Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalianism
Hello my dear students!
Today’s word is
hippopotomonstrosesquipedalianism!
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And don’t forget to do your homework!
Your trusty teacher,
Marina Orlova
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It is so very Horror and dangerous Animal .
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It is so Horror and dangerous animal .
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It is so very dangerous Animal .
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110804001649AAF3Oc2
“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4BC – 65AD)
Another sketch.
hey .. more and more videos from her maj!
is there any way to get an alert emailed when a new page gets posted here?
If by a new page you mean a new blog, I don’t think there is any way to do that at present, or at least M hasn’t set it up. DISQUS can do notifications of new posts to a specified blog, but you have to specify the blog before it will work. I am going to suggest to DISQUS that users can elect to be notified of the first comment to any blog from a given URL. That should be close enough to what you are looking for. (I don’t think DISQUS knows about a new blog until there is a comment made.)
well .. i think her maj should throw out this cookie cutter WordPress and Discus gubbins and redo the entire site .. by hand!
@mijj:disqus S-u-r-e she will. She doesn’t even answer E-mails telling her when something’s wrong with the site.
OK, a new blog’s up. There’s your E-mail notification for you. :-)
“Your senses are weak. Your reality is flawed. Your mind is wicked. Your interpretations are distorted. You are the quintessence of nitwitness.”
– Lord Light (???? – ????)
“There’s a fundamental difference between an ionic and a covalent chemical bond. Can you sense it?”
- Lady Time (46,500,000,000 BC – ????)
“He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
“I remixed another bunch of remixes, I don’t remember what’s normal anymore.”
– Mitch Hedberg remix 2012
Well, the least you could do to reduce wasting our time is to explain the difference.
“La vie, c’est comme les vagues, c’est comme l’écume, tout se disloque, tout s’en va, tout se perd.”
– Madeleine Cinquin (1908-2008)
“True Beauty doesn’t stink.”
– Lady Time (46,500,000,000 BC – ????)
“Foul language sounds like breaking glass.”
- Baron Hellmutt von Crakerjackenfest VII (???? – ????)
“Beauty is bullshit, but it can be as sexy as hell. Intelligence is sexy, but it can bullshit the hell out of you.”
– Baron Hellmutt von Crackerjackenfest VII (???? – ????)
“If intelligence is sexy, then beauty is bullshit.”
– Baron Hellmutt von Crackerjackenfest VII (???? – ????)
Pit stupidity against intelligence, and face the consequences.
B S
“Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly–but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.”
– Don Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (1864-1936)
“If we turn from contemplating the world as a whole, and, in particular, the generations of men as they live their little hour of mock-existence and then are swept away in rapid succession; if we turn from this, and look at life in its small details, as presented, say, in a comedy, how ridiculous it all seems! It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope, a single drop teeming with infusoria; or a speck of cheese full of mites invisible to the naked eye. How we laugh as they bustle about so eagerly, and struggle with one another in so tiny a space! And whether here, or in the little span of human life, this terrible activity produces a comic effect.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
“Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.” - Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (1889-1963)
“Intelligence may perhaps become everlasting sexiness, but beauty is fleeting bullshit forever, and that’s for sure.”
- Lady Time (46,500,000,000 BC – ????)
“Passion and strife bow down the mind.”
- Publius Vergilius Maro (70BC – 19AD)
“At its very best, the Moon is a card genius, of mental breakthroughs, astonishing creativity, powerful magic, and intuition. At its darkest, well, this can be a very scary card.”
- Anonymous Tarot Wisdom
“Ah, she will be especially beautiful and desirable tonight, perhaps even more magnetic, irresistible, overpowering than ever. But don’t trust appearances. They are deceptive.”
– Baron Hellmutt von Crackerjackenfest VII (???? – ????)
“All cruelty springs from weakness.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4BC-65AD)
“Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.”
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913)
“Beauty is pure bullshit. It is as short lived as the leaves burgeoning in the spring. Once the few hot months of summer are gone, its “irresistible” grasp will fade away as fast as the taste of a cheap chewing gum in the mouth. Screw beauty! Don’t fall in love with it. Never fall in love with it. Fall in love with something else. Something better. Something more durable.”
- Baron Hellmutt von Crackerjackenfest VII
U tawkin to me, uh, u tawkin to me?
“¡A la gloria, a la gloria toreadores!
La hora es de mi luna menos cuarto.
Émulos imprudentes del lagarto,
Magnificáos el lomo de colores.
Por el arco, contra los picadores,
del cuerno, flecha, a dispararme parto.
¡A la gloria, si yo antes no os ancoro,
-golfo de arena-, en mis bigotes de oro!”
- Miguel Hernández Gilabert (1910-1942)
Marina! Glad to see you’re back! (I like your front, too.) :-D
You’ve got the students basking at the marina! Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace ..the back pages were turned!
“Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.”
– Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
“When attraction and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the strongest which wins, without any exception.”
– Émile Coué de la Châtaigneraie remix (2012)
“Your reality is a time-distorted mirror. All things must change, and you with them.”
– Lady Time (46,500,000,000 BC – ????)
“Your Universe is fleeting and fragile.”
– Lord Light (???? – ????)
“Oh, and by the way, if stupidity romances your brain, feign intelligence.”
– Lord Light (???? – ????)
“Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.” – Edward H. Weston (1886-1958)
Ainsi a dit Debussy:
Eddy the brain…
..todays date is source of obtainment: “A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.” – Gore Vidal
…I no longer us words; that’s what she told me!
Ket is spoken in Siberia, a remote part of Russia north of Mongolia.
Read more at http://hotword.dictionary.com/ketlanguage/#MC1vadUwpfLqXTjC.99 …. There are only 1200 Ket left, and their language is dying out, perhaps to be
gone within a generation. http://sonofherodotus.wordpress.com/category/native-americans/
hint, hint, hint!
What? What? What?
“Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.”
- Dōgen (1200-1253)
“Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.”
- Αἴσωπος (620-564BC)
A spirit rules his domain.
Your own arrogance can get you killed. Learn modesty. Do not despise the weak and the wicked for not being capable to grasp what you can see clearly with no effort.
“For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.”
– Warren De La Rue (1815-1889)
“Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.”
- Arnold Glasgow (1905-1998)
“Although it hath pleased God to hasten my death by you, by whom my life should rather have been lengthened, yet can I patiently take it, that I yield God more hearty thanks for shortening my woeful days.” - Lady Jane Grey (1536/37 – 1554)
“El toro sabe al fin de la corrida,
donde prueba su chorro repentino,
que el sabor de la muerte es el de un vino
que el equilibrio impide de la vida.”
- Miguel Hernández Gilabert (1910-1942)
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
–William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
“To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC)
“We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves.”
– Romans 15:1
“Whoever has witnessed another’s ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.”
– Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Do not covet that which you were not born to grasp, or you will be destroyed by it.
Be where? Words of
Advice For Young People
Another sketch.
i can’t even pronounce hippopotamus correctly.
homework: 太郎 (tarou) its a very common name for a japanese guy and a dog. sounds cool!
Simple:
ヒポポトムス !
thank you. i had worked at a sewing company for more than 10 years and officially quit it last month. i m a florist now. i m happy to be surrounded by many different kinds of flowers every day. mother’s day is just around the corner. so i m gonna be busier. but its fine.
as for the lesson, the animal is called かば in japanese. its pretty easy. what are the 1st and 2nd biggest animal, then? whales and giraffe?
please tell your daughter i said “こんにちわ。日本語の勉強 頑張って！”
頑張って！is a very useful word when wishing someone luck or encourage someone to do something. that can’t be translated into english directly.
Whale is the biggest, giraffe the tallest, but by weight, the first two biggest LAND mammals are elephant and rhinoceros.
Flowers! Skagit tulips and daffodils — with Bekku-yama (Mount Baker) on the skyline.
おはよう仁さん
My daughter replied as follows:
(“Ikanisu Shikari” is her internet name. I don’t know if it means anything in Japanese.)
ohhhhhhh thank you for your cute reply, Ikanisu Shikari! your japanese is very good. No mistakes! i totally understand it and i know you have studied the language hard. and you don’t have to apologize even if your japanese is wrong. because apologizing is a role of japanese people. not of American!! haha. if you have any questions about the japanese language, please ask me through your father since i must try to avoid “parental advisory” as a reserved japanese guy.
わたしは、はなや(a flower shop) で はたらいて います。はな は すき ですか？
いま、にほん は よる の 11じ です。もう ね ます。 おやすみなさい。
both of you are interested in another language. good family! Evanさん。
おはよう仁さん
I did send your reply to my daughter but have not heard from her. She is what we call “flighty,” always going from one interest to the next. (Three days ago, she and two friends did a prank in a local restaurant by ordering in Japanese and video-recording the waitress’s reaction.) I am sure she liked your comment, though.
Best wishes
Evan
Homework:
Dog name: Eirlys (AIR-liss) — Welsh for “snowflake.”
Well, hey, it’s prettier than “khlopya snega.”
Although “Snezhinka” isn’t all that bad.
Word request: [fanny]
British question: Why do Murricans say “fanny” when they mean “bum”?
It’s indecent to you because fanny means something different to you. If it meant shoe polish, you probably wouldn’t have any problems with it. True, the American use is different from everywhere else, which can lead to difficulties.
Word request: [Tillicum]
Back when I was doing business as Tillicum Books, somebody from the Midwest wrote and asked if I published pornography. I decided to change my company name.
Apparently the name is unknown outside BC, Washington, and Oregon.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch!
BTW, that’s a comment on the lesson, not a proposed name for the dog.
I think, that could be use(Llanfairpwllgwyngyll), as a name for the dog. Super
Furry Animals-Blerwytirhwng? I never liked being called; ‘late for dinner’!
Ble rwyt ti rhwng = where are you between?
Another sketch.
Cute.
Dear Marina, I’m thrilled and happy to see another video from you. Sorry to hear you’re not feeling well. If it’s something that can be cured by me hugging you, of course, I’d like to hug you. For another word request, how about [Bear Hug]. I wonder how this is different from an ordinary hug? I hope the new puppy gives both you and Gorby much new happiness. You could name him “Gorby Dva.” Or just “Dva”, for short. Happiness and hugs, SeesixCM6
The not feeling well thing is just a literary device for bringing up all those medical-sounding big words.
“Time is short. Use it wisely.”
- Lady Time (46,500,000,000 BC – ????)
“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.”
- Ἀριστοτέλης (384-322BC)
“Anger cannot be dishonest.”
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (121-180)
“You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.”
- Napoleone Buonaparte (1769-1821)
Loren Eiseley said that if humans became extinct, squirrels would evolve to fill our niche.
Hessian fabric is often used as smoker fuel in hive-tending because of its
generous smoke content and ease of ignition. sourced: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessian_(cloth) for the hippos…. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-dakota-native-american.htm
And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. — Marcus Aurelius
Let each of your acts be your last battle on earth. Only under those conditions will your acts have their rightful power. — Don Juan Matus (quoted by Carlos Castaneda)
I still say Hippocrates is what zoos use to ship river horses.
I forced myself to look at the [dead] bird. Everything alive would one day be as still as
that bird?
“Why?” I asked.
“That’s the way the Ribbono Shel Olom made His world, Asher.”
“Why?”
“So life would be precious, Asher. Something that is yours forever is never
precious.”
– Chaim Potok, 1929-2002
“To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Han!
OK, this guy DOES look Chinese!
I hope the words: GET WELL helps you! …name your new puppy: MACK.
“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”
- Salvador Domènec Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquis de Púbol (1904-1989)