사실 Marina는 러시아 이민 1세대라 발음에 러시아 엑센트가 들어 있습니다. 처음엔 옷을 홀라당 벗고 앉아 있는 폼새가 유튜브에 흔히 있는 야시시한 동영상인줄 알았는데 알고 보니 상당히 인터넷에서 유명한 어원 연구가 (Etymologist) 이더군요. 마리나의 채널 (http://www.youtube.com/user/hotforwords)을 subscribe한 사람이 2500만명 이라니 대단 하지요? 미국 폭스채널의 O'Reilly Factor에 여러번 출연했고 학부 학위가 두개나 되는 똑똑한 재원입니다.
몇몇 그녀의 동영상을 들어 보고 내린 결론이 그녀의 어원과 어근에 대한 지식이 대단하고 대부분의 표현들을 일상생활에서 유용하게 쓸수 있는 단어들이란 생각에서 올려 봅니다.
Now~ Welcome back to the show.
Hello my students, last Friday when I was waiting to start my show on Sirius Maxim radio, I was listening to Howard Stern in the waiting room. And I heard Howard say two things that got me thinking. The first thing was as he was giving a web address. He kept saying back slash as in www.website.com\contest\signup, and I visualized the slashes and realized that they are not back slashers, they are “forward slashes (/)”… so someone please inform Mr. Stern. The second thing was that he was reading a letter from a listener in the letter the listener said that he “could care less” about something. And that I realized the person really didn’t care about the thing, but when I started to think about whether the person was really saying … hum.. HotForWords decided to investigate…
The expression “I could care less” was actually originally “I couldn’t care less” and literally means it’s impossible for me to less care or concern for the matter as I have none at all. You can’t have less than zero concern for something. For the first recorded use of the phrase come from around the 1940s, and about 20 years later is when people start messing up the phrase. So the proper expression is “I couldn’t care less.” If you say “I could care less”, then you are saying you are actually do care a bit about it, perhaps just a secret way of saying that you care about something when trying to appear in different.
There you go, another mystery solved by tour trustee, HotForWords. For your homework, have you ever used expression “I couldn’t care less” and if so what were you describing when you use that?
몇몇 그녀의 동영상을 들어 보고 내린 결론이 그녀의 어원과 어근에 대한 지식이 대단하고 대부분의 표현들을 일상생활에서 유용하게 쓸수 있는 단어들이란 생각에서 올려 봅니다.
Now~ Welcome back to the show.
Hello my students, last Friday when I was waiting to start my show on Sirius Maxim radio, I was listening to Howard Stern in the waiting room. And I heard Howard say two things that got me thinking. The first thing was as he was giving a web address. He kept saying back slash as in www.website.com\contest\signup, and I visualized the slashes and realized that they are not back slashers, they are “forward slashes (/)”… so someone please inform Mr. Stern. The second thing was that he was reading a letter from a listener in the letter the listener said that he “could care less” about something. And that I realized the person really didn’t care about the thing, but when I started to think about whether the person was really saying … hum.. HotForWords decided to investigate…
The expression “I could care less” was actually originally “I couldn’t care less” and literally means it’s impossible for me to less care or concern for the matter as I have none at all. You can’t have less than zero concern for something. For the first recorded use of the phrase come from around the 1940s, and about 20 years later is when people start messing up the phrase. So the proper expression is “I couldn’t care less.” If you say “I could care less”, then you are saying you are actually do care a bit about it, perhaps just a secret way of saying that you care about something when trying to appear in different.
There you go, another mystery solved by tour trustee, HotForWords. For your homework, have you ever used expression “I couldn’t care less” and if so what were you describing when you use that?