Hello hello! Ahoy ahoy!

Origin of the word “hello”.

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  • jcnick

    Ahoy hoy Marina,

    Great presentation & explanation, you mesmerize me with your beauty and the fact that you like to explain words/phrases, you explain so seductively.

    I like it, while learning at the same time, good website!

  • sinewave

    However, you may mispronounciate some words, but it sounds cool and sexy anyway…

    gimme a call :). just kidding.

  • prospero811

    Hi Marina,

    I’ve been going back and catching up on old lessons I never watched before. You are really improving your game considerably over such a short time. Remarkable.

    Regarding “hello” though, you might want to redo this video. Prior to the invention of the telephone, the word was used as a greeting in literature (e.g. Mark Twain in the story “Roughing It” and as far back as the 1820′s by other authors).

    Have a great day!

    Eric

  • 45ware

    Word “Ahoj” (pronounced: ahoy) is actually used on dayly basis by 15 milions people in Slovakia and Czech republic. So now you known others

    Reference

    http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ahoj

  • 45ware

    Oh, and just to notice, we always used it only – once – by one person for greeting someone we just met, not – twice -…
    Nobody says “hello” twice either

  • fireduck01

    :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

  • hutchiee

    As good as you were at explaining words a year ago… OMG your presentation skills and production quality has improved so much! You have let me know your secret, it can’t just be practice.

    PS I can’t believe the YouTube comments for this video are relatively intelligent.

  • omgchasewtf

    If you go on wikipedia you can find the origins of these words…

  • http://www.zenithmaritime.com/ CaptainJack

    Hey Eric, I agree with you on your suggestion. I also have found other references to the word. Also many references to the word ahoy. I think further investigation and a remake of the video would be great.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/ggpjstokesjr1 stokesjrj1

  • leonard

    My random lesson and to share thishttp://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=QShSmpI0r9k and then ask for why “Good Bye?”

  • leonard
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n2NXuQ5ako mijj

    “hello ahoy” – coincidentally covered in this clip from the amusing brit tv show QI: [QI - Origin of "Hello" & the Rudeness of Phones]

    this clip includes mention of that long “fuckyflucky…” word that M’s covered.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n2NXuQ5ako mijj

    a postscript/update/addendum or whatever, rather than remake (hopefully). – don’t want to lose the originals.

  • http://www.hotforwords.com Marina

    Good find mijj!! Thanks so much! :grin:

    Marina

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n2NXuQ5ako mijj

    thanks!

    I think that program overlaps with your stuff quite a lot. It’s worth checking out.

    ( ps:
    I’m still going to pout and complain cos i didn’t get the pat on the head for the quizzes, mainly ‘cos i enjoy the theater of it.) :)

  • thoughtonfire

    Ahoy Ahoy,

    Wow, this lesson really made me not want to ever say Hello again. I’ll feel like I’m yelling at somebody. I’ve found myself recently not knowing how to greet people…and I rarely ever say Bye or Goodbye.

    YS,
    TOF

  • leonard

    big deal about the beatles….hear the the Doors

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/CantwrCymreig Evan Owen

    Moshi moshi!

  • nomusician

    Wow, first time I see you seem a little nervous with the camera.
    It must be an early video… :???:

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard

    Ahoy…random lesson for a friend… Hello It’s Me by Todd :-) [Emil Berliner] ;-) [wink] is like a “hello”…luch is over and who reads this –”GOOD DAY”___

  • iluv2cutfarts

    Mexican people say “Bueno” which means “Good” in English. I wonder why? Hmmmm…

  • http://www.hotforwords.com/members/schiavona/ Chris Kesler

    Actually, I do have a friend who answers his phone Ahoy Ahoy. It really puts you offguard when he does that. Hmm, I wonder what the answer to Ahoy Ahoy is supposed to be?

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