Forte Pronunciation
Here is the answer to the forte video on how forte is supposed to be pronounced.
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Fine work!
What, you cook?
Nooo wayyy =))
I have yet to discover my fort, but that only leads me to believe that it is something great, something I haven’t tried before. Maybe… driving a space shuttle? Or flying? We shall see
I hope this doesn’t get me banned, and I mean this sincerely, I am a ManWhore. I cook, I clean, I take care of chores and menial tasks, look after animals, and keep things in general order for my roommates up here in Canada. I openly use that term, though I know it isn’t real, and openly admit to being it. I love my roommates like extended family, so it’s all good for me
Oh i forgot! about your cooking! My Ukrainian fried treats me to vereniki now and again. His mom seems to be the local famous supplier. Do you like vereniki? if so what are your favorite ingredients?
You may reply to this comment on the reply link below. Or since you have all my personal data, you could make an apointment and stop by
or drop it in the mail. The reply link is probably most simple, though not as much wrought with intrigue.
Well your tummy looks very nicely fit and it was nice to be able to listen to this and admire your lithe, willowy, gastrointestinal casing and discover yet again the confusions created by english and french interrelations.
oh yea. Forte was the word. I didn’t know it’s background. thanks. I had no idea but definitley had the musical Forte mixed up like everyone else.
My forte is I am just too damn funny.
I heard a word that i hadn’t in many years. Can you give me the origin of the word “crud”?
My forte is home brewing and making waffles.
Well, Marina, if your forte is that you’re a good cook, when we all know you’re a good teacher - and a good looking one as well - then - all I can say is, “take me to heaven, I wanna eat your food right now”.
Nick
I would be interested in the origin of the word “whore”. Sorry for the explicit wording.
xor
Wow. A lot has been posted since I requested. As requested, Marina, I’d like to know the etymology of the phrase “no holds barred.” I know it means something to the effect of “at maximum performance,” or something of the like, but using an old English word “hold” as a noun is a little nostalgic, don’t you think? Where, exactly did this “no holds barred” phrase originate? I’ve been wondering this for years, literally.
“No holds barred” is an easy one. It is from wrestling, where some holds are illegal. In the ancient Olympic sport of pankration, I belive that only eye-gouging was disallowed.
★★★★★
Mob
Marina has a video of the word ‘mob’ [HERE]
I cheated and peaked on YT
i thought “@” was called the “around” sign
not the “at” sign
“at” is as good a word as any for the symbol. It was originally used for commercial transactions as in “Sold 30 haxes @ 10 for 300 total”. Most early typewriters were used in commerce, and they had a special key for it because it was used so much. The usage died, but the key remained as a relic on keyboards until the internet revived it.
what about AA AAA C and D batteries?
why no B batteries
Actually, they did exist back in the 50’s when the portable tube radios had two batteries; The A battery was used for the filament and the B battery provided high voltage to the plate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_battery
Marina,
Here’s a strange request. Can we invent some new words here?
I don’t think there’s a word yet for this little game all grown-ups play with little children. One may start ‘bibbling’ his own lips with the index finger while making a noise. The other will usually reply in kind to everyone’s amusement. Is there a word for this? If not, let’s make it: “bibble.”
A grown man can also make this sound without using an index finger.
When a man makes sounds wihile playing between a big woman’s breasts, they usually call this, “playing motorboat.” But we need a word for this. Let’s make it: “booble.”
Women almost never make this sound. But it is heard on old cartoons when a character’s brain has just had an overload.
What other things do we do without having a word for them?
how about a word for when you leave your front door, then walk a few steps then think “damn! i forgot to lock the door” then you turn round and walk back, then you think “oh! .. yeh .. i did lock the door” .. then you turn round again and go on your way? (presumably baffling onlookers)
I have uploaded the video to YouTube 3 times now.. and it won’t process… I have no idea what is happening. As soon as it processes I will make it live… so any minute now.
I don’t want processed food anyway. Can’t you serve it up organic?
did you try kicking it?
prophylactic, it must have hit one of these and bounced back into you face.
see it worked out just fine
it seems like everyone has that problem right now.
Hey Marina. I just uploaded it took about an hour to process.. While it was processing i uploaded it again about 20 mins in left it for about 20 mins and it was done.. I think it is being slow… X
YouTube must have heard about the homemade chicken soup and it’s holding out for it’s share.
We NEED our fix, Marina, dear…
I have been noticing issues this afternoon getting to and from different sites including MSN, YouTube, Yahoo, and others. These are likely unrelated to your download issue, but who knows…
Would you care to take a sensuous stab at the word “Lascivious?”
Many thanks and best wishes.
Bob
I have a word and I’d like to see the full history (entimology?) of it. The problem is that it’s a bit of a dialect word.
In the NE of England we have a word for a woman which is “Bint” (a slightely derogatory word). The strange thing is that I have found the same word in an Ancient culture, meanning a “bad woman” that was located thousands of miles away. Can you tell me the progression?
Love n hugs
Fau.
Would like ou to do the word NAMASTE please
Hey mijj, do you sound like John Lennon (68th B-day today) when you talk?
noticed you lived in Liverpool
i live near there now, but originally was from north yorkshire.
so i have a yorkshire accent, not the scouse one.
Yorkshire, where they make the pudding
puddings and .. erm .. ummmmm … what else do people do in yorkshire?
oh yeh .. dracula first set foot in yorkshire (in the bram stoker’s story) .. erm … either captain cook or nelson was from yorkshire - yeh .. captain cook .. just checked.
.. i think that’s about it for yorkshire.
Eee oop! What duz “Bar Tat” mean, as in “on Ilkley Moor Bar Tat”?
Yorkshire terriers
Yorkshire Ham
Why didn’t you suggest “Yorkshire Day” to Marina for her calendar?
+ bar tat = bar t’at = bar the hat = without the hat
don’t you make terriers, too?
well …
yeh …
… those little snappy toy things … it’s embarrassing.
i think that little white furry animal thing of M’s might be a yorkshire terrier.
no, it’s a maltese. but you got to look closely, yeah, take a magnifier or binoculars to make it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UWWBCf-mAc
And there was I thinking that “Bar Tat” referred to the furnishings in the pub.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvzg5qgNNDM
Well, I can honestly say that English is NOT my forte….. I’ve always been more of a math person.
hey .. where did everyone go? .. are you all hiding?
HEY!!
.. {… checks inside HFW trashcan …} .. nope .. not in here.
Boo!
Eek!
Now, mijj is hiding…..
perhaps making 3 (three)
or working on the Basic program
I left a lot of junk code in there while fiddling with it, but remain fascinated with the complex, orderly output from the randomly generated input. It started as a triangle, and then I added 3 more points to make the snowflake gasket.
Boo!
BOO!!!
what .. the …f… kk … ffff… !!! .. *%^^£££ …
tourettes syndrome symptoms
Working on the tractor. Here I is now.
wasaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
“They mostly come out at night”
“mostly” Newt - Aliens
mijj, Marina is out working today, doing the interview on Maxim Radio. Maybe we’ll have a new video later tonight or tomorrow.
oh yeh .. good thinking
How about a definition of “whipsock”…
Thanks,
karl and the girls
dang .. what’re the rules M uses for decidin to make a new vid public?
… drops below 24 in popularity is it?
Yassar when it gets to 24 or above she will upload a new vid. Here is the page if you want to keep up when she hits number 24. It will be the top riight corner.
http://www.youtube.com/browse?s=mp&t=t&cr=US&p=2
Another origin.
“cotton”
Is ‘rational -> rationale’ another example of adding ‘e’ from borrowed French words? By the way, in the sport of fencing, forte means the bottom of the blade (the stronger part of it) and foible means the top of the blade (the weaker part of it).
I will make you proud.
My forte would be sports knowledge, trivia, mainly football. Been that way since I was a kid. I’m also a die hard New York Giant fan. Been one my whole life.
I’m also good in math, but I hate it. Its kinda hard to explain, to be good at something you hate. I guess all that number crunching just gives me a headache.
Anyways, could you look up the origin of the phrase “Fifteen Minutes of Fame”? I’ve always wondered exactly where it came from. I’ve heard that phrase quite a bit and always wondered where it started.
Great site btw. If only some of the female teachers I had would’ve adopted the same concept, maybe I would’ve paid a little more attention in school.
Have a Good Day.
Marina.. Perhaps you could investigate the word pursue and purse.. do they have anything to do with each other?
presumably, one would pursue a purse snatcher.
after pursing ones lips when you discover it’s missing.
So, simply put, one would:
1. Percieve one’s purse has been purloined.
2. Purse lips in perplexity of perception.
3. Pursue perpetrator suspected of purloining said purse.
Hey! … Fianchetto1 subbed too!!!
that’s great mr. fianchetto ..
i’ll take any pity subs that are going too .. i ain’t proud!
Still curious to see what’s next…
will it be 3? 4? 2.5? e?
i’m gettin my music prog out and havin a doodle round for 3.
It’s going to be new ground .. it’s going to be ..
aha!!! {.. keeps schtum ..}
i had another idea for a simple YouTube thing …
.. a limerick thing where .. you display a line and ask for the next line in the comments …
the next day you add one of the lines form the comments and ask for the next ..
waddya think?
could be fun, you’d have to start over every 5 days… I think it would be fun at first, but get old quickly, but then, you never know. I would think that most people would simply finish the thing rather than stop with one line, though.
oh .. but .. the person who puts up the limerick vid picks the next line …
i.e …
day 1 vid :
—————————————————-
There once was a thing from somewhere
(suggest the next line in the comments)
—————————————————-
then one of the lines from the comments is picked
day 2 vid
————————————————–
There once was a thing from somewhere
Which fell down, i think .. over there
(suggest the next line in the comments)
————————————————–
… etc.
Go for it!
not goin for it yet cos i’m still strugglin to get to grips with Flash .. but .. the idea’s floatin.
once i’ve got a rhythm then i’ll give it a shot. … just wanted to test the idea.
OK, mijj I foung the program that generates a sierpinski gasket … I wrote it a long time ago in QBASIC. I can’t run it under windows Vista, and can’t send it as file attachment to your youtube channel.
do you have it as a runnable prog that generates a graphic?
is that the fractal triangle thing, btw?
Actually is a hexagram, but can be easily converted to a triangle by commenting out 3 branches.
No, is not an executable, you need a BASIC interpreter to run it.
is a pretty nifty concept pick a random start point, then a random target on the circumference of a circle. go to a point a fraction of the distance in the direction of the target and mark it. randomly pick another target, go same fraction distance toward it, mark it. lather, rinse repeat.
10 CLS : SCREEN 12, 1
20 PSET (320, 0), 1: PSET (0, 480), 1: PSET (640, 480), 1
30 x = INT(RND * 640) + 1
40 y = INT(RND * 480) + 1
41 i = 0: CONST pi = 3.141592654#: r = 200: fract = .4
45 PRINT x, y: a = x: b = y
50 ax = 320: ay = 40: CIRCLE (ax, ay), 3, 3
60 bx = 493.2: by = 140: CIRCLE (bx, by), 3, 3
70 cx = 493.2: cy = 340: CIRCLE (cx, cy), 3, 3
75 dx = 146.8: dy = 340: CIRCLE (dx, dy), 3, 3
76 ex = 320: ey = 440: CIRCLE (ex, ey), 3, 3
77 fx = 146.8: fy = 140: CIRCLE (fx, fy), 3, 3
79 PSET (a, b), 3: CIRCLE (a, b), 3, 3
80 v = INT(RND * 6) + 1
85 ‘FOR pause = 0 TO 10000: NEXT pause
90 IF v = 1 THEN GOSUB 1000
100 IF v = 2 THEN GOSUB 3000
110 IF v = 3 THEN GOSUB 4000
111 IF v = 4 THEN GOSUB 2000
112 IF v = 5 THEN GOSUB 5000
113 IF v = 6 THEN GOSUB 6000
115 i = i + 1
120 x = nx: y = ny: IF i < 50000 THEN GOTO 80 ELSE GOTO 10
130 END
1000 nx = ax + ((fract) * ((x - ax)))
1010 ny = ay + ((fract) * ((y - ay)))
1020 ‘LINE -(nx, ny), 1
1021 PSET (nx, ny), 1
1030 RETURN
2000 nx = bx + ((fract) * ((x - bx)))
2010 ny = by + ((fract) * ((y - by)))
2020 PSET (nx, ny), 2
2030 RETURN
3000 nx = cx + ((fract) * ((x - cx)))
3010 ny = cy + ((fract) * ((y - cy)))
3020 ‘LINE -(nx, ny), 4
3021 PSET (nx, ny), 4
3030 RETURN
4000 nx = dx + ((fract) * ((x - dx)))
4010 ny = dy + ((fract) * ((y - dy)))
4020 ‘LINE -(nx, ny), 5
4021 PSET (nx, ny), 5
4030 RETURN
5000 nx = ex + ((fract) * ((x - ex)))
5010 ny = ey + ((fract) * ((y - ey)))
5020 PSET (nx, ny), 6
5030 RETURN
6000 nx = fx + ((fract) * ((x - fx)))
6010 ny = fy + ((fract) * ((y - fy)))
6020 PSET (nx, ny), 7
6030 RETURN
Actually, I think all is needed to make a triangle is to change RND*6 to RND*3…
bloody ‘ell .. it’s been years since ive seen basic ..
ah .. those line numbers!
Fianchetto and mijj, did you know QB / QBasic has not required Line Numbers since about 1983 or so?
Fianchetto, I removed most of the line numbers and modified the loop to include a keyboard breakout as my PC is way too fast to exit the brute force way.
IF i < 50000 THEN
a$ = INKEY$
IF a$ = “x” THEN GOTO endpgm
GOTO 80
ELSE
GOTO 10
END IF
endpgm:
END
Yes, but I learned it that way, and they make good flags for me. It was a leap to go to C and C++.
The Limerick thing sounds like ribald fun.
Now there’s an interesting Word (Request)!
How did it go from meaning a lowly servant, via irregular troops and low, base, worthless fellows, to become (one who uses) offensive, abusive, scurrilous or impious language?
Hotforwords should investigate.
Hey anyone from So. Cal The Temecula Rod Run is this weekend.
The Temecula Rod Run features great old classic cars, music, vendors, food, awards, and shopping along the quaint streets of Temecula’s Old Town. The event kicks off on Friday Evening with a car cruise down Old Town Front Street starting at 5:00 pm. Saturday, October 11 is the Car Show in Old Town from 5:00 am to 5:00 pm. The Car Show events on both days are free!
A good cook? That’s not your only forte Marina. Not to mention your assets.
you get your eyes off Marina’s ass and onto my YouTube vid linked to below!
I would like to request the word ‘kerfuffle’ please. (3)
hey! .. .you get back there and watch that video!!
I did watch the video. I posted a word request here as a comment as we are, quite clearly, instructed to do so.
… erm …
… i meant my video noted in the comment before this one.
… i have to bully people into watching it. Looks like you escaped.
ok … here it is, the exciting follow up to the new mysterious YouTube series…
to recap: [first installment]
the new one:
[second installment]
i like it.
whew! .. i thought everyone was hiding.
i think i may have created a huge burden for myself.
for a fleeting moment i played with the idea of, instead of the dots, using Marina’s boobs from the photoshop thing you were complaining about.
hey! … someone actually subscribed to my frostyEnumerator channel!! …
dongle1975 is a hero!
Well, don’t forget to look at your channel comment either.
HEHEHEHEHEH! nice yin/yang treatment of it. Curious to see where you go from here… as the fibonacci series was mentioned, I might also mention fractions and irrational numbers as well as perfect squares.
i’m curious too!
erm .. well .. i absolutely refuse to go through all the real numbers between integers.
simply going 1 2 3 … is going to be tuff enuff..
3 is next .. i have 3 whole seconds to play with!!
Trying to find my Sierpinski sieve…
spierpinski .. that rings a bell … fractal sieve or something?
I see you already have rave review(s)
great! pause it at one second and you can get so much more out of it
Twice the impact as last time
i guess that’s the best improvement i’m going to get.
Not so amigo, next time it will be three times the impact
I just subbed to your new channel.
I thought it was going to two beats
ta for subbing! .. much appreciated. .. i have no shame.
plus .. well .. it’s 2 beats connected by a tone.
.. i just finished the sound for 3. .. the visual’s gonna be hard .. i can barely remember how to use Flash. … so it’s going to be messy and amateurish.
Hey pal we love it.
Me four and commented on your profile page.
Now, we’re going to put your feet to the fire.
We want results. No lollygagging.
When is the next video out? I want it noaaawww.
Mijj, you’re a nut
But a nut with growing popularity! 
i’m skeered, dez.
any day now i’m going to say to someone “how dare you speak to me like that! Don’t you know who i am?” .. and then i’ll be pelted with stones and rubbish.
No worries, Mijj… it’s an easy fix… go deaf, or avoid caches of rocks and garbage.
help please, someone who knows YouTube .. especially you, Marina, if you’re looking …
… how do i upload a vid so it’s a response to my previous vid?
s’ok .. i got it!
{… blinks back tears …} ..
i panicked!
mijj, might i suggest you find a different theme video for your icon it might make for a better approach to being more acceptable in most forums. Ive seen that movie its nothing but a prelude to nonsense.
i’m not sure i understand what you mean.
do you mean the icon for frostyEnumerator? .. cos i have to wait another 24 hrs before i can change that.
… or do you mean the image placeholder for the video .. in which case … it rightly is a prelude to nonsense.
just ignore him, like everybody else does.
I left a word off the end, “exists”. So thats , no one named stokes every needed satins evidence, every x is satins cross. Ass for alex if he can,t understand my ways of thinking and communicating, thats just his loss.
моя сильная сторона. Международный похититель диаманта!!!!!!!!!! LOL!!!
: 
My forte is is my intelligence - analysing everything and making usually unasked-for suggestions on how to make it better.
Marina, why are “overlook” and “oversee” opposites, when “look” and “see” both mean almost the same thing?
Marina - Please do the word…disengenuious .
As in,”My friend told me that he goes to the Hot For Words website strictly for it’s educational value but I think he was being disengenuious.”
The correct answer is, “I could NOT care less”, for if you say “I COULD care less” it suggests that you do in fact care.
My Forte would be to make people laugh and help people feel better.
Hi Marina!
I have a word request. I am wondering about the word “mow” as in “mow the lawn” I can’t think of any other uses for this word except in an action movie where someone “mows ‘em down” with a machine gun, but that seems to be basically the same usage only in a metaphorical sense. what can you tell me about the word “mow”?
Mow,would be a great word to investigate.
Good luck on your radio show Marina! Can’t wait to hear it!!!
Quote of the day: (see lower right page)
“Love is friendship set on fire.” - Jeremy Taylor
Now, that’s Hot.
hey Marina hey all ! great lesson.
…it is not really important but i think it’d be a nice addition.
But now as for getting into my field, i’m able to … mind a bit your Ps and Qs
1) the french pronounciation for ‘fort’ is [for] instead of [fort]. it’s also an adjective as you said. So the feminine form is forte, pronounced as[fort]. (remember that in french, adjectives have to agree with the nouns)
2) “fort”, “local” and “moral” are a bit more special ; they’re all BOTH the masculine form of an adjective AND a noun. (So it’s not absolutely true that English turned them into nouns .. cause they already were!)
Moreover, “moral” is still more special than the other 3, i.e. “morale” also exists as a noun, and its meaning is completely different from the noun “moral” … For your homework, find the difference
Note : incidentally, i’d be so glad if someone could tell me what the difference is between an addictive form and an adjective form. thanks!
Bonjour Marina(e),
To be nounized or not to be nounized… that is the question.
One of my fortes is also cooking… especially impromptu, ad hoc, shoot from the hip kinda-things… like let’s make something tasty from what we have on hand.
Another forte is making art from other people’s “throw-aways”…
http://www.bikengruvin.com/slide.htm
You cook too… Wow, gorgeous, intelligent, and cooks
I guess my fortes would be mathematics and driving/riding.
Good Morning!
Marina since you love dogs I think you will love this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F8Y-Eoj-DI
I saw them in person on the Branson Belle Showboat!