There are two other southern regional names that I know of. “Tar Heels” and “Raw Backs”. North Carolina was a large producer of tar (pine pitch) for bottom of boats, and the North Carolina regiments were said that “they stuck to their works as if their heels were stuck with tar”. Of course this became a tease as the other states [especially the Virginian's] who would joke that they were slow, because of the “tar” on their heels. This ensued the nickname “Raw Backs” to the Virginian’s as the “Tar Heels” would reply that the Virginian’s “backs” were raw, because of they (NC) had to run over top of them in order to get to the front.
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I thought the way you compared yourself wearing heals to the airport to Russian girls wearing heals to MacDonalds was really sweet–it would be terrible if were born sophisticated snobs! I loved the way you showed your old pictures; the moment had a certain wistfulness, which I liked.
By the way, there are too good words to investigate: sophisticated and snob.
Me as a German knew that one, how could she stump so many ?
Btw, most Americans are Europeans, and telling lies was invented by us I think, the old Romans already dd it
you asked, “if the northerners called the southerners ‘cracker’ as a slur, what slur did the southerners use to describe the northerners?”
the obvious answer is that southern gentlemen don’t use slurs. The more common folk used the offensive term ‘Yankee’, to refer to the foppish idiocy described in the song yankee doodle dandy. note that members of the confederacy considered Washington and Jefferson as southerners.
other slurs: up until the civil rights movement, the word ‘N*gger’ (nope i don’t mean nagger) was not considered a slur, it only referred to the color of one’s skin->latin nigre meaning ‘black’
I was born and raised in the north, but my family roots are in the south, and i take personal affront every time i hear the derogatory term Yankee. Did you know that new york has even named one of its baseball teams this offensive slur? personally, i think that they should change it to something far less offensive, like “the New York Nigres”
Marina, everyone’s always commenting on your looks/features I’d like to add to that and say I think your hair looks real nice. Of course, it always does etc etc. <—wow Andy, why was that so hard to say?
If I remember correctly, the term “Carpet Bagger” is a term used for Northerners that settled in the southern states. They usually carried with them bags made of oriental rugs, thus the name.
I was watching the Russia vs Netherlands soccer game today and got to wondering… why are people from the Netherlands called Dutch and speak Dutch. Why are they not Netherlanders and speak Netherian?
Where does the name Dutch come from?
Also, I visited the Getty museum and they had some Flemish art. I was told Flemish is also from the Holland region. So why is it Flemish art and not Dutch art?
Marina, I was doing some channel surfing on the TV this morning and happened to catch a show called “Attack Of The Shows” onG4. They had a bunch of Hi-tech stuff, new video games, etc., and the top 10 Women Of The Web. They listed Hot For Words as number 5! Kudos to you, kiddo! Keep up the good work!
capman911,
What happened to all of the rest of the replies? I was reading them and then – zip – gone.
Oh and don’t sweat it. You already explained how you were able to reply like a sniper.
I had to reboot my computer to get them to appear back. I don’t think it is our computers as much as it is with Marina’s site. A lot of blogs for her server to keep up with.
I believe the Southern soldier called Northerners was ‘Yanks’, short for ‘Yankee’.
A term used by the Yanks for Southerner soldiers was ‘Johnny’ or ‘Johnnies’, which is short for ‘Johnny Rebs’, which is short for ‘Johnny Rebels’.’ The crackers were also called ‘Butternuts’ because it was a cheap natural dye they used in their woolen uniforms.
Wow…no funky xylophone ‘n’ flute transitional music in this lesson.
I was getting used to that. What CD is that on?
I kindly request the word origin of the word “smart” as in Marina is very pretty and smart.
It seems that there are many uses for the word smart as in, “ouch, that smarts”, and “smart ass” and “smart aleck”. What does aLx have to do with that?
Going to make a game of this one.
It’s something you do in every video. All your students want this.
You never have a blooper on this word because you haven’t done it
incorrectly.
Have you thought of it?
Once you have, I bet it’ll be your best video ever.
(And if you haven’t thought of it, I’ll give in – but give it a try)
I just hope its not me! I would have to kick myself out of S.O.A.P.! Then who would run the club? Also what would I look forward to? Once your a pet, thats it. Game over! Like the Budweisers joke “Whaaaassss uuupppp” is not funny anymore. Its gone. Its passed tenths. Its history. You had to be there… etc.
I think the real challenge is to be TA…
No. It would be more like MAN OVERBOARD!! Port side, ready the rescue team!
I think its you she has picked! Im most sure of it.. but then again Im wrong many of times.
Damn PD and him telling us that he knows who the next Pet is. It just makes it more… damn whats the word im looking for. Im always miss placing my words. It has to be around here somewhere..
@Ok4now. Really? Yea see what happens when you no longer have any goals? I like to have goals to strive for, even if I don’t accomplish them all. Becoming teachers pet is no longer a goal for me.Yea It would be nice to be mention but a TA would be much more. Why? Because you would have other projects to work on (Like I need another project) . Then I would strive to be the best TA of all the TAs in the group not only improving my skills but helping other TAs to be better than I am.
Bleachers — everyone sits on them some point in time.. that word doesn’t even seem to be a word to me, and I do hope I spelled it correctly; just never use it.
That or the expression Bloody Hell heh…
Billy, Those guys are freaking awesome. I had to add them to my YT favorites.
Nice to see good talent thats is unplug that really can pull off a performance like that. True skills!!
Got the link now & listening. Computer had a minimeltdown, so I went & had a shower. reloaded & ready to go & I like what I’m hearing, (Bruce Springstine acoustic)
Do you & the wife get to sleep through the night yet? LOL When you get to my age & the kids start moving out… it’s funny, I remember wanting to sleep longer, now I can’t.
yea, we ought to be asleep right now. we’re up listening to some of the love songs i’ve been collecting for her and running across a few more. damn, 1:30am we do need to get to bed, kids get up by 7:00am usually.
Marina, what is the origin of the expression “to pass with flying colors”? Or what about the word “consumptive”? How did it come to refer to someone with tuberculosis?
Being a damn Yankee, I’m pretty sure thats what they were yellin when I took outa there like I was on fire…yes ma’am, thats my final answer. Yankee. (How about the origin of that one teach?. other than that it came from the south?) Please Marina, moi drug, how do I write Bvwe Ochin kra see vwe on an English keyboard? was I even close? lol
Vas drug Leonard
Whats up buddy?..buddy,buddy Good ta hear from ya!…speeking of kids that came out alright from the mouse show, don’t forget my dearest Christina Aguilara …saw this show twice, once in a sports arena and once in small place, 2700 seats!, in the 7th row! Its was awesome! you can guess who with. To this day I can’t wacth this dvd without getting goose bumps! I know, call me crazy, but we love Christina. This clip is from about the middle of the show and the whole stage turns into a circus and the song that follows is pretty cool too…turn it up!
no, it’s poopy. people w/ $40,000 toys don’t think about shitty things, let alone do them. that’s just … the others, you know. the dumb ones in the cubicles, if i recall correctly. something like that. that’s shitty, yeah …
ha, that just reminded me of an argument i had with a nascar fan. i was saying those drivers have to were adult diapers. and the guy was like, no they don’t! and i said, dude, they are driving for hours in like an oven on wheels, they piss and shit themselves i tell you! and the nascar dude was getting real offended. and of course i couldn’t stop, so i says, you know when their up there in the winner’s circle, holding the trophy, pretty girls, cameras, cheering crowd… shitty diapers. the winning dude is standing there in shitty diapers. and then they all go back and have to change out of their dirty diapers. he got all pissed but after anything he said i would just say, shitty diapers. i wonder if they have little sponsor stickers on their nascar driver man size diapers.
I race short track & I think, only the ones that crash need the diapers. Takes me back to an old boyscout moto “be prepared” The guy in victory square is clean (probably) except the team bent the rules far enough to excell. no diapers for Danica ,fiesty little thing, I’m sure she wears a jock.
billyb, how much youtube do you watch? i thought i had a high number! by the way i meant to send this to you before fathers day and graduation, look to your right and click on fathers or graduation. the dude has a really great radio show, i listen all the time.
OMG BW !!! your comments about my nascar brothers in shitty diapers got me Rolling on the floor laughting my silly ass off. (ROTFLMSAO). I need to call 911 I think I busted my gut. OMG I think Im going to die laughing my ass off!!! I can’t stop laughing!. OH im in paint. damn I can’t spell! Shitty Diapers!!!!! I have to tell this joke to all my friends. This is just too funny!!!
You’r right buzzword they do wear diapers. I go to alot of Nascar races. If they didn’t they would explode shit all over the car at about halfway through the race
Oh, look who decided to chime in, Mr. all smiles all the time for everyone (alx) . You never have anything good to say about anything, ever. What a buzzkill you are. Everytime you raise your little fingers to type something its always just a bunch of rubbish. You must be one miserable human being, I feel for ya. And no, you don’t recall correctly, I never said “dumb” or even “something like that”, the misery that is your life must have skewed your recall, —Marina, How could you have EVER picked this guy to be teacher to be teachers pet? What a giant downer he is.
Don’t be intimidated by aLx, He was intimidating to me when I first started posting here, I was afraid to talk to him he is from what I can grasp really inteligent, but young & fiesty & from a different culture…speaks in short sentences & gets a lot more across in short than most of us can with an avalanche of words, but it is easy to take him to personally he is young & I’m sure full of a certain amount of angst, whatever the heck that is. I’ve forgotten (not really), what it was like to be his age. What the heck am I doing defending alx, flip him the bird he’ll flip it right back at you.
What would this blog be without aLx? We have to have some buzzkill. You can’t eat cake every day. Anyhow he says his point in a short sentences. He doesn’t do long speeches on how he is right. He says his thing and that’s it. He has lots of points that are spot on. I respect him a lot. I do wish once in a great while he say something really positive. Even if he fakes it.
Hi Marina – I was wondering what the top 10 or 20 or so top slang terms for either male or female genitalia might be. We all know what they are, it’s just what are we calling them these days. It might be a fun game to play on youtube…thanks – your devoted student
Now I could drink a few beers to that kind of rap. I don’t care to much for American rap. It takes talent to play a musical insturment and sing instead of synthazied music from a machine with the same old rythem playing over and over. Good choice BillyB. man
That was very cool music. That was more excellent talent at work. Reminds me of the U2 video that they did on top of a building and the cops were trying to get them down. I thought the old dude in the video was lighting a blunt but it was a cigar.
Thanks… I’ve been a quiet observer these last few weeks, but I’ve been around!
Seriously, though, I had to request “Nymph, Nymphette or Nympphomaniac” because their is an interesting history to them, and one that Marina could probably put together some nice outfits and props for.
Nighteye… from the spelling of “colour” I’m guessing you are Canadian?
I don’t think people actually use peroxide any more do they?
At this point, I think she’d have to transition gradually. To do this professionally would cost big bucks.
What’s I think is nice is how she shares little bits and pieces of her personal life every now and then. Just enough to create perspective, but not enough to kill the mystery.
No, I’m dutch – I just try to speak proper english, like english english, and not like american english.
I never bleached my own hair, so I don’t know about any modern alternatives to peroxide. I also think most people look the best with their natural hair colour – natural selection made it that way. Other hair colours can also look good, but often not as good as the natural colour.
I hope you’re not suggesting that American English is not “proper” english – after all, we’re merely talking about one vowel in the spelling, not a major error in grammer.
The evolution of language occurs partly from the development of “dialects”, or variations of usage within the same language. Without regional dialects, we would all still be speaking latin or something even more ancient, perhaps.
Northerners were yankees, ‘course…and if they ventured south, carpetbaggers ’cause their luggage was made of carpet…
as some have already mentioned, you look smashing in the photographs – especially…oh, nevermind…
Here’s something to make y’all smile:
FOR NORTHERNERS COMING SOUTH
In the South: If you run your car into a ditch, don’t panic. Four men in a four-wheel drive pickup truck with a tow chain will be along shortly. Don’t try to help them, just stay out of their way. This is what they live for.
Don’t be surprised to find movie rentals and bait in the same store. Do not buy food at this store.
Remember, “y’all” is singular, “all y’all” is plural, and “all y’all’s” is plural possessive.
Get used to hearing “Y’all ain’t from round here, are ya?”
Save all manner of bacon grease. You will be instructed later on how to use it.
Don’t be worried at not understanding what people are saying. They can’t understand you either.
The first Southern statement to creep into a transplanted Northerner’s vocabulary is the adjective “big’ol,” truck or big’ol” boy. Most Northerners begin their Southern-influenced dialect this way. All of them are in denial about it.
The proper pronunciation you learned in school is no longer proper.
Be advised that “He needed killin” is a valid defense here.
If you hear a Southerner exclaim, “Hey, y’all, watch this,! ” you should stay out of the way. These are likely to be the last words he’ll ever say.
If there is the prediction of the slightest chance of even the smallest accumulation of snow, your presence is required at the local grocery store. It doesn’t matter whether you need anything or not. You just have to go there.
Do not be surprised to find that 10-year-olds own their own shotguns, they are proficient marksmen, and their mammas taught them how to aim.
In the South, we have found that the best way to grow a lush green lawn is to pour gravel on it and call it a driveway.
AND REMEMBER:
If you do settle in the South and bear children, don’t think we will accept them as Southerners. After all, if the cat had kittens in the oven, we wouldn’t call ‘em biscuits.
I think that ‘carpetbagger’ is a post civil war (war between the states?) term for Northerners who went South to take advantage of the cruel reconstruction. They used luggage made out of carpet. During the war, the soldiers didn’t carry luggage.
I’m not sure about how cruel the reconstruction was, but i do agree, the carpetbaggers came in after the Civil War. I’ll have to watch the vid again and see if Marina specied “during the Civil War” in the homework…
There were winners and losers in the reconstruction as far as my thin knowledge of the topic goes. And the carpetbaggers themselves were a mixed bag (ha-ha). Some Carpetbaggers were Northern businessmen starting cotton plantations, some were political organizers there to establish Republican strongholds and some were confidence men, who were there to take advantage in a desperate economy. But it’s probably acknowledged by both sides that the federal effort to reconstruct the ruined South was not well conceived
to put it lightly nor adequate, considering the ineffectual Presidents in office during the time and the Republican congress who were of the mind to punish the South, not rebuild it.
Yep, that other one you had was plumb spooky, capman. I mean, how did you get a video loop when everyone else has a still shot? I swear, every time that goldfish swam past your face again I jumped a country mile. And to think I once asked for a refund on the orange sunshine because I wasn’t getting any flashbacks! Sheesh. Flat out gimme the heebie-jeebies.
I think I found my new Yacht! Just imagine all the toys I could park inside! Oh and if I get stuck somewhere that I can only back out, I’ll just run to the other bridge and drive forward. No need to turn around! Just think of the parties we could have on here. Hey and Its cheap at only $350k. Sink in a million $$ and I could have one awesome boat hu? NOT!!!
Ok here is a little puzzle for you. We know boats have a ‘Port side’ and a ‘Starboard side’ If your on the ship and facing the bow ( the pointy end) the Port side would be on your left and the starboard side would be on your right. Now which side of the ferry is the Port side? Anyone?
Thats what I first thought. But what if I told you to finish Bobs project painting the bulk head on the Stbd side when he leaves for vacation on Tuesday? One you don’t know which way the ferry will be facing on Tuesday.
Hey, skipper, what about go-kart races or dodgems on the car deck?
Your port/starboard question is impossible to answer since the boat doesn’t appear to have a pointy end. In fact it’s more like a floating saucer. More tea, vicar?
Now I could have guessed you would have chosen Octopussy as your dream ship. hehehehe
I’m having a similar yacht built. No not for Real Life (RL) but in Second Life (SL). I have a 88 meter Ketch that I live on in the SL world. Its fun to play with big 3D toys without having to spend the big bucks. The yacht Im having built is much bigger. I don’t know what the exact size is yet. But its about 200 meters long.
Sure thing Geronimo! I’ll try to look for any women want to apply for the deck hand job so not to look as I’m discriminating between the sexes. Its important to have good team of deck hands to help each other getting the job done.
Naw I would have to put in $500k to a million to get it up to par. We must have some staterooms so we can… well you know..
About the fuel, Just get me some fryer grease and I can make some bio diesel on the cheap.
You know one of the most embarrassing thing I ever did? Im a tad bit of homophobic. The chip n Dale dancers where in a mall that I worked at the time. They where signing their calendars. So I walked up and purchased an autographed calendar for my sister. (I didn’t have a GF at the time, so my sister lucked out) I then gave it to her on her birthday. She said it was one of the best gifts I have ever given her. Yea and some of my co-worker razzed me about it as they watch me wait in line to get the calendar autographed.
Im not so sure. I don’t know if she has the muscle to pull on large lines. Some of those lines are 3 inches thick. Maybe if she pulled every day she could build up some of those muscles.
Ok enough time has passed. So the answer to the which side is port and starboard on a Washington State Ferry is… Drum roll please!! They have Side #1 and Side #2. Its a big yellow sign with black number on it. To follow the rules of the road, they do use the proper lights as if there was a port and starboard when in motion.
…and cracking-up also means to go nuts, or insane , but then to crack-up over something, or she really cracked me up means to laugh…now this is getting more confusing not less…
Nothing much to say about “cracker”…but in a similar vein, what about “honky”? Or if you’re finally up to it, is “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge” really what the “F” word of doom and destruction actually means?
Send me an email of the type & dimentions of the boat you’re looking for. I have 1/2 inlaws in the boat biz. You don’t have to go far to find folks in the boat biz when you live on an Island. Don’t have to tell you living on Lake Union. Cheers
huh ha! I don’t live on Lake Union any more! I did the Marina thing. I moved. I moved to a bigger lake. Bad choice on my part. This lake seems worse than the Pacific ocean! At least there I would have not riped a 7 foot tear in the boats sides.
Guys Have you ever dated a Woman that HOT?
They very eccentric, And very demanding. Like Food you LOVE that is very Hot and spicy? Ok, now and then ………BUT, Every meal,….. EvErY daY..!
All you start think is” Can jail be that bad? “
Homework: It’s Yankees, which I believe comes from the fact that New York was originally a Dutch colony called New Amsterdam.
Someone, (or ones) called the Dutch by the epithet “Jan Kaas” (literally John Cheese meaning a cheesehead) and this got corrupted to Yankees as a transliteration.
Answer to home work for crackers: Northerners are called carpetbaggers. They would come to the south with junk or scams to sell to the southerners. This bags were made of carpet. Thrick heavy material and the ulgyest bags you every saw. Only northerners could afford such bags. When southerens saw you carring one. They knew you are a Carpetbagger. You can do a word orign on this too. I sent this same comment by web page and youtube and now this one. I want to be the Teachers Pet.
Alx, you better watch out. I thought Pagedoll was a girl and was going to flirt with her until I found out she was a he. He even told me that he was going to keep me going for awhile then tell me he is a dude. So if errin sends you a picture of him or her in a bikini don’t be suprised.
But what’s the sense in that, really? Too much time and not enough to do? Seems unlikely. Make off-the-wall comments just to get people riled or to see who the unstable elements are?
It doesn’t add up. She can already read everything we submit. Plus, we’re all unstable anyway, lol. Except maybe Argon, one of the “noble gases.” And I suspect even he is composed of some unstable elements as well. Just an observation…
To much time ? yes,,,,,,,,House bound and my dog is ignoring me , so I am annoying you. Don’t let Me stop you from more in lighten conversations, I would love to read them.
I think that some of you may remember someone named “errinf” that some weeks or months back took a flying hissy fit over the unmitigated gall of google to place [gasp] McCain political ads. Whoever this errinf was, he or she seemed to have the same “delivery” as this current “errin.” The errinf ultimately left the site in a huff, demanding in a post that her subscription or account or something be canceled, but that was after threats against Marina to have her website basically harassed and hounded by people from a liberal oriented website.
Because it’s the Whopper, not the wopper. BTW, there WAS a problem with the name of the fish sandwich Burger King marketed. It was called a Whaler, remember?
No hot nurses, but two hot doctors; not that hot though.
Thanks for your good wishes but it wasn’t bad, it was good; just having my chaotic heartbeat re-synchronised – one was all it took.
If your neck wasn’t so long, your heart wouldn’t have to work so hard to get blood to your little pea brain.
Best wishes Bob.
They check your temp. look in your ears, eyes, nose & mouth. Then they look up your…birth certificate…check your credit limit then check you in for the work you can afford. That about how it works over there?
No, Billy, it’s all “free” (as long as you’re willing to stand in line for 18 months), but if you want to jump the queues you can pay or buy insurance.
The “free” treatment is paid for through your taxes, so if you go private your paying twice.
Maia Marina
Crackers was the name of a cat my x wife and i use to care for. She had kittens in the bed in the middle of the knight and one of them really liked water so much when we watered the flower bed he would run and roll all around in the water. I never saw a cat that liked water so much.
Confederate soldiers had hardtack biscuits as their rations, and hardtack is akin to a cracker because it is flat and dry. I wonder if our trusty teacher took the time to explore this possible origin of ‘cracker’ being a derogatory term for Southerners because of the hardtack they ate during the Civil War. Very plausible origin, and all I used with my knowledge of American history, something that is not Marina’s forte. In fact, it is something she is ignorant of. Quite a disqualifier when trying to come off as an expert on words of an American historical origin.
Ok, I’ve said my peace on this matter, but, needless to say, I am deeply disappointed by such red herring philology as this. Marina isn’t perfect, but she should be held to high standards because she can be. HotForWords is great when done right, disappointing when done wrong. Mistakes are nothing more than something to be learned from and not repeated, so don’t take constructive criticism as something adversarial when it is not. Just try to be a little more thorough with your lessons, teach. It makes it easier to trust you that way.
Peace and love, Errin : )
You used your knowledge of “American history” to speculate as to the possible origin of a word by suggesting that “cracker” MIGHT have arisen out of some derogatory view of southerners because of the hardtack they ate during the civil war, which was in your words “akin” to a cracker. Have you researched the first uses of the word “cracker” and the first uses of that word in reference to white people?
Has any linguistics expert or etymologist adopted your speculation as a possibility? What does the Oxford English Dictionary say?
Do the following points make your theory less plausible? (1) both union AND confederate soldiers used hardtack, (2) hardtack was invented around 1800 – a full 60+ years before Civil War, (3) originally hardtack was used by sailors of the US and Britain as a long lasting sustenance on long sea voyages, and in the 1840s it was used by miners and explorers in the gold rush, (4) there does not appear to be any examples of southern whites being singled out in derogatory manner for their consumption of hardtack, and (5) there doesn’t seem to be any examples of anyone, northerner, southerner, sailor, explorer, miner, being given any derogatory name because of the word “hardtack” or that “cracker” was in fact derived from the consumption of hardtack.
The word “cracker” actually goes back to 1440, “hard wafer,” but the specific application to a thin, crisp biscuit is from 1739. This doesn’t seem to lend itself to your theory.
There is a quote from 1766 which states, “”I should explain to your Lordship what is meant by crackers; a name they have got from being great boasters; they are a lawless set of rascalls on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia, who often change their places of abode.” [1766, G. Cochrane] That’s a century before the Civil War, and 35 years prior to the invention of hardtack, and southern whites are being called “crackers” and this gentleman (Mr. Cochrane) is explaining to a Lord in England what that means.
And, what do you mean, “red herring” philology? A red herring is something that is intended to divert attention from the real matter at hand. Is that what you think Marina was doing? She was employing a cunning debate technique to get us off the track of the true etymology of the word “cracker?”
Wow Prospero! Your like a black belt in Wordkwondo. Hey is that a new word? Spell check just choked on it. Ok I deem a new word “Wordkwondo” Meaning someone who is master at the art of using words in self defense.
How good is your Kung fu? My Wordkwondo is better! LOL.
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Ref: Taekwondo
Taekwondo is a Korean martial art. Taekwondo means: Kick Punch Way – “tae” means kick or foot, “kwon” means punch or hand, and “do” means way of. The term karate has become the generic name for any of the kicking and punching martial arts. Basically, the Korean term “Taekwondo” means the same as the Japanese term “karate.”
Thanks for the compliments. I was basically just restating what Marina said, although I found backup for everything in etymology sources. Even looking up the word in the dictionary would have clued errin in that her speculation was simply hot air.
Thats good you had your sources at the ready. Some people are just to lazy to check out to make sure their facts are correct before stating that what they say is true. OR even allow themselfs to stand corrected if they are proven wrong.
Hey – for the record – all of our discussions were civil, even when we vigorously defended our positions. What set me off with errin is that he or she started tossing out insults.
Who pissed in your cornflakes? Please I mean no derogatory question. I am saying this in kindness, but give Marina a break she’s only human just like you and I. I have made plenty of mistakes on this web site and no one has chastized me for my mistakes. If you are such a well learned person and it sounds like you are then start your own You Tube site and teach us the way you think we should learn. I for one would join your site and listen to what you have to say. I am not prejudice, I will listen to anybody. Whether they are Danish, African, French, Russian, American or just an alien from outerspace. I have made a lot of new friends on this site who I care for and hope they care for me. They are from all over the world and I have learned alot from them and their different cultures. We enjoy the bantering and have fun with each other, even if the lesson is wrong or off pace. So Marina makes a few mistakes so do us all, we are human. Thanks for reading this Errin and I hope you have a better day. For we do care about you just as much as anyone else who comments here. As you put it Peace and Love. Mike
The key here is that Marina was correct, and errin made a knee-jerk false accusation (in the process claiming to be knowledgeable, while clearly demonstrating that she is not).
Okay, capman, that tears it. I’ve had it with all your mistakes. Now go out back of the shed and cut me a hickory switch. If it’s not big enough, I’ll go get one myself. And remember: this is gonna hurt me a lot more than it hurts you….NOT!
I’ve seen some women get upset because a pretty girl gets all the attention. They get jealous and fling poo at the pretty girls trying to convince the guys that the pretty girls are just dumb blonds.
Every army that we know anything about had something like hardtack, the world sailed on it–even the Romans, & Marina does enough in Latin to make the grade. Besides, even if she were wrong now and then it’s the intelligence and progress of the student body that’s important–and in that regard she’s doing pretty good job even though now & again you can catch a student in error.
errin,
Someone disappointed you some where some how at some time. You seem to be expecting perfection which just does not exist–in anything or anyone–especially anyone. Marina’s only human… which in-and-of itself is a pretty cool thing to be. Look for humanity it’s all around, look for perfection it’s nowhere.
okay4now – more importantly, Marina was not wrong. Not even close. Just because errin said it with conviction doesn’t make it true. It makes errin delusional.
ERRIN. If you piss her off and make her quit HOTFORWORDS, im going to to be soooo angry at you.
Nobody…And I mean NOBODY wants to watch ERRINFORWORDS!
(so lighten up)
For the record, Marina completely fucked up the word origin of the word ‘Wop’ in a recent lesson. She has a very limited understanding of American culture and history, so it is hard to take her seriously as an ‘expert’ of derogatory American words. If Marina is so clueless as to not know that wop stands for ‘Without Papers’ (harkening back to the Ellis Island days which were pre-passport), then how can she be trusted to have a clue as to what cracker means? Then again, maybe she’s too busy sharing her pictures and coloring books and knick knacks with us to get the job done as an educator and a philologist.
90% or more of the people here like the fact that she shares her pictures and things about her personal life with us. Who cares if she she DID get something wrong, this is all for fun, it’s a college course. I also have always heard that WOP is for with out papers, but what is your actual proof that your are right and she isn’t? Let’s see some links. If you are going to take this site too serious you will never have any fun. Maybe you should look for a more anal website to spend your time. Something along the lines of P.e.t.a. or greenpeace.
Without papers origin of the word “wop” is a myth. You’re wrong, and your history is way off base.
It is absolutely not an acronym for “With Out Papers” or “Without Passport.” This is one of the most famous examples of folk etymology or backronym. The reason for this is that the term was already in popular use as early as 1910, a period in which no immigrant needed papers to enter the United States (passports and visas were not required of immigrants entering the country until 1921).
[Origin: 1910–15, Americanism; < It (Neapolitan dial.) guappo swaggerer < Sp guapo pimp, ruffian, via dial. F < L vappa wine that has gone flat, worthless person; initial w perh. by assoc. with a related Gmc word]
“Wop” is a derogatory word for “Italian,” 1912, Amer.Eng. slang, apparently from southern It. dialect guappo “dandy, dude, stud,” and it was used as a greeting among male Neapolitans, said to be from Sp. guapo “bold, dandy,” which is from L. vappa “sour wine,” also “worthless fellow;” related to vapidus.
Oh, for the record, I like it when Marina does cute things in her video – shows some pictures – makes a juice – shows us her bloopers – all that stuff. It adds character to her videos.
I concur with geronimo that part of the fun of this site is its lighthearted nature. Marina’s not only hot, but she comes across as a very happy and fun person. I like that.
TV news do it all the time with a “Cat up a Tree story”. They search the suburbs looking for stray tabbies that they can stuff up a tree when there is no news.
Lucky Kobe is not a cat.
I think these personal things add a lot to the videos.
There is no inherent difference between the etymology of derogatory American words, and non-derogatory American words. Marina’s knowledge of American culture and history is also not a prerequisite to her being able to research the etymology of words.
Errin seems to be of the belief that Marina just sits around contemplating and speculating about where words might have come from. That’s certainly not the case. Marina has said in some of her posts that she has several main sources that she looks to to find the etymology of words. This isn’t stuff she makes up, this is stuff that other people have made careers out of gleaning from the language.
Some of the information to back up Marina can be found just by some crafty internet searching and references to websites that focus on linguistics and etymology. Errin seems to think you just go by your recollection of American history/culture and come up with a theory that may work, and then berate someone who actually did the research. It took me about 3.5 minutes to blow the vapid “hardtack” theory of cracker etymology out of the water. It’s about the most inane and stupid idea one could come up with, and has no basis in fact (and clearly shows that while errin is quick to rudely berate others for their “mistakes” he or she has little concern for being anywhere close to the truth).
No! I don’t think she should make you teachers pet.
Yea she should make you Teachers Assistant! In fact many of us could be a TA. Abracadabra I make you and Unofficial TA (UTA) for HFW. I think that since I am a Captain I can do that, unofficially of course . But I am at sea right now (well a lake that leads to the sea) my words are law. Anyone else want to become a UTA in hopes of becoming an OTA by Commander in Chief Marina?
Jack can you marry people at sea? Or have you ever done one before. Could be a good side line job to help pay for the new boat or Yacht Yatch Yacth well you no what I mean
Capman, Nope I can not. Its just a common myth. BUT if one where an ordain minister then one could do such a thing. I have heard you can go on the internet and become ordained, or something like that. But thats what has to happen to legally marry someone.
Speaking of such. I think I have a charter to do next weekend. Some couple wants a captain to take them out for the evening. I hear it might be a proposal. Whats that movie? Where the girl is always planning weddings and she doesn’t even have a BF? But I think in the end she does get hitched up?
It’s actually very educational. I’ll listen to the video, and Marina is wonderfully easy on the eyes. Then I’ll sometimes google the homework assignment and there are a couple of etymology sites that have blurbs on the words, etc. It basically means each week I’ll add a couple of new words to my vocabulary or understand them better.
I just thought about this and maybe your not American, so your question would be legitimate. If your are not American and older than 20 than I apologize for the above comment.
There are two other southern regional names that I know of. “Tar Heels” and “Raw Backs”. North Carolina was a large producer of tar (pine pitch) for bottom of boats, and the North Carolina regiments were said that “they stuck to their works as if their heels were stuck with tar”. Of course this became a tease as the other states [especially the Virginian's] who would joke that they were slow, because of the “tar” on their heels. This ensued the nickname “Raw Backs” to the Virginian’s as the “Tar Heels” would reply that the Virginian’s “backs” were raw, because of they (NC) had to run over top of them in order to get to the front.
I’m getting you now…
…but still not getting 30 secs of co-comment promo at the end of the vid…or maybe I do…
You are SO much better and enduring than a temporary Sponsor…it’s YOU Marina – you will be around after they have had their moment in the sun…
I feel it – know it…notice the date here…and the future will tell…
…but then again, I could be wrong…
16,500 Condoms Delivered to Antarctica Research Base
Helpless Penguins Killed by Climate Change….thanks to HFW…[efforts] and [affects]…now is nite, woe the bite..flyte
random lesson and comment ‘nice pictures’ SPAIN Hot word to expand on. Soda crackers are food. Bees are Good and so are you!
I thought the way you compared yourself wearing heals to the airport to Russian girls wearing heals to MacDonalds was really sweet–it would be terrible if were born sophisticated snobs! I loved the way you showed your old pictures; the moment had a certain wistfulness, which I liked.
By the way, there are too good words to investigate: sophisticated and snob.
lostforwords
Btw, most Americans are Europeans, and telling lies was invented by us I think, the old Romans already dd it
yankee doodle
thier all yanks to me
I believe that they called Northerner’s Yank’s or Yankee’s.
you asked, “if the northerners called the southerners ‘cracker’ as a slur, what slur did the southerners use to describe the northerners?”
the obvious answer is that southern gentlemen don’t use slurs. The more common folk used the offensive term ‘Yankee’, to refer to the foppish idiocy described in the song yankee doodle dandy. note that members of the confederacy considered Washington and Jefferson as southerners.
other slurs: up until the civil rights movement, the word ‘N*gger’ (nope i don’t mean nagger) was not considered a slur, it only referred to the color of one’s skin->latin nigre meaning ‘black’
I was born and raised in the north, but my family roots are in the south, and i take personal affront every time i hear the derogatory term Yankee. Did you know that new york has even named one of its baseball teams this offensive slur? personally, i think that they should change it to something far less offensive, like “the New York Nigres”
nequaquam Veritum
carpet baggers, like W
Marina, everyone’s always commenting on your looks/features I’d like to add to that and say I think your hair looks real nice. Of course, it always does etc etc. <—wow Andy, why was that so hard to say?
OK, dumb question. Where does the term Yankee come from then?
Post-Civil War, the southerners called northerners ‘CarpetBaggers’. Anyone know the origin?
If I remember correctly, the term “Carpet Bagger” is a term used for Northerners that settled in the southern states. They usually carried with them bags made of oriental rugs, thus the name.
Any one? Any one? Hope this helps.
Marina,
I was watching the Russia vs Netherlands soccer game today and got to wondering… why are people from the Netherlands called Dutch and speak Dutch. Why are they not Netherlanders and speak Netherian?
Where does the name Dutch come from?
Also, I visited the Getty museum and they had some Flemish art. I was told Flemish is also from the Holland region. So why is it Flemish art and not Dutch art?
Marina, I was doing some channel surfing on the TV this morning and happened to catch a show called “Attack Of The Shows” onG4. They had a bunch of Hi-tech stuff, new video games, etc., and the top 10 Women Of The Web. They listed Hot For Words as number 5! Kudos to you, kiddo! Keep up the good work!
Thanks sniperskaya! Thanks to you, I found it and made a post on the site! I wouldn’t have known about it otherwise!
Yankee is the term for northerns that i know of. From the pictures i take it you are not a natural blonde so was you a red head just curious.
Ok it’s working now. Thanks a million.
capman911,
What happened to all of the rest of the replies? I was reading them and then – zip – gone.
Oh and don’t sweat it. You already explained how you were able to reply like a sniper.
I had to reboot my computer to get them to appear back. I don’t think it is our computers as much as it is with Marina’s site. A lot of blogs for her server to keep up with.
what is the origin of “sucker” referring to so someone who is gullible or easily tricked.
why dony ya put some pics on yer site. ill bet not everyone is wathing you for yer lessons.
Whitesmoke is a free download.
I believe the Southern soldier called Northerners was ‘Yanks’, short for ‘Yankee’.
A term used by the Yanks for Southerner soldiers was ‘Johnny’ or ‘Johnnies’, which is short for ‘Johnny Rebs’, which is short for ‘Johnny Rebels’.’ The crackers were also called ‘Butternuts’ because it was a cheap natural dye they used in their woolen uniforms.
Wow…no funky xylophone ‘n’ flute transitional music in this lesson.
I was getting used to that. What CD is that on?
I want to recommend an easy reading and humorous book called….”Crackers” by Roy Blount Jr., which can be snatched up at
Amazon, used hardcover, for practically S&H. (5 bucks)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0017KX4XM/ref=sr_1_olp_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214051541&sr=1-5
Please, Can You tell what is the origin of the word Pandemonium ?
Thanks
I went to your web site WooYownik. You should use that picture as your avatar. It would so cool.
I saw the Dog named Saba. It was funny because that is my nieces name.
I kindly request the word origin of the word “smart” as in Marina is very pretty and smart.
It seems that there are many uses for the word smart as in, “ouch, that smarts”, and “smart ass” and “smart aleck”. What does aLx have to do with that?
Just kidding aLx…..
what is the origin of hte word foot fetish, you are stunning xx
What is the origin of the word, playboy
I was wondering if you could find the origin of the word.. Defenestrate! A weird verb, and sounds weird. Please investigate ;;) thanks HFW
What is the origin of the word ..
SMITTEN
As in Marina I am smitten by youe brains and beauty.
It’s something you do in every video. All your students want this.
You never have a blooper on this word because you haven’t done it
incorrectly.
Have you thought of it?
Once you have, I bet it’ll be your best video ever.
(And if you haven’t thought of it, I’ll give in – but give it a try)
I would like to request the word “kundalini”.
You are amazing!
you should investigate the origin of the word “word” next, lol, it’s in your name too
i would like to know where the term Geisha came from
I know who the new teachers pet is!
Where, who?
stop it you are going to drive the Minions insane
Oh Marina too you up on the date you offered her PD? Is that how you found out?
Prospero can stop with when’s it me now LOL Someone needs to wake him up for the new “Hot” vid, Now pagedoll makes sence.
I just hope its not me! I would have to kick myself out of S.O.A.P.! Then who would run the club? Also what would I look forward to? Once your a pet, thats it. Game over! Like the Budweisers joke “Whaaaassss uuupppp” is not funny anymore. Its gone. Its passed tenths. Its history. You had to be there… etc.
I think the real challenge is to be TA…
If she chooses you, captainjack, you’ll go coastal !!!
No. It would be more like MAN OVERBOARD!! Port side, ready the rescue team!
I think its you she has picked! Im most sure of it.. but then again Im wrong many of times.
Damn PD and him telling us that he knows who the next Pet is. It just makes it more… damn whats the word im looking for. Im always miss placing my words. It has to be around here somewhere..
My life has gone down hill ever since becoming teacher’s pet, nothing left to strive for and every victory since…seems…just…sort of hollow.
@Ok4now. Really? Yea see what happens when you no longer have any goals? I like to have goals to strive for, even if I don’t accomplish them all. Becoming teachers pet is no longer a goal for me.Yea It would be nice to be mention but a TA would be much more. Why? Because you would have other projects to work on (Like I need another project)
. Then I would strive to be the best TA of all the TAs in the group not only improving my skills but helping other TAs to be better than I am.
Somebody is going to be highly elated…
I hope he has new batteries installed in his pacemaker.
Very hot…..
Keep
This ain’t fair.
With a time difference of 17+ hours, the price of airline tickets and U.S. border security that shoot to kill.
I’d be lucky if I got a date with kobe.
Yea that sucks. I’m still having a hard time with dating Marina’s twin sister.
Bleachers — everyone sits on them some point in time.. that word doesn’t even seem to be a word to me, and I do hope I spelled it correctly; just never use it.
That or the expression Bloody Hell heh…
See ya милашка
Dang! Missed another one!
And the homework answer is we call ‘em Yankees!
The southerners called the northerners yankees, during the Civil War the southerners called the union solders billy yank and blue belly.
Марина ты прекрасна
Could you please do a lesson on the word (not trying to offend anyone) faggot?
I’M TOTALLY OFFENDED BY THAT WORD. MY FATHER HAPPENS TO BE A BRITTISH CIGARETTE !!!
SAWEEEEEEET!!!
A bundle of sticks , Faggot…no offence.
Sure stumped me.
I’m sure they called them either Yankees, or Carpet Baggers..
Oh! and a Request!
Where did the phrase “Morning Wood” come from?
DAMNYANKEE!
I was 12 years old before I knew that ‘Damn’ and ‘Yankee’ were two seperate words.
they are?
yo you should do a show about hte word gun
the south refers to the north as the, champions don’t they?
A cracker for your wife.
hey, thanks. she’s gonna like that. you must have a jukebox for a brain.
yep, she thought that was awesome.
Billy, Those guys are freaking awesome.
I had to add them to my YT favorites. 
Nice to see good talent thats is unplug that really can pull off a performance like that. True skills!!
Cool. Actually my 17 year old son’s suggestion a few days ago, I liked
hey, check below on a link i wanted to get to you.
oops… He’s 18… I think
Got the link now & listening. Computer had a minimeltdown, so I went & had a shower. reloaded & ready to go & I like what I’m hearing, (Bruce Springstine acoustic)
Do you & the wife get to sleep through the night yet? LOL When you get to my age & the kids start moving out… it’s funny, I remember wanting to sleep longer, now I can’t.
yea, we ought to be asleep right now. we’re up listening to some of the love songs i’ve been collecting for her and running across a few more. damn, 1:30am we do need to get to bed, kids get up by 7:00am usually.
Hey BW, Gad your back.
Yankees.
Carpet Baggers
The unit of luggage that was easy to hand carry onto a train or stage coach made from carpet material.
BiLL
Marina, where exactily did you were in Spain ??? That hat is very cool !
Really cute
But the picture shows a black hair teenager
Hackers
yes my dear i was stumped !!!!but that black outfit you wore as you say crazy picture WOW your FANTASTIC awsomelious sweetheart
Why do we call “Doctor” when we reffer to a “Medic” ?
Toubib or not toubib, that is the question!
Marina, what is the origin of the expression “to pass with flying colors”? Or what about the word “consumptive”? How did it come to refer to someone with tuberculosis?
Being a damn Yankee, I’m pretty sure thats what they were yellin when I took outa there like I was on fire…yes ma’am, thats my final answer. Yankee. (How about the origin of that one teach?. other than that it came from the south?) Please Marina, moi drug, how do I write Bvwe Ochin kra see vwe on an English keyboard? was I even close? lol
Vas drug Leonard
Wow, there is some serious poo flingin’ going on down there a little ways
…sure am glad I was at work today, jeez 
296th!,,,sweet!
Well you’r here now. So join in
Whats up buddy?..buddy,buddy
Good ta hear from ya!…speeking of kids that came out alright from the mouse show, don’t forget my dearest Christina Aguilara …saw this show twice, once in a sports arena and once in small place, 2700 seats!, in the 7th row! Its was awesome! you can guess who with. 
To this day I can’t wacth this dvd without getting goose bumps! I know, call me crazy, but we love Christina. This clip is from about the middle of the show and the whole stage turns into a circus and the song that follows is pretty cool too…turn it up! 
it’s all old shit, shit that’s been thrown before and will be thrown again. shitty ain’t it?
no, it’s poopy. people w/ $40,000 toys don’t think about shitty things, let alone do them. that’s just … the others, you know. the dumb ones in the cubicles, if i recall correctly. something like that. that’s shitty, yeah …
ha, that just reminded me of an argument i had with a nascar fan. i was saying those drivers have to were adult diapers. and the guy was like, no they don’t! and i said, dude, they are driving for hours in like an oven on wheels, they piss and shit themselves i tell you! and the nascar dude was getting real offended. and of course i couldn’t stop, so i says, you know when their up there in the winner’s circle, holding the trophy, pretty girls, cameras, cheering crowd… shitty diapers. the winning dude is standing there in shitty diapers. and then they all go back and have to change out of their dirty diapers. he got all pissed but after anything he said i would just say, shitty diapers. i wonder if they have little sponsor stickers on their nascar driver man size diapers.
Sell it You just need the right venue.
I race short track & I think, only the ones that crash need the diapers. Takes me back to an old boyscout moto “be prepared” The guy in victory square is clean (probably) except the team bent the rules far enough to excell.
no diapers for Danica ,fiesty little thing, I’m sure she wears a jock.
billyb, how much youtube do you watch? i thought i had a high number! by the way i meant to send this to you before fathers day and graduation, look to your right and click on fathers or graduation. the dude has a really great radio show, i listen all the time.
http://woub.org/radio/index.php?section=4&page=16
OMG BW !!! your comments about my nascar brothers in shitty diapers got me Rolling on the floor laughting my silly ass off. (ROTFLMSAO). I need to call 911 I think I busted my gut.
OMG I think Im going to die laughing my ass off!!! 
I can’t stop laughing!. OH im in paint. damn I can’t spell! Shitty Diapers!!!!! I have to tell this joke to all my friends. This is just too funny!!! 
Watching your Danica vid. Funny the Michael said he got the back end lose and he nailed Danica in the left rear! LOL!!!!
Wow I have never seen Danica that pissed off. She was going to kick Ryan’s ass!
Danica is Smart, Fast, and Sexy. That girl has it all!!!!!
You’r right buzzword they do wear diapers. I go to alot of Nascar races. If they didn’t they would explode shit all over the car at about halfway through the race
Oh, look who decided to chime in, Mr. all smiles all the time for everyone (alx)
. You never have anything good to say about anything, ever. What a buzzkill you are. Everytime you raise your little fingers to type something its always just a bunch of rubbish. You must be one miserable human being, I feel for ya. And no, you don’t recall correctly, I never said “dumb” or even “something like that”, the misery that is your life must have skewed your recall, 
—Marina, How could you have EVER picked this guy to be teacher to be teachers pet? What a giant downer he is.
Don’t be intimidated by aLx, He was intimidating to me when I first started posting here, I was afraid to talk to him he is from what I can grasp really inteligent, but young & fiesty & from a different culture…speaks in short sentences & gets a lot more across in short than most of us can with an avalanche of words, but it is easy to take him to personally he is young & I’m sure full of a certain amount of angst, whatever the heck that is. I’ve forgotten (not really), what it was like to be his age. What the heck am I doing defending alx, flip him the bird he’ll flip it right back at you.
What would this blog be without aLx? We have to have some buzzkill. You can’t eat cake every day. Anyhow he says his point in a short sentences. He doesn’t do long speeches on how he is right. He says his thing and that’s it. He has lots of points that are spot on. I respect him a lot. I do wish once in a great while he say something really positive. Even if he fakes it.
Is there a word gospazha? I read it in a Heinlein novel and I don’t know if it is real or made up.
-Thanks tovarisch
could you clear up the history behind the word definistrate: to throw something or someone out of a window.
sorry defenestrate.
Hi Marina – I was wondering what the top 10 or 20 or so top slang terms for either male or female genitalia might be. We all know what they are, it’s just what are we calling them these days. It might be a fun game to play on youtube…thanks – your devoted student
did i miss anything? been doing hospital rounds, ugh.
Welcome back.
We’ve been learning about crackers .
Now I could drink a few beers to that kind of rap. I don’t care to much for American rap. It takes talent to play a musical insturment and sing instead of synthazied music from a machine with the same old rythem playing over and over. Good choice BillyB.
man
thanks billyb, entertaining bit o’ music.
hey capman911 try this on for size, rage against the machine.
Hospital rounds. Hollywood squares. Some actors are in really bad shape!!!
the connections you make are so far apart sometimes, your going to snap some neurons.
That was very cool music. That was more excellent talent at work. Reminds me of the U2 video that they did on top of a building and the cops were trying to get them down. I thought the old dude in the video was lighting a blunt but it was a cigar.
Welcome back.
Your opinions and points of view are great.
Word Request…
You could make this video quite interesting… I suspect….
…the word is “Nymph”
Hi Trgoblin! Nice to see you back! WB!!!!
Thanks… I’ve been a quiet observer these last few weeks, but I’ve been around!
Seriously, though, I had to request “Nymph, Nymphette or Nympphomaniac” because their is an interesting history to them, and one that Marina could probably put together some nice outfits and props for.
Well, maybe they called them slackers?
Anyway, Marina, your natural hair colour looks good on you – have you considered letting it grow back? It saves money on the peroxide, too.
Nighteye… from the spelling of “colour” I’m guessing you are Canadian?
I don’t think people actually use peroxide any more do they?
At this point, I think she’d have to transition gradually. To do this professionally would cost big bucks.
What’s I think is nice is how she shares little bits and pieces of her personal life every now and then. Just enough to create perspective, but not enough to kill the mystery.
No, I’m dutch – I just try to speak proper english, like english english, and not like american english.
I never bleached my own hair, so I don’t know about any modern alternatives to peroxide. I also think most people look the best with their natural hair colour – natural selection made it that way. Other hair colours can also look good, but often not as good as the natural colour.
I hope you’re not suggesting that American English is not “proper” english – after all, we’re merely talking about one vowel in the spelling, not a major error in grammer.
The evolution of language occurs partly from the development of “dialects”, or variations of usage within the same language. Without regional dialects, we would all still be speaking latin or something even more ancient, perhaps.
nice video marina!!!!!!!!keep on the good work!also your first picture -the one in school-was great.
Northerners were yankees, ‘course…and if they ventured south, carpetbaggers ’cause their luggage was made of carpet…
as some have already mentioned, you look smashing in the photographs – especially…oh, nevermind…
Here’s something to make y’all smile:
FOR NORTHERNERS COMING SOUTH
In the South: If you run your car into a ditch, don’t panic. Four men in a four-wheel drive pickup truck with a tow chain will be along shortly. Don’t try to help them, just stay out of their way. This is what they live for.
Don’t be surprised to find movie rentals and bait in the same store. Do not buy food at this store.
Remember, “y’all” is singular, “all y’all” is plural, and “all y’all’s” is plural possessive.
Get used to hearing “Y’all ain’t from round here, are ya?”
Save all manner of bacon grease. You will be instructed later on how to use it.
Don’t be worried at not understanding what people are saying. They can’t understand you either.
The first Southern statement to creep into a transplanted Northerner’s vocabulary is the adjective “big’ol,” truck or big’ol” boy. Most Northerners begin their Southern-influenced dialect this way. All of them are in denial about it.
The proper pronunciation you learned in school is no longer proper.
Be advised that “He needed killin” is a valid defense here.
If you hear a Southerner exclaim, “Hey, y’all, watch this,! ” you should stay out of the way. These are likely to be the last words he’ll ever say.
If there is the prediction of the slightest chance of even the smallest accumulation of snow, your presence is required at the local grocery store. It doesn’t matter whether you need anything or not. You just have to go there.
Do not be surprised to find that 10-year-olds own their own shotguns, they are proficient marksmen, and their mammas taught them how to aim.
In the South, we have found that the best way to grow a lush green lawn is to pour gravel on it and call it a driveway.
AND REMEMBER:
If you do settle in the South and bear children, don’t think we will accept them as Southerners. After all, if the cat had kittens in the oven, we wouldn’t call ‘em biscuits.
That was so cool annudermale. You need to play them the Chris Cagle song Chics Dig It. It goes along with your Hey, y’all, watch this
Get used to hearing “Y’all ain’t from round here, are ya?” and er ya?
Do you like grits with yo eggs? Or if someone asks you ho de doe. Then hold the door open for thm.
Southern slag;
KEEP-r
slaNg
changing avatar
again
wtf
Moanback. A southerner telling a truck driver to come on back.
I think that ‘carpetbagger’ is a post civil war (war between the states?) term for Northerners who went South to take advantage of the cruel reconstruction. They used luggage made out of carpet. During the war, the soldiers didn’t carry luggage.
I’m not sure about how cruel the reconstruction was, but i do agree, the carpetbaggers came in after the Civil War. I’ll have to watch the vid again and see if Marina specied “during the Civil War” in the homework…
and I forgot about bluebelliies…
There were winners and losers in the reconstruction as far as my thin knowledge of the topic goes. And the carpetbaggers themselves were a mixed bag (ha-ha). Some Carpetbaggers were Northern businessmen starting cotton plantations, some were political organizers there to establish Republican strongholds and some were confidence men, who were there to take advantage in a desperate economy. But it’s probably acknowledged by both sides that the federal effort to reconstruct the ruined South was not well conceived
to put it lightly nor adequate, considering the ineffectual Presidents in office during the time and the Republican congress who were of the mind to punish the South, not rebuild it.
!>NEXT<!
“You can’t be serious – you must be joking.” -
John McEnroe 1959-
(Same Birthday as me, BTW)
Surely, you can’t be serious,
and don’t call me Shirley.
– Airplane
Hospital, what is it doctor?
Lets get back to what is important
Nice background.
There’s a background?
All I saw was this photo of a girl in her underwear. I think I might be missing the point of what is really important.
The only thing that i saw was 2 white back pockets right before i blacked out.
What time is it?
When Marina said “guys I want to show you something” , I fell out of my tree.
I think I have been unconscious for a good 5 hours.
Hey Teacher; You need to bitch at the Guys at Gavatar, it’s nothing if not a mess. Pic are rarely on……….. WTF?
haven’t had that problem,roadie…i’ve always seen mine here…
‘course some don’t have it…
and if the site you are on doesn’t enable ‘em, you won’t see ‘em…
’sides, the price is right, i think…
They come n go. check out the sathrn gal , I posted above , good memories “southern slang” ( no-n ) s_it!
The only problem I have had latley was trying to upload another gravatar and didn’t get it quite right. So back to my bike
Yep, that other one you had was plumb spooky, capman. I mean, how did you get a video loop when everyone else has a still shot? I swear, every time that goldfish swam past your face again I jumped a country mile. And to think I once asked for a refund on the orange sunshine because I wasn’t getting any flashbacks! Sheesh. Flat out gimme the heebie-jeebies.
i want to post a word request…what’s a LAMER???
What’s a lamer than a what? (Say this in your best Italian accent)
i try to give an answer…i think they call them yankee doodle..is that right??
I think I found my new Yacht! Just imagine all the toys I could park inside! Oh and if I get stuck somewhere that I can only back out, I’ll just run to the other bridge and drive forward. No need to turn around! Just think of the parties we could have on here. Hey and Its cheap at only $350k. Sink in a million $$ and I could have one awesome boat hu? NOT!!!
Ok here is a little puzzle for you. We know boats have a ‘Port side’ and a ‘Starboard side’ If your on the ship and facing the bow ( the pointy end) the Port side would be on your left and the starboard side would be on your right. Now which side of the ferry is the Port side? Anyone?
Depends on your direction ? Under way
Thats what I first thought.
But what if I told you to finish Bobs project painting the bulk head on the Stbd side when he leaves for vacation on Tuesday? One you don’t know which way the ferry will be facing on Tuesday. 
scadol it
or is it scuttle ie ” sink it”
Your port/starboard question is impossible to answer since the boat doesn’t appear to have a pointy end.
Ooh Bob that sounds like fun! I have raced many go-karts. I even know where to buy them.
Yes Bob your right the ferry has to round ends. Like a floating saucer.
BTW, this is my dream yacht.
Mega yacht; Mega
Now I could have guessed you would have chosen Octopussy as your dream ship. hehehehe
I’m having a similar yacht built. No not for Real Life (RL) but in Second Life (SL). I have a 88 meter Ketch that I live on in the SL world. Its fun to play with big 3D toys without having to spend the big bucks. The yacht Im having built is much bigger. I don’t know what the exact size is yet. But its about 200 meters long.
Size does matter.
I thought their Port was in the rear?
If you do get that boat consider me your new best friend and deck hand.
Sure thing Geronimo! I’ll try to look for any women want to apply for the deck hand job so not to look as I’m discriminating between the sexes. Its important to have good team of deck hands to help each other getting the job done.
You need a decadent deck hand. (Repeate 10 times quickly and nod…)
capitanjack just said “hand job”
Top stars for you Davecodave!
I want wonder if someone would catch that. LOL. 
BTW Welcome to HFW davecodave. I know you been here for a bit but better late than never.
Jack you could take all of us on a cruise with that one. We would all chip in for diesel.
Just like camping out on the water sleeping bag and all. 
Yes, we could have a HFW party
Naw I would have to put in $500k to a million to get it up to par. We must have some staterooms so we can… well you know..
About the fuel, Just get me some fryer grease and I can make some bio diesel on the cheap.
A lady friend of mine says that we can use Dale’s spare change. She said she would gladly “chip in Dale’s.”
Lividemerald. Oh your so funny
You know one of the most embarrassing thing I ever did?
Im a tad bit of homophobic. The chip n Dale dancers where in a mall that I worked at the time. They where signing their calendars. So I walked up and purchased an autographed calendar for my sister. (I didn’t have a GF at the time, so my sister lucked out) I then gave it to her on her birthday. She said it was one of the best gifts I have ever given her. Yea and some of my co-worker razzed me about it as they watch me wait in line to get the calendar autographed.
Well, captainjack, just as long as there was no thunder from down under your belt…
Get that girl in roadrunrnch’s picture as one of your hands
I think she would do a good job 
Im not so sure. I don’t know if she has the muscle to pull on large lines. Some of those lines are 3 inches thick. Maybe if she pulled every day she could build up some of those muscles.
Ok enough time has passed. So the answer to the which side is port and starboard on a Washington State Ferry is… Drum roll please!!
They have Side #1 and Side #2. Its a big yellow sign with black number on it. To follow the rules of the road, they do use the proper lights as if there was a port and starboard when in motion.
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I think the answer is Yankees but im not sure. And also I want to post a word request for Indubitably.
…and cracking-up also means to go nuts, or insane
, but then to crack-up over something, or she really cracked me up means to laugh…now this is getting more confusing not less…
AND CRACK UP YOUR CAR.
How about a plumber and butt crack
If you get a butt crack, the NRA advises you to throw away the stock.
Nothing much to say about “cracker”…but in a similar vein, what about “honky”? Or if you’re finally up to it, is “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge” really what the “F” word of doom and destruction actually means?
Take care.
I’ll see you guys later
I back happy. I had to work on the Widows XP machine again. This Vista machine is three times faster and a lot more stable.
I think I have a bad motherboard in that xp machine.
I have Black Widows XP.
Oh that was fast. OH damn refresh.!!!!
Ok hurry back!
Send me an email of the type & dimentions of the boat you’re looking for. I have 1/2 inlaws in the boat biz. You don’t have to go far to find folks in the boat biz when you live on an Island. Don’t have to tell you living on Lake Union. Cheers
huh ha! I don’t live on Lake Union any more! I did the Marina thing. I moved. I moved to a bigger lake. Bad choice on my part. This lake seems worse than the Pacific ocean! At least there I would have not riped a 7 foot tear in the boats sides.
Ok Bill. I will. Tnks.
I wonder what type of dementia my boat has?
What in the world is your last name, Marina? or do you like to remain only first-named? Maybe that’s better to remain mysteriously hidden – name-wise…
Read Her Bio, Marina Orlova aka, HOTFORWORDS
http://www.beautyqueentv.com/european_marina.html
So which is the real one?
Time for a new guess the word game, methinks.
No idea.
I can’t believe that she is not married/dating etc
It defies logic/physics – “heels over head” etc
Marina is hot and according to the laws of physics by K. Bear,
Marina will be “hit on” , and I am not talking about planetary collisions.
Can you be sure Her name is even Marina?
Guys Have you ever dated a Woman that HOT?
They very eccentric, And very demanding. Like Food you LOVE that is very Hot and spicy? Ok, now and then ………BUT, Every meal,….. EvErY daY..!
All you start think is” Can jail be that bad? “
Can we be sure that her boobs are fake?
They might be the real McCoy.
Wow!
How did you know?
I thought her kast name was Orlova
Her “kast” name?
I’m confused.
From what I can see she has several names, so they’re not Kast(sic) in stone.
Homework: It’s Yankees, which I believe comes from the fact that New York was originally a Dutch colony called New Amsterdam.
Someone, (or ones) called the Dutch by the epithet “Jan Kaas” (literally John Cheese meaning a cheesehead) and this got corrupted to Yankees as a transliteration.
Answer to home work for crackers: Northerners are called carpetbaggers. They would come to the south with junk or scams to sell to the southerners. This bags were made of carpet. Thrick heavy material and the ulgyest bags you every saw. Only northerners could afford such bags. When southerens saw you carring one. They knew you are a Carpetbagger. You can do a word orign on this too. I sent this same comment by web page and youtube and now this one. I want to be the Teachers Pet.
No No NO greenstar2003 we all want to be the teachers pet
So true.
Like, I don’t dress up in this koala outfit for no reason.
We need more [reply] buttons
She did that one time but failed to make the blog wider so it looked really crappy.
Ok no more buttons. We can’t go messing up the site
easy Guys, just use the *OP* reply, then cut n paste the line of text you like and reply in a new window.
[ Ok no more buttons. We can’t go messing up the site ]
right capman?
Alx, you better watch out. I thought Pagedoll was a girl and was going to flirt with her until I found out she was a he. He even told me
that he was going to keep me going for awhile then tell me he is a dude. So if errin sends you a picture of him or her in a bikini don’t be suprised. 
We are all just electric pulses of 10101010 ’s right?
Would to be odd if the Teach was one of Us, incognito…. hmm? Who could it be?…
This idea has been floated a few times before.
But what’s the sense in that, really? Too much time and not enough to do? Seems unlikely. Make off-the-wall comments just to get people riled or to see who the unstable elements are?
It doesn’t add up. She can already read everything we submit. Plus, we’re all unstable anyway, lol. Except maybe Argon, one of the “noble gases.” And I suspect even he is composed of some unstable elements as well. Just an observation…
To much time ? yes,,,,,,,,House bound and my dog is ignoring me , so I am annoying you. Don’t let Me stop you from more in lighten conversations, I would love to read them.
I am just a little less stable then metastable helium
My little dog is 13 years old and can not hear. So I can sneak up on the little bastard and catch him. If he doesn’t see me coming first.
I think that some of you may remember someone named “errinf” that some weeks or months back took a flying hissy fit over the unmitigated gall of google to place [gasp] McCain political ads. Whoever this errinf was, he or she seemed to have the same “delivery” as this current “errin.” The errinf ultimately left the site in a huff, demanding in a post that her subscription or account or something be canceled, but that was after threats against Marina to have her website basically harassed and hounded by people from a liberal oriented website.
I remember that. It seemed to me to be the same person. Threatening Marina with the idea that there would be cossacks riding in to loot and pillage.
There is an errinf in the O’Reilly Show video comments doing a dummy spit over political ads and things.
10-4, pp811
Better get up my friend. You’ll never guess who the new teachers pet is. Better check the new video.
Can you imagine if there were a sandwich called The ; N * GGER.
Then why is there no outrage about ; THE WOPPER ?
I say we go burn down something and get us a new TV.
Oh come on chill
just Cracking . 
are you cracking up?
Because it’s the Whopper, not the wopper. BTW, there WAS a problem with the name of the fish sandwich Burger King marketed. It was called a Whaler, remember?
OK good. Then Let try the Negr . Think we would get anywere?
Whaler? no. Fish and fast food…….not
FOUND one..! THE Newest BURGER AT CRACKERS
THE NEGGRR-EAT
What does PC really mean;
1 ) Paranoid Caucasian ?
2 ) Phobic Cracker?
3 ) Pretentious Coward?
4 ) Presumptuous Compassionate?
5 ) Personally Correct?
6 ) Politically Corrupt?
Pocks and Cox?
nigger, the word is nigger.
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why is the rash chicken pox called “chicken pox” does it have to do anything with chickens?
BECAUSE People misinterpet Pox and pocks. Chicken Pocks; bites by a Chicken. close enough?
How about the word/phrase “i.e.”
Hi hun, could you please tell me the origin of the word smorgasbord (in swdish-smörgåsbord)
xoxo
/Annika
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It’s called an octocock
I have all the problems I can handle with just ONe..
No hot nurses, but two hot doctors; not that hot though.
was all it took.
Thanks for your good wishes but it wasn’t bad, it was good; just having my chaotic heartbeat re-synchronised – one
What are you trolling for.
A male octopus. Do you know what a male octopus is called roadrunrnch 
I spent most of today trolling … i.e. lying on a hospital trolley.
T
Not Good. But Wish You Well Buddy.
Any Hot Nurses?
If your neck wasn’t so long, your heart wouldn’t have to work so hard to get blood to your little pea brain.
Best wishes Bob.
They check your temp. look in your ears, eyes, nose & mouth. Then they look up your…birth certificate…check your credit limit then check you in for the work you can afford. That about how it works over there?
No, Billy, it’s all “free” (as long as you’re willing to stand in line for 18 months), but if you want to jump the queues you can pay or buy insurance.
The “free” treatment is paid for through your taxes, so if you go private your paying twice.
a 5 star job
Also enjoy you sharing your pictures from
your personal life with us. Thank you for
being you.
Maia Marina
Crackers was the name of a cat my x wife and i use to care for. She had kittens in the bed in the middle of the knight and one of them really liked water so much when we watered the flower bed he would run and roll all around in the water. I never saw a cat that liked water so much.
Confederate soldiers had hardtack biscuits as their rations, and hardtack is akin to a cracker because it is flat and dry. I wonder if our trusty teacher took the time to explore this possible origin of ‘cracker’ being a derogatory term for Southerners because of the hardtack they ate during the Civil War. Very plausible origin, and all I used with my knowledge of American history, something that is not Marina’s forte. In fact, it is something she is ignorant of. Quite a disqualifier when trying to come off as an expert on words of an American historical origin.
Ok, I’ve said my peace on this matter, but, needless to say, I am deeply disappointed by such red herring philology as this. Marina isn’t perfect, but she should be held to high standards because she can be. HotForWords is great when done right, disappointing when done wrong. Mistakes are nothing more than something to be learned from and not repeated, so don’t take constructive criticism as something adversarial when it is not. Just try to be a little more thorough with your lessons, teach. It makes it easier to trust you that way.
Peace and love, Errin : )
You’ve not identified a mistake.
You used your knowledge of “American history” to speculate as to the possible origin of a word by suggesting that “cracker” MIGHT have arisen out of some derogatory view of southerners because of the hardtack they ate during the civil war, which was in your words “akin” to a cracker. Have you researched the first uses of the word “cracker” and the first uses of that word in reference to white people?
Has any linguistics expert or etymologist adopted your speculation as a possibility? What does the Oxford English Dictionary say?
Do the following points make your theory less plausible? (1) both union AND confederate soldiers used hardtack, (2) hardtack was invented around 1800 – a full 60+ years before Civil War, (3) originally hardtack was used by sailors of the US and Britain as a long lasting sustenance on long sea voyages, and in the 1840s it was used by miners and explorers in the gold rush, (4) there does not appear to be any examples of southern whites being singled out in derogatory manner for their consumption of hardtack, and (5) there doesn’t seem to be any examples of anyone, northerner, southerner, sailor, explorer, miner, being given any derogatory name because of the word “hardtack” or that “cracker” was in fact derived from the consumption of hardtack.
The word “cracker” actually goes back to 1440, “hard wafer,” but the specific application to a thin, crisp biscuit is from 1739. This doesn’t seem to lend itself to your theory.
There is a quote from 1766 which states, “”I should explain to your Lordship what is meant by crackers; a name they have got from being great boasters; they are a lawless set of rascalls on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia, who often change their places of abode.” [1766, G. Cochrane] That’s a century before the Civil War, and 35 years prior to the invention of hardtack, and southern whites are being called “crackers” and this gentleman (Mr. Cochrane) is explaining to a Lord in England what that means.
And, what do you mean, “red herring” philology? A red herring is something that is intended to divert attention from the real matter at hand. Is that what you think Marina was doing? She was employing a cunning debate technique to get us off the track of the true etymology of the word “cracker?”
GO Prospero, GO!!!
Well said
I always thought hardtack was a form of beef jerky.
Good etomology Prospero. I could learn alot from you
Wow Prospero! Your like a black belt in Wordkwondo. Hey is that a new word? Spell check just choked on it. Ok I deem a new word “Wordkwondo” Meaning someone who is master at the art of using words in self defense.
How good is your Kung fu? My Wordkwondo is better! LOL.
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Ref: Taekwondo
Taekwondo is a Korean martial art. Taekwondo means: Kick Punch Way – “tae” means kick or foot, “kwon” means punch or hand, and “do” means way of. The term karate has become the generic name for any of the kicking and punching martial arts. Basically, the Korean term “Taekwondo” means the same as the Japanese term “karate.”
Thanks for the compliments. I was basically just restating what Marina said, although I found backup for everything in etymology sources. Even looking up the word in the dictionary would have clued errin in that her speculation was simply hot air.
Thats good you had your sources at the ready. Some people are just to lazy to check out to make sure their facts are correct before stating that what they say is true. OR even allow themselfs to stand corrected if they are proven wrong.
great prospero, happy that you can be a pain in someone else’s ass other than mine. keep it up, you as pain.
you as pain, that was amusing, meant to say, you ass pain. but both actually work well.
WOW !!! i need a nap.
Thanks, buzz….always glad to oblige!
Hey – for the record – all of our discussions were civil, even when we vigorously defended our positions. What set me off with errin is that he or she started tossing out insults.
Who pissed in your cornflakes? Please I mean no derogatory question. I am saying this in kindness, but give Marina a break she’s only human just like you and I. I have made plenty of mistakes on this web site and no one has chastized me for my mistakes. If you are such a well learned person and it sounds like you are then start your own You Tube site and teach us the way you think we should learn. I for one would join your site and listen to what you have to say. I am not prejudice, I will listen to anybody. Whether they are Danish, African, French, Russian, American or just an alien from outerspace. I have made a lot of new friends on this site who I care for and hope they care for me. They are from all over the world and I have learned alot from them and their different cultures. We enjoy the bantering and have fun with each other, even if the lesson is wrong or off pace. So Marina makes a few mistakes so do us all, we are human. Thanks for reading this Errin and I hope you have a better day. For we do care about you just as much as anyone else who comments here. As you put it Peace and Love. Mike
The key here is that Marina was correct, and errin made a knee-jerk false accusation (in the process claiming to be knowledgeable, while clearly demonstrating that she is not).
Okay, capman, that tears it. I’ve had it with all your mistakes. Now go out back of the shed and cut me a hickory switch. If it’s not big enough, I’ll go get one myself. And remember: this is gonna hurt me a lot more than it hurts you….NOT!
@Errin, If you don’t like the show your watching why don’t you just change the channel????
Self-righteousness, probably.
errin, I hope your not finally cracking-up
I’ve seen some women get upset because a pretty girl gets all the attention. They get jealous and fling poo at the pretty girls trying to convince the guys that the pretty girls are just dumb blonds.
Every army that we know anything about had something like hardtack, the world sailed on it–even the Romans, & Marina does enough in Latin to make the grade. Besides, even if she were wrong now and then it’s the intelligence and progress of the student body that’s important–and in that regard she’s doing pretty good job even though now & again you can catch a student in error.
concur
errin,
Someone disappointed you some where some how at some time. You seem to be expecting perfection which just does not exist–in anything or anyone–especially anyone. Marina’s only human… which in-and-of itself is a pretty cool thing to be. Look for humanity it’s all around, look for perfection it’s nowhere.
okay4now – more importantly, Marina was not wrong. Not even close. Just because errin said it with conviction doesn’t make it true. It makes errin delusional.
Yeah, she’s not, but he could quite possibly be, not just in substance but also in theme.
errin
Maybe there should be an apostrophe at the end of errin.
Good one! and so true.
Very funny RR. That hits the nail on the head spot on.
errin
I took a pic
so I could let
you see how
I feel . OK?
I thought that was Pennslytucky9 in that picture.
Just paying you back PT9 for my beating you gave me 
ERRIN. If you piss her off and make her quit HOTFORWORDS, im going to to be soooo angry at you.
Nobody…And I mean NOBODY wants to watch ERRINFORWORDS!
(so lighten up)
For the record, Marina completely fucked up the word origin of the word ‘Wop’ in a recent lesson. She has a very limited understanding of American culture and history, so it is hard to take her seriously as an ‘expert’ of derogatory American words. If Marina is so clueless as to not know that wop stands for ‘Without Papers’ (harkening back to the Ellis Island days which were pre-passport), then how can she be trusted to have a clue as to what cracker means? Then again, maybe she’s too busy sharing her pictures and coloring books and knick knacks with us to get the job done as an educator and a philologist.
90% or more of the people here like the fact that she shares her pictures and things about her personal life with us. Who cares if she she DID get something wrong, this is all for fun, it’s a college course. I also have always heard that WOP is for with out papers, but what is your actual proof that your are right and she isn’t? Let’s see some links. If you are going to take this site too serious you will never have any fun. Maybe you should look for a more anal website to spend your time. Something along the lines of P.e.t.a. or greenpeace.
correction: It’s NOT a college course
Marina wasn’t wrong. She was dead bang on (both regarding wop and cracker).
Without papers origin of the word “wop” is a myth. You’re wrong, and your history is way off base.
It is absolutely not an acronym for “With Out Papers” or “Without Passport.” This is one of the most famous examples of folk etymology or backronym. The reason for this is that the term was already in popular use as early as 1910, a period in which no immigrant needed papers to enter the United States (passports and visas were not required of immigrants entering the country until 1921).
[Origin: 1910–15, Americanism; < It (Neapolitan dial.) guappo swaggerer < Sp guapo pimp, ruffian, via dial. F < L vappa wine that has gone flat, worthless person; initial w perh. by assoc. with a related Gmc word]
“Wop” is a derogatory word for “Italian,” 1912, Amer.Eng. slang, apparently from southern It. dialect guappo “dandy, dude, stud,” and it was used as a greeting among male Neapolitans, said to be from Sp. guapo “bold, dandy,” which is from L. vappa “sour wine,” also “worthless fellow;” related to vapidus.
Oh, for the record, I like it when Marina does cute things in her video – shows some pictures – makes a juice – shows us her bloopers – all that stuff. It adds character to her videos.
I concur with geronimo that part of the fun of this site is its lighthearted nature. Marina’s not only hot, but she comes across as a very happy and fun person. I like that.
I agree with your thought 100%.
So do we all.
It was a short video and Marina filled it out.
TV news do it all the time with a “Cat up a Tree story”. They search the suburbs looking for stray tabbies that they can stuff up a tree when there is no news.
Lucky Kobe is not a cat.
I think these personal things add a lot to the videos.
Errin, Where on this blog did you read that she was an expert of derogatory American words? I must have missed something.
Errin makes no sense.
There is no inherent difference between the etymology of derogatory American words, and non-derogatory American words. Marina’s knowledge of American culture and history is also not a prerequisite to her being able to research the etymology of words.
Errin seems to be of the belief that Marina just sits around contemplating and speculating about where words might have come from. That’s certainly not the case. Marina has said in some of her posts that she has several main sources that she looks to to find the etymology of words. This isn’t stuff she makes up, this is stuff that other people have made careers out of gleaning from the language.
Some of the information to back up Marina can be found just by some crafty internet searching and references to websites that focus on linguistics and etymology. Errin seems to think you just go by your recollection of American history/culture and come up with a theory that may work, and then berate someone who actually did the research. It took me about 3.5 minutes to blow the vapid “hardtack” theory of cracker etymology out of the water. It’s about the most inane and stupid idea one could come up with, and has no basis in fact (and clearly shows that while errin is quick to rudely berate others for their “mistakes” he or she has little concern for being anywhere close to the truth).
By the way, cap’n, don’t you think Marina should finally make me teacher’s pet for my vigorous defense against these verbal assaults?
Yes.
Yes Prospero she should!
Your “Word Fu” is great old master!
No! I don’t think she should make you teachers pet.
I think that since I am a Captain I can do that, unofficially of course . But I am at sea right now (well a lake that leads to the sea) my words are law. Anyone else want to become a UTA in hopes of becoming an OTA by Commander in Chief Marina? 
Yea she should make you Teachers Assistant! In fact many of us could be a TA. Abracadabra I make you and Unofficial TA (UTA) for HFW.
Jack can you marry people at sea? Or have you ever done one before. Could be a good side line job to help pay for the new boat or Yacht Yatch Yacth well you no what I mean
i want prospero to be teachers pet so he’ll stop begging. give the dog his bone.
Capman, Nope I can not. Its just a common myth. BUT if one where an ordain minister then one could do such a thing. I have heard you can go on the internet and become ordained, or something like that. But thats what has to happen to legally marry someone.
Speaking of such. I think I have a charter to do next weekend. Some couple wants a captain to take them out for the evening. I hear it might be a proposal. Whats that movie? Where the girl is always planning weddings and she doesn’t even have a BF? But I think in the end she does get hitched up?
_/)__/)__
Good job, prospero811. I agree with you 100%.
WE ARE NOT WATCHING SO THAT WE CAN BE EDUCATED…!!!
(didn’t you see her get up and go get the pictures? ….hello)
But Im getting educated! I know some new word origins and get to see some old photos of young Marina.
Marina is quite clever with these videos.
The cute picture at the start of the video is a hook to get people to watch the video.
Then in a short 2 minute time frame, she explains the etymology of a word or phrase.
Then there is reader feedback with homework, rating of her video and suggesting new words.
Also from Marina’s point of view we are just a lot of “gravatars” with varying degrees of grammar skills.
We know who Marina is, but from Marina’s point of view, we are just a collection of obscure made up names.
I think that is the big HOOK. You do learn something.
Marina is very attractive and very … charismatic.
There must be a better word then charismatic, but I can’t think of one at the moment.
Yes I can She’s HOT
It’s actually very educational. I’ll listen to the video, and Marina is wonderfully easy on the eyes. Then I’ll sometimes google the homework assignment and there are a couple of etymology sites that have blurbs on the words, etc. It basically means each week I’ll add a couple of new words to my vocabulary or understand them better.
What is the origin of the word PARADIGM.
Are you familiar with the phrase ’subvert the dominant Paradigm’
Also what is the origin of my nickname…Stupermundi
i request the word “chill”
You’re kidding right?
I just thought about this and maybe your not American, so your question would be legitimate. If your are not American and older than 20 than I apologize for the above comment.
then
you’re kidding right ?
HeY…….. chill Man
Love the Avatar Voldemort.
What is it? It looks like a white apple with a bite taken out of it.