Watch

nope, i use my phone:P even tough i have a quite expensive watch :S duno wy i bought it ……

I use my cell phone as a watch.

I use mine too. Cell phone that is.

Way to go Foxbow :wink: :mrgreen:

Thats funny I used to have a watch at all times(analog) till I got a cell phone.
Good to see you again Moose

not gonna watch.

{folds arms}

I’m confused. :???:
I’m OK with watch and standing watch.(Done it more times than I want to admit) :neutral:
And the nautical meaning therein. :cool:
I can understand awake and waken OK. but not a nautical connection.
Where does the nautical term wake come in? :?:
Other than the stern watch watches the wake. :grin: :razz:

Thanks Marina for the new style you do the lessons. :smile: It includes Kobe if he is running around. :wink: It’s just like pay phones. You don’t hardly see them anymore since everyone has a cell phone

I used to, haven’t for about 7 years. I still find myself looking at my wrist to see what time it is.

yes you will eventually you will give in. give in, give in, give in, give in, give in, :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I have not warn a watch in years.

i wanna watch like [this]

Ooops use to not used to

nope .. resolute.

{steely faced determined look}

Damn twice now use to not used to

I prefer using a watch.

By the way I still want to know the origin of the word HOLLYWOOD. :?:

Bye bye my classmates! Bye bye my teacher, be good and keep good work! :mrgreen:

I dont.. WELL DONE MARINA FOR WEARING ON THE RIGHT… I don’t like wearing one on the left.. Im right handed so why wear on the other side :mrgreen:

I do have a Goofy watch (Disney) that ran backwards

Now retired for 17 years, I am proud to say I hadn’t worn a watch for 5 years before I retired.

There is at least one clock in every room in the house ( including 2 of 3 bathrooms ), in my car, in the computer on my bike, and they even had one or two where I worked. I expect this is true for most people reading this. At least now many clocks reset themselves when the power goes out.

Actually this was for over 20 years before I actually started carrying my phone with me every where I went.

I literally FEAR the day we start implanting them ( watches and phones ). At least now you can turn the silly thing off if you want ( and if you dare ).

is there a transcript of this video?

Folded Arms

I destroyed every windup watch crystal ever put on my wrist. I have scratched the crap out of my digitals, and even my Pulsar watch, all just because I am a knock around boy! When I am dashing around corners, etc. it just seems to happen – oops! I only set an alarm clock as a backup. As a rule, my internal alarm goes off before the alarm clock can sound (years of self imposed operant conditioning. I can usually tell the time of day within 5 minutes, or so, of the actual time by simply observing sun shadows. Ummm….I haven’t got a cel phone and haven’t worn a watch for about ten tears. Wierd, huh? :mrgreen:

is the vid flipped or are you wearing your watch on your right arm? that’d be soooo mac. :PP

I wear My watch(cheap Timex)alot,especially to work,often it is the only watch on the job site. People bring cellphones(Me too)but don’t carry them all the time so I am asked “what time Ya got?” often,saves a walk to the cellphones. Between the radio,phones,and My watch it’s easy to know the time.Even with so many ways to tell time I still feel naked without it on My wrist.

I don’t sell the damn things but do have plenty of respect for Timex dig watches,a $30 Timex will last well.

I’m [Resolute Bay, Cornwallis.]

I still wear a watch.

I have a wall clock that does that! I have a mirror by the front door and I can check the time as I do a last minute mirror glance on the way out the door. Get the time and see if my tie is straight all in one pass. :mrgreen:

from tomorrow on i’ll start wearing it again:p it looks nice and it has cost me a load :lol:

Maybe it’s easier to use your right hand to apply it to your left wrist, instead of applying it with left hand. :lol:

I believe it used to be called “Horrorwood” .. because the woods there used to be populated by zombies.

The woods have gone now.

clock in my local pub did that .. .used to get very confusing as the night wore on, ie. trying to work out how long til final orders whilst pissed (in the english sense).

I used to wear a wrist watch everyday. :smile: My old $25 dollar watch was getting old and I wanted something a bit more geeky but not to look too geeky. I found the Quiksilver company and they had this Tide watch that tells you what the tides will be like at popular surf locations. I don’t surf the waves but I do need to know the tides. So I went out and bought the Moondak watch.
Im very rough with watches, and I have to say I’m impressed with this watch. I beat the heck out of it and it keeps on working. There is not even a scratch on it yet. Trust me its been whacked on the hulls of steel ships many times. :shock: I can wear still wear it out on a date. Interestingly enough this is the most expensive watch I think I have ever purchased that I no longer wear daily. It sits on the shelf now and I use my cellphone. I to think watches have become jeweler now and are no longer needed if you carry your cellphone everywhere. :???: I swear the damn phone has fused to my head. I hate that thing. Oh yea I still haven’t picked up a iPhone yet. I still have until Feb 22nd for my contract to die. :sad:

No cellphone!! WTF?!?! I’d be lost in a sea of uncertainty! Even tho there are days when I don’t need it at all I do not like to be without it. Except in the canoes! lol. darn kid of mine(26yo) likes to sneak-up with his “ship” and tip mine over! :lol: :mad: :lol:

There’s a word request,”canoe”.

Marina
Have you ever thought about getting a ghost writer/chatter
to come to your site and chat up the page topic? Maybe someone
like/as your sister??
Chat up interest in your ads too. You could easily increase
your ad volume and make a little money. Hell, I have more ads on my site then you do here and your site gets a lot more stop by traffic.
I’ll be clocking for your next video. :lol:

You were right the first time. :neutral:

I feel naked to without my watch. And my friends often ask me about the time to. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Maybe because the watch on-watch has to wake the watch off-watch before they can go off watch and stop being awake.

Hi, Marina!
(Love ya by the way, and your totally original website)

Anyway, I was hoping to make a word request here. Actually, it’s kind of a big one.. Possibly, could you explain the difference between the words “insure” and “ensure?”

That would be great!
Thanks!
-Lauren

In 1978 I decided to quit my job as a clinical psychologist and become a full time freelance cartoonist. I took off my watch in the hospital parking lot, placed it under the rear wheel of my car, and backed my car over it while I was leaving my job for the last time. 70,000 cartoons later, and I still haven’t worn a watch…by the way, does anyone have the correct time?

[another nutty watch]

Captain Jack wants one like this. (Maybe?)

I’m glad to hear you took off your watch first.

oh .. i just remembered!!

ages I built a watch using flash anim…

http://www.mijj.me.uk/project/clock/content/_mijj_Clock_flame.swf

well .. i guess it’s a clock, but it’s near enough

Hello marina, my name is Caio, i’m from Brazil and sunday (Sep 7) was Independence Day in my country and i was curious to know the origin of the world INDEPENDENCE, and why in the 19th century, Independence was a bad word, and today its a good one. Thanks

4 watches wear them to parties and i have a pocket watch for my re-enactments. then i can look at the time, its designed for 1870′s and then i can use it to look at the time when on re-enactment. we are not allowed to use wrist watches as they werent around in tht time period.

mike

Where can I see some of your cartoons? :?: :?: :smile:

Yes, I still wear a watch, despite being retired and having clocks all over the apartment, and need it mostly to know what day it is.
I have a cellphone, but never look at it to tell the time because it is usually switched off unless I need to use it.
I also wear the watch on my right wrist out of habit; I started to do that so I could see it without moving my hand from the joystick.

Now it’s 23:11 GMT!

How about the word “handmade“? When did it come into use? There would have been no need for it before things were manufactured by machines.

:grin: :idea: :oops: :razz: :roll: :wink: :cry: :eek: :lol: :mad: :sad: :!: :?: :mrgreen: :neutral: :twisted: :arrow: :shock: :smile: :???: :cool: I’m lostforwords today
JonX0X0X0

My girlfriend and I have a set of his/her watches. We’ve worn them about a half dozen times in four years, more as jewelry. That’s about the only time I have worn a timepiece since I got my first cell phone about ten years ago.

It’s 6:22 EST

Actually, I am a Watchmaker… I repair timepieces. I can say that I am very very busy, especially with older timepieces, as there seems to eb a renewed interest in the complexity and creativity of watches. So, In Montreal, Canada, I can say, wristwatches are all over the place! Tick Tock!

Why did you put the banana in there? I think it’s cool Mijj. A great job, and yes I would call it a clock. :cool:

what about the new DC comics movie coming out soon : Watchmen….
” who watches the watchmen? “

yes im fell naked with out my watch :shock:

I put bananaman in there to see if i could. :)

I was having a shot at the basics of Flash (clock’s a good starting point), and i kept adding bits.

oh .. i remember .. the bananaman was a test to see if i could get an animation to follow a path.

i read the book … they’re gonna mess it up. You mark my words!!

{in my head, comics is what passes for literature – hence my poor grasp of reality}

and what about handmaiden?

You’re left-handed. Before, I haven’t noticed. :cool:

I figured watch had something to do with the way you described it, except for the root of the word. I usually check my cell phone for the time. I don’t wear a watch anymore, because slight discomfort, perspiration build-up, and leftover markings on my wrist.

Dear Marina, For your homework, I always wear a watch to insure I’m on-time for meetings and to produce my work on schedule. It was nice to watch your beautiful, slender legs and see you in the strapless, small dress you wore. I also like how well you use music in your videos, and read that you composed music in two of your videos. Your use of music caused me to relearn my guitar skills and I might shop for a keyboard, next. Previously, you got me to study another foreign language.
So, you’ve inspired me to improve many personal skills. I say this because getting better is a good thing, and not because … I want us to have delicious fudge, together! :eek:
Your dear student, seesixcm6

a [watch] more weird than most.

the [cabastan watch]

Marina, please tell me where the word “Origin” is derived.

They are ninth cousins twice removed.
What does “twice removed ” mean?

Roland Buckles
http://www.RolandBuckles.com

I used to wear one, but it broke and it does seem kind of redundant to have a watch now. Besides, it gives me another excuse to play with my iPhone, as if I needed another. :-)

У меня нет часов. Правильно? Русская грамматика очень трудная.

bloody ‘ell .. i’m the only one in here? … {sniffs armpits…}

anyway …

another [sexy damsel]. Except this one may be trying too hard .. and the little beard is a little off putting.

When i was just a boy growing up I never wore a watch, i didn’t need too, either my parents told when I needed to do something or there was freetime when I just had to find something to keep myself occupied (playtime as it was called) as I grew older it became more of a necessity as a person takes on more responsibiltys in their daily life in order to fufill usually someone elses exspectations (be at a certain place at a certain time) i don’t currently wear a watch i just recently stoped; then there is watch as an activity, i watched the game, I watched a show , I watched the cars driving along the road. Then there is watch used as a noun such as I stood watch as you described that also may take a watch to make detailed time records or observations.

Are your re-enactments about the War of Northern Aggression? :?: :smile: :smile: :grin: :grin: :razz: :razz: :razz:

Here is a transcript of the key points:
Watch comes from the Old English wæccan, which means to keep watch, to be awake… it is basically the same word as the Old English wacian which also means to be awake.. where the word wake comes from.

So… the word watch meant to keep watch at night.. where the verb comes from today and is related to the word wake as well.. and it eventually referred to a clock that would wake someone.. like an alarm clock today.. and eventually referred to a small time-piece that you wear on your wrist.

WOW i have mastered how to do a 20th level blockquote on the test page… oops

It’s funny – I use to stand by wrist watches. The last one gave out
and with the economy and my cell-phone, I just have not replaced it.
I still want one – even some wind-up version. But, it has become luxury
as opposed to necessity.

:)

thanks.

Cool! Why? :roll:

Word Request – Battlefield

I was wondering the origin of Battlefield, theres been wars and I was wondering what it came from.

http://www.youtube.com/tankmaner

:mrgreen: I have a watch and a cell phone. Both tell time. However, it is easier for me to look at my watch than to pull the cell phone off my belt and flip it open to see the time. I always have my wrist watch on my wrist but I don’t always have my cell phone with me. Watches will never be obsolete. Not only are they functional but they are stylish jewelry as well. But I bet you knew that all along. Right?

Lions and tigers (and bears?) OH MY! :mrgreen:
You keep this up, people are gonna talk….

It means once wasn’t enough? LOL :mrgreen:

I would like to suggest you a couple some words you haven’t got in your list and I will write them in order of preference:

1.Bullshit
2.weird
3.freak
4.nerd
5.foreigner

I didn’t see any policy or rule about the number of words anyone can sugggest, so I took the freedom to suggest you these 5 word. However, I would like you to take into account that I’ve wrote them in preference order.

By the way, I would like to test you and see your skills to relate sinonyms from their sources.

Look forward to see explain my word,

see you soon dear teacher !!!

c’mon .. you’d love to roll around with her too – surely. Forget about the little beard. She’s cuddly and sensual.

Good luck! :mrgreen:

I’d like to know the origin of the word “Hooah”. I’m in the US Army and I’ve wondered where this word originated.

My younger sister is a southpaw. They tried to force her to learn to write, right-handed in school, and she did – backwards ala Leonardo Da Vinci. :mrgreen:

and_ma Marina gives the origin and an explanation of the word “Nerd” in this video http://revision3.com/internetsuperstar/2008-08-18hotforwords.

Good choice, I would like to know this as well. I have said this word umpteen million times in the Army also.

I think i can answer this one … correct me if i’m wrong, james … the answer is because.

thanks a lot !!! :wink:

well, sean, mi ol’ mate ..

… on a related note, maybe
[The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Next] will entertain you.

I would like to learn about the origin of the word “word”!

Maybe you can help me. I bought a pocket watch in Germany called a “Listen” watch. One of the wind stop gears broke in half, and no American watchmaker I have found has had talent enough to make this simple repair. I’ve had it apart and together 5 times in the past 20 years trying possible replacement gears, all to no avail. I just made sketches to keep track of disassembly / assembly process, and had no problems doing the work myself. All the American watchmakers did was complain that the watch was too cheaply made, etc. but I think they either didn’t have the skill or were just lazy. The watch certainly isn’t cheap. Can you fabricate a working replacement gear if I give you the specs? :mrgreen:

hmmm, sounds interesting. I’d love to see photo’s and specs…maybe I can do something for you- I’d be willing to try. Any luck on ebay by the way? I find a lot of interesting hard-to-find stuff on ebay,,,
send me pics to woron11@yahoo.ca !
yay!

ok … i have the essential background to Marina’s word. (and i didn’t cheat by looking)

Now .. i was wondering .. the original word “wacian” – how much of a twist would it be to move it from being awake to being perceptive? I’m assuming that the Wiccans are somehow related to this. … if it’s related i’m assuming “Wicca” might mean something like “enlightned” – a wild guess… probly completely half-assed. But fun guessing.

oh .. and M says “wacian” means keeping watch at night as a form of protection. Is that where “wake” comes from in the sense of a funeral “wake”?

the preview looks pretty cool- but there’s no way even 21/2 hours would cover that great piece of work!

I was wondering where the term “believe you me” came from and what it means.

Teacher,, I have a stop watch to keep track of my lap times at the racetrack , but no watch., and yes I use my cell phone when out of the office :!: I have several clocks around the house and office , OH!OH!OH!OH! How bout clock it could be used to tell time or knock someone out :!: :lol: :lol: Get it .,,, I knocked his clock off :???: :???:
HUH :wink: HUH :wink: HUH :wink: What do you think :!: :!:
Am I starting the get with the program here or what :lol: :lol: :lol:
Jon X0X0X0

well .. i dont know … the original book was about a bunch of messed up scruffy hasbeens. All messed up and pathetic and full of dark angst.

But .. Hollywood has hold of it .. so the producers will require lots of “awesome” .. and “cool” … and lots of (struggles for a synonym for “awesome”) “awesome” “kickass” special effects .. etc etc.
Which, of course, is counter to mood of the book.

sigh

they have to do that to get the masses through the doors to pay for the production.

I think it would have been better as a lowish budget tv series on an obscure cable channel so they couldnt be tempted by special effects and had to be forced to consider the plot to be the primary force.

oops .. .i mocked the word “cool” in my tirade … i wasn’t trying to be offensive, ukie .. but maybe being a bit over-forceful about making my case.

hmmm ….

According to this site about Beowulf: (blindly scraped off the page and plonked here)
http://www.heorot.dk/
wacian, w2., keep watch; (be awake); imp. sg. waca, 660 [< Gmc. *wakén MnE. witch, wicked, wicca) < Gmc. *wikkjaz 'necromancer ( = 'one who wakes the dead')].

what does the “cf.” in “cf. OE. wicca ‘sorcerer, wizard’ etc” mean?

oops… that last post messed up somehow … try again …

According to this site about Beowulf:
http://www.heorot.dk/
wacian, w2., keep watch; (be awake); imp. sg. waca, 660 [< Gmc. *wakén MnE. witch, wicked, wicca) < Gmc. *wikkjaz 'necromancer ( = 'one who wakes the dead')].

what does the “cf.” in “cf. OE. wicca ‘sorcerer, wizard’ etc” mean?

confer (lat.).

My dear Teacher,

Is watch one word with two meanings,

or is it two words that are spelled the same?

Homework: Yes, dear teacher, I do.

Now for another suggestion for a video (It’s ok….I got the list-of-collective-animals thing out of my system… for now :wink: )

I suggest a discussion of the different ways we agree or disagree…not just in America, but the world over.

I think it interesting that even when we agree, different cultures do so in different ways. For example, most of us, on seeing someone nod their head, assume agreement, and shaking the head to be a non-verbal demurral…but I read somewhere that there exists a culture that does these the other way.

Then we have so many ways to agree/disagree verbally:
Romanian: da / nu
French: oui / non
Russian: да / нет <included especially for you, Dear Teacher
German: ya / nein
Greek: Ναι / δεν
Italian: sì / no
Hindi: हाँ / नहीं है
Japanese: はい/ いいえ

…to name fewer than the collective nouns….

and just in English, we have many ways as well:
“yes”, “yup”,”uh-huh”, “no”,”nope” “uh-uh”, etc.

I think it would make an interesting topic for you to discuss, and perhaps stretch out of Europe and the West, maybe even could mean a tax-deductible business trip to the orient for direct cultural research :-)

Ciao,
Fianchetto

bloody ‘ell .. it did it again! … last go …

wacian, w2., keep watch; (be awake); imp. sg. waca, 660
[< Gmc. *wakén
MnE. witch, wicked, wicca)
< Gmc. *wikkjaz 'necromancer ( = 'one who wakes the dead')].

Marina,

A very easy answer-NO :!:
I realy on the alarm clock from my phone to tell me to move.

Greg

i dont believe it .. it keeps missing stuff out of the text.

oh .. i know what it is .. there’s angle brackets in there, and the post filter is assuming they’re formatting brackets. … tsk …

wacian, w2., keep watch; (be awake); imp. sg. waca, 660 [{- Gmc. *wakén {- IE. *weg`- 'to be strong, be lively' (Watkins 95:weg-2/Pokorny ueg`- 1118); cf. OE. wicca 'sorcerer, wizard', OE. wicce 'witch' (-} MnE. witch, wicked, wicca) {- Gmc. *wikkjaz 'necromancer ( = 'one who wakes the dead')].

ok i replaced angle brackets with {- and -} .. hope this works

How about the phrase “[be there] with bells on”?

so, aLx .. what would the confer here mean?

in “cf. OE. wicca ‘sorcerer, wizard’,”

could that mean there’s a suspected connection (to wacian) but discussion is due before there can be conclusions?

imperativ of lat. conferre, ‘compare’.

err … “imperative”.

no, i don’t like things on my wrist.

lol … well … erm … thanks for refining the definition of the word “confer”. :)

Marina
Have you given any thought to my idea?
A GirlHOST writer to hang out and talk to us.
Make sure she is smart and funny too.,…just like You :grin:

I assumed you meant “Hooah” in the sense of the “Mobile Army Hooah House”, sean, milad.

I used to wear a watch, but then I decided to stop as it became really annoying while playing the piano.
However, I’d heard that some women really find it attractive when men wear watches. So maybe, for a special occasion, it would be a good idea.

Marina, If you are a watch watcher are you a voyeur?
I had a Rolex, model 6263, that I bought a long time ago. Sold it for lot more than i paid for it. Don’t usually wear a watch now. My cell phone is more accurate and will automatically reset when I cross time zones. The TV, radio and my car all tell the time too. If I need a watch when I’m outside the US where I can’t have a cell, I get a cheap Timex.

ooo .. that’s a good one!

yes, there is a connection. no, no further discussion needed.

Yeah, isn’t there a different phrase for the different branches of military?I’ve heard of Hooah and Hoorah. Why the difference?

k .. thanks .. i thought you were teasing me with ever more refined and detailed definitions of the word “confer”. :)

lets hear it for english resolve.

hey buzzy! .. did you see the note i left about essential oils?

mijj have you read much joseph campbell or carl jung or mircea eliade?

Here’s a great word … one of my favorites (well, half-favorites anyway).
hemidemisemiquaver

Do I have a watch?
No watch; I am a dog.
I stay away from anything involving ticks.

A timeless response from:
Your humble and obedient word hound

Hi Marina, first i would like to tell you that your videos are very excellent, you now so much abour words :P and i would like to submit a word request, i want to know the meaning of the Word: “Media”

ooo … good song, btw .. i’ve never listened to his stuff before .. he went through an embarrassing phase of flailing round with flowers which was offputting. Glad to see he got over it.

well .. i was having a look at some stuff where Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung were comparing notes in relation to Gnosticism etc.

Joseph Campbell – i remember the phrase “follow your bliss” in relation to that huge mish-mash of stuff i got immersed in about Gnosticism recently. – it’s a very similar … damn .. what’s the word .. “principle” will have to do. (i wish i wasnt illiterate).

In fact .. i remember reading that the treatment of Gnosticism of being revelation from within in combination with the use of myths to convey meaning (rather then statements of truth) rings well with Jungian analysis. … or something like that.

not familiar with Eliade tho. I shall have to check up.

However, now i’m not quite so crazy due to not being enraptured, it’s all flat, wordy information, rather than blistering revelations of spirit.

how hot is ms. marina, that… is the question :???: and the answer is …too hot, too hot, baby :wink:

Like an American Express card, I never leave home without it. But who really needs a watch when we all have our cell phones with us at all times. Marina is right…it’s more about the “BLING” now.
Did you ever investigate bling?

Somebody’s got to say it -
A WATCH DOG???

I stopped wearing a watch years ago, when I realized that I spent most of my time in rooms with all clocks or near computers with on-screen clocks.

yeah i wear a watch!
okay look at it this way…if you have pants with no pocket or you cannot afford a cell phone, then you can wear a watch
if you cannot take your phone out w/o getting in trouble (like in class) you can look at your watch
if oyu cell phone breaks or the battery dies, you can look at your watch
when you wear a suit and your cell phone is buried somewhere, or if you lose your phone, you can wear a watch
if you suddenly must leave and run from the mafia, you can look at your watch if you forget or cannot bring your cell phone
if you are working out and are very active, you will not want to bring a cell phone, but instead a watch, which can also have a stopwatch which may come in handy
or, say you are with you girlfriend having a night of passion, you are going to need a watch to tell time, rather than getting up and getting ur phone out ur pocket to tell time

so, a watch can be very handy, besides that you can look at it at any time, whereas with a cell phone, you cannot sometimes

Hi Hotforwords :) I love your videos because they’re really interesting and keep me entertained.

I would like to request the word ‘Bargain’.

*story* I was driving by the community college where they hold the swap meet every Saturday and the billboard advertising it said something about there being loads of great bargains. I tried to think of what the word literally meant and all I could figure was to gain a bar…

So basically I’m hoping you will clear this up for me in your next video, or one to come :) Thanks

- Ryan (Newbs Can P K)

08:22 in Tehran.

∞

Dear Marina,

Yes. I do wear a watch from time-to-time :). All of mine were gifts and all are spring driven wind-ups (no batteries – I don’t trust them!). I have a classic Cartier for nights on the town, a sturdy Timex for outdoors, and an old Hamilton my dad gave me.

A word request: many of your investigations center on alcohol (e.g. vodka, pub, bar, hair of the dog…). How about the origin of beer? Speaking of which it’s just about cocktail time!

Cheers, Q

i think i’ve run across your art work, a little too subjective for my taste.

rapture, “from about half past ten at night till about half past twelve, fire. god of abraham, god of isaac, god of jacob, not of the philosophers and the learned. Certitude, certitude; feeling, joy, peace. god of jesus christ.” pascal

As of matter of fact yes I do. An electric watch that is.

oh .. might as well spill it here .. my last little mini revelation was the skull and crossbones is a gnostic symbol in the same way as the upward and downward pointing pentagrams.

I.e. the crossbones represents the manifest world, and the skull represents the hidden spirit within .. i.e. .. the ghost within the machine.

Gnosticism seems generally to feel unbound by imposed set of laws and only those morals that are revealed from within are counted as valid. Hence, the continued desire by organized religion to crush gnosticism. … And the association of Gnosticism with anarchy .. and piracy.

I still wear a watch; a Casio G-Shock DW6900-1V. I’ve been wearing watches regularly for 16 years or so.

Lol, these are the same reasons (along with my cell phone) I stopped wearing a watch as well.

It seems like certain words can be categorize under various headings:
The intentional combining of words,
The root of words coming from Latin, Greek, Old English or any other foreign languages,
Misinterpretations,
Changing to suit one owns language which changes the spelling,
Mistakes,
Phonetic spelling,
A combination of any of the above. (The above are examples and not a complete list)
Then again every generation comes up with its own new words that define the influences of its time.
Just in the 20th century many good examples of the parturition came about to represent the history of the events of the day.
The roaring twenties had it share, the war years too help shape the language, the fifties made its contribution in words, slang and expressions. It would be easy to remember the popular lexicon of the early part of the 20th century if one lived at the time. Maybe some of your astute students can research generational representative of each era.
Then Marina you can put your creative spin on these with minimal production cost, certain lessons with a theme. Let’s say in the 1960′s many words appeared in use at this historical time. Words like hippy, groovy, reefer, pot, bummer, balling, Melvin, bogart, Frisbee, ginchy, press ham, skank and blitzed. In your presentation of one of these words you could dress the part, Marina as a little hippy chick with tie dye shirt, head ban and bell bottoms. You could wear a thong but in those days thongs were sandals worn on the feet. The psychedelic music is playing in the background, (Ultimate Spinach), Blacklight with Day Glow posters, beaded curtains and a water pipe, for prop purposes only.
“Hello my groovy students what’s the haps, today lesson is really far out, grab a bean bag chair and sit in a circle.”
This concept is just a variation of a theme. The same can be done with sports, like surfing slang and expression. Picture us picturing you on a surfboard in a bikini.
You seem to be already heading in this direction so hopefully my comment will stir up some creative juices.
No doubt you are surrounded with smart and creative people, it’s for certain you’re aware of the concept of knowing your audience, this is where the seed of inspiration lies. :smile:

where do words come from?

are they created or discovered?

there must be a massive, but finite number of possible vocalisable (?) sounds which will at some point be associated with meaning and turned from random sounds into words.

for instance: “squeeplizongibble” has yet to be assigned meaning.
So i claim it. And i define it’s meaning to be “that sensation you feel when you think you’ve lost your wallet, but discover you actually put it in a different pocket”. – i.e. a mixture of relief and disappointment at your lack of self discipline.

These are good reasons. lol

I get squeeplizongibble with my keys sometimes!

I dont wear a watch, because of my phone! I almost dont need to use my computer because of my phone. I can watch you on youtube in the palm of my hand!

ah ..well .. you gotta understand i’m not a language oriented person .. so i tend not to bother too much with being exact in my use of it. (more image oriented – which i would then have to laboriously translate into words – with all the problems that entails)

So .. my use of the word “rapture” is more a passionate indication of strength of feeling and spirit and … damn .. what’s the word .. the ability to drive through the veil and experience the underlying meaning rather examine via an intellectual struggle with words.

… so i think rapture is the wrong word. .. peace wasn’t in there, for instance.

smashing green screams paisley —
pa le og ra phy xxx OK how about time, I do not wear a watch to tell the time. What time or epoch you from? :mrgreen: :?: :wink:

at some time in the future …

“bripple coplippleip zignig!”

will probably mean something. I wonder what it’ll mean? .. and will i be arrested for saying it?

they are cultural constructs. they can be both created and shared, same with all other cultural constructs. but as far as claiming it? there may be a finite number of possible human vocalizations but there are an infinite number of possible meanings that can be applied to any given sound. you can’t claim ownership of something that exists subjectively. by saying a word, one is, in a way sacrificing ownership. this may relate, if language weren’t a commons

Not by choice. I would rather participate.
Horndog wantabe.

You know why Wednesday is my favorite day? Hump day!

So I can’t believe that no one has asked you to explain this word to you cause you are so “HOT” which is in itself a great word with several meanings, however the word HORNY is also a word with very different meaning…. Can you explain? its always a PLEASURE to watch :cool:

ok .. well .. maybe i redefined the meaning of “claim” while you weren’t looking. :)

ps. i believe this happened in american history when treaties were made with the native americans .. and then key words were subtly redefined in law. .. cant remember the details tho so cant back it up.

that’s it you asked for it

I’ve created a number of new words. It’s fun, but also hard to find a word that sounds like it should have already existed, but which doesn’t, and which has a meaning that somehow seems like a natural fit.

Actually, I was wondering why she didn’t discuss Jacuzzi in a hot tub.

When you’re hot, you’re hot. When you’re not, you’re not.

lol

have you heard of the book: “The Meaning of Liff”?

a dictionary compiled by the author of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

http://folk.uio.no/alied/TMoL.html
e.g.
ABINGER (n.)
One who washes up everything except the frying pan, the cheese grater and the saucepan which the chocolate sauce has been made in.

oh .. i forgot to mention.. the words are British town names given meaning.

Marina:

I would like to request a word. Could you tell us about the word meaning? By this I mean I would not like to know not just its etymology but in fact the many meanings of meaning. I was thinking you could find all the meanings of meaning and perhaps find a meaningful average meaning, in fact, a mean average of meanings in a meaningful way. Others might find this a meaningless exercise and demean it but it would mean a lot to me.

what horny or hot :?:

I see what you mean.

I wore a watch until I graduated from high school, then stopped wearing one because of how uncomfortable it was on my wrist. Fast forward 25 years. In 1997, I began a 9-year career swing as a casino dealer. Shift bosses absolutely require that dealers wear a watch in the pit. To be honest, a watch is indispensable due to the 20-minute increments of the work schedule. Also, casinos don’t have clocks on the wall, and cell phones must be turned off at all times while dealing. I haven’t dealt in over two years now, but I continue to wear a watch, despite the discomfort, because I need it in the classroom. The wall clock is just not reliable. In a more general sense, my cell phone does accompany me everywhere, and when I do take it along, it isn’t always on. I leave the cell phone in the truck when I hike or rock scramble (no signal available anyway). Maybe someday there will be a timepiece wrist implant, a timeplace eye implant, or perhaps just a timepiece “tatoo” that can be applied or peeled off. I’m game.

I meant my cell phone does NOT accompany me everywhere. Neither does my brain.

In my opinion, using existing town names and granting them new meanings is not exactly inventing new words. I’ve been known to adapt foreign words or place names, so I’m somewhat guilty as well. But most of the words I invent are truly new ones. Sometimes I google to verify. In fact, I’ve “invented” a few words that, when googled, were found to already exist. When that happens, I usualy discard the word and heave a great sigh of disappointment.

I haven’t worn a watch in years, and when I did I always found it to be uncomfortable and often irritating. Since I always carry my cell phone, it does extra duty as a timepiece and an alarm clock. The funny thing is, I hardly use it as a phone.

What do the following word groups have in common? (You may disregard the definitions, which are provided merely for your edification.)
(a) ovarian molar – akin to vagina dentata, but at a safer distance
(b) a moon arrival – at least it’s not the Death Star
(c) naval air room – where returning divers can breathe
(d) no rival aroma – nothing you cook smells better
(e) a viral moo ran – what a heifer with mad cow disease did
(f) armor on a vial – if knights were born as test tube babies

Hello Marina, can you do a show about word “chai”. as a tea “chai”.
thanks in advance, zmiulan.

lava rain room – shower stall in the nether world

How did I overlook that one??? You get an A+!!!

I would like to know the etymology of the word faith. I am not a person of faith, but I accept in good faith when a friend tells me something.

a moron a rival – could call me either

I agree. There are a number of words that are spelled identically but which have such different meanings (and may differ in pronunciation, too) that you have to assume they have different etymologies. One example that immediately comes to mind is “lead.” It can be a verb that means to guide others. Or it can be a heavy element (Pb). It would be interesting to see a list of such words.

Yes I wear a watch. I feel naked without one. :oops: I don’t look at my phone for the time very much. I like the watch.

Extra credit! But you haven’t mentioned the ULTIMATE one yet! Maybe you’re avoiding the obvious?

“You like to watch!” Sharon Stone, Sliver

I won’t avoid her, but see if anyone else gets it.
My wife teaches at an elementary school… T/A with autistic kids, intigrating them into the classroom. I hear some interesting stories… maybe she can intigrate me in somehow.
I’m sure I could get another one but not tonight, too tired. I’m only up ’cause my kid’s car broke down & had to pick him up. Cheers

oops, replied to myself…zzzzz

Elucidate – - – :arrow: please HotForWords!

I am about to put the word in a biochemistry paper I am writing at my University in Australia and I would like to hear the story behind the word so I can laser it into my brain to use in the future

thnks

You’ve done a lot of words because they sound funny… and they’re even more entertaining with the accent. So, would you mind doing one on what’s been my favorite word for the last decade:

Babushka.

… I already know what one is, but others may not, and I’m sure you could bring joy to us all by… just saying “Babushka” 10 times fast.

uber and super – - – :arrow: please HotForWords

is there really a diffrence in the meaning of the two

No victorian 1879. Anglo Zulu War. most famous made by the film “Zulu” Stanley Baker Cy Enfield Michael Caine.

i am a private in the 80th foot. living history group its good fun.

You guys….. :mrgreen:
Such devotion can never be rewarded
or recognized as it ought to be…
My one small compensation for you
is to tell you that it didn’t go unnoticed.
I won’t spoil it for others, by giving it away. :twisted:
heh heh ! You were very creative in
your word play – outside the box in
your thinking and humor. And you both
shared the fun, allowing me to pick up
on it. Thanks for the entertainment :grin:

onions don’t cry salty tears
The future will decide what to
call the times gone past :mrgreen:

She’s cuddly and sensual.

Just make sure she’s not hungry.
When practising seduction, always feed her first.
Never make love on an empty stomach. :grin:

i’m now seriuously considdering buying a new watch :lol: I just saw the same watch I own now in white and it looks real cool :cool:
http://www.jungle-life.com/media/1/20071218-nixon.jpg I got the one on the left , and I just saw the white one , I want it :!: :mrgreen:

über is a german word meaning above or on top, so yeah, there’s a diffrence

In Thai, they don’t have words which mean “Yes” and “No”.
Instead they use “True” and “Not true”, which can lead to much confusion among Farangs.
Consider the following conversation:-
A. “You are not feeling well today, are you?”
B. Nods the head and says “True.” (Meaning “No, I’m not feeling well.”)

What I would most like on my arm would be Marina. :smile:

Teacher-
Yes, I wear a watch… It also holds my phone numbers, appointments, and lots of other stuff… Maybe you should get one, being the busy person you are… And where’s Kobe?? We don’t see him anymore… Or is he too playful during class?

Only hookers look at their watches whilst making love. :razz:

I own watches, but rarely wear them. There’s no purpose to them anymore.

Hey Marina, do you also do symbols? or maybe someone else just happens to know this. Cause i’d like to know wy christian people have this outline of a fish on their bumper called a Ichthys…I’v heard all kinds of things about the origin of this symbol, and the one that appealed to me the most was the that it was some secret handshake back in the days for christians, one christian would make half the fish and the other one would make the other half and complete the fish so they knew that they belonged to the same group.

If Marina’s sister Anna were to go on a diet, how many grams would she be looking to loose?

A present for you.

I wa wondering about the word DORK. Everyday use means like a geek or not too bright, but the official meaning is much different — the male sex organ of a whale. How did its meaning get changed cause the is a very big change. Thanks, love your vids BTW.

The title of the lesson made me remember this funny advertisement for a French bank:

It’s a little known fact that the world’s first wrist timepiece was invented by none other than Alexander the Great, using photochromic dyes. Photochromic materials are ones which change colour according to the amount of ultra-violet radiation falling on them, and the most common application of these nowadays are probably Reactions® lenses for spectacles.
Alexander the Great used these photochromic dyes by soaking rags in them until they were saturated. He would then allow them to dry in a dark cupboard and tear them into narrow strips which he would tie around his wrist when he awoke every morning.
During the day these strips of material would gradually change colour as they were exposed to more and more light, and Alexander, with experience, was able to tell the time by the degree of colour change.
However he didn’t call his invention a watch – he called it Alexander’s Rag Time-band.

@ 3400 :lol: :lol:
#2 @ 1681 :evil: :evil:
#3 @ 1232 :razz: :razz:

New Las Vegas entrance test.

What do you do?
Married or Single?
What does your spouse do?
How long have you lived in Las Vegas?
Came from where?
Ever served on a jury?
Did you deliberate and reach a verdict?
Were you foreman of that jury?

(What’s your favorite juice?)

I wear a watch. Cell phones are :evil: !

hehe thanks, but that whole airforce thing kinda stopped right now :???: They decided to ad another test to their programme 3 weeks ago and I failed for that :mad: luckely they gave me another chance so I can come back in 6 months or more , I think i’ll wait a few years tough because I was only 17 at the time(18 now) and the rest of the 41 people that made it were all 21+,so yeah..I think i’m gonna go to college now,still don’t really exactly know what, something with physics or biology.

I have an 1880′s pocket watch I ware for historical reenactments, but don’t ware one on my wrist. There is always a time piece around as well as my phone nowadays.

I stopped wearing a watch years ago when I realized I had my phone on me 24/7 and wearing a watch was more or less useless. Most of the time I don’t have to look at my phone for time anyway, there’s always a computer or phone or PDA or oven or thermostat or car or microwave or wall clock or TV or stereo or VCR around if I care enough what time it is.

PS I just love having to change all of this stuff with Daylight Savings Time. Not.

No – I do not wear a watch. :shock:

I wear a watch. It’s my bling! :D

My comiserations.
Don’t you just hate it when people move the goalposts?!
If you’re still keen on flying, how about Aeronautical Engineering and Ergonomics? Combining physics and biology.

How about a Widow’s watch??? :?: :eek: :grin: :smile:

Why is cancer a disease and a star sign?

I’d like to know where the word Caulk comes from, being one of those words that can turn some heads in mixed company…. Like, I’m re-tiling the kitchen and my wife likes white caulk, but all they have is clear.

Watch Tower magazine knocking at your door, hide under your bed :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :evil:

All along the Watch Tower, Bob Dylan, Jimmy Hendricks

umm … what?

I am curious on how the word ‘lead’ is pronouced 2 different ways and also has 2 different meanings….

Lead – “Will the dog be able to lead the children to safety?”

Lead – “The lead box was very heavy.”

yeah, maybe,or just the general aviation ,but the schooling is freaking expensive -.- 120.000 euro’s at KLM and you don’t have any job guarentee :???: , and I don’t really know how big general aviation will be in like 10-15 years considdering this oil crysis.

A locally popular etymology is that the name “Hollywood” traces to the ample stands of native Toyon or “California Holly”, that cover the hillsides with clusters of bright red berries each winter. But this and accounts of the name coming from imported holly then growing in the area, are not confirmed. The name Hollywood was coined by H. J. Whitley, the Father of Hollywood. He and his wife, Gigi, came up with the name while on their honeymoon, according to Margaret Virginia Whitley’s memoir. Another story refers the name to Harvey Wilcox, who bought land in the area for development of homes. His wife, Daeida, met a woman on a train who mentioned that she had named her Ohio summer home Hollywood. Daeida, who liked the name, gave it to their new development.

Either that or it comes from the fact that Holly was really a dude.

I stoped wearing a watch about 10 years ago. The reason clocks on computers, clocks in cars, and cell phone clocks. And since I don’t wear any jewlery it was an easy decision. :wink:

Was that a picture of an elephant sailing a houseboat? That’s what I saw.

I still wear a watch sometimes. I have one of those retro looking LED watches, but this one was made late 2006 I think (I could be wrong)

I bought it on a holiday last year Fossil Red Crystal LED JR8854 Men’s Watch The only thing different is that the numbers on my watch are dots rather than small lines :shock:

*reminds myself to get new battery* :lol:

Nice :smile:

My brother owns a pocket watch as well. He used it regularly , as for a while he dressed like someone from the 1880′s historical re-enactments (shirt and vest and coat and so forth). I’m kind of glad he’s over that phase of his life now :lol:

Have you thought about applying for an Air Force bursary to finance you through University? That’s a possibility in UK but I don’t know if they do that in other countries. Worth investigating.

Like one of three witches i like to watch swatch watches because it’s pretty :)

I actually gave my watch to my fathers old watch collection.

Thanks for that info Bob. Alexander was quite an interesting character. Well, his dad was partly responsible by hiring Aristotle to be his teacher. Wow! I loved the rag-time clip.

Teacher – where did ragtime come from?

I am partial to bluegrass instrumental music as it really gets my hillbilly toes tapping, as this clip featuring that “wild and crazy guy” Steve Martin.

Teacher – where did hillbilly come from?

That is so cool :cool: :cool: . Did I see you on the History Channel (TV USA) when they did a re-enactment of the Zulu Wars?

There is a store call the Soldier Factory, a little Mom & Pop operation where they make pewter cast soldier figurines, all hand painted, placed in historical battle events. Including the Anglo Zulu War. It was on display in the window once. :smile:

I still wear a watch when I am going out to dinner or dressing up for an occasion, as I find it easier and more polite to glance at my watch to tell the correct time, rather than grabbing my cell phone. Though I am not consumed by an interest in jewelry, my Skagen Titanium watch is quite classy, and much more debonair than my Samsung phone :grin:

oh .. she’s got to be hungry. That way the end will be quick.

i dont believe that i was. there are lots of countries that have zulu war groups. they’re are four major ones in england. but i have seen a few places doing zulu war action figures. i have seen the cast models in the shops.

but i tell you its a good experience. just pocket watches are not easy to maintain and expensive.

That’s the one fast reply, you must be glued to the monitor.

surely you should have a word assigned to what you feel when you invent a word, find it already exists and have to discard it. Because that feeling could be quite a complicated and unique one.

nope i just happen to be using the notifications on my hotmail and so i just come back on here when i get a reply and i saw it come in.

thanks for responding. if you visit youtube and type brotherdevil or 80thfoot you will find a few videos of the re-enactment soceity. also please visit Marina’s videos they are excellent, wish i had a teacher like her at college.

A platform or small glass-enclosed room atop a multi-storied home where the returning sailors could be observed returning to port (or not :???: ).

Marina,

Enough about the homographs. How about some hertonyms, whay are there so many of those???

i.e.

abuse
live
minute
console
dove

Hey Marina, i wawnted to know the origin of the word magazine since it refers to what we read and also the magazine of a gun where the bullets are stored. They are two totally diffrent things but have the same name. Thx

Private, you need to go the practice page and learn how to put links in, I haven’t learn to do the fancy ones yet but I can do what’s taught at the practice site.http://www.hotforwords.com/html-in-comments/

I screwed that up somehow :oops: :mad:

i didnt put a link in, just told you where to find the videos. but i will look into learning how to put in links thanks for th info.

I’m reminded of my old friend Norma Variola who used to moo on arrival. She ened up in a lava room, poor girl.

noooooooooooooooo!!!! … i screwed up!!!

:eek: I’m not clever after all.

hey marina…i was hoping to find out the origin of the word “MAVERICK” since they keep on calling John Mccain that..people are saying he is not a maverick at all…..GO OBAMA 2008……your HOT…thanx : )

I’m reminded of my old friend Norma Variola who used to “moo” an arrival. She ened up in a lava room, poor girl.

hooraaay!!! .. i am clever, after all.

:smile: {smug mode}

who’d have Aristotle for a teacher?

sings:
Aristotle,Aristotle,was a bugger for the bottle,
Awfully fond of his dram,
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart,
“I drink therefore I am”.

Hey Marina, I have always wondered what the “istan” refers to in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan… since all the countries names in the area have the same ending. Also why are Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan missing the “i” common in the others, is there any significance to it?

Your student,
Jonathan

I’ve been in the army, and I never liked having to say that word. :roll:

!!! .. i found where Marina got the idea of wedging intelligent information into students via sexuality.

[Monty Python - The Minister for Commonwealth Affairs]

When you’re on the pot, give it all you got.
Diarhea. :razz: :razz:
Diarhea. :razz: :razz:

(That was just lame what I did there) :roll:

I almost never wear a watch anymore. The laptop tells the time, there is a clock of some sort in nearly every room in the house. If I go out the car tells the time too.

So wearing a watch is a waste of time – sorry for the slight pun :)

Nick

i guess the question is:

is a “word” a dead arrangement of letters or a sound pattern.

or is it a “word” only when associated with meaning.

plato.

there are several definitions. i’d go with the phonological, morphological and syntactic one.
meaning? a lot of words have, and i guess that’s what you mean, semantical meaning.

no suprise there, aLx …

sings:
John Stuart Mill of his own free will,
On half a bottle o’ shandy was particularly ill,
Plato they say,could stick it away,
Half a crate o’ whisky every day

Are you left handed Marina?
Because you use your watch in your right hand…

who’s hot ? obama?

I don’t know wat you mean?

:idea: This may be an interesting lesson for a teacher to investigate.

How about the origin of the word: PRINCIPAL.

Does it refer to a person with PRINCIPLE? And is there any link with the word to the royalty title PRINCE?

I knew a man who couldn’t speak,
yet he picked up a wheel & Spoke.

Now anyone want to go to a disco?

Yeah, I noticed that yesterday.

Hey HotForWords,

I love your program. It’s fun, I learn something new every time I watch and I have to say your gorgeous :wink: . I have a word request. I’d like to know the origin of the word toshay. I’ve heard it in the sport called fencing, but people also say it when they counter an insult or an action.

Thank you and have a good day.

there’;s a problem, isn’t there, in the study of meaning .. essentially, it chases its own tail. There’s no ultimate foundational meaning from which to build. The meanings are all relative to other meanings.

(Mathematics hit this problem at the start of the 20th century when it had the rug pulled from under it by Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem)

‘I see’ said the blind carpenter as he picked up his hammer and saw.

Kind of like ‘POLISH’; when capitalized you don’t know how to pronounce it correctly.

I don’t like things on my wrist or arms either. I don’t like long sleeve shirts and only put up with coats just to stay warm in the winter. It’s just irritating for some reason. :smile:

Thank mij.. I made a post about it :-)

http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/09/09/a-new-wave-of-interest-in-politics-and-politicians/

Mijj ? Why don’t you change your gravatar to a tiger or lion or some big cat if your so enthralled with big pussys. :?:

I’m interested in Romantic. for an etymology

Does its really just mean From the Roman empire?

If so how did an empire that both valued a good vomit and fine art become such an evocative and valued trait for life partner?

how so?

My pleasure, M. :grin:

Hi Marina

U R very beautiful.

Please explain this Russian word “Siloviki”

Its political.I dont know it in Cyrillic.

Regards

Bilal

sings: Steve Harris, <Iron Butterfly, Heavy metal rock
Near to the east
In a part of ancient Greece
In an ancient land called Macedonia
Was born a son
To Philip of Macedon

hi there, dear teacher,

i am from belgium, and older people in our region who speak dialect use a word for a thick wintercoat : PALTO.
strange, because this word is not related to the official dutch language we speak, neither to french, from where we adopted many words in our dialect.
even more strange is the fact that , when we travel some 1000 miles to the east or south, we find this word PALTO in Greece, Slavian languages and , no doubt, you use this word also in Russian !

can you find out where the word PALTO comes from, and how it is possible only older people use it here in Flemish dialect here in Belgium, a few 1000 miles away from the (as i presume) original language area ?

looking forward to get an answer to this linguistic phenomenon.

take care and hear you soon, i hope

well ..

meaning is actually derived from experience and presence in the world.

Definitions and explanations of meaning tend to fall back on reason and references to related meanings. You can’t create an experience of meaning (and thus an understanding) via a rational explanation.

That’s my bare-faced statement of my position.

… oops .. missed a bit …

that’s why reading an explanation from a book will in no way be the equivalent of an explanation from one who has a revelationary (?) understanding of the meaning and is meaningfully expressive in the explanation.

There’s more than reason going on there.

It’s like the difference between experiencing music and reading the score.

umm. somehow i’m not able to follow you. could you give me an example?

a brick layer picked up some bricks and got laid :lol:

:oops: {shuffles feet whilst looking down}

‘cos i’m just a big ape.

Hi HFW’s, never really owned a watch before. Some friends I know call me Matt Moon and Stars, as this is how I go about telling the time, usually. I have an alarm clock for getting up on time. If I need to be someplace, on time, I look at my mobile. A few years ago, I visted a house where the stand up clock only had one hand. The second hand was intoduced some years later but confusingly, the second hand was not for seconds but for minutes!! Love watching your show HFW’s, you so rock, tick tock BOOM :smile:

At the risk of sounding politically incorrect ( a risk I accept frequently ) is this related to the ‘Wiccan’ Earth Science religion?

If ANY of us had ANY pride we’d apologize right about now.

Oh well.

Thank you for the equally bad pun.

:lol:

She wears bracelets on both wrist so that theory is out the door. :smile:

Very funny mijj. Good find! :smile:

I think u mean touché. Check this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch%C3%A9

Hello gorgeous! Been loving watching your videos and congratulate you on all your successes thus far.

I am curious to know the origin of the word “Joey,” meaning baby Kangaroo. I noticed you have done “kangaroo” already, but it’s very fascinating to me that the baby kangaroo is called “Joey.” 1st because it’s my name. :smile: 2nd because it is a very odd name for the child of an animal with a name like “Kangaroo.” I would think “buckaroo” would be more likely.

Love to see it and thank you for making each of my days better. :grin:

Joey (joweysimmons on Youtube.com)

foxbow let me tell u this: ROFL!

{blink blink blink}

i wanna know where [this police district] is!

In my youth, I regarded wearing a watch as a sign of servitude to mechanical time making a person unhappy. When I entered the workforce, I learned that if i was late to work, or late to lunch, or worked past my eight hours, I was sad. Wearing a watch brought me happiness. I’m a beast and I break watches frequently. It was a constant source of unhappiness. So, I decided to buy a bunch of “work” watches to have on hand, so I wouldn’t mourn a broken watch. It got out of hand and I bought a couple nice watches, too, including a used Rolex. Soon after I bought all these watches, I retired from work. I’ve learned to wear watches for other occasions now. I wear them when I’m out in the field to make certain I get back to the car by sundown. I also wear them on game day (I watch NFL and NBA) as a reminder not to miss the games. I sometimes wear the Rolex to show the world I’m not a deadbeat, even thought my clothes suggest otherwise. I’ve ruminated and pondered on these silly emotions and am now of the opinion that it means nothing at all. Happy ending. Anyone want to buy a watch?

i’m just rambling, aLx. :smile: … i’m just vaguely following an ill thought out thread.

… based on the notion that reason isn’t the key to getting to underlying meaning.

Someone correct me if im wrong, but I think that was covered in one of Marina’s radio shows. Anyone know which show it was in?

Hi Marina sweetheart. You are the sweetest sexiest russian babe i know!

same here

indeed

Oh that might just be Marina’s sister doing security for her date…..

I’ve always known it as toshay. I wouldn’t be surprised if touché is how it really is.

I had always only known it as a “Widow’s walk”, presuming she would be pacing there frequently…thx for sharing the “other” phrase to describe it. :-)

Nifty! And thanks for the reply. I seem to learn almost as much from you guys as from our Dear Teacher here :-)

Though much more fun from her:-) (No offense intended to you, Bob:-))

Ciao,
Fianchetto1

a word that is an arrangement of letters for their sound….it’s onomatapoeia.

when associated with meaning, that meaning must also be conveyed by an agreement on a common definition (considering context for words with multiple meanings)

That common definition is comprised of…..more words, each with their own agreed-upon definition, each of which has meaning proscribed by common agreement of THEIR definitions, whic are, in turn made of more words…..ad infinitum. Or, ad infinitessilum?

Ciao,
Fianchetto

I know it’s weird getting a reply hear, but I don’t do 4rth level… still would be nice to give a nudge K’naan… hadn’t heard him before, never thought to listen to rap seemed to self indulgent & just angry with no intent to improve things… but K’naan I like & I see one of our local girls likes, too.Going Away … nice duet You mention working with the Somalis, in what capacity?
In keeping with Marina’s vid here Watch… saw this series a few months ago, if you haven’t seen… it is an interesting series.

Hi, I have never taken a liking to wearing watches, though I am always very punctual. Actually, do you know where the origin of the word “Punctual” came from?

Homework: Only when I feel ballin. :cool:

GO WARRIORS!

We have also in French the word “paletot”, which means “overcoat”. According to the Littré Dictionary online, it comes from a Dutch word: “palstrock”. Perhaps it is the origin you’re looking for.

thanks for replying, “celebornmars” !
i feel like a fool, the answer was so near, so it is a french word, coming from dutch, wich is actualy my native language ! :???:

Now that’s the spirit. Go Warriors :!:

What is it you don’t understand? Bursary? It’s an agreement between a sponsor (for example RNAF) and an individual (for example you) whereby the sponsor agrees to pay your tuition fees, expenses, and maybe even pocket money, whilst the individual is in training or full-time education. In return, the individual commits to serving an agreed period of employment with the sponsor after completion of their training or education.
Another word that is used for the same thing is a scholarship. Also search for Graduate Entry Schemes or similar.
Good luck.
Never Give Up!

but joining the airforce is free….you get money when you study there.
But when you want to go the general aviation you have to pay the education yourself, I know there’s a good school in oxford and it’s only 38.000 pounds in stead of 120.000 euro’s over here.

I wear a watch for several reasons:
1. I grew up before cell phones and other digital time pieces, so I wear it out of habit,
2. In my job, I work at sites where cell phones and PDAs are not allowed, and
3. Occasionally, I work in places that don’t have electricity..

You mean Golden State Warriors right?

I wear a watch as much as habit as that I rarely carry my cell phone around, and when I do, I have it in my pocket, and it’s easier to glance at my arm than pull the phone out of my pocket.

It actually refers that dudes wife named Holly that was ageeable to ANYTHING !
I knew her….(and she would too.) :roll:

Excellent answer, celebornmars!

Clever, Bob! … How about a diet of scrambled eggs?

Good point, mijj. “Disappointment’ doesn’t quite cut it.

SOS Teacher!

Video Word Request

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLyEdsv0TWc

Talk Like a Pirate Day is fast ahead!

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/

Thanks
tnDundee

i wanted to know why is the plural form of MAN, MEN?
when the plural form of HUMAN, HUMANKIND or HUMANITY?

also if you like
why is HORRIBLE and TERRIBLE synonyms
when HORRIFIC and TERRIFIC antonyms?

:cool: I got a Shock proff watch as When i look at teh time …it would be My wrist .
i grew up where mobile phones not about…. :cool:

The Night’s Watch is an organization dedicated to defending the realms of Westeros in George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire.
The Night’s Watch guard the Wall, a huge fortification built primarily of ice located in the far north of Westeros. The Wall is 300 miles (480 km) long (100 leagues) and over 700 feet (210 m) high. It extends from the Frostfangs mountain range in the west to the Bay of Seals in the east. According to Westerosi legend, it was built after the period known as The Long Night by the nearly mythical Brandon the Builder over 8,000 years prior to the present setting, in an attempt to forever shut out the inhabitants of the far north (particularly the Others), who had overrun Westeros during that period, before being turned back by unknown forces. Several mentions in the text suggest that the Wall was much smaller at the time, having been built upon by the Night’s Watch over the centuries to its present size. However, the severely reduced Night’s Watch at the time of the books is limited to irregular maintenance duty. The greatest antagonist to the Watch has been the Others, a race of mystical creatures not seen for thousands of years.

I don’t wear watch because there is a clock in my mobile

And bought a new watch about four days ago.

I wear a watch…I finally bought a cheap UNLISTED watch from Macy’s.

What’s the origin for the word, robot ? :lol:

drought day 3

fergyko416 produced a nicely presented question

Yup I wear a watch :)

such a pretty dress…knocks my clock and no have a watch :roll:

:arrow: :lol: random******pretty [dress] and I like my teachers…A Perfect Circle – “Gravity”…catch watch…Catch me, heal me
Lift me back up to the sun
Help me survive the bottom…..{(+)}

:oops: …great video…both yours and mother goose{ time is a perfect circle}… :lol:

…thank you mother MARINA… :smile:

soul smart; trams luos….sdrowroftoh;hotforwords]}***!***{[

[COUNTER-CLOCK-wise]???~~~~gotta keep time…she sAid… :mrgreen: