Marina!!!!!!!!!!!! I heard an expression today I have used for over thirty years but never asked where it came from and hope to God you can solve it……………………………………….86……………………………when I say I am going to 86 that, I will end it, kill it, terminate it, get fired, remove, destroy, etc………….but, where the heck did that number come from to mean all those things………this should make your list PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was one of the reasons why teachers can’t put up posters on doors or only a certain amount of papers on the walls in the classroom. That is why I became a firefighter.
Hey Pendantickarl. I down loaded Gimp and figured out how to crop out a picture from a video. All I have to do now is learn how to get rid of the frame around the picture like you see at the top of the page around the picture of Marina. Thanks for the advice and help.
Classic Che, cracked up here watching that! Love the ending ‘We are only looking for younger women to come forward!’ – Puts a brand new meaning on ‘Bo(o)b-a-Job week’ – to think I use to wash cars or get the elderly sorted out for their food shops to get my badges!
I loved how you looked right at me when you said, “be good”, and then that sly, coy “you better be good or else” look at the end, had me in stitches. I was good all 23 hours; really, I was…
“Lousy” Marina, the word lousy sounds a bit like the phrase ‘to delouse’, meaning to remove lice. Having lice sounds like a lousy condition to be under. Does lousy have anything to do with having lice?
If I said, ‘my lousy dog’ would I be suggesting that she has lice?
They are also called crabs if you get them in the pubic area. Nasty little boogers. You have to be deloused if you get them. Maybe Marina will answer that one it’s a bugger of a question
Lil’t dancing triangles, Chinese gong, and a snappy jingle…
………is this the original version since earlier today or did you tweak it after your apprehensiveness
i had some nice white fluffly clouds (from a movie) drifting against a clear sky in the background … but when i processed it i couldn’t avoid, no matter what i tried, it coming out all blocky n horrible. Even without the clouds, the sun bit looks a bit blocky.
Not the usual increase in quality from the previous attempt.
You are your own worst critic, it’s like that with everyone.
Remember will only see the end results not what’s going on in your head. The elements in #6 are excellent, the color, shapes, sounds, it’s my favorite.
The model for the basic theme is there, your imagination will create many a variation of this theme….. this is how the creative process grows.
(from the editor’s desk of Avant Guard Magazine)
one day of rest after number 6 .. plus 2 days / vid from now .. i need to learn stuff .. brute force isnt going to work now there’s going to be at least 210 frames of images / movie.
Greetings from beautiful Arizona! Intelligence is sexy indeed.
Please teach me the origin of the word “money”. Maybe once I know where money comes from I will find it easier to come by.
I know you have a long list of words to investigate, you have a lot of students. Perhaps I can offer you a bribe. I promise if you do my word I will make it worth your while. What can one geek offer another?
Имейте большой день! Я смотрю вперед к вашему следующему видеоему.
dont let me catch you on the factor again, marina
or you need some serious detention.
this guy o’reilly is totaly iluminati and under the control of some nasty people. look that word up ILUMINATI.it wont be pretty.
Hey Marina,
I’d like to request the word “maverick”.
Sarah Palin uses it often. Doesn’t it kinda insulting use it refer to people?
I’d like to know its origin.
thanx
Hi Hotforwords!
Just started to wonder about where the word “bass” comes from. So do you know where the word “bass” comes from.
Greetings from little Denmark
I’d actually like to know where the separation between Bass, the instrument/tone and Bass, the fish, got the two -completely different- pronunciations.
This may be a bit morbid, but I am curious about the difference between the words “autopsy” and “necropsy”. I had never heard the term “necropsy” until I heard it used in a news story. I looked it up and the definition is basically “autopsy”. Why is “autopsy” more commonly used? Is there a slight difference in the meaning of the two words? Thanks.
The only time I’ve heard necropsy is when it was done on a horse, but dictionary does not specify necropsy to be used only for animals. Where is our veterinarian?
hello marina.. nice vids u got..
i got one word i need th know..
REDNECK
what is redneck?
some people call other people rednecks but they dont have the neck red.. so. help plz!!!
thanks
As far as I know, since I am one, it refers to the fact that farmers frequently got their necks sunburned working out in their farms. And since farmers, for the most part during the early part of the 20th century were uneducated, book-wise at least, it picked up to mean ’stupid country person’. I, myself, am a hightech-redneck
hallo, at first i must say, that you are very, beautiful, very cute, very nice, very sexy, very charming, very pretty, very lovely girl. i like you so much. please, can you explane what means “coucasian white” and why “caucasian”? lexo with love and great wishes lexo from georgia (from caucasia)p.s sorry, for my terrible english
I’ve done my sixth vid .. except .. i need advice …
… it’s not very good .. tech difficulties used up time and created poor blocky output … plus not v. good design …
should i spend more time on this and do it properly, or just release it and get on with the next one?
- i would like to do these properly – but if i’m not careful i get bogged down in detail and never finish
- or i get on with it and leave behind a trail of not very good stuff.
..the effort is not completed as of yet or have you thrown your hands in the air and said, “good enough, ADA is kicking in…. oh, look at the pretty birdy…..”..
Wonderful 5+ star lesson.
When was the last time I had an inkling? Ohhh, about a minute ago. I have an inkling that a new video will be out on Tuesday, October 14 at 1:39 PM PDT and the video will not be named Inkling Part 2. Of course, I’m always wrong about these things.
Wow! That was weird.
I clicked on the video to watch it and it was like one of those old folk songs where all the singers sing the same words but starting at different times – a Rondo, I believe it’s called.
I didn’t have an inkling what was going on … and then I got one.
For some strange reason, Firefox had opened five different tabs with Marina’s YouTube channel, and they were all playing at once, plus the video in this page. It was a cacophony; too many Marinas … can it be possible?
Before someone else says it, I suppose it serves me right for creating all those clones of her.
Marina!!!!!!!!!!!! I heard an expression today I have used for over thirty years but never asked where it came from and hope to God you can solve it……………………………………….86……………………………when I say I am going to 86 that, I will end it, kill it, terminate it, get fired, remove, destroy, etc………….but, where the heck did that number come from to mean all those things………this should make your list PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve always wondered where that came from, too. http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-eig1.htm has a host of ideas, ending in one theory of U.S. rhyming slang for nix. But as far as I know (which is not very far at all), rhyming slang was something used in the U.K. and not here. I don’t remember any or have ever heard any, have you?
So, with all the possibilities and unknowns, maybe it is ripe for Marina’s touch.
Marina, I hope you could find time to find the true origin of the word “Hitman”. Your work on the word “Assassin” was great and I enjoyed the video a lot, thank you. Nothing like some drugs to ease one’s fulfillment of contractual obligations.
first off, it isn’t me who provides it — it’s the quote of the day. and yes, it most likely are the years of his life.
but it should’ve been put like this:
“This isn’t right, this isn’t even wrong.” – Wolfgang Pauli (1900 — 1958), upon reading a young physicist’s paper
That’s the standard way of indicating a person’s era. It should have indeed been put that way. You are just not familiar with the notation. Now you (and everyone else who reads this) are.
It’s really getting hard to find anything not possibly lifted… uh, I mean sourced from Wikipedia, but I did find one independent online encyclopedia with the 1958 date. There could be more, but I can’t take the time now to find it, and, in any case, he would still be dead.
By bring up a different date, you’re not trying to put a different spin on this, are you?
nothing weird or sinister .. no ulterior motive or underhand play ..
.. i merely saw the “1958″ and seemed to remember 1954 as his death date .. i checked one of my books and you’re right .. it’s 1958.
(i found it easier to type “hang on a minute .. didn’t pauli die in 1954″ than look it up myself .. but i paid for that mistake by giving the impression of me being deceitful and duplicitous)
Ohhhhh, I see that went right past you. The operative word in my comment was spin. Look at it in that light.
BTW, how are you able to reply to a third-level comment when there is no reply button? BTBTW: Why is explained on the Help page as "fancy code" or "pretty code" when the entire point of is just the opposite: to present text in the most non-pretty, non-fancy way possible, i.e. in Courier typeface, for the purpose of highlighting programming text.
“how are you able to reply to a third-level comment when there is no reply button?”
it involves laboriously hacking into the code for the page held in the web browser to add the bit of code for the “reply” link .. made easier by using firefox browser and firebug util. … it’s not guarded against because it’s not dangerous .. at worst it’s messy if the nesting is too deep.
That last one should read “Why is explained.... (I could swear that I had stuffed a space in that tag. Well, I definitely did this time, so let's see if it works.)
OMG! You can’t stop HTML from executing by stuffing a space in a tag! It sucks the space right out. I’ve never seen that before. What is the purpose of that, to help out little Johnny Spaceseeds that go around sprinkling spaces in their text? How unexpected. Well, I know it won’t suck a period out, so let’s try it again, hopefully for the last time.
It’s relentless! It analyzes everything between “” and throws out anything it thinks is a mistake. Another good reason to never put weapons under the autonomous control of a computer (especially H-bombs; my advice is to always slip a few “Are you sure?s” in there)..
It’s the Terminator of code interpetation! It even sucks out entire sentences! So now I am going to replace the symbols with words and see if it can pass the Turing test. Take this, you intractable beast!
That last one should “Why is [less than] code [greater than] explained…”
This request comes all the way from Finland! So I apologize beforehand for the mistakes that I might do because english is not my mother language.
I would like to know the origin of a word that is very important to all of us. And the word is “a friend”. When did human being start considering someone as “a friend”? Where does the word has its roots?
I appreciate if you had the time to solve that And most of all, will you be my friend?
I realize that you’re next video will be your 300th, a feat which is nothing to sneeze at. And this is my first time being on your site, I wonder if you might be so kind as to give me beginners luck. “Where does the phrase “nothing to sneeze at” come from?
Well, I don’t have any inklings at all, so I will use this soapbox to ask a burning question. We have been told how many words come from Latin and Greek and other ancient squawkings. But we never find out where they got it from. Now all those guys are long dead, so we can ask them directly, but surely some PhD candidate has written a thesis on the roots of these ancient languages. Or do philogists have no inkling?
If we go back to the caveman’s grunts, how is it that this grunt means “rat carcus” and that one means “we need to realign the confinement field generator to prevent a core breech?” In other words, starting from no language, how is it developed? Is the process common to all languages?
…………..A Scenario of Early Caveman Word Formation
(Moog opens the door to the Ministry of Word Registration lobby, enters and strides to the counter. Ugum is standing behind the counter.)
Ugum: Hey, Moog, how’re they hanging?
Moog: Still banging rocks together.
(Both laugh.)
Ugum: What can I do for you?
Moog: I gotta new word for ya.
Ugum: Great! What is it?
Moog: Arthra
Ugum: Nice! Let me start up the registration terminal.
Moog: The what?
Ugum: Oh! Uh, never mind. It’s just bureaucratic thing we use. A-R-T-H-R-A, right?
Moog: Sounds right to me.
Ugum: OK, so what does it mean?
Moog: Well, you know how we put sticks in the food pit and rub them together until they get all glowy and they cook the food and you can stay warm?
Ugum: Yeah, like fire?
Moog: Fire? You mean someone beat me to it?
Ugum: Relax, relax. Sometimes something is so important that you need more than one word for it. Why, so far we have over sixteen words for a women’s hoohah alone.
Moog: Yeah, but “fire…” That’s got a ring to it, alright.
Ugum: You don’t know that arthra won’t catch on and fire will fade into obscurity. Take booger. You don’t hear anyone saying blosticonosticum anymore, do you?
Moog: Yeah, well, maybe.
Ugum: Weirder things have happened.
Moog: Fire… Ah, hell! (Moog turns and walks out to the street.)
Ugum (thinking aloud in a sing song voice): Ya gotta get up early in the morning to beat me.
(Ugum, seeing no customers in the lobby goes back to the break room.)
Farb: Mmphmmmph! Try some of these cake things with holes in them. They are delish with coffee. They got all kinds.
(Ugum reaches into a pink cardboard box, selects one and takes a bite.)
Ugum: Mmmm, that is good! What do they call them?
(Farb shrugs his shoulders as he stuffs another in his mouth.)
(Ugum’s jaw drops and runs out to his terminal, sits down and begins typing.)
Ugum (quietly muttering): D-O-U-G-H-N-U-T. That’s a keeper.
Ugum (thinking aloud): That’s a personal best: eighteen new words this morning alone, including fire. I wonder what the Minister would say if he knew I made up 96% of all the new words myself?
Thanks for the morning chuckle. Very well written. I was surprised to see that D-O-U-G-H-N-U-T is not on Marina’s list. I get the dough part, but why the “nut”? HFW must investigate!
You just can’t imagine the number of times I read that thing last night all bleary-eyed before I “pulled the trigger” and now, this morning, I find that there are still typos in it. Dang! I wish we could edit, no matter what the supposed costs are. Yes, I know that one can compose offline and then paste it in, but what if a problem isn’t recognized until a day or week later? Rats, rats, rats!
C’mon, Marina, relent and give us back the power to degoofballize (look that one up in your books ).
Additional arguement: Maybe fraudulent editing could be held in check by having the dates of edit made visible. Thus if you edit a comment 50 times today, today’s date would appear in it. But if you edit it next week in an attempt to change history, so to speak, a new date would let everyone know about it. That method would probably have to be incorporated by the programmers of the underlying product (Revolution?), so it might be beyond M’s control. But you never know the power of a pretty smile until you try to use it.
Maybe I am thick or the Emperor has no clothes? I don’t get it??
Dough-nut easy, fried ball of dough, dough-ball. I would think that in the beginning there was no hole just a little fried ball (nut) of dough.
That’s alright CampKohler we can all read it without any problems. If we were all perfect then we wouldn’t need spell check or White Smoke or different correction tools. It was a great comment at it’s best. So be proud of it. I would hate to see how many times I have had to recorrect myself after correcting myself etc oris it ect, can’t never remember. Oh well. have a good day pal.
mArInA we need a cat box
word request “cat box”
kitty litter box
sand box
Hey ……when I crap in the apartment I get yelled at, right?
If I crap in a box of sand will you be happpppy then.
And where is Gucci nowadays? Gucci only appeared out of doors. Perhaps Gucci is not Marina’s, but is a neighbor’s dog. If from the old apartment and the new one is some distance away, Gucci might not be seen again. All together, now: “AWWWWWE!”
Gucci is too big to go indoors – they don’t make doors that tall any more.
Marina said he stays with relatives, but I don’t know if they are his relatives or hers.
Feeding that dog not to mention keeping up on the Vetting, It’s like owning a horse. She could bring him out to my little ranch to be apart of my dog pack.
Where did the origins of the word lullaby come from? I have a reference that indicates it might have come from a biblical figure named Lillith in the boo of genesis, but I don’t know for sure.
Lilith is not a Biblical character. It is also not a personal name in the Bible. The word lilith (לִּילִית) (pronounced lee-leet) appears once in the Torah in the book of Isaiah. In Hebrew the word means, screech owl, night owl, or night monster. This word eventually became associated with the Sumerian and Akkadian demoness Lilitu who had powers over the night and the wind. She is often associated with images of succubi. The word lullaby and lilith have no common origin that I can trace.
Hut is used because it is shorter than, “Would you please pass me the football, for I am anxious to throw it away before the mob of ape-like opponents arrayed before us rip me limb from limb and bury my disassembled body parts deep into the Astroturf without benefit of clergy.”
I had an inkling once where I thought my friend was going to get busted. I went and asked his girlfriend if she had the same inking. She agreed and we went and told him about our inkings. Bolderdash! was his reply.
The next day, I am listening to the radio and sure enough… the fuzz kicked in the front door of his house… he not there… but was driving by when it happened. They chased him down the road to a dead end street. He laid down spread eagle on the middle of the road with guns pointing at him. He went to the clink.
It is good to listen to inklings. The inklings might be of some value to you or others.
according to Blackadder IV .. if you wanted to be discharged from the army in WWI for insanity, you put your underpants on your head, a pencil up each nostril, and said: “wibble”.
I think it was also in the movie Help! The Beatles 65 Album became unavailable at some point and then reissued under the title of Beatles For Sale the UK version.
i must be gettin’ old…all i seem to have are inklings, so fully-formed thoughts seem to escape…never comin’ to fruition…and so i drone on & mutter & drone on & mutter &…
I see what you mean about IE8. It wouldn’t show the video of the day on Marina’s site. So I had to do the Compatability Mode for it to work. Thanks for the tip. I would have been on the phone to Microsoft about the problem. You know how long that takes. If you can understand Indians trying to speak English.
Inkling has no connection to “inclination”?
(I learned-ed some new things!) LOL
After hearing about “false splitting” I am
wondering about these political speeches
when they say our country needs a
“new direction”…
Marina’s looking buff, by the way
I wonder if all those false-splitters of yore got away with their crimes against humanity because nobody called them on it? Were books with false splittings (which are far more likely to survive until today than, say, letters or accounts of conversations), simply allowed to stand unchallanged? Perhaps readers didn’t question printed material, because they doubted their own knowledge and education. Today, if someone slips up, we launch an E-mail FYI to point out the error of their ways in an attempt to keep the ship of language on course. Does this mean that our instant communications tend to prevent false splittings from occurring?
Anybody got any good, modern false-splitting tales?
There’s the lawyer game where the judge says
“30″ days but the court reporter records it as
“13″ days, and that becomes the ruling.
I have seen it happen – bloody shysters…
No checks and balances in the legal system,
Don’t forget, judges are all lawyers, too!
But the effects of such a typo would be confined to whomever was being uh, confined. (How come the past tense of confined is not confound? ) I am more interested in something that is widely read and thus would be likely to cause a society-wide false splitting that results in the permanently-impacting changes Marina describes.
If nobody can think of any examples, maybe our communications prevents it from ever reoccuring. Hey, if anyone wants that for their PhD thesis, I would expect a small reward to show their gratitude. It’s only fair.
Whoa, looks like you eat your vegetables, nice abs
I would like to know the origin or when we began using the word “car” in place of automobile since its a word used on a daily basis I would like to know where it came from, I mean in France its still called an “auto” or l’automobile.
Hey there
Could you please do a video on the word;
“epiphany” (a feeling)
- A sudden realization of the truth
If you did that would be very nice of you,
Daniel x
To Me,an inkling is all You said Marina,plus,a feeling,like a “gut feeling”,maybe you made referance to such also,I should prolly watch the vid again.
One theory I like to put forth on “gut feeling” is that it is really the sub-concious mind,wich,purportedly,remembers *everything*,since it is *sub*-concious,the memory isn’t accessed as recall but manifests in a different way,namely,”gut feeling” or perhaps,”inkling”..
I dunno where I come-up with this stuff but I sure would like to know if I’m anywhere close to correct!!
Oh,and,I’m jumpin on the *kudos for Teacher* bandwagon today cause You really do deserve a pat on the back! Prettymuch always!
Homework: I don’t usually use ‘inkling’. I usually know enough about a subject to either form a cohesive worldview or not enough to admit an idea. As an example, politics. The only ‘inklings’ I could possibly form is that all it boils down to is that the better of two liars wins the election, since I’ve never seen a single elected president actually do what they presented in their platform.
I guess when they get a taste of that President Cheddar (and why is money called a cheese product anyway) they forget their promises to make the rich happy even if that means crapping on the little guy.
Anyway, Great lesson on a word I’ve wondered about in the back of my mind. Keep up the good work Instructor Marina!
My word request is “In Dutch” meaning in trouble. I have heard it was in reference to soldiers being assigned to Dutch Harbor Alaska during WWII, but I have seen earlier references.
Had this inkling I was going to learn something new today from HFWs class, but not to realise that I was going to feel this hot because of it…..now get down and give me infinity
enjoyed the maxim radio show too, the ‘P’ word makes me cringe but handled it fine today…..you say the clit is a weener too, discovered by detective columbo in 1500’s……just one more thing mam
Homework: I just had an inkling, when I discovered that I was talking to myself in the previous vid, that everyone had come here to the new current lesson.
Dear совершенная Marina, For your homework, the most recent inkling I had was that if you arrange your hair like that, by turning your head, you would brush dust off your shoulders. This could be useful when confetti is tossed at a party!
Actually, since inkling means to have a slight understanding of something, it describes my near-lack of understanding of the Russian language, da? I haven’t learned enough Russian from that moose and squirrel, yet!
Congratulations on exceeding 120 Million views on YouTube. It looks like you’ll exceed 200 Million before Christmas! Your dear student, seesixcm6
I just had an inkling as I spied another birth mark on your left thigh or a small bruise. Is my inkling anywhere close
Man I am late for class again. May I spend time in detention
I’d always heard this “juncture loss” in older English, such as a napple is now an apple. I don’t remember where I read that, but did find a reference on wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juncture_loss
i heard that back in the days they used to make money out of dear skin, so thats why they called it bucks but i dont know if its true or not whats your theory marina
I’m just about to sit down and have supper.
Then another kitchen floor exercise series shows up.
Maybe that should have been just an inkling to have supper instead.
Kobe,, Marina’s showing off her 6-pack again!!!
(Time to make boney ckicken and veg soup)
the word i really want to know about is “Gay”.
and all of the English speaking people know what it means now,
but i heard that the original meaning of it is “Joy”.
can you clarify us with your knowledge of words.
Marina, I’d like to request the origin of the…’word’…and please don’t laugh cause it’s quite a silly word request… D’oh.
My main interest is the existence of the ‘ between the D and the oh. Other than Homer Simpson’s original line, is there an origin behind it? I’d be very intrigued if there were.
RANDOM…
[ink]***place of thought…very good job…a whisper. I have an inkling that the sun will shine 
Marina, your pronunciation is improving.
Has anyone else noticed that?
I always like the little group of Inklings that met at the Eagle & Child in Oxford — including Tolkien, CS Lewis and friends.
the new video is on you tube
Marina!!!!!!!!!!!! I heard an expression today I have used for over thirty years but never asked where it came from and hope to God you can solve it……………………………………….86……………………………when I say I am going to 86 that, I will end it, kill it, terminate it, get fired, remove, destroy, etc………….but, where the heck did that number come from to mean all those things………this should make your list PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thought it had something to do with prohibition, Club 86, seen it on the History Channel
You’re thinking of Club 108… which was twice as good as Club 54
[Perhaps after Chumley's bar and restaurant at 86 Bedford Street in Greenwich Village, New York City.] Not Club 86
déjà vu…..
Marina!
Where does the phrase “knock on wood” come from?
Hey mom where’s the new video
impatiently pounding fist on top of desk, with a pleasant rhythm
.. until the new vid appears, then you’ll be pounding your fist under the desk!
(.. couldn’t resist ..
)
Inkthing.
hey marina, where did the word ecstasy derive from?
so .. is Miss going to taunt us with her bod? .. or will she be dignified and wear an overcoat?
Southern California is having a heat wave the last few days, so expect appropriate apparel.
yeh .. and Miss will overcompensate with the air conditioning .. so .. .. ulp! .. .. her nipples will be all stiff n pointy!
Maybe both…
Flash!!
course .. if she was to wear a nice clingy raincoat (40’s film noir style).. she wouldn’t need to wear anything beneath it!!
Plastic raincoat?
ugh! .. that awful foul object inside that bubbly coat!!
but .. yeh .. if Miss is wearing that bubbly raincoat she wouldn’t need to wear anything beneath, imho.
All right, you miscreants and scalawags, reign in your hormones or I’ll be forced to present you all with this dubious award.
Hall Monitor Dez
(Now drunk with the perception of power)
Is everyone hanging in the hallway, waiting for the teacher to unlock the door?
{.. sets off fire extinguisher ..}
yep, just smashed fire alarm……
…..delinquent
yeh .. and if anyone asks .. i’m going to say it was you!!
… ahahahhaaha
I am going to set the door on fire. Did that in school and we all got out earlier that day.
…so you were predispose to playing with fire early in life, mmmmm
I was one of the reasons why teachers can’t put up posters on doors or only a certain amount of papers on the walls in the classroom. That is why I became a firefighter.
The “Hat Trick” video is #1 on YT and
the “An Inkling” video is #20.
Hey Pendantickarl. I down loaded Gimp and figured out how to crop out a picture from a video. All I have to do now is learn how to get rid of the frame around the picture like you see at the top of the page around the picture of Marina. Thanks for the advice and help.
Mike
you could do the same with just printscreen and paint….
12 year old boy scouts offer breast exam, Onion News
Classic Che, cracked up here watching that! Love the ending ‘We are only looking for younger women to come forward!’ – Puts a brand new meaning on ‘Bo(o)b-a-Job week’ – to think I use to wash cars or get the elderly sorted out for their food shops to get my badges!
roflmao
HA HA I like the “blondes” and “Jessica Alba” ones.
I loved how you looked right at me when you said, “be good”, and then that sly, coy “you better be good or else” look at the end, had me in stitches. I was good all 23 hours; really, I was…
…its hard ‘to be good’ when teach looks so naughty!
“Lousy” Marina, the word lousy sounds a bit like the phrase ‘to delouse’, meaning to remove lice. Having lice sounds like a lousy condition to be under. Does lousy have anything to do with having lice?
If I said, ‘my lousy dog’ would I be suggesting that she has lice?
They are also called crabs if you get them in the pubic area. Nasty little boogers. You have to be deloused if you get them. Maybe Marina will answer that one it’s a bugger of a question
not blocked, he is RRR, bullshitting.
RRR is messed up, It will not log on but kobe and gregs list are working ok
Ps don’t tell Marina Shhhhhhh…..I being sneaky
I want her think I am Kobe 
Marina, you must work out every 2 days. Because half the time I see you in sports wear.
hey you should do the word sexy
marina on the intellegence is sexy part.. Did you use bits from your russian video?
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ok .. my new vid is up … (not the usual increase in quality, i’m afraid)
to recap …
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
new vid …
[6]
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
new vid …
[6]
Lil’t dancing triangles, Chinese gong, and a snappy jingle…
………is this the original version since earlier today or did you tweak it after your apprehensiveness
i had some nice white fluffly clouds (from a movie) drifting against a clear sky in the background … but when i processed it i couldn’t avoid, no matter what i tried, it coming out all blocky n horrible. Even without the clouds, the sun bit looks a bit blocky.
Not the usual increase in quality from the previous attempt.
I think 5 cursed me.
You are your own worst critic, it’s like that with everyone.
Remember will only see the end results not what’s going on in your head. The elements in #6 are excellent, the color, shapes, sounds, it’s my favorite.
The model for the basic theme is there, your imagination will create many a variation of this theme….. this is how the creative process grows.
(from the editor’s desk of Avant Guard Magazine)
still .. i educated myself with the results of that struggle .. a large colour range and lots of hi freq activity will result in blocky graphics.
and those dancing sun bits have lots of jerky changes between frames. .. i have to be careful of that.
Wow, I gotta say….. that’s quite a long username you got there….. “mijj?”
dang! … i thought i’d hide behind a different username. but it doesn’t seem to be working.
Another cool enumerator Mijj.
I am saving all of them to my site. 
i’m honoured, cap.
i forgot to ask … where’s your site, Cap? .. it’s not linked to from your username.
one day of rest after number 6 .. plus 2 days / vid from now .. i need to learn stuff .. brute force isnt going to work now there’s going to be at least 210 frames of images / movie.
Reminds me of a Beatles tune.
well .. i did like the Beatles when i was a kid … {.. number nine, .. number nine ..}
Hey Mijj. My site is Mikemx32. It is attached to my name.
ah … your YT site .. i thought you had a site like http://www.capman.com or something.
okidoki
oo! .. i didn’t know that actually existed!
Good morning Marina,
Greetings from beautiful Arizona! Intelligence is sexy indeed.
Please teach me the origin of the word “money”. Maybe once I know where money comes from I will find it easier to come by.
I know you have a long list of words to investigate, you have a lot of students. Perhaps I can offer you a bribe. I promise if you do my word I will make it worth your while. What can one geek offer another?
Имейте большой день! Я смотрю вперед к вашему следующему видеоему.
Take care,
Shawn
I would like to know the origin on the word “busy beaver”. I assume it has something to do with the beaver animal but am not 100% sure. Can you help?
I have an inkling that you mean Busy Bee.
dont let me catch you on the factor again, marina
or you need some serious detention.
this guy o’reilly is totaly iluminati and under the control of some nasty people. look that word up ILUMINATI.it wont be pretty.
Hey Marina,
I’d like to request the word “maverick”.
Sarah Palin uses it often. Doesn’t it kinda insulting use it refer to people?
I’d like to know its origin.
thanx
Maverick….. does anyone remember this movie?
nope, I do remember this
one
actually attributed to a single individual. his descendants aren’t that appreciative of mccain using it in the campaign.
Hi Hotforwords!
Just started to wonder about where the word “bass” comes from. So do you know where the word “bass” comes from.
Greetings from little Denmark
I’d actually like to know where the separation between Bass, the instrument/tone and Bass, the fish, got the two -completely different- pronunciations.
you mean music kinda bass, or the fish ?
This may be a bit morbid, but I am curious about the difference between the words “autopsy” and “necropsy”. I had never heard the term “necropsy” until I heard it used in a news story. I looked it up and the definition is basically “autopsy”. Why is “autopsy” more commonly used? Is there a slight difference in the meaning of the two words? Thanks.
Both mean the same thing. Both are just post-mortem examinations. As to why autopsy is used more often, Marina, or a Doc may need to answer that.
The only time I’ve heard necropsy is when it was done on a horse, but dictionary does not specify necropsy to be used only for animals. Where is our veterinarian?
That is a valid point, Che… perhaps autopsy is a post-mortem for humans, where necropsy is for all other animals. A Vet would certainly help.
I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST THE PHRASE
“YOU’RE FIRED”
platonic where did it come from?
hello marina.. nice vids u got..
i got one word i need th know..
REDNECK
what is redneck?
some people call other people rednecks but they dont have the neck red.. so. help plz!!!
thanks
As far as I know, since I am one, it refers to the fact that farmers frequently got their necks sunburned working out in their farms. And since farmers, for the most part during the early part of the 20th century were uneducated, book-wise at least, it picked up to mean ’stupid country person’. I, myself, am a hightech-redneck
wowo didnt know that.. but i want to marina do this on a vid.. so everyone who doesn`t know what REDNECK means.. get the answer,,!!
hallo, at first i must say, that you are very, beautiful, very cute, very nice, very sexy, very charming, very pretty, very lovely girl. i like you so much. please, can you explane what means “coucasian white” and why “caucasian”? lexo with love and great wishes lexo from georgia (from caucasia)p.s sorry, for my terrible english
I’ve done my sixth vid .. except .. i
need advice … 
… it’s not very good .. tech difficulties used up time and created poor blocky output … plus not v. good design …
should i spend more time on this and do it properly, or just release it and get on with the next one?
- i would like to do these properly – but if i’m not careful i get bogged down in detail and never finish
- or i get on with it and leave behind a trail of not very good stuff.
???
A honest effort will yield a positive result. Original Quote by Che Volay
- are you suggesting i flubbed because it wasn’t an honest effort?
{.. not sure if i should be outraged ..}
..the effort is not completed as of yet or have you thrown your hands in the air and said, “good enough, ADA is kicking in…. oh, look at the pretty birdy…..”..
…got a little distracted, tee hee, should be ADD
Do it to your satisfaction
Do it properly
Do it to your present technical ability
but by all means mate just do it (enter Nike swish here
- this is ok advice.
- oh .. but no .. i have to aim for slightly beyond my current tech (and other) ability. That’s part of the underlying theme of this.
….then you know what must be done
i’ll give it another 2 days on this and get some tech skill .. at least the music’s done (just added bass guitar)
Hiii Marina! Add me on PS3 already! And xbox360 if you got that too!
don’t worry you’re not missing a thing, she’s never online
Dear Hotforwords, where does the name Hotfordwords come from?
I’ve been wondering about this for a long time. Hope you can help me
Please investigate the word “Story” as in this is a 25 story building. Why do they call them stories and not just floors or levels?
vulcan had a forge
with a bilt in bellows
Wonderful 5+ star lesson.
When was the last time I had an inkling? Ohhh, about a minute ago. I have an inkling that a new video will be out on Tuesday, October 14 at 1:39 PM PDT and the video will not be named Inkling Part 2. Of course, I’m always wrong about these things.
Well, it’s Oct 14, 1:42 PM PDT and this video is at 25th position, so that was a close inkling, no? Close enough for inklings.
I have a ninkling that the 2nd story is the right one.
From an old Ick = er, I mean Nick
new word fleur de lis.
Wow! That was weird.
I clicked on the video to watch it and it was like one of those old folk songs where all the singers sing the same words but starting at different times – a Rondo, I believe it’s called.
I didn’t have an inkling what was going on … and then I got one.
For some strange reason, Firefox had opened five different tabs with Marina’s YouTube channel, and they were all playing at once, plus the video in this page. It was a cacophony; too many Marinas … can it be possible?
Before someone else says it, I suppose it serves me right for creating all those clones of her.
I have an inkling you are chilly in that outfit and the floor must be cold
I’ve always wondered where that came from, too. http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-eig1.htm has a host of ideas, ending in one theory of U.S. rhyming slang for nix. But as far as I know (which is not very far at all), rhyming slang was something used in the U.K. and not here. I don’t remember any or have ever heard any, have you?
So, with all the possibilities and unknowns, maybe it is ripe for Marina’s touch.
Well, thanks for the comments…we will see if she does it and I think it is a great idea!!!!!
Marina, I hope you could find time to find the true origin of the word “Hitman”. Your work on the word “Assassin” was great and I enjoyed the video a lot, thank you. Nothing like some drugs to ease one’s fulfillment of contractual obligations.
“This isn’t right, this isn’t even wrong.” – Wolfgang Pauli, upon reading a young physicist’s paper 1900-1958
took him 58 years to read it? damn, must’ve been one hell of a paper.
Must have been thoroughly mind-bending… Do you know what the subject of the paper was?
Perhaps the dates you provide are the years of his life, rather than the time it took for him to examine a paper?
duh!
first off, it isn’t me who provides it — it’s the quote of the day. and yes, it most likely are the years of his life.
but it should’ve been put like this:
“This isn’t right, this isn’t even wrong.” – Wolfgang Pauli (1900 — 1958), upon reading a young physicist’s paper
right?
You are absolutely right.
I wasn’t even paying attention to the quote section… I assumed you had found some obscure and interesting fact to share.
“I assumed you had found some obscure and interesting fact to share.”
.. as if!
That’s the standard way of indicating a person’s era. It should have indeed been put that way. You are just not familiar with the notation. Now you (and everyone else who reads this) are.
– CampKohler (1943 — )
.. hang on a minute .. didn’t pauli die in 1954?
It’s really getting hard to find anything not possibly lifted… uh, I mean sourced from Wikipedia, but I did find one independent online encyclopedia with the 1958 date. There could be more, but I can’t take the time now to find it, and, in any case, he would still be dead.
By bring up a different date, you’re not trying to put a different spin on this, are you?
lol
nothing weird or sinister .. no ulterior motive or underhand play ..
.. i merely saw the “1958″ and seemed to remember 1954 as his death date .. i checked one of my books and you’re right .. it’s 1958.
(i found it easier to type “hang on a minute .. didn’t pauli die in 1954″ than look it up myself .. but i paid for that mistake by giving the impression of me being deceitful and duplicitous)
Ohhhhh, I see that went right past you. The operative word in my comment was spin. Look at it in that light.
BTW, how are you able to reply to a third-level comment when there is no reply button? BTBTW: Why is
explained on the Help page as "fancy code" or "pretty code" when the entire point ofis just the opposite: to present text in the most non-pretty, non-fancy way possible, i.e. in Courier typeface, for the purpose of highlightingprogramming text.“how are you able to reply to a third-level comment when there is no reply button?”
it involves laboriously hacking into the code for the page held in the web browser to add the bit of code for the “reply” link .. made easier by using firefox browser and firebug util. … it’s not guarded against because it’s not dangerous .. at worst it’s messy if the nesting is too deep.
That last one should read “Why is
explained.... (I could swear that I had stuffed a space in that tag. Well, I definitely did this time, so let's see if it works.)OMG! You can’t stop HTML from executing by stuffing a space in a tag! It sucks the space right out. I’ve never seen that before. What is the purpose of that, to help out little Johnny Spaceseeds that go around sprinkling spaces in their text? How unexpected. Well, I know it won’t suck a period out, so let’s try it again, hopefully for the last time.
That last one should read “Why is explained….”
It’s relentless! It analyzes everything between “” and throws out anything it thinks is a mistake. Another good reason to never put weapons under the autonomous control of a computer (especially H-bombs; my advice is to always slip a few “Are you sure?s” in there)..
That last one should read “Why explained….”
It’s the Terminator of code interpetation! It even sucks out entire sentences! So now I am going to replace the symbols with words and see if it can pass the Turing test. Take this, you intractable beast!
That last one should “Why is [less than] code [greater than] explained…”
Can you even remember the question now?
OK, thanks for that, mijj. I’ll look into it tonight.
What about the code tag thing? And what about this BBS’s tendancy to vacuum* up around any angle brackets it finds?
Oh, I am going to try one more thing to fool it: >code<.
—–
*A really good word for hangman; it always gets ‘em.
The human wins! Yeaaaaaaay. Kill Skynet!
All of this over my momentary inability to read sarcasm? Wow
Hey, Marina
what about the term: scape goat
Hi Hotforwords!
This request comes all the way from Finland!
So I apologize beforehand for the mistakes that I might do because english is not my mother language.
I would like to know the origin of a word that is very important to all of us. And the word is “a friend”. When did human being start considering someone as “a friend”? Where does the word has its roots?
I appreciate if you had the time to solve that
And most of all, will you be my friend? 
Love, nicky.<3
woman breast
Das ist fur sie!
LOL… way to go Chacha!
Rock on, brother Chacha!
woman breast. can u show me urs at myemail or youtube account. here is my account abdulazimali
Er ist ein (f***ing) Schwachsinnige
Damn, my German is rusty.
Looks good to me dez
Entschuldigen sie? Was fragts du?
(Excuse me? What are you asking?)
Hi Marina could you investigate soothsayers thanks
I realize that you’re next video will be your 300th, a feat which is nothing to sneeze at. And this is my first time being on your site, I wonder if you might be so kind as to give me beginners luck. “Where does the phrase “nothing to sneeze at” come from?
Oh, sorry, I meant to say, would you please be so kind oblige me with beginner’s luck?
where does the word gorgeous come from?
Where does the word pandemonium come from?
That’s a good one… I hope she picks it.
It was the name for the capitol of Hell in Paradise Lost.
Pan = all. Demon = demon. What would things be like if one loosed all the demons into a confined area/situation? I think they would be pissed.
I just made it up. I could be wrong.
Who cares? you’re on a roll.
Pan – demon is possible but the first thing that came to my mind was Pandora’s box.
Where does the word onomatopoeia come from?
One theory is that Ono Yoko was sitting on her exercise mat when she heard about Lennon being shot and involuntary urinated.
I don’t believe a word of it.
Even more inventive.
I had never heard that word before.
Well, I don’t have any inklings at all, so I will use this soapbox to ask a burning question. We have been told how many words come from Latin and Greek and other ancient squawkings. But we never find out where they got it from. Now all those guys are long dead, so we can ask them directly, but surely some PhD candidate has written a thesis on the roots of these ancient languages. Or do philogists have no inkling?
If we go back to the caveman’s grunts, how is it that this grunt means “rat carcus” and that one means “we need to realign the confinement field generator to prevent a core breech?” In other words, starting from no language, how is it developed? Is the process common to all languages?
…………..A Scenario of Early Caveman Word Formation
(Moog opens the door to the Ministry of Word Registration lobby, enters and strides to the counter. Ugum is standing behind the counter.)
Ugum: Hey, Moog, how’re they hanging?
Moog: Still banging rocks together.
(Both laugh.)
Ugum: What can I do for you?
Moog: I gotta new word for ya.
Ugum: Great! What is it?
Moog: Arthra
Ugum: Nice! Let me start up the registration terminal.
Moog: The what?
Ugum: Oh! Uh, never mind. It’s just bureaucratic thing we use. A-R-T-H-R-A, right?
Moog: Sounds right to me.
Ugum: OK, so what does it mean?
Moog: Well, you know how we put sticks in the food pit and rub them together until they get all glowy and they cook the food and you can stay warm?
Ugum: Yeah, like fire?
Moog: Fire? You mean someone beat me to it?
Ugum: Relax, relax. Sometimes something is so important that you need more than one word for it. Why, so far we have over sixteen words for a women’s hoohah alone.
Moog: Yeah, but “fire…” That’s got a ring to it, alright.
Ugum: You don’t know that arthra won’t catch on and fire will fade into obscurity. Take booger. You don’t hear anyone saying blosticonosticum anymore, do you?
Moog: Yeah, well, maybe.
Ugum: Weirder things have happened.
Moog: Fire… Ah, hell! (Moog turns and walks out to the street.)
Ugum (thinking aloud in a sing song voice): Ya gotta get up early in the morning to beat me.
(Ugum, seeing no customers in the lobby goes back to the break room.)
Farb: Mmphmmmph! Try some of these cake things with holes in them. They are delish with coffee. They got all kinds.
(Ugum reaches into a pink cardboard box, selects one and takes a bite.)
Ugum: Mmmm, that is good! What do they call them?
(Farb shrugs his shoulders as he stuffs another in his mouth.)
(Ugum’s jaw drops and runs out to his terminal, sits down and begins typing.)
Ugum (quietly muttering): D-O-U-G-H-N-U-T. That’s a keeper.
Ugum (thinking aloud): That’s a personal best: eighteen new words this morning alone, including fire. I wonder what the Minister would say if he knew I made up 96% of all the new words myself?
………………………….The End
Thanks for the morning chuckle. Very well written. I was surprised to see that D-O-U-G-H-N-U-T is not on Marina’s list. I get the dough part, but why the “nut”? HFW must investigate!
WORD REQUEST
You just can’t imagine the number of times I read that thing last night all bleary-eyed before I “pulled the trigger” and now, this morning, I find that there are still typos in it. Dang! I wish we could edit, no matter what the supposed costs are. Yes, I know that one can compose offline and then paste it in, but what if a problem isn’t recognized until a day or week later? Rats, rats, rats!
C’mon, Marina, relent and give us back the power to degoofballize (look that one up in your books
).
Additional arguement: Maybe fraudulent editing could be held in check by having the dates of edit made visible. Thus if you edit a comment 50 times today, today’s date would appear in it. But if you edit it next week in an attempt to change history, so to speak, a new date would let everyone know about it. That method would probably have to be incorporated by the programmers of the underlying product (Revolution?), so it might be beyond M’s control. But you never know the power of a pretty smile until you try to use it.
Very inventive.
Maybe I am thick or the Emperor has no clothes? I don’t get it??
Dough-nut easy, fried ball of dough, dough-ball. I would think that in the beginning there was no hole just a little fried ball (nut) of dough.
That’s alright CampKohler we can all read it without any problems.
If we were all perfect then we wouldn’t need spell check or White Smoke or different correction tools. It was a great comment at it’s best. So be proud of it. 
I would hate to see how many times I have had to recorrect myself after correcting myself etc oris it ect, can’t never remember. Oh well. have a good day pal. 
mArInA we need a cat box
word request “cat box”
kitty litter box
sand box
Hey ……when I crap in the apartment I get yelled at, right?
If I crap in a box of sand will you be happpppy then.
RRR is out of the box
and now he’s dead again
Did you get your problem solved about the being blocked thingy.
RRR is still crashing the other ones are OK.
No biggie My page is getting busy and I don’t have much time to play with Marina and you all.
lol, lot had 2 daughters, job had 7
everyday
http://www.imeem.com/groups/ox9JkgGq/music/03vkT_3z/felix_da_housecat_watching_cars_go_by_cyberwhore/
I have a question about CoComment. Is it merely a replies reader or is it possible to reply to a comment from the CoComment site?
Is it possible to send ‘Private Messages’ or is it strictly public replies?
where is that kobe he’s just crazy
You’re a nut, Greg!
I’ve seen your website, Greg. It looks very professional.
And where is Gucci nowadays? Gucci only appeared out of doors. Perhaps Gucci is not Marina’s, but is a neighbor’s dog. If from the old apartment and the new one is some distance away, Gucci might not be seen again. All together, now: “AWWWWWE!”
Gucci is too big to go indoors – they don’t make doors that tall any more.
Marina said he stays with relatives, but I don’t know if they are his relatives or hers.
Feeding that dog not to mention keeping up on the Vetting, It’s like owning a horse. She could bring him out to my little ranch to be apart of my dog pack.
Where did the origins of the word lullaby come from? I have a reference that indicates it might have come from a biblical figure named Lillith in the boo of genesis, but I don’t know for sure.
Lilith is not a Biblical character. It is also not a personal name in the Bible. The word lilith (לִּילִית) (pronounced lee-leet) appears once in the Torah in the book of Isaiah. In Hebrew the word means, screech owl, night owl, or night monster. This word eventually became associated with the Sumerian and Akkadian demoness Lilitu who had powers over the night and the wind. She is often associated with images of succubi. The word lullaby and lilith have no common origin that I can trace.
Hi!
Now that football is into full swing, I’m curious as to why quarterbacks say “hut” as a call for the center to snap the football.
Thanks!
Hut is used because it is shorter than, “Would you please pass me the football, for I am anxious to throw it away before the mob of ape-like opponents arrayed before us rip me limb from limb and bury my disassembled body parts deep into the Astroturf without benefit of clergy.”
I had an inkling once where I thought my friend was going to get busted. I went and asked his girlfriend if she had the same inking. She agreed and we went and told him about our inkings. Bolderdash! was his reply.
The next day, I am listening to the radio and sure enough… the fuzz kicked in the front door of his house… he not there… but was driving by when it happened. They chased him down the road to a dead end street. He laid down spread eagle on the middle of the road with guns pointing at him. He went to the clink.
It is good to listen to inklings. The inklings might be of some value to you or others.
wibble
what you cal a small weeble?
according to Blackadder IV .. if you wanted to be discharged from the army in WWI for insanity, you put your underpants on your head, a pencil up each nostril, and said: “wibble”.
I thoroughly enjoy Blackadder. Rowan always makes me laugh.
Oh, nooooooo. I put my wibble in my underpants and said, “Pencil.” I did four years in the military for nothing!
squidgy
I thought an inkling was a baby pen?????
No Reply Beatles
i’ve never heard that before. – was that a US single?
I think it was also in the movie Help! The Beatles 65 Album became unavailable at some point and then reissued under the title of Beatles For Sale the UK version.
ahem .. maybe i should simply read the info on teh YT post.
If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren’t really there.
Paul Kantner
i must be gettin’ old…all i seem to have are inklings, so fully-formed thoughts seem to escape…never comin’ to fruition…and so i drone on & mutter & drone on & mutter &…
‘eh?…what was i thinkin’?…
errra huh what did you say, you have CRS too
I see what you mean about IE8. It wouldn’t show the video of the day on Marina’s site. So I had to do the Compatability Mode for it to work. Thanks for the tip. I would have been on the phone to Microsoft about the problem. You know how long that takes. If you can understand Indians trying to speak English.
Alex does have a good point. But does it cut back on your comments per video?
yeah, where did that crappy whitesmoke ad go?
I guess it quite paying the bills.lol
Maybe they´re redesigning it, after hearing us ranting
lol. about time. that thing was a fucking embarrassment.
It made Marina some cash for awhile, even if it didn’t work well.
When was the last time I had an inkling?
None of you’re beeswax!!
Robertrun that would make a good word request “beeswax” and how it applies to none of your business.
Inkling has no connection to “inclination”?
(I learned-ed some new things!) LOL
After hearing about “false splitting” I am
wondering about these political speeches
when they say our country needs a
“new direction”…
Marina’s looking buff, by the way
I wonder if all those false-splitters of yore got away with their crimes against humanity because nobody called them on it? Were books with false splittings (which are far more likely to survive until today than, say, letters or accounts of conversations), simply allowed to stand unchallanged? Perhaps readers didn’t question printed material, because they doubted their own knowledge and education. Today, if someone slips up, we launch an E-mail FYI to point out the error of their ways in an attempt to keep the ship of language on course. Does this mean that our instant communications tend to prevent false splittings from occurring?
Anybody got any good, modern false-splitting tales?
There’s the lawyer game where the judge says
“30″ days but the court reporter records it as
“13″ days, and that becomes the ruling.
I have seen it happen – bloody shysters…
No checks and balances in the legal system,
Don’t forget, judges are all lawyers, too!
But the effects of such a typo would be confined to whomever was being uh, confined. (How come the past tense of confined is not confound?
) I am more interested in something that is widely read and thus would be likely to cause a society-wide false splitting that results in the permanently-impacting changes Marina describes.
If nobody can think of any examples, maybe our communications prevents it from ever reoccuring. Hey, if anyone wants that for their PhD thesis, I would expect a small reward to show their gratitude. It’s only fair.
I had an inkling that my company was going to lay off more people.
cumquat
tauqmuc probably tastes pretty bad.
you wont make it disappear by saying its name backwards, you know.
Ever hear of a loquat?
{… looks up “loquat” ..}
yes i have, now you mention it.
Do you want to arrange a fight between my cumquat and your loquat?
Are you kidding? Loquats are lovers, not fighters.
For a fruit that is almost the size of testicles… I don’t think the first half of that word is appropriate.
the size of who’s testicles?
i mean .. if the fruit’s the size of a blue whale’s testicles, maybe we should all step to one side.
Whoa, looks like you eat your vegetables, nice abs
I would like to know the origin or when we began using the word “car” in place of automobile since its a word used on a daily basis I would like to know where it came from, I mean in France its still called an “auto” or l’automobile.
Thanks,
-Chris
Also called voiture en francais.
Hey there
Could you please do a video on the word;
“epiphany” (a feeling)
- A sudden realization of the truth
If you did that would be very nice of you,
Daniel x
squit
biscuit
squib bit
a cute boutique
what’s next?
[others might no understand
this abstraction, unless they/ve
watched your video series]
Have some Imodium.
To Me,an inkling is all You said Marina,plus,a feeling,like a “gut feeling”,maybe you made referance to such also,I should prolly watch the vid again.
One theory I like to put forth on “gut feeling” is that it is really the sub-concious mind,wich,purportedly,remembers *everything*,since it is *sub*-concious,the memory isn’t accessed as recall but manifests in a different way,namely,”gut feeling” or perhaps,”inkling”..
I dunno where I come-up with this stuff but I sure would like to know if I’m anywhere close to correct!!
Oh,and,I’m jumpin on the *kudos for Teacher* bandwagon today cause You really do deserve a pat on the back! Prettymuch always!
Dean
word request passion
I like it – I second the request for [PASSION]
A great performer, but every time I see Stewart be-bopping on stage I think he looks like he’s involved in downhill skiing.
Inklings was a group of academics group started at Oxford University in England.
Marina have you shut off the reply to your own self replier. I don’t get any replies if I reply to myself. Does that make sense?
lol
So, when you talk to yourself… no one is there? or do you feel the speaker unworthy of a response?
Kidding aside, I experience the same thing. I just thought it was normal not to get notification of your own replies.
Does anybody get replies anymore? Are you getting this reply via email capman?
yes, I get replies from others but not from myself when I reply under my own comment, which makes sense to me.
Marina, he is receiving our replies… but he is not receiving replies that he makes to himself. wow, that sounded just as weird as what Cap wrote.
i like it that way. i mean, whenever i got an email telling me that i replied to myself i thought, duh, i know that already.
I get yours and others but not when I comment to myself. If I mess up a <a href comment and try another in my own reply box I do not get a response.
James was the first one to experience this problem on the last video.
Why is not getting an E-mail about your own comment a fault? Do you need it in case you are having a short-term memory problem?
it has been like this for a while allready….at least for me http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/09/23/zipper/#comment-63769
I like it better this way… There is no sense of reading again what I know what I replied to myself.
Homework: I don’t usually use ‘inkling’. I usually know enough about a subject to either form a cohesive worldview or not enough to admit an idea. As an example, politics. The only ‘inklings’ I could possibly form is that all it boils down to is that the better of two liars wins the election, since I’ve never seen a single elected president actually do what they presented in their platform.
I guess when they get a taste of that President Cheddar (and why is money called a cheese product anyway) they forget their promises to make the rich happy even if that means crapping on the little guy.
Anyway, Great lesson on a word I’ve wondered about in the back of my mind. Keep up the good work Instructor Marina!
kanker?
[TANKER]
T-shirt?
Banker.
What’s the difference between a banker and a pigeon?
A pigeon can still leave a deposit on a Ferrari
You hear that one a lot lately
Bankers taste like chicken?
What’s the collective name for a group of bankers?
wunch?
Give that man a cigar!
now i’m 69…..(insert sophmoric giggling here)
Congrats davecodave
69
69
Try again
You’ve been saving that for ten years, just in case it would come in useful one day?
Now you can throw it away.
im 67 th
Where did the word “dibs” come from?
As in: I call (first) “dibs” on taking a shower.
My word request is “In Dutch” meaning in trouble. I have heard it was in reference to soldiers being assigned to Dutch Harbor Alaska during WWII, but I have seen earlier references.
Thanks.
Marina discusses Going Dutch
Hey Hot Pants
Had this inkling I was going to learn something new today from HFWs class, but not to realise that I was going to feel this hot because of it…..now get down and give me infinity
enjoyed the maxim radio show too, the ‘P’ word makes me cringe but handled it fine today…..you say the clit is a weener too, discovered by detective columbo in 1500’s……just one more thing mam
I do pray for a gust of inclination.
Dear Miss Orlova,
I request the words:
Myth
Legend
Lore
And are Lore and Lord connected somehow?
An inkling,
ThoughtOnFire
Ther last time I had an inkling was that it was going to snow. When I woke up yesterday morning there was about a foot and a half on the ground
Nice footage, at your You Tube site
You’re paying for heat, and I’m still
paying to cool down! I guess Idaho
is getting a break, eh?
dobryj dyen’ Marina,
I’m wondering about the phrase “Heavens to Betsy!”
Who was Betsy and why do we exclaim Heavens to her when we’re surprised by something?
Thanks!
John
http://www.TheWritingWorkshop.Org
good call
Homework: I just had an inkling, when I discovered that I was talking to myself in the previous vid, that everyone had come here to the new current lesson.
Dear совершенная Marina, For your homework, the most recent inkling I had was that if you arrange your hair like that, by turning your head, you would brush dust off your shoulders. This could be useful when confetti is tossed at a party!
Actually, since inkling means to have a slight understanding of something, it describes my near-lack of understanding of the Russian language, da? I haven’t learned enough Russian from that moose and squirrel, yet!
Congratulations on exceeding 120 Million views on YouTube. It looks like you’ll exceed 200 Million before Christmas! Your dear student, seesixcm6
Here you go See6 Russian Book. Sorry to have forgotten your lessons.
Word Request dibs as in claiming a part of something,
“I have dibs on that”
“I have dibs on top…”
I just had an inkling as I spied another birth mark on your left thigh or a small bruise. Is my inkling anywhere close
Man I am late for class again. May I spend time in detention
Yes, but you have to wear
the <a href=http://nieuwemaan.punt.nl/upload/DunceCap.jpghat with the pointy end
D’oh! would’ve been funny if I was
any good at HTML!
hat with the pointy end
No pic, chacha… lol
You must wear the hat now.
ha ha ha!
[best Yosemite Sam]
“Consarned razza-frazzle freakin’ rabbit!”
My Favorite Hat
I like this One Too
This just shows how we need the edit capability back: so we don’t look like typographicalgoofballs.
Too late for that, CK… we’d only be fooling ourselves.
Nice hat! Check out
these Earmuffs
Kitten Warmer
http://bp0.blogger.com/_S_hhRaPG6EQ/RnQFHWlxe_I/AAAAAAAAACY/RIBuOMO3l5M/s400/Little+Cat+Man.jpg
I’d always heard this “juncture loss” in older English, such as a napple is now an apple. I don’t remember where I read that, but did find a reference on wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juncture_loss
Marina,
What is the origin of the word “buck”; as related to money (i.e “to earn a quick buck” or “Can I borrow five bucks?”).
Thanks
i heard that back in the days they used to make money out of dear skin, so thats why they called it bucks
but i dont know if its true or not 
whats your theory marina 
I’m just about to sit down and have supper.
Then another kitchen floor exercise series shows up.
Maybe that should have been just an inkling to have supper instead.
Kobe,, Marina’s showing off her 6-pack again!!!
(Time to make boney ckicken and veg soup)
Wetsuit if she keeps eating that then she will start to sprout feathers and eventually molt. Maybe even lay us an egg
I suck at life
Don’t feel so bad James. i love you in a sex way..
I am a hoe
great, you still love me
a hoe you are yessss! last night was great ! still can’t walk properly 
If you are a hoe, I am a rake.
Nor can i . ur just so huge i actually think i have split..
Sorry to tell you this jimbob but………. i do……………………….heroin and crystal meths……… sorry
YOU wern’t suppoed to tell everyone how big i am you fucking cunt! go to hell
You cant say cunt on here you dick
well you stole my blue border so i can do whatever I want!
Will you two turd hoppers quite cursing on here.
HeHeHe
I love him OK!!
Fuck off.. i cant believe you are being like this
I STOLE your border cos i am better at hacking
well… that may be… but i think she just gave it to you because she loves you more
Just remember, If the world didn’t suck we would all fall off.
Hope that brightens your day!
Gravity sucks.
Levity … blows?
James? Have you been using the
evil-fork, again? The identity theft
wig-out thingee is a bit over the top…
very … Norman Bates! LOL
Mother!
i have an incling that my personal new YouTube offering, though spectacular, should be publicised more.
[5 five]
{… warning .. this video may not contain breasts …}
ROFLMAO!!!
Very cool Mijj
{fold arms and huffs}
Will watch unless thingies are present not. Poed :mad, I am:
lol
Yoda’s a bluey now, and is still chasing skirts…
Hey Yoda, here are a couple of boobs for you. Stare to your heart’s content.
More BooBs
More Star Wars boobs. Watch it all, but check 0:16 and 3:46 in particular.
i love robot chicken .. i want to bear its children.
yeah, me too.
That was awful, Alex… funny, but awful.
I think I have an inkling to touch myself…lol
hi hotforword and all of the members,
the word i really want to know about is “Gay”.
and all of the English speaking people know what it means now,
but i heard that the original meaning of it is “Joy”.
can you clarify us with your knowledge of words.
and thank you
Marina, I’d like to request the origin of the…’word’…and please don’t laugh cause it’s quite a silly word request… D’oh.
My main interest is the existence of the ‘ between the D and the oh. Other than Homer Simpson’s original line, is there an origin behind it? I’d be very intrigued if there were.
