The Nexus One naming controversy
Let’s look at the Google Nexus One Phone naming controversy. Did Google name the phone after the Nexus-6 replicants from Blade Runner? Or does the word ‘nexus’ have an other significant meaning?
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Here is the Google video I did a while back as well.
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ummm did marina just say I and then Legal? I-legal??? UMMMMM. okkkieeee.
I liked you alot before, but when you said that Philip K Dick is an awsome writer and that Blade Runner may be the best sci fi movie in history… I think I fell inlove ;)
Interesting theory.
Thanks as always for your lessons.
You are sooo right. Blade runner is THE SF-flick! And Philip is a great writer.
Gorby has his own elevator?
[NEXT] by Alex Harvey Band :cool: …Question from my Italian aunt: What happened to the story about–” the money from her brother-in~law and picking that(this) bum”—
Original newsreel of the premiere of Howard Hughes’ Hell’s Angels. including Jean Harlow. Ros…
Original newsreel of the premiere of Howard Hughes’ Hell’s Angels.…roll of reels and big wheels barrows—good day HOTFORWORDS [WorLds]/[world] :lol: The newsreel was shot in and around Grauman’s Chinese Theater and features many of the movie’s stars, including Jean Harlow. Roscoe Turner and Charlie Chaplin are also visible in the footage. The subject of the documentary “The Legend of Pancho Barnes” Florence Lowe “Pancho” Barnes, had a role in this movie as well. Pancho flew her Travelair Speedwing above a microphone-laden balloon to record airplane engine sound for Hell’s Angels. :smile:
[World](word-request), get ready for the DMCA: ACTA’s Internet chapter leaks…—— The oddest thing about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) secrecy is that, whenever we see leaked drafts of the text, there’s nothing particularly “secret” about them. That was also the case with this weekend’s leak of the “Internet enforcement” section of the ACTA draft; as we’ve noted in the past, ACTA appears to be a measure to extend the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to the rest of the world, and that’s exactly what the Internet section tries to do.
:smile:
Great vid, excellent lesson. I just love these productions with a good blend of solid etymology, some history, and plenty of humor. The Lady also did a commendable job incorporating her product endorsement tastefully and with educational benefits. :cool:
I am so excited about this, I think I will trot on over to YouTube, leave a comment, and rate with five stars. Oh happy day! :smile:
marina help me to win millions dollars like you , your friend CC attempt to find a cameragirl girl
Good morning Ms. Orlova
I was brought up in a very conservative family so thank you so much for explaining so much sensitive things to me.
These words still bother me, both the exact meaning and the origin:
- [chastity]
- [libido]
- [lolita]
- [aphrodisiac]
Thank you, we love you!
Rudi “Rangutan” Gp (Munich)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkpTJNHAb0o
A Compilation Of Hilarious Signs =)
follow me on twitter @ kolian88
Hi kolia, that was a funny video.
The background image of your Twitter page is very interesting and I seem to have a recollection of a similar scene somehow.
Thanks.
In honor of buzzword’s tweet:
“which book is the most likely future?
“brave new world” or “1984″
I see a Forum topic coming up.
[dystopia] versus [utopia]
I might chose “brave new world”, but even that might not do it for me. Perhaps the very underrated Kevin Costner post-apocalyptic film “The Postman” might be more telling. Don’t ask me why, cause we might be here on this page forever. :smile:
Hello alphabetman,
your type of etymology is certainly entertaining however far fetched it may be. I did some similar research into the kinds of connections that you are making several years ago and I think in most cases those word connections came about through many different means such as acrostics, backronyms, urban myths, political expediencies, many other other linguistic type of mechanisms and so on.
In some cases, there exists the type of connections that you are making either by coincidence or oral traditions where there is not good evidence to support your claims.
On one of the other video pages you did make a very important point about a certain language and organization, which I won’t repeat as we are going to be on that topic for ever and I won’t get any sleep. I have done my own independent research into that and even though I am encouraged by my findings, I don’t have the time to pursue what could be a very interesting book some day.
Your explanation for the word Deutschland down below at comment number 49.1.1.1.2 is a little more than far fetched.
Why did you misspell the word Deutschland as “Deutchland”? Typo? Since you answered Evan and Evan spelled the word correctly, you would think a simple copy – paste would have had you spelling that word correctly.
The accepted etymology of “Deutsch” in the word Deutschland is the Old High German word “diutisc” or similar variant which refers to people or folk. That word has its roots in the Proto Indo European word “teuta” which means people. Therefore, the word means the “land of the folk” or the “land of the people”.
I came across a web site several years ago where this student did some serious work in analyzing the German language and he came to the conclusion that the root word “Deutsch” in the word Deutschland may have a connection related to “Dieu” meaning God in French and many other related latin variants.
Specifically, if I remember (can’t find that site anymore), he said that about 5% of the German words had a connection to the Basque language and that the root word may be similar to the word God in French which is Dieu. If it were true that the root word refers to god, then the word Deutschland could mean “god’s land” or the “land of the gods”. I understand that there is also a connection with the word god and good. Anyway, that is just some interesting speculation. The question that I am begging is this; is it possible to have many etymologies from different perspectives and people?
I never had the time to pursue this theory, but looking at the Basque wiki, there is a large set of books related to linguistic studies, history of languages and etymologies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_language
As a matter of side interest, there is an island province called Gotland that belongs to Sweden. Interestingly, the word “god” is translated to “gud” in Swedish, while in German it is “Gott”.
Hi Karl, the mainstream explanation that you’ve given for the word “deutsch” is more or less in accordance with what I’ve had to learn in school. My German teacher back in the days was terrible, he forced us to read texts in Old High German that nobody could understand. It was so bad that that made me stop reading books for fun for a couple of years. According to one of those texts that I remember, the phrase “diutisca zunga” (or something like that) simply meant “common language”, contrary to the Latin dialects that the folks of the west and the south had adopted. I remember that because that a-hole of a teacher viciously slammed another student who translated “diutiscu” as “deutsch” and insisted that it had to be translated to “common”.
By the way, if you haven’t noticed: Spiegel Online has an article “Five Years Youtube”, where Marina’s pot video is featured
Thanks logischabbaubar for the Spiegel article. I hadn’t seen it yet.
I posted the information on the Forum:
http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/geeks-nerds-internet-technology-society-amp-culture/page/2#post-13151
Yes, the word “diutiscu” seems to have created some controversy. I think that is the word or a variaiton of it is in the “Duden – Das Stilwörterbuch”. I don’t have the book, but my friend has it and I remember reading that in there several years ago.
hm.
[Pseudoscientific language] comparison is a form of pseudoscience that has the objective of establishing historical associations between languages by naive postulations of similarities between them. :|
There may also be political or religious reasons to associate languages in ways that most linguists would dispute.
For example, it has been suggested that the Turanian or Ural-Altaic language group, which relates Sami and other languages to the Mongolian language, was used to justify racism towards the Sami in particular.[References
1.^ Niclas Wahlgren. Något om rastänkandet i Sverige] There are also strong, albeit areal not genetic, similarities between the Uralic and Altaic languages which provided an innocent basis for this theory.
Some believers in Abrahamic religions try to derive their native languages from Classical Hebrew, as Herbert W. Armstrong, a proponent of British Israelism, who said that the word ‘British’ comes from Hebrew brit meaning ‘covenant’ and ish meaning ‘man’, supposedly proving that the British people are the ‘covenant people’ of God.
………..Linda Ronstadt & Muppets – BLUE BAYOU…the messAge is basKing your food :smile: “an opportunity to bask in the genteel applause of the faithful” (Paul A. Witteman).
After watching your lesson on the origins of albeit, it brought to mind the word used at the close of prayer [amen]. This word is almost the same in Arabic [ameen]. I was always under the impression that it meant ‘so be it’
I’d like to request the word [scab] as in a labor dispute.
Peace!
-Mark
Marina,
Thanks for the comments on Nexus, I’ll talk to my friends at Google and see if they agree, I expect they will. Meanwhile thanks for the pointer to Phillip K. Dick, I haven’t read any of his books but it sounds like I should. I read Snow Crash after your Avatar video and enjoyed it.
I have a word request [??]. I don’t remember the word, but it refers to two words that are spelled the same but are pronounced differently like ["lead" as in to lead the world] and ["lead" as in a lead footed driver]. I once met a CEO from Mexico who’s english was so perfect that the only way I could tell he wasn’t a native speaker is that he mispronounced words like “lead”.
Thanks for making words interesting,
kvb
Hi kvb,
I think the word that you are thinking of is related to a group of words related to homonyms.
Specifically, for your request where you are asking for a word that is:
- spelled the same
- pronounced differently
that is a heteronym
Examples include lead, wind, project, primer, live, object.
Here is a list of some of those words.
homonym – a word that is spelled the same and has the same pronunciation, but has different meanings.
Homographs – share the same spelling no matter how they are pronounced. If they are pronounced the same they are homophones and homonyms. (ex: bark, bow, rose)
Homophones – same pronunciation no matter how they are spelled. (ex: to, two, too, their, there)
Heteronym – a word with the same spelling, different meaning and different pronunciation. (ex: desert, row, lead)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homograph
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronym_%28linguistics%29
I want to request the term [noob] which has been used a lot in gaming. I think it means a person who is not experienced as other players or something. I see the term [noob] on Modern Warfare 2 as [Noob Tuber].
Noob is short for noobie, which is just another way of saying a new person. No mystery.
I want to request the phrase [God speed]. I believe it’s a saying that means something like “good-bye” or “good wishes”
does it also mean good luck?
What is the origin of the word [bingo]? Must stand for something meaningful as players yell it out with such gusto.
Nerd Word:
Billary :lol:
[malware]
Hey, anyone know if you can get trojans (specifically Trojan.FakeAlert) through Windows Live Messenger? My daughter keeps getting these in her Docs & Settings after chatting online with her friend in Ireland. :???:
Evan, I don’t know the answer specifically as I have not researched LM, but my guess is that it is no different than email. It’s not the vehicle (LM) that is the problem, it is the operators at both ends that may be the problem. In other words, when links are exchanged, don’t click on them, even if it is a friend.
Alternatively, one could have already been infected via other means whereby LM has become infected and is now the mechanism by which infections are propagated.
I’ll let you know more if I find out anything different.
Evan, I did some research and as I mentioned, communications vehicles (email, messengers, etc) are just means in which a virus/trojan is propagated since they contain a list of people (adr books) and messages (text and links).
The Trojan.FakeAlert infection either came earlier via web surfing or could have come via LM when you/your daughter clicks on a message. For example, the message could have read something like, “get free smileys here”. By clicking on that link, is how one can get infected.
Homework is done: Cool! :cool:
there is one more thing about OCCIDENTAL ( and i just noticed it ) – OC = eyes and wets ok ..but the CID part usually refers to DEATH ( sui-cide) ..so the full meaning of occidental is ..if you look at the sun setting in the west ..you will kill your eyes … wow
I’d give my eye teeth to know the real meaning of [occi-dental] :wink:
Marina, if you have such problems with bra straps sliding off, why not just do videos without the bra? ^_-
She could even charge for lessons. :mrgreen:
AND PEOPLE WOULD PAY!
i have requested the word Arachnia
AR nearly always refers to LAND ..ACH seems like a word for EIGHT ..like OCTAGON … not sure about the nid .. but you’ve got land + eight in ARACH …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3EhzzIxJD4
human beings dream of real sheep while android robots dream of electric sheep.
[Mutton Chops]….A meat chop is a cut of meat cut perpendicularly to the spine, and usually containing a rib or riblet part of a vertebra and served as an individual portion. The most common kinds of meat chops are pork and lamb. :cool: …Bees R Good :smile:
I had seen on CCTV9 an art gallery maybe in France. and there was an old european drawing of a man who was visited as he awoke by an evil spirit that gave him sexual fantasies. I began to have a few like that but not dirty ones. I guess that is like what do android sheep see when they dream. Fantasies involving pretty girls.
NEXUS Thanks Marina I thought it was a the name for shampoo. I love this lesson, but I would really love to shampoo your brunette face!! AND THEN KISS IT!!!!!!!!!!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :idea: :idea: :idea: :idea:
I would like to request the phrase ‘cloud nine.’ What is the origin? I always hear people saying that for example, a certain food or song may send them straight to cloud nine. But where is cloud nine? And what’s so special about nine? What about clouds seven or eight? Or all the other clouds?
Thanks, Marina. :)
I would like to request the word [kiss]
K/C words are nearly always about one thing : Closure! A KISS is closure too. And it ends …softly … sssss ( it’s that simple, don;t look in old books – this is HOW a word like kiss truly evolved ..there is a hidden science to English ..we don;t see it because we are “too clpose to the forest to see the trees – but , before writing came along ..we all sort of knew this stuff .. in fact the C looks like closure, when you think of it ..English letter/shapes represent their original meaning in our pre-Babel language quite well – they are really heiroglyphs, stylized)
***Word requests***
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day {coming soon, Marina, PLEASE don’t forget again this year! :razz: :grin: }:
[hooligan] or [гулиган] :twisted:
[limerick] :smile:
[blarney] :razz:
[Secretary of State for the Colonies]
HI, Evan :o …Marina has(is)a great Quote brought to us from HotForWords—”Talent does what it can – genius does what it must.” – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton 1803-1873
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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873), was an English politician, poet, playwright, and prolific novelist. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling novels which earned him a considerable fortune. But, like many authors of the period, his style now seems florid and embellished :twisted: to modern tastes. He coined the phrases, “the great unwashed”, “pursuit of the almighty dollar”, “the pen is mightier than the sword”, and the infamous opening line, “It was a dark and stormy night.”
“It was a dark and stormy night.” :lol:
:cool: word requests Evan!
Another St. Paddy’s Day word [Shamrock] :mrgreen:
[Shamrock] — fake stone? :mrgreen:
Was the Roc a sham? Ask Sinbad! :razz:
Thanks for the heads up regarding Phillip K. Dick. You inspired me to read, Marina. :idea: Have you considered staring a book club like Oprah does?
Teacher, hate to report this to you but too many students are leaving comments here instead of word requests. So instead of being sent to the corner with them, or getting whacked on the hand with a ruler, I better make a word request… [detention]
Word requests are secondary to comments, so NO HAND WHACKING!
Your students in the back of the class seem to be doing too much of this… Can’t imagine why… And this word sounds similar to a lesson where you covered a famous search engine. So what word is this? [ogle].
OGLE is a GREAT word young man … it is related to OCULAR ..vision … and OCCIDENTAL ( west ) ! – now that last reference is the key .. where do you thin “occidental” was created? … next to the OC-EAN! on the WEST coast ( not of europe ) but of AFRICA! … near MOROCCO! – which literally means LOOK ( MIR) at the OCEAN ( OC ) – the ocean was WEST ! the actual word WEST – comes from spanish/french ( the northern version of OCC ) O-ESTE. O means water ( french) ST alwats refers to a stop ( in nearly all english words , try it ) so ..WEST also means water/stop. The ocean stoppe dour forefathers. These words are both BEFORE MAPS ..East/West were thought of with geographical markers …more than general directions … NORTH has a meaning too ..can you figure it out? ( you need to know the arabic/hebrew word for light — then you;ll have it )
Can one get [occident]-ally dis-[orient]-ed? :???: :razz:
well ORIENTAL also has the root meaning like OCCIDENTAL ( obviously ) ..RI refers to RISING ( in nearly all words RIDGE RIM PRIDE CHRIST ) and OR is ( once again ) light in Hebrew ( arabic ) ..the energetic R-phoneme .. so ORI means light rising ..the sun rises in the East ..it is likely also the meaning of Korea ( but the Koreans don’t even know that ) don;t they call Japan the Land of the rising Sun?
Koreans don’t know that :???: because they call their land “Hanguk.”
“Korea” is the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese name for Hanguk, kao li, meaning “high, beautiful,” in reference to Korea’s mountains. :cool:
Word requests:
[endonym] — e.g. Deutschland, Suomi, Hellada, Hanguk, Cymru — what natives call their own country.
[exonym] — e.g. Germany, Finland, Greece, Korea, Wales ( :grin: ), respectively — what other people call them. :cool:
i often notice that there are two names for people – one that you call yourself – and often another you are known by others – that is just a matter of perspective – so while Finland clearly means “the end ( finale ) of the land – ( since you cant go much further huh ) -the Finnish have Hellada ( for which i admit i do not know the true meaning of – but it’s there ) the reason that there is always a two-worded definition of a any word is this: you use words you already have in your vocabulary – to define a new “thing” . ( what else can you use? ) – If you select one word – the new “thing” will be equivalent to an old thing, and that usually won;t do . Deutchland appears to mean – TWO LAND ( deutch seems like a word for two ( duo)..and there were the Angles and Saxons ..so maybe thats its meaning when it was coined ) – as for korea – i say – “could be ” – it could also be that the Japanese had some of their old african heritage language codes in their language – and named korea as i said – then the Chinese got there and change d it – but only slightly really – to Kao Li – ( the L/r chinese twist is well-known ) – and i see light in LI anyway – do you know in KAO LI what each phoneme independently means? – HANGUK too !! AN is the SUmerian word for SKY ( witness annual ) and the GUK a G ground word perhaps – could in mean sky land – thats high ( the sky ) ..Wales is clearly named for its wells ( do a search on the “wells of wales”, i think you will agree –its almost strange ) ..but regardless – every place name is a description .. i love place names –the pyrennes were named because of a fire ( prye ) that was advertised to smolder the silver out of the land …
i suggest the word [fuck]. yes it is a cuss word and “think of the children” and all that but im honestly curious because its such a diverse word and if you don’t believe me watch the first boondock saints movie. just where does this word come from?!?!?!?!
Hi tankuel, Marina has not done a video yet on [the F word], but if you watch all 500+ of her videos, you’ll see she has been practicing pronouncing it, so, when when she does the video on the F word it will be pronounced perfectly.
In all videos you’ll have to lip read the F word, but in this particular video, see if you can find where the F word is being used. Make sure you are not eating or drinking anything. It is hilariously funny. You will die lafffing.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2010/01/16/beat-around-the-bush/
Marina does cover the F word on page 172 in her recently released book which you can find out more about at the link above that says, My Book.
http://www.hotforwords.com/my-book/
Marina has also done the origin of the F word in an article for AskMen.com
http://www.askmen.com/top_10/entertainment/top-10-word-myths_1.html
Yes, our teacher need to work on her pronunciation of the F-word… But it is cute to hear. Seems she covered cuss words well in her video about profanity.
You must be a very old radio man.
what’s she saying at about 0:57 in the “beat around the bush” vid? “obviously apparent”?
Yes, correct, here is more of the sentence;
“…the answer is so obviously apparent
in the information and location of the words…”
so, what does “obviously apparent” mean? twice as apparent? more apparent than apparent? is that a pleonasm, such as “dead corpse” or “black darkness” or something?
Correct äläx, to me it looks like that Marina’s use of the pleonasm “obviously apparent” is purposely done as a grammatical device to over emphasize the meaning of the phrase, “beating around the bush” and by using the pleonasm, she was beating around the bush herself. Oh crap, did I just beat around the bush? Damn, I need to be more pithy.
pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff.
You mean it was a asssident?
lol. ya, i think so. like, totally, like, whoa.
she traces it to German ..its much older than German … i think of the word PUCK ( and poker ) …. the aggressive P-sound ( penis too ) ..and of course the BEST word is POKE ..is that not what one does ..pokes ? you poke and you go for the goal ( like a hockey puck ) ..it’s sort of obvious …
The word fuck is actually an acronym which stands for Fornication Under Command of the King. It wasn’t even a bad word up until about 100 years ago when the church decided that under decency rules, it should be treated as such.
I STILL WANT MY WORD DONE BY MARINA! [FART!]
:)
Hi there iluv2cutfarts,
Did you read Marina’s article on Ask Men magazine?
The F word being an acronym is a myth and it is false.
http://www.askmen.com/top_10/entertainment/top-10-word-myths_1.html
http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/fuck.asp
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=fuck
This is truly great and all, but I still want to see Marina do the word [fart]!!!
:mrgreen:
You’re right iluv2cutfarts, we need to stop farting around and get that fart video made. I think we can kill two birds with one stone and have her do my fart euphemism, barking spiders. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Fart is sometimes used as a non-specific derogatory epithet, often to refer to ‘an irritating or foolish person’, and potentially an elderly person, described as an ‘old fart’. ~~~~iluv2cutfarts-hello and if you go to Marina’s lesson-Feisty
—you’ll get wind broke by Gorby and breaking wind by HotForWords…I suggest —
…ps…[hEaring] a fart by Marina was done before and now being [LENT]–let the GAS get Aired :smile: …I feel like a fart coming :roll:
i wanna request this word (marijuana)
I think that word is slang(marijuana); :-) I know its slang of (NewWorld/Spanish) and maybe Marina will do a lesson on{[[ [[H E M P]]]]} Maccaddy17: how are you?…Listen to some green music—Grand Funk Railroad – Inside Looking Out 1969
…please don’t blister your hands! :twisted: Origin of the word Pot[][3][]by–HOTforWORDS…that should fertilize your brain :smile:
POT = WATER ( remember meso-potamia ) POT was river … it comes from a Mexican word potiguaya – but the true source is the water word POT … think POTION as well … pot is a potion … a cooking pot holds water …
Well……how about [canvas] and census… :lol:
from etymonline.com : c.1500, from canvas and probably meaning, originally, “to toss in a canvas sheet,” hence “to shake out, examine carefully” (1530); “to solicit votes” (1550s); though “to sift through canvas” also has been proposed as the basic metaphor. The spelling with a double -s- dates from 16c. As a noun, attested from c.1600.
canvas
mid-14c., from Anglo-Fr. canevaz, from O.Fr. canevas, from V.L. *cannapaceus “made of hemp,” from L. cannabis, from Gk. kannabis “hemp,” a Scythian or Thracian word !! canvas is related to cannabis ..hmmm
[ANCHOR cable] (knotRope)Eye think U R smArt- alphabetman! My Sense of smell, yells for the frozen pot of water: Three sheets to the wind!
…[R O P E]…Sheet – A rope used to control the setting of a sail in relation to the direction of the wind. The sheets are drying on the line; as my mother worked her natural resourced ways and means! ARAB word of fabric[shEEt]…
i love it when i find arabic ( which is african lets face it ) in english …
you know this whole anti-arab thing was started by the holy roman empire politicians ( early bushies i guess) who wanted to the crusades thing ( sound familiar ) so they broke the ties with african ( heathens ) ..and the world has been worse off since truly …. we forgot our roots and respect for the past ..they got all indignant ..etymology can be unifying ..thats my goal-eee
I would like to request the word [anxiety]
I haven’t read any Philip K. Dick books yet but I will. I read classics like Jules Verne,H.G. Wells,Charles Dickens and Star Wars books. I love Sciece Fiction books and Science Fiction Movies. ;-)
At first, Aleksandr Pushkin named his famous play Boris the Excellent, but later downgraded his character to Boris Good Enough. :mrgreen:
[parody]
[D D] (pair o’ Ds) :razz:
Clever
And if you shove your cousin, do you push kin? :mrgreen:
I am getting this tattooed..
: Sexy.
The human body is a canvas best left blank.
Hello Marina,very good video.You must love that brown wig you seem to be wearing it alot lately.I hope you keep your lovely blonde hair in the spot light also.Well you take care my dearest teacher,and see you again soon :!: Yours Truly… thematrix75
Most dearest hotforwords hottie girl! I would like to know the origins of the word [fart]. It’s such a fun and versitle word, but is a mystery to me as to where it came from. I figure since I enjoy eating Cabbage and Beans so much, that I should try to understand the whereabouts of this fantastic, most favorite past time of mine!
Yours truly…
iluv2cutfarts
USA
F words are often about AIR ( F is the windiest phoneme you can make as you actual FUNNEL your mouth to say EFFFF ) – it could be ” the art of air “? that seems to make sense
The latest book I have read is Marinas, I am still reading it occasionally but I don’t want to because when I read the whole thing that will be it! :(
Marina, what’s that white liquid in your glass? Is that milk? Please don’t drink that stuff; it’s not good for you. Countries where the people do not drink cow’s milk have much lower incidences of breast cancer and colon cancer. If you simply must drink milk, try to find unpasteurized milk from reputable sources. It’s still not good for you, but it’s better than the processed stuff. Goat’s milk is even better.
Milk is in loads of stuff! So what about breast milk then?
Milk as cheese is not so bad for you. Cooking changes it.
Isn’t all milk breast milk??
Human milk and goat’s milk are large molecule liquids. Cow’s milk is a small molecule liquid. They are radically different. Americans sent tons of powdered milk to Africa during a famine years ago and killed hundreds of thousands of small children. They had no clean water to mix with the powdered milk, and then, even if they managed to get good water, the powdered milk was cow’s milk, a substance the African children could not digest. It caused diarrhea and death. Europeans have developed an ability to digest cow’s milk that people of other ethnicities do not possess.
It’s not good for you.
Aah, yes…. In my infinate knowledge of shit, I can say I do know about this. It’s something to do with certain people being lactose intolerant. I think that its the red indians that are 100% lactose intolerant… Trust the americans to be so stupid as to send milk out to africans.
Oh fuck. I just slagged off Americans for being stupid didn’t I? :oops: Damn
:lol: I haven’t seen the phrase “slagged off” before, James, so I won’t take offense. Is that an example of the Queen’s English? I agree it was stupid if those responsible for shipping indigestible food products to starving people if they knew in advance of the issue, actually criminal is a better word. But to say Americans are stupid, come on! We were smart enough to get rid of a monarchy, at least! :razz:
Commenting on how stupid Americans can be is a favorite American pasttime. :razz:
BTW “Red Indians” are now “native Americans,” “first nations,” “first peoples,” or locally, “elip tillicum.” The term eliminates the confusion with Sikhs, Punjabis, & assorted Hindus who are a fairly substantial part of our ethnic mix now. :smile:
American come in all sizes and shapes and intellectual abilities. Stupidity is not an exclusively American attribute. It’s a common human tendency. So is the tendency to indulge in gratuitous insulting generalizations. Be nice or I will call you mortifying polysyllabic neologisms.
What, like Marina’s not European? :???:
In countries that don’t drink milk, there are other factors at work that reduce cancer. E.g., higher dietary fiber. In Japan, they eat shiitake mushrooms, which have anti-cancer properties; Japanese women who eat traditional diets do not get breast cancer.
To me Red Indians are Red Indians, and all other Indians are pakis. SHITAKE MUSHROOMS FOR EVERYONE! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpUn9tzwj2E
Interesting comment about the link between drinking milk and breast cancer. I may cut back on my favorite beverage. But what to drink with my cookies, cakes, and brownies?
I noticed you mentioned First Peoples. The first time I heard this term was recently from the Olympic broadcasts. It is a better descriptor than Native Americans, as all Americans were immigrants at one time or another. Of course, if we trace back 40,000 years every person was descended from the same African mother. This makes all our wars and conflicts seem like extreme sibling rivalry. Do you suppose the human race will grow up in time?
the etymology of MILK is just amazing … the operative sound is the LEEK sound .. think LECHE ( milk in Spanish ) or leeches which leek –LEEK it self breaks down to letting out ( LE ) and C/K ( a closure ) … the word milk refers to the ACT of milking in that it starts with an M ( representing ME – the milker ) – so MILK says ME ( I ) LEEK ( the cow i guess ) … LACTIC ACID also refers that LEEKING ..!!
~*[Hollywood]*~
[][]–__did RUSSIAN B A B E S take OvEr or oVeR :lol: :smile: :lol: __–[][]…airwaves~&~darecaves…
To bad it’s not just historical Hollywood
And maybe our teacher can dress up as an actress from the other Hollywood (Bollywood) and do a dance lesson at the end of the video.
I think they actually wanted to name it blahblarmageddon one®, but slighty typoed the branding mark when they wanted to copyright it. Hell. The thicker the glasses, the bigger the typoes.
In microbiology, a nexus or junction gap is also a pair of very little tubes (connexons) establishing a connection between two cellular membrans through two microscopic tunnels (the hydrophilic channels) that act exactly like CMOS transistors inside a microcircuit. When they’re open, the current passes. When they’re shut, well, nothing makes it through.
This is an intercellular nexus link.
[Word Request: Malarkey]: Down in the part of Penna I came from we call exagerated or foolish talk ‘malarkey’. With all the malarkey flying around these days, where did this word come from?
Btw, your hair looks majorly awesome! Give Gorby a big head rub for Nibblet the Wonder Kitty and me.
Eric Maietta and Nibblet the Wonder Kitty
;-) cool but u r sexy
NEXUS and RELIGION are two words i discuss in my book. RELIGION means to BIND AGAIN – to RE-LIG – think LIGAMENT – OBLIGATORY – or even MY LIEGE – it reveals the core difference between faith and religion. FAITH may be spiritual – RELIGION a POLITICAL word – one is bound to the king or ruler AND to a god. Religion generally became a tool for those in power to keep the peons in place. Sadly true. Note to that words that end in G – like SAG BOG PEG LOG DIG BAG LIG often ( not always ) refer to a motion towards the GROUND. The G sound often refers to things of downwards nature.
NEXUS is easy. It is a CONNECTED word, like NECK or the way NEXT is a “connected” moment in time. Almost all C-words have to do with closures – and a conNECtion is a closure of sorts. ( the reason is quite amazing ..i’m saving that for the book ) however, The word SNAKE has the word NECK buried right in it, and stems most recently from the Hebrew/Semitic word NAKASH ( snake ). In fact , NAKASH and SNAKE and practically backwards from each other, which leads me to believe that perhaps someone read the Hebrew in the wrong direction ( in one of those old Bibles perhaps ) and spear-headed the word SNAKE.
Almost ironically, the other big Hebrew word which when read backwards is a modern English word is LEG ( related to ligament and religion ) – LEG in Hebrew is RIGEL ( reads or sounds backwards as LEG-ER ) . I marvel at how all the languages are related to the one pre-babel tongue we spoke about 75,000 years ago.
where did the phrase “what goes around, comes around” come from?
I don’t know, but here it comes again. :lol:
Nice Video Marina. You have allways answer to all. Can you investigate why we have loose againts Slovakia. :cry:
What a fantastic and wonderful lesson Marina as the word nexus is an interesting word.
I have read several books by PKD and specifically my interests have been along the same lines as PKD in his later years. I have been most interested in his essays such as “Cosmogony and Cosmology” , “How to Write Science Fiction” , “Scientists Claim: We Are the Center of the Universe” , “The Android and the Human”, as well as Valis and The Divine Invasion.
In college, one of my thesis papers was specifically on the topic of artificial intelligence in how it applies to computer science, but also how it relates to the idea of non-intelligence or sentience and generally about the notion of robotics extending into the area of androids.
The word nexus has always fascinated me as has the word religion. The word religion comes from the Latin religare which means to “to bind fast” which typically refers to the notion of “placing an obligation on,” or “bond between humans and gods.”
Nexus as you mentioned has the Latin nectere meaning to bind or tie or link or bond.
Mostly I have seen the word nexus used in the context of spiritual writings such as the nexus or connection between the soul and the physical body such as the silver cord and at other times in terms of the connecting link or nexus of soul mates where there exists a bond of twin souls.
So what’s the big brouha about M’s hair color? All of us who’ve been around long enough to remember the “nickname” lesson, with its photo of a much younger Marina, know that she’s naturally a redhead. :lol:
[CURMUDGEON] :lol:
[coeur méchant]? :???:
Marina, I like you better as a brunette. Much more natural, seems more honest.
My wife wants to know where you get the bra with straps that automatically reposition themselves like the one in your video.
I want to know why in British English they say “Zed” for the number 0 and in American English we say “Zero”.
Is it much ad0 ab0ut n0thing?
Actually, the British say “zed” for “z.” It’s derived from the Greek “zeta.” :smile:
Teacher –
Another fantastic lesson! I’ve read “Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep”, and another Philip K. Dick book “Make Room! Make Room!” (which was turned into the movie “Soylent Green”), as well as “The man in the High Castle”… All fantastic…
You are gorgeous, but far hotter as a blonde… And say hi to Gorby for me!
Harry Harrison wrote Make Room! Make Room!
Ag-
I stand corrected… Thanx…
Phil
PS: Teacher still looks hotter blonde, though…
Hi everyone! :smile: Wow, Marina has the same hair colour as I. Why the change? Maybe the guys give her grief? Many times guys called me a dumb blonde. :-(
Okay I would like to request the origin of the phrase [in a nutshell]…I’ve heard this phrase many times, I DO know what it means, however where did it come from? I mean when I think about it, i envision like two people having a conversation about something while one if them is staring at a peanut shell or something and he starts a long story, which confuses the other guy. So he thinks to himself, how can I explain it as simply as possible? While looking at the nutshell he randomly says “Okay in a nutshell….” and explains himself more concisely…That to me seems a bit weird of a scenario….do you think you can help?
And because it’s your android-like digital mind connection to the ‘nectar’ of information.
Only $400K?
In L.A. that will barely buy you a house.
At first I thought ‘Oh, an obligatory advertisement video, how funny.’, but the depth to which you took it is quite fascinating.
Is that a 45-degree + or an x in the name?
*tilts head to side at 45-degree angle*
Hmmm…
I have to say, I go over to YouTube only to rate the videos. I find the comments rude and unintelligent and with the same old theme. I’m glad I can come here-so much more friendly, enjoyable and informative.
well TY nearlynot :smile:
nice to have your imput :lol:
:cool: B.B. :cool:
techcrunch’s reviewof the nexus one…
yeah, lost my copy of blade runner in a flood, great storyline. Also like the clive cussler novels…
Thats some straight talk..Quote :lol: “I have nothing to declare except my genius.” – Oscar Wilde – upon arriving at U.S. customs 1882 1854-1900.
:lol:
Incidentally, your eyes look different under your new hairstyle. Not less beautiful, just different. Your beauty still stuns me.
“Yeah, it’s white.” You crack me up, Marina.
What an interesting lesson. Thank ya.
Yeah can you get what you see,,,,,,
but you can’t want you cant
Hey ! what’s come over me….it’s the way you stood over me…..
‘coz the things the wat they are……
I guess you go real far…..
So feed me with your kiss…………
the traffic is stuck…..
you heart is a bloom
ive got know destination…even that doesn’t rig true……
teach me….i know im not a hopeless case…..
……..its a beautiful day……..please……save me from your love or for over….
That crazy bastard crashed right up the road from my house! Around here we say “Keep Austin Weird”, but DAY-UM!
[Hysterical] should be up your alley. Hmmm…why up the alley? Anyways, this seems to be the perfect word to describe the perfect girl. Ex: You drive me hysterical.
I was wondering if you could explain the origin of the word [quotient]. It is used in so many mathematical terms and formulas but I was interested in where it comes from. I hear this word alot in algebra like quotient function and difference quotient.
qua is an old for for WHAT. ( as in what is the answer ) the W sound is implicit in QUA – its WHY we have WHO WHAT WHERE WHY and WHEN – and strangely – its why WOMEN starts with the W sound as well. WO – we never got it about women ( us men ) . and yes you WOO a woman.
I have one for you and it’s hard. Where does the name [JEHOVAH] come from and why it’s no longer in the bible.
Not that hard, really. “Jehovah” is the Latin rendering of the Name of God which in the Old Testament was originally written YHWH with no vowels. The Name was considered by the Jews too holy to utter, so the word ‘Adonai’ (Lord) was substituted. The practice continues into Bible translations, since a correct pronunciation is not certain. The Name is closely tied to the word for ‘to be’ or ‘exist.’ In Exodus, God tells Moses, “I AM THAT I AM,” and to tell Pharaoh that “I AM” has sent him.
[Tetragrammaton]
Hello mozie4717,
What do you mean by Jehovah and it not being in the Bible?
What Bible? What is shown there instead?
stigmatasaurus answered already that in the Jewish sacred texts the tretragrammaton of YHVH (הוהי – in Hewbrew it will normally be right to left) is the original name of God which is not to be uttered as it is sacred and the word Adonai was substituted instead.
The four letters of the tetragrammaton are the root letters which are the building blocks for words such as Joshua, Josephus, Joseph, Yahweh, Jehova, John.
Adonai is not a personal name but means a title such as lord or master or father. In many countries and languages there is a formality where the young address the older person not by their personal name, but by a substitute name. A child would not call their grandmother by her personal name Susan for example, but would use an endearing name such as Nana, Oma etc.
The uttering of the letters YHVH as Jehovah is blasphemous and not unlike if someone where to mispronounce your first or last name or if someone attempted to pronounce the initials of something or someone. For example, you have heard of NBC the TV company. You pronounce the NBC as enn bee cee. It would be disrespectful and it makes no sense to pronounce that TV company as Nibcee.
In the KJV, the word Jehovah appears four times.
Exo 6:3, Psa 83:18, Isa 12:2, Isa 26:4
Using one example from Exodus 6:3
In the KJV, the tetragrammaton YHVH is rendered as JEHOVAH.
“… but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.”
In the New International Version, YHVH is rendered as LORD.
“…but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them.”
The reference to LORD is most likely derived from the
sound of “I am who I am”.
[Tetragrammaton]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetragrammaton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Judaism
♪ Ba-ruch ha-ta Adonai, elo-HAAAY-nu melech ha-Olom! ♫ :grin:
[Baruch] (e.g. Spinoza)
[Benedict] (i.e. Latin for “Baruch”) :cool:
[Barack] ;-) (no, really!)
Hmmm, what’s Arabic for the antonym of barack ?
“Barack” meaning “blessing” in Arabic, then the opposite would be their word for “curse; ” Answers.com gives us
to curse = la’ana لعن – yal’anu يلعن – la’na لعنة
but it’s Arabic to me! :roll:
(at Karl) Hewbrew? :razz:
Yeah, Karl, “Hewbrew” is Welsh for “Hugh’s making beer.” :razz:
LOL, good eye stigmatasaurus.
Note to self, don’t dinrk and wrtie.
can you explain why we drive on the [Parkway] yet park on the [Driveway] ad explain why they aren’t named properly.
This is an old chestnut, of course. The park in parkway does not refer to parking a vehicle, it refers to a road that is lined with forest-like lands, so that it resembles driving through a park. A driveway refers to the area of a property which is paved so that a vehicle may be driven upon it without any harm to the land. So there is no problem whatsoever.
Nice job, as usual, Dear Teacher, even though I did break two more space bars with my jaw, one at 00:04 and another at 04:19. Little things mean a lot to a simple man. It’s okay, tho; I keep spares. That was my first look at the Nexus; looks good but AT&T charges up the nose around here for smart phone rates.
I have read one Philip K. Dick novel; Time Out of Joint, one of his earlier works, was a great read. Fluid reality is conceptually a real head bender.
Oh, yeah, word request. When I saw your twitpic self portrait from before your date(.com), a word came to mind that I hadn’t thought of in a while, [vivacious]. I know the definition (you, darling), but your illustration of it and the origin would make a primo vid.
Love to Teacher,
xoxodc
:smile: I’m alive and you are dead
Philip K. Dick
At one point Dick felt that he had been taken over by the spirit of the prophet Elijah. He believed that an episode in his novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said was a detailed retelling of a story from the Biblical Book of Acts, which he had never read…..
Blade Runner – Vangelis Music Video…[crack-pipe] and an ear cut off :smile:
:| “We’re very worried because it’s been a few weeks now,” said Prilliman. “We’re pressing hard to find Phil.”
Now Philip K. Dick’s Missing Android Head Has His Own Radio Show
David Hanson {not available for comment}
P.K.D. is one of the authors you can’t really slot into a single genre. I would tag him as one of the fathers of the cyberpunk sub-genre, although he probably wouldn’t have thought so. :grin: I have managed to read all of his books, but it’s been a while for some of them. I think that A Scanner Darkly is probably one of his best, if a little hard for most to get into.
Dear Marina,
I was wondering when you’d post another viedo. Your shoulders look so beautiful! :razz:
I thought nexus was just a way to talk about us. You see, in history, we read about what happened before us. In the present, we talk about us, now. Or in other words: now, us. So when we talk about our future together, that’s the next us, or nexus, for short! :razz:
(B’fo us, now us and nexus. Hint: It’s a joke; it’s not serious!)
I’ve never read any of that author’s novels. I don’t make enough time to read fiction. Maybe after I retire, I’ll have enough time for that. :?:
Seesixcm6
Your underachieving student thought Nexus was a hair care product ’til I realized it had two X’s. I haven’t had a cell phone since the “boot” but the new one looks pretty sharp. I was never much for reading science fiction, but I think “Animal Farm” and “Clockwork Orange” qualify. I stick to text books, historical writings, art books and poetry. Another great video, thank you.
P. K. Dick books I’ve read:
Voices from the Street
Mary and the Giant
Confessions of a Crap Artist
The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike
The Man in the High Castle
Martian Time-Slip
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich
The Zap Gun
Deus Irae
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Ubik
Galactic Pot-Healer
A Maze of Death
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
A Scanner Darkly
Radio Free Albemath
VALIS
The Divine Invasion
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
I think my favorites were A Scanner Darkly, VALIS, The Divine Invasion, and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer.
agmlll, that is so impressive that you read all of those!! I love it when people read!
Hey Teacher
I read all them books too, except for Voices from the Street
Mary and the Giant and The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike are more PKD novels that are outside the genre of science fiction
signed,
a dickhead
its ok gp your still high Q with me …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96I1GiHmNG4&NR=1
snub that apparent (?)
perhaps just some p.k.d. psychosis/gnosis/consciousness creeping in
oh well
LoL’Q(uack)
“[Ritalin] :lol: Grin”…a tent shun!/canvas rising… :roll: Google click more info to see the full link
:lol: thats what HotForWords do…makes you read :oops:
http://www.google.com/cse?c…
:| Robostripper Malfunctions
Nice lesson Marina, full of info. I would have got one of those if it had a better camera.
I am happy with my Satio, which thank god I got back today. I was so worried that I had lost it forever.
:cool: AWESOME lesson Marina :!: I haven’t read any of his books. That phone looks very COOL :!:
Marina great video :grin: loved it ALL :lol: how did you get a fat lip :?
(upper left) :shock: was Gorby too [rambunctous] :roll: or were you a baaad girl :oops: just asking :cool: B.B. :cool: luv ya :mrgreen:
Привет Марин. Ðе обьÑÑниш Ñлово [nose]?
Oчень интереÑтно что на многих Ñзыках оно звучит одинакого. Nase – German, nose или nasello – Italian, Ð½Ð¾Ñ – Russian, nez – French итд. Миxаил Задорнов еще шутил, что оно произошло из руÑÑкого :-) КÑтати, правда что многие западные Ñлова произошли из руÑÑкого Ñзыка.
Greetz from S.A. – Germany
Gorby should have popped up at the ending scene.
(In a black sheep outfit)
I like the headiness of the video.
You chained a lot of stuff together to come up with that one.
Getting used to your hair now.
How would it look longer?
Over your shoulder?
I’m stunned with the new hair colour and length.
Great Vid Marina :)
Philip K Dick is one of my favourite authors of speculative fiction. If you want to explore the meanings of humainty, death, perception and all sorts of metaphysica. P.K. Dick is a wonderful starting place.
Ubik is a great book and is also now in film development.
A quick question, why are we called Homo [sapiens] instead of Homo [sentiens] ?
nice video Marina, even with the shameless plug.
cool :-) sheep tails are small tales…rare animals are born not bought—Marina can trick a goat but not a main character. :-) bloody g00ggle…next!!bindder twine can connect.
Who [reads]?…when we GOT :smile: HotForWords!!!—–Marina could read: “War and Peace” by LEO TOLSTOY on video :grin: …Oh, You Pretty Things …@pat/vg+…I got GOoGle…[DOE EYES]/know the bambie…