Comments on: Nerd Word of the Day.. no YEAR: Unfriend http://hotforwords.com/2009/11/16/nerd-word-of-the-day-no-year-unfriend/ Marina Orlova - Not your typical philologist. Etymology, philology, word origins, origin of, hot teacher. Fri, 25 May 2012 06:12:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: ballmdr http://hotforwords.com/2009/11/16/nerd-word-of-the-day-no-year-unfriend/#comment-168824 ballmdr Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:34:02 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=8534#comment-168824 Here!! Yes, It's been a while since we had a Nerd Word. Here!!

Yes, It’s been a while since we had a Nerd Word.

]]> By: HoTfOrAnSwErS http://hotforwords.com/2009/11/16/nerd-word-of-the-day-no-year-unfriend/#comment-160758 HoTfOrAnSwErS Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:07:11 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=8534#comment-160758 Dear Marina, Everyone text me and says that I looked so [discussd] :grin: at school. I don't get it. I think it's some kind of shortening of discusting. What? I'm confused. You're are so much better at it than me, so what does it mean, and it should be the nerd word of the day! Dear Marina,

Everyone text me and says that I looked so [discussd] :grin: at school. I don’t get it. I think it’s some kind of shortening of discusting. What? I’m confused. You’re are so much better at it than me, so what does it mean, and it should be the nerd word of the day!

]]> By: brynhild84 http://hotforwords.com/2009/11/16/nerd-word-of-the-day-no-year-unfriend/#comment-160492 brynhild84 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:47:27 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=8534#comment-160492 Hi Marina, I am an assistant teacher for English in Austria. I just wanted to say thank you for all the 'Nerd Word of the Days'° I did a lesson with them, in honor of the OEDs Word of the Year with my adult students, it worked great, really got them interested and thinking about how to use words in English :cool: ! Love your videos!:smile: Aaron Hi Marina,
I am an assistant teacher for English in Austria. I just wanted to say thank you for all the ‘Nerd Word of the Days’° I did a lesson with them, in honor of the OEDs Word of the Year with my adult students, it worked great, really got them interested and thinking about how to use words in English :cool: !
Love your videos!:smile:
Aaron

]]> By: fglrx http://hotforwords.com/2009/11/16/nerd-word-of-the-day-no-year-unfriend/#comment-159860 fglrx Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:01:36 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=8534#comment-159860 <blockquote>Imma gonna unfriend you</blockquote> If <i>Imma</i> is an abbreviated form of <i>I'm gonna</i>, then <i>Imma gonna</i> must be a little bit pleonastic, isn't it? :)

Imma gonna unfriend you

If Imma is an abbreviated form of I’m gonna, then Imma gonna must be a little bit pleonastic, isn’t it? :)

]]> By: tonyb http://hotforwords.com/2009/11/16/nerd-word-of-the-day-no-year-unfriend/#comment-159834 tonyb Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:03:07 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=8534#comment-159834 I GOT THOWN OFF OF FACEBOOK! Maybe their christian fiction writers who were my friends were really not my friends. Some of them writer women got really snotty to me as well!! I am an INDEPENDANT THINKER and an INDEPENDANT WRITER. No one accepts me in theit churches! I GOT THOWN OFF OF FACEBOOK! Maybe their christian fiction writers who were my friends were really not my friends. Some of them writer women got really snotty to me as well!! I am an INDEPENDANT THINKER and an INDEPENDANT WRITER. No one accepts me in theit churches!

]]> By: bsomebody http://hotforwords.com/2009/11/16/nerd-word-of-the-day-no-year-unfriend/#comment-159821 bsomebody Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:44:24 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=8534#comment-159821 Unfriend sounds so sad. :cry: I got some pretty cool friends from here. :cool: Thanx, M'Lady for inviting us to your playground. :grin: Unfriend sounds so sad. :cry: I got some pretty cool friends from here. :cool: Thanx, M’Lady for inviting us to your playground. :grin:

]]> By: bobsully http://hotforwords.com/2009/11/16/nerd-word-of-the-day-no-year-unfriend/#comment-159741 bobsully Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:44:34 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=8534#comment-159741 so "unfriend" is the word... sign of the times perhaps, or folks who have reached a broad enough circle. it seems rather sad. I didn't know what a hashtag was till just now. You learn something every day. so “unfriend” is the word… sign of the times perhaps, or folks who have reached a broad enough circle. it seems rather sad.

I didn’t know what a hashtag was till just now. You learn something every day.

]]> By: Hs4Mm http://hotforwords.com/2009/11/16/nerd-word-of-the-day-no-year-unfriend/#comment-159718 Hs4Mm Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:59:08 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=8534#comment-159718 PPS: Twitter uses hashtags to mark keywords ... the HFW site uses [square-bracket-enclosing-tags] to mark origin requests! PPS: Twitter uses hashtags to mark keywords … the HFW site uses [square-bracket-enclosing-tags] to mark origin requests!

]]> By: Hs4Mm http://hotforwords.com/2009/11/16/nerd-word-of-the-day-no-year-unfriend/#comment-159676 Hs4Mm Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:14:22 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=8534#comment-159676 PS: I'm currently watching Forbidden Planet (1956) in which a key character (Walter Pidgeon) is a philologist, and geek-scientist (or "Renaissance man" a' la' Michelangelo). This, together with the preceding comment (involving #-comment and #!) reminded me that perl, a language I love programming in, was invented by a linguist! (I also enjoy programming in C and various assembly languages, but writing perl is very enjoyable since it is just like writing and thinking in English using complete sentences.) Back to the paused movie. PS: I’m currently watching Forbidden Planet (1956) in which a key character (Walter Pidgeon) is a philologist, and geek-scientist (or “Renaissance man” a’ la’ Michelangelo). This, together with the preceding comment (involving #-comment and #!) reminded me that perl, a language I love programming in, was invented by a linguist! (I also enjoy programming in C and various assembly languages, but writing perl is very enjoyable since it is just like writing and thinking in English using complete sentences.) Back to the paused movie.

]]> By: Hs4Mm http://hotforwords.com/2009/11/16/nerd-word-of-the-day-no-year-unfriend/#comment-159645 Hs4Mm Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:50:24 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=8534#comment-159645 I think the symbol # is just hash. Hashtag is the symbol hash in a specific usage: it's use as a tag to tag certain words in tweets. The kind of thinking that resulted in the word hashtag would result in words such as hash-comment (for # in csh, perl etc.), slash-comment (for /**/ or // in C)! The exclamation symbol !, based on its use in comics, is also called shriek and bang. The hash symbol, #, is also called sharp from its use in music. The name sharp in turn results in some people calling the # symbol shh (as in the sound of shushing someone). The combination "#!" when used at the beginning of files in Unix to let the OS know which program to run on the file is called (by combining shh for # and bang for !) shebang. I think the symbol # is just hash. Hashtag is the symbol hash in a specific usage: it’s use as a tag to tag certain words in tweets.

The kind of thinking that resulted in the word hashtag would result in words such as hash-comment (for # in csh, perl etc.), slash-comment (for /**/ or // in C)!

The exclamation symbol !, based on its use in comics, is also called shriek and bang.

The hash symbol, #, is also called sharp from its use in music. The name sharp in turn results in some people calling the # symbol shh (as in the sound of shushing someone).

The combination “#!” when used at the beginning of files in Unix to let the OS know which program to run on the file is called (by combining shh for # and bang for !) shebang.

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