Barbarian
You bar bar bar barian you!
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What could I or anyone add to this…I 2nd leornard’s comments below…top of the game baby…this is what to shoot for…and keep up!!!
Back when this random lesson was fresh, I remember reading the comments. I was chicken to comment. So, I read’em again and wondered…Time makes for time, so why whine. Oh well. [Policy and police.] Freedom from want is respected phrase. you are a good soul
Barbarian, appropriate
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I have an interesting anecdote on barbarian. This is all from memory so I hope its accurate. My high school latin teacher was a retired professor of classical languages and he explained while we were learning about Julius Caesar’s conquest of Gaul that the enemy (later to be known as British) painted themselves blue and glued feathers on their bodies. When the Roman soldiers saw them they laughed and commented “bar bar” because bar meant a wild bird which is what they looked like to them. Since then I believe that the word bar has been used together with bird in some ancient languages to designate that the bird is a wild one, so perhaps it was a bit of a play on words by the Romans. Do you know of references were bar is used alone and not barbaros?
This one reminds me of the Muppet babies barbabian episode. Marina never fails to bring a smile. I love other sexy up front women like her and hotforprofits or Angelina.
I thought i heard on the history channel that barbarian origanally meant bearded men.
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 .
I don’t think you said anything bad! Not that I can see.. so don’t worry about it. We’re all having fun here
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
I’ll suggest that to the guy who made the plugin. Thanks ragabashmoon
So, what happened to the iTunes podcasts? iTunes decide they didn’t like your poll results on curse words?
They upgraded the system and I had to reupload the lessons. They should be back up there. Not all of them.. but the latest ones.
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
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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/thinkquest04/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/fantasy/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?
fishymack, the ads are automatic. I put up this thing called Google Adsence, which puts random ads on my website that I have no idea what they are.. some are for some really stupid stuff.. some are Obama, some Clinton and some McCain… I have no control over them.. but they do pay enough to pay for my website hosting
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
Some people would say I was barbarian with my mixed breeding>>>lol
There are many meanings for this word, but how did it get its meaning and origin? The word is GENERAL!
I highly suggest that this website remove any McCain ads as well as any crosspromotions with FOXnews’ programs such as Bill O’Reilly’s. You cannot claim this is an apolitical site and ask your ’students’ here to ‘put politics aside’ (to use your own words against you) if you have such ads and make such appearances. Otherwise…
My word request for our ‘trusty’ teacher is Kossack. No, not the Kossacks from Russia, but the self-given nickname of the extremely partisan leftists of DailyKos.com. They dislike McCain, they dislike Bill O’Reilly, and they also dislike me for being an ubertroll that disrupted their website. Dislike is an understatement… more like they see a right wing conspiracy under every rock, and are out for Republican blood 24/7. Ask your buddy Bill O’Reilly all about them. Ask him about the netroots. Ask him about Markos Moulitsas. Or do you not know of the enemies among the left you have already made by appearing on O’Reilly’s show? Just how ignorant of the blogosphere are you? How ignorant of the ugliness of American politics are you? Showing up on FOXnews as a blond bimbo makes you fair game for the worst kind of politics, as the rabid sheep of the left will gladly go after anybody who they think is helping Rupert Murdoch make a buck. They certainly don’t care for women who take part in using sex to sell right wing ideology, women such as Marina, as they know that such deceptive ‘advertisement’ is FOXnews’ policy and protocol.
Within a week’s time, I will be using my notoriety at DailyKos.com to inform them of this website, how it takes unsuspecting viewers off of youtube and tries to passively sell them on conservatism, whether it be voting for John McCain (his election ads are all around hotforwords.com) or watching FOXnews. The Kossacks will call foul on your website and your youtube videos, and they will most certainly brand Marina as nothing more but a sexed-up, subliminal recruiter for the right wing. A flamewar will most likely occur between DailyKos.com and HotForWords.com, as such is the nature of the blogosphere, especially when you have the misfortune of having what’s known as an ‘ubertroll’ in the mix. And that is exactly what you have in the mix, unfortunately for you. Fortunately for you, though, I will not be personally trolling this farcical site of yours, as all I need to do is share my experience here over at DailyKos.com a little next week, and the Kossacks will come here and do the rest, as there is no way Markos and his admins are going to let a popular youtube phenom be used to promote the McCain For President campaign. Trust me on that, loser. Count on HotForWords being vilified and disrupted by the Kossacks, as anything that is remotely right wing affiliated is red meat to them.
I sincerely suggest you apoliticize this website as you should never have politicized it in the first place with the McCain ads or the chumminess with the Bill O’Reilly show. As a political activist on the blogosphere, I have every right to use free speech and the power of words to go over to DailyKos.com and inform a very, very large group of extremely partisan Democrats of this website. In fact, that is exactly what I am going to do, only it is going to take a week for my new DailyKos account to be active enough on that website to put forth an article there containing my description of this site. In a week from now, HotForWords is going to receive a very unique spotlight on the largest left wing blogsite on the internet. Some rather liberal activists from that rather large website will come check out this website, and if they see a bunch of McCain ads and a FOXnews promo (let alone a Bill O’Reilly promo), they will begin taking matters into their own hands. All I have to do is get the ball rolling… and it already is. I have nothing else to say to this joke of a website or the starry-eyed loser that runs it, except for this: It is downright shameful to use philology and education as a ruse to sell herself the way this Marina character does. A truly intelligent woman would be disgusted with herself for treating her trusting student body so. What a gross neglect of your fanbase, loser.
wow. like all banner ads, you could have chosen to ignore these. this is a really negative rant on a fairly warm and fuzzy site. i sort of get your perspective, but I disagree. Unless hotforwords is contractually bound to espouse no political views on her site, then it’s a free internet. As with most content, the audience will speak with their feet (in this case, mice feet). Also, if you really get into it with her over any political cause, you’ll be feeding the PR beast more airtime than it might otherwise have.
hot4words, please don’t take my response as coming to your defense. I would not presume that you need defending. I just wish that a post like this one had come on April 1st instead.
Hopefully, my comment is constructive and neutralizing and not ironically inflammatory.
Let’s keep it about the words.
errinf, I appreciate your being a part of my website, but I am not political in ANY WAY. My website has Google ads that I have no control of.. and sometimes the ads are democratic and sometimes they are republican.. I have no control over that. I merely put the Google adsense code in my site. Maybe it’s doing the McCain ads as it picks up words that appear on a site. I’ve seen Hillary and Obama ads on here as well.
I’m not promoting Bill O’Reilly.. I am promoting me! It was a major thing for me to be asked to be on his show.. and it allows me to reach more people.. but in NO WAY am I promoting them.. I am merely promoting me.
I don’t know anything about this Bill O’Reilly guy other than I got an email from them asking me to be on their show and that he’s into etymology!
I will go on any show that has national reach if they ask me as it will help me reach more people. I am currently working on a TV show Pilot for CurrentTV which is owned by Al Gore I think.
There is no hidden agenda here.. trust me.
I am merely one person trying to make it here in America.. and I’m doing it with Philology, my specialty. I am sorry that the first network that asked me to be on TV was a network you don’t like, but I promise you I want to go on all the networks.. not just Fox! If you want to try to destroy me, then there is nothing I can do. I am merely trying to make people enjoy philology and I thought appearing on other forms of media would help me.
I am sorry that you don’t agree with me.. but I hope you don’t set out to destroy me because if you do… you are attacking a single girl who is merely trying to make people happy with what I do. I don’t talk about politics.. as I know how divisive they are… I am just trying to reach as many people as I can and help them learn history through their words.
Marina – please don’t think you have to justify yourself to a beast like errinf. He apparently holds some sort of political view that suggests that it is proper behavior to threaten people to get them to say things or stop saying things. Note, I’ve been to the dailykos.com on many occasions, and I’ve not gotten the impression that that organization would endorse the kinds of threats he’s made. I think your best course of action is to contact them, let them know the situation, and develop a relationship with them. It would likely end up with you gaining notoriety through dailykos.com and they you. I am positive that they have no interest in attacking you, and it is 99% certain that “errinf” has no power of any kind. He’s just a moronic fool who thinks whatever he says is right, and that whatever anyone else says should be shut down and drowned out at any cost.
I understand the way you’ve approached your response to errinf – however, I don’t think it’s necessary for you to cower before him and state that you don’t like politics and that you aren’t promoting this or that. Even if you were promoting something – whether Obama, McCain, Clinton, Nader, the Pope, the polygamists in Texas, atheists, Muslims or Scientologists – I and 99% of everyone here would still support you. Do what you want, and do not cave. Errinf does not deserve your attention, let alone your obedience.
I’m not sure if you like or appreciate my contributions. But, I sincerely love your website, learn a lot from it every day, and enjoy being one of your students. I hope you will not change an inch for anybody.
I second what prospero811 said “Please don’t think you have to justify yourself to a beast like errinf… hope you will not change an inch for anybody.” I think your doing just fine. About the Google ads, dump them. You don’t need them. Your way beyond what they can do for you. With 22 years of retail marketing and sales; I see your on the right path and doing what you should be doing.
Keep up the good work. We are counting on you to fill our minds with knowledge.
You don’t like politics and yet you are working for Current TV, which is run by a former US vice president? That’s lucid.
I happen to like politics, since it keeps the world from becoming 100% ethnocentric and elitist. It also ties in signifcantly to our economy and our cultural standards. It is as Aristotle once said,
“Every (wo)man, is a political animal”
You are doing a fine job Marina, I have been enamored by your lessons since I first saw you on Youtube.You are intelligent and funny and sweet and kind. This world needs people like you because there is so much negatisim I
Thank you and don’t let the haters get you down.
love your lessons they always make me smile
Marina for president. Hmmmmmmmmmm Can we get bumper stickers?
excited4etymology, it’s not that I don’t like politics.. I just don’t talk about them. That is not what my website is about. There are plenty of other websites for that. I talk about philology.. and believe me… there are plenty of politics in etymology! People argue about this stuff all day long!!!
Sounds like he is threatening you? Rest assured that if any harm should come they will be brought to justice as I currently work for the federal government concerning computer based crimes and would be more than happy to take up the banner on this and leverage the weight of the government against the perpetrators should the worst happen.
Oh.. by the way… maybe I can tell Google Adsense not to allow political ads.. I don’t know. I’m going to look at it tonight and see.. but I can assure you I’ve seen just as many Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama ads on here as I have seen the McCain ads.
Marina,
I think the person that would try to destory you would not be a very open minded person. From my point of view I love what you do and I don’t think political ads hurt what it is you are trying to do. I hope that the person would go after Google for the Ads and not the person who has the google adsense. One saying I always remember is “Don’t shoot the messager.”
Marina – do not bow to the ridiculous idiocies of this monster. Keep the political ads, even if it is possible for you to remove them. You are right, there are plenty of ads from the other side of the aisle, and we all know that you would do a show on CNN or MSNBC or PBS or Air America if the opportunity presented itself.
Do not let some crackpot come on here and tell you what to do. Bowing to such pressure is a slippery slope and it’s unnecessary. I can guarantee you that Markos of the DailyKos would want nothing to do with a jack-ass like errinf, and that anyone like errinf posting stupid nonsense attempting to shut someone up would be OPPOSED by Markos, not supported. Please notify Markos at dailykos.com of this threat so that he can address the issue on his end. I am positive that Markos is not a person that wants people threatened in this manner.
However, do not bow. If you bow down once to brownshirted, jack-booted thugs, even ones in cyberspace, you will never stop bowing to them. Do not let fascists like errinf scare you. This is a free country, and you will have support from far more people than a creep like him can muster.
Be strong. You rule. I love your site. Thousands of us love your site. And you’ve built it on your own terms – do not let someone change that.
Eric
I second the Prospero amendment.
You’re right, Marina. Campaign money is being spent by every candidate, Democratic as well as Republican. I’ve seen them all on your site as well. Never paid any mind to ‘em, though. I put my attention where I want it to go. Lots of people we’ll never meet are getting the benefit of that surplus cash flow regardless of their personal politics and if somebody doesn’t want to see campaign advertising, I think they should MOVE ON BACK TO THEIR HOME PLANET….
God blessed you Marina,
I’m at one with the athiest here on this one. don’t cave to the bullying from this neanderthal type guy. You have something special & you’ve shared it. Don’t do anything like looking into changing yourself or your approach to life, get a little distance from your work. You are not responsible to make us happy, or even teach us.
Why I signed up to your website, I can’t figure it out, but You have made me feel welcome & special. If ever anybody lacked a poltical agenda… If this guy percieves you wrongly thats his problem, don’t let him make it yours, it’s not.
If you feel you’re taking a hit emotionally, back off a little. Most of the folks that know about this attack, & thats what it is, love you & feel with you, & that comes from your giving yourself to them as you have. First of all be safe & feel safe, then carry on.
Thanks, BillyB – “at one with the atheist” – I like that. Hey! Atheists are good people! Did you hear about the Buddhist who ordered a hot dog from a hot dog cart? He said, “Make me one with everything.” So, the hot dog guy gave him his dog, and took the Buddhists money and pocketed it all. The Buddhist said, “Hey, where’s my change?” And, the hot dog guy said, “change comes only from within.” Ha!
Perhaps, Marina, in my zeal, I overreacted yesterday when I posted my responses to errinf’s threats. But that kind of stuff just pisses me off. Such people need to be opposed, not catered to.
It occurred to me that you probably have the identifying information errinf entered in to sign up for your site. You can also have your computer people figure out his computers IP address and other identifying information. Get all that together, so if he follows through with his nonsense, you will be able to identify who he is and take appropriate lawful action.
You can block ads from specific advertisers if you want; but you shouldn’t have to.
Like I said below, we’ve got your back if the hate mongers come!
What in the world are you talking about?
You come on here and THREATEN Marina with a bunch of nonsense. Marina has every right to go on the Bill O’Reilly show. Many individuals from both the Democratic and Republican parties have been on Bill O’Reilly’s show, as well as a host of apolitical people. Going on Bill O’Reilly’s show does not state or imply a political affiliation on the part of the guest.
Further, Marina has had ads from all sorts of sources on her website. She’s not in control of all the advertisements that come on here – that’s no different than most other websites.
Frankly, I think Marina’s attempt to assuage your “anger” is misplaced. Your sort of strong-arm threats have no place here. Go do what you think you must. But posting a bunch of extortive threats here is ridiculous. To Marina’s credit (and by her own generosity) she left your post on here, even though I am sure it’s technically possible for her to remove it. Think about hat, errinf. Think about what that means.
You have the nerve to tell Marina she shouldn’t politicize the website? First of all – she HASN’T politicized anything. Second of all – if she wants to, this is a free country, and she is free to espouse whatever view she wants. Jack-booted thugs like you, threatening to “shut her up” should not be permitted to stop her. It should not be allowed. How DARE you attempt to dictate to Marina what she can and can’t do with her internet-space? What kind of person are you?
I can tell you this – there are thousands of people who enjoy what Marina does and aren’t as cowardly and childish as you to come on here and make silly threats. There is recourse. Choose your path wisely.
prospero811 I am with you on this on!!!!!
Huzzah, Prospero. If I had bothered to read erinf’s boring diatribe past the first few sentences I’m sure I would come to the same conclusion. I would guess its a way to generate page hits at that indoctrination site, but the guy seems way too infantile.
Responding to your question, albeit a bit after-the-fact:
“Pennsyltucky – what does that mean when you spell American, “AmeriKKKan?” I’m confused in that it does not intuitively seem to relate to what errinf did, nor would what a single person, errinf, seem to be an indictment of America (he’s certainly not representative of Americans).”
The usage of the triple-K was merely an echo of your reference to those “jack-booted thugs” who would ostracize, belittle and oppress people whose ideology doesn’t match theirs. In my opinion, this sort of naziism has no place in the US.
Freedom of speech unfortunately guarantees its perpetuation in many of the more culturally stagnant backwaters. It’s truly one of the most puzzling paradoxes in regard to our constitutional rights that such groups can continue to wreak havoc on their targeted ethnic and religious factions, conniving to diminish their rights to life, liberty, property, pursuit of happiness, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, voting rights, and freedom of information (there are plenty I missed) while hiding squarely behind their own right to free speech.
That’s what I was hinting at with the reference to AmeriKKKa: the gross hypocrisy displayed by a tiny percent of so-called Americans who act like model nazis, attempting to deny others the right to the same principles upon which their very existence as a group hinges (in this case, by use of extortion as you so aptly pointed out).
Hmmm. Let me quess, when intelligent persuasion doesn’t get the job done use censorship. Liberalism 101
Let’s not use the euphemism “censorship” which is a gross understatement and something that a government does by telling someone what they can’t say. What errinf did was flat out extortion. He made specific threats (using coercion, duress and menace) designed exact a price from Marina (have her refrain from saying or doing something).
Sounds like someone didn’t get a Christmas card, talk to me about it
, I also think Marina and prospero811 are giving errinf to much attention for what he is saying.
I’m with you. The only plug that a-hole needs is a size 12 buttplug.
Marina,
Don’t bother with this guy it’s obvious that he’s a small person trying to be somebody big by threatening you. He said that he’s waiting for his account to be activated and he seems to think that since he visits that site he has some sort of clout with them. If you give into this spineless person you’ll always have to do so. I agree with prospero811 and believe that it shouldn’t make any difference to those that enjoy your show.
WAIT, wait, wait…buddy, buddy, buddy. I’ve heard Marina say that she’s a U.S. citizen and her vote undecided. But friend, what about freedom of speech
What about freedom of association 
Well, they STOP at the point were they impede some else’s rights. You can ask for some apology, errinf (got yer feelin’s hurt, huh?) but when you demand or else damages will be incurred you make yourself liabel (whatever brushes with the law you’ve obviously had you should have already learned these things.)
My suggestion to Marina, if she hasn’t done so already, is to pass this along to the lawyers for Google and/or whomever else. It is one easy phone call for her and it will be completely free legal for the duration as well. Oh, guess what? Threatening emails or letters fall to the FBI, nice work errinf.
HFW there are many resources for you so don’t feel alone. Welcome to business in America. God, I hate a bully.
errinf-
Jeez, talk about political. Find something important to do, like self-administering a healthy dose of transcortical lead therapy or something. We could use more people like you FOR COMPOST. Go start your own blog. See how many hits YOU get. Yeah, I thought so…
I with you. I don’t think he would make good compost though. But it’s a start. Stay strong Marina we will always support you.
Name calling gets too personal buddy. I’ve read a lot of comments directed at & about Marina & when she responds, it is with graciousness, if she chooses to at all. Did anybody else here sign up to promote their own agenda, if so they should get outa here & get their own site, or get a soap box or something, hotforwords is an open forum & I’ve found out that it is easy to offend folks even if I didn’t intend to, but to threaten your hostess, as your intent was, is not just rude but beyond reprehensible & needs to be dealt with.
My humble suggestion to Marina is a set of guidelines as to behavior in this forum signed or agreed to when one becomes a member or if already a member agree to, to remain a member in good standing. It’s been a free flowing forum with most subjects explored with a minimum of disruption, very refreshing & sometimes emotional.
This is the first website I’ve ever subscribed to & I still find it fascinating if not a bit weird that while sitting in a chair I can be virtually somewhere else.
My emotions are jacked right now.
Marina has obviosly poured her heart & soul into her work & shared possibly too much, without, I’m sure, the Income thats due $$$
Take your peace sign down,errinf, its a hypocritical symbol to you now!
Yep. Truly a bold statement about our freedom of expression that a peace sign can even be associated with such a pile of prurient putrescence. Makes ya real proud to be an AmeriKKKan, doesn’t it?
Pennsyltucky – what does that mean when you spell American, “AmeriKKKan?” I’m confused in that it does not intuitively seem to relate to what errinf did, nor would what a single person, errinf, seem to be an indictment of America (he’s certainly not representative of Americans).
How did organized crime come too be known as the racquets ?
Thank you Marina.
Mr. errinf, shame on you for your threats to our dear teacher. Then Miss Marina so graciously answered you so politely. You say that you disrupted the lefts’ website, then sound like one yourself. Disrupter/Anarchists/PoliticalActivist, so full of air, master of the blogosphere? Go find something to tear down, and then build something good. Or, maybe get a job tearing down houses, or something. You can only deconstruct so much, then you build. What about your position, do you have one? Does anyone live there(in harmony)? What country is it? Yup, gotcha! Kudos to prospero811 and all others that support our dear teacher from an rebel activist without reason/meaning/direction in life.
Edit/ PS, Mr. errinf, do you remember Al Franken? Seems that he had a political point of view, on national radio, that just had no media sponsorship, and sadly went bankrupt. I wonder why? Have a nice day and be kind to your Mom and girlfriend.
Marina;
I hope, as do many others, that you don’t fall to this quagmire of a man. I’m fairly new to your site & don’t know all the ins & outs, but don’t let someone change one thing you do professionally. He’s the type who begs for a reaction, demands to be noticed; the situation demands that he be mitigated. Ignore him, even though it will offend his sense of self-importance (sorry dude, I totally got your #) and focus on the fix. Again, there are lawyers (great ones) sittin’ around at Google & Utube who would be interested in this. Don’t let this tweak your carriage. This is your ship, sail it whenever to where ever you want.
Erinnf…
The sketch on the O’Reilly Factor was light, humorous and had nothing to do with politics.
I think you’re giving yourself and your cronies over at dailykos.com way too much credit. At the same time you have under estimated and insulted Marina and her audience.
I had a sense that you were full of yourself from your very first, long winded post, and now, I think you’re probably a paranoid control freak too. Good luck with that; I’m sure it will take you far in life.
By the way… your 1000 word posts are always annoying to read. So get a clue. If you can’t make your point in a few short paragraphs, don’t bother.
Marina…. if the hate mongers come, we’ve got your back, though I’m sure they will be easy to block with Word Press!
Is this Hillary Clinton or Barack Hussein Obama COmplaining here!!!??? Give it a rest and try to relax will you please? Stop acting like a tool and realize the reality of this site and it’s purpose not your political agenda that you are so caught up in that cannot see what this site truly is, a website where one can learn and improve their ability to use the English Language, You BOOB
Oops! This is for ERRinF
The uber troll who has no life of it’s own and I have to guess IT cannot run for public office. I mean why else would errinF threaten you Marina other than to get attention and to feel important in some capacity to him or her self? I am sorry to everyone here for even commenting on this post but to be honest with all of you there is nothing that I detest more than a coward uber troll threatening a woman’s way of making a living!!! Pond Scum has more character than errinF
Hey aLx! Har har!
lol ALx Har har hardy har har!!!
barborosa?
Barbarella! I was always Fonda that movie in a Buck Rogers meets Misterogers on acid sort of way…
lol I remember Barbarella.
Yeah, but does she remember you?
Heyy!!!
The word I want to request is
etc..
(ecetera ?? )
Thank youu
Hi Marina!
Have you received my eMail?
I resent it to you + a little addition.
have a nice day
What email? I get so many.. so I don’t know which one.
should one have said “re-sent” so there is no confusion about resentment? is resent, meaning sent again, a ‘real’ word or a word in the making?
I think he resents having to resend.
Hi Marina, Where did the word “bulldust” come from and it’s meaning.
Can anyone think of another word for ‘thesaurus’?
Isn’t that some kind of theological triceratops?
Have you ever been to the town to Thesaurus? http://whatevernext.jasperffordeffanclub.com/graphics/Thesaurus-ad.jpg
WHAT IS UP WITH THE PODCASTS?
Getting a little frustrated now…
toysjoe, they moved to a new system.. uploading the latest 4 lessons.
Thanks. I rarely miss class
Yea, me too. I like getting the podcasts cause there huge! I have a 21″ monitor and marian’s head is like life size. She spit on me when she did the bar-bar-bar thing though, yuck. You use apple?
Can you investigate for the word “Tourbillon” ?
Thank you
I would like to know where the phrase “Wet behind the Ears” comes from
INTERSTICE
Marina!
alright peace out marina!
Okay soo i got a goooood idea. What if you had a favorite student of THE WEEK. How sweet would that be! Also what can i do to be the favorite student. I could always wash the chalkboard for ya. haha. You name it and its done!
would the word be “barbaric?”
And I was happy at least recognise “zdratsvuitye.” After trying to teach myself Russian for what is it, four years now? I can at least recognise Hello!
Word Request “Depot” I always want to read de then pot but word really sounds like depo
Word request,”Laconic”
A very laconic request.
Hi Marina,
Your shows are wonderful. Thank you!
Have you already explained “in a jam?”
Is it as obvious as ‘minced, pulped, and pressure-cooked?’
Also, I want to thank you for creating a forum for fairly witty word play.
Some of your commentors are fantastic.
Thank you all!
Dear Marina:
I’m guessing, but I would believe the Roman corruption of the Greek “Barbarous” became “Barber” (barba = beard and ber signifying the dwelling of barbarians, i.e., flat land). Because the Romans were so into the way they looked and whatnot, and the Barbarians were so uncarrying about the way they look, the latter did not take care of their appearance; therefore, they looked like wild, beastly bearded people. (I suspect, however, this is because they were of the lower social strata and did not have access to Roman baths and the groomers who resided there.) This is my best guess.
All the best!
Related imitative forms are found in other Indo-European languages, such as Sanskrit barbara-, “stammering” or “curly-haired.”
Or barbaros for the ones who spoke poor greek (they sucked at speaking greek)
I would like to know the origin of the word “naferious”. If you could wear something red when you do it, that would be great too. Thank you so much!
That’s Nefarious, not naferious.
another gr8 video! and could you plzzz do the word “Hot” ive requested it alot and would love for you to do that word.
hdc169(im hdc169 on here but on youtube im Rasment)
why did the term deja-vu enter into the English language?
oh Mighty Mirana
re: the other word, Berber
The Berbers of North Africa were among the many peoples called “Barbarian” by the Romans; in their case, the name remained in use, having been adopted by the Arabs (see Berber (Etymology) and is still in use as the name for the non-Arabs in North Africa (though not by themselves). The geographical term Barbary or Barbary Coast, and the name of the Barbary pirates based on that coast (and who were not necessarily Berbers) were also derived from it.
Maybe the word Berber, used to describe nomadic desert tribes?
As a word request, where did the word “sleep” originate from? As sleepwalking is also called somnambulism, I would presume that “sleep” does not originate from Roman…
hey i really love your videos because they actually help people in a way, but i think a really good word to do would be PIRATE it’s kind of a funny word and i’d like to know where it came from.
thanks!:D
The etymology you give is the accepted one, but has never been airtight. A more recent theory sees barbaros as a loan word from the Sumerian barbaru, which merely means foreign or strange. This doesn’t really change things too much, but does seem a bit more sophisticated than assuming that the Greeks formed a word from a fifth-grade level taunt. Of course, this is still just another theory (first formulated by Ernst Weidner in 1913)…
smarterthandumb, it’s all Greek to me.. or is it Sumarian? … Hmmm…. It’s funny to say it’s a loanword.. when the bar bar sound that foreigners make is sort of a loan word.. or loan sound if you think about it… Oh forget it.. my head is going to explode!
mine too.
it’s too late at night to think about this stuff.
Good job though,
you never cease to satisfy my thirst for knowledge
And you make me wonder how much you know…I’d call you a beautiful britanica, but that came from Great Britain.
Perhaps a well read russian? Yes, that’ll do.
A well Red Russian!?
You’re not suggesting that Marina is a communist, are you?
This gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “a Red under the bed”
I have two words
I hope you don’t mind 
1. colloquialism
2.acronym
My grandma always said if you want to learn English, go to a foreign person; she was absalutely right.
Love,
AwesomeWayne
You rock Marina, this barbarian’s decendant thanks you.
I dont believe it, she picked one of my word requests. I feel so recognized.
I have a request. Somebody called me a freak yesterday. I was insulted. Apparently it was meant in a good way. But I have also heard it as an insult. Where does this word come from and why is it so freaking ambiguous.
knottski
I’m supposed to be working, but when you’re the boss you get to take time off when everbody else works, conversely get to work when everyone else is off.
I can’t do the homework now as I do have to get back to work. But some times when conflict happens its probbably good to write a song as therapy (if you survive) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Roj7odGpwFc
Funniest video yet, at least for me. Where do you come up with the ideas? and so fast. Need more than 5 stars for this one
Dear teacher and aides de camp,
Does the word you ask us to find is “meteques?”. In greek cities, I think people working in the city but not born there were called meteques. But it doesn’t sound english, does it?
Oh and i forgot something, the last video is amazing as usual!
thank you!
Hello Marina
What’s up with, “the Peanut Gallery”. I’ve used it, I’ve heard other people use it for same type situation but I have no Idea of the meaning for the saying. Please enlighten.
Thanks,
Darren
The term originated in the days of vaudeville as a nickname for the cheapest seats in the theater; the cheapest snack served at the theater would often be peanuts, which the patrons would sometimes throw at the performers on stage to show their disapproval.
I meant to mention that my grandparents were vaudeville entertainers, so my mom told this info a long time ago.
marina,
something’s confusing me. if the greeks came up with that word, how come there’s an ie root *baba / *barbar? if the greeks came up with it, that root shouldn’t exist. right? where’s the error in my reasoning?
Could it be that it is onomatopeic and it appeared in the Indo-European languages coincidentally?
yeah, well … but how is that possible? you got an ie root *baba/*barbar which evolved to ‘babble’ etc.
then you got the greek thing. did they, like, reinvent it or something? greek descends from ie, right? I don’t know, the whole onomatopeic business … hm … maybe it was onomatopoeic in ie or even pie. but then again, if even *baba is reconstructed, then how would they know? but maybe it’s a plausible assumption.
I’d probably reject the greek thing, though, you know, taking a step back in history, shifting it to ie or pie. :/
good compromise?
That’s fine.. but all my textbooks say derived from Greek.. so I need to think about this more… why they are saying that.
aLx: Maybe I misunderstand what you are saying, but ‘babble’ was not derived from ‘barar’. It comes from the city of Babylon in the
Genesis account when God confused the language of the inhabitants. This pre-dates the Greeks, so if anything ‘barber’ would have evolved from term ‘babbling’.
this is what my dictionary says:
etymonline cites the oed:
geronimo: You’re confusing the Bible chronology with the written account. The earliest writings that were chosen as Holy Scripture (the Bible) at the Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325 were written in Greek. All modern translations of the Bible look to Greek as the earliest written source.
aLx: I thought that baba meant “father” in Hindi. Like Sai Baba’s headquarters in Puttaparta(?), where we get all that great Nag Champa incense.
you are hot and smart Marina!.. let me be your student for the day! or two! or for the whole semester!..
keep up the good work!!
where does the word, “Shagged” comes from?
i just want to know that where is the word ‘tears’ came from?
Take my challenge if you dare
My word for you
*****Stubborn*****
ALready search in the internet
ALready everywhere
Are you up for my game??
Kiss,
Obstinado
/that´s *****Stubborn***** in portuguese)
I was wondering about “ped.” I know it was covered for pedigree, but I’m a little confused. You’ve mentioned a couple of times that ped = foot, but doesn’t it also have something to do with children? As in pedophile and pediatrician?
Could you please tell me where the word “spirt” in terms of alcohol comes from?
Love from the UK x
Hey, Marina,
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How about the word condign.
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What is the oldest known word?
Let me rephrase that. Is there a word that is known as the oldest known spoken word?
I know I know..pick me..pick me
really though It must have been…
mama ; )
That’s a good question. I wonder if there is an oldest known word.
I suppose it would depend on some factors. Do you mean oldest English word? Marina is focusing on English here, and since spoken words preceded writing by hundreds of thousands of years, we can have no idea what the first spoken word was. It probably was something like “ug.”
And even if you specify English there is Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, Modern Engllish, etc. Old English is basically unintelligible to most of us today, and while there are dividing lines (like the Great Vowel Shift) in linguistics to understand the development of the English language, the reality is that the development was gradual and varied, so it’s probably hard to pinpoint where Modern English actually begins. There is probably not just one word that was the first English or Modern English word.
But I think it’s a great question, and I hope I haven’t spoken out of turn with my ruminations here. If I have, let me apologize in advance.
I’ll bet anything it has to do with business and trade. if you look back, the oldest recorded writings are sandskrit business and trade records.
Probably to keep the records for the oldest profession……
The only way to date a word is if it is written somewhere in a form that can be properly dated. There isn’t any point in asking for the oldest spoken word. Primitive language may have begun with one of man’s earlier ancestors.
I would bet on the word, “ow”.
hej, i think your videos are great. just have a word request and its in reference to your longest word ‘Antidisestablishmentarianism’ this one i find quite funny and would like to know the origin of it.
its ‘hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliaphobia’
and it means the fear of long words.
thanks Martina! you are the best!
Swedishkangaroo
I touch upon that word I think in my sesquipedalian video
http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/11/30/sesqui-wha/
I think I mention it.. if not it’s just an extension of the word.. meaning the fear of really long words
wouldn’t sesquipedalophobia mean the same thing?
What’s the point of adding hippopoto- and monstro- to it.
Hippos and monsters?
I looked this up. Sesquipedalophobia means fear of long words.
Guess it’s not long enough.
here’s a long one:
PNEUMONO*ULTRA*MICRO*SCOPIC*
SILICO*VOLCANO*CONIOSIS
this is a disease coal miners got from inhaling dust particles from volcanic ash. Sort of like 9/11 victims, but much more severe and more common if it were your profession.
And, guess number three: The Berbers. The Romans used the word barbarus to come up with the name “Berber?” So, it’s either “barba” referring to bearded men or bearded foreigners. Barbary Coast referring to the people from there, and/or “The Berbers” referring to the Berbers.”
Thanks, Marina, for another super lesson. Great word. I was always of the misapprehension that it was based on the sound baa baa for sheep, in that the Romans thought that foreigners sounded like a flock of baa-ing sheep. Apparently, that is folk etymology, and wrong.
I learned my new thing of the day. Thank you!
This is so bizarre. I had always thought barbarian meant bearded and had no idea it had this babble origin. I now have no idea where I originally heard it meant bearded, and was shocked to see not one reference to bearded at all in the original etymology!
I’m becoming senile.
my word request is: ceiling. I’ve never heard of the verb “to ceil” so I dont nűknow where ceiling comes from. But it might be cause I’m not english.
Hm? You have have to request words here, don’t you? I mean this pretty much covers the “comments section of the latest lesson” category.
And they also called the tribes in North Africa the Berbers because they were traditionally hirsute.
barbarian bob
I agree. And isn’t it one hell of a coincidence that the Barbary Coast is plum chock full o’ them dang Berbers with all their rugs and whatnot? But what about Babar the famous elephant of early Greek folklore? Okay I made that part up. But it was worth a shot, what the hell.
Was it the Romans that came up with the name “Barbary Coast” where the Barbary Pirates came from, based on the word barbarian or barbaria/barbarus?
i would like the to request the word DESTINY to find its origin…..or maybe find the origin of the word Request cause “quest” is a word for a advanture and i think the prefix “re” means to repeat…so why doesnt request mean to go on a quest again???……….
Could the word the Romans got from barbarian be “barba” for “beard” (and then later resulting in our word for “barber”)?
I like how Dave the Barbarian (who didn’t really want to be a barbarian) put it… “I thought a barbarian was a barber crossed with a librarian!”
I sent a message on youtube before I knew that this was the place to send a request. Could you investigate the word Buckeye? I am an engineering student at Ohio State and the Buckeye is our nickname. If you get it right I will send you an OSU football jersey!
O.H.
Hail! to the victors valiant
Hail! to the conqu’ring heroes
Hail! Hail! to Michigan
The leaders and best!
Hail! to the victors valiant
Hail! to the conqu’ring heroes
Hail! Hail! to Michigan,
The champions of the West!
Use the “Request A Word” button at the top of the page
specialagentslowhand: are you engineering at Ohio State?Creature Nites of Ohio…who ever reads this
“Marina’s Candi-BAR-barian”
The romans took the word Barbaros, and made it a darker meaning than what you said…
The primary connotations of the word became those of savagery and wildness rather than unintelligibility or ignorance.
i would like to know how the word SMART became used for intelligence
See “Request A Word” button at the top of the page
able.. exw3 asked in the correct place.. I tell people to ask for words here in the comments. Perhaps smart is an acronym…
Just kidding.. I’ll look into it. Thanks!
Yes, My teacher, I see that now.. comments or requests … but I’ll make more mistakes if they are personally handle by My sexy teacher, HOT for words
where does the phrase, “stop on a dime,” come from?
It’s the smallest coin we have, so if you can stop on one, that’s a pretty short stopping distance, wouldn’t you agree?