That collar Marina’s wearing at the top of the page means I AM a white woman in a black universe with a a lot of servants. Theres more to it than that maybe she will tell us some day.
Klaus how about show me again what the url would look like if I wanted to refer back to someone elses comment. I seem to of forgot. This is the comment I want to refer back to.
comment-78374
OK, Cap, I finished my research and hereby publish:
In case anyone forgets how to link to a comment, the following will let you “re-remember” it:
1. If the lesson you wish to link to is not showing in the Recent Comments section in the right-most column, post a comment in the lesson and it will.
2. Right-click in a blank area and choose View Source to show the HTML code which generates the page.
3. Type “[Ctrl-F][Enter]” to open the search dialog box.
4. Type “recent comments[Enter]” to find that section of the page. The section is a list of links like the one you want to make.
5. Scan down the list, looking for an anchor tag (starts with “<a”) that contains the name of the lesson which contains the message to which you wish to link. Note that the date and name of the lesson both appear in the tag. (You could theoretically glean this information from the lesson page, but there is always the possibility that someone has goofed and the lesson file in reality has a slightly different date or name on it. To be certain, get it from the Recent Comments section in the View Source.)
6. An example is <a href=”http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/11/01/mummy/#comment-78621″ rel=”bookmark” title=”November 2, 2008 at 7:39 pm 294 comments”>Mummy</a>. Type this in your message in the format <a href=”http://www.hotforwords.com/[4-digit year]/[2-digit month]/[2-digit day]/[any-length lesson title]/#comment-[comment number]“>[Link text]</a<.
Notes:
1. The rel and title attributes in tags are for other software to sniff the tag and are not needed to link to the desired message. They may be omitted.
2. A target attribute will not do anything if you put one in an anchor tag; you can’t control how it will open. However this is not important, because it all works like you would want it to work anyway.
3. If you want to practice entirely within Marina’s “sand box,” remember that the box’s file name is not formatted like a lesson; it’s “http:”www.hotforwords/html-in-comments/#comment-[comment number]“. You must use this format to jump to messages in the sandbox. If you use the lesson format (described in 6, above), you will jump out of the sandbox to the lesson (which is an even better test).
OK, Cap, I finished my research and hereby publish:
In case anyone forgets how to link to a comment, the following will let you “re-remember” it:
1. If the lesson you wish to link to is not showing in the Recent Comments section in the right-most column, post a comment in the lesson and it will.
2. Right-click in a blank area and choose View Source to show the HTML code which generates the page.
3. Type “[Ctrl-F][Enter]” to open the search dialog box.
4. Type “recent comments[Enter]” to find that section of the page. The section is a list of links like the one you want to make.
5. Scan down the list, looking for an anchor tag (starts with “<a”) that contains the name of the lesson which contains the message to which you wish to link. Note that the date and name of the lesson both appear in the tag. (You could theoretically glean this information from the lesson page, but there is always the possibility that someone has goofed and the lesson file in reality has a slightly different date or name on it. To be certain, get it from the Recent Comments section in the View Source.)
6. An example is <a href=”http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/11/01/mummy/ #comment-78621″ rel=”bookmark” title=”November 2, 2008 at 7:39 pm 294 comments”> Mummy </a>. Type this in your message in the format <a href=”http://www.hotforwords.com/[4-digit year]/[2-digit month]/[2-digit day]/[any-length lesson title]/#comment-[comment number]“>[Link text]</a>.
Notes:
1. The rel and title attributes in tags are for other software to sniff the tag and are not needed to link to the desired message. They may be omitted.
2. A target attribute will not do anything if you put one in an anchor tag; you can’t control how it will open. However this is not important, because it all works like you would want it to work anyway.
3. If you want to practice entirely within Marina’s “sand box,” remember that the box’s file name is not formatted like a lesson; it’s “http:”www.hotforwords/html-in-comments/#comment-[ comment number]“. You must use this format to jump to messages in the sandbox. If you use the lesson format (described in 6, above), you will jump out of the sandbox to the lesson (which is an even better test).
Mike, you actually did the comment ID correctly. I think the link got broken up by one space. This morning I highlighted the link, and pasted it into the browser adr bar and I saw one space. I removed the space and the link worked. I was busy all day so I hadn’t been able to get back to you.
Instead of using the raw link in a short text box, use the embedded link method;
[a href="URL/stuff/#comment-ID"]Some Words[/a]
For your comment ID and for this page here is the embedded link. comment-78374
Hi Jack, long time no see or hear from you. Question for you. Can you delete part of a comment? As one of the members put his home email address on the page and I know Marina deletes them because of spiders. I left him a message about posting his email address so maybe he will be more careful next time. Here’s the comment number.
That is funny, under the My Tweets it said:
“Twitter is madder than hell and
they’re not going to take it anymore!
Either that or their server is down. …”
hello marina today is “THE DAY OF THE DEAD”. do you know anything about todays holiday? all i know its the day when we celebrate the love ones who has left us from our world who past to the next world. we are heading out to the cemetary to pray for our family who has past. in Mexico everyone is at the cemetarys they make big celebrations. they might have something to watch on YOU TUBE? well thanks anyways!
Hi tristesmiles! I’ve been to Cozumel three times! On my second visit I went into a store called Los Cinco Soles. It’s a really cool store! Everything for sell is made in Mexico, and they had Day of Dead figurines! They were little skeletons having a fiesta! So cool! At the time I wasn’t sure I wanted one! But, as time went on I vowed if I ever go back I was going to get one! I finally got a little dog skeleton! It’s so cool!!! Sounds like a really awesome celebration!
ive never been to conzumel thats in cancun, right? my parents are from michoacan Mexico a litle town in the mountains called tangancicuaro. next to a city called Zamora one hour away from Morelia. its very indijanez from the indians called “TARASCO” they still dress the same and speak their same language (dialect) we dont understand them we speak spanish. were more spaniard than indian. i always wanted to go check out the pyramids of the Aztecks and the Mayas. RIGHT ON VATO check out that movie by Mel Gibson APOCALYPTO. Its crazy
Conzumel is on an island near Cancun. I have never been to Cancun. I hear it’s a real party place! I have been to three Mayan cities: Chichen Itza, Altun Ha (in Belize), and Tulum.
So !!!!
First, great site! Until I saw it, I had no idea you were so well known. OK, onto my request.
I would like to request the word “values”. Post the 2004 election, exit polls showed the issues mattering most to voters were 1) National Security and 2)Family Values. Where did the word “values” come from, what is its base language, what did it used to mean…? I would appreciate if you would continue to educate with this word as your subject.
Many thanks, and good luck selling many copies of your calendar!
Rosie’s video demonstrates the wisdom of the saying, “When you find yourself at the bottom of a hole, stop digging.” And emotipe is really just a obecalp.
just say placebo, it’s more proffesional. and what about my posts??? u don’t know me. when i said after thanksgiving, i was joking around saying she’d get fatter after eating turkey.
Your are right. I don’t know what you are really like. And I won’t except by virtue of your posts (I feel no need to research you on other sites, etc.). In other words, if you write something here, then that is what you are and nothing else counts.
It was originally called a “yell-loudly,” but they changed it because it resulted in the neighbors to calling the cops almost every night (which had to be paid off more often than was really necessary).
Marina, I was shocked to see you answer the time thing. I was expecting an answer from a Jason. Everybody in tech is called Jason (speaking of all dogs being called Kobe). You really are a one woman show. Wow!!! I am impressed.
PHANTOM IS MY WORD. I LOVE YOUR LESSONS AND WATCHING YOU GIVE THE ANSWERS , MARINA MORE PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIKE YOU. YOUR EXPRESSIONS MAKE ME LAUGH. NOT ONLY DO I SEE BEAUTY, BUT A PERSON FULL OF LIFE. I FORGOT WHAT THAT WAS LIKE, AMERICANS TODAY ARE TO SERIOUS, DON’T LET THERE INTERCHILD OUT. YOU KEEP BEING YOU, AND DON’T CHANGE A THING ABOUT YOURSELF. I’LL BE LOOKING FORWORD TO READING NEW STUFF IN THE FUTURE. YOU ARE MARVELOUS.
WE SHOULD HAVE MORE ALL-UPPERCASE-POSTS LIKE MORCANFUZED’S. IT EXCERCISES THE UPPERCASE KEYS, WHICH ARE NORMALLY USED ONLY AT THE BEGINNING OF SENTENCES, FOR CAPITALIZING PROPER NOUNS , ACRONYMS AND THE LIKE. AS A SIDE BENEFIT, IT EVENS OUT THE WEAR ON YOUR KEYBOARD, EXTENDING IT’S LIFE (USUALLY THE LOWERCASE KEYS WEAR OUT FAR BEFORE THE OTHERS, WHICH IS A WASTE).
PLEASE PLEASE CHECK THESE WORDS: Illumanti, Bank, rothchild, Court, Bench, and congress.
Like when you go to court the judge rules from the bench..
Could you also tel me were this saying came from “The dawn of a new day” It is really really old even in egyption if Iam correct i wana know wat does it mean if you could explain that. You could hit me up at my email removed by Marina ok BY!
Hey Neoanderson you may not want to display your email account on this site or really on any site that have open comment sections. Their are sites that put out spiders to find email addresses to send you spam and or junk mail. Just a little friendly advice for your protection.
Hey CampKohler, great NYT article down below on why taxis are yellow. Do you know why fire engines are red, presuming that they are not white.
Fire engines are red because
they have 8 wheels and 4 people ride it.
8 plus 4 is 12.
There are twelve inches in a foot.
A foot is a ruler.
Queen Elizabeth was a ruler.
Queen Elizabeth was the name of a ship that sailed in the sea.
Fish swim in the sea.
Fish have fins.
The Finns fought the Russians.
The Russians were Red.
That’s why fire engines are red
because they’re always rushin’ all over.
Funny Time Warp story.
Last time I went to Hawaii, I travelled from Hong Kong via Guam.
I reserved my hotel at Waikiki from the hotel in Guam in the afternoon and when I arrived to check in, it was the day before I had made the reservation.
I had fun trying to explain to the receptionist that I had made the reservation the previous day.
We were in Hawaii seeing if we could cover an entire wall with empty beer cans… ours! We were watching Saturday Night Live thinking isn’t it strange that they play this show on Friday nights. WE WERE WRONG! We F’D UP! Our plane to Fiji was leaving in 55 minutes. We jumped into a cab at the speed of light and made it just in time.
The word friend and its opposite fiend. Fiend means enemy and is there a similar root for these two words to be spelled so similar and yet mean the opposite. It is almost like possible and impossible.
Word Request: Friend, Friendship, друг, приятель
Marina, could you look into the origin of the word friend?
If time permits and if it is related, maybe also the word “foe”
as in the saying “Friend or Foe”.
Heads up: In case the German word “Freund” comes up as part of the origin, here is how to pronounce it. http://www.dictionarist.com/freund
During the last four hours, I have tried to play the Mummy post something like six times. I like your calendar, and would have liked the opportunity to have purchased an autographed copy, but didn’t. Mirana, where does the word, “hooligan” come from?
Excellent work as usual. Your explanation of the origin of mommy as in mother is actually identical to what I’ve guessed based on my own practical experience in a myriad of cultures.
It is very interesting to know that you call your mother mama as well as I do. It seems that the term mama for mother is so common it is almost universal among major cultures on earth. The Japanese have their own word for mother (okāsan) but also call their moms mama from time to time.
Using the power of copy and paste, I was able to overcome the lack of a Chinese Keyboard and the necessary software to use it and mother in Chinese is written as:
妈妈
Which is pronounced as mama!
Keep up the great and I will always be grateful and appreciative of you.
LAST POST OF THE DAY BEFORE I GO TO BED so i can wake up to another shithole day:
WHOEVER that punk was that said i was MARGINALLY AMUSING, you are MARGINALLY, no wait, BORDERLINE ATTRACTIVE. Go suck a fat one.
I’ve always walked alone. Sometimes, life is better without friends. My shadow really IS the only one that walks beside me. In times of trouble, you find out who your true friends really are. But what do you do when you find out you have none. You walk alone.
I’m beginning to believe that rosiecheeks is a sock puppet for someone else who we know.
“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead
Just fuck off and leave me alone.”
- rosiecheeks (alias )
Bob, that is too funny.
I thought about that also (sock puppet) when he/she first appeared. Sometimes, you just can’t hide or fake a personality, unless one is really a split personality.
Ok i hate the stupid fucking split boxes. I can’t even FIND the video for mummy. oh wait, i just did. but what was up with that?? i had to watch a video and then a split second of a second video that i chose for mummy to pop up. Man this shit is annoying. Also too many ppl are requesting the same words and that shit is annoying too. My life is full of petty but big annoyances.
Rose if you let the video continue without clicking on any of the boxes the regular video for the day will play for you. Those other videos are if you want watch an earlier or another video.
Where does the word clitoris come from? There is a flower with a similar look and name: What is up with that? Which came first the name of the flower or the name of the female part?
The word mama means suck in spanish and I guess in latin also. Mammals or the milk producing creatures young ones all suck milk. So mammals really means suckers and not necessarily just milk producers: right?
Almost every language’s word for “mother” starts with the “m” sound. The only non-constructed language that I’m aware of that doesn’t is Bahasa Indonesia. (Some constructed languages such as Esperanto do.)
There are, no doubt, other exceptions, but it’s a pretty universal thing.
Head for the North shore baby…. beautiful white sands,
secluded beaches, body surfing, water falls…. dang I should
have mowed my lawn last weekend and shown
our teacher a good time.
Marina, I’d like to add that teh term “mummy” can also apply to any body that has been preserved, whether by artificail, i.e., man mande, or natural conditions. Peru, China, Siberia, etc. have some mummys that are created naturally by their climate and environment.
Unfortunately I can’t call my Mother any more, even long distance, because she’s dead.
Give your Mom a call and tell her you love her while you still can. Once they’re gone you won’t get a chance to.
I have a word request for a word that has been bugging me for awhile. My brother is in the military and in an infantry unit and I told him the word infantry has origins from infants, which I heard from the video game Metal Gear Solid 2. He says its origins are from infiltrate. Please set us straight.
To be honest, I addressed my mother as mother, as age worked to death and she did not like being called “Ma”—ethnic thing. very good lesson, the world history thing worked on me
in sydney where i live, there are two main bus companies. a privately owned one that has yellow buses, or the government owned one that has blue and white buses. (as in, one bus is both blue and white. not some blue buses, and some white buses)
our cabs/taxis over here are usually white but can be other colours, but never have i seen a yellow one.
The page I got ‘em off, don’t khow why it didn’t work.
I got dizzy watching that vid. Looks like, at one time that was a very busy walkway, used for work… after seeing those missing slabs I would walk very gingerly.
Misscupcake: Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_bus_yellow. For the next level, why are there black bands along the sides of school buses*? And if you know the answer to that, why is it that these bands may be interrupted by emergency doors or other features?
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*BTW, you spelled buses correctly, but unless pedantickarl was referring to kisses, he did not.
Hey CK, great info on yellow school buses.
However, I think our sweet little cupcake was referring
to cabs/taxis as always being yellow in the US.
What’s up with that?
Thanks for that link to the El camino del Rey video – INcredible!
Judging by the speed the guy was walking, he can’t have been using any safety ropes. I know what my next nightmare is going to be about.
Also, I’m very impressed by the smoothness of the video – he must have had some kind of gyroscopic camera mount.
Glad you liked the El Camino Bob. I love that video and great music too. I would love to walk it some day. I’m not a dare devil, but for some reason that one intrigued me. Like you said, that’s what my next nightmare will be about.
I believe the Yellow Cab Company of NY had all of their cabs painted yellow whence the color yellow came from. As they bought up The Checker Cab Company the Checker Cabs had a black and white checkered board pattern on them plus the make of the vehicles was called Checker. The Yellow Cab Company painted the Checkered cabs yellow and left a small place on them that had the checked pattern. Plus insurance companies have a lower premium on a yellow work vehicle as it can be seen easier. I know this as one of the water drill trucks that we had was school bus yellow. The insurance company said we could get a better rate because of the yellow color. That’s why DOT vehicles are painted the school bus yellow also for a higher visibility. Even the Yellow Cab Company here in NC are the same yellow color with the black checkered pattern on them.
If I called her anything but ‘Mom’ she’d think I was a pod-person. Grandkids call her ‘Mimi’; she used to sign all her notes ‘Me’. It sounds weird but if I found a note on the table signed ‘Me’ I knew who wrote it for as long as I can recall.
I have a Demon living just over the street! Well,he’s a pug and named “Demon” but He sure sounds mean till he figures out it’s Me at the door,then it’s,”pet Me pet Me”,,,,”no,not the cat,,pet Me!!”?
Hey Marina, it would be great if you could make a video of the word, “sucking up”: like sucking up to your teacher to get a good grade. This would be really great!
Dear совершенная Marina, For your homework, I called my mother “mama.” She passed away in 2002. so I only speak to her at her gravesite. Thank you for posting a new video from Hawaii. I didn’t expect one from there. I thought babies who were nursing only asked one question: “Got milk?” Your dear student, seesixcm6 PS: Marina, did you take a photo of your boyfriend?
OK, that’s what I thought, “twitpic.com” is domain filtering the access to their pics. I did a test on the test page of the same URL and it worked one time. The second time it did not work. Looks like you may need to do a screen shot and post on a different site.
Thanks to all concerned for solving this! I didn’t realize that link to twitter wouldn’t work! Yes, I meant Marina’s picture of a fat old guy sitting in a beach chair. He’s probably worked a long time, finally took a vacation to Hawaii, and now this slender beautiful babe takes his photo and puts it front of hundreds of thousands of viewers on the Internet! Now, is that nice? (Yes, the photo is funny, but is it nice?)
seesixcm6
Watch someone on this site recognize that fellow and tell him. But I guess he is getting an eyeful with M sitting in front of him. Your right it probably isn’t nice. But it’s to late now. Have a good one Seesix
What I call my Mother depends on who I am talking to; it can be any of Mum, Mums, Mumsy, Ma, Mama, Mae, Patsie, Blottie or a number of other nicknames, and I use any of them when addressing her personally, depending on our moods and the situation.
Variety is the spice of life, is it not?
Not sure where to post this question, so this thread is as good as any other: what’s up with the iTunes podcast version of the clips…?!? They haven’t been updated for the last three weeks or so…!?
“Not sure where to post….” The site could benefit from some separate blogs for specific purposes with the appropriate buttons at the page top. This allows for other users to contribute or even solve a problem immediately, which a Contact msg does not.
1. Report Problems — post technical probems with this site or HFW’s YouTube videos with symptomatic details. Other users could contribute confirmation/more detail.
2. Site Improvements — Propose improvements to Web site operation and form. Other users could discuss the suggested improvements or propose better ones.
3. Watering Hole & mdash; A gathering place not related to any specfic lesson. Ask general questions or gossip. Would it would be better to pull general stuff out of the specific lessons?
As permanent blogs, they would probably need to be paged, because, as their length increases over time, there would be too much material to load to each user who checks in. alternatively, after it gets a bit longish, a new blog could replace it and the old one gets archived with users able to select it if they desire.
I have a suggestion for #2. In addition to labelling the current lesson in the same format as all past lessons, e.g. “http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/11/01/mummy/”, have a copy of the current lesson (or point to the original) with the label, “http://www.hotforwords.com/currentlesson”. That way users can create a permanent shortcut to the current lesson, which is not possible now due to the frequently-changing label. Yes, it would be one more thing to update when changing lessons, but it would save a few clicks for the great unwashed* masses.
I emailed Marina the other day about the pod casts not being updated, but I didn’t get any response. I guess she was getting ready for Hawaii. So it’s no telling what she is going to do with it.
As an example of how another organization (over 20K users) handles feedback and group discussion, take a look at their forum index page, http://www.sactogasprices.com/Forum_Category.aspx. Then click one category and pick a topic to see how they go at it. I am not suggesting that such a elaborate arrangement is needed here yet, but it gives you an idea of what is possible. (Click here for the normal entry point if you’re interest is peaked. Ignore messages from anyone named CampKohler, because as stokesjrj1 has so kindly pointed out, it does not matter what he thinks. IGNORE THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN! )
“your,” dang it! I merged “if you’re interested” and “if your interest is peaked” in my mind. Once it is in there, it is for all practical purposes corrupted and lost forever. Sort of like a PC, but without the free porno.
hi I got a word request, or sort of…
“ish”, “an” or “ese” ? People from England or Spain are called English and Spanish, but people from Portugal are called Portuguese but not “portugalish”. If you’re from China, Japan or Vietnam you’re Chinese, Japanese or Vietnamese respectively. People Mongolia are Mongolian but not “mongolese”. If you’re from Congo you’re considered Congolese but folks from Morocco are called Moroccan. So what makes someone a ish, an or ese?
I am an “ian” (Canadian). I’ve wondered about that too, a3spirit. The weird thing is, even though I don’t know the official rule, it’s usually intuitive which suffix to put on when I don’t know the correct one.
It may have to do with euphoniousness. Like parchedsquid says, it’s intuitive, probably just because it sounds best.
What about other languages? Do they have -ish, -an and -ese endings (or their equivalent) or do they have more rigid practices, e.g. something along the lines of universally attaching a suffix meaning “foreign devils” to the country name?
More and more I am growing less interested in the ancient roots of some English word (which is far removed from our time and is so less relevant to us) and more interested the differences between current languages. However, I am not so interested that I would actually undertake to study a lot of foreign languages; I’m too lazy for that. Maybe, in addition to the material Marina provides, she could spice it up a bit by adding what the word or phrase is in few widely-spoken languages. Now I wouldn’t expect her to go digging up (no pun intended) the word for mummy in Swahili, but she could gather a circle of people competent in the major languages upon which she could rely to help her out with the material. That would add a service that I don’t think you can easily find on the Web and it would broaden our horizons a bit. What do you think, you tittie watchers?
True. dezdkado will be able to tell about mummies that were found in a cave on the Nuugsuaq peninsula opposite Uummannaq, preserved by nothing more than the extreme cold and low humidity of the air. Also, there was Ötzi, a mummified hunter found high in the Alps between Italy and Austria, also preserved by the cold.
Other mummies have been found in peat bogs and in Pompeii, Italy where they were mummified by a pyroplastic flow emanating from the volcano Vesuvius.
I’m in agreement with Foxbow. Many of the earliest forms of mummification are caused by environment, not man. Even in Egypt, those who could not afford the expensive 70 day process of mummification, and the rituals,scrolls, and spells that went along with them, would bury the corpses of their honored dead into sand dunes until the bodies were fully dessicated. The peat bog mummies are an excellent example as well. (thanks Bob) In caves in the Andes, and in caves in the cliffs along the Yangtze River, dry cold air served to mummify the dead. I’m not sure if the victims of Pompeii and Herculaneum are true mummies. The pyroclastic flows of Vesuvius encased and cooked their victims. In some cases you can see where high temperature boiled the water within a victim and caused the ashy encasement to rupture from the internal organs and steam that spewed from the corpse. Otzi is very interesting (to me) because he contains within his body the earliest known forensic evidence of murder.
You Web wookies! Stop using the apostrophe to form plurals! Who started that crap, anyway? It seems to come up along with the Web, but maybe it’s been going on a lot longer. Perhaps these egregious errors weren’t noticable because we had no way (other than via personal correspondance) to see how others wrote except in publications. Their editors would assuredly correct missteps in their own self-defense, so as not to appear (or be seen to have readers that appear) to be a bunch of goofballs.
Well, we aren’t mommied here &mdashl; there are no editors to correct us (and with the edit function turned off, we can’t even correct ourselves!). So all our flaws hang out like the wash on the clothesline. Don’t these kids (I assume they are kids) know that every time they open their mouths type on their keyboards, every error they make will stick out like a sore thumb and announce to the world their state of education (or lack of it)? Maybe they think it just isn’t important, but I can say from experience that there have been people I have passed over for jobs simply because I really didn’t want to look at those errors from that time forward. But what do I know; maybe everyone nowadays is so inept that one can’t pick and choose anymore. That is to say, when we are all ignorant, the man who can count to two is a genius.
I completely agree, if you believe that English is the writer’s mother tongue, but one has to make allowances for those for whom English is a second, third (or more) language, and try to teach the correct usage in a kind way.
I be liken’ readin the guys (n’ gals) who is english is no so good. I be undrstndn, een they be makin’ mstakes nown’ agin. Dony be hittin’ moi… I’sa be loinin har.
Sorry about that I’m getting used to no spell check, I just go to google ifn’ I think I misspelled something & I only miss the edit feature ifn’ I think a haven’t offended someone enough.
Be cool Canuck, some of the smartest people I know couldn’t write an error free paragraph. I could if I wanted too but I ain’t all that smart
And further, Bob: How would English as a second language lead to that use of the apostrophe? For that matter, why does a native-speaker confuse possessive with plural? Is there some little voice that whispers, “It looks like an apostrophe is needed in there doesn’t it? You are feeling quite uncomfortable without it, aren’t you? So go ahead… put it in there. What can it hurt? There! Isn’t that better now? Yes. It’s amazing how the little mark makes the whole world look better. You did good. Have a nice day.”
How would English as a second language lead to that use of the apostrophe?
Well, it wouldn’t per se; all I’m saying is that it’s unreasonable to expect foreigners to understand all the rules and nuances of a language, especially when native speakers are so lax in their use of it.
The reason I was teasing you (it was just teasing – don’t be offended) was because the Oxford English Dictionary doesn’t give “euphoniousness” the dignity of a mention. The fact that an on-line dictionary does so, I think, reflects a popular tendency of people to make things more complicated than they need to be.
In the same entry that you linked to, there was a mention of the opposite term “cacophonous”. Would you, therefore use the same rule and coin the word “cacophonousness” in place of cacophony? That would truly have an unpleasant sound, (note the recursive definition) as well as being impossible to say even when sober.
Perhaps an arguement could be made that the -ness form means the quality of having the -y form. But that is really cutting wild rabbits in half. I thus accept your point that the -y form has more reasonablenessness to it.
Oops. I meant argument. (I was just too lazy to use the new edit feature to go back and fix that. Marina has finally taken my advice, you know. Um-hmmm.)
After allowing the unneccessary-apostrophe matter to percolate through my brain overnight, I had a flash of insite. Could it be that this error is made far more often by native-speakers than non-native speakers? That is, it is a modern American phenomenon that is being copied by non-native-speakers as it is spread around the world by the ‘Net? If so it is our own fault and so it is up to us to send in the Marines to stamp out this travesty whenever it occurs; we must save the naive of the world from this vile, ungodly corruption that will surely send their souls to perdition*.
Did you see that? I just saved foxbow’s soul.
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*Or at least make them look like goofballs in print (I don’t know which is worse).
you typed all of this because I said mummy’s instead of mummies…… ……..
English is my 4th language… or 3th cause Dutch and Finnish are about the same to me…. so don’t expect it to be perfect….
In Dutch there is a rule that if a noun ends with an Y, e, o, i, u or a, you use apostrophe S (’s)to make it a plural ….. that’s why I make that mistake in english sometimes
hey there!
i was wondering about 2 words…the first one is Linguistics.
The second one is… inaguration (like the president thing… idk if i spelled it right)
you probable have seen this one, but if you haven’t DO! Hi Mom…
most of the time ma
just mom
Mama-Mama by Arefieva
related music…random lesson
i call my mom mom
Where I come from “mother” is “mum” or even sometimes “mam”
it’s november 3rd.
Its May 11…and where R U
***)^(***
Here’s an interesting mummy movie.
I haven’t called my mom in 6 months. There is still a little bit of buried social tension between us.
New vid is up. Peekaboo wave. Buzz and I miss you all.
Infinitesimal and its opposite, what are their meanings and where did they come from?
Thanks Marina.
That collar Marina’s wearing at the top of the page means I AM a white woman in a black universe with a a lot of servants. Theres more to it than that maybe she will tell us some day.
Stokes why is your Gravatar Blacked Out?
You evidently haven’t been listening to someone much more superior than you. Shows up fine too my eyes.
You are facing that way —->
no I am facing this way .
Or perhaps you people don’t know how to listen.
Im sure it wasn’t much fun to spit in your own eye and put it out.
Hey Mike, thanks for the yellow taxi update way down there below. That was great info about the color and the insurance rates.
Klaus how about show me again what the url would look like if I wanted to refer back to someone elses comment. I seem to of forgot. This is the comment I want to refer back to.
comment-78374
OK, Cap, I finished my research and hereby publish:
In case anyone forgets how to link to a comment, the following will let you “re-remember” it:
1. If the lesson you wish to link to is not showing in the Recent Comments section in the right-most column, post a comment in the lesson and it will.
2. Right-click in a blank area and choose View Source to show the HTML code which generates the page.
3. Type “[Ctrl-F][Enter]” to open the search dialog box.
4. Type “recent comments[Enter]” to find that section of the page. The section is a list of links like the one you want to make.
5. Scan down the list, looking for an anchor tag (starts with “<a”) that contains the name of the lesson which contains the message to which you wish to link. Note that the date and name of the lesson both appear in the tag. (You could theoretically glean this information from the lesson page, but there is always the possibility that someone has goofed and the lesson file in reality has a slightly different date or name on it. To be certain, get it from the Recent Comments section in the View Source.)
6. An example is <a href=”http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/11/01/mummy/#comment-78621″ rel=”bookmark” title=”November 2, 2008 at 7:39 pm 294 comments”>Mummy</a>. Type this in your message in the format <a href=”http://www.hotforwords.com/[4-digit year]/[2-digit month]/[2-digit day]/[any-length lesson title]/#comment-[comment number]“>[Link text]</a<.
Notes:
1. The rel and title attributes in tags are for other software to sniff the tag and are not needed to link to the desired message. They may be omitted.
2. A target attribute will not do anything if you put one in an anchor tag; you can’t control how it will open. However this is not important, because it all works like you would want it to work anyway.
3. If you want to practice entirely within Marina’s “sand box,” remember that the box’s file name is not formatted like a lesson; it’s “http:”www.hotforwords/html-in-comments/#comment-[comment number]“. You must use this format to jump to messages in the sandbox. If you use the lesson format (described in 6, above), you will jump out of the sandbox to the lesson (which is an even better test).
Revision 1:
OK, Cap, I finished my research and hereby publish:
In case anyone forgets how to link to a comment, the following will let you “re-remember” it:
1. If the lesson you wish to link to is not showing in the Recent Comments section in the right-most column, post a comment in the lesson and it will.
2. Right-click in a blank area and choose View Source to show the HTML code which generates the page.
3. Type “[Ctrl-F][Enter]” to open the search dialog box.
4. Type “recent comments[Enter]” to find that section of the page. The section is a list of links like the one you want to make.
5. Scan down the list, looking for an anchor tag (starts with “<a”) that contains the name of the lesson which contains the message to which you wish to link. Note that the date and name of the lesson both appear in the tag. (You could theoretically glean this information from the lesson page, but there is always the possibility that someone has goofed and the lesson file in reality has a slightly different date or name on it. To be certain, get it from the Recent Comments section in the View Source.)
6. An example is <a href=”http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/11/01/mummy/ #comment-78621″ rel=”bookmark” title=”November 2, 2008 at 7:39 pm 294 comments”> Mummy </a>. Type this in your message in the format <a href=”http://www.hotforwords.com/[4-digit year]/[2-digit month]/[2-digit day]/[any-length lesson title]/#comment-[comment number]“>[Link text]</a>.
Notes:
1. The rel and title attributes in tags are for other software to sniff the tag and are not needed to link to the desired message. They may be omitted.
2. A target attribute will not do anything if you put one in an anchor tag; you can’t control how it will open. However this is not important, because it all works like you would want it to work anyway.
3. If you want to practice entirely within Marina’s “sand box,” remember that the box’s file name is not formatted like a lesson; it’s “http:”www.hotforwords/html-in-comments/#comment-[ comment number]“. You must use this format to jump to messages in the sandbox. If you use the lesson format (described in 6, above), you will jump out of the sandbox to the lesson (which is an even better test).
Mike, you actually did the comment ID correctly. I think the link got broken up by one space. This morning I highlighted the link, and pasted it into the browser adr bar and I saw one space. I removed the space and the link worked. I was busy all day so I hadn’t been able to get back to you.
Instead of using the raw link in a short text box, use the embedded link method;
[a href="URL/stuff/#comment-ID"]Some Words[/a]
For your comment ID and for this page here is the embedded link.
comment-78374
Thanks Klaus and CK for the help.
I can’t watch the lesson.
I want my mommy! 
Greetings Capt’n. Glad you’re back.
Hi Captain! Welcome back!
!
hey cappy
Hi Jack, long time no see or hear from you. Question for you. Can you delete part of a comment? As one of the members put his home email address on the page and I know Marina deletes them because of spiders. I left him a message about posting his email address so maybe he will be more careful next time. Here’s the comment number.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/11/01/mummy/#comment78374
http://www.hotforwords.com/#comment78374
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/11/01/mummy/#comment78374
Http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/11/01/mummy/#comment-78374
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/11/01/mummy/#comme nt-78374
I give up fuck it.
You must be doing research.
No I don’t have that capability. Email Marina and she will fix it.
I’ll be happy to watch it for you Captain… At your service.
Thanks everyone!
She must have been watching my comments, as she fixed the problem.
Where is this place where you have such a slow connection?
Gilligan’s Island?
Привет Марина!!
Can I request the word “Russia”, пожалуиста. It would be interesting to know its origin through Russian and Old Church Slavonic.
That is funny, under the My Tweets it said:
“Twitter is madder than hell and
they’re not going to take it anymore!
Either that or their server is down. …”
i think i’m gonna commit suicide today. so long, friends.
Just exactly whom are you going to commit suicide on? From what I’ve read, it could be anybody?
LOOK OUT!
TO: Marina’s Sex Ed Class (A Messeage from Japan)
As Asuredly as lightning strikes, American women have never lost a soldier in war.
Jon’s Jip Joint John’s Wrold Wide Imports
(Remember: don’t play too win, Play not too lose)
(kilroyalty handle SexTV) janjannet www.
hello marina today is “THE DAY OF THE DEAD”. do you know anything about todays holiday? all i know its the day when we celebrate the love ones who has left us from our world who past to the next world. we are heading out to the cemetary to pray for our family who has past. in Mexico everyone is at the cemetarys they make big celebrations. they might have something to watch on YOU TUBE? well thanks anyways!
I have always heard you cry when a baby is born and celebrate when someone passes. Prayers to you and all of your family and to everyone on this day.
Hi tristesmiles! I’ve been to Cozumel three times! On my second visit I went into a store called Los Cinco Soles. It’s a really cool store! Everything for sell is made in Mexico, and they had Day of Dead figurines! They were little skeletons having a fiesta! So cool! At the time I wasn’t sure I wanted one! But, as time went on I vowed if I ever go back I was going to get one! I finally got a little dog skeleton! It’s so cool!!!
Sounds like a really awesome celebration! 
ive never been to conzumel thats in cancun, right? my parents are from michoacan Mexico a litle town in the mountains called tangancicuaro. next to a city called Zamora one hour away from Morelia. its very indijanez from the indians called “TARASCO” they still dress the same and speak their same language (dialect) we dont understand them we speak spanish. were more spaniard than indian. i always wanted to go check out the pyramids of the Aztecks and the Mayas.
RIGHT ON VATO 
check out that movie by Mel Gibson APOCALYPTO. 
Its crazy 
Conzumel is on an island near Cancun. I have never been to Cancun. I hear it’s a real party place! I have been to three Mayan cities: Chichen Itza, Altun Ha (in Belize), and Tulum.
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So
Hi HotForWords,
First, great site! Until I saw it, I had no idea you were so well known. OK, onto my request.
I would like to request the word “values”. Post the 2004 election, exit polls showed the issues mattering most to voters were 1) National Security and 2)Family Values. Where did the word “values” come from, what is its base language, what did it used to mean…? I would appreciate if you would continue to educate with this word as your subject.
Many thanks, and good luck selling many copies of your calendar!
Zeke
Word Request: Epitome.
ex: My life is the epitome of hell.
Take two teaspoons of “emotipe” and things should turn around for you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-_Cstkk6Jc
Rosie’s video demonstrates the wisdom of the saying, “When you find yourself at the bottom of a hole, stop digging.” And emotipe is really just a obecalp.
just say placebo, it’s more proffesional. and what about my posts??? u don’t know me. when i said after thanksgiving, i was joking around saying she’d get fatter after eating turkey.
Your are right. I don’t know what you are really like. And I won’t except by virtue of your posts (I feel no need to research you on other sites, etc.). In other words, if you write something here, then that is what you are and nothing else counts.
And what would make your life a tomb of psalms?
troublemaker
the word that i would like to request is penis vagina
One word? Like chickenis and the eggina?
Very clever.
Snickerdoodle: That’s one tasty cookie!
Yah… they’re much better than Snookerdiddles!
We all know what a “speakeasy” was, but how did the term come about?
It was originally called a “yell-loudly,” but they changed it because it resulted in the neighbors to calling the cops almost every night (which had to be paid off more often than was really necessary).
There was some thought about using “talk-softly” but they figured it looked too suspicious.
They used to scream hard but the got laryngitis and they had to speak easy!
Dis she get fatter recently?
Certainly not!
Just more cuddly.
just wait until after thanksgiving.
Why zat? You going to give birth to a turkey?
Have you seen some of her posts?
I haven’t seen you announce a teachers pet recently. Did you discontinue it? I hope not
test
Just woken up, or just going to bed?
I flew all along Waikiki beach in my simulator and didn’t see a sign of you.
Having fun? I hope so.
Is Marina in Hawaii? makes sense, I heard she came to the US from Russia for the warmer weather.
Test phrase for today an american classic “Fuck or Walk” you choose?
I think that was what the camera man said just before the porn director said “action!”.
Recycle-logical-1 you should have put this comment on the You Tube Channel rather then here.
Marina, I was shocked to see you answer the time thing. I was expecting an answer from a Jason. Everybody in tech is called Jason (speaking of all dogs being called Kobe). You really are a one woman show. Wow!!! I am impressed.
You couldn’t be more deceived. My cars name (IS GAY DECIEVER)
This your outfit of hoodlums?
actually with out light there would be no show ever tried to record video in complete darkness. Won’t work unless your using special equipment.
You Pass Dear Teacher!!
Or are you telling us it’s test time?
Or is this a Pop Quiz?
I didn’t study…
Let me get some Halloween Candy and see if I can bribe my way to a passing grade.
I’ll slip Gorby a bone for moral support.
What are you testing?
I used to say “yes boss!” to her but that didn’t work so well so I went back to “yes Mom”.
PHANTOM IS MY WORD. I LOVE YOUR LESSONS AND WATCHING YOU GIVE THE ANSWERS , MARINA MORE PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIKE YOU. YOUR EXPRESSIONS MAKE ME LAUGH. NOT ONLY DO I SEE BEAUTY, BUT A PERSON FULL OF LIFE. I FORGOT WHAT THAT WAS LIKE, AMERICANS TODAY ARE TO SERIOUS, DON’T LET THERE INTERCHILD OUT. YOU KEEP BEING YOU, AND DON’T CHANGE A THING ABOUT YOURSELF. I’LL BE LOOKING FORWORD TO READING NEW STUFF IN THE FUTURE. YOU ARE MARVELOUS.
Ditto to everything you said….
I always went with…”a spurt, is a drip, under pressure”…
WE SHOULD HAVE MORE ALL-UPPERCASE-POSTS LIKE MORCANFUZED’S. IT EXCERCISES THE UPPERCASE KEYS, WHICH ARE NORMALLY USED ONLY AT THE BEGINNING OF SENTENCES, FOR CAPITALIZING PROPER NOUNS , ACRONYMS AND THE LIKE. AS A SIDE BENEFIT, IT EVENS OUT THE WEAR ON YOUR KEYBOARD, EXTENDING IT’S LIFE (USUALLY THE LOWERCASE KEYS WEAR OUT FAR BEFORE THE OTHERS, WHICH IS A WASTE).
SIGNED,
COMPUTER EXPERT
Hey, you know what an expert is?
An “ex” is a has been and a “spurt” is just a dribble.
Sorry, CK, I just couldn’t resist.
How often do I get use that line.
Yeah, I’ve heard that before. Now I want to see if everyone gets the joke.
My Mother
Beatles Mother
John’s Mother
good stuff
Danzig’s Mother
Floyd’s Mother
I call my mother, “Madre”, “Mom”, or “Mum”.
okay, i’m a mite late on this one…but you should’ve seen the mammas i saw last night…
anyway, homework: i call AnnudderMom “mamma” or “mom” interchangeably, unless i get irritated with some silly thing, then it’s “MOTHER!!!“…
thankfully i’m learning more tolerance in our (her’s & my) old ages…at 85, she deserves to be cut some slack…
okay, time to go get some real work done…since sunset’s gonna come so dang early today…
PLEASE PLEASE CHECK THESE WORDS: Illumanti, Bank, rothchild, Court, Bench, and congress.
Like when you go to court the judge rules from the bench..
Could you also tel me were this saying came from “The dawn of a new day” It is really really old even in egyption if Iam correct i wana know wat does it mean if you could explain that. You could hit me up at my email removed by Marina ok BY!
*illumantai
illuminati
Hey Neoanderson you may not want to display your email account on this site or really on any site that have open comment sections. Their are sites that put out spiders to find email addresses to send you spam and or junk mail. Just a little friendly advice for your protection.
TA Mike
Hey CampKohler, great NYT article down below on why taxis are yellow. Do you know why fire engines are red, presuming that they are not white.
Fire engines are red because
they have 8 wheels and 4 people ride it.
8 plus 4 is 12.
There are twelve inches in a foot.
A foot is a ruler.
Queen Elizabeth was a ruler.
Queen Elizabeth was the name of a ship that sailed in the sea.
Fish swim in the sea.
Fish have fins.
The Finns fought the Russians.
The Russians were Red.
That’s why fire engines are red
because they’re always rushin’ all over.
It’s a looooong time since I heard that one.
The oldies are the best. (I keep telling myself, the older I get.)
This comment should now be on the top…. keeping fnigers crossed….
Yup, we are now all synchronized again. Phhhew!!!
OK, this video is now on the board (YT top 100 most viewed)
The race is on….
Oooohhhh, I’m starting to catch up with the future. Looks like the server is now on PST. Yippppeeee.
Amazing the little things that thrill me.
I just made a request to have the HFW server time be changed to PST. Having too much of a time warp.
Funny Time Warp story.
Last time I went to Hawaii, I travelled from Hong Kong via Guam.
I reserved my hotel at Waikiki from the hotel in Guam in the afternoon and when I arrived to check in, it was the day before I had made the reservation.
I had fun trying to explain to the receptionist that I had made the reservation the previous day.
That is funny.
I crossed the equator at the 180th meridian. Ooohhh, that was scary. Yeah, I got pictures.
We were in Hawaii seeing if we could cover an entire wall with empty beer cans… ours!
We were watching Saturday Night Live thinking isn’t it strange that they play this show on Friday nights. 
WE WERE WRONG! We F’D UP! Our plane to Fiji was leaving in 55 minutes. We jumped into a cab at the speed of light and made it just in time. 
ha ha funny guys too badd none of these three tales are true.
I call my mom, ‘mom’. Simplistic, but it works.
Luck/Lucky. How about it?
The word friend and its opposite fiend. Fiend means enemy and is there a similar root for these two words to be spelled so similar and yet mean the opposite. It is almost like possible and impossible.
Hello I-One-Two-Be-Hot-For-You,
That’s a great juxtaposition; Friend – Fiend
Marina must investigate that as part of my Friend word request.
perhaps its not “or” perhaps its be a friendly fiend sounds like sex play a couple would use especialy around halloween.
OK, lets see where this comment ends up.
OK, nobody picked up on my White Horse request.
No, no, no, no ….
A blast from the past…
Don’t ride the White Horse…. ride the White Pony
Laid Back – White Horse
Holy Frigging time warp I have regressed into the past. This should have posted to the top. I’m my own blast from the past. Wooooowwww!!!
whaaaat you call your mother mama too.
what a coincident me too.
maybe we are brother and sister and mama never told us.
grmmmmpf xd
Homework, I call my Mother Mom.
Yup, Verizon just set my cell phone to the correct time.
It’s now 1:15 PST
It’s after 2 AM PT, now PST and we fall back one hour.
It’s really now 1:13 AM PST. Haven’t I been here before?
Ohhh, the Déjà Vu….
That is one reason I like Arizona. We don’t have to turn the clock back and forth an hour for DST.
This is the correct answer.
By the way Raven, notice that I replied to your comment
which is BEFORE you made your comment at 2:42 AM.
I must be psychic.
Word Request: Friend, Friendship, друг, приятель
Marina, could you look into the origin of the word friend?
If time permits and if it is related, maybe also the word “foe”
as in the saying “Friend or Foe”.
Heads up: In case the German word “Freund” comes up as part of the origin, here is how to pronounce it.
http://www.dictionarist.com/freund
During the last four hours, I have tried to play the Mummy post something like six times. I like your calendar, and would have liked the opportunity to have purchased an autographed copy, but didn’t. Mirana, where does the word, “hooligan” come from?
Dear Marina,
Excellent work as usual. Your explanation of the origin of mommy as in mother is actually identical to what I’ve guessed based on my own practical experience in a myriad of cultures.
It is very interesting to know that you call your mother mama as well as I do. It seems that the term mama for mother is so common it is almost universal among major cultures on earth. The Japanese have their own word for mother (okāsan) but also call their moms mama from time to time.
Using the power of copy and paste, I was able to overcome the lack of a Chinese Keyboard and the necessary software to use it and mother in Chinese is written as:
妈妈
Which is pronounced as mama!
Keep up the great and I will always be grateful and appreciative of you.
i never know how to comment me. maybe ur just smarter than me. peace, jam tokyo.
i never know how to comment you.
LAST POST OF THE DAY BEFORE I GO TO BED so i can wake up to another shithole day:
WHOEVER that punk was that said i was MARGINALLY AMUSING, you are MARGINALLY, no wait, BORDERLINE ATTRACTIVE. Go suck a fat one.
That was Enjarging, if I ever heard.
I know what you are but what am i
Before you say anything back, i’m rubber ur glue whatever you say to me STICKS BACK ON YOU. ass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxfpMGLMZ7Y&feature=PlayList&p=416807DFC7515E05&index=4
For you.
‘ass’ there’s a word I never requested and heard not enough.
I’ve always walked alone. Sometimes, life is better without friends. My shadow really IS the only one that walks beside me. In times of trouble, you find out who your true friends really are. But what do you do when you find out you have none. You walk alone.
Or you walk with Jesus.
yah but greenday doesn’t know that.
Both of my feet are falling asleep. I better go smoke a fag. Good night.
are u guys saying i’m fake. and i do not have a split personality. maybe it’s called bipolar. thank u very much.*gag*
I know who you are but who am I.
Believe me a know more about your split personality disorder then you know.
I used to play double on a Harry Potter forum, I was Godric Gryffindor on one hand, and Marvolo, on the other.
I find it more than borderline amusing.
At any rate I’m balancing the bipolar in me anyways.
When i was still 16 I was sticking my tongue out at Einstein likewise on me mum’s fridge.
oh, you don’t know it, but u just Burned YOURSELF.
rosiecheeks said:
“Sometimes, life is better without friends.”
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Walking with a friend in the dark
is better than walking alone in the light.”
- Helen Keller
“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead
Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
- Albert Carnus
A friend…
I’m beginning to believe that rosiecheeks is a sock puppet for someone else who we know.
)
“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead
Just fuck off and leave me alone.”
- rosiecheeks (alias
Bob, that is too funny.
I thought about that also (sock puppet) when he/she first appeared. Sometimes, you just can’t hide or fake a personality, unless one is really a split personality.
Ok i hate the stupid fucking split boxes. I can’t even FIND the video for mummy. oh wait, i just did. but what was up with that?? i had to watch a video and then a split second of a second video that i chose for mummy to pop up. Man this shit is annoying. Also too many ppl are requesting the same words and that shit is annoying too. My life is full of petty but big annoyances.
Is there anything in the entire universe that does not displease you?
Rose if you let the video continue without clicking on any of the boxes the regular video for the day will play for you. Those other videos are if you want watch an earlier or another video.
Dear Miss Orlova,
Under the Waxing Moon.
YS,
ThoughtOnFire
Dear Miss Orlova,
Above the Waning Moon.
Ys,
Rose
Hey,
It’s like that Nursery Rhyme.
But first enjarging. thank u.
Is that a even a word?
Idk. But i call my mom Denise.
And your father Brittany I’m sure.
No i don’t call my dad brittany i call him dad. And ur disturbing my yin and yang.
Word Request: Enjarging. Also, i wanna know the definition because the internet isnt clear.
Is that an active form of Engender?
Where does the word clitoris come from? There is a flower with a similar look and name: What is up with that? Which came first the name of the flower or the name of the female part?
uh, yeah, i’d like to request the word Ballsac.
Like this?
The flower came from another place in the universe at about 22222222222222222 B.C.
The other came when it was stimulated!
The word mama means suck in spanish and I guess in latin also. Mammals or the milk producing creatures young ones all suck milk. So mammals really means suckers and not necessarily just milk producers: right?
Almost every language’s word for “mother” starts with the “m” sound. The only non-constructed language that I’m aware of that doesn’t is Bahasa Indonesia. (Some constructed languages such as Esperanto do.)
There are, no doubt, other exceptions, but it’s a pretty universal thing.
For my homework: I still call her Mama, but my sisters call her Mom.
grrr.
Ahh haa, the simian detected the fake Buzz look-a-like
Oooohhh, must be dark where you live, your gravatar is dimming.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGjfnt4gw5A
http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/12/03/oneteen-twot een/
Their gonna kick you ass
Modern Science
That’s Kid’s stuff… My Mom raised me with a little difference. I know it helps me make it through these strange days.
I would like to request the word: foosball and calculator.
Calculator.
Great little lesson. I already knew about the mummy as in dead people, but I never knew where the term mommy as in your mother came from.
Oh cool, It brings you directly to a lesson on youtube. thats a neet idea
If you’ll also notice the pictures at the beginning will take you to another video too.
So at the beginning of your last few videos exactly whats the deal with the “CLick one of the boxes below” thing?
It appears to just be links to other videos by Hot For Words. If you watch every video as it comes out no real need to click them.
Homework: Mom
http://twitpic.com/jik9
No surf, what’s going on here guys?
Head for the North shore baby…. beautiful white sands,
secluded beaches, body surfing, water falls…. dang I should
have mowed my lawn last weekend and shown
our teacher a good time.
i hate surfers now. The last surfer i met was a baaad dude.
‘ere ’tis.
And here is a scary Halloween story!
Still interested in surfing?
Stay safe on the beach, Marina.
Swim in the pool.
I call my Mom, Mom Ha,ha,ha.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGjfnt4gw5A
http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/12/03/oneteen-twoteen/
I call my mother “mom”…and my children call her “Nana Barbara”…. (Not to be confused with “Santa Barbara”
Now there’s another word for study: “nana”. What is
it’s origin? thanks!
I just call my mother ”mom”.
YA WHO the fuck calls their mom mummy>> if they dont live in britain and their no british, mummy is the most unattractive word in the galaxy.
Marina, I’d like to add that teh term “mummy” can also apply to any body that has been preserved, whether by artificail, i.e., man mande, or natural conditions. Peru, China, Siberia, etc. have some mummys that are created naturally by their climate and environment.
Unfortunately I can’t call my Mother any more, even long distance, because she’s dead.
Give your Mom a call and tell her you love her while you still can. Once they’re gone you won’t get a chance to.
”Mumsey,”is the proper way to say it…..
I have a word request for a word that has been bugging me for awhile. My brother is in the military and in an infantry unit and I told him the word infantry has origins from infants, which I heard from the video game Metal Gear Solid 2. He says its origins are from infiltrate. Please set us straight.
Heyyyy,good one! Sounds interesting!
“Mom” is what all 7 of us called her when She was alive,and still how We refer to Her to this day.
You can hold Me like You held Your hands at the end of the vid,and sing;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzhbGaCwBzs&feature=related
of course I’m well over 6′ and 240lbs but You are welcome to try!
geeez,I’m not even drinking,where did that come from?!
weird origins , breast feeding babies ….
Latest pic from Hawaii. This one is for us men folks. hehehe
http://twitpic.com/jhxh
so who went to hawaii ?
Sorry I lied
To be honest, I addressed my mother as mother, as age worked to death and she did not like being called “Ma”—ethnic thing. very good lesson, the world history thing worked on me
“Grapefuit” drives me nuts. I understand the fruit part…but the grape part odd. Does not look like a grape or taste like a grape to me. What gives
Thanks for the Halloween history!
maybe this has been requested but i wanna know why its called the white house.
is it because the building really is white.
or is it physically white because it was called the white house for some other reason?
sorry i havent been posting here lately. my internet has died.
Greetings misscupcake. Yes, you have been missed.
How about a White Horse? Just kidding
Been there, on my way to Alaska, years ago. Today’s weather.
I don’t know why the White House is called the White House. I’ll let Marina surprise me.
When I was in Hawaii, the busses had a big yellow sign on them that said, “The Bus”. Maybe Marina can tell us if that is still so.
If not I’ll ask my nephew, as he is a Professor at Hawaii University.
in sydney where i live, there are two main bus companies. a privately owned one that has yellow buses, or the government owned one that has blue and white buses. (as in, one bus is both blue and white. not some blue buses, and some white buses)
our cabs/taxis over here are usually white but can be other colours, but never have i seen a yellow one.
wonder why theyre always yellow in the states?
Take the “bus” in Bolivia or India to Nepal… Nah, I’d rather go for a walk in in China.
Hey Billy, that China pic reminded me of this video.
Check it out this video of El camino del Rey.
So Sorry about the link… That’s what you get when you’re posting from the Loo.
The page I got ‘em off, don’t khow why it didn’t work.
I got dizzy watching that vid. Looks like, at one time that was a very busy walkway, used for work… after seeing those missing slabs I would walk very gingerly.
Misscupcake: Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_bus_yellow. For the next level, why are there black bands along the sides of school buses*? And if you know the answer to that, why is it that these bands may be interrupted by emergency doors or other features?
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*BTW, you spelled buses correctly, but unless pedantickarl was referring to kisses, he did not.
Hey CK, great info on yellow school buses.
However, I think our sweet little cupcake was referring
to cabs/taxis as always being yellow in the US.
What’s up with that?
Thanks for that link to the El camino del Rey video – INcredible!
Judging by the speed the guy was walking, he can’t have been using any safety ropes. I know what my next nightmare is going to be about.
Also, I’m very impressed by the smoothness of the video – he must have had some kind of gyroscopic camera mount.
Glad you liked the El Camino Bob. I love that video and great music too. I would love to walk it some day. I’m not a dare devil, but for some reason that one intrigued me. Like you said, that’s what my next nightmare will be about.
OK, then, for taximeter cabriolets: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/16/nyregion/thecity/16fyi.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
pedantickarl: re: Taxis, the answer moved up to above the question! Maybe there was a collision of entries or something.
Wow! We have a problem, Houston. All new replies are inserted in the middle of the pile.
I believe the Yellow Cab Company of NY had all of their cabs painted yellow whence the color yellow came from. As they bought up The Checker Cab Company the Checker Cabs had a black and white checkered board pattern on them plus the make of the vehicles was called Checker. The Yellow Cab Company painted the Checkered cabs yellow and left a small place on them that had the checked pattern. Plus insurance companies have a lower premium on a yellow work vehicle as it can be seen easier. I know this as one of the water drill trucks that we had was school bus yellow. The insurance company said we could get a better rate because of the yellow color. That’s why DOT vehicles are painted the school bus yellow also for a higher visibility. Even the Yellow Cab Company here in NC are the same yellow color with the black checkered pattern on them.
elloha
If I called her anything but ‘Mom’ she’d think I was a pod-person. Grandkids call her ‘Mimi’; she used to sign all her notes ‘Me’. It sounds weird but if I found a note on the table signed ‘Me’ I knew who wrote it for as long as I can recall.
Hello my Dear teacher, as you are doing halloween type words, I am wondering what is the origin of the word DEMON.
Thank you very much
Yours
your student vasilisjj
I have a Demon living just over the street! Well,he’s a pug and named “Demon” but He sure sounds mean till he figures out it’s Me at the door,then it’s,”pet Me pet Me”,,,,”no,not the cat,,pet Me!!”?
i would like to know about the word Slang
Hey Marina, it would be great if you could make a video of the word, “sucking up”: like sucking up to your teacher to get a good grade. This would be really great!
Dear совершенная Marina, For your homework, I called my mother “mama.” She passed away in 2002. so I only speak to her at her gravesite. Thank you for posting a new video from Hawaii. I didn’t expect one from there. I thought babies who were nursing only asked one question: “Got milk?”
Your dear student, seesixcm6
PS: Marina, did you take a photo of your boyfriend?
I couldn’t get your to work Seesix so I guess you mean this man. Marina’s Boy Friend
Capman911, I couldn’t get your to work so I guess you mean this man
You didn’t mean this one?
OK, that’s what I thought, “twitpic.com” is domain filtering the access to their pics. I did a test on the test page of the same URL and it worked one time. The second time it did not work. Looks like you may need to do a screen shot and post on a different site.
http://twitpic.com/img/jas3-b4e7580cbf9123c994bf41b00d942cdd.490cee92.jpg
Now that one works. I clicked view picture first then copied the url.
Seems your raw URL works Mike.
Also, this should work.
http://twitpic.com/jas3
Boyfriend
Your right Klaus, either raw url or by the url that you posted.
Interesting, your raw URL worked a few times, and now it doesn’t, indicating filtering. This version should always work? http://twitpic.com/jas3
Thanks to all concerned for solving this! I didn’t realize that link to twitter wouldn’t work! Yes, I meant Marina’s picture of a fat old guy sitting in a beach chair. He’s probably worked a long time, finally took a vacation to Hawaii, and now this slender beautiful babe takes his photo and puts it front of hundreds of thousands of viewers on the Internet! Now, is that nice? (Yes, the photo is funny, but is it nice?)
seesixcm6
Be careful who you call fat and old. It could a family member or friend or associate or a HFW fan on vacation unbeknown to Marina?
Whose shadow is that in the foreground?
Only the shadow knows, muwahhhahaha
Ok it seems none of them work. Klaus I couldn’t get your to work either. lol
I had problems when I first tried to get Marina’s video to play. All I got was that swirling wheel. Must be a spider in the web.
The video playing issue is a YT issue. They are very slow. Lost of comments about that on various YT sites.
The pic not working is a domain filter that the “twitpic.com” server is implementing.
Thanks to pedantickarl above, the picture from Twitter was solved! Thanks. seesixcm6
Watch someone on this site recognize that fellow and tell him. But I guess he is getting an eyeful with M sitting in front of him. Your right it probably isn’t nice. But it’s to late now.
Have a good one Seesix
ur such a pod-person.
yeah!!yeah!! but cheecks
What I call my Mother depends on who I am talking to; it can be any of Mum, Mums, Mumsy, Ma, Mama, Mae, Patsie, Blottie or a number of other nicknames, and I use any of them when addressing her personally, depending on our moods and the situation.
Variety is the spice of life, is it not?
video visions internet death every owner of her jewelry
It’s crackers to dropsy the rozzer in snide.
That’s not quite right, but if you’ve ingested the right drugs, you won’t even notice.
CampKohler your answer is in last post of mine you answered in below
I call my mother “mom.”
I can really get wrapped up in this lesson.
Sorry! I couldn’t let this one go to waste.
P.S. I’m still waiting for my word requests Dear Teacher.
Not sure where to post this question, so this thread is as good as any other: what’s up with the iTunes podcast version of the clips…?!? They haven’t been updated for the last three weeks or so…!?
Any info on that…? Thanks…
“Not sure where to post….” The site could benefit from some separate blogs for specific purposes with the appropriate buttons at the page top. This allows for other users to contribute or even solve a problem immediately, which a Contact msg does not.
1. Report Problems — post technical probems with this site or HFW’s YouTube videos with symptomatic details. Other users could contribute confirmation/more detail.
2. Site Improvements — Propose improvements to Web site operation and form. Other users could discuss the suggested improvements or propose better ones.
3. Watering Hole & mdash; A gathering place not related to any specfic lesson. Ask general questions or gossip. Would it would be better to pull general stuff out of the specific lessons?
As permanent blogs, they would probably need to be paged, because, as their length increases over time, there would be too much material to load to each user who checks in. alternatively, after it gets a bit longish, a new blog could replace it and the old one gets archived with users able to select it if they desire.
I have a suggestion for #2. In addition to labelling the current lesson in the same format as all past lessons, e.g. “http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/11/01/mummy/”, have a copy of the current lesson (or point to the original) with the label, “http://www.hotforwords.com/currentlesson”. That way users can create a permanent shortcut to the current lesson, which is not possible now due to the frequently-changing label. Yes, it would be one more thing to update when changing lessons, but it would save a few clicks for the great unwashed* masses.
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*Maybe that’s why they talk dirty so soften.
I emailed Marina the other day about the pod casts not being updated, but I didn’t get any response. I guess she was getting ready for Hawaii. So it’s no telling what she is going to do with it.
Too bad, because I found the iTunes subscription the most convenient way to follow the updates and watch them on my iPhone…
Well, let’s hope it’s just a temporary glitch…! And yes, this site has become pretty crowded by now and could use some streamlining…
As an example of how another organization (over 20K users) handles feedback and group discussion, take a look at their forum index page, http://www.sactogasprices.com/Forum_Category.aspx. Then click one category and pick a topic to see how they go at it. I am not suggesting that such a elaborate arrangement is needed here yet, but it gives you an idea of what is possible. (Click here for the normal entry point if you’re interest is peaked. Ignore messages from anyone named CampKohler, because as stokesjrj1 has so kindly pointed out, it does not matter what he thinks. IGNORE THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN! )
“your,” dang it! I merged “if you’re interested” and “if your interest is peaked” in my mind. Once it is in there, it is for all practical purposes corrupted and lost forever. Sort of like a PC, but without the free porno.
Okay people, seriously — what the *beep* is happening with the iTunes version?!?
It hasn’t been updated for the last four weeks now…!?
This is the most convenient way for people to watch the videos and you have just stopped supporting it or what else is the matter…?!?
I’d hate to have to say goodbye to Marina, but if she’s not on iTunes anymore, that’s it then…
PLEASE let me know what’s going on here…! Thanks…!!
hey marina!, can you do the word Opportunity?
Марина, the word “mama” is a basic word in all Indo-European languages (and probably others), not just English. It’s the same in ро-русский.
BTW, I enjoyed the depiction of you breast feeding a child. It was interesting for me.
“Interesting”? “INTERESTING”? Well, hell, then I’ll just add that it was “interesting” to me , too!
Oops, that should be по-русский.
I called mine Mom most of the time, but sometimes Mama. She’s with Dad now…
“mother” and her other name “I cart you 9 months for 9 hours hard labor you lazy ass indian you”
and all i got was this lame ass calander that i have to pay for
Oh, I wouldn’t call her ass lame. Thin maybe, but definitely appealing. You know what they say, “You can never be too thin or too rich.”
what you think dont mean anything CampKohler
Snipply third grader, are we?? :/
Snippy.
rosiecheeks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGjfnt4gw5A
http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/12/03/oneteen-twot een/ what were you told about tatoos and jewelry
I call her either Mom or Ma depending on our mood.
hi I got a word request, or sort of…
“ish”, “an” or “ese” ? People from England or Spain are called English and Spanish, but people from Portugal are called Portuguese but not “portugalish”. If you’re from China, Japan or Vietnam you’re Chinese, Japanese or Vietnamese respectively. People Mongolia are Mongolian but not “mongolese”. If you’re from Congo you’re considered Congolese but folks from Morocco are called Moroccan. So what makes someone a ish, an or ese?
I am an “ian” (Canadian). I’ve wondered about that too, a3spirit. The weird thing is, even though I don’t know the official rule, it’s usually intuitive which suffix to put on when I don’t know the correct one.
It may have to do with euphoniousness. Like parchedsquid says, it’s intuitive, probably just because it sounds best.
What about other languages? Do they have -ish, -an and -ese endings (or their equivalent) or do they have more rigid practices, e.g. something along the lines of universally attaching a suffix meaning “foreign devils” to the country name?
More and more I am growing less interested in the ancient roots of some English word (which is far removed from our time and is so less relevant to us) and more interested the differences between current languages. However, I am not so interested that I would actually undertake to study a lot of foreign languages; I’m too lazy for that. Maybe, in addition to the material Marina provides, she could spice it up a bit by adding what the word or phrase is in few widely-spoken languages. Now I wouldn’t expect her to go digging up (no pun intended) the word for mummy in Swahili, but she could gather a circle of people competent in the major languages upon which she could rely to help her out with the material. That would add a service that I don’t think you can easily find on the Web and it would broaden our horizons a bit. What do you think, you tittie watchers?
I’ll be number 10 whether I am or not. Screwing up the numbers hehehe
I used to call mine mama.
Me too. I called mine mama also and
oma for my grandmother.
mummies are also just dead body’s that have been well preserved due to natural causes …. not just the typical egyptian toilet paper wrapped corpes….
True. dezdkado will be able to tell about mummies that were found in a cave on the Nuugsuaq peninsula opposite Uummannaq, preserved by nothing more than the extreme cold and low humidity of the air. Also, there was Ötzi, a mummified hunter found high in the Alps between Italy and Austria, also preserved by the cold.
Other mummies have been found in peat bogs and in Pompeii, Italy where they were mummified by a pyroplastic flow emanating from the volcano Vesuvius.
I’m in agreement with Foxbow. Many of the earliest forms of mummification are caused by environment, not man. Even in Egypt, those who could not afford the expensive 70 day process of mummification, and the rituals,scrolls, and spells that went along with them, would bury the corpses of their honored dead into sand dunes until the bodies were fully dessicated. The peat bog mummies are an excellent example as well. (thanks Bob) In caves in the Andes, and in caves in the cliffs along the Yangtze River, dry cold air served to mummify the dead. I’m not sure if the victims of Pompeii and Herculaneum are true mummies. The pyroclastic flows of Vesuvius encased and cooked their victims. In some cases you can see where high temperature boiled the water within a victim and caused the ashy encasement to rupture from the internal organs and steam that spewed from the corpse. Otzi is very interesting (to me) because he contains within his body the earliest known forensic evidence of murder.
You Web wookies! Stop using the apostrophe to form plurals! Who started that crap, anyway? It seems to come up along with the Web, but maybe it’s been going on a lot longer. Perhaps these egregious errors weren’t noticable because we had no way (other than via personal correspondance) to see how others wrote except in publications. Their editors would assuredly correct missteps in their own self-defense, so as not to appear (or be seen to have readers that appear) to be a bunch of goofballs.
Well, we aren’t mommied here &mdashl; there are no editors to correct us (and with the edit function turned off, we can’t even correct ourselves!). So all our flaws hang out like the wash on the clothesline. Don’t these kids (I assume they are kids) know that every time they
open their mouthstype on their keyboards, every error they make will stick out like a sore thumb and announce to the world their state of education (or lack of it)? Maybe they think it just isn’t important, but I can say from experience that there have been people I have passed over for jobs simply because I really didn’t want to look at those errors from that time forward. But what do I know; maybe everyone nowadays is so inept that one can’t pick and choose anymore. That is to say, when we are all ignorant, the man who can count to two is a genius.&mdashl; should be —
Thats the L of it!
I completely agree, if you believe that English is the writer’s mother tongue, but one has to make allowances for those for whom English is a second, third (or more) language, and try to teach the correct usage in a kind way.
And by the way, where did “euphoniousness” come from? I believe euphony sounds more pleasing.
just sayin’ wheres the missing apos’
I be liken’ readin the guys (n’ gals) who is english is no so good. I be undrstndn, een they be makin’ mstakes nown’ agin. Dony be hittin’ moi… I’sa be loinin har.
Sorry about that I’m getting used to no spell check, I just go to google ifn’ I think I misspelled something & I only miss the edit feature ifn’ I think a haven’t offended someone enough.
Be cool Canuck, some of the smartest people I know couldn’t write an error free paragraph. I could if I wanted too but I ain’t all that smart
Bob: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/euphoniousness
And further, Bob: How would English as a second language lead to that use of the apostrophe? For that matter, why does a native-speaker confuse possessive with plural? Is there some little voice that whispers, “It looks like an apostrophe is needed in there doesn’t it? You are feeling quite uncomfortable without it, aren’t you? So go ahead… put it in there. What can it hurt? There! Isn’t that better now? Yes. It’s amazing how the little mark makes the whole world look better. You did good. Have a nice day.”
Well, it wouldn’t per se; all I’m saying is that it’s unreasonable to expect foreigners to understand all the rules and nuances of a language, especially when native speakers are so lax in their use of it.
The reason I was teasing you (it was just teasing – don’t be offended) was because the Oxford English Dictionary doesn’t give “euphoniousness” the dignity of a mention. The fact that an on-line dictionary does so, I think, reflects a popular tendency of people to make things more complicated than they need to be.
In the same entry that you linked to, there was a mention of the opposite term “cacophonous”. Would you, therefore use the same rule and coin the word “cacophonousness” in place of cacophony? That would truly have an unpleasant sound, (note the recursive definition) as well as being impossible to say even when sober.
Perhaps an arguement could be made that the -ness form means the quality of having the -y form. But that is really cutting wild rabbits in half. I thus accept your point that the -y form has more reasonablenessness to it.
Oops. I meant argument. (I was just too lazy to use the new edit feature to go back and fix that. Marina has finally taken my advice, you know. Um-hmmm.)
After allowing the unneccessary-apostrophe matter to percolate through my brain overnight, I had a flash of insite. Could it be that this error is made far more often by native-speakers than non-native speakers? That is, it is a modern American phenomenon that is being copied by non-native-speakers as it is spread around the world by the ‘Net? If so it is our own fault and so it is up to us to send in the Marines to stamp out this travesty whenever it occurs; we must save the naive of the world from this vile, ungodly corruption that will surely send their souls to perdition*.
Did you see that? I just saved foxbow’s soul.
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*Or at least make them look like goofballs in print (I don’t know which is worse).
you typed all of this because I said mummy’s instead of mummies……
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English is my 4th language… or 3th cause Dutch and Finnish are about the same to me…. so don’t expect it to be perfect….
In Dutch there is a rule that if a noun ends with an Y, e, o, i, u or a, you use apostrophe S (’s)to make it a plural ….. that’s why I make that mistake in english sometimes
oh wait I spelled mummies right , it was body’s=bodies
So it’s an actual rule in Dutch? Then I guess we are Finnished.
4th!
5th!
I call her mother, mom, or my favorite maw!
Homework:(Hi Kobe!) When she was I alive I called her mother when I was upset with her and mom ohtherwise.
hey there!
i was wondering about 2 words…the first one is Linguistics.
The second one is… inaguration (like the president thing… idk if i spelled it right)
oooh , this hasn’t been up for long has it…
I call mine äiti ,it’s Finnish for mom
Hello Marina,
I’m holding a spot for Bob and Capman911.
Thanks Warren, I was just eating so