Hot for words

[Roman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs-euGPE-FY

She's really popular on youtube. Wikipedia says she's the third most subscribed channel. Anyway, thought you etyophiles might get a kick out of it.

[Orleander]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs-euGPE-FY

She's really popular on youtube. Wikipedia says she's the third most subscribed channel. Anyway, thought you etyophiles might get a kick out of it.

what's an etyophile? :shrug:

[madanthonywayne]

http://odeo.com/uploads/0012/7598/serial_2102454.png?1213859377
Nice. And I learned something too!

[Orleander]

so etyophiles are tie collectors?

[Idle Mind]

What tie?

[Orleander]

What tie?

LMAO!! :roflmao:

[Idle Mind]

Etyophile appears to be a word Roman has made up to describe people who enjoy learning the origins of various words -- the study of etymology, and -phile as a suffix denotes affinity. At least, I couldn't find any other instances of the word in a quick search.

[Fraggle Rocker]

what's an etyophile?Bad coinage, splitting in half the Greek noun etymon, "the essential meaning of a word," formed from the adjective etymos, "true." It should be etymophile. :)

"Hot for Words" has been here before. We debated the nationality of her accent at some length, with no success. I'm convinced that A) it's fake, but B) she's nonetheless not an anglophone. She's overlaying a phony accent on top of her native accent, which makes it impossible to figure out. I'd guess a mixture of French and a Slavic language.

Edit: Oh wait. Since our last go-round HotForWords has acquired a Wikipedia article. Her name is Marina Orlova and she is a genuine Russian linguist, with a specialty in etymology. But I stand by my original hypothesis. No way that's a straight-up Russian accent. She's using her linguistic knowledge to spice it up with foreign phonemes.

[Roman]

Etyophile appears to be a word Roman has made up to describe people who enjoy learning the origins of various words -- the study of etymology, and -phile as a suffix denotes affinity. At least, I couldn't find any other instances of the word in a quick search.

That is correct. I made it up. Apparently, I was pretty close.
Also, she was on the O'Reilly Factor. That guy is hilariously obnoxious. It's definitely a Russian accent, but I agree, she plays it up. Sometimes I find myself qeueing (how many vowels does that require?) up a bunch of em and just listening as I do stuff on the computer. Does that make me gay?

[cosmictraveler]

Does that make me gay?

Nope , it only shows everyone how really smart you are and how incorrigible too.

[Fraggle Rocker]

Sometimes I find myself qeueing (how many vowels does that require?).You got the right number, but the wrong vowels. :) It's QUEUING. Remember, in English every Q has to be followed by a U, unless it's a word of pretty exotic origin.

[Roman]

Oh yeah. How could I forget. That's like the only consistent rule in English.
/slaps head

[John Connellan]

Oh yeah. How could I forget. That's like the only consistent rule in English.
/slaps head

Along with "i before e except after c" :)

[Roman]

Along with "i before e except after c" :)

I thick science should be a sufficient counter-example to that rule ;)


[edit]
And neighbor.

[John Connellan]

I thick science should be a sufficient counter-example to that rule ;)
[edit]
And neighbor.

yes, i should have given the unabridged version of that rule:

when the sound is ee
it's i before e
except after c

Although I'm sure you're gonna come up with some excetions to this rule too eh? ;)

[Fraggle Rocker]

I thick science should be a sufficient counter-example to that rule. And neighbor.My heirs are going to wonder when they're going to get theirs. What's your height? Me neither. That's just weird.

[oldsweat]

Competence in English spelling is a function of visual memory. We can spell well only if we can remember what the word looks like when it correctly spelled. Visual memory is independent of intellectual reasoning ability or of the ability to learn a set of rules because there are no consistent rules for English orthography whatever some teachers might tell you.

[madanthonywayne]

Exactly. I remember learning the "i before e except after c" rule in grade school and then finding a million exceptions and wondering what the hell is the point of a "rule" with so many exceptions. Might as well throw that so called "rule" out the damned window.