I have to say Marina, this is a great lesson, but you didn’t get the intonation quite right. You give it a flat intonation that does not rise or fall from one phoneme to the next, but in most usages (which as you point out follow from the usage in the Simpsons), meh has a falling tone. I think this is important for this word, because it is lexicallogically so empty. I think one of the hardest parts of learning Russian for me is getting the intonation right. What would [да ладно...] (as used when indicating that sufficient information has been conveyed to prove one’s point) without it’s intonation?
Homer saw an ad for a place called Blocko-land (A ripoff of legoland). He was excited to go, but not the kids.
A bit later on when they were leaving Blocko-land:
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Bart mentions how he likes his Lego shirt.
Marge : Don’t you mean Blocko shirt?
Bart: Err Yeah…Blocko shirt.
Dear HotForWords,
I’d like to know the origin of a word I’ve been daydreaming about. Let’s see. Now what was it? Ummm, I was just thinking about it. Oh, I remember. The word is REVERIE. My favorite word. Thanks!
Orpheus
Yesterday I request “neo maxi zoomdweebie” and today I googled it.Guess what came up on the searches? …thats right, hotforwords,what a small and fast world!
Normally I don’t find Erica Durance that attractive looking, but she does have a nice rack when she skinny deeps in that Rob Zombie movie (I think it was House of the Dead).
Wow.. just learned a new word.. from the U.S. Cruise ship that just outran the pirates:
“In a statement on its Web site, the company said pirates fired eight rifle shots at the liner, but that the ship’s captain increased speed and managed to outrun the skiffs.”
Skiff: a small light boat of any kind from French esquif, the Italian schifo and Old High German scif
heheh that’s a word I use almost daily (Skiff). Not hard to out run a skiff. They are usually overloaded for the size of motor they put on them. Most skiffs run about 5 to 15+ knots. The M/S Nautica tops out around 18+ knots. Your normal container ships can run around 22+ knots. Also they had one of those long-range acoustic device that hurts your ears.
What they need is one of those long-range acoustic devices that has about a .50 cal. hole on the business end of it.
Passenger: “And this Captain, is my 95-year old grandmother, Mrs. Frump.”
Captain: “Pleased to meet you. Say, while we are assigning battle station assignments, Mrs. Frump, do you think you could manage these fifty cals? We’ll have someone to feed the ammo; all you would have to do is point and pull on this triggery thing right here.”
Well, Marina, turnabout is fair play. Tell us the Russian word for skiff. It could be the first one in your English/Russian series. You gotta get going on this.
Milaya Marina,
There’s an English phrase “to be worth one’s salt”, meaning to have earned one’s pay. That would tie in with I7’s word request.
Roman soldiers were paid in salt, and their pay was called their salarium. (At least, if my memory’s any good.)
Cognates for salt:
Greek halos
Spanish sal
Welsh halen
OK, sorry, I’m free-associating now. It’s a symptom of my ADD.
Sweetie, LOL you saw that to? Use her pillows? Naw I have a better use for those. I like using them to prop my head up to watch TV in bed. When I sleep, I like to bury my face in them.
A word request, please, as the time for law exams draws near…
Where does the title “Esquire” come from, and why do some lawyers use the title instead of the more common J.D.? For instance, why do some lawyers sign their names, Joe Smith, Esq. as opposed to Joe Smith, J.D.?
WLIU, esquire means without (royal) title. But because lawyers have started using esquire very much like a title, it now means “I have a title of no title, which I hope you find impressing as hell and makes me seem more like my fees are worth it.”
“Do, or do not. There is no ‘try’.” – Yoda ‘The Empire Strikes Back’
Love this quote
I also llike the scene after Yoda uses the force to move Luke’s X-Wing, and Luke says “I don’t believe it!” Then Yoda says “That is why you fail!” So many great lines in The Empire Strikes Back!
so this how meh is used in the US …
In Malaysia meh is used in the ending of questions as in “Quantum of Solace good meh ?”
Malaysian English is like a cocktail of Chinese and Malay
Without gadgets , a Bond movie isn’t a Bond movie
This one has stumped me for a while now. Why is it that we use “Holy” as a prefix for some words, particularly “Holy Shit”? Not trying to be too controversial, but I have even heard clergy use the phrase, which made me laugh.
Heard of it, not really much of a user myself (last time I used it? white random noise from my memory banks…). Still an interesting lesson though.
One of the best things about an alphabetically based language such as English is its simplicity, which allows it to adapt and create new words as necessary to suite contemporary situations.
This was an OK lesson. The over-happy intro with the narcist geek at the recent Youtube love fest was over-the-top.
I’d never heard of “meh” (sounds like a meth addict would know it) but I’ve heard of “ta” (the Australian short form for “little thanks”.
Hope one of your online addicts doesn’t start telling me off like one loser did the other night. That was pathetic
{CK twists the bullet end in his ear to lubricate it for extra accuracy, s-l-o-w-l-y and deliciously slides it into into the breech, pushes the well-oiled bolt forward and then down and ever-so-carefully turns the windage a click or two.}
Security guard: “Hey! What are you doing up there?”
CK: “Oh, nothing. Just watchin’ this guy.”
Security guard: “Gonna be long?”
CK: “Dunno yet.”
{Whilst unseen by CK and unheard by the mark, a shadowy figure clad in an all enveloping, skin-tight black jumpsuit with a black hood with only three small holes for the eyes and nose, smiles as he silently slides an all black shoto out of its scabbard.
He reaches into a small black pouch hanging at his waist and pulls out a bag of powder, which has been prepared from the crushed stamens of the Chrysanthemum flower.
When this powder gets into the mark’s bloodstream from the small pinprick of the shoto, it acts as a powerful neuro-toxin that will have the victim writhing on the ground in agony as he wonders what kind of insect just stung him.}
Security guard: “Hey! What’s happened to that guy you were watching?”
CK: “Dunno. He was just standing there in the moonlight when a cloud came over the moon. When the moon came out again, he was on the ground bawling his head off. I never saw a thing.”
{Bob and CK wash up, change clothes and go over to Marina’s place with a couple of pounds of ribs and a bag of charcoal. All three are chowing down at the table.}
Marina: “It’s a different flavor meat, but it’s really good!”
CK: “Well, some kinds of meat are best when really fresh.”
Bob: “Yeah, like an hour ago.”
{Bob winks at CK, who tosses Gorby a rib. Gorby winks at CK and they all laugh.}
CK, maybe we should start a new clique.
We could call ourselves Teacher’s Ass-ass-ins or TAs for short. The current TAs should now be called TSs for Teacher’s Sweeties, and Capt.Jack with his deadly hands could be our patron.
The Oxford English dictionary says the origin of the word “canoodle” is obscure, and that of “cuddle” is “uncertain”. Could there be a connection with the German verb “knuddeln”?
hey marina, i would like to request a word.
“stool”
is the word stool(like the chair) in anyway related stool meaning (fecal matter, feces, please dont make me say more =))
like, “go sit on that stool” is it related to stool sample?
I don’t use meh myself, but if I were to be forced to, the first application would be to old Bucko. A little of him goes a long way; that is to say, if he were a can of Spackle, you could follow a serial killer with a shotgun through a housing project and use him to fix everything up like new and still have enough left over to follow a serial killer with a shotgun through a housing project…
Now, how does meh sound like a Russian cop? Do you mean litterally that is a sound they make or does it sound like the word for a Russian cop?
Hello Marina, John, dukerreno, Bob, James, Dezdkado, annuddermale, pedantickarl, foxbow, jt-turner, animalntaz, etyrnal, fong47, jakem952, russianboy, Capman911, absentmindedprof, bsomebody, Che Volay, CaptainJack, thoughtonfire, melikadothechacha, and any others I may have missed in my Nyquil drugged state,
Many thanks for keeping me company while I’ve been shut in with a heavy cold. Thank you for your lively repartee, patience, support, and occasional gentle correction.
Oh yeah, and Marina, my best wishes for Gorby’s quick recovery.
Cool! Let’s pàté
CK – If you change your Gravatar from
the computer generated job, you won’t
be taken for granted so easily. People
will see you are a regular patron.
Ok I hope you get better. It sounds like its the cold and flu season. Im hearing many people including animals are sick. I have 3 friends with sick animals and 7 friends that are sick. Must be the changing of season.
You’re welcome… Make yourself a hot toddy, and may you wake up fully healed from your ailment. Here’s a (hopefully) funny story that may make you feel better…
One winter I went with a friend and his family to Winter Park, Colorado for a ski-trip. We drove there in a huge truck with a covered top over the bed of the vehicle that kept our luggage and ski equipment dry. For the first couple of days everything was wonderful… the weather was perfect, the snow was plentiful, the crowds were small, and I had the joy of watching a friend attempt to learn to ski… as he struggled to stand or glide without falling.
But a few days in I succumbed to two sicknesses… (1) a flu virus and (2) altitude sickness. I was as weak and helpless as a baby… but nowhere near as cute or compact in size. For two days and part of a third I lingered in bed in agony… fever, vomiting, shortness of breath, etc.
On the last day, as everyone was packing to go, I was still miserable. One of my friend’s relatives was in medicine and had kept an eye on me throughout my ordeal. Once the truck was packed and everyone else was on board, she gave me one pill and a bottle of water.
“What is this?” I asked her.
“Just take it.” she ordered me, and then asked me to bundle up and sleep in the bed of the truck with the luggage. “When you wake up, you’ll feel better.”
I did as she instructed. I took the pill, drank my water, bundled up, reclined in the bed of the truck, and closed my eyes for a short nap. I woke up about 9 hours later and two states away from Colorado. The group had stopped to get gas at a truck stop, to stretch their legs, etc. And I woke up in wonderment. I felt brand new. No headache, no fever, no nausea, no weakness, no nothing… I felt great!
So I went to the woman who had given me the pill. I had to know the name of this miracle drug.
“What was that pill that you gave me?” I inquired.
“Well… they don’t make it any more…” she began. “It’s called Empirin…”
“What was it used for?” I wondered aloud.
“Feminine cramps.” She replied.
I was mortified… and humbled as my friend couldn’t stop laughing at me. To this day, instead of asking how my day went, or inquiring after my family, he greets me with, “So Dez… how are you cramps?”
Good idea, RB! At the end of each lesson, she could pick one word (either the same as the English word or an entirely different one), pronounce it a couple of times (fast and slowly), define it, give usage examples and spell it in the Roman alphabet*. In the title, list the word, e.g. “Meh/Smitna” and have a separate page of Russian word lesson links, just like the English ones.
Best of all for Marina is that she can do it from memory (no origins), so she can quickly adlib them. Oooh! I can’t wait!
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*The spelling doesn’t have to be technically perfect, just phonetically correct. After all, it will only be used as a way for non-Cyrillic writers to record it.
hey marina love your show can you please find the origin of the word christmas since we are coming soon to this date. And also Marina i would like to ask you my biggest dream would you sub my youtube it is on this link http://br.youtube.com/user/thepepitoshow please Marina also please leave comments love your show
eye can’t hear you you must have carrots stuck in your ears
Makes no logical sense which explains it. you have been released from the nut house, I shall no longer converse with you but see you and feel pity good-day
Hi Marina… Congrats for your show and your beautiful apearence evry time we watc your video…
I want to know where the word “Deamn” comes from, as we say “Deamn!!! what a preaty woman”
I was once told that the original definition for insanity ment to do something the same over and over again expecting different results. What’s the truth in this?
If by using the phrase “original definition” you are implying that there were forthcoming later definitions (because the first the original is flawed), I would have to agree.
What does it say about someone if he does something differently over and over and expects the same results? I pay different amounts of taxes each year, but I can always count on them to want more.
I saw a tutorial about sorting it out in sony vegas and it looks like it was doing just like marina said to do so i will try that tomorrow or on friday. as long as vegas does not give me 400mb for 2 seconds of film i will be happy otherwise I will be uninstalling it.
Vegas, as most editors are tweakable. You can do a 10 min vid in 500K. I may be exaggerating, as I gotta run and can’t give an example or do the math. But, you must keep in mind, there is no free lunch, a LONG vid with SHORT file size means very lousy quality. It’s all in the trade-offs YOU designate.
With Vegas You is in charge man, not BillGrates.
Oh, forgot, yes there is a learning curve. It is not steep, but give yourself at least a few weeks to learn the ins and outs. Once learned, you will be amazed. Trust me. I’ve gotten lots of free meals from people that were elated.
While you wait for Marina’s reply, here’s what Dad told me:
In America’s colonial days, Spanish silver dollars were in circulation, and were cut into eight pieces (bits) to make small change. Two bits was thus a quarter dollar.
Marina, what I need to know is if your videos now have more room in them now than they had 2 weeks ago. eg you filmed your bed 2 weeks ago and you uploaded it and all we saw was your bed if you did it today would we see your bed and the table next to it?
Yes, I love all of the characters that he performs: Peanut, Walter, Bubba, Jose Jalapeno, Sweet Daddy D, Achmed… and he’s on tour, so he may be in your neck o’ the woods soon.
I do use the word “meh” on occasion. Although, more often I find some curse word to fill in the gap when I’m at a loss for how I want to describe something; I need to make my conversational skills more interesting.
So you’re publishing a book through Harper Collins? That’s exciting to hear. It says in your biographical information that it’s about fun word origins, but when should we expect to learn more about it? Do you have any sort of general idea as to when it may be published?
By the way that vid was uploaded in 1280×720
I think Marina mentioned on Twitter that she can’t edit 1280x
Neither can I in Vegas, but I think there is a Vegas version that will, but of course it costs more.
Y’know…I’d been thinking that there’s an almost mythic quality about Marina — as if she’s a fusion of Athena and Aphrodite — and then she comes up with “Meh!”
Think of her less in the role of goddess… it’s so overdone… every girl with a flight of imagination fancies herself a goddess of something. Heaven help us if such a gal is attractive and has a passable talent… as she will declare herself a Diva as well.
Besides, knowing your classical mythology you must see how vain and spiteful the goddesses can be… certainly not qualities you will find in this Lady of the Lexicons. Don’t push her so high upon a pedestal that she is unable to condescend to converse with mere mortals.
If she must be supernatural, think of Marina in the role of Muse… and all the Muses had a command of music and language. Philology tends to plumb the depths of history, so perhaps Clio is the appropriate Muse… and Clio means “glorious”, as I recall.
Mnemosyne has long been my favorite: goddess of memory and mother of the Muses. Marina is a sort of guardian of memory, reminding us of where our words come from.
This has been an a-muse-ing thread!
See the recent post for the pencil
lesson. It also comes from the
same word root, as does penis.
Makes you wince knowing that
and seeing a girl chew an eraser…
What is the origin of the word ‘pen’.
Here is a photo of a pen I made for sale.
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The dutch “word OF the year” chosen by the biggest dutch dictionary is “zwaffelen” ……that means slappping someone or something with a ….uhh.. kinda hard…. penis….-.-
that’s fucked up isn’t it:P
I’m going to laugh the next time I hear a politician being accused of waffling on an issue… I’m going to hear “He’s wafflin’” but I’m going to think “He zwaffelen”.
Word request: Buskill… Not sure bout the spelling tho. There has been alot of references to bus(h)kil(l) recently in shows like family guy or dexter. The word is linked to killjoy or a person with no sense of humor, but where buskil derives from? Tnx, im a big fan!
Right. Here is something for people about what I do with my videos
1 film them on my camera (mp4)
2 use anyvideoconverter to convert them to wmv
3 edit in movie maker
then
what I did
use anyvideoconverter to convert it back to mp4 at 640*480
what I do now
used anyvideoconverter to do 640*360 (or whatever that widescreen resoloution is) but in flv format (cant do custom on mp4 )
but that made it stretched. So now I am messing around seeing what Quicktime can do for me. I just uploaded a video but the quality was CRAP! I think it was my fault though so I will try it again in a bit.
That goes back to me asking if anyone can guess at what the filesize would be if i filmed 3 mins on an hd camcorder like marina does.
I think so but I cant do that, also she has an hd camera so she can probably get away with it. If I could cut anything off mine I would take half my head off
“meh” sounds like a shortened version of “mmmmm yeah” but said in a lackluster way,not with exuberance,kinda like You said,infers indifferance or even negative feelings.
I would really like to know the origin of the word philosophy. My religion teacher said it came from the anciant greek phrase philo sophia which means love of knowledge but i dont really believe him.
Please explain the origins of “Wisdom Tooth” or “Wisdom Teeth”. Does this have anything to do with the idea that that if You’re wise, You’ll take care of them, and still have them when You’re old? Or that if not taken care of, they will rot, and You;ll get an infection in Your brain that cause You to lose Wisdom? Or does Your body store Wisdom in there?
If your jaw doesn’t have room for them, they occlude into your other teeth, pushing them out of allignment and damaging the teeth they contact down to the root. This can cause an infection that is known to be deadly! Had mine “spooned” out at 16 – before they erupted. A lot less painful than waiting…
I had a wisdom that was impacted on a nerve! I was so bad that I couldn’t open my mouth all the way! One day there was bad storm and I had a headache that was so bad I thought my skull was going to split open! It caused by that tooth!
Jakem952 from atlanta, ga and I would like to know what “smartelick” means? I think something to do with being a smart a** but I would like to know the origin and so forth.
Hi Marina,as a huge Simpson’s fan,I would like to more about Homer’s favorite word and one I use much more than meh.
And I think it also made it into the dictionary years ago
Dear совершенная Marina, No, I never use the word, “meh.” In fact, it sounds like a Chinese word, “myeh”, which in English means “what.” For example, if you said “Я супоросый”, I’d ask, “What!?”
I didn’t like the new James Bond movie, either. The villains weren’t as menacing and sinister as Goldfinger and Oddjob, and the plot was just linear, with few twists or surprises. Olga Kurylenko is very beautiful and I would “huggle” with her for a very long time!
I saw Gorby sleeping next to you and I hope he’s better, now.
Your dear student, seesixcm6
seesixcm6 – did you figure out
why your Gravatar is all black
You can try tweaking the DPI setting
(dots per inch). I suspect yours is at
200 dpi. Lower it to 72-90, it should
work then.
“Meh”? It sounds like something you’d hear from a cold sufferer. The latest Bond movie a disappointment? Let me recommend a movie you might like, Marina, and it’s, “Kicked in the Head” It’s one of my favorites. It has booze, drugs, shoot outs, mobs (including a Russian mobster), love interests, family values, the theory of love, the pros & cons of capitalism, cosmic meaning, and a lovable little doggy all in one flick.
I’ll take that movie recommendation They aren’t the same kind of movie, though. “Kicked in the Head” is a streets of New York flick and is packed with character actors like, James Wood (who is great in this film), Burt Young, Lili Taylor, and Michael Rapaport (His best work). I failed to mention it was a comedy, too, and that’s important. Wildly underrated by the viewing public. Not for the straight laced viewer that’s for sure.
I would like to have your email addy remove for you will get spammed big time. Normally the server kicks out email addys for your protection. I will contact M and have it removed.
You can copy and paste from Character Map or type U+2550, U+2551, U+2554, U+2557, U+255A and U+255D. You have to type the numbers on the number pad and not on the top row beneath the function keys.
u just copy it from microsoft office! Insert–Symbols
these are all Frame Symbols from Microsoft Office
─│┌ ┐└ ┘├ ┤┬ ┴ ┼ ═║╒╓╔ ╕╖ ╗╘╙╚ ╛╜╝╞╟╠ ╡╢ ╣╤ ╥ ╦ ╧ ╨ ╩ ╪ ╫ ╬
Back in the command-line days (pre GUI), those symbols were what passed for graphics in the PC world. They were used to surround menus, or otherwise pretty up a screen of text. And now here you guys are, years later, wondering about them.
Archeologist 1: “Look at this things with the bulbous end.”
Archeologist 2: “Why, it’s a tool! It must be!”
Archeologist 1: “There’s an inscription in ancient Ammurican! It’s barely legible: ‘ball peen ham mur’”
Archeologist 2: “What do you suppose that means?”
Archeologist 1: “No clue. Let’s get it back to the lab so we can carbon date it and type that inscription into Archimate for Windows 9.0″
Like most things, it came from a military acronym. A JUG is the modern NATO term for the WWII canteen, used by soldiers to carry drinking water. It stands for Joint Utility Gondola.
This is the first I heard of this word…Meh… so I haven’t used it. Now that I have discovered it… I will understand someone who uses it.
The likelihood of me using the word is very low to nil.
Oh,yeah!! I just bought Season(Series)four of Doctor Who on DVD. I don’t have BBC America on my TV so I have to wait for the DVD release. I have watched the first three episodes of this collection and it is awesome!! Catherine Tate is back and the rumor around here is that David Tennant is leaving the show. Doctor Who is a popular show here in the states! Yeah!!!!!
Hey! Don’t trash the latest Bond movie! I loved it. I’ll be watching it again and again. The Bond genre rocks! Long live all the Bond movies made and the ones yet to be made!!!
The only Bond film I didn’t like was the musical comedy parody called “Casino Royale” made many years ago starring David Niven,Woody Allan,and Tom Jones. It was terrible! The Daniel Craig version of “Casino Royale” is a real gem. And “Quantum of Solace” is simply fantastic! Yes!!!
The previous Bond movie, Casino Royale was the BEST Bond movie BY FAR! And it did over a billion dollars at the box office as a result. Then the producer HIRE A DIFFERENT DIRECTOR for this movie, and you end up with none of the character development of the previous movie, nor the real tension you felt in the previous one.. PLUS Bond doesn’t even get with the main girl??? What’s up with that?
I’m just upset that they had an amazing team on the last movie and perhaps didn’t want to pay for it on this one?
If you read the books, Casino Royale was very close to the original book.. Quantum of Solace had absolutely NOTHING to do with the original story. I LOVE James Bond.. that’s why I offered my criticism
Thanks for clarifying your criticism. I might have to make you my new movie critic. Now I can go see the movie and not have such high expectations to only get disappointed. I’ll go see it on a matinee price.
Marina, I appreciate your views on “Quantum of Solace”. That is what makes this country great! Everyone has an opinion and is free to express it. I have talked to guys and gals alike about this movie. To me, it seems to boil down to one thing. “Quantum…” is a guy film. The guys I have talked to enjoyed the film. The gals,well,they seem to follow your train of thought and did not like this latest Bond adventure. Perhaps I am addicted to the Bond genre and like the movies. My only thing I would of changed is to have Bond in the cross hairs of an enemy agents gun appear in the opening credits instead of the closing credits. Remember the scene? Bond is seen walking and the enemy’s gun is aimed at him. Bond spins around,fires his gun,and the enemy’s gun slowly tilts down with blood covering the screen. Other Bond films show this scene at the opening credits. Perhaps you will like the next Bond movie. Until then,save the isle seat for me and I’ll see you at the movies!!!
Marina these are three new nerd words if you haven’t already used them.
I have to say Marina, this is a great lesson, but you didn’t get the intonation quite right. You give it a flat intonation that does not rise or fall from one phoneme to the next, but in most usages (which as you point out follow from the usage in the Simpsons), meh has a falling tone. I think this is important for this word, because it is lexicallogically so empty. I think one of the hardest parts of learning Russian for me is getting the intonation right. What would [да ладно...] (as used when indicating that sufficient information has been conveyed to prove one’s point) without it’s intonation?
I just used “meh” in regards to this year’s Super Bowl commercials.
I use “um”.
Oh, Professor Orlova! Please tell me how good you help me make my work!
Is it Kobe or Gorby? I remember you changing your dogs name from Kobe to Gorby, but you still call him Kobe. So is it Kobe or Gorby?
I like Gorby Better.
I’m sure it’s Gorby!
The left one is Kobe – the right one is Gorby.
Марина не верь ему он правду сказал )))) “protac6″
Видяхи у тебя просто помпезные жду следующих)
ммм ты уверен что Марина помнит слово помпезные? ^_^
Are you a Mapple Person?
I actually remember that simpsons episode
Homer saw an ad for a place called Blocko-land (A ripoff of legoland). He was excited to go, but not the kids.
A bit later on when they were leaving Blocko-land:
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Bart mentions how he likes his Lego shirt.
Marge : Don’t you mean Blocko shirt?
Bart: Err Yeah…Blocko shirt.
I use the word meh when I’m watching your videos. I’m just kidding Marina I love you
Фильм про бонда был не “Ме” а “Бееееееееее” кал одним словом =))
а мне понравился
Dear HotForWords,
I’d like to know the origin of a word I’ve been daydreaming about. Let’s see. Now what was it? Ummm, I was just thinking about it. Oh, I remember. The word is REVERIE. My favorite word. Thanks!
Orpheus
Somehow I think Capman had some influence on today’s quote.
Boba’s back!
You Give Love A Bad Name
"We're sorry, but this video is no longer available."“…because we were gonna have our pants sued off for copyright infringement by deep pockets.”Whatever.
Mari please, decide to investigate the origin of the word Freemasonry.
Thanks and greetings from Costa Rica,
Siuresfree
i have a word for you.
the word is ‘fishy’
i heard it in an episode of Smallville, when Clark Kent meets Aquaman for the first time. Clark doesnt trust him, and pulls Lois Lane aside and asks:
“Doesnt he seem fishy to you?”
i know how its used, but i would like to know where it comes from
thank you,
elliott
Normally I don’t find Erica Durance that attractive looking, but she does have a nice rack when she skinny deeps in that Rob Zombie movie (I think it was House of the Dead).
how about the word “suck age”…I never really understand it
pirates, yeah they robbed the queen; who paid them too…lesson later, gota cook’em ribs with beans
Wow.. just learned a new word.. from the U.S. Cruise ship that just outran the pirates:
“In a statement on its Web site, the company said pirates fired eight rifle shots at the liner, but that the ship’s captain increased speed and managed to outrun the skiffs.”
Skiff: a small light boat of any kind from French esquif, the Italian schifo and Old High German scif
From which we get the English “ship”?
How’s Gorby getting on?
Never mind, I found your update below.
I really hope he recovers – he’s such a little character.
heheh that’s a word I use almost daily (Skiff). Not hard to out run a skiff. They are usually overloaded for the size of motor they put on them. Most skiffs run about 5 to 15+ knots. The M/S Nautica tops out around 18+ knots. Your normal container ships can run around 22+ knots. Also they had one of those long-range acoustic device that hurts your ears.
What they need is one of those long-range acoustic devices that has about a .50 cal. hole on the business end of it.
Passenger: “And this Captain, is my 95-year old grandmother, Mrs. Frump.”
Captain: “Pleased to meet you. Say, while we are assigning battle station assignments, Mrs. Frump, do you think you could manage these fifty cals? We’ll have someone to feed the ammo; all you would have to do is point and pull on this triggery thing right here.”
Skiffs are one thing Captain but what about the Chinese Junk ? Very strange name for a Boat.
Dinghy is an unusual word for a small boat. It almost sounds Australian.
The first time I ever heard of that word was from Return of The Jedi. There were two desert skiffs floating with Jabba’s Sail Barge.
If you hang out with Sailors and Marines more often, you’ll hear all kinds of new and interesting words… hehe
Well, Marina, turnabout is fair play. Tell us the Russian word for skiff. It could be the first one in your English/Russian series. You gotta get going on this.
And another interesting iff word is spiff.
Is this what you meant about my vids marina? I made it my self……..
roud: in sony vegas :proud/slightly smug :http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FP_mUdCvNAo
Hey Marina, I was wondering the origin of the word salary. I saw on the discovery channel that it might come from the word salt.
That’s a good on imperial7, I wish you could make a video request but if not, I’ll still do it. Let me know.
Milaya Marina,
There’s an English phrase “to be worth one’s salt”, meaning to have earned one’s pay. That would tie in with I7’s word request.
Roman soldiers were paid in salt, and their pay was called their salarium. (At least, if my memory’s any good.)
Cognates for salt:
Greek halos
Spanish sal
Welsh halen
OK, sorry, I’m free-associating now. It’s a symptom of my ADD.
Do you put salt on celery?
I saw the same thing, but as Marina points out alot of things on History and Discovery channels are erroneous, or flawed.
Hey, check out the latest entry on the “gizmo”
tnks I’ll look into it. I’ll be moving my sailboat today so I’ll be off line for half of the day. Not sure If I can find access at the new dock.
Hello Sweetie,
Hope you’ve got plenty of fenders ready this time.
If you’re short, ask M to lend you some err … pillows.
Sweetie, LOL you saw that to?
Use her pillows? Naw I have a better use for those. I like using them to prop my head up to watch TV in bed. When I sleep, I like to bury my face in them.
If you can’t find access, you”l just have to barge in.
My prayers to Gorby’s speedy recovery.
I have words requests:
1. Law – why this word to represent system/principles?
2. Ceteris paribus – the history
3. Call to the bar – why bar? why call to?
A word request, please, as the time for law exams draws near…
Where does the title “Esquire” come from, and why do some lawyers use the title instead of the more common J.D.? For instance, why do some lawyers sign their names, Joe Smith, Esq. as opposed to Joe Smith, J.D.?
WLIU, esquire means without (royal) title. But because lawyers have started using esquire very much like a title, it now means “I have a title of no title, which I hope you find impressing as hell and makes me seem more like my fees are worth it.”
Love this quote
I also llike the scene after Yoda uses the force to move Luke’s X-Wing, and Luke says “I don’t believe it!” Then Yoda says “That is why you fail!” So many great lines in The Empire Strikes Back!
Never use Meh. Though I use Nah or Neh allot, as in not really.
Love your show.
I keep noticing that M is wearing my gravatar more and more, these days. I feel so special.
Dear Hotforwords,
I would like to know what is the meaning of the word Vatican?
Thanks
so this how meh is used in the US …
In Malaysia meh is used in the ending of questions as in “Quantum of Solace good meh ?”
Malaysian English is like a cocktail of Chinese and Malay
Without gadgets , a Bond movie isn’t a Bond movie
Word request “widget” to describe, generically, any product of industry as in:
“I work in a factory that makes thousands of widgets every day”
Sorry, I don’t use ‘Meh’ and, most likely, never will.
Word request:
This one has stumped me for a while now. Why is it that we use “Holy” as a prefix for some words, particularly “Holy Shit”? Not trying to be too controversial, but I have even heard clergy use the phrase, which made me laugh.
xoxo
Spasibo.
Heard of it, not really much of a user myself (last time I used it? white random noise from my memory banks…). Still an interesting lesson though.
One of the best things about an alphabetically based language such as English is its simplicity, which allows it to adapt and create new words as necessary to suite contemporary situations.
This was an OK lesson. The over-happy intro with the narcist geek at the recent Youtube love fest was over-the-top.
I’d never heard of “meh” (sounds like a meth addict would know it) but I’ve heard of “ta” (the Australian short form for “little thanks”.
Hope one of your online addicts doesn’t start telling me off like one loser did the other night. That was pathetic
{CK twists the bullet end in his ear to lubricate it for extra accuracy, s-l-o-w-l-y and deliciously slides it into into the breech, pushes the well-oiled bolt forward and then down and ever-so-carefully turns the windage a click or two.}
Security guard: “Hey! What are you doing up there?”
CK: “Oh, nothing. Just watchin’ this guy.”
Security guard: “Gonna be long?”
CK: “Dunno yet.”
The sooner Marina Orlova can move beyond the web and sickos like you, the better.
{Whilst unseen by CK and unheard by the mark, a shadowy figure clad in an all enveloping, skin-tight black jumpsuit with a black hood with only three small holes for the eyes and nose, smiles as he silently slides an all black shoto out of its scabbard.
He reaches into a small black pouch hanging at his waist and pulls out a bag of powder, which has been prepared from the crushed stamens of the Chrysanthemum flower.
When this powder gets into the mark’s bloodstream from the small pinprick of the shoto, it acts as a powerful neuro-toxin that will have the victim writhing on the ground in agony as he wonders what kind of insect just stung him.}
Security guard: “Hey! What’s happened to that guy you were watching?”
CK: “Dunno. He was just standing there in the moonlight when a cloud came over the moon. When the moon came out again, he was on the ground bawling his head off. I never saw a thing.”
Ditto
{Bob and CK wash up, change clothes and go over to Marina’s place with a couple of pounds of ribs and a bag of charcoal. All three are chowing down at the table.}
Marina: “It’s a different flavor meat, but it’s really good!”
CK: “Well, some kinds of meat are best when really fresh.”
Bob: “Yeah, like an hour ago.”
{Bob winks at CK, who tosses Gorby a rib. Gorby winks at CK and they all laugh.}
Seems the kid doesn’t have a sense of humour.
CK, maybe we should start a new clique.
We could call ourselves Teacher’s Ass-ass-ins or TAs for short. The current TAs should now be called TSs for Teacher’s Sweeties, and Capt.Jack with his deadly hands could be our patron.
The Oxford English dictionary says the origin of the word “canoodle” is obscure, and that of “cuddle” is “uncertain”. Could there be a connection with the German verb “knuddeln”?
and also in accordance with sliplink666, where does Semper Fi come from? is it latin?
Yup! Latin – Semper Fidelis
(Always Faithful) Boo Ya!
Res ipsa loquitor
hey marina, i would like to request a word.
“stool”
is the word stool(like the chair) in anyway related stool meaning (fecal matter, feces, please dont make me say more =))
like, “go sit on that stool” is it related to stool sample?
Meh. Hootie went country I don’t know what happened to the blowfish.
You know, none of the members of that band is named Hootie or the Blowfish.
Hey Marina
I want to know about the phrase Semper Fi that the Marine Corps use
Please and thank you!
Just ask any Marine, and he or she will be most happy to ’splain ya.
I don’t use meh myself, but if I were to be forced to, the first application would be to old Bucko. A little of him goes a long way; that is to say, if he were a can of Spackle, you could follow a serial killer with a shotgun through a housing project and use him to fix everything up like new and still have enough left over to follow a serial killer with a shotgun through a housing project…
Now, how does meh sound like a Russian cop? Do you mean litterally that is a sound they make or does it sound like the word for a Russian cop?
Sorry to hear Gorby still isn’t well. Keep us posted. Never used Meh. Always.
I don’t use meh myself, but my little sister uses it a lot.
I don’t use it, but when others use it I assumed it meant mediocre.
Hello Marina, John, dukerreno, Bob, James, Dezdkado, annuddermale, pedantickarl, foxbow, jt-turner, animalntaz, etyrnal, fong47, jakem952, russianboy, Capman911, absentmindedprof, bsomebody, Che Volay, CaptainJack, thoughtonfire, melikadothechacha, and any others I may have missed in my Nyquil drugged state,
Many thanks for keeping me company while I’ve been shut in with a heavy cold. Thank you for your lively repartee, patience, support, and occasional gentle correction.
Oh yeah, and Marina, my best wishes for Gorby’s quick recovery.
best wishes for your quick recovery
Well, that cinches it. I am officially chopped liver.
Now now, Camp, like I said, it’s the drugs (not) talking.
Cool! Let’s pàté
CK – If you change your Gravatar from
the computer generated job, you won’t
be taken for granted so easily. People
will see you are a regular patron.
“Regular?” Is that just your pleasant euphamism for whack job? OK, guilty.
Ok I hope you get better. It sounds like its the cold and flu season. Im hearing many people including animals are sick. I have 3 friends with sick animals and 7 friends that are sick. Must be the changing of season.
You’re welcome… Make yourself a hot toddy, and may you wake up fully healed from your ailment. Here’s a (hopefully) funny story that may make you feel better…
One winter I went with a friend and his family to Winter Park, Colorado for a ski-trip. We drove there in a huge truck with a covered top over the bed of the vehicle that kept our luggage and ski equipment dry. For the first couple of days everything was wonderful… the weather was perfect, the snow was plentiful, the crowds were small, and I had the joy of watching a friend attempt to learn to ski… as he struggled to stand or glide without falling.
But a few days in I succumbed to two sicknesses… (1) a flu virus and (2) altitude sickness. I was as weak and helpless as a baby… but nowhere near as cute or compact in size. For two days and part of a third I lingered in bed in agony… fever, vomiting, shortness of breath, etc.
On the last day, as everyone was packing to go, I was still miserable. One of my friend’s relatives was in medicine and had kept an eye on me throughout my ordeal. Once the truck was packed and everyone else was on board, she gave me one pill and a bottle of water.
“What is this?” I asked her.
“Just take it.” she ordered me, and then asked me to bundle up and sleep in the bed of the truck with the luggage. “When you wake up, you’ll feel better.”
I did as she instructed. I took the pill, drank my water, bundled up, reclined in the bed of the truck, and closed my eyes for a short nap. I woke up about 9 hours later and two states away from Colorado. The group had stopped to get gas at a truck stop, to stretch their legs, etc. And I woke up in wonderment. I felt brand new. No headache, no fever, no nausea, no weakness, no nothing… I felt great!
So I went to the woman who had given me the pill. I had to know the name of this miracle drug.
“What was that pill that you gave me?” I inquired.
“Well… they don’t make it any more…” she began. “It’s called Empirin…”
“What was it used for?” I wondered aloud.
“Feminine cramps.” She replied.
I was mortified… and humbled as my friend couldn’t stop laughing at me. To this day, instead of asking how my day went, or inquiring after my family, he greets me with, “So Dez… how are you cramps?”
Do you have a blog with all your stories?!
No, but I could do something in the future… one never knows until the story is told whether or not the audience appreciates it.
Hi Marina,
Would you start teaching Russian language classes?
Good idea, RB! At the end of each lesson, she could pick one word (either the same as the English word or an entirely different one), pronounce it a couple of times (fast and slowly), define it, give usage examples and spell it in the Roman alphabet*. In the title, list the word, e.g. “Meh/Smitna” and have a separate page of Russian word lesson links, just like the English ones.
Best of all for Marina is that she can do it from memory (no origins), so she can quickly adlib them. Oooh! I can’t wait!
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*The spelling doesn’t have to be technically perfect, just phonetically correct. After all, it will only be used as a way for non-Cyrillic writers to record it.
She has done a couple already – q.v. ‘Molotov Cocktail’ and ‘AK-47′ under ‘lessons’ tab
hey Marina can you do a video on the word hockey and where the sport came from?
hey marina love your show can you please find the origin of the word christmas since we are coming soon to this date. And also Marina i would like to ask you my biggest dream would you sub my youtube it is on this link http://br.youtube.com/user/thepepitoshow please Marina also please leave comments love your show
I subbed
HEY! I subbed to you! LOL
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Meh….Whats up doc ?
This is.
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.
In the military we prefer:
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Sorry, couldn’t help it
“Just walk beside me so I rip your arm out of it’s socket.”
(Sorry, I just finished watching the lastest episode Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles and haven’t gotten down off the buzz yet.)
Keep up!
Very visible in the sw sky
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27958792/
If we want to star-gaze in Washington, we have to “planet” for a clear night!
Yes – my children & i remarked on them when we went out to eat tonight…thanks!
Yeah, I saw that last night on the way home.
Didn’t look too bad to me.
Listen to me dickhead. Why are you here No one likes you anymore you just turned into a wholesale twat overnight
ehh did say?
Ive never sold a twat that i can recall?
wtf r u on abt?
im sorry i didn’t hear you please repeat
Leave, why can’t you just leave here.
Leave, why can’t you just leave here
you must be fuckin mentally retarded because you dont think with your eyes you read with them.
eye can’t hear you you must have carrots stuck in your ears.
Lets see……. BECAUSE I AM LIKED!
eye can’t hear you you must have carrots stuck in your ears
Makes no logical sense which explains it. you have been released from the nut house, I shall no longer converse with you but see you and feel pity good-day
Damn can’t you take a joke?
I didn’t want to hear from you either I have accomplished my mission.
Hi Marina, I have a couple words for you. First is SUGAR, and then KISS. Kids where asking about SUGAR, and I wanted a KISS.
Sugar me sweet, Marina
I was just thinking of that song.
Hi Marina… Congrats for your show and your beautiful apearence evry time we watc your video…
I want to know where the word “Deamn” comes from, as we say “Deamn!!! what a preaty woman”
Is this a joke? Son of a biatch!
does it look like a joke to you?
Я не думаю, что вы хотите с кем-то беспорядок, как мне малыш.
Поэтому остерегайтесь того, что вы говорите …
Wow, it looks like someone has a potty mouth … I think.
It looked like a joke, because deamn is not a word. It is a comedic pronunciation of damn, just like bi-atch is of bitch.
I was once told that the original definition for insanity ment to do something the same over and over again expecting different results. What’s the truth in this?
Insanity is the impossibilty of reason.
If by using the phrase “original definition” you are implying that there were forthcoming later definitions (because the first the original is flawed), I would have to agree.
What does it say about someone if he does something differently over and over and expects the same results? I pay different amounts of taxes each year, but I can always count on them to want more.
hey, id like to request the word onomatopoeia as this is a weird word that describes some weird words in the english language…. thanks
I don’t use meh. I use nah.
Marina and th VO guy
Happier days…
I agree Doug.
Hi Marina,
Hey you mentioned my screen name Huggles131..
Wow, You really are hot.
I was wondering where the phrase
“Tim Buc Too” came from.
Huggles
Tim and Earl met three girls
Earl bucked one but
Tim bucked two
verwy cwevaer
It’s a place name. Use Mapquest for driving directions.
You told us the history of the word collar, which made me wonder the history of the word “neck”
Thanks
My favourite saying to a lover while in… the act, “At your cervix, ma’am”
That’s a ridiculous word, and I don’t ever use it. I think it’s…meh!
Only 9 more days until we celebrate our birthdays, Marina. Woo-hoo!
I think I can can’t can can’t can’t.
Or can I?
Not.
think so
Look you are glowing like fire! You need a glass of water, or you’ll soon burst into flames.
Burp
excuse me
Hiccup!
Steve Martinesque
I like the the hat you added to your gravitar.
Marina!
Oh, I don’t use meh. My cat does though!
Your Student,
THoughtOnFire
PS You are TooHotForWords! That’s because Meh is today’s word…
Hi Hotforwords
As this is the season of goodwill, what is the origin of Christmas and Xmas
Never heard of ‘meh’, how about meep?
Hi i have a word/name (if you can do names) request – Kimberlee … I really havnt found much information on it and i’d like to learn more about my name
I saw a tutorial about sorting it out in sony vegas and it looks like it was doing just like marina said to do so i will try that tomorrow or on friday. as long as vegas does not give me 400mb for 2 seconds of film i will be happy otherwise I will be uninstalling it.
Vegas, as most editors are tweakable. You can do a 10 min vid in 500K. I may be exaggerating, as I gotta run and can’t give an example or do the math. But, you must keep in mind, there is no free lunch, a LONG vid with SHORT file size means very lousy quality. It’s all in the trade-offs YOU designate.
With Vegas You is in charge man, not BillGrates.
Oh, forgot, yes there is a learning curve. It is not steep, but give yourself at least a few weeks to learn the ins and outs. Once learned, you will be amazed. Trust me. I’ve gotten lots of free meals from people that were elated.
Marina,
Where did the term or word two-bits come from? My grandfather used to always say that word when he gave me a quarter.
Albert Nielsen
I see a pirate’s tale in your future! Arrrr!
Pieces of eight!
While you wait for Marina’s reply, here’s what Dad told me:
In America’s colonial days, Spanish silver dollars were in circulation, and were cut into eight pieces (bits) to make small change. Two bits was thus a quarter dollar.
Marina, what I need to know is if your videos now have more room in them now than they had 2 weeks ago. eg you filmed your bed 2 weeks ago and you uploaded it and all we saw was your bed if you did it today would we see your bed and the table next to it?
wider angle?
I love this word I tend to use it without OVER using it hehe. Right now i feel Meh cause of my allergies.
My cat is named Maia, after the mother of Hermes.
Ach-meh-d the terrorist
I haven’t seen the Ach-med one before. He is a funny guy and a great ventriloquist.
Yes, I love all of the characters that he performs: Peanut, Walter, Bubba, Jose Jalapeno, Sweet Daddy D, Achmed… and he’s on tour, so he may be in your neck o’ the woods soon.
Congratulations to Evan Owen for guessing Bob’s riddle.
See Bob’s comment.
Here is the answer in words and singing.
Warning, you may be happily humming this song all day.
Here is a jazzy version.
Hey Marina,
I do use the word “meh” on occasion. Although, more often I find some curse word to fill in the gap when I’m at a loss for how I want to describe something; I need to make my conversational skills more interesting.
So you’re publishing a book through Harper Collins? That’s exciting to hear. It says in your biographical information that it’s about fun word origins, but when should we expect to learn more about it? Do you have any sort of general idea as to when it may be published?
my request word is PARFUM
thanks
Marinas quality is good but this is HD tv stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r44jUiG-pVE&fmt=22
Good find James
By the way that vid was uploaded in 1280×720
I think Marina mentioned on Twitter that she can’t edit 1280x
Neither can I in Vegas, but I think there is a Vegas version that will, but of course it costs more.
There is another site on You Tube now that uses =22. It’s Val’s Diary. She emailed me the other day and said she was using &FMT=22 now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa9YjBZMMmI&fmt=22
She used to use regular video now her video’s are a lot more clearer. Like the link James has.
I would like to know the origin of “ew” >.< it drives me crazy
Y’know…I’d been thinking that there’s an almost mythic quality about Marina — as if she’s a fusion of Athena and Aphrodite — and then she comes up with “Meh!”
Meh also know as hathor
“The Mistress of Heaven. A goddess of love, music and beauty…”
But sometimes represented as a cow. James, is that what annoyed you?
Mistress Of Heaven = Moh
Exasperation at one’s own stupidity = D’oh!
Seeing Marina in a bikini = Moh!
Hathor? To be Mistress of Heaven she’d need to be some kind of Nut
more like W’oh!
Think of her less in the role of goddess… it’s so overdone… every girl with a flight of imagination fancies herself a goddess of something. Heaven help us if such a gal is attractive and has a passable talent… as she will declare herself a Diva as well.
Besides, knowing your classical mythology you must see how vain and spiteful the goddesses can be… certainly not qualities you will find in this Lady of the Lexicons. Don’t push her so high upon a pedestal that she is unable to condescend to converse with mere mortals.
If she must be supernatural, think of Marina in the role of Muse… and all the Muses had a command of music and language. Philology tends to plumb the depths of history, so perhaps Clio is the appropriate Muse… and Clio means “glorious”, as I recall.
Marina brought the word request to the masses, only she knows for sure what it means to her.
Mnemosyne has long been my favorite: goddess of memory and mother of the Muses. Marina is a sort of guardian of memory, reminding us of where our words come from.
This has been an a-muse-ing thread!
From Goddess to…
Oh mai Gawd!
either way the view is awe inspiring, eh?
I’d never heard of “meh” (sounds like a meth addict would know it)I don’t use it, but when others use it I assumed it meant mediocre
Guess that didn’t work. Check here: http://profile.imageshack.us/user/amosfella/
The turquoise in image 2 looks pretty cool.
It’s a nice pen, but you definitely know you’re holding it. It’s well balanced but fairly heavy.
See the recent post for the pencil
lesson. It also comes from the
same word root, as does penis.
Makes you wince knowing that
and seeing a girl chew an eraser…
Especially if later the eraser is entirely missing and the ferrule is all crinkly with teethmarks.
What is the origin of the word ‘pen’.
Here is a photo of a pen I made for sale.
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PEN
that looks nice
Thank you (spasibo). I started making and selling them when I was 16. Made more money than the teachers that year.
Bummer, I just oredered my books for next semster; over 180 bucks!
I am only taking two classes.
that’s not a lot…. I pay even more if I rent them (in euro’)
And I only have a couple months to read them all. I will miss you folks.
All work and no play makes somebody – anybody a dull person.
Check back in regularly for some light relief and de-stressing.
The dutch “word OF the year” chosen by the biggest dutch dictionary is “zwaffelen” ……that means slappping someone or something with a ….uhh..
kinda hard…. penis….-.- 
that’s fucked up isn’t it:P
It’s gonna be kinda hard to eat waffles after reading that…
Not even syrup-ticiously?
well the netherlands is a fucked up pl
ace….. so not really
Doesn’t sound like a Dutch treat to me
I’m going to laugh the next time I hear a politician being accused of waffling on an issue… I’m going to hear “He’s wafflin’” but I’m going to think “He zwaffelen”.
Word request: Buskill… Not sure bout the spelling tho. There has been alot of references to bus(h)kil(l) recently in shows like family guy or dexter. The word is linked to killjoy or a person with no sense of humor, but where buskil derives from? Tnx, im a big fan!
Hi casaubon! It’s spelled buzzkill.
It’s Bushkill when it comes to world peace and the economy
Right. Here is something for people about what I do with my videos
1 film them on my camera (mp4)
2 use anyvideoconverter to convert them to wmv
3 edit in movie maker
then
what I did
use anyvideoconverter to convert it back to mp4 at 640*480
what I do now
used anyvideoconverter to do 640*360 (or whatever that widescreen resoloution is) but in flv format (cant do custom on mp4
)
but that made it stretched. So now I am messing around seeing what Quicktime can do for me. I just uploaded a video but the quality was CRAP! I think it was my fault though so I will try it again in a bit.
That goes back to me asking if anyone can guess at what the filesize would be if i filmed 3 mins on an hd camcorder like marina does.
Oh, Marina has it all figured out!!
doesn’t marina just cut of the top and bottom of the screen or something….?
I think so but I cant do that, also she has an hd camera so she can probably get away with it. If I could cut anything off mine I would take half my head off
“If I could cut anything off mine I would take half my head off”
That’s a good thing …,right?
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I would like to request the word TATOO
here’s a clue.
You mean THIS??
My first tattoo
a drum tattoo
“meh” sounds like a shortened version of “mmmmm yeah” but said in a lackluster way,not with exuberance,kinda like You said,infers indifferance or even negative feelings.
Marina,this is a term heard just one time in a mid-eighties movie.
What can you tell me about it?
“Neo Maxi Zoomdweebie”
Have you heard it?
Marina,are you a neo maxi zoomdweebie?
I would really like to know the origin of the word philosophy. My religion teacher said it came from the anciant greek phrase philo sophia which means love of knowledge but i dont really believe him.
love of wisdom
It means “having a crush on Sophie”.
Or maybe short for, “I’ve had my fill of Sophie!”
Hey, the actress Sophie Monk goes completely nude in the movie Sex and Death 101.
Please explain the origins of “Wisdom Tooth” or “Wisdom Teeth”. Does this have anything to do with the idea that that if You’re wise, You’ll take care of them, and still have them when You’re old? Or that if not taken care of, they will rot, and You;ll get an infection in Your brain that cause You to lose Wisdom? Or does Your body store Wisdom in there?
=) Help Help — i MUST KNOW!!
They usually come in about age twenty, when one has supposedly attained the age of wisdom; hence the name.
However, if that were true, they’d be pushing through your gums at age 50.
If you’re lucky.
If your jaw doesn’t have room for them, they occlude into your other teeth, pushing them out of allignment and damaging the teeth they contact down to the root. This can cause an infection that is known to be deadly! Had mine “spooned” out at 16 – before they erupted. A lot less painful than waiting…
I had a wisdom that was impacted on a nerve! I was so bad that I couldn’t open my mouth all the way! One day there was bad storm and I had a headache that was so bad I thought my skull was going to split open! It caused by that
tooth!
I had a wisdom
tooth…
Can you give me an estimate of what your video file size is? I want an hd camera but I dont want to find that a 3 min video is 300mb
yes, you’d be forced to make very short films… bummer
1080i would be 12-13 GB an hour, and 720p would be around 12-13 GB for 90 minutes
Marina,
I am always curious about my name: FROILAN- What does it means and where did it originated. Thanks very much!
We had a young man working for us named Froylan Martinez, who said it was a family name somewhere among his ancestors.
Jakem952 from atlanta, ga and I would like to know what “smartelick” means? I think something to do with being a smart a** but I would like to know the origin and so forth.
thanks. I love your site!
Sometimes spelled “smart aleck”
Or “alec.” This is interesting.
Dear Marina! Check this out! Do you like it? But, please, say the truth!
An angel with a halo.
Well done, russianboy. 
Ochen krasivaya!
Excellent art work Pav. It’s perfect.
Here, here!
Hi Marina,as a huge Simpson’s fan,I would like to more about Homer’s favorite word and one I use much more than meh.
And I think it also made it into the dictionary years ago
D’OH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hahah! i like him doing d’oh! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khSIYmTzt6U
The Simpson’s + Family Guy = television worth watching
Hi!
What about the word ‘Ginger’ ! ?
-H.
Reminds me of Ginger Spice.
Whoah! I don’t even know how I made that image pop on this link instead of a seperate link.
Wordpress does that for you.
Dear совершенная Marina, No, I never use the word, “meh.” In fact, it sounds like a Chinese word, “myeh”, which in English means “what.” For example, if you said “Я супоросый”, I’d ask, “What!?”
I didn’t like the new James Bond movie, either. The villains weren’t as menacing and sinister as Goldfinger and Oddjob, and the plot was just linear, with few twists or surprises. Olga Kurylenko is very beautiful and I would “huggle” with her for a very long time!
I saw Gorby sleeping next to you and I hope he’s better, now.
Your dear student, seesixcm6
seesixcm6 – did you figure out
why your Gravatar is all black
You can try tweaking the DPI setting
(dots per inch). I suspect yours is at
200 dpi. Lower it to 72-90, it should
work then.
30 mb video processing
i uploaded it 2 hours a go
i uploaded another copy about 20 mins ago and deleted the other one still says the same
WHY IS IT TAKING SO LONG!
“Meh”? It sounds like something you’d hear from a cold sufferer. The latest Bond movie a disappointment? Let me recommend a movie you might like, Marina, and it’s, “Kicked in the Head” It’s one of my favorites. It has booze, drugs, shoot outs, mobs (including a Russian mobster), love interests, family values, the theory of love, the pros & cons of capitalism, cosmic meaning, and a lovable little doggy all in one flick.
Sounds like…Hitman! great flick
(except for the little dog, that is)
I’ll take that movie recommendation
They aren’t the same kind of movie, though. “Kicked in the Head” is a streets of New York flick and is packed with character actors like, James Wood (who is great in this film), Burt Young, Lili Taylor, and Michael Rapaport (His best work). I failed to mention it was a comedy, too, and that’s important. Wildly underrated by the viewing public. Not for the straight laced viewer that’s for sure.
I rented “Hitman” and it was a purdy good flick. I especially enjoyed Olga. Thanks, melikadothechacha , for the recommendation
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I would like to have your email addy remove for you will get spammed big time. Normally the server kicks out email addys for your protection. I will contact M and have it removed.
thank you very much!
Just a follow up, the boss fixed your post. I hope you didn’t get spammed to much.
I didn’t get spamed ^_^ hope that Marina saw my request
RB how did you do that?
what do you mean:?:
The link of the photo with added text
you just use this, and put the link of your photo!this
How did you type those tube looking characters?
You can copy and paste from Character Map or type U+2550, U+2551, U+2554, U+2557, U+255A and U+255D. You have to type the numbers on the number pad and not on the top row beneath the function keys.
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u just copy it from microsoft office! Insert–Symbols
these are all Frame Symbols from Microsoft Office
─│┌ ┐└ ┘├ ┤┬ ┴ ┼ ═║╒╓╔ ╕╖ ╗╘╙╚ ╛╜╝╞╟╠ ╡╢ ╣╤ ╥ ╦ ╧ ╨ ╩ ╪ ╫ ╬
Back in the command-line days (pre GUI), those symbols were what passed for graphics in the PC world. They were used to surround menus, or otherwise pretty up a screen of text. And now here you guys are, years later, wondering about them.
Archeologist 1: “Look at this things with the bulbous end.”
Archeologist 2: “Why, it’s a tool! It must be!”
Archeologist 1: “There’s an inscription in ancient Ammurican! It’s barely legible: ‘ball peen ham mur’”
Archeologist 2: “What do you suppose that means?”
Archeologist 1: “No clue. Let’s get it back to the lab so we can carbon date it and type that inscription into Archimate for Windows 9.0″
hey marina.. i would to know where the origin of the word ‘jug’ came from.. cheers..!
Like most things, it came from a military acronym. A JUG is the modern NATO term for the WWII canteen, used by soldiers to carry drinking water. It stands for Joint Utility Gondola.
It’s true, I tell you.
Sounds like scuttlebutt to me.
I’d like to HUGGLE you Marina. Sounds fun…
I smell a restraining order comming my way.
No, you don’t. That’s not the restraining order, of course. It’s me, who’s delivering it. I didn’t get a chance to shower this month.
Get up
get out of bed
you lazy head
make sure your little dogie gets some exercise as well
This is the first I heard of this word…Meh… so I haven’t used it. Now that I have discovered it… I will understand someone who uses it.
The likelihood of me using the word is very low to nil.
“I hope I die young
and I don’t die gay,
I hope I die senile”
The Police – Masako Tango
I knew there was a Doctor who fan on here somewhere.
Mmmmmm yeah,Billie Piper! Yummmy! Get Her now before She blows up like a balloon,Ya just know its gonna happen.
Was that crass and uncaring of Me? Ahhh well,I still think I’m right.
Ditto! This is the James Bond that
Ian Fleming wrote about, not the
flaming pretenders proffered up to
us in movies for so many years.
The previous Bond movie, Casino Royale was the BEST Bond movie BY FAR! And it did over a billion dollars at the box office as a result. Then the producer HIRE A DIFFERENT DIRECTOR for this movie, and you end up with none of the character development of the previous movie, nor the real tension you felt in the previous one.. PLUS Bond doesn’t even get with the main girl??? What’s up with that?
I’m just upset that they had an amazing team on the last movie and perhaps didn’t want to pay for it on this one?
If you read the books, Casino Royale was very close to the original book.. Quantum of Solace had absolutely NOTHING to do with the original story. I LOVE James Bond.. that’s why I offered my criticism
Thanks for clarifying your criticism. I might have to make you my new movie critic. Now I can go see the movie and not have such high expectations to only get disappointed. I’ll go see it on a matinee price.
Marina, Q gave me a cellphone that also serves as a clock. That’s sort of secret agenty, isn’t it? And my hair is white.
“My name is Blondlish, James Blondish.”
Has anybody heard anything about Gorby?