Barbarian
You bar bar bar barian you!
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Posted on April 16, 2008 · Filed Under Lessons
You bar bar bar barian you!
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Hm, I belive that all the northern civilizations got called barbarians, one I´m nearly sure of were the (Goten, Gutonen, Gotonen,… gotisch: gutans ) some of their names.
I believe they called them Barbarians because they lived in the forest and were dirty all the time, but I could not find any evidence yet.
A other cililization are the (Vandalen, Wnadalen, Vandali, Vandili, Vanduli), what normaly means something like (blind) love to destroy (sort of—fanatics
) but don´t ask me,….teacher, teacher please give me an answer 
Another great hair day Marina, and a great eye day too–Ils sont étincelants !
Sorry for commenting only now. I have been busy and am only now catching up with all your videos.
Don’t know if somebody already mentioned this (I didn’t check ALL the posts), but here goes:
The Romans called the people in Northern Africa (what is today Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria) Barbarians I think, and that is why they are called Berbers today.
Byebye, and keep up the good work.
Oh boy, just checked the comments, some people came up with Berber, too. Oh well.
I’d guess Savage!!!
I would have to guess barbarous..
…. is it gauls? they came back to destroy roma?
So, looks like Russians teach americans american language… kinda crazy, but it’s fun - this is The Way We Are
Hey, I don’t know what the word the Romans used was, but i believe that it meant hairy. because the Romans cut their hair and were clean shaven while those they called barbarians usually did neither.
My Barber is a barbarian!
Barbarian
The Philistine’s Voulgarian-boor-disaproving
savage-brute-ruffian-boor-thug-beast
Hi Marina
Hmm… this is a tough extra credit to earn…. seem like there is so many things derived from this word. O.K. i’ll go with a general generic answer and say the romans considered anyone not Graeco-Roman to be barbarians. Also i believe this is also the word Barber was derived from.
I like your animals in the screen. I once cut out a pic of a camel and glued it to my TV screen. Some people noticed and some didn’t. They would say, is that a camel, yes it is camel TV
I’d like to request the phrase “State of the art.”
There are ads on the website???
To me - it’s just like commercials on the telly - NEXT and ignore!
Commercial?
re: barbarian - extra credit
My word guess - barber
The story I’ve read or heard was that the Romans originated the word barbarian based on the Latin word barba for beard. And barbarians were people that had beards. Which would mean that Roman soldiers were clean shaven or beardless. (Another on-line source backs your Greek story for the word barbarian.)
Well, you’r the philologist
French!
What about the phrase “hang out”
Dear Marina- I want to apologize to you and to every other member here for the comments I had written earlier today concerning a particular person’s comments that were political in nature and included threats towards you and your HotForWords website. It was and is NOT MY PLACE to say the things I that I did today. Please forgive me for my outburst and the wasted bandwidth that I took up on your respone page today on this subject. I should have known better and I am very sorry if it caused you any problems. Please keep the comment section because there are some really great people who participate here and it would be ashame to take away this open forum that you have provided to all of us. Again I am sorry for my actions in responding to this person earlier
Sincerely,
nlsnafia2008
OOPS.not every other member, I apologize to everyone here for responding to that person and for possibly ruining the forum that you have provided to your students .
DO they all load? I came to reply to a reply and My original doesn’t show
Ok, I voted “get rid of paged comments” however that’s not really my preference, it’s just the best of the options!
What I would prefer is….
Page 1 of 7 1 2 3 4 5 >> … Last >> Show All
So, what happened to the iTunes podcasts? iTunes decide they didn’t like your poll results on curse words?
Here’s one - “uncouth”. Can one choose differently and be “couth”? And it originally meant ‘unknown” and “mysterious” but now usually means “rude”. How did that happen?
I would LOVE to know where the word ” sexy” comes from!
PLEASE PICK ME!!!!
Where does the word “hypochondriac” come from?
I know the translation of hypo and chondriac, but it doesnt fit the meaning.
Hope to se you soon
Martin
It’s Greek. Hypo = under, chondria = cartilage. The feeling of sickness was under the ribcage, in the upper abdomen.
i would like to knoe where the word resume came from. It is pronounced Rezumay.
knoe….. Know, sry i type fast
Résumé is French, obviously. It’s a word meaning “have summarized”.
Hi Marina!!! I saw your show the other night with Bill Oreilly, Thought it was great. I also sent a E-mail to The Factor to request that they have you on much like they’re Body Language segment. I wish you much luck with that and all your endeavors. I have a simple word request. I’d like to know the origin of the word ” PERFECT” and how it is corrolated with ” FINEST” or ” ABSOLUTE”. Thank you Marina.
I would like to know the etymology of the word “finicky”, please. Does it have anything to do with the Finns? (Or possibly the Gills?)
The story I heard was that to the Greeks the speech of foreigners sounded like sheep crying “Baaah, baaaah, baaah”. Hence the name “Baaah-barian.
Dear HotForWords,
Could you investigate the origin of word “popeye”? It’s something with “pop” and “eye”?
Thank you.
Best regards.
S0LTYS
can u tell the origin of the word “drunk” please.
Got a word suggestion that I think everyone will like . . . bet it has an interesting history as well.
callipygian
Great word! Yes, do that one!
Tarradiddle
Quiz
love your videos - keep it up :o)
I would like you to do the words Horny and Whore a friend of mine wants to know it Plz.
Word Request:
I want to become a member of the ‘jet set’ but I’m not sure about the origins of this.
I like barbarella
oooh shes hot too.
I would like to know a word, Roshen, what does it originated and what does it mean.
Thank you.
Dear Marina,
What is going on with your iTUNES page? It has been cleared of all podcasts. The page does not list any of your lessons!!
Please look into it. Thanks.
BoArgMir
Hi, I am curious about the word pair… or pear… or pare…
a pair is two… but repair is not two again?
A pear is a fruit but only one?
To pare is to decrease… from two?
A parish has nothing to do with a pear…
If you have two pears and pare the pair, you will have one pear, but not one pair…
I won’t talk about pairs that look like pears, that should be paired but not pared…. perish the thought, but don’t have the thought about the pair in a parish…
You are very nice…
More word requests
1.Brainstorm
2.Scapegoat
THANX MARINA!!
Dear HotForWords,
Could you please explain the origin of the expression “TONGUE IN CHEEK”, as in jokingly not meaning what you are saying?
Thank you!
Backinbowl
Dear Marina-
I would like to know that origins of the word ‘ Latitude’ and how it came to have so many different meanings or definitions please? Thank you for your time and efforts with all of these lessons that you put together and record for your HotForWords web site. This is one of the most useful sites on the web in my opinion, Best wishes to you
nlsmafia2008
What is the origin of the word restroom? Is it simply a room to rest in?
“Comprise” may be the most often misused word in American English. I think I’ve heard even O’Reilly use it incorrectly. Please give us the correct definition of “comprise”.
Request a word/phrase:
What is the origin of the phrase,
“cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey”?
Accepting the possibility that my collegiate dictionaries may be out of date–the newest was purchased in 1989–I am appalled with the pronunciation of “pedophile” by newscasters; even by Bill O’Reilly. I find his use of English to be quite proper, much like that of a good school teacher.
My Greek studies as well as general usage of “ped” as in pedal in contrast with pediatrician suggests strongly the pedophile should begin with the same first syllable as pediatrician and end with a “phil” as in Philadelphia. Pedophile as used by TV personalities suggests a “foot lover” to me.
By the way, I enjoyed your dialogue on “The Factor.”
My words or phrase is ….erotic dream or hot dream..
Sorry for my bad english, pretty girl
erotic origin [Greek erōtikos, from erōs, erōt-, sexual love.] See Eros
Eros related links:
http://www.enjoy.org/hstech/webclass04/thinkquest0 4/mythology/Images/Erica/CupidStatue.jpg - statue of Eros/Cupid
http://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/Eros.html - website Eors/Cupid
erotic dream an erotic would be of a sexual subject.
* footnote Freud on dreams - . . . the dream, if understood correctly, could lead to a greater understanding of the dreamer’s subconscious. Source - http://www.insomnium.co.uk/text/freud.htm
hot dream a hot dream should also be of a sexual subject. Probably from the expression hot and steamy. I doubt that the hot dream concerns running through a tropical and humid jungle or being in in a steam room. (Though a hot steam room dream could possibly be erotic.
Hailsa:
This was my favorite word when I was a kid: brouhaha
I lived to find a chance to use it. What’s all this brouhaha? Brouhaha? Ha! Ha! Ha! Is that where it comes people laughing at another people for being loud, confused, and out of control? Or bewing up laughs. Brew some ha has.
Wyatt
Having the honking OUTSIDE is much better than it being inside. Maybe someone knows where you live/record and hopes you’ll come to the window and blow a kiss!
Hi Marina,
About the animals - I like how you add new ones when they have something to do with the video. They are cool and comical.
I think you should take your camera out-and-about sometimes, when appropriate for the theme of your video. Like, for the barbarian video, you could have spiced up the video with a clip of yourself dressed as a barbarian queen (http://surbrook.devermore.net:16080/superpics/fan tasy/barbarianqueen.jpg)
somewhere.
Or, the term pedigree could have incorporated a scene at a zoo or something.
Just an idea - but I think it would be fun if you incorporated different settings into your videos. That might make it harder to make them at first, but I bet you could get the equipment to allow you to tape some stuff off-site very easily. I think the more effects and surprises you put in the videos the better.
Thanks for all your videos, and once again don’t let anybody push you around!
Love,
Eric
What is the origin of “Goodie two shoes”?
I would like to know where the word Bastus come from, and what it means. I’ve been using this nick always, without really knowing what it is ^.^
As far as I know it’s spanish?
I would like you to do the words Horny and Whore a friend of mine wants to know it.
BAR BAR BAR BABUSHKA!!!
cool video’s. i like how i can learn from this site plus it’s nice how the teacher is hot! i was wondering could u teach me about the heartbeat and how it makes those sounds and if we could hear yours as an example, where the word comes from and why it is a symbol of love…
Hello Marina,
First of all, Congratulations for your website and Youtube channel, I’ve discovered your lessons just some weeks ago, but I already have seen most of them. You’re by far the best teacher someone could really want. You’re also a very beautiful lady. And I agree with you intelligence is sexy.
Like you, I am not from an English-language country, since here in Brazil we speak Portuguese. I’ve learned English all but on my own, as teachers I had only music, movies, the schoolbooks, other people who speaks English and some British, American or Canadian exchange students who came here to the university I’ve graduated. Though English obligatory is a subject to all high schools here in Brazil, these classes never reach so far from “The book is on the table”, this is why I can say that I learned more from my teachers and friends outside school than in the all 5 years of high school. So forgive my mistakes and unfair use of English grammar.
But let’s get to the subject, the words I wanted to know their meaning, the words were quite simple, one is my name, Nicholas, I just know that it came from Greek. And the other word is Realize, though realize have some direct translations to Portuguese, their use are far different from English, and sometimes I wonder that the meaning of the English word and the Portuguese correlatives were slightly different, just a little, but enough to make this word sounds poetic in English.
I know that the words aren’t that beautiful, but maybe because Portuguese is probably just the most complex occidental grammar sometimes it’s difficult to make simple poetry and rhymes like I’m used to see in English, I’ve always wondered when I compare Shakespeare and Luiz Camões, they were the top poets of English and Portuguese Classicism, who is the greater genius, but it would be an unfair play to try to compare their skills because of the difference of the subtleties of the Two Grammars. But in the end it has a lot to be with the fact that English language has a simplicity, almost an ingenuity, of its own, Portuguese language has a bent towards passionate and epic poetry.
If I may suggest a word for you to study, I wanted you to take a look in a Portuguese word called “Saudade”, I’m not sure if this word have a direct translation to English, a friend of mine who is from England says that there’s no direct translation, he made the travel around the world two time by bike and he said that he had to come here to Brazil to find a word who describes precisely what he feeling during this trip.
Sincerely, my best wishes,
Nicholas
PS: I hate that guys at Youtube that treat beautiful women like if they were all a bunch of sluts or some kind of porn stars. They were all a horde of ill-bred barbarians who don’t know how to treat a beautiful lady, though we have some of their kind here in Brazil, we are far more gentlemanlike than those uncivilized fools.
Nicholas,
Your English is quite understandable. I wish I could communicate half as well as you do in the French and/or German languages I studied while I was in school. Very good.
And, you’re not alone in wishing that some guys would stop being such poor examples of male humans.
I wish I understood Portuguese because I’m curious about how emotions are expressed in the words of Brazilian music. I find it very enjoyable to listen to the sound of lyrics being sung in your native language. Very poetic, indeed. I try to imitate some of the classic songs from the 1950s and 1960s on my guitar, but my renditions pale by comparison to the real artists.
The chord structures and melodies in many Brazilian songs are incredibly unique and inspiring! You are lucky to live there, in my opinion.
Hello pennsyltucky9,
Thanks for your appraisal of my English. What can I say is that if you try hard with French and German you’ll get what you want, as a suggestion I can say that it’s easier when you start reading books in these languages, it’s how I started to really improve in English and Spanish, of course I know the basics before I started reading books, but it was just after reading I really started to go ahead. At the beginning it was hard, because I had to read with a dictionary by my side, sometimes even a grammar, but after half a dozen books you’ll start to read more freely without them, music and movies in the language, without subtleties, are quite interesting too. I’m starting with Japanese and Italian now, and it’s working well this way, though I often need lessons from a Japanese friend to better understand the 3 Japanese alphabets, but it’s working, slowly but working.
I also play guitar, and I think I understand your feelings, specially because to understand British and American songs where my main motivation to start to improve my English, I really whish to understand that words because their sounds are, to me, like translations of my feelings. So I think that you’ll find out that Portuguese is at the same time a very complex language and a very simple one, unlike English that a good portion of the words are expressions of very complex things, things that in English would be expressed by a sentence or several sentences. If you really wanted some help or insight about Portuguese Language, I could help you a little, not like Marina who is a professional teacher, but as someone who has born in a country who speaks that language, just send me an e-mail to nicholasveloso@gmail.com.
About the Brazilian Music, what can I say is that though I have a Blues-Rock band with some friends (nothing professional, just a bunch of friends who like to play at the weekends to throw through the window the stress of day-to-day work), I’m also a great fan of our music, it’s indeed very beautiful and its complexity comes not from study but by the natural mix of persons that comes from all around the world to settle here Brazil.
Since you said about 50’s and 60’s songs, I think you mean mainly Bossa Nova, Brazilian music is far broader than that, but it’s really the main genre of that time, and still have a huge influence of our music even now. Bossa Nova is a mix of Jazz and Samba, all the harmonic structure of Bossa, and thus of most of our music comes both from American Jazz, specially Bebop and Cool Jazz, or from European Classic Music, since the beginning of the Brazilian Music as a different thing from somewhere else, comes from some Erudite Musicians who started to experience the sound of the songs from Africa and the music of our Indians with the songs of Europe and latter from USA. So if you play Jazz you’ll have the basics of our harmonic thinking, the tricky part comes from Rhythm, since our rhythms were have a colossal influence African and Brazilian Indians patterns, always mixed with patterns from all around the world, but after you pick up the basics you’ll start to improve faster. The tricky part is melody, at least to me and to some of the musicians from abroad that I’ve met, specially because for a very long time, Brazilian Music have no tradition in instrumental music by itself, so our songs where usually created to be sang without a band, of course the structure of the language have a great weight in this behavior, since the instrument have to not only simulate our phonetic patterns but also compliment it with harmony, rhythm and a melody of its own.
I know that it seems complex but by the time you get used with the language it start to be too obvious, just see musicians like Stan Getz, Diana Krall, Nick Colionni or John Pizzarelli, they can perform Brazilian music as best as most of our best musicians, but they also had to understand that our music is not dictated by our instruments or by a music sheet, but by the way we talk, mostly because the same musicians who created most of our music, specially Bossa Nova, have no real formal training, most of them never learned to read a music sheet, it was something that came from instinct and practical use not from formal knowledge and fore thinking. Like a friend of mine used to say, it’s something that comes through passion, not through reason.
But also we can discuss it by e-mail, since it’s not the real purpose of Marina’s boards.
So if we may exceeded with off topic discussion, I ask Marina and the other users to forgive us.
While we’re still at the wonderful topic of barbarians, let me bring up the ancient german tale of: Rhabarberbarbara!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POjTfSF-Qmk
If you can recite that tale in the same speed, you know you’ve mastered the german language
Oh yes Marina, the origin of RACQUETS if you can find the time.
Thank you, Rick.
Who is pennsyltucky9 and why is he horning in on so many comments? Is he Mr. please give me a slight opening and I’ll rip somebody?
Sorry.
Marina:
My beautiful teacher! The word Barber is the one you were looking for from my homework. I left you an apple the other day….sorry about the worm.
Bill
I was hoping you could give me an unusal word that means “incompetent”. This would really be useful at work, the POST OFFICE. hahaha
Would that be the Royal Mail in England as it took a letter I posted, a month to travel 30 miles from Reading to the National Portrait Gallery in London
Didn’t the Romans refer to the Celtic people North of Hadrians wall (later known as Scotland) as Barbarians?
I wonder when the next 3 theories game is going to be
Hello Marina I am curious as too how organized crime came too be known as the racquets? Thank you!
That’s RACKETS, as in racketeering. But not like the kind of earrings you wear on your tennis racquets. Those are different.
Well excuse me Mr. know it all sorry if I mis-spelled a word. Who do I pay my fine too? I wasn’t asking you anyway.
I’ve found that correcting someone’s spelling seems to have overtaken criticism of religion as about the most offensive thing you can do to someone. It has to be done with great care, and with lots of preliminaries and predicate statements demonstrating your good faith and lack of any negative implication about the person’s intelligence. In general, spelling corrections should be avoided at all costs.
Remember the old saying that you should never discuss religion and politics? Well, the new one is never discuss religion, politics, or someone’s spelling.
Role-modeling is the best way to improve spelling.
Consider that misspelling is one way in which written language evolves, often to the dismay of folks that feel like their moment in history is the moment by which others ought to be measured.
Oh, I forgot to reply specifically to Reger7.
You can feel free to pay your fine to me.
I can always use a buck.
ПРИВЕТ!!ОЧЕНЬ прикольные уроки!!С такой учительнице как ты,английский еще приятней!!
GREETINGS!! Very much прикольные(dont know this word) lessons!! With such a teacher as you, English has become even more pleasant!!
sorry bad translation! my friends don’t like to teach me russian.
Hello Marina, where does the word “LISP” come from? Really makes no sense for people who can not pronounce the “S” in their vocabulary to be forced to say they have a LISP. How would they say it? I have a LITHP? The originator must of been some evil little man
have a wonderful week
http://www.youtube.com/rcortez911
Just a thought … does “barbed wire” come from the same origin..??
What the romans made of I just don´t know .. but who would dare go to Barbados!?!?
thanks for the lesson my dear teacher .. I kind of like your blueeyed days.
By the way, in Sweden we say that “you are blueeyed” meaning that you are naive .. is english using the same expresion?
from your dear student / Swedehunter
hey teacher
i’d like to know the meaning and history on the expression “no cigar” or “close, but no cigar” i’ve been wondering this for a while now… thanks, A.J
barb
barba -ae f. [beard]; ‘promittere barbam’ , [to let the beard grow].
barbaria -ae f. [a foreign country] , as opposed to Greece and Rome; [want of culture, rudeness, savagery].
barbaricus -a -um [foreign] , i.e., not Greek or Roman.
barbaries -ei f. [a foreign country] , as opposed to Greece and Rome; [want of culture, rudeness, savagery].
barbarus -a -um [foreign , strange; uncultivated, rough, savage]; as subst., [a foreigner]. Adv. barbare, [like a foreigner; roughly, barbarously].
barbatulus -a -um [with a slight beard].
barbatus -a -um [bearded].
barbiger -gera -gerum [wearing a beard].
barbitos m. and f. [a lyre].
barbula -ae f. [a little beard].
http://www.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?stem= barb&ending=
The barb is something sharp is it not, like a hair on the face? And why is shaving considered to be more civilized, a way of differentiating yourself from the unshaven barbarians. And then there is the very strange Barbie doll whose head is much too small for its body length. Of course, Barbie is short for Barbara, which means strange. I have a friend named Barbara and she says it means strange.
A barbarian is a stranger, non Greek or Roman. Barbie is also definitely a barbarian as she is too tall, has blonde hair, and is too fair of complexion. My daughter hated Barbies and regifted them as did most of her friends. There were too many of them in circulation for a while. Now there are much better dolls. It is best to give a child dolls of many different races and ethnicities…barbarian as well as others. This way they do not develop negative stereotypes or identify either positively or negatively with a particular cultural image.
Also, I just read that Barrack Obama’s mother was an anthropologist and gave her daughter many different kinds of dolls too! So diversity is good for bringing up a child to be open minded. She also thought less in terms of ideology and more in purely human terms, something she imparted to her son…
BTW one of the things you will see on any place people can post something, besides crudity and the f-word, is ideological intolerance…the best thing to do for that is to ignore all that….If you want to go way back to Karl Marx, ideology was something to critique rather than to reify, to identify with. People are mostly unaware of the real origins of their own ideological biases. They often make the mistake of latching on to the opposite of what irks or seems to oppress them, and so they take on the same faulty mannerisms and unpleasantness. They attach to a particular mindset. Today we should be wiser to live in a post ideological world, which would have to be a much more tolerant and pleasant place, like hotforwords.com.
Marina,
How about explaining the origins of ‘Chaos’ given its the predominant state of the world we live in.
hey marina,
I think your show is awsome and i was wondering where the term “frankly” comes from as in “frankly my dear”
thanks for the great videos
keep up the good work
How about the word….
Death Metal 
…..
Uh…that’s two words, dude. Rock on and stuff, I guess.
really? that depends on which definition of “word” you use. I guess your approach is the “naive” (not judging here) one, saying that a word is something between two spaces. that’d be the orthographical definition.
however, “death metal” is a compound word. consider the syntactical, morphological, and phonological definitions of “word”.
Can you explain the origin of Pec Bounce? And how the muscles in the pectorials can retract to move the breast!!!
I would, of course Marina, watch any lesson you post, but I’m really curious where the phrase “knock yourself out” came from and how it was originally used. Thanks for a great podcast!
–iRocky
Hello my beautiful beautiful princess Marina @->-
why is not IMPRESSIVE to be IMORAL
but it is to be 
IMPORTANT
Thanks
Barry164
Would be helpful with all this politics in the USA
Communism
Capitalism
Fascism
Socialism
Liberalism
Conservatism
Just take a political science class. Don’t make us all review all these terms right here. It’s WAY tedious! Ask anyone (except errinf).
lol - errinf would be able to give us a good recitation of the etymology of “fascism” I’m sure…..
pennsyltucky, prospero, (Billy, Bob, others I’ve missed too!)
from different participants would make a point clearly and promote solidarity.
I’m new to the site, so I thought I’d say howdy!
Love the comments, though the threatener (I’d rather not give even his pseudonym more exposure.) seems to have exposed a dark militance.
Don’t get me wrong; there’s a place for that. I just hate to see that he so effectively got under our skins.
Anyway, you’re great humorists and wordsmiths. (Thank you.)
As galling as the situation was, we could have channeled our energy into laughing at it.
Maybe next time we feel like somebody invaded our fun community, we could respond just enough to show contempt and discount the offense with a single emoticon?
Let me know what you think. I mean, it’s no “size 12 buttplug,” but a series of
I’m probably not taking my own advice very well.
Okay. “Howdy!” Hope you all have good days!
(BTW, not sure how big that is, but it sounds painful.)
turtlewax - he pissed me off. I can’t stand people who stand on their right to free speech for the purpose of trampling on someone else. I also hate it when people are so self-righteous (politically, religiously, whatever) that they can’t abide differing opinions. Even if Marina was a died-in-the-wool Republican, that should in no way offend anyone. People like errinf act as if everyone must agree with them or be attacked. It’s evidence of a small mind.
Plus, I dislike it when such a person gets a result and/or is catered to. I wanted to cast my lot in with Marina and voice some support for her giving this guy a rhetorical middle finger in the face rather than try to accommodate his wishes. The threat itself warrants errinf getting smacked down hard. Even if Marina truly wants to eliminate all political ads, there is a higher principle that you don’t bow to jack-booted thugs of which errinf is one.
“if you’re in favor of freedom of speech, that means you’re in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise. otherwise you’re not in favor of freedom of speech.”
noam chomsky.
aLx - precisely. Nice quote.
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear; and there is damnation in the things that wicked men love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and malarial regions, which waft away the elements of disease, and bring new elements of health. And where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
- Henry Ward Beecher
hi marina!!!
i love your show so much. it teaches me so much. i’m only a 10th grader and i’ve learned oodles from your show.
anywhoo. your trusty student would like to know where the phrase “the cat is out of the bag” originated from. and why is it a cat? why not a dog or leopard, perhaps even a leprachaun? haha. i would so totally appreciate it if you would show this on your next video :].
and lastly i wanted to add you have such great taste in music. did you make it all yourself? :O.
for example the ending to ur videos shown at the end of every iTunes podcast. like this video.
your trusty student
-mineralxd
(minar mustafiz)
My Requested Word is: “Prototype’ as in “3D Rapid Prototype”
I know based on my user name this may not sound very original, but I think it would be very cool to see what you find out.
I have been enjoying your lessons for about a year now, and this is my first word request.
Thank you for your informative videos…..and oh by the way I think I am in love with you {;-)
Hello Marina.
I would like to know the origin if the phrase “Catch-22″
Thanks.
I think that’s Bob’s bailiwick. But it’s from the book of the same title.
Ha!
The only catch I’m interested in is Marina.
Bob…. is she a catch? Or a dish?
Definitely dishy, but that’s not what makes her a catch, for the most interesting thing about a woman is not what lies between her legs, or anteriorly between her armpits nor anywhere else between her neck and her knees; what makes women fascinating is her mystery and that is found between her ears - why else would some men marry women who are frankly ugly?
What makes Marina a catch is her intelligence and her personality.
Hi Marina!
I have a word request, and I am gambling on the small probability of getting it answered:
Bamboozle
One of your millions of fans,
-MrBosnia, (a fellow university student studying English and literature)
Hey Marina,
Check out this site http://www.freerice.com/ Test your word knowledge and feed the hungry! If everyone here who likes to show off their vocabulary (including me) plays the game lots of people could be fed. Here is some background on the site from the site.
About FreeRice
FreeRice is a sister site of the world poverty site, Poverty.com.
FreeRice has two goals:
Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free.
Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.
This is made possible by the sponsors who advertise on this site.
Whether you are CEO of a large corporation or a street child in a poor country, improving your vocabulary can improve your life. It is a great investment in yourself.
Perhaps even greater is the investment your donated rice makes in hungry human beings, enabling them to function and be productive. Somewhere in the world, a person is eating rice that you helped provide. Thank you.
OK I’m done with my public service announcement.
My best level was 41 and I donated 2060 grains of rice so far. Which ain’t chicken feed! Well it could be, but its for feeding hungry people. If you play remember to go to the options menu so you can keep track of how much rice you have donated.
That’s cool. I like it.
Hey Marina,
я тебя люблю!
lol one of the few I learned… the word that makes me laugh sometimes is “slaughter” just because you can’t spell it without the word laughter. so where did this word come from? why does this word contain something that is a good thing? 
Hey Marina,
I was wondering about the origin of the word “flier” to describe a handbill or pamphlet.
Keep on doin’ what you’re doin’!
Where did BOOTYLICIOUS come from ?????
Marina,,,,Loveeeeee,,,,,HotForWords,,,,,,Simply,,, ,,Tantaslizing,Titalating, and Facsinating,,,,,,,,,Love It Man,,,,,,,,,:)
Hello Teacher,
First off, you are very ATTRACTIVE. I had to get the out. Now I have a word request and I’ve been wanting you to investigate it. While I was daydreaming about you the word “Love” popped in my head and I wanted to learn more about it. So please Marina would you find more about the word “Love”, which is what I have for you.
. Thank you so much. Bye
rshizzle3000
Marina,
can you please tell me how the word “Buddy” became another word for Friend?
Thank you,
-Keeep Out
P.S. great videos
Why are there, “John McCain for President” ads on your web site?
I’m no expert but I think ads on the internet are dynamic. Some algorithm is trying link viewers to their perceived interests. Don’t be
be 
Why not?
You think there shouldn’t be ads for things you don’t like? That’s a bit solipsistic of you, isn’t it?
Good evening Marina,
I do believe an interesting word to request would be “lexicon”, as it is fitting of the HotForWords format.
It’s always a pleasure to see you & your new video’s as they always bring a smile to my face.
Spasibo!
Hi Marina,
I was reading the other day and came across the word: Phenomenological. I’ve been thinking about the word phenomenon and want to know its origins. If you could help out that would be great.
Also, there are many words that transcend language boundaries (e.g. okay). There is one word that I am curious about: Chao, Ciao, or Chau for goodbye.
Thanks,
jon
Gee, whiz. I wanna know:
Grimoire
Arpeggio
Hello Marina,
There are so many food marketing words out there today which try and make people hungry (to buy their food)! The word that makes me the most hungry is “SCRUMPTIOUS”. Where did that word come from?
Jon
Oh, here is one i say on a truck today “Noninflammable”.??? We have Flammable, meaning that it will burn. We have Inflammable, meaning it will not burn. But Noninflammable? Huh? WillWon’tWillBurn? Won’tNotBurn? WillBurn? I’m confused.
Ever Love,
Michael
Our lovely, talented, and trusty, teacher is way ahead of you: http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/10/05/inflammable- flammable/
Hi Marina,
I greatly enjoy your vids and the comments. Usually. The comment posted by - errinf - really left me feeling disturbed, emotinally and physically. So eager to attack and too much of a coward to use his real name. Possibly he is just illuminating an example of Barbarian. Or possibly Creep. Or Dork. Dweeb? How unAmerican, attacking someone over such an penny-ante issue, especially a beautiful and intelligent someone. You do a great job. Fun to watch. Great to look at. Love the accent. Please say “Moose and Squirrel” for me.
Love you,
Michael
quirky
I’d like to know about the word “disgruntled” which i believe means unhappy or angry. However I’ve never heard of anyone being “gruntled” so how can one be “disgruntled”????
I just said I was gruntled last week, right here! And I still am….
I’ve been combobulated all week.
On rough days I can be “chalant.” I’m a little bit of a neat freak so you’ll find my house usually in total “array.” Today, everyone can see me since I’m traveling “cognito.”
Color me plussed.
I want to request the word Alibi
and ask how someone is the teacher pets of the day?
greetings
Hej Martina,
thanks for sending me the link for your video in referance to hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. i have another word that i would like you to analysis.
pleonastic.
thanks alot Martina
your the best
Swedishkangaroo
Hey Marine,
Can you tell me where the word Steriotype originated and also what it means?
Love you
I love how Marina actually replies to some people
& I’d to request the word “Jabberwocky” or the word “Dude”
I think those words will be interesting to discuss .
Anyways …Keep up the good classes Miss …I will always be the first to arrive in class
Hello Marina,
I love women that wear pigtails but why such a horrible name for such a pretty hair style ?
Hey Marina.
I’m a little tired to do homework so I’ll past for today.(at least im honest) Great video like always.
Oh i have a word request since you haven’t done any words starting with “Z” can you please tell us where the word “ZODIAC” is from and it’s real meaning.
Thank You Marina.
Ps. Oh and don’t worry about the Google Adsense thing, we all know you well and you sure have more friends then enemies. We’re with you Marina.
im pretty sure that the word the romans created was barber. Of course, now it means a person who cuts hair. But in the old days when it was first invented, it described a surgeon of sorts that would perform blood letting, pull teeth, and other common surgeries.
maybe it was adapted by the more educated roman doctors to describe the less educated people performing the same procedures. Im guessing the reason for that would be that maybe those ‘barbers’ were some of their business by charging lower rates for the same procedures.
Wonderful! Wonderful! But please, what means the word, ‘ caesura’ ?
marina lt me just say you have taken teaching to a while new level!!!
i enjoy your videos very much..keep them coming!
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skullduggery. Have never seen duggery in any form that I can think of …
Dear Teacher …. found another word………….what does the word “credible” mean…………sooner or later I’ll find a word that you may answer!! LOL