool and leave it at that!!
I think Marina is type H for hot. Get it? She’s hot blooded, check it and see, she’s got a fever of a hundred and three. Come on baby I do more than dance, your hot blooded, hot blooded!
Wow, I haven’t been on this sight in weeks and come back all whacked out. Forgive me.
I am type B positive. My Mom is type 0. I think a cruise would be cool. But have some sort of competition. Then the top how ever many people could go on the cruise.
Hi Marina, I was wondering where the word quisquillian came from. When I heard it for the first time i thought it may be a made up word. It turns out its real , but can’t find any history on it. Thanks!!!!
Hi Marina,
You have informed us about the blood types..
But we are still wondering about the positive or negative blood types.
Please continue your class and inform us,
i am type 0 with a positive rhesus factor. while my blood can be used by any positive blood types, it really can be used only once by rhesus-negative blood types without risking an allergic reaction with further transfusions of positve-blood.
on the other hand, my father, whose blood type was 0-negative, had the true universal donor blood type. i remenber many times when he was called to the hospital to donate blood for a newborn.
thanks again for a trip down annudder memory lane, Marina…
Hi Marina,
My blood type is my motto: Be Positive! BUT, I am not writing to tell you that. I actually have a word I’ve wondered about all my life. It is the word Wednesday. We pronounce it Wends-Day, but it looks like maybe it was a day for weddings. Okay, I’ll sit and wait for your reply.
Thanks!
You know sirgiant I have often asked the same question. I looks like we should pronounce it Wed nes day. But as you said Wensdays should be more appropriate. I hope she investigates this one.
Has there been a pickup in the quality of the descriptions of the words recently? … if i’m not imagining it, it’s a definite good sign, i think.
To be quite honest .. i think M should only be allowed to shed garments if the word descriptions are high quality – the higher the quality, the fewer the garments. … For those thin, offhand word descriptions of a mere couple of sentences or so, M should be forced to hide in a trench coat, big floppy hat and galoshes.
M should only be allowed to incite sensual craving in proportion to the depth of her word analysis. … otherwise the sensuality seems frivolous and her whole whatsit is debased.
I was thinking of seeing if i could get some interest in HFW generated at my old Guardian Unimited site .. but i’d only be comfortable if M’s delicious sauciness was at least matched by a sufficient display of analysis. .. if the depth of analysis isn’t there, it loses that contrast that makes it unique.
I mean .. there’s something Pythonesque about a beautiful woman barely clad sensually instructing us into the mysteries and archeology of the meanings of words we assumed we knew.
Any prim woman in a suit could sit in a chair and recite an analysis of a word. Any babe could lounge around skimpily dressed.
But M’s unique – she can create that Pythonesque situation where universes collide.
Capman this is your expertise
but if he doesn’t respond just click on any Gravatar
this will take you to the Gravatar site, now follow directions,
any problems post another comment.
No I left the ‘R’ off originally,
The history behind my pseudonym is while hanging out in Mexico
an old white Chevy PU truck came down the dusty road
on the tail gate the guy had painted out the ‘R’
so it read CHE VOLET, I just changed the spelling
to get the pronunciation desired.
Another mystery solved
What I meant was I left the r off of my “you”. When I commented in the second comment. I left the h out in the first comment and r out in the second. Now I see why you spell your name Chevolay. lol that’s cool.
You also leave the ‘re’ out of your when saying you’re
I just automatically ignore it now
and pronounce it correctly in my head
I just figured it was due to regional dialect
So instead of saying you guys, I’ll expect y’all
Double click on the monster next to your name. It will take you to http://www.Gravatar.com. There you will enter your e-mail address that you used for Marina’s site. When finished registering then Gravatar will ask you to pick a picture for your Gravatar. You can download one from your computer or pick one from the web. If you pick one from the web download it to your desktop then upload it to the Gravatar site. That way you will always have the picture if you need it again. A box will open with the picture in it and then adjust the size of the picture. Just follow the directions from Gravatar to finish. If for some reason your Gravatar doesn’t show up then you may have to clear out your “cache” (ie) history, cookies and old temp files or hit refresh a couple of times for the Gravatar to show up.
To clear the cache in “FireFox” click on Tools at the top of the page then click on Clear Private Data. In IE7 click on Tools then Internet options. In the next box under General find the browsing history and click delete all. If you need any more help feel free to ask.
Cool! groovy and all that…now, your next mission (should you choose to accept it) is to make your name appear BLUE and link to a favourite website (of your own choosing). To do this, just click ‘Dashboard’ in the upper right corner of the site. then where it says “Howdy, {your name}” click {your name}.
Under contact info, where it says ‘website’, just enter the website you wish ppl to see when they click your new blue name.
Additional note: The GRAVATAR is retroactive – new gravatar will apear on all your previous posts, while the new link may not be necessarily so. {not absolutely certain on theis one}.
You can also change the blue name that appears… type in a new ‘nickname, update, then select the new nickname from the ‘display name publicly as’ drop-down box.
anybody that cooks peas(unless in a thick stew)is “insane-itary”. I thought split-pea soup was a myth till I actually was served a bowl of it,,,,flush goes the “terlet”.
IS there such a word as “Kryptonite” and if so what
does it mean.My brothers a big superman fan and wants
to know if the word is real? and is it a green rock
“O” being replaced for zero is very common. Like if you give out your phone number, you might say “My number is 555-Oh123. It is easier to say “Oh” than zero. LIke you said yourself,”In nineteen O one” and “nineteen O nine”. Much easier than nineteen zero nine right?
Homework: You want to know my blood type?
Like one in three people, I am type “A” positive,
well, pretty sure, anyway…
I can imagine how a lunch date with Marina might go….
“What’s your favorite food? color? blood type?”
K-I-N-K-Y-!
Extra Credit:
Vampires don’t care which blood type they consume. All types are salty. That’s why the garlic is needed so as to spice it up some.
You don’t believe that the garlic was there to shy them off do you?
The Romanian meal which most vampires prefer their victims to have imbedded before being feasted on are Zama Soup, Muschi poina and baklava. This meal tends to raise the cholesterol and sugar content of the blood to a sweet syrup which no vampire or vampress can resist.
Reference:
Etymology of Vampiress
The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first appearance of the word vampire in English from 1734, in a travelogue titled Travels of Three English Gentlemen published in the Harleian Miscellany in 1745. Vampires had already been much discussed in German literature. After Austria gained control of northern Serbia and Oltenia in 1718, officials noted the local practice of exhuming bodies and “killing vampires”. These reports, prepared between 1725 and 1732, received widespread publicity. The English term was derived (possibly via French vampyre) from the German Vampir, in turn thought to be derived in the early 18th century from Serbian вампир/vampir. The Serbian form has parallels in virtually all Slavic languages: Bulgarian вампир (vampir), Czech and Slovak upír, Polish wąpierz, and (perhaps East Slavic-influenced) upiór, Russian упырь (upyr’), Belarusian упыр (upyr), Ukrainian упирь (upir’), from Old Russian упирь (upir’). (Note that many of these languages have also borrowed forms such as “vampir/wampir” subsequently from the West; these are distinct from the original local words for the creature). The exact etymology is unclear Among the proposed proto-Slavic forms are *ǫpyrь and *ǫpirь. Like its possible cognate that means “bat” (Czech netopýr, Slovak netopier, Polish nietoperz, Russian нетопырь / netopyr’ – a species of bat), the Slavic word might contain a Proto-Indo-European root for “to fly”. An older theory is that the Slavic languages have borrowed the word from a Turkic term for “witch” (e.g. Tatar ubyr).
The first recorded use of the Old Russian form Упирь (Upir’) is commonly believed to be in a document dated 6555 (1047 AD). It is a colophon in a manuscript of the Book of Psalms written by a priest who transcribed the book from Glagolitic into Cyrillic for the Novgorodian Prince Vladimir Yaroslavovich. The priest writes that his name is “Upir’ Likhyi ” (Упирь Лихый), which means something like “Wicked Vampire” or “Foul Vampire.” This apparently strange name has been cited as an example of surviving paganism and/or of the use of nicknames as personal names. However, in 1982, Swedish Slavicist Anders Sjöberg suggested that “Upir’ likhyi” was in fact an Old Russian transcription or translation of the name of Öpir Ofeigr, a well-known Swedish rune carver. Sjöberg argued that Öpir could possibly have lived in Novgorod before moving to Sweden, considering the connection between Eastern Scandinavia and Russia at the time. This theory is still controversial, although at least one Swedish historian, Henrik Janson, has expressed support for it. Another early use of the Old Russian word is in the anti-pagan treatise “Word of Saint Grigoriy,” dated variously to the 11th–13th centuries, where pagan worship of upyri is reported.
my tag says: TYPE.B /RH.D.POS
fond this one. http://www.blood.co.uk/pages/all_about.html
What’s the AB bloodtype, and what does the D add, because its in all bloodtypes.
Is this going to bee the Vamp tastelist? Hope you love type O and A !
…The word person in its Greek form prosopon might stand for a juridical or fictitious unity; it does not necessarily imply what the word person implies to us, that is, the unity of the subject of consciousness and of all the internal and external activities. Hence we are not surprised to find that Diodorus admitted two Sons, and that Theodore practically made two Christs, and yet that they cannot be proved to have really made two subjects in Christ. Two things are certain: first, that, whether or no they believed in the unity of the subject in the Incarnate Word, at least they explained that unity wrongly; secondly, that they used most unfortunate and misleading language when they spoke of the union of the manhood with the Godhead — language which is objectively heretical, even were the intention of its authors good. copied from thinkers Is taste a color and skyed!…by, be gone
Loved this video. Not only for the very interesting topic, but also for the style and presentation. I loved the wider angle. You are very beautiful and it was great to see more of you than just your face and… well, you get the picture.
for type 0 we say nulka.on ma krv nulku….
nulka -nula-zero
but anyway i like the band- type o negative
Hello hot for words, I am 0+. I have shown my kids, 8 of them, and my husband your youtube videos. My husband isn’t interested. lol But my kids love you. Guess I better come up with some words for you. How about the word possum. Or the phrase playing possum. My grandfather was a hunter but he would never hunt possums. He called them his granddaughters. I never understood this, for I was his only granddaughter and felt like he compared the possum to me. So, if you can, where did the word possum come from, and the phrase playing possum come from? Hope hot for words can solve this mystery. The kids hope you can. Take care, Zoe
Scam the scheme…scaple dapple…tropical disease…gorbacios ab+
Is that true blood show any good? I hear AnnaP gets naked what! lolol HFW and HFP take a hint jkjk haha I love how kobe showed up a little into the video.
Yo momma so fat her blood type is Krispy Kreme
Thank you!
It’s 0 (zero) all around.
This video should change the way schools teach their pupils. Enough with the indulgence of falsities in the English language!
B +. I like that my blood type is B positive.
PS I am a blood donor and in fact I just donated recently. On my next donation, I’ll have donated slighty over 15 gallons.
OMG Marina watches True Blood! That’s so cool. Actually I had no interest in seeing the series (yet another vampire series destined to fail, bah boooring) until I saw “Sookie Stackhouse” in the synopsis and i was like immediately changed mind, since I have actually read the first 3 books, and have the second 2 (will get the rest soon)
oh yeah and homework… i always forget my homework.
I’m 0+
AB+
We need new blood in our political system, vote for Marina for President! At least we will understand what she is saying.
A+ you’d think with that typing I would have done better in school
Well done marina i had no idea.
I dunno what an antigen or the postive negative stuff is either. I may investigate this you have me curious.
My blood type is AB+, what’s with the “+” sign?
There are so many blood subsitutes out there now that are safer for the user and it’s cheaper and more readily availible that it makes no sence to use real blood anymore.
I am blood type A pos. It is a good thing to know your blood type in case of an accident and a friend or family member needs your type right now, you can roll up the sleeve and drain a pint.
I found my old dog tags, and my blood group is “A neg”.
So I went to Wikipedia to look up A negative in blood types,
and soon regretted it. All those big words that I don’t know the meaning of. There’s all kinds of blood types, and different systems of classifying them. So, I had to have a beer. I opened up a HotForWords Hefeweizen beer. Pyramid Hefeweizen. Made from wheat. Not bad: a lager-style beer, crispy ‘n’ flavorful. Not really my kind of beer, though (probably because of my blood type). I purchased another wheat beer to compare with it, Belgian White Blue Moon Ale, and am opening it as I type….(glug-glug…ahhh). Awful. Tastes like Tuna fish salad. Well then, if you need a wheat beer, go for the Hefeweizen.
Trick or treat!
Halloween is coming soon…
Watch out for hemo-goblins!
Word request – goblin
ha funny guy i like that
Hi, Marina, i want to know what means Capoeira, where it comes from and is Capoeira and Capoeria the same thing? Sorry for my english and thanx!
Kisses Muah!
New video in a couple minutes.
F5, F5, F5,F5…. – LOL!
Thanks for the tip… it helped me get in first! Is that peculiar to FF or can it be done with IE as well?
cool
i can’t get on the frontpage :S get some huge weird code
Here is a word request: “bicameral” as in the study of mind, or less conceptual Neurophysiology. I am inspired to ask you this due to the book by Julian Jaynes “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind” (1976). Would be great to get a lot of people thinking about this.
If you are looking for a big vocabulary, you might check my writing and videos at my currently inactive, but still online blog called “The Last Gas Station” which is found at -http://www.thelastgasstation.typepad.com-
I am a word freak myself and I dig your site.. If you choose to use “Bicameral” or any of the other concepts or ideas from my blog please let me know by contacting me at robertrun@fastmail.us.
Finally, while I do my best to avoid circumlocution, let me say that I appreciate your euphonious expression, as well as the intellectual and visual.
As we all know how sexy you are, how about giving us a lesson on the word “sexy”
Word Request
Chipmunk
I have requested this word in the past but with Halloween around the corner… how about ZOMBIE?
Thanks so much!
Word Request: ZOMBIE
I actually had a discussion about this a couple years ago in college. I’ve been calling it zero since and when I mention it people look at me confused. lol
I’m a A- which does bring a question. What do the + and – stand for?
Positive, or ‘+’, and negative or ‘-’, refer to the presence or absence of the RhD antigen in your blood.
So if the antigen is missing from my blood type, why am I not considered Type Zero?
That would be because the RhD antigen is a completely different antigen from the ones signified by the A, B, and AB, and 0 blood group designations.
Eric M
Ahh… I understand. Thanks
Hey, what does the word Islam mean. I know its a religion, but someone told me once that it had a meaning and where did its roots come from, ex.Greek, Chineese… Thank you
Islam
Noun
1. the Muslim religion teaching that there is only one God and that Mohammed is his prophet
2. Muslim countries and civilization [Arabic: surrender (to God)]
[Source: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Islam
Eric M
hello my dear teacher & fellow students
I dont know what blood type I am..but I intend to find out soon, I havent been attending classes 
the recent blood type video caught my eye 
Anyway, Im glad to see our teacher is still going strong (what blood type is our teacher?) regards
he he State of Texas Tool Taxes
In Karl’s day maybe the rules of notation weren’t in place.
In the science field when you write a zero one must put the diagonal line in it.
Also when a scientist writes point some number, (.7) it is always written as 0.7. Of course with the diagonal line in the zero.
If I knew where how do it on the keyboard I write it proper.
Ø.7
(Ø = alt 0216)
Karl,Thank you for the example
That’s Karl Landsteiner the Austrian scientist
not our pedantickarl
hi marina my blood type is A+
Just to say… Marina your lessons have been great as usual, I’m getting asked at work nowadays, if I’ve seen the latest lesson on “—” and I’m not the first one at work to see them anymore, I’m getting told before I get a chance to sit down & watch…
…Share a little letter I found in my email…
Pic
this one? http://bp1.blogger.com/_Qm43L_46eLM/RySQ8G4T4dI/AAAAAAAAE-4/ibPOJddeE8M/s1600-h/Capture.JPG
it won’t load some how….
you could always just right click and open in new window.
it worked just fine when bob posted it. didn’t have any trouble.
umm, billy, not bob. sorry. :/
Does the B stand for Bob as in Billy Bob?
I fixed it.. I uploaded it to my server… that URL probably messed up the viewer.
I fixed the URL in Bob’s post.
bob?
Thank you
no, fowbow, her name is marina.
P
ummm, foxbow*, lol, my bad.
I meant BillyB’s post.. sorry.
ha! she confused it to! lol! \o/
i’m not the only one who’s constantly confusing bob w/ billy. :/
oh, man. too*
Here’s a song to go with the letter and the picture:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmuz4ladPH8
Rodney Carrington classic
So, if I were Saved By Zero, I would no longer be in a Fixx.
I think my blood type is B positive.
After watching this lesson, I think its safe to say that Type O blood, was in fact a typo
Marina, I noticed the addition of “…what people have said about HotForWords.” on your YT profile page. Great addition!
what!?! you mean those channel comments? they’re fucking ridiculous,99,9% of them is BS,lifeless webcam sex advertisers and other crap.
No, not the channel comments, foxbow. Marina added “what people have said” on the left side in her profile section. These are comments made by various well known people. It’s a great addition and worthy of being also put into the quote section on this page lower right. Captain can get on that right away.
Not the channel comments… probably she’s thought about turning them off, as you say, most are a turn off. Look up on the left, under the profile. I noticed it the other day too. we should go write some nice channel comments to counter all the crap ones.
echo
BTW “Narcissus” is a word request, I think… submitted previously by Misscupcake, or is it narcissistic… or ism.
My blood type is 101.
Hey Marina, I would like to know where the word “Movie” came from.
AB+, the Universal Plasma blood type
The Sarah Palin e-mail hacker has made me wonder where the word ‘indict’ comes from? Also, why is it not spelt like it sounds, even in America? Can you please investigate for me?
Dear Marina,
How are you? Last night on The Factor, BO’R expressed his intrigue with the word “nefarious.” I fancy myself pretty good at roots and such, but I can’t put a fix on this one. If I had to guess, maybe French origin? Might you look into this one for me and for Bill?
All my best,
Louie
P.S. I made a mistake with a prior word request. I said “hotty toddy” but it is really “hot toddy.” I am sorry for any confusion.
This is for the students discussing Mad Cow
… and what about [sheep that think they're birds].
another YouTube wrong corrected: i uploaded a classic song that was nowhere to be found …
ps. bob, the mood of this reminds me of your winning letter.
[Roy Harper - When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease]
pps.. non-brits may be completely mystified.
i remember seeing Roy Harper yonks ago at Clitheroe Castle doing a small open air concert. At one point he stopped one of his long involved acoustic guitar thrashy things to tell us off for not paying attention. … because, as one man, the entire audience had turned round to watch some bloke at the back throwing up against some bushes.
[Led Zeppelin - Hats off to Roy Harper]
mijj, great upload!! I have never heard of Roy before (“the longest running underground act in the world”). Had to wiki him.
I loved the coronet or was it a trumpet or other instrument filling in the background. Excellent! (ditto on Bob’s letter)
yeh .. that’s a north england tradition of towns having brass bands .. Dates back to 19th century coal mining days when collieries would have their own brass bands.
+ congrats on charming M’s heart with your love letter. {.. envy ..}
Thank you mijj on the congrats. I feel your passion.
By the way, your comment on the winner announcement page;
“i’m so unhappy that i didn’t win. maybe i should have entered the contest.”
That struck my funny bone as being very funny, but I empathize with your regrets.
well .. given my volatile affections for M, i don’t think i could have written a love letter without a thorn appearing in there somewhere.
“… just thorns without the rose / be careful with them in the dark …”
My blood is type A.
Whatsup my dear teacher? The old subscribe graphic is back. Gremlins?
Good Morning to all!
Here’s a good one! 
That reminds me about the angelic little girl who had a skinny, scrawny dog named “Porky”.
Use your imagination to divine why … the explanation is rather rude.
I Am type A Neg. But why or what is Neg or Pos Teacher?
O! as in, Oh!, I don’t know my blood type!!…..must investigate this as most important should the Count need feeding……
A freind of mine is a paramedic, she has called it type 0 as in zero before but as you say M, is known as O not 0……what an o’ll lot of confusion
…hhmmm, thinking what does blood plasma and a TV plasma screen have in common?
well i am type B,
i love your show by the way
word request : hyperbole … i gives me untold joy to use hyperbole whenever making even the most humble, groveling post here in HFW. So, what’s with the word “hyperbole” … “hyper” – yes … “bole” – huh?
e.g. M’s breathtaking, enchanting beauty causes my heart to fracture into thousands of scintillating, psychedelic shards of pure bliss = Marina is rather attractive.
Changing the last letter in hyperbole gives hyperbola, a word with a totally different meaning. I wonder if there is a relationship between the two words. Maybe the word hyperbola is worthy to be included in the hyperbole lesson.
eek! .. i’ve always recognise that word – once it entered my brain – as “hyparabola” .. only just now, after all those years of maths, realise it’s always been “hyperbola” !!
If you go down one floor from the hyperbole, do you arrive at the Super Bowl?
d’oh!
you should be punished!
I’m so hungry I could eat a horse
I’v heard it;s illigal to eat horse meat in the US, is that true? if so that would be totally ridiculous
I’m AB+ , kinda neat cause I can get everyone’s blood
Not long ago you could still buy horse meat dog food in cans.
Though I never did purchase any, it felt oh so wrong.
Do you eat dogfood……..
I don’t see a much difference between a cow and a horse 
except horse tastes better,and is way more healthier.
i have type zero+
Great lesson, Marina!
It was really interesting. I’m type zero!
By the way, is it true that the blood types affect personality
I have a word request that goes well with this. Though you might want to save it for Halloween.
SANGUINE
It has two meanings. Bloody. And Happy.
How did it managed BOTH of those meanings!? Sounds like a word the Joker from Batman would like. Or maybe a vampire might like that too.
gee willikers… I don’t know.
Seems BobforWords must investigate this one on his own.
B-
Word Request: this is a three word request, however they are related words in meaning, not sure about origin. The words hegemony, empire, and suzerainty. Hegemony would be the second word for H, so far you’ve only done “hot dog”
Hey kalkwarf412 there are more H words. Just follow the first line of words to the bottom and you will find the rest.
* Hair of the Dog
* Halloween
* Handicap (Answers)
* Handicap (Game)
* Happy as a clam
* Hara-Kiri
* Hari-Kari
* Harlequin
* Head Over Heels
* Hello
* Heroin
* Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
* Honeymoon
* Honeymoon pt 2
* Hooker (Answer)
* Hooker (Game)
* Horny (Answer)
* Horny (Game)
* Horse Opera
* Hot
* Hot (Synonyms)
below, in the thread, buzzword said:
“mijj, have you ever listened to dead can dance? the women often sings by making up words. thought you would appreciate that.”
.. to which i say: “yes i do.” .. it’s very cellar door (english pronunciation) (ref: tolkein)
i rarely make the effort to work out the lyrics of a song .. for me, the words are merely to modulate the voice.
The Cocteau Twins singer had that habit too.
one of my favorite girly albums is Cocteau Twins – Treasure … and this is one of my favorite tracks from this album.
[Cocteau Twins - Ivo]
Presumably then, you don’t get much out of Benny Hill or The Two Ronnies
Another Two Ronnies
weeelll .. i liked the 2 rons word play … (dot dot dot)
Bob, Two Ronnies are funny, never heard of them before,
first thought I was watching Henny Hill.
Well now I must return to YT to watch some more.
Word Request
ythonesque … some of M’s videos are Pythonesque, (in my opinion)
e.g. beautiful woman in skimpy clothing seductively elucidates the etymology of an interesting word = Pythonesque.
lawnmower sliding into view for no apparent reason during a word examination = Pythonesque
… and i love Pythonesque stuff – it suits my sense of humour.
I used the word in the thread below and chevolay said: “Wow! it’s a real word, it’s in the dictionary and I thought you were high
”
… so i think Pythonesque is worthy of examination becuase:
i think M would find this one fun to do.
more people should be educated in the use of this word
… and … emmm … other reasons i can’t think of right now.
Here Mijj I thought you would find this pythonesque.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hitherto/1240893164/
lol – yeh … that’s brilliant.
– excellent example. – i can see the Gilliam cartoon in my head right now.
Don’t you get the idea from that, that “God” is trying to tell you not to waste your time with your illusions?
Eventually “He” gives up because “He” recognises it’s a design fault.
couldn’t this just as easily be : “take care to match the details of your fantasy/illusion to the details of cold hard reality if you’re to manifest them”.
Jack and I have been trying to come up with a new poll, where the column says vote .
The one on the favorite days of the week has been up for ages, Can you think of anything new to replace it?
that “favorite days of the week” has surely to be one of the worst polls i’ve ever seen! … why couldn’t you have gone the extra yard and had “favorite direction: up down left right fore aft”
ok .. poll, eh? … well .. just blowin’ in the wind mind, but i have a thing about an element of student influence on M’s vids ..
… e.g. M chooses the words she’s going to examine according to whatever mysterious process she chooses.
.. maybe there could be a thing where every .. i dunno .. 10th vid .. the word is decided by a poll, who’s choices are determined by the TAs from the comments in the threads. – and M has to do the poll winner word no matter how awful a choice she thinks it is.
I’m not sure i’d hold out too much hope considering how personal M’s vids are i think consideration even if it’s for rejection.
a simpler poll might be …
how many hours / day do you imagine your browser is settled somewhere on the HotForWords site?
1..2
3..4
5..8
9..16
+ … which is the managing director of your decisions:
emotion
instinct
intellect
I would say intellect with a little emotion.
well .. i was suggesting that as a poll ..
.. plus ..there’s only one managing director .. your managing director will take into account input from the other sources, but will ultimataly be responsible for teh decision.
in my case, i go for instinct. – i don’t trust intelligence and emotion is just too easily swayed by detail.
oh yeh .. plus .. i liked jame’s video .. (can’t remember what it’s called) …
.. but it put me in the frame where it might be fun to have James as a Student Representative (obviously as a “fun” thing, not to be taken seriously). .. where, if he’s agreeable, could make vids for M where he voices our collective opinion, concerns etc (always being aware this is a fun thing).
.. depends entirely on James tho. – but that’s my prelim thought on the subject .. maybe there are other students who make vids that could do the job.
fergawdsake, cap .. you should know better by now than to ask if i have any ideas!
Polls are a waste of time if they don’t give all possible choices; for example, I didn’t vote on the days of the week because, for me being retired, they’re all the same.
Another example, Mijj’s suggestion above
leaves out procrastination.
Word requests
Procrastination.
A series of words ending in …stitution:-
Destitution,
Institution,
Prostitution,
Restitution,
Substitution.
Bob, now pronounce those ’stitution’ words like Cajun Man
That’s not a bad idea Mijj. I will pass it along to Jack and Marina and see what they think. Thanks for your input.
Marina, it is cute how you say “awoid”. You remind me of Ensign Chekov on the original Star Trek.
{nod of agreement}
Anyone who can give ‘geek’ two syllables and make it so much fun is grade-A in my book!
Like the way she says “STREE-yeep” when she says “comic strip” in the vid. So precious, yet SO sensual at the same time…
And her phaser is always set on stun.
Word Request: Sexy
Great Works!
Вампир, тип крови, 99!!!
O+
Definitely type A. There is another important characteristic of blood: RH factor. Might Hot For Words take on the meaning and origin of the RH factor?
Oh, Oh said Mr. Blue Blood. AB positive so then you know. Vampires and arrows march in the sea of green. Blood from pirates.
hello my dear teacher how was your day i hope all is dandy for you and all my classmates
that is a good subject to know because if you get in an accident and you need a blood transfusion immidiately well its going to take time to find out 
i think the dmv labels your drivers license, and i havent got a clue what kind of blood i have 
but thank you Marina that will be my homework to find that out, very important to know this. love always my princess 
Good morning teacher, I tried to get you something a little different for class today instead of the usual apple, but unfortunately there was a little frost on the pumpkin! I will bring it in the house and you can bet it will be on your desk first thing tomorrow I promise.
Hello Marina, I’d like to request the word “Library.”
Thanks,
Jason
I’m type Zero. You need some blood?
Word Request: Hispanic
TIA,
It’s latin Broder.
Spanish and Italian are both Latin derived languages.
How to say Spain in Spanish? Espana.
type “zero”-
Me? I’m type C2H5OH, if you know what that means! hahaha Oh, by the way the numbers 2 and 5 are normally written as subscript (That might give you a clue).
Hey Marina! I’d like to request the word jaded. Is it in any way correlated with the jade stone? Please and thank you! Keep up the great work Marina, I love your lessons!
Miss Orlova,
I don’t know what blood type I am. Though I was born premature and I needed a blood transfusion or I wouldn’t be alive today.
PS You should be a Vampire for Halloween
Your Favorite Student,
TOF
I’m type P,for “poison”,well,lately anyway.
My fav vampire stories are the Necroscope Series by Brian Lumley,books 2 – 6 are wayyyyyy good.Faether Ferency is an awesome character considering He is a long dead Wampheri! his “son” Thibor*(The Walach)was ok too but His son Janos was just a lame duck. In the alternate universe full of Gypsies and Wampheri there are some cool charachters too. Good ole Harry Keogh has His work cut out for Him and no mistake there.
tryant
“…though they do say type zero in the bungified languages.” The bungi what? Huh? What the…? (Boy, she said that fast!)
What happened to word origins? Now we’re doing letter origins? So next will be numbers? I know the Germans say nine a lot. Where did nine come from?
IMO if a letter denotes and entire thing or concept then it can be used as a word,,why not? Plus Marina does phrases often and “type O” is pretty-much a phrase eh? Cool Yer jats there big fella,it’s all good.
tryant
I C.
For Germans the word “no” is pronounced nein.
You did see the smiley at the end, didn’t you? Nine?
I thought I was trying to help you because you didn’t know why the Germans kept saying nine. But evidently by your reply you seem a little hostile toward my answer to you. So I’ll not try to help you any more.
Yoda man.
O-Negative
I frequently give my blood away and I used to donate plasma twice a week for over a year for a little pocket money.
WORD REQUEST: With the weather turning quickly up here in Canada, far different than what I was born in in Texas, how about the word Equinox, or even Solstice? Thanks, Marine, beautiful as always.
That should be ‘Marina’, sorry, it’s late here
Don’t sweat it man,I think Marina comes from the word marine anyhow.
tryant(AKA “dumb as a post”)
Could you please tell us what the phrase ‘Eating Crow’ means?
A+
Hello Marina could you please investigate the word Hula Hoop that would make a good video
Oh, come on. It’s a hoop designed to work when doing the body movements of the hula dance. What else would they call it?
I love to hear Marina sing she has a beautiful voice she could teach as about the Hula Hoop and sing Tiny Bubbles in the sand Marina please
i am B Negative
Marina,
Could you explain where the terms “height” and “weight” come from? Also, is there a connection etymologically considering they both describe the physical characteristics of a living thing?
…and why they are pronounced differently.
Why do you want to know my blood type?
Do vampires have a preference?
Quick, grab my mock turtle neck from the sixties.
I’m leaving the light on.
Request: Do you know the origin of “gut instinct” or “going with your gut” is? It’s a phrase that means you use intuition… but what does your gut have to do with it?
It probably just means that because they are not using their head they must be using something else, like their guts. I guess they could just as easily call it left big toe instinct.
I have a theory on this;;the sub-concious supposedly remembers *everything*,so,a “gut feeling” is really the sub-concious warning that the signs are pointing in a bad direction,or possibly,a good direction. Kinda like a strong feeling wether to buy/sell stocks after reading the news.
Examine the above theory,what’s Yer gut feeling?
Dean
I have always understood it to refer to the feeling of tightness one feels in the pit of the stomach (actually in the solar plexus) when one is anxious or uncertain about something.
You know subconsciously that something is not right and and this causes a tension in that area which is referred to as the gut.
vampire hunter d is pretty cool, spaghetti western meets vampire horror meets anime.
favorite female vampire, vampirella
Mine too… bought her comics along with Conan when I was a youth.
Here’s my favorite vampiress.
Kate (ie) Selene
Kate
What is it about blood-sucking English gals in latex or leather and brandishing lethal weaponry? Ah Kate, you can make a man want to be a victim.
how about an american one?
*Wolf-Whistles*
*Scans list of hot vamps I’d risk my life for*
Brit chick: Check
Yankee Gal: Check
Anyone got some other nationalities for the lovely ladies of the undead? Perhaps Monica Belucci?
I’ve seen both of the Vampire Hunter D movies, they were pretty good.
I’m type A positive.
I;m an A+
the best
0 my God +
Not much support for the Teacher at Urban Dictionary.com. ONE comment is all she gets?
Poor little Marina her minions are getting complacent. but Marina has not gone there aether.
Hey, mijj:
Miss you, brother!… probably won’t be able to get online for another 24 hrs, but til then, I read a nifty article today, and even posted my own comment. What do YOU think on the matter?
article
a href=”http://community.nytimes.com/article/comments/2008/10/08/dining/08gend.html?permid=214#comment214 “> my comment
my comment
As well, Marina, I would love to know your say in the matter, as well as anyone else who would like to chime in!
Ciao,
Fianchetto
Americans sure know how to eat. Stars eat like equal rights.
hi Fianchetto … hey .. didn’t you used to have a “1″ after your name?
yeh .. good for you … i think rituals/rites/chivalry, etc is important, too.
We’re more than mere biological organisms which are ruled by the laws of physics. We’re human beings, god damn it!! We have a right to foibles, idiosyncrasies, rituals, etc… it makes us what we are.
Yes, used to be a 1. on Youtube, Fianchetto(sans ‘1′) had already been taken when I signed on. So, when I signed on here, I tried it with the ‘1′ first, and it worked. I found I could change my nickname, and make my new nickname the publicly displayed name, and did so to eliminate the ‘1′ and capitalise the initial ‘F’
That was a fascinating article, and gives lots of insights into the differences between the genders. There is no point in denying that there are differences, and anyone who fails to take account of them does so at their peril.
Nevertheless, I welcome the trend to treat all people as individuals, to read the situation and avoid assuming that people fit into stereotypical boxes, because the differences between individuals are even greater than between the genders.
ah .. the world of nicknames seems to be a complicated and wonderous place!
I may change my name to zOz for a while and see what happens ..
… or not!
I am type zero. Although, the thing that sucks is, that I spent a few years in the UK when I was little and so that eliminates me from giving blood in this country.
why
I was in the Navy, seen many foreign ports of call, but still am eligible to give blood…While I am curious as Daniel, no disrespect will be taken should you, for whatever reason, simply choose not to reply.
Ciao,
Fianchetto
Well, I was there during the years Mad Cow was a big scare apparently. Now I didn’t know that eliminates me as a donor till I was in High School, and went to give blood. I looked over the forms I had to sign and it said because of the condition, I couldn’t give blood.
That’s weird – we only have mad cows here – wait – that’s history – no more mad cows now
Mad cow is due to conversion of good proteins to bad proteins in the brain. It is not an organism and therefore is extremely hard to “kill” (you can’t kill what isn’t alive). The agent that causes this can be transmitted through blood.
Until it was forbidden to feed cows to cows, the U.S. was ripe for it, but we got lucky. Lesson: NEVER EAT THE BRAIN OF PERSON WITH MAD COW!!! I can’t emphasize this too much.
Bill Cosby once said “Brains n eggs,yuk,I don’t wanna eat anything somebody’s been thinkin with!”.
tryant
0-negative which means what?
bill
Type zero … specifically zero positive … but now that you have educated us could you finish the lesson with positive and negative?
i wonder if marina watches channel zero?
Ah… Public E… before Flav became a joke
Marina could you investigate the phrase that people say to be fast let’s go lickety split thanks
I think Marina is type H for hot. Get it? She’s hot blooded, check it and see, she’s got a fever of a hundred and three. Come on baby I do more than dance, your hot blooded, hot blooded!
Wow, I haven’t been on this sight in weeks and come back all whacked out. Forgive me.
I think you are right Geronimo Marina is hot blooded she is a foreigner who likes foreigner
I’m glad you got the reference. If she doesn’t know that song she’s gonna think I am a total tard! Probably does anyway.
Good pun by the way.
I am type B positive. My Mom is type 0. I think a cruise would be cool. But have some sort of competition. Then the top how ever many people could go on the cruise.
I’m rarely positive.
Hi Marina,
You ever think about having a “Hot for Words Cruise”?
maybe we could earn extra credit, and take a field trip on a cruise.
I’m A Positive.
You’re a positive what?
Well, I’m usually call negative… but my blood is “A” positive!
LOL !!!!
Homework: A(negative) – just like my father:-)
Thank you very much for another terriffic vid, well researched and well delivered (as usual).
Ciao,
Fianchetto
Hi Marina, I was wondering where the word quisquillian came from. When I heard it for the first time i thought it may be a made up word. It turns out its real , but can’t find any history on it. Thanks!!!!
Hi Marina,
You have informed us about the blood types..
But we are still wondering about the positive or negative blood types.
Please continue your class and inform us,
Postitive or nagitive refers to Rh Phenotypes
A negative. (I can’t donate blood due to having diatetes.)
Eric M
i am type 0 with a positive rhesus factor. while my blood can be used by any positive blood types, it really can be used only once by rhesus-negative blood types without risking an allergic reaction with further transfusions of positve-blood.
on the other hand, my father, whose blood type was 0-negative, had the true universal donor blood type. i remenber many times when he was called to the hospital to donate blood for a newborn.
thanks again for a trip down annudder memory lane, Marina…
Does that mean you’re related to Buzzword?
hmmm…well, who knows?
You meant this?
i did…how odd – it came up fine the first time i clicked it…
live and don’t learn…*shakes head*…
Hi Marina,
My blood type is my motto: Be Positive! BUT, I am not writing to tell you that. I actually have a word I’ve wondered about all my life. It is the word Wednesday. We pronounce it Wends-Day, but it looks like maybe it was a day for weddings. Okay, I’ll sit and wait for your reply.
Thanks!
Actually Wednesday is named after a god Woden, it is Woden Day:
Monday = Mond (German for Moon Day)
Tuesday = Tieuw Day
Thursday = Thor Day
Friday = Freia Day
Saturday = Saturn Day
Sunday is similar…..
You know sirgiant I have often asked the same question. I looks like we should pronounce it Wed nes day. But as you said Wensdays should be more appropriate. I hope she investigates this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0z4yNxCgVs something that might help
Thanks Leonard.
Marina,
Another excellent lesson.
Thanks
P.S. Type A+ and willing to donate (all I need to recover is a bowl of water, a Milkbone and a 30 minute
catdog nap.)Type o + the master chemist of the blood stream a very strict ruler
My Father was type ab something supposedly a rare type
Type zero was a japanese airplane in ww2
Is that where “zero-in” comes from?
tryant
HI Marina That was a good video very interesting good job Blood Type o zero
0 +
slak and agape duh huh
What did Marina say at the end of the lesson?
There you Type “O” “o”.
me meti un pito
What language is this
but I think you and sprstock are saying the blood is rushing to a certain part of your body
I was wondering where the word “spik” or “spiks” comes from in reference to Puerto Ricans.
I believe that it is short for ‘hispanic’.
Eric M
I thought it was from the phrase “No ’spick’a English”… perhaps something for Our Dear Teacher to investigate?
Follow-up Here is an interesting online article:
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Spic
Eric M
When I’m in Mexico I guess I have Type C blood
That’s C for cero (zero)
Has there been a pickup in the quality of the descriptions of the words recently? … if i’m not imagining it, it’s a definite good sign, i think.
To be quite honest .. i think M should only be allowed to shed garments if the word descriptions are high quality – the higher the quality, the fewer the garments. … For those thin, offhand word descriptions of a mere couple of sentences or so, M should be forced to hide in a trench coat, big floppy hat and galoshes.
Ah ah….. mijj, fantasies were in the last lesson
no! … I’m serious! .. look at my serious face!
M should only be allowed to incite sensual craving in proportion to the depth of her word analysis. … otherwise the sensuality seems frivolous and her whole whatsit is debased.
I was thinking of seeing if i could get some interest in HFW generated at my old Guardian Unimited site .. but i’d only be comfortable if M’s delicious sauciness was at least matched by a sufficient display of analysis. .. if the depth of analysis isn’t there, it loses that contrast that makes it unique.
see?
I mean .. there’s something Pythonesque about a beautiful woman barely clad sensually instructing us into the mysteries and archeology of the meanings of words we assumed we knew.
Any prim woman in a suit could sit in a chair and recite an analysis of a word. Any babe could lounge around skimpily dressed.
But M’s unique – she can create that Pythonesque situation where universes collide.
{… drones on and on …}
it’s alright, mijj, it’s alright. here we go.
First thought, Pythonesque was a reference to
Greek mythology.
Would that be referring to theory/thinking from Pythagoras? Wasn’t He like a mathmetician os some such?
tryant
Wow! it’s a real word, it’s in the dictionary
and I thought you were high
or maybe you’re a Lumberjack
dude, never attempt to change the chemistry of a woman. your dealing with some very volatile compounds.
did you just call me “dude”? .. you didn’t do the pointy finger thing and say “d’oh” too, did you?
Dude, check out this hazmat sheet… D’oh!
http://www.skippypodar.net/WebGallery/Humor/hazmat_women.gif
I guess I am O- , or would that be Negative Zero?
Capman this is your expertise
but if he doesn’t respond just click on any Gravatar
this will take you to the Gravatar site, now follow directions,
any problems post another comment.
Gotcha covered Cevolay. Tnks.
Left out you h sorry.
dang left the r off of you
No I left the ‘R’ off originally,
The history behind my pseudonym is while hanging out in Mexico
an old white Chevy PU truck came down the dusty road
on the tail gate the guy had painted out the ‘R’
so it read CHE VOLET, I just changed the spelling
to get the pronunciation desired.
Another mystery solved
Look now I know how to use my pseudonym spelled correctly.
What I meant was I left the r off of my “you”. When I commented in the second comment. I left the h out in the first comment and r out in the second. Now I see why you spell your name Chevolay. lol that’s cool.
You also leave the ‘re’ out of your when saying you’re
I just automatically ignore it now
and pronounce it correctly in my head
I just figured it was due to regional dialect
So instead of saying you guys, I’ll expect y’all
How dos’t one change ones gravatar, or little pcture if you please?
Look above
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Double click on the monster next to your name. It will take you to http://www.Gravatar.com. There you will enter your e-mail address that you used for Marina’s site. When finished registering then Gravatar will ask you to pick a picture for your Gravatar. You can download one from your computer or pick one from the web. If you pick one from the web download it to your desktop then upload it to the Gravatar site. That way you will always have the picture if you need it again. A box will open with the picture in it and then adjust the size of the picture. Just follow the directions from Gravatar to finish. If for some reason your Gravatar doesn’t show up then you may have to clear out your “cache” (ie) history, cookies and old temp files or hit refresh a couple of times for the Gravatar to show up.
To clear the cache in “FireFox” click on Tools at the top of the page then click on Clear Private Data. In IE7 click on Tools then Internet options. In the next box under General find the browsing history and click delete all. If you need any more help feel free to ask.
I did it ect ect ect……
Cool! groovy and all that…now, your next mission (should you choose to accept it) is to make your name appear BLUE and link to a favourite website (of your own choosing). To do this, just click ‘Dashboard’ in the upper right corner of the site. then where it says “Howdy, {your name}” click {your name}.
Under contact info, where it says ‘website’, just enter the website you wish ppl to see when they click your new blue name.
Additional note: The GRAVATAR is retroactive – new gravatar will apear on all your previous posts, while the new link may not be necessarily so. {not absolutely certain on theis one}.
You can also change the blue name that appears… type in a new ‘nickname, update, then select the new nickname from the ‘display name publicly as’ drop-down box.
Have fun, and welcome to HFW!!!
Another original quote by Che Volay
“If you can’t pee out your front door then it’s time to move.
If you really can’t pee, make an appointment with your urologist.”
Someone who cooks his beans and peas in the same pot is not sanitary.
anybody that cooks peas(unless in a thick stew)is “insane-itary”. I thought split-pea soup was a myth till I actually was served a bowl of it,,,,flush goes the “terlet”.
tryant
I would like to learn how the word “gay” went from being such a happy word everyone could use to meaning someone being homosexual
http://www.hotforwords.com/category/interviews/ Go to no.10 of Maxim
IS there such a word as “Kryptonite” and if so what
does it mean.My brothers a big superman fan and wants
to know if the word is real? and is it a green rock
While ‘Kryptonite’ exists only in the Superman comics, Krypton is element 36 of the periodic table.
type o negative.
[Blade - Bloodbath]
(type “O”, presumably)
You Should take the word Vampire
“O” being replaced for zero is very common. Like if you give out your phone number, you might say “My number is 555-Oh123. It is easier to say “Oh” than zero. LIke you said yourself,”In nineteen O one” and “nineteen O nine”. Much easier than nineteen zero nine right?
What is the meaning of the word optimal?
or what is the etimology of the word Germany?
Thanks a lot!
Have a nice day…
Hi beautiful marina i was wondering if you can tell me the origin of the word FORESEEN….thank u (k)
Since you did Fantasy can you do Realistic
Type zero Marina, thanks for the knowlege, I will throw on my know it all RN Aunt who thinks she knows everything.
I’m O positive…..
…or was it O negative?
It’s one of the 2, I’m pretty sure it is O negative.
Homework: You want to know my blood type?
Like one in three people, I am type “A” positive,
well, pretty sure, anyway…
I can imagine how a lunch date with Marina might go….
“What’s your favorite food? color? blood type?”
K-I-N-K-Y-!
I’m type 0+
whats the origin of the word hot?
thanks
When the caveman stuck his hand in the fire.
That was the first sound that came out of the cave-girls mouth. 
No,that was “hut”,She was shy and didn’t want him sticking anything in out in public! Sorry,very very sorry,couldn’t resist.
tryant
She already did that word. Check Words/Lessons.
Great video lesson!! Thank you for the medical background. I really never knew that about the antigens and learned something new today.
I’m o + and about 80 proof
So ummm,what’s Yer “proof”ession?
Homework: A+ ( Hope this is my grade)
Extra Credit:
Vampires don’t care which blood type they consume. All types are salty. That’s why the garlic is needed so as to spice it up some.
You don’t believe that the garlic was there to shy them off do you?
The Romanian meal which most vampires prefer their victims to have imbedded before being feasted on are Zama Soup, Muschi poina and baklava.
This meal tends to raise the cholesterol and sugar content of the blood to a sweet syrup which no vampire or vampress can resist. 
Reference:
Etymology of Vampiress
The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first appearance of the word vampire in English from 1734, in a travelogue titled Travels of Three English Gentlemen published in the Harleian Miscellany in 1745. Vampires had already been much discussed in German literature. After Austria gained control of northern Serbia and Oltenia in 1718, officials noted the local practice of exhuming bodies and “killing vampires”. These reports, prepared between 1725 and 1732, received widespread publicity. The English term was derived (possibly via French vampyre) from the German Vampir, in turn thought to be derived in the early 18th century from Serbian вампир/vampir. The Serbian form has parallels in virtually all Slavic languages: Bulgarian вампир (vampir), Czech and Slovak upír, Polish wąpierz, and (perhaps East Slavic-influenced) upiór, Russian упырь (upyr’), Belarusian упыр (upyr), Ukrainian упирь (upir’), from Old Russian упирь (upir’). (Note that many of these languages have also borrowed forms such as “vampir/wampir” subsequently from the West; these are distinct from the original local words for the creature). The exact etymology is unclear Among the proposed proto-Slavic forms are *ǫpyrь and *ǫpirь. Like its possible cognate that means “bat” (Czech netopýr, Slovak netopier, Polish nietoperz, Russian нетопырь / netopyr’ – a species of bat), the Slavic word might contain a Proto-Indo-European root for “to fly”. An older theory is that the Slavic languages have borrowed the word from a Turkic term for “witch” (e.g. Tatar ubyr).
The first recorded use of the Old Russian form Упирь (Upir’) is commonly believed to be in a document dated 6555 (1047 AD). It is a colophon in a manuscript of the Book of Psalms written by a priest who transcribed the book from Glagolitic into Cyrillic for the Novgorodian Prince Vladimir Yaroslavovich. The priest writes that his name is “Upir’ Likhyi ” (Упирь Лихый), which means something like “Wicked Vampire” or “Foul Vampire.” This apparently strange name has been cited as an example of surviving paganism and/or of the use of nicknames as personal names. However, in 1982, Swedish Slavicist Anders Sjöberg suggested that “Upir’ likhyi” was in fact an Old Russian transcription or translation of the name of Öpir Ofeigr, a well-known Swedish rune carver. Sjöberg argued that Öpir could possibly have lived in Novgorod before moving to Sweden, considering the connection between Eastern Scandinavia and Russia at the time. This theory is still controversial, although at least one Swedish historian, Henrik Janson, has expressed support for it. Another early use of the Old Russian word is in the anti-pagan treatise “Word of Saint Grigoriy,” dated variously to the 11th–13th centuries, where pagan worship of upyri is reported.
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It took me awhile to master that <a href=” stuff. 
I’m good with HTML.
Its my fat fingers causing all those nasty Type-Os! 
I know what you mean, my keyboard’s keys aren’t big enough either. lol
Plus my keyboard is wearing out. Time for a new one.