Lieutenant

Did I get here first?

hahaha. she said “prospero eleven”. lol.

great video once again by the way where does the world Townhouse come from?

Thats ok if she got it wrong Prospero811 u the man!

Ok, first off, can we get a video of you doing nothing but sucking up spaghetti noodles…?

Informative lesson, and as lovely as ever! Keep it up!

The only words I can think of offhand that have an “f” sound instead of a “u” would be words like “rough,” “tough,” “enough,” and “draught.” However, these words replace the “gh” with the “f” sound. So, I’m not sure if you were looking for those.

That’s my evil twin.

I wish we could right click and “save picture as” when a good video comes out.

chough
cough
enough
Hough
rough
sough
tough
trough
They all end with “-ough” but there’s a “u” in all of them. “Sough” can also rhyme with “cow”.

In an upcoming video, I’ll be her teacher’s pet and my evil twin, Prospero-eleven, will be her evil twin’s pet.

So we have to be evil to make TP? No wonder she hasn’t mentioned me! :razz: :razz: :razz:

oh. I thought that was capman911.

Nawww…. capman911 is not my evil twin.

In Russian, “auto-” is «авто-» (AHF-tuh).
In Greek, thank you is “ευχαριστώ” (ef-khah-rih-STOH), and when transliterated as “eucharistó¹” looks like the English word “Eucharist,” which we pronounce with an “oo”.

¹Another x-lit is “euharistṓ”.

So, I just stumbled across your YouTube channel, and after watching your video on Floccinaucinihilipilification I was reminded of a phrase that is always fun to use in conversation. You may have heard it before, but if not I’m sure some of your other viewers would be entertained by it:

Gratuitous philological exhibitionism.

:grin:

Not necessarily the most difficult of phrases to understand, and etymologically its history as a phrase is rather brief, however, particularly in conversations about words, it can be quite entertaining to use!

“for your homework: are there any other english words …”

Dear teacher
Bon appetit!
Don Felipe Gonzales

Hi Marina,

Hi! I’m PanicManga and I love your show. I have learned a lot of words and they are helping me in my english class. I have to do a project with etymology and I have to learn the history of a musical instrument. I chose guitar for my project and I can not find the answer! So can you please do Guitar for a lesson?

With all due respect,
PanicManga

Why are people from the netherlands called Dutch ? closest thing i can think of to dutch is Deutschland (which i think is german for Germany)

maximum verbosity – lol

Here’s one for you, where does the word ambush come from?
is it something to do with hiding behind a bush before surprising your enemies?
jah bless

Hey Marina! You tricked me. I thought you were going to use my idea and let your sister have a teachers pet too! I liked your video for today though. Your very clever. Um i think you should wear green more. thats just me though. I also think i should be the fisrt person to get teachers pet twice. If you ever do that. I could be teachers pet for your sister though. Cause i havent been hers yet. She deserves a teachers pet! anyways im out for now! lol. bye.

ps we should get married. im very cute and your very cute. i think it might work!

“gh” can be silent, too. A Zen riddle for you:

Is this world without me wrought
Other substance than my thought?
Lives it by my sense alone
Or by some essence of it’s own?

(Rock and Other Four Letter Words)

Hello Marina!

First time commenting here. I have a word request for you. Confabulate.
I love this word and would love it even more if you did a lesson on it.
I’m very interested in learning Russian, do you have any tips on starting out learning the Russian language?

Your the best!

Du hast ein doppelganger? :twisted:
Das ist aber schade :mrgreen: :evil:

Well, I can confirm, that “Deutschland” is German for “Germany”, but that leaves the “Dutch” as a good question.

Find it on youtube log in and list is as a favourite buddy.

Marina:

Just wondering if anyone “won” the birthmark game?

“right cheek”, and right arm – very clear this vid.

“dutch” has the same roots as “deutsch”, and it meant the same. they referred to the language spoken by ordinary people, the folk. that’s what “thiudisc” and all its variants meant — folkish.

Oh and can i be the teachers pet on the 8th because its my birthday :)

here are a few variants from a few languages:

ahd. diutisc, mhd. diutisch tiusch, altsächs. thiudisc, niederd. düdesk, niederl. duitsch, schwed. tysk, dän. tydsk.
–> link.

Maybe it’s a “trick” question.
ye olde english used letters
differently, substituting “f”‘s
for “s”‘s for instance. So,
Essex was spelt “Effex”,
for example.

I dunno if “u”‘s substitute for
“f”‘s in olde english, doesn’t
seem likely, though.

laugh, tough, etc. make an “f”
sound from the “ugh” phone.

Knight is a word with two (2)
silent letter applications;
silent “k” and silent “gh”
Are there others? :?:

And for all this time, I thought my high school latin teacher, Ms Griffiths, was the most gorgeous teacher ever….sorry Ms Griifths, but you’ve been replaced.

I had an English teacher in high school who taught us an intelligent way to curse at someone…she said rather than calling someone a bastard, to call them a “malformed misogynous miscreant”. I thought that was humorous!

See my previous comment below!

I put the above comment here to show how this effect shows up in other (Indo-European) languages.

So sue me! :razz:

REQUEST: whats the origin of the word MATH??? :shock:

Redundant superfluity – :lol:

superfluous anomalies

melikadothechacha,〈s〉wasn’t spelled with an〈f〉, it was spelled with a similar-looking (albeit different) character, the long s:〈ſ〉.

tag! yer it! LOL

Superfluous redunancyfullnessshipmenthoodity… :razz: :razz: :razz:

Where does the word “Samoan” come from? I’m Samoan but I don’t know where my people got there name.

hi i love your lessons! i have a question, why is schedule pronounced like ‘sketchaul’ in amerika but like ‘shedool’ in england, anyways i would love it if you gave us russian lessons that would be scorching hot! but please if you do it dont just do greeting s and the basics and then stop ,like many people do, keep on goin to something more advanced. well hope you do it. im sure it would be very popular. cpasibo balshoy!

Another great one Marina!!….But as long as we’re talking about military ranks what is the origin of the Navy rank “Commodore?”

And how about this puzzle…..If Major is a higher rank than Lieutenant, why is a Lieutenant General a higher rank than a Major General?

Keep up the great work.

isnt there a country called samoa?

huh? her teacher’s pet?`marina’s teacher’s pet?

dear teacher
I got one! The plural form of elf (the mythological creature)!
amicalement
Khan Philo hippos

Yes, but where did the island get its name and from where and whom?

Hey Marina, Since it was only yesterday… I was wondering if you could do a Cinco de Mayo video and maybe do it in spanish! :razz:

K cool thanks

I suppose whoever discovered the island named it, i dunno

Ooh, that’s a toughy. Etymologies of demonyms aren’t easy to find…

“Samoa”—Hmm. I’d like to know, too! :mrgreen:

“sketchaul”—never heard that one… Not HERE in America, anyways.

Hi Marina.
Your videos are astounding, even on mobile youtube (because of the website firewall policy at work – boo!)

Anyway – i hope you can help me out with this word request.
I lived in Birmingham, UK, for many years.
Many of my fellow midlanders use the word ‘lackadaisical’, to mean someone with a ‘can’t be bothered’ attitude.
However, i now live in London, and people look at me like i just got off the mothership when i say lackadaisical. i would love to be able to set them straight with its etymology…. can you help?

please please please?

Yours

Ninja_Boy x

Salve Magistra, I was wondering how I would go about hearing your radio shows, past and present episodes. I read that you did a word history on the word “horny” and I became slightly aroused…uhhh…I mean….INTERESTED… :roll:

OHH MY GOD !!! :oops: I LOVE SPATEGUI TOO ..OOPS I MEAN “SPAGETTI” JIJIJI :grin: WHERE DOES IT COME FROM ???

Hey Marina,

Is it possible to do the word hulk? Since the new Hulk movie is coming out I would like to see where the word comes from. Also if you could do the word joke or joker?

Sincerely,

-Batdude247 :smile:

:shock: HIya Marina,
Can you maybe tell us the difference between Gray and Grey. Thanks.

knight has silent letters these days. It is spelt that way because back in the days of Chaucer, er Middle English, what was it, 13th century I think, they actually said *all* the letters k-nig-h-t.

Or, so they say. Not sure any of the experts on this have done an archaelogical dig and found any DVDs with people actually speaking Middle English!

Nick

Marina,
Can you tell us the origin of your name?

It is a word that I heard more when I was a child, particularly by my grandmother. I am from Suffolk – so it isn’t just a Brummie word – though I originally know it as “lack*s*adaisical – which is possibly a dialect variation. I am fairly sure I’ve used this word since I’ve been married and my wife who is from Liverpool didn’t query it – so usage must have been widespread.

Perhaps it is a word that is becoming archaic – as I can’t remember the last time I heard anyone else use it.

Nick

I think this is the best video I have seen so far.
And Marina cooks too???
I thought the oven in the background was just a prop.

Right thigh actually…. :-)

No but we (linguists, etc. :mrgreen: ) can usually piece things together through comparative linguistics. German still pronounced all K’s in words starting with Kn-, etc.

But if English still did, I wouldn’t go around bragging about being a k-nig-get! :wink:

If Marina doesn’t answer soon, or you want to know now, check here.

Hey our dear and trusty teacher,

A few days back I used the expression “in the nick of time” and I would love to know where that comes from. Who the hell is Nick and why is he always in time? :razz: Just in time. Wait! First Nick and now Just-in? Hahaha

Anyway, congrats on the site and thanks for the lessons.

Regards,

How about teaching us the origin of hex. Like puting a hex on someone. Also, the origin of the word jinx. I love your videos. You are great. Keep it up. :wink:

I hear the word all the time in the U.S but it means doing a task half-hearted.

oh, great. I don’t even remember what I posted back then. :/

I have always presumed that the rank “Lieutenant General” is named for being the assistant/deputy/number two to a general (that is, a so-called “full” general). Similarly, a “Lieutenant Colonel” is just behind a Colonel.

Hello,
All the bickering between Barack and Hillary has got me wondering. Where did the word “president” come from? Oh and on the leftanant thing, I thought only the British Navy pronounced it that way. Does HM army use it too?

She already has.

Well then… my eyes are playing tricks on me :oops:

Or maybe your mischievous twin sister is up to old tricks again! :shock:

So instead of a GPA (Grade Point Average), we’ll all be graded with a GPE (Gratuitous philological exhibitionism) :lol:

I like that – very creative.

Hello Marina,

I would like to know the origin of the word “plethora”.

Thank you!

Marina, I’ve got an idea for another game name you could do a video on: “hockey”.

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I’m now confused. Having worked for a small circus we used the phrase ” spank ur monkey ” in reference to training the chimps ( NO, we did not really spank ‘em ). Now people have written & suggested several definitions of the phrase. What do you say ?

I have two language study comments/questions. :)

I’m studying Russian at the moment (loved the GTA4 vid!), one of your earlier videos you mentioned how the sound of W doesn’t exist in Russian. There’s a phonetic in Russian that either doesn’t exist in English, or just the combination of sounds is awkward. It’s the sound at the beginning of the word bread, I guess the best way I could describe it is “hyuh-leep”? That first syllable – I have so much trouble pronouncing that, I sound ridiculous attempting it – like a cat coughing up a fur ball.

I was curious about the origin of the word debunk. I was thinking maybe it referred to clearing up a misconception that had become entrenched in common usage, like a bunker. But it’s not – I cheated a bit and Googled it, and it has an interesting origin, I think it might make for a good show. Continue debunking word myths for us!

Your new student, Pete.

Just found this site today, looks really great and cant wait to see more, anyway I was just wandering if you could do a lesson on the word vampire. Can’t wait to learn all I can from this, to the future my dear teacher!

Man, that girl likes her spaghetti!!! Chao

It amazes me how quickly people post.. I only just now got the notification that a new video was up and I checked my email not more than ten minutes ago! You have some truly devoted fans!

Where do I go to enlist in the Marina Military? Are your troops called Marnias? (Why did your parents name you after a basin where small boats are docked? And to whom were you speaking off camera? So many questions!) I must admit that your double breasted uniform is much better looking than anything the US or Russian military currently has to offer! Kudos to your tailor!

You mean elves?

Dear Teacher your Philology class are special, thank you very much for you cute contribution for the eliminate my unculture.

Much love

Viktorinox

I always wondered where the term “French fries” came from.
To my knowledge they wasn’t created in France, so it baffles me
- Rev

Enough! Opposed to Borough, or dough..

And in England it’s pronounced shed-yule…

Alas, I don’t have any “oo” and “ef” examples but I should like to take a moment to mention my favourite word in English. It is PASTARD and, right now, I’m frankly unsure as to whether I want to know its derivation.

The word PASTARD means the sound that is made when one moves awkwardly on a leather chair or, perhaps, rubs the serrated parts of one’s running shoes together and it sounds like a fart.

To use the word in a sentence: “All others in the room gasped in horror, but, in truth, it was only as PASTARD.”

hey im not totally sure how to spell this word but i dont think you have done it yet…the word is “loon-a-tic” like i said its probably not the write spelling but it would be cool if you did it im suprised no one has sugested it yet :!:

Just saw the word redundant written below and I feel it would make for a good lesson.

“Hello and welcome to the Department of Redundancy department. The ATM machine is on the ground floor in the lobby, be sure to push in the buttons for your PIN number firmly or else the number pad wont register your PIN number.”

Marina, I want to know where the expression “apple of my eye” comes from.

Thanks.

Hello,

My word request is — “Titanus” –

I think that this word is very important.

Maybe the mean is at the base of the world.
Is possible ??

What is the mean of this word ??

Is particular then other words ??

Tanks,
Alex
:mrgreen:

I enjoyed watching You have a bite as Your sister enlightened us.

Tight-anus?? :shock:
You gotta be kiddin’ me!

Doh!

“El Guapo” What is a plethora? http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=b6E682C7Jj4 A plethora of Piniatas?

Go check out her YouTube site.
You’ll find all the past lessons
and some other stuff, too. :mrgreen:

lunatic

Hi Marina. It goes with out saying that you are Drop Dead Gorgeous! Wait a second! I don’t want you to drop dead! What is the origin of the expression “drop dead” meaning “very” or “extremely?

Love your videos. VeryCool613 :cool:

Marina:

Here is my humble answer: Aluminum (American) Al u mini um (English)
Remember this post is from a not too recent former Teacher’s Pet of the day. It probably does not answer my homework correctly, but, it was all I could think of at the time.

Bill

:shock: ok- you win!

Actually, it’s Spanish for Navy. But, odds are it’s just a Russian name that happens to correspond to the Spanish word for navy. :P

Oh, and my spell checker objecting to me not capitalizing Russian, and it gave me the option to make it Prussian.. is there a “Prussia”, and how (if at all) are they related to the Russians? Anyone know? Cause the first time *I* ever heard of “Prussian” was in the game City of Heroes, there is a villain named Nemesis, The Prussian Prince of Automatons. As this isn’t really a word origin per se, I’m ok if someone answers here, no need for Marina to waste a video on this unless she wants to lol

How about:

Through
Thorough
Dough

The “gh” could make an “f” sound, as in laugh or enough.

And, once again, we are dealing with those mischevious cheese-eating surrender monkeys in France. Try googling up “french military victories”, select “I’m Feeling Lucky”

well…. here I go with my homework… I hope my theacher not going mad.. I just think on one word…. my name…

Kevin…. when you try to make a short nick name of it.. it becomes “Kev” but the pronuntiation it’s Kef with a “F” in the end…
like in the serie The Wonder Years… (yep.. I got my name for him)

bye bye my teacher

I know of one. When I visited some friends of ours in Chester, U.K. we had to turn down a street that was spelled Hough Green. We would, in America, pronounce this as who, or hoe green. But I was informed that this is pronounced Hoff, or houff.
Another word that I had always thought was pronounced differently than I would think it would be as spelled is laugh. But we pronounce that as laff as well. Rough is also a good one.

Привет!
Some differences I notice between English & American
English: draught
American: draft (pronounced the same)

English: shed-jewel (for schedule)
American: skej-wool (for schedule)

English: alu-MIN-ium (aluminum)
American: a-LU-minum (aluminum)

English: queue, colour, analise, lorry, neighbour, fibre, defence, petrol, torch, coach, lift, windscreen, underground, mobile

American: line, color, analize, taxi, neighbor, fiber, defense, gasoline, flashlight, bus, elevator, windshield, subway, cellphone

So many words in this language! Spelling? Pronunciation? Grammar?
There are so many rules that there are no rules.
Perhaps English is the only language for which Pulitzer Prize winning best-selling authors use spell-check software because they really need to.

Never heard of left-tenant. Could there be a right-tenant? :?:

Here are a few more words for you that I haven’t seen given yet:
Aphrodities, Phenome, trough. Then I thought I would do a little digging. I found that we get the word “loo” “louve” or lavatory from the french phrase (hey, there’s another one I didn’t think of) “gardez l’eau”, a warning that was given when waste was tossed out of upper living quarters.

Next time, try Le Google.

Haven’t heard that term in many a moon.

Oh, me! Oh, my! Oh! Cinco de Mayo?

Patrick Stewart, playing a Frenchman (Jean-Luc Picard) on Star Trek: The Next Generation, always pronounced it the British way. I have to assume that the writers assumed that Jean-Luc learned English from the Brits.

I’m still hungry. I’d like Samoa.

I can only imagine the a Lootenant in the UK would be a razz about spending too much time in the loo. :grin:
We used to call the 2nd lootenants in the USAF “butter bars” & even at times peer over their shoulders and say “Nope,,, parkay!!!” all in good humour of course. :arrow: :twisted:

Just saw an interesting word that melikadothechacha wrote…
doppelganger
im pretty sure that is how its spelled in german but in english i think its
doppleganger

you should investigate this ridiculous word asap

Marina is definitely intelligent. In this video, she used the old noodle.

Do those words appear in Prospero’s Books?

I’m into educated insolence….

I eschew obfuscation yet abhor excess verbiage.

:wink: KISSES my sweet teacher :wink: tht waz very interesting lessson thanxs Lt.com August Van Suchtelen US Navy Seal retired

“”Which is hidden,
you may seek
as those who know
refuse to speak.

So guide the hand
by what is shown
as he who speaks
has never known.”

-the whistling anthropologist

…and in such a saucy fashion.

HMMM I SEE, SO ONLY THE FIRST PUPIL WHO WATCHS AND COMMENTS A VIDEO HAS ALL THE CHANCES TO BE NEXT TEACHER’S PET ???? COOL …I’LL TRY NEXT TIME :razz:

Hey there Prospero 811,

Damn! You’re right quick on the draw (but how’s your aim? :lol: )!!!!

Didn’t hear your name right on the vid, unless the 8′s silent. Some languages are like that though.

I think you should get another chance at some recognition at any rate.

Nazdorovye.

WHY ENGLISH LANGUAGES USE THE SAME WORD TO MEAN DIFFERENT THINGS ???
LIKE = VERB
LIKE = PREPOSITION

Hello Commander Hot!

I have a word investigation request for you which someone told me recently,

VACCINE

Does this word originate with cows?

Please tell us Commander Hot!

Greg

YEAHHHH KEEP IT UP !

Geronimo,

He was specifying a particular pronunciation where an “S” has been added to the middle of the word:

“Lacksa-daisical” or “laxadaisical”

as opposed to

“Lackadaisical.”

I’ve heard it pronounced both ways, but I pronounce it as it it’s spelled in the dictionary: with only the one s.

Wow , Marina, You look like your geared up for war. Sorry you got busted from colonel to lieutenant i guess it was a twofer one. One Colonel for two lieutenants, not a bad deal for the military. As for the question words you seek I can only think of three at the moment Famous Frustrated Female………….guy should buy you a diamond ring……..I hear his moms got all the money perhaps you should see her maybe make a deal……I hear she’s not getting any younger…..Well I have a new word request……….womans version of …”whatever”…….. Oh how about a little humor to lighten the mood.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I226Sfgs0s

This guys is hilarious,

Well I swear when i first watched this video it started hailing on my old tin travel trailer just out of nowhere it seemed, but later started to rain. Been raining off and on all night. Well i have to work tomorrow so its off to bed here pretty soon.

Bye
Somebody in Texas Loves You

PS You just as pretty in this video as the first one i saw you in.,,,,,,,,,,,,Night

OOps. I was reading nw2394′s response instead. :oops:

Mayday, mayday….

That should be spelled with a colon, not a hyphen! :grin:

I still don’t understand why the english use an “f” sound?
Because of French?

Pedant!

Don’t you mean, “so seft me”? :lol:

In that case shouldn’t a Major General be higher than a General?

Here is a word.

Angel.

Great lesson :wink:

The Royal Navy pronounces it the correct way, Liootenant.
The army, the Bootnecks and the RAF say Leftenant because they’re all left footers. :twisted: :shock: :razz: :lol:

If you have a Tight-anus for too long you might end up in a comma. :grin:

right thigh is what I posted. I remember spending, a while, looking for it… so do I or anyone who also guessed correctly get a prize? :wink:

The Spagetti Tree! :smile:

Why are they called Dictionaries and Encyclopedias :?:

euphemism

Marina, i would like to know if possible the origin of the word ” Orgasm”

Thx!! :twisted: :razz:

you’ve covered “pedigree”, but i wish to know why we call someone a pedophile. it has “ped” in it so it’s got me wondering.. it also got me thinking about a child doctor, or “pediatrician”. what’s with the “ped in these words? why? please tell me! :!: :?: :smile:

can you say us the origin of the word Subway and Underground)))

argh come on, its called underground, because its under ground? and subway, because its the way below the street? likewise its called a submarine because it sail below the surface :roll:

i imagine that its also called a highrise because it rises high above the street :roll:

use your imagination :neutral:

anyways where does “jack of all trades” come from? and why is it not “joe of all trades”? since joe is the average guy (G.I. joe and cup of joe) as you explained in a earlier lesson

Dear fellow student
Yes ! Elves !
Thank you for clarification.
Amicalement
Don Felipe Gonzales

aLx – lol – Marina’s “Teacher’s Pet.” :lol:

gio – I’m not sure, but whatever works! :lol:

She was referring to my evil twin, whose name is the same only with a silent 8. :lol:

Awesome lesson as always Marina :D. I was wondering if you could research the reason why pilots say “roger” when they acknowledge something. Thanks! :smile: :smile:

How did we go from angel of death to the grim reaper and why the huge appearence change

tempestuously

Hold the place whilst the superior is away… Hmm. My experience as a Lieutenant (my guys called me LT, “ell tee”) was that I fought the fight while the superior watched me on the wide screen in the toc. But that is another story…

Privet marina! i wanted to know where the word ”Fauna” comes from as in ”fauna and flora”, what does it have to do with animals, etc…. Oh! and teacher’s pet would be nice too :D

2:45 :?:

If the English is ‘left’tenant and American is ‘loo’tenant what’s the official Canadian pronounciation?

I think Canadians go with the ‘left’tenant.

lootenant marina!!! can u help me understand the word “green thumb” and teacher’s pet would really be awesome

I’d like to know why Russian Kettlebells are called that. The ones I’ve seen are all made in China, not Russia and aren’t a kettle or a bell! What’s up with that? And what’s a pood? “Pood” sounds like something you wouldn’t want to step in. And what are they saying in the lyrics of this video on Youtube? Privyet, Marina, help us keep abreast of what’s going on! Thanks!

Prussia was a massive empire in what is modern day Germany, while in the 18th century it stretched across much of what is now modern day Germany, Russia, Lithuania, Poland and a few others.

I’m not a history buff mind you, I’ve just played a lot of the Medeival: Total War series – which like Marina has a tendency to educate while it entertains. :wink:

Well I wasn’t 100% correct, it was a kingdom OF the German/Holy Roman empire … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia

Marina… I have one. Actually I have two.

Where does the term “Underdog” come from? I don’t understand how being favored to lose relates to your position relative to a canine.

Along the sports theme… what about upset? I have heard two stories. One is that the team that loses when they are supposed to win is always very upset. The other is from the early 1900s, when the only horse to ever beat the great Man O War, was named Upset, and that term came to mean a big UNDERDOG :-) beating a heavy favorite.

Thanks!

Hello Hotforme…err…I mean Hotforwords.

This may go back to far in history but I am sure you are up for the challenged.

When did we as a society start refering to Men and “He” and Females and “She?”

Thanks,
xxxooo
Damien Steel

Hi Marina! Wonderful site. A beautiful woman who’s intelligent and has a great sense of humor who provides me with information about things I didn’t even know I didn’t know.

I do have a request–I’ve always wondered about the phrase “used to” as in “I used to be thin” or “he used to do that”

Also did you know that one of my favorite old science fiction movies, “Forbidden Planet” has as one of the protagonists a philologist. I’ll never be able to watch that movie the same way again.

Thanks and have a great day.

This is the first lesson that I have never heard before. I never knew the British say Lefttenant. Thats a new one to me.

The British are funny, always using different words than we use.

I have requested some words but nothing yet. I was wondering about a word that I will request this time. I want to know about the word JUXTAPOSE. How did it come to be? Thanx for all your lessons Marina. You really know how to teach and keep us interested.

Thanks Marina,
You’re a Cook/Chef also?
Or was that sauce from a jar?

Can you please tell me where the word slang comes from?
I think that it may come from the french: “slae langue”, which means “dirty language” but i’m not sure.
Anyway you should have it on your show.

Allso I would want to know were the word LOVE comes from.

Yeah! and Lexicons and thesaureses, to!

HMMM, SO IT IS SIMILIAR TO SPANISH “TENIENTE” -> “TENANT”
INTERESTING MY DEAR PROFESORA
YOUR DEAR STUDENT….GIO FOREVER :wink:

What is the American for “sixes and sevens”?

buenas tardes amigo.

So, are actual “Prussian” people still around, or are they not a separate people from the Germans and such?

Yo, how about word “russian”, that should be interesting..

That is spaghetti, right?
a hot tomatoe eating a ‘mater! LOL
good thing a ‘mater is a vegetable
or that would be canabilism!

I just looked again.
I think those are bean sprouts
in a greens salad, NOT spaghetti!
(Can I get an AMEN?)

uh oh – dan quayle syndrome
that should be “tomato”

like potato, only add the
silent “e” when adding
the “s” to make plural.

I would wanna know the origin of the word hmm “handsome”.
Where does it come from ???
With love..Gio.forever

Ok ok, Amen

Asi es, Doc ! :cool:

¡Arriba, arriba, arriba, ándale, ándale, olé, olé, olé, ándale!

OK – there is DEFINITELY^ spaghetti going on…
must be a salad on the side.
Sometimes I have to eat & work, too
I just don’t have 61 million people
watching me do it!

potato – potatoes

She’s done it ….or not ???

i got a word like that for you its ketchup or katsup haha just joking that word game is in the SIMPSONS god i love the SIMPSONS maybe more than i love you Marina no i love you better you got big boobs and your prety

Are you from Mexico or Somewhere near ???
Are you marina’s sister ???, well, I just wanna know because that lips are really hot ! :eek:

What does tittle mean. Is there such a word? What would be the origin of this word. How many tittles are in this sentence. 3?

have you ever tried cooking noodles and then mixing it in a pan with pesto and feta? looks green and tastes great.

Please make me your pet, Marina. I want to know if “sniglets” are allowable in the dictionary.

Pero por favorrrrrr !!! :grin: must be in Spanish. Great idea my man allster, good !
Please Marina, just one video in Spaniol :cry:

Hey Felipe, support us up here ! Look above your comment, Don’t ya think is good idea ???

Dear fellow student
You are a tricky one ! ! ! !
Poor teacher she wanted to teach us english and we ask us to make video in russian or spanish!!!!!
She said she doesn’t speak spanish so it will be a hard challenge for her!!! But, on the other hand, she is really gifted with french so why not spanish….
Respectfully
Don Felipe Gonzales

Better, why don’t you do a 28 de Julio ?
Thanks

Dear teacher
I join my fellow student to submit an idea. As a lot of people ask strange think from you like rusian (what a weird idea what is the link with you?) or spanish video, I propose a deal. You should ask something in a game or as a requested homework of the utmost importance. The one finding the answer first could ask you a gift like being the teacher’s pet or having you make a greek video…. As I had this incredible idea, I propose to be gifted by the position of eternal teacher assistant (I have a lot of apples that wait) :wink: .
Your devoted student
Amicalement
Don Felipe Gonzales de las vegas de la mancha de la izquierda del centro de la derecha

Thank you very much Marina!
What an honor and a privilege to be your pet.
You have many great students and I am humbled.
Also thanks for the guitar return because it always fires me up.

Please continue your quest to educate and entertain.
You always do a great job.. so thanks again. +5
My world expanding with words
David

HEY FELIPIÑO JEJE, MAYBE MAYBE YOU’RE RIGHT, BUT I THINK SHE’S FANTASTIC, SHE’S VERY SMART, SHE’S GREAT AND I DON’T UNDERSTIMATE HER APTITUDES TO SPEAK SEVERAL LANGUAGES. SHE DOES ENGLISH ALMOST PERFECT, WHY NOT ESPANIOL MY MAN :smile: ???

Dear Fellow student
You speak like Homer! are you homer? you are homer! I am sure Homer leave this body alone! VADE RETRO HOMER!
Euh sorry… I shouldn’t watch the exorcist so oftenly
Amicalement
Don Felipe

No sera al fondo a la derecha ??? :razz: JUST KIDDING XD

Enjoyed today’s quote and here’s one back at you.
“Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.” – Samuel Johnson, 1752
Great to see you in uniform again.

I wanna be a cute pet :oops: jajaja. Please Marina, Never lose hope and dreams to become your baby pet :sad:

Congrats dvdpage. :mrgreen:

World expanding? That can’t be the only thing expanding.
Your mind is…. Oh what did you think I meant? :twisted:

From a Canadian, it’s official “left”. That being said Our own media does say it both ways & nobody seems to bat an eye as we get so much American media beamed in that if you don’t think aboat it, it goes unnoticed, “either Loo or Left”. A lot of American tv journalists are Canadian because of our accent and delivery, the most well known http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/07/AR2005080701146.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fImL1EpKC6Q&feature=related
I’ve traveled well south of the boarder a few times & am amazed at how the news anchors sound so different than the locals.

hEy I sEE yOU fOUnd thE shIft kEy! Fantastic…

No feta (use warmed cocnut oil to mix with the pesto) just pesto mixed the right way and try any indian vegitarian food recipies they are some of the best, anyways who cares about amen, make people say ohmm or namaste for good vegitarian check the thai menu as well

Tofu and soy sauce will always be the most healthy and most well thought of food in the world

Homer is drunk Bart’s father

I like the sell me some vegitarian food idea i’ll sell you some tofu and soy sauce. I stopped eating lots of tomatoes and potatoes because of the high cianide content they naturally have.

He said big boobs !, he cannot say IT or write IT :???: HEY FELIPIÑO TEACH THAT FELLOW STUDENT DON’T WRITE LIKE HOMERO SIMPSON

What is it like to be a teachers pet :?:

What kind of things do you do :?:

We are BORG. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. :twisted: We also have hot women. Seven of Nine it hot. I think she wants to assimilate with you. :twisted: We are BORG. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. We are …

CAPTAIN MORGAN, I’LL REALLY PREFER TO WRITE THIS WAY, I DON’T KNOW WHY. I ACOSTUMED TO TURN ON CAPSLOCK WHEN WRITE AND THERE’S SOMETHING I DON’T UNDERSTAND. WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WRITING MAYUSCULAS ??? EVERYBODY TELLS ME ABUT IT :cry:

GIVE ME THE SECRET, I BET YOU ALREADY WAS A PET BEFORE…HMMM

why does the word “blue” (as in phrase: blue movie) mean pornographic? in contrast to that an area of a city that has prostitutes and has pornographic shops/stripclubs etc. is called red light district.

were you up too late jack, your not making sence. eg listen to the accents here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHmpaTEoDtk
could you hear the differences

It’s like you are yelling at people gio.. it’s not polite. Best to type regularly. :-)

Thank you my Teacher, I got hungry watching you, or was that the food you were eating. :?: :lol:

F sound needs a U sound? what about tenure when people who gain it’s privledge use it against others it makes them say FU. Do you copy Lieutenant :?:

PT9,
This is the US Coast Guard, Are you in need of assistance?
(needing a buddy?)
What is your vessels location?
(Don’t know where your are but its dark around you. Well thats good.) Are you taking on water?
(water everywhere?Thats even better.)
I think your just fine. This is the US Coast Guard securing from May Day.
Good Luck Sailor!! :twisted:

Its a photo of Marina’s lips he’s using.

trgoblin, I think she has BM everywhere on her body. I think we all won that one. :mrgreen:
Matalxwolf. The prize is we each get to kiss any BM we want. No just kidding. I wish I wasn’t. :mrgreen:

what??

trgoblin, I wonder about her sister. She is very mischievous in nature. :twisted:

Okay i might not think that’s what your asking the class for but it’s all I could think of It might not be very funny to you though Marina in fact i dont mean that as a threat it’s just confusing

great quote today on wit

Wow Im …. Whats the word im looking for? Oh I wouldn’t have qualified for that game. :sad: Big words wow! :shock:

Can’t find it @3:09 its a perfect picture too. Airbrushed?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peiFfTMhvRY
I’ll look again though, sorry

@ Jimmy, I like how you think!

@ Liv & Pt9, you just had to go there hu? Very funny!

Request for word: Turbo

Why? because i love how companies marketing their products say: “Turbo-Charged Grass Seeds!” or “Super-Charged Hunting Knife!” when most consumers have no idea what those words mean, but they automatically assume it is better. i’m not asking for you to tell me what turbochaged means, im asking for turbo. where does it come from, and why do all people see the word “turbo” and immediately they think positively-charged! :grin:

I agree i would love to hear the answer to this question :wink:

You know if this keeps up we’ll make Marina’s job much easier. All she will have to do is just film herself doing mundane things all day. I’m stumped why this is entertaining. Is it because I like spaghetti? Nooo that can’t be it…. :twisted:

tofu? yuck. this stuff is disgusting. smells like all foods of this planet combined gone bad and tastes like … nothing. eat paper instead. at least it doesn’t have that smell. bah.

Pro, I heard your evil twin went out with Marina’s evil twin. Thats just so evil of them.

And so it continues the Society of Unwanted Pets. :twisted: Evil LOL….

What an extremely BIZARRE opinion you have buddy
It brought a smile

The capital city of Britain is London England. There people speak ENGLISH ! Where do you think the language was from America ?
ENGLISH IS FROM ENGLAND (Which is part of Great Britain / United Kingdom / ex bully boy world dominators etc etc. now a piece of crap as we gave it all back US, Africa, India, Far East, Australia, Caribbean etc
When the English colonised North America the English took the language with them to be the main language of the USA except for the French colonies in Canada who naturally adopted French. North America was governed from London, England.
What do you think Independence Day celebrates Independence from ? the Marsians > No from the English at the Boston tea Party where you burnt our supply ships to dissolve our control. In those days because of scurvy our armies couldn’t react effectively

So how could you possibly think that the English are funny and change your words when it is obviously the other way round by the mere language description ? ENGLISH from ENGLAND Britain

The following words are almost never used in England
lobby, hood (cars) gas (cars) sidewalk, cookies, ho, hooker, shopping mall, parking lot, jaywalking, soccer. gasoline.
You changed them from hallway, bonnet, pavement, biscuits, prostitute, shopping centre, carpark, (no term for jaywalking it is totally legal here) football (we call ball with the hands rugby) and petrol.

Lefttenant is the only word I can think that we modified from yours.
Can anyone else think of a word that the English loaned from America that is in common use here….. I can’t. The US loaned the entire language from us.

Before someone is quick to correct me, Yes I admit that the entire English language is on loan from 16 different countries over the last 3000 years and that the true indigenous language of this land is Celtic Welsh from Wales which bears no resemblence to English)

It is the pronunciation stoopid stoodunt was a noosance on the nooz that gets me. (or bugs me for the US readers). We say Styoopid styoodent and nyoosance and nyoos

That’s not really exact such an idea makes me think about when one is shopping for anything you have to face the marketing illusion that one product is greater or you need to buy two instead of just one. I would want to know if you really think that knowing the origin of turbo is going to change our idea of what an illusion is :?:
some times companies or persons have a way of making you feel a certain way when you see their product or ask a question. The scaring feeling you get abut buying the product flip flops turbo around until you just get confused

You don’t know why and there lies the understanding. May I ask you a question Gio? Why do we have Uppercase and Lowercase letters? What is their purpose?

Thanks so much Marina, i really appreciate it!
Now i think it’s time to name your sister.
You names sound kind of aquatic (Marina = a place to dock boats
if that’s wrong maybe you should do a lesson on your own name.
It probalby has a different meaning in Russian)
so perhaps your twin should have something aerial.
I don’t know what it should be, Airport doesn’t have the same ring to is as Marina. Think about it.

gio – There are two reasons that come to mind to warrant refraining from “all caps” writing.

1. In the etiquette of email, text, IM and message boards, capitalization of all of the letters of a word STRESSES that word and places emphasis on it. When an entire paragraph or passage is capitalized, IT MAKES PEOPLE THINK YOU ARE RAISING YOUR VOICE.

2. In all writing, not just electronic, style has traditionally dictated that people not write in all upper case. This is because it has been demonstrated that all upper case writing is harder to read than mixed case writing. When people read, especially when they read fast, they read the shape of words. They do not read each individual letter. All caps makes everything roughly the same shape, while mixed case provides more variety and the eye is able to scan the text easier.

The fact that “everybody” tells you about it should make you think twice, since those are the people with whom you are trying to communicate.

I’ll add a third reason that is, I believe, my own contribution to this issue. I think that people should strive to communicate in proper style as much as possible. Use complete sentences. Use proper structure and grammar. Learn good and clear style. That doesn’t mean to be perfect or to waste inordinate amounts of time proofreading. All that means is to get into good habits. A lot of people use all caps to avoid having to write properly.

Texas newscast, is this a southern accent?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPeRJb2sn9E or is it just bad.
Be proud of your accent if you are proud of where your from, or even where you are. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ticcOE_0sLw

@ Cimska, I don’t know. I have never been one. I hear it many things. Having Marina speak your screen name from her sexy lips maybe. Or everyone congratulating you on being picked as a Pet. I always fantasize her wearing her hot yellow top speaking my name. (btw Marina do you have the same top but in bright green?)
What kind of things you do. Well the normal stuff. Get out of bed. Log on to HFW and contribute your words and thoughts. Thats basically it I imagine. What do you think it should be?

I am part of the society, me and my good twin

Marina,

Please apply your vast philology skills on the words “hysterical” and “pronoia”

Cheers,
RP

What are you talking aboot?

A Canadian is walking down the street with a case of beer under his arm. His friend Randy stops him and asks, “Hey Dave! Whatcha got that case of beer for?” “Well, I got it for my wife, you see?” answers Dave. “Wow,” exclaims Randy, “Great trade!”

A baby seal goes into a bar and waddles onto a bar stool.
The bartender says, “What will you have?”
The baby seal says, “Anything but a Canadian Club”

A French guest who was staying in a hotel in Edmonton phoned room service for some pepper. “Black pepper, or white pepper?” asked the concierge. “Toilette pepper!”

pronaoi?

pronoia. I think it’s the opposite of paranoia.

I would like to know the history of the word “loquacious.” How did it come to mean talkative, babbling, etc?

V/R,
Jeenyice :mrgreen:

The way we are percieved, Hosers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kkYhCX1uqQ Love the letter from Arnold

Pesto? Tofu? Nah – man, uh uh no than-Q!
NOBODY ever said “Tastes like chicken”
about tofu. If they did, they LIED!
Make mine a cheeseburger!

Dear fellow student
Gio is right! There’s things that can’t be said right here. She has no big B°°Bz she has serious philological arguments. These are the rules! Here, you must forget the homer that is in you (well this part of your personnality, I mean).
Amicalement
Don Felipe Gonzales

You made me laugh! :mrgreen:

That’s awesome. I never heard that before. :smile:

Cap’n….I like your theory!

Maybe the maestro will some shed some light upon it.

It’s great to have been the teachers pet, Friends laugh at you, you get to show off the video to anybody who will look. My kids look at me a little differently now & I think I may have to email the video to my wife LOL. You guys that haven’t had the priviledge yet still have anticipation on your side. What have I to look forward too :cry: I hope I’m not a forgotten friend. I know Marina will look after her pets even if we are a bit ugly or pesky at times. Thank you & care for your own.

Dear fellow student (well after this monologue I don’t know if you’are a student)
That is a real demonstration. And I must join 2hotforwordsfan, English is from England not USA.
Excuse me for my intervention, but I don’t think it is smart to be so rude with titanpa. Intelligence and knowledge are two different things. You cannot blame him not to know. Before you became so learned where you “styoopid”? I don’t think so.
Well, this is not meant to be insulting. Each time someone overstep his bound, there is a risk that everybody’s fun ends. So please don’t be rude like that.
Amicalement (mais vraiment, sans arrière pensée)
Don Felipe Gonzales

Now you have to investigate Colonel and Sergeant…………..lol

Very punny! :razz:

(snicker :lol: )

She has bowel movement all over her boy? This is not true! :razz: :wink: :lol:

I have heard the origin of the S-word ( s – h – i – t) comes from shipping cow manure and the phrase “Ship High In Transit” was placed on the crates. Is this true or just a hoax?
The origin of any other curse words you may know of could be cool, too.
Thanks!

Hoss

UHHHHH! I swear I typed “body” but only “boy” appears! :oops: :sad: :evil:

And they’d still say “shed-yool” in the 23rd century? Yikes! :shock:

Actually, I chose it ’cause it was one of the first GOOD avatars I could find, it goes well with the pictures here of Marina, and I like to look at sexy, luscious lips! :twisted:

Hey I use to take my x on dates to Brownwood when we were dating. Thats were i grew up down in central Texas. Little old town called Dublin, its got the worlds oldest DR. Pepper bottling plant.

Don Felipe Gonzales de las vegas de la mancha de la izquierda del centro de la derecha

I just LOVE those long names, don’t you, Don Felipe Gonzales de las vegas de la mancha de la izquierda del centro de la derecha? :mrgreen:

You’re funny, Cap’n! :grin: :mrgreen:

I love how you put a :shock: facey in the array, Bob! :mrgreen:

:arrow: DID YOU KNOW: «хлеб» (khlyep, an odd phonetic mishmash, I know) is cognate with the English word “loaf” (as in, a loaf of bread)?

:idea: caktonias, if you hang around this site, every now and then a new video will appear in the Latest Lesson box at the right of the screen near the top of this page.

BTW, Prussian is an extinct Baltic language (related to Lithuanian and Latvian).

PASTARD, eh? New one to me…

Fantastic video there BillyB. Really fits the S.O.U.P. :mrgreen:

Haven’t, eh? You must be a loony!

Awwww, y’all didn’t leave any corny puns for me; all that’s left is a semi-colon… :sad:

Touché! :mrgreen:

Улучшение:

American: skej-ool (for schedule)
—или—
American: skeh-jool (for schedule)

Like, that’s like a good question, I’d like Marina do videos for words like that… :mrgreen:

Wohbboy… :roll:

Yeah, me too—I didn’t get it… :?:

Musta been a budget thing… :roll: ( :?: )

“abreast”—why ain’t nobody used that word here b’fore? :roll:

Not to piss in your cheerios, but am a natural born contrarian:

Frankish conquest of Gaul as the Roman Empire waned
Clovis and Charlemagne’s conquests and formation of the Holy Roman Empire.
French victory over Spain in the Thirty Years War
Louis XIV’s wars against Spain and the Netherlands
French can claim victory as an ally of the American colonies in the American Revolution.
Napoleon was no slouch in terms of victories – one of the greatest generals of all time.
French Revolutionary Wars saw many victories (e.g. against Austria)
France conquered most of northwest Africa, Madagascar, and much of southeast Asia (which it held until it’s ultimate defeat in the 1950s).
France took much of north America, although it ultimately lost it (as did Britain and Spain).
France conquered lands in South America and the Caribean.
France followed Britain and Spain in terms of size of empire, reaching its zenith in the 1920s and 1930s.

Here’s a little tidbit (titbit) for youse:

The English language as used in the US is closer to the way English was originally spoken. This makes sense, since the place where it was originally spoken has modified it to an alarming degree. In the US, the main modification of English is the vocabulary. True, there are new dialects and we don’t sound the “e” at the end of alot of words that used to have that sound, but American English hasn’t had the opportunity to morph like British English has. Just my 2¢ (or tuppence).

Cheers :mrgreen:

Wasn’t soy sauce getting a bad rap recently in the news, ’cause people consumed to much of it? ‘can’t ‘member… ‘s anybody know? :roll:

“FELIPIÑOS” ARE THEY RELATED TO JALAPEÑOS? :roll:

“Mmmm! Jalapeños! Uh-vuh-vuh-vuh-vuh-vuh… :mrgreen: ” —Hombrero Simpsoño. :wink:

If so, they would cease to be sniglets.

I think… :roll:

“Mmm! Sooooooooup!” — Hombrero Simpsueño

I knew a German online who never capitalized his nouns! Hmpf! :roll:

Tomatoes and potatoes have high cianide contents? WTF? :shock:

Me too. :!:

It always makes me think of something that makes a vehicle go superfast—VROOOM…

I was into videogames bigtime (still am, actually). Go figure. :roll:

I’ve heard it a couple of times. Not NEARLY as much as “paranoia” though; people must be out to get me! :razz:

Good request. Marina and her sister could act it out, with Marina as Pronoia and her sister as Paranoia—since she’s too camera-shy! :wink:

hoss6901, PLEASE read this.

Good morning miss!

This is weird – earlier on, the site wasn’t letting me post my replies but now it is! That’s good.

I’m a new student with an insatiable appetite for learning. Thankyou for the opportunity.

Miss, can you tell me where the word ‘gong’ comes from? That big metal thing that the guy used to bang with a mallet before every movie. And Marc Bolan of course, who told us all to get it on, bang a gong. Is ‘gong’ from the far east or is it a simple onomatopoeia?

Please help! – oysterfond.

Oops. That should have read “Please help! – Oysterfrond.”

Spelling your own name wrong – an inauspicious start. Dunce cap for me, then…

Good question wordlover. Why is “abreast” singular when breasts come in pairs??? Shouldn’t it be “abreasts”? And if it’s just one breast, then what happened to the other one? So many questions, so little time… All I know is that when you say “Marina”, you’ve said a mouthful. :roll:

Ok, i got it. They say Uppercase is stressing, well, best to type regularly :???:

I would LIKE to be LIKE her. I mean, so smart.

Can I suggest the word ‘computer’? :arrow: :razz:

jajaja yeah, fun ! ….gonzales

Dear wordlover that replied to my comment on May 7th, 2008 1:54pm:,
Yes I must admit it the idea that I love long names. There is some kind of frustration not to be german. But, tell me something wordlover that replied to my comment on May 7th, 2008 1:54pm:, do you know another language that build words or names like german…
Thank you for your attention
Amicalement
Don felipe gonzales de las vegas de la mancha de la izquierda del centro de la derecha y (for gio) al fondo.

Yeah, but we saved the French from the Germans (the bad ones anyways)! :razz:

Seriously though, who cares about Gallic conquests? French has already conquered the ears and hearts of many a language lover! :mrgreen:

PS—Notice I left out “eyes”: French spelling is a little odd… “huit” for “eight”, who’d-a thunk?

Ain’t it the truth! :mrgreen:

Atta boy! :mrgreen:

Dear fellow student wordlover,
felipinos (sorry for la tilda) is not a chili pepper (well, sometimes,….) a felipino is diminutive of felipe or of Philip but in spanish.

It is also reputed to be the name of an extremely dangerous human being living in Europe that won the “Mister Universe” award during 10 years, but that retired to leave room for the young.

That’s horrible! Sometimes you read things you don’t know if it is a real question or humor! I hope I don’t appear as the one who want to seem ” I know every thing” (sorry if you think that)
Amicalement
Don Felipe Gonzales de la derecha de la mitad del cielo

Where are these mythical rules. I been on every page on this site and haven’t seen them.

Marina:

Could you please explain the phrase kick in the nuts? I’m not sure I quite understand it!

Thanks!

Jimmy

Dear bosscelt
In fact we in france are not “cheese eating surrender monkeys” we are just : “fromage qui puent” which can be translated as “cheeses that stinck”.
Amicalement (mais quand même un peu les boules! :wink: )
Don Felipe Gonzales de la mancha de la derecha del cientro de la ciudad

There are tons of em, Don Felipe! Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Turkish, Old English (more so than Modern English); these are all agglutinative languages.

What the Romance languages (Spanish, etc.) use is called a postmodifying genitive, where, in lieu of a separate genitive case, ownership is expressed thus:

el — sombrero — de — José
the — hat — of — Joe

In English, Joe’s hat.

This can mean words look prettier in Spanish or Italian, etc., and are harder to read for those who are not used to these so-called agglutinative languages.

As for me, I just like variety: it’s good to have both! :mrgreen:

Dear stkesjrj1
There is no rules, it was a joke to begin talking with you and everybody. Take no offense.
Amicalement
Don Felipe Gonzales

Ti ; tanus? :mrgreen:

Don Felipe, I was just making fun of Homer Simpson always thinking/talking about food—as well as eating it. :mrgreen:

:?:

Dear fellow student
Thank you for the explanation wordlover.
Amicalement
Don Felipe Gonzales

Careful with the pointy end!
gang-a-bong, dude. :mrgreen:

Beautiful soup – Gene Wilder, Alice in Wonderland
save the cheerleader, save the world – Heroes

¡No hay de qué, mi amigo!

Dear fellow student
OoOoOops chat is really excellent, every body has problems to understand the others. OK, wordlover! Sorry!
Perhaps our teacher could make an apparition in one of the Simpson episode….(if they still write some)
Amicalement
Don Felipe Gonzales

Okay, I think we’ve milked this one dry as a bone… :razz: :wink: :mrgreen:

There are as many tittles in your sentence as there are jots. There are a tittle of jots and tittles.

Don’t worry about it: I’m silly like that! :mrgreen:

You brainstormin’, melikadothechacha? :???:

I wasn’t aware that i was being rude to Titanpa and certainly didn’t intend to be so..
I just wanted to point out to any Americans who generally (not all) tend to be notorious for their insularity, that England is in Britain and is part of their American ancestry. No offence intended.
FACT Recent polls show that 80% of Americans don’t know that England is part of Britain which is in Europe and 90% of Americans can’t point out their own country on an Atlas and 70% don’t know what they actually celebrate Independence from. As I say insular.
Definately and absolutely not stoopid.
They are a self sufficient country of highly educated people that don’t have any need to know anything about the world around them iutside the US because of their self sufficiency..
Just geographical and historical ignorance strangely enough about the one subject that should interest them, themselves which I find bizarre.
Yes I will be first to admit that Brits are stupid because they look back where Americans look forward . Who knows.
I disagree that knowledge is not intelligence they have the same meaning in one of it’s three contexts, but I think that you use the word intelligence as a faculty of sense and reason as in clever with natural common sense, If so I agree 100% there buddy
Some the most educated people I know display the ultimate trait of stupidity, by being rude and arrogant.
I have no time for anyone that displays either and am extremely sorry that I came over that way. I didn’t mean to.

I have a great respect for wordlover but the fragments of the tuppence worth that I do understand I disagree with staunchly and choice to use his/her favourite word poppycock !.

People post on websites preferred language and show a flag. Why is is often American and come to think of it why is it a British flag ?
Why not an English flag ?
Food for thought

2hotforwordsfanclub, could you specify what part of my “tuppence” you don’t understand?

Where does the word goosebumps come from?

Surely you jest? I learned that word from my rat-faced grandmother back in the last century…

I didn’t know that I didn’t know…….I like that :razz: :grin:

Hey I was betrothed to Russian Professor of Philology who was super sexy also but as an exact opposite to Marina she was rude arrogant and just had no common sense whatsoever.

I bet that the main protagonist philologist in Forbidden Planet didn’t dress like Marina 2 years before I was born in 1956 ! LOL :grin:
Or I hope not anyway. I would hate to see Walter Pidgeon adjusting his boobs before filming like Marina does on Depilation, or showing his bare bum like on Floccinaocinihilipication. However I think that Walter (or anyone else for that matter) could teach Marina how to wear suzzies properly after watching hotdog ! :roll: LOL

Now who’d a thunk is very Yorkshire.

York the old capital city of England where no outsider has the slightest notion what anyone from there is going on about.
Went up t’ill wi’t'bahns bah’t'at. I moved there learnt how to warrupt’internet and need a Yorkshire English phrasebook ! LOL

Watch the state of me after watching one of marina’s videos buddy and you will understand. I nearly drop dead from a heart attack every time I see her LOL
At the very least I turn to stone !

LMAO

I Know this street in Chester and 100 miles east I lived in a house called ‘ the hough’ and i can assure you that it didn’t look like a the hind quarter of an animal at all. It looked more like a house.
It should be pronounced huff like in fair enough.

Because us Brits weren’t clever enough to use our own words LOL we decided to steal everyone else’s instead (we did invade to steal everyone else’s produces after all) and took the original spellings and pronunciations with them. Then we loaned it to all 194 countries in the world (all but the April fool… ironically nearly 50% of English words originate from French) the former bizarrely recognise English as the universally used language worldwide. Crazy it is because of it’s supremely irrational difficulty for grammar spelling and pronunciation.

Everyone enjoys seeing a piece of their own language in English. Is that a sensible reason to prefer English it is lunacy.
Come on Wordlover my learned friend why choose English ??

wordlover,

just to make sure I didn’t misunderstand your post — are you suggesting that spanish and german are agglutinative languages?

Ooops Lorry = truck not taxi LOL
Only messin’ deliberate mistake I know you are just checking we are all paying full attention aren’t you .
Absolutely right my learned buddy go about 22 pages up
There I list more differences.
But it is much less different to regional dialects in the UK
I moved to Yorkshire and need an English Yorkshire dictionary.
If you go to east London, all nouns are replaced by the first word of a pair of words that rhymes with the target noun.
E.g.
I went up the apples as fast as my plates would take me , had a Gypsy’s washed my boat north and foreigns put on my whistle said bye to the trouble and bins and went off to the ready to have a butchers for my old boracic china to buy him a kitchen.
Apple and pears=stairs
plates of meat=feet
Gyspy’s kiss=piss
Boat race=face
North and South =Mouth
Foreign land=hand
Whistle and flute=suit
trouble and strife=wife
bin lid = kid
ready rub=pub
Butcher’s hook=look
Boracic lint (pr brassic) =skint (broke-no money)
China plate=mate
kitchen sink =drink
I went up the stairs as fast as my feet would carry me had a piss (pee) watched my face mouth and hands put on my suit said bye to the wife and kids and went to the pub to look for my skint mate to buy him a drink
CLEAR AS MUD EH ?

Cop for that nonsense then buddy but absolutely true welcome to the barmy word of Cockney Rhyming Slang. Used by all in earshot of the ‘beau bells’ of London’s Church of St. Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, which is strange as the bells were destroyed in WW 2 ! Now the area has expanded with wannabe cockneys LOL

there’s a great site from the university of iowa.

choose “german” as a language. click on “frikative”. find [x]. this is the sound. compare [x] and /h/. [x] is like /h/ with a different position of the (back of the) tongue. you’ll see that in the animation.

maybe that helps.

In England nuts is slang for testicles. They are called eggs in Russia.

Needless to say that it would be serious setback. to have the misfortune of being kicked in the nuts or eggs

CTO ? :lol:

No. I’m suggesting that the Romance languages don’t have a genitive case, hence the postmodifying genitive. And that the Germanic languages, while not STRICTLY agglutinative languages (they are synthetic languages), DO share features with Turkish, Hungarian, etc. I’m sorry I threw them in with the others, I was in a hurry to answer and didn’t want to leave Don Felipe and others in the lurch, as it were. English DOES feature PMGs from time to time; e.g., “top of the hour” ~ “the hour’s top”, but it doesn’t HAVE to use it in order to express possession. Sorry for the confusion. :mrgreen:

Hey up! Tha be speakin’ t’ truth!

:idea: Seriously, we DO need inter-English phrasebooks. ‘twould help us all!

First’v all, I was born wit’ it.
Secon’, ’tis kinda special, yeh?
T’irdly, ‘s becomin’ more widespread, ya see…
So’t's a quite useful, thô.

Y’know, it’s funny how the same people who look down on Angloparlant persons for being monoglots, THEMSELVES wish to learn English because of its ubiquity—or, as near as dammit! :roll:

‘e’s rightcha know! :mrgreen:

The first computer was invented in 2600Bc. I was called and still is called an abacus. Technically a manual difference engine the automatic ones changed their name later to computer but when ?
The first automatic working difference engine was built in 1822 (50 years after it was ‘invented by J H Smith’) in my home town Manchester England Britain. I can answer this one without references because i have seen it . It is as big as a house in the Museum of Science and Industry. 2+2 =I’ll come back next week LOL
So the word origins were introduced some time after that by Captain J. F***nose who decided that the appropriate descriptive verb was to compute. So the noun would be a computer.
Compute is a theft (loanword) from the Latin words computus and computare

I am trying to stop laughing at melikadothechacha’s comments.
I have found about 7 meanings to this already, all pretty rude but illhairyarse non the less.
I also do the chacha Melika

That’s crap LOL
Joking apart I never knew that . thanks word lover always delighted to share knowledge with you.

Crap—-Thomas Crapper the London Plumber’s Merchant to make popular (but not invent) the flushing inside lavatory.
The product was caller ‘the crapper’…..hence verb to crap…

I think that OED lets us down here.

Stop babbling on about loquacious words……….only messing

Ariel as in Little Mermaid I prefer to aerial !
Ariel Tritanovna (daughter of Triton) Rodina
Aрeл Tриtановна PoДина

Fashionable buzzword ?
Like Hyper in the 70s
Mega in the 80s
Injection in the 90s
Turbocharged 00s

Why would I want to buy turbo charged grass seed .
My lawn grows too fast already ?

Me three

Teacher knows best! What a refreshingly mature and civil discussion. If people conducted themselves outside of cyberspace in the same manner as they do on HotForWords, my workweek would be a great deal more pleasant indeed.

Marina, as an attentive student, I must bring to your attention your sentence structure. To advise gio to “type regularly” is to say that he should type every day or type often. Would it perhaps better convey your thought to say to gio that it is best to “type the regular way.” or “type in the regular fashion.” ? :smile:

Hey wordlover cianide used to be a bedtime drink in England like Horlicks or Cocoa is today..
like Heroin was cough medicine
Made you feel dead drowsy LOL

you know one more now.

pspreop11 so you is wrongst been evr mor now bfur yu sayd it domb yu sai tis tym reeely fucking dombh!

you’re a genius! I had the answer right in front of me but i needed you to respell it into a girl’s name.
now we jsut have to convice Marina to start calling her twin Ariel.

i can’t read or speak Russian. sorry.
the only words i know are dah, nyet, dosvidenya
and nichevo which after much research i learned means nothing!

if gio got the gist of the message then WTF?

LOL
Chinese are particularly offended when we ‘shout’ at them in upper case.
Not only is defiance against authority snubbed by their culture there they don’t understand the need for caps at all.
In fact in Taiwan Confucious said in true Yoda style Annoyance shown argument already lost you have.
It’s like giving a ‘v ‘ sign in the UK.

A philologist equiv would know 47,000 characters average chinaman 3000. I struggle on 230. Can you imagine lower and upper case …special desk sized keyboard.

they don’t really use vocal punctuality either because the word’s ‘song’ determines it’s meaning.
I always remember first time I said hello the recipient when he had finished rolling around from laughing he explained to my translator that I had pronounced day as shit so was enquiring about the enjoyment factor of his most recent bowel movement !
And I thought my Russian ex-wife was weird when she refused to speak for a week . I apparently touched her bottom (accidentally) in public.thus branding her a whore.
Different things offend different people but low profile offends no one

So go easy gio, easy on our ears (visually)

Buzz word says WTF ?
I think it is ‘tongue in cheek’ NO the other cheek.
Everyone one just wants to agree with teacher here.
Hardly surprising really with teacher’s pet app still open
Люблю тебя всем сердцем, всей душою мaрина LOL

What is the etymolgy of the word GULLIBLE
Why is it not in the Oxford English Dictionary ?

Hi 2hotforwordsfanclub!
As the son of a W.A.S.P., I am reminded of what my dear deceased father often advised me, “It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it.”
We know that you don’t mean to be rude, calling your fellow students buddy might diminish the sense of community in the discussion. Best to take the time to copy and paste the name of the student to whom you are replying.
With regard to knowledge, a few years ago my church changed the words of the Lord’s Prayer because of new philological “knowledge” of the line pertaining to the sixth petition(a very interesting Google btw). I disagree with the change, and I realized that people in general, and even experts, confuse the three levels wherein our Collective Intellect holds “data”:

Information – data that is almost worthless until it can be absorbed into a body of…

Knowledge – where the Collective Intellect usually stops, files it, and moves on to the next bits. We tend to demur when it comes to parsing our Knowledge in the laboratory of…

Wisdom – the application of which would have mitigated many of the negative consequences of using Knowledge unwisely, as in changing the Lord’s Prayer and a good many other and darker moments in human history.

Hello Hot for Words Teacher Marina,

Back in Nam, say 1969, June… daybreak… sun climbing up over the horizon… trenches are quiet… soldier whispers to his partner… “this opium is great man! I had a science-fiction dream last night where this hot teacher in the next century was talkin’ bout WORDS back home and everybody’s happy and stuff. It was too much!”

His partner never replied because he had the…
THOUSAND YARD STARE!

Was this guy dead? (or) Was this guy alive but stuck in a zone known only to himself (shellshock)? (or) was this guy just paying attention to enemy movements over yonder…. say 3000 feet? hmmm?

Would you please investigate?

Oops! I meant that to be in the string for “gio”.
Anyway, wordlover, I’m from New Jersey, and we do say
skej-wool
and
lu-on-dree (laundry).
Come on down to the Jersey Shore this summer, and I’ll buy you a cup of kuoffee.

But confusious from Taiwan said that to know more is to learn that you know nothing. So you know the Russian for nothing so you must now know it all LOL

The Russian was just the way that Ariel Tritanovna Rodina would be spelt in Russian. buddy.
Boringly enough nothing more I’m afraid.
I prefer Russian characters to our own.garbage.
They have distinct sounds unlike ours
A as in aye
A as in apple
A as in wade
A as in mark
A as in awkward
Need i say more ?

Oooops i forgot to include the next decades most promising contender word nossed-up the other day as in NO2 Nitrous Oxide Nos !

2010′s Nossed-up !

I love melikadothechacha normally because he makes me laugh but I say have you been smoking the whacky backy tonight our kid ? :shock:

Maybe you can just run that by me again in the language of the hwatawawa tribe of Outer Mongolia. :grin:

Carry on Word Lover you make me LMAO, I love the humour

prospero811, thanks for the taking time to set the record straight. Oh, and by the way, the French didn’t “lose” parts of North America. The U.S. bought the Louisiana Territory. I was going to go into French history, too, but figured I’d just use some levity instead (Le Google). Great work, prospero811. And don’t forget the French Resistance. Anyone who has read its history (as I have) will understand its significant role in the success of the American victory in Europe.

Only my tunes.

@Pros, Thanks for your take on all Caps writing. I try to use complete sentences when I can. I’m very weak in sentences structure, grammar, and spelling. I was deprived from taking writing & English classes. I was able to learn some skills from computer programming of all things. I always try to proof read my comments as much as I have time for. I struggle with trying to get all my thought down on the keyboard as quickly as possible before they seep away from my mind. My most hated subject is writing and English speaking and yet now I am an instructor (masculine for teacher?) and I write a lot in these blogs. Who would have known?

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@ 2hfwfc, I always try to look at offending talk as someone who doesn’t understand how their communication or actions effect me. For maybe they really don’t know. When people poke fun at me I get very offended, but knowledge of that they are only having fun, I don’t want to be the party pooper and I try to turn it around and make it fun for me. I sometimes try to be the class clown. Its embarrassing but we need more happy and funny things in our lives so we can die with a smile on our faces. :mrgreen: LOL on the bowel movement joke. :lol:

Be very careful how you use the word tuppence when you speak to an Englishman as it has 2 meanings my learned friend. The other is the infantile polite word for vagina. So avoid discussing your tuppence in public LOL…………

With regards to your tuppence worth of time on the soap box, it was difficult to tune into your wavelength and the e bit that went straight over the head completely. This is because maybe you didn’t learn the rules of the e at an English speaking school.?
As for morphing, occupants of opposite ends of the British Isles haven’t a clue what the other is babbling on about !
It really is that Morphed up.
Somewhere below I covered Cockney Rhyming Slang. The mind boggles. What does our brainstorming friend mikeldoeschacha have to say about this ? Can a see a literal quote coming ?

2hotforallofus more like !

@ Богдан, I think its because when we type we have to slow down and put our thoughts in order. We can even delete sentences after further refection about how this comment will effect others, how will it be understood, is it a complete thought, etc. People need to just slow down and think before having to open mouth and inserting foot.

In regards to 2hfwfc comments but not directed to his comments (wow what a mouthful), I try not to always agree with teacher. I don’t want to be a “Yes man”. It good not to always agree. Its healthy to have differences and to respect others opinions. If we all agreed one way of doing things then the world would be very boring. We all would have the same color of things, work the same jobs, etc, you get the point. :cool: My former relationships with girlfriends, we always had good debates. Sometimes we where able to change each others thinking by really looking at the other persons view. Relationships always lasted longer than when I was a “Yes Man”.
Btw, I like your new avatar. :grin:

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Hey I thought you were hilarious as always captainjack my learned friend.
It was not a dig at you I loved the multicased text and LMAO It was aimed at MR UPPERCASE but replied to you so that it would appear in the right order for all to read. Sorry if you misunderstood my motives buddy !
Love reading your comments.
As far as the English variety of English goes quite frankly there are absolutely no visual signs of your deprivation whatsoever you very modest fellow.

Wow.. Thats interesting.

Hey 2hfwfc :grin: , did you hear about that early mechanical computer some diver discovered? I was wondering if you knew anything about it? Last I heard they where going to use some special xrays to figure out how it worked without destroying it. :smile:

Funny and embarrassing thing is I used to educate people that Ship High in Transit was a fact and later discovered my big mistake when I really got into researching nautical origins. I also learned of many things in school that are just untrue. I feel like I was lied to and not taught a thing. :sad: So now I ways say to people somethings you where taught in school are just false. :mrgreen:

Yea WL, I agree this could be a good one for Marina to do a vid on. Can we search for some possible origins of the word so to reduce Marina work load?

Me four.

@2hfwfc, Oh no I didn’t mean I was offended by you. I was just making a general comment about how I see things. Yes I see how you placed your comment in right order. I understood your motives clearly.
About my English, Really? I thought my English sucked! I’m always being corrected by my sister. I even had a girlfriend in the Philippines that corrected me. She knew proper English better than I did. I really prefer telepathy with my sister to communicate thoughts. I have a hard time finding words and putting sentences together to describe my thoughts. Thanks 2hfwfc for your complements. :mrgreen:

Oh there is so much love here!!!! :wink: Marina doesn’t know what she is missing. Too bad she is to busy with lesson plans to join in. But then the focus would all turn onto her.. Hhmmmm Maybe she should make a fake log-in and pretend to be one of us students. :mrgreen:

["That is spaghetti, right?
a hot tomatoe eating a 'mater! LOL
good thing a 'mater is a vegetable
or that would be canabilism!']

Eating vegetables is cannibalism. Plants respond to soothing voices and music. Sure tomatoes have no brains as we do but they are living things are they not? Have you ever seen a tomato do a stupid thing? Makes you wonder who the smart one is hu? Isn’t ignorance bliss? Aren’t they like animals? They take in oxygen and expel carbon dioxide (though the non fruit part of the plans does the exact opposite). I sometimes eat edible flowers that my sister brings to me. I feel like im biting off the head of some animal.

Oh sorry thats the green thumb on me talking. :oops: Would someone please pass the chicken wings!

Speaking of tomatoes, I should find a pea patch and grow some tomato plants. I wish I could just grow them on my yacht. Im getting sick and tried of this store bought ethylene gas sprayed tomatoes. Way to much starch and too little sugar.

~~___(\___ oops running into a storm… :shock:

Oh wow Really? Now Im going to have to see that movie again. I had plan to buy the movie later on but currently have a reason to move it up on my list of must buy movies.

Oh My Gawd! Thats so funny no one has brought up that word. I use that word sometimes in class to explain abeam of ship or boats. My bad for not bringing it up sooner. :sad:

Dear fellow student,
You’re right Captain Jack, she should make a fake log-in, a little bit of schyzophrenia is always welcome! The funiest thing would be that the fake log in were elected teacher’s pet !
Amicalement
Don Felipe

Dear fellow student
I ‘ve just watched the video. It’s incredible! The guy that jumps on one leg is really a strong one !
I now know what I want to be whan I’ll be gown up!
Amicalement
Don Felipe

tack it down, sailor! :idea:
head for the alee side
and shore up your sheets
Isn’t it good to know you have
friends in the vegetable kingdom :?:

Do you know what they call a Quarter Pounder With Cheese in France?

Computer, at one time. was a job title for those who did interest amortization calculations – important to bankers. An amortization is a string of calculations where each subsequent string is dependent upon variable values created during each pass of calculation. Phew!

I did see a snatch piece about the mechanical computer found by divers. It appeared to be configured like an astrolabe but a few added features are yet to be explained.

We’re all looking for a green light on this one. :mrgreen:

You don’t have to worry about poisons
in your food giving you drain bamage.
It has already affected how you right.
oops write!

Buzzword? Take your shoes off before you type!

I bet that was a lot funnier in 1752.
(he said copulate!) LOL
good quote, tho

Nothin wacky going on here. Just an observation comparing some of the ideas being expressed by you guys to the framework of thought suggested by the series “Heroes”.
ie. helping the helpless makes us all stand taller.
you can laugh now!

Le Cat – stick to what you know.
Les mew, les purr, les Rowr! Rowr!
Can you kiss a pretty girl Pepi boy, Pepi boy
Can you kiss a preety girl yong Pepi?

Nope! Y’all are doing just fine :mrgreen:

Attack of the killer tomatoes

connect-the-dots, la la la la !
connect-the-dots, la la la la !

Why is a guitar maker called a luthier?
Did the guitar evolve from the lute?

Growing tomatoes on a boat
Growing tomatoes on a boat

What do you mean?
Just whip out some nautical terms.
( all most big words are just a
bunch of itty bitty words stuck together )

Go Go Go!!

And why do they now use all “red lights”
to start a Formual 1 grand prix???

Thank-Q! come back for the 12:15 show.
I gets racier after midnite! I took this name
because if I ever get the TA spot, Marina
will say “Me-Lika-Do-The-Cha-Cha” and
THAT would be SOOO cool!

We don’t do THAT here – LOL!

Pangalacticsuperhypermegaturbocheeseburger!
Take THAT!

It wasn’t the food. There was a lady with six kids. Her friend observed that men have the same look in there eyes when they’re hungry as when they’re horny. The lady with the kids said “You mean all I had to do was FEED him??”

There are still Prussians alive and well and living in UK.
I used to share a helicopter with one and one of them even has a blog

melika – that goes good with a pangalactic gargleblaster, except that when you drink one it’s like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick. It’s the alcoholic equivalent to a mugging.

Must be the old way. Nowadays they grid up during a pace lap, under yellow, and take the green flag at race speed. Red is used now to indicate to drivers to come to an immediate stop on the track. We only do that if the track is blocked – rarely.

Go on then. :roll:

Uberfast Lieutenant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fJpnIdDVH0

I agree

What the f* is this message from “cimska” about?

A vegetarian diet or something?

So much for globalization.
90% of the world do not have f*ing clue what the rest are saying!!

A Royale with Cheese…silly French, they have a different word for everything. But, thanks for the “Pulp Fiction” reference.

Thanks all for the replies. I hear both but I do get confused looks if someone says ‘left’tenant. I guess that’s what we get for getting our TV from south of the border. :arrow: Canadian commenter

There’s been a whole heap of fuss in the British media about ‘regrading’ cannabis/mariuana. It makes me wonder – where do words like ‘spliff’ and ‘reefer’ come from?

…at which point in time they tanked, rolled over on their backs, exposing the soft underbelly, lack of spine and have been gutted ever since.

We greatly appreciate their assistance in the Amercan War for Indepenence. Hence, “Lafayette, we are here!”

BTW, what did they ever do to their magnificent Napoleon?

And I hardly think capturing laregly unarmed regions of Aftrica, Asia, South America and the Caribbean amounts to “victory.” It’s more akin to stealing a lillipop from a 3 year old child.

Wouldn’t space philology be like tarzan, or Tonto speak?
Us We we go us we go now you go now us

Papa loves Mama, Mama loves men!

Its ok. I dont think your rude. Your just trying to correct me. I think you should create a website. HotForHistory. Im sorry if I sounded condescending (which is a good word for Marina to investigate. And why dont we say anything ‘proascending’?)

But pardon me now. I must take the bloody tube to my flat.

Like I said. English is a funny language. LOL

Yeah, it has a Goth feel to it. Hmmm…. Gothic?
you might be a banker or a little shopkeeper …

Wilco, over and out

I believe Marina already has a fake login and it is hdvideo. :evil:

“Roger” is like saying “copy”
as in “copy houston”.
Now where did Roger originate?
good question

OOPS!! Marina actually reads this stuff.

I hope it is not used to determine who is the “Pet Of The Day”

Otherwise this little teddybear is STUFFED!!!!

Let’s apply some simple reasoning.
Above ground is … the railroad. So
underground railroad, as it was called
was shortened, truncated, by use.
Can I get any help about the subway part?

ok – now we know the time of day.
hmm… wait a tick! Time joke?
I am writing to you in the present
so you will see this in the future
but for you, this will be from the past.

Angelina

Because of … french??? :?:
No, we needed a single letter for all the two-letter combinations with the same sound. eg. “gh” “ph”, etc.
phrog : ghrog <—- just doesn’t look right does it?

Ew, a wise guy, eh? Nyuk Nyuk

Gives new meaning
to the phrase
looky loo

Bizarro-Marina (Aniram). :grin:

I thought a lootenant was the guy who hands out paper towels and cologne in a British men’s room.

It’s in mine.
Page 903 of Volume 1.
It means, “capable of being Gulled” which, here in Aberdeen, is being poo-ed on from a great height by a seagull.

I thought it was publish lies about seagulls……

..publishING, that is…

Marina, I have a word request as a result of all this loo talk; Where does the expression “tootle loo” meaning “so long”, “see you later” come from?
I have my own theory, but what does the expert say? :???:

Marina’s favorite word is harlequin, and I “see” why.
There is nothing so elegant as the sound
made when an Englishman says “whole world”!
In Hampshire, Heffington and Hempstead, hurricanes hardly happen!
Cheerio, mate!

it could from the word: turbine. its first uses are in turbocharger and turbojet (a jet engine) from the 1930′s and 1940′s. both of these inventions operate using a key mechanical components: turbines.

both the turbocharger and turbojet allow the vehicle (aeroplanes especially fighter aircraft) to go fast(er) which in 1940s was a key performance indicator of how good an aircraft was.

Can any of you tell me how to get a picture into my profile? you know, the icon by your name?

It’s no use to insist, Proz; it’s Angelina AND I have her phone number. :cool:
Now you know why we so seldom see her in the videos – she’s always on the phone.

There’s only one Angelina: http://www.hecklerspray.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/angelina-jolie-pregnant.jpg

no, a lootenant just guards the toilet.

I know that’s from Pee-Wee’s Playhouse but what’s that a reply to here? Just curious…

“skej-wool” Hmm. I stand corrected—albeit, whilst sitting own my but-tocks… :mrgreen:

No, but they sound like great hacker terms! What for—I’m not certain, though…

That didn’t help, melikadothechacha… :sad:

Hmm, 2hotforwordsfanclub. Hmm. :neutral:

Oh, God, please no! :shock:

Yehbut, explain the “Beautiful soup – Gene Wilder, Alice in Wonderland” parts… :???:

HDVideo is not very nice to me… so I would have to be pretty masochistic to be him! :eek:

melikadothechacha, you need to do a book of poems—I’d buy a copy! :mrgreen:

:idea: DID YOU KNOW: “Turbo” in Latin means “whirlpool” (among a couple of other things).

Gene Wilder played the tortoise and sang
a sad song, about turtle soup, called
“Soup Beautiful Soup”. from the mid ’90′s

Yeah, but EVERYTHING Marina says is SOOO cool! :smile: :grin: :mrgreen: :cool:

Jeff, go here and sign up/register. :mrgreen:

What movie?

But sooner or later
you’re gonna dance for the Reaper
- Bill&Ted Bogus Journey

“dot” right arm, “dot” right cheek.
(use your tongue)
Connect-the-dots, la-la-la-la!
right thigh? Soitainly! Nyuk Nyuk

My bad. :oops: Freeze the video almost at the end at 2:45, maybe that’s the origin of Orgasm.

being mean to Marina grrrr i go kick his ass …..or maybe buy him a beer …depends on how big……maybe we could conjure up a trick word to pull the wool over Marina’s eyes…….Just kidding ,Teacher your the best.

Marina, you don’t deserve that kind of abuse (or any abuse, for that matter)!
hdvideo needs detention! Better yet, s/he need to be expelled! Can I get a “hell yeah”?

Interesting.

So, racially though, are they separate like say a Chinese, Korean, and a Japanese person might be related back many generations, but they are different enough that they are considered separate, are Prussians different, or is it just a country where they are/were from?

Hell yeah, that reminds me when I Use to play Americas Army if you got to many roe (rules of engagement) points you got sent to a prison cell in Ft Leavenworth. Perhaps Marina should have her own detention hall where you only got to watch one video, of her own choosing for a couple of days…………….wait a minute I would be there every day…….bad idea

As your commanding officer, I think you should let us see your sister!!!

Carry on now!!!

1) Us pesky Brits stole it from France (loanword) tout à l’heure. It is pronounced toodle loo in UK Bob where are you from.
2) It means in England that I need to bugger off quick because I ate and drank too much
3) An Englishman’s desire to find the home of the Mona Lisa

Any of you wise guys got any other ideas ?

Hey captain you are such full of witty gems I was waiting for a punchline.
Good job my cha cha loving friend pointed out that you were serious.
Do you still Cha cha melika ?

Maybe Marina can cover the etymology of the word Fridge.
That would be cool :roll:
Would not freezer be more cool ? :roll: :roll:

School is always right. They explained Father Christmas very well to me.
(or Santa Claus as it is called some places)

Hey as far as comments go that one from you measures the least so far on the babbleometer

Hey if she doesn’t do the word hysterical don’t get too worked up about it. :grin:

Let’s green-light some blue-sky thinking on this one. Then we’ll all be in the pink!

I know you’ve told me not to call you thins before but f*** nose !

One thing I did learn buddy is that just because someone speaks English doesn’t mean that someone else that speaks English can understand. Here in England the regional dialect can be so extreme that I moved 50 miles east to Yorkshire and need an English to Yorkshire phrase book !
Can you explain ‘wentup thill baht bahns’ or ‘put wood in thole’

Take your shoes off before you type.
Very clever melikadotheargentiniantangonext
I thought that was more captainjack’s sense of humour

Copulate probably had a more innocent meaning then

Cop you later ! 2HFWFC

OK but why was it used in such a random manner like word association.

what animal is a a snig and do they come in litters herds or packs ? :razz:

I have this theory that Marina logs on as someone else pretending to be a man. She slipped up once by forgetting to relog in under the alter ego.

Yes WL there is no adequate word in the English language to describe Marina. As I say she is just too not for words.

Sorry titanpa I didn’t think anyone would think I was being rude but Don Felipe Gonzales did. Maybe a translation error or a culture difference.
Traditionally the French and the English never saw eye to eye despite being neighbours. Neither saw the need as there is a sea between them which stopped Napolean but not Norman.Fortunately it stopped Adolf as well.. The email was replied to you so that it appeared in the right order on the page.

Bring it up sooner ? Why when did eat them ? Were they tasty ?
Only messin cap

He was born in Essex I think

Close the first was the London Underground Railway (we say railway here not railroad) the main use of Subway here is a retail outlet selling sandwiches

OK I looked at 2.45 still non the wiser

Can I thaw out my monitor now ?

Isn’t that word a euphemism for evilspeech ?

Well I thought Dictionharry was a promiscuous gay man, an encyclopedia was a man who likes young pedal cyclists, the Lexicon a car and a Thesaususes were prehistoric reptiles.

wasn’t cowpox the first vaccine

It sounds like an item of genitalia

Or some strange German sex act that one might find on the internet. LOL.

You say that in a very convincing matter of fact way alx
I thought that a lootenant was someone who rents public lavatories.
Where else would the term sitting tenant come from ?

You’ve gotta Adam and eve it (believe)

…one who merely occupies a public lavatory, without paying rent, is called a “squatter.” :smile:

Watch that dictionary doesn’t give you indigestion WL

Hey the Brits had the monopoly on stealing lollipops with India America, Africa, Austral-asia and we left the small carribean islands for the French. Had we not done the latter then after Trafalgar Napoleon would have no where to run to. No fun at all . Game Over

PS South America was dominated by the Spanish not the French

There will be a lot of words changing then News nuisance student etc etc

I assumed that a proprietor takes care of his property. especially if it’s got to do with their genital region.
but I do like the sitting tenant thing …

2hotforwordsfanclub – South America was partly dominated by the Spanish, partly dominated by the Portuguese (e.g. Brazil), partly dominated by the French (e.g. French Guiana), and partly dominated by the English (British Guiana and the Falkland Islands).

Actually, the British had much smaller holdings in the Americas than the Spanish, who controlled parts of South America, Central America, and North America, while the Brits controlled much less territory. The Brits certainly didn’t have a monopoly on colonialism (stealing lollipops).

Hmmm…”Space Philology” sounds like the title to a David Bowie song.

“Ground Control to Major Tomfoolery…”

Wait a minute…tomfoolery–has Mistress Marina done that yet?

But hey, if you haven’t seen “Forbidden Planet” get thee to a DVD rental establishment right this minute, if not sooner.

I think the blue reference has something to do with regulations or restrictions. “Blue laws” mean you can’t buy alcohol on Sundays. Blue movies are those unavailable to young kids. Both are references to restrictions.

Cyanide.

in the pink? :?:

I think you’re begging the question. Why is it blue?

Uh-huh.

Say what? :?:

2hotforwordsfanclub, you are too much! :razz:

And a bit too corny just then :sad: , sorry… :mrgreen:

I thought the Thesaurus went extinct about 65 million years ago, didn’t it?

I don’t know, but elephants come in quarts… :razz:

Exactly! (Thank you, 2hotforwordsfanclub.)

Well, melikadothechacha…?

http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/jha/lowres/jhan377l.jpg

Or at least in a brown study…

Is it number 3…? :mrgreen: :razz: :wink:

I rate this video with five kisses, keep up the great informative teachings for all – I like it a lot.
riverrat512 out.

samba, rumba, i dip you dip we dip she dip!
and of course, cha cha!

Les Big Mac attack1

Thanks for that. Don’t I look handsome in my new fur coat ?

What to the Louvre ? :roll:
Close :eek:

Touche Mr Longshlong !

ooooh yikes
we have Hamster Claws visit us on Christmas day

Well when I’m in my drag racer I run k=like the clappers when I see a red light. I think I am in Amsterdam ! :grin:

Sorry but my magenta yellow black and cyan are all Ok.
Why do you want to hide one of the colours ?

Maybe when he was trying to converse
Twasn’t really meant to be in verse
But by pure chance each and every line
By coincidence just happened to rhyme

Maybe be he’s a natural poet
And just doesn’t quite yet know it.

Hey titanpa. Who says I of all people am even remotely qualified to correct you.
I just wanted you to see the point of view from someone across the Atlantic that’s all.

Well my cage will be well rattled if she doesn’t

DID YOU KNOW that Turbotrump is NOT the Latin word for Whirlwind ?

This was obviously in one of the BM years (before Marina)
Only six times feeling horny ?

You for what ?????

Oh for God’s sake give the book to hamster.
Mikela doesn’t need it that much !

Stop hogging the reefer melikadothechacha give some others the change to get onto your astral plain

If you meant cum then shame on you WL

I don’t believe anyone would do that :grin:

I thought that Eminem got the bad rap because he was too saucy !

I met a very clever root vegetable once.
That was a Turnip for the books :grin:

Wordlover please stop humming in class. Marina will get annoyed

Hmm? Wha…? :razz:

Hey, does anyone notice something unusual?

Almost like…

Must be my imagination.

There it is again… That… feeling…

Dunno.

Marina?

I sense Marina has been here. HERE on this moon/thread/post/etc….

Strange…

:lol:

Seriously, does anyone notice…

Hmm… Oops, sorry, tiger-the-vicious Marina.

WAIT! :eek: Uh…

Gosh, I forgot what I was gonna…

Strange…

That sounds like the translation of a tongue twister.

Y’know. Here, I’ll make one up:

(original Zerbovian version) Bļkas sķlib bkļašs sķļbis bškals!
(English translation) Twelve dirty turnips bite the bald flashlight.

Thee for two!

Errrrrrrr… somethin’. :roll:

Remember during the Paul is Dead era that feeling everybody would get when listening to and trying to decipher the clues that John left in his songs as to what REALLY happened to Paul?

Me neither… :roll:

Awwww! But I LOVE Turbotrump! I have all their Braille colouring books… :sad:

I maked a cookie for Hamster Claws but I eated it…

Charming! :mrgreen:

hey Stokesjrj1, Jeff is one of my favourites as well buddy.
I absolutely love Achmed.
Politically a bit close to the bone (sorry about the pun) but very funny.
You’ve watched 376 videos in 20 hours OMG ! That’s go to be a record !

If you mark them as your favourites then we can all enjoy the things that we watch from the opposite sides of the Atlantic.

How did Terry Fator do on AGT ? I think that he is also very talented.
I can’t think of much that tickles me right now but try a 70′s classic from Ester Ransen’s ‘That’s Life’ programme.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MXal3BIwuU4

As there are many different ways conceive behaviour culture humour and even vocabulary between nations that even speak the same languages we can be very ignorant sometimes unintentionally and ,
I usually get by but I am struggling with the words tin travel trailer but think I understand from the literal meaning of each word. I have heard of ‘trailer trash’ so I suppose our equivalent is Gypsy which means that trailer = caravan so is a tin travel trailer what we call a motor home ?
In England a trailer always an open top vehicle towed behind the car to transport large objects but is usually used to take rubbish to the tip (garbage dump in US ?) Your passion for motor travel seems to be like mine for dancing, what is the furthest distance you have travelled in your tin travel trailer ?

I know that you are right WL

Very clever you two

I eight it when the jokes get so sick

Now Hotforwords is hogging the reefer

Well we DID pay for it! :shock: :shock: :shock:

Wait a second… :lol: heh-heh-heh, I’m just KIDDING… Yeah, that’s the ticket… :oops: It was just a joke… I don’t know what’s in this Ziploc, it looks like grass clippings… Why would someone keep grass clippings in a sandwich bag? I mean, what would you do with it? Eh-heh-eh-heh :lol: … HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA… :oops: Look at the time! Gotta run…

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2hotforwordsfanclub hey, i think i may have been a little harsh in one of my other posts directed towards you, sorry. 376 videos in 20 hrs, no way. Maybe that many since i signed up on Youtube. Or maybe that many since I discovered hotforwords, who knows ,probably some sort of glitch.
I’ve never been into this socializing scene like this Youtube stuff. got sent to one of Marina’s videos off a google hit and i’ve been , hmmm i don’t know what word to convey my attitude. But yea Jeff’s work is some of the best humor i’ve seen while here, though your right some of it could be controversal As to the tin top travel trailer. its just a matter of truth in advertising, Due to inheritance issues when my father died i’ve lived in a travel trailer for the past 3 years on a piece of property I’m supposedly going to have willed to me when my mother passes. Its jusB ut mom>t a tragic little soap opera , Mom keeps her house. sister gets a free house,and all i got was this damn travel trailer which i had to purchase. But mom’s getting along in years, and keeps telling me “I just don’t know whats going to become of you” But enough on that I’ve been pretty much grounded for the last 20 years here in my area, but have traveled to or through every state on the continental US when i drove a truck for a few months. Didn’t much like the traveling, and away too long from home.

I don.t know who Terry Fator is or what this AGT either, I don’t watch much tv except movies and nascar. Most of my free time is on the computer, gaming or browsing the hardware tech sites and forums. Hey yeah I’ll check out url after posting this and perhaps we will have something else to converse on next time.

Bob, You live in Aberdeen, Wa?

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=bsMpHHSLSlc Aberdeen Mississippi Blues

backwards masking ooh ahhh
“there’s been a terrible accident..”

Bob, You live in Aberdeen, Wa?

No, Skipper, I live in the real one.
Etymology of Aberdeen – Aber=mouth of a river (No Swedish jokes here, please) + Dee=the name of the river at the mouth of which Aberdeen is situated.
BTW, Is there a River Dee in WA? And do you have to go down to the river to wash?

Aberdeen Mississippi Blues

1. Funny way to play the violin. :roll:
2. I know Idi Amin always claimed to be Scottish, but why Aberdeen Mississippi Blues?
3. Is Booker White an oxymoron? :shock:

It’s not #3, for sure; that’s Skip to the Loo

Skip to the Louvre?

All you yellow bellies are looking through rose-colored glasses, and that makes me see red, dammit! I’ve been a little blue, lately, due to the gray skies. However, the clouds have a silver lining, and all you black-hearted greenhorns will soon be raising a white flag, I’m sure.

:grin:

Aren’t we all glad we are getting a “headbanger” of an education….lol

I don’t agree with your analysis of the different pronunciations of lieutenant. I believe that the two different pronunciations came about for a typographic reason. The English alphabet uses Roman characters, and in Ancient Rome, there was no written distinction between U and V. For example, the word MAXIMUS would be MAXIMVS. Stone chiseled letters from Ancient Rome eventually became printed material. Since French is a Romance language, typographic conventions would carry over. Lieutenant and lievtenant are the same word.

English has Latin and Germanic roots, and in German, V and F have very similar pronunciations. Old English is much closer to German than modern English, so the pronunciation of the French word lieutenant by speakers of Old English could be lieftenant. This is why I think that the British pronunciation is leftenant and the American pronunciation is lieutenant.

wordlover where have you been. Everyone here misses you and buzzword. Please come back and banter with us some. You two made for some interesting comments and fun times. :smile:

While I agree that she did not include the Roman asspect of it, and she made herself sound like a typical “ignore my mind and stare at my tits” type of chick. She basically said what you wrote only a shorter version. She did not sound like a textbook lecturer, and threw out more appeal to her audience. Thus making her a good lecturer. Quit trying to sound smart when you’re not. READ TH?E TEACHINGS OF SOCRETES!

“I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.”

– Socrates

About the pronunciation of the Frebch word “lieu,” Ii’s no “loo” but “leeuh.” Here’s an audio example (with “un” in front) http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Image:Fr-lieu.ogg

Let me try that again: French, that’s better

Can’t think of another F for U sound, but there are plenty of weird English pronunciations of French. One example: a famous street in London witha French name–Beauchamp Place–should be pronounced “bo shon” place. It is actually pronounced Beecham!

I always wondered why the English leave out the H sound in the beginning of all their words except “herbal”, the only word I know of that Americans pronounce with a silent H.

ueh uoh, cool and kool—coup my coop and court the course to days random lesson>>>>well produced and neat as ever :cool: :wink: but obscurity is forever.” – Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821—phooqkyghn :lol:

your writing, i thought was very good :grin:

Marina plz reply back to me, how come you did not send out a holdiday card for Halloween? :cry:

Marina , why is it after my being a member of this forum since March I suddenly feel that you’ve shot us both in the right big toe with this video? :???: :???:

:grin: :cry: :twisted: :smile: putting random faces

In order for one to fully appreciate this video , one must click on the (more info) in the sidebar & read the *blurb* that’s so eloquently written… please take the time.

You hold in your hands
The most precious of gifts
Freedom to love
and express art
Freedom to be who
you want to be

Thanx Marina for all your hard work & providing a forum in which folks are free to express (using words & links) their opinions, thoughts & feelings.

Hi BillyB,
How have you been? I watched the video and read the notes in the sidebar. Very touching and I agree. Also, I think the Canadian soldier is not given enough respect and recognition in how they have helped the US over the last 50 years. I worked for a Canadian company locally in Calif. and traveled to Toronto and spent a lot of time there and got to know some great Canadians and I learned a lot about Canada. I salute you brother for being an awesome neighbor and for having such great people and brave and dedicated soldiers.

I also salute Marina for her setting an outstanding example of what one can achieve when one puts their mind to work and for her great dedication and perseverance through some tough moments and for setting up this great site.

By the way Billy, did you see Marina’s great comment over at YouTube on the Happy Hour video? The comment is located on this page and I repeat Marina’s comment here.

wildbloodydragon, I don’t talk politics. Go to my website and you will find both Democrats, Republicans and Independents hanging out in harmony. I’m all about bringing the world together, not dividing it. And I talk about word origins, not politics, so it doesn’t matter where I discuss them.

You gotta love her.

P.S.
I just scrolled through 571 comments in one second.
That is awesome Marina. Love not having pagination.

Thanks PK for the link to Marina’s comment, it’s always interesting to see what she responds to. Read some of the other discussions too. People get right into it in the comment section sometimes #passionatediscussions… oops, guess I’ve been twitterized Ha.
Thanks to my Twitter Mom (Marina), I’ve been involved a bit with the Victoria Social Media club. Kind of a bunch of local people who are figuring out good things that can be accomplished through the power of social media & networking. Getting together IRL socially & meeting with special guest speakers, etc. Pretty cool stuff. Look forward to talking to you again soon.
This was my *Remembrance Day* post… just a little early

vive nico belick!
nd

bonne nuit!

rest in peace