Dr. Marina, You Are Amazing! It’s incredible, how you make the outtakes seem like ‘accidents’—like you don’t know everything-you-do with your beautiful knowledge will help your students!
What are some common bloopers Americans make while trying to speak Russian?
A couple of examples from other languages:
When trying to say “I’m embarrassed,” Americans speaking Spanish often accidentally say “I’m pregnant.” Then they really ARE embarrassed.
Trying to ask “How old are you?” in Italian, Americans succeed in saying, “How many assholes do you have?” Which makes the American look like an a**hole.
Anyway, we’re not laughing AT your bloopers; we’re laughing WITH you!
I was watching Marina’s “Hawaiian swimsuit video” again last night (word request: “gobsmacked” ) , and finally noticed what 170,000 other subscribers saw before me. How could she possibly look that cute and fetching unless she was extremely fond of whoever was holding the camera? I’ve always found the amateur quality of that video somehow highly appealing, and now know why: just remember the etymological origin of “amateur!”
Anyway, maybe we should recall that our marriage and other proposals to Marina could be seriously annoying Marina’s sweetheart, which would not be fair to our dear Teacher.
So as the video ended, I marveled again at how it gives me a feeling exactly like being in love. Then I reminded myself I was looking at a computer image broadcast to 170,000 other subscribers, and the feeling went away. Still, it’s nice to know I can still feel that way.
Marina knows that–though she might be looking at a not-so-bad-looking person–she’s communicating with ‘hundreds-of-thousands’ (or ‘hundreds, thousands of times,’ but still lots of people) and enriching their lives through her spare-time sacrifice—spare-time she could be using to Save the World!
It may or may not technically be a word. However, I was curious about the word, as it is a shortened name for technician. It is also in words such as techno, technology, technicolour, Hi-Tech etc.
Word request : boycott !!
something my country has started doing in effort to stop the Gaza incident
weird middle eastern people , why can’t they just be friends ?
WORD REQUEST: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue will soon have a new inhabitant. My hope for the nation and the world is that he does a great job. To send him off in the right spirit would you investigate the meaning of the word: INAUGURATION?
Jay Leno mention In-and-out burger. I missed eating there. After watching a movie at the drive in I would go and get a In&out Burger. Whats kind of cool is there stickers. If you cut out the letters B and the R you get a really funny bumper sticker. Maybe thats why I like the food?
Marina, If i get nothing else from this video, I do get the sense that your working very hard to speak very proper and understandable Engish. It appears that even after two years it can still be a strugle for you at times. I can only imagine what it must be like.
Another word phrase request: “If I get nothing else”
Bye the way (yes thats another phrase) you’re speech doesn’t have to be perfect as long as the message is intelligible (capable of being “understood” yes another definition for “understand”)
When English is your second language and she pick a job of doing lessons on a video to well spoken English speakers is a great challenge. I feel I have a decent grasp of English and I still mess up on my videos and classes.
I would never claim for myself to be a well spoken English speaker, i just talk like it comes natural to me, perhaps a faux pas because that is an assumption that everyones meanings of the words are the same as mine.
Note here I was going to say a mistake on my part but i remembered thats a fault and i don’t have any , and thats my jokerism of the day??
“Bloopers”- Aw, the good ol’ days…a year ago!
You sure have come a long way teach.
I think I just realized that for the past 8 months I’ve been visiting this site I’ve been watching the American Dream unfold right before my very eyes.
Since I asked about a timestamp based on when the raw footage was taken, did you make this “lesson” at the same time you made the GTW Game XI Answer? The bed and the bed-table area look alike in both videos; there is a grey folder-like thing toward the lower left (viewer’s left) corner; in one, Gorby is in your left hand and in the other, Gorby is in your right hand; in both, you handle lucky Gorby the same way; and your dress, hair, nail-polish, relation to the camera are the same in both.
Anyway, I can notice differences in the background among your other videos, but not between the “Out Takes” and “GTW Game XI Answer” videos.
Yesterday, when I wrote the above, I thought the easter egg was the link to the bloopers lesson and did not think that what I was writing about had anything to do with the easter egg. But today, I read Captain Jack’s comment about the easter egg being related to the cat in the movie matrix (and related comments). So is the above “deja vu” the easter egg? Cap’n Jack mentions an illusion — is the illusion the background — did you actually shoot the introduction to Out Takes in Las Vegas and use the background from the GTW Game XI Answer? (By considering the parting of your hair, one can see that Gorby has actually moved from your left to your right and so the scene of you holding Gorby is not an artificial/mirror image of the previous scene taken in a mirror.)
Bloopers within outtakes? In German we call that “doppelt gemoppelt” or is it rather a non sequitur? I liked the videos – make a new year’s resolution, Marina: The videos should be a little longer from now on, let’s say 6-7mins. instead of 3-4… size matters I thought…
Hey Marina Met You at Youtube Live and Requested this Word in person but I Made a Video Request for the word “Matrix” Here’s my Video Request http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDjDE8KB3dY
Can the next “Out Takes” be of the wardrobe mal-function kind, a la J. Jackson?!?!
Secondly, with the financial crunch we are all feeling, it led me to think what is the origin of the term “Piggy Bank”?
Finally, last weeks jeopardy had a category for stupid word origins, mainly because the pronounciation was the same. I dont remember the clues but here are some of the anwsers in non-jeopardy format:
german eis = ice
french jaquet = jacket
Old kinderhook = OK
seophon = seven
***BLOOPERS***
OK, here’s one of mine: MOM IS REALLY MAD AT YOU! (Or maybe me!) I showed her the “Salary” lesson, and she said: “WE FOUGHT FOR GENERATIONS TO GET MEN TO RESPECT US FOR OUR BRAINS WITHOUT GAWKING AT OUR BOSOMS — AND THERE SHE SITS, SCANTILY CLAD ON HER BED, WINKING AT YOU! WE’RE BACK TO THE DARK AGES!”
I explained that I only watch you for the intellectual content of your videos, and she gave me a dirty look!
Which I suppose confirms what Lincoln said: “You can fool some of the people all the time; you can fool all of the people some of the time; but you can’t fool MOM!”
ROFLMAO! Great post, EO! Makes me want to buy you a lifetime gift-subscription to Playboy magazine – for the well-written text in their articles, of course!
{I wonder if they publish in braille for the visually impaired?}
Your Mom (respectfully) just did what us men are accused of doing. Not giving Marina the chance to show that she is very smart. Marina used her looks to get our attentions and then fill our brains with knowledge. Apparently the formula is working. Had Marina only used one or the other she would not be where she is at now in the most viewed ratings. I think if your Mom knew what Marina was teaching she would tie you to the computer and make you watch her lessons. Im thinking images of the movie ‘Clockwork Orange’. You should not show your Mom any of the lessons just yet but tell her what you have learned. Then when she asks you where are you learning all this you can show her who is teaching you this knowledge. I think then she will understand her first assumption was incorrect. I hope anything I said was not taken in any misunderstanding. Just wanted to make my statement to help.
Hi Captain Jack,
With respect, Marina could do very well on her brains alone. As evidence, consider Anu Garg’s “A Word A Day” newsletter — no visuals, 600,000 subscribers.
I’m not sure I get the Clockwork Orange analogy. Malcolm McDowell was tied down in a state of near agony. I’m magnetically glued to HFW in a condition of near euphoria.
I doubt I’ll teach Mom much at this stage in her life (she was born before women had the vote) — but her store of knowledge may come in handy. With a looming depression, it may be useful to ask advice from someone who lived through the Big One.
In the movie Clockwork Orange one of the characters had tooth picks place so to keep his eye lids open. There was some other head gear that kept him facing forward to watch some disgusting videos to break him of some habits. It was a rather disgusting movie. I was using the idea of force feeding lessons to you. LOL….
Evan! Your Mom lived through the Depression! That is my current research project! I’m trying to retool my business to best adapt to the current depression (aka recession. Now officially recognized. Definition of a depression is a sustained recession.) I’m looking out for ideas that business came up with to survive those times. What I’m discovering is what worked back then is working today. Shoe repair business are growing like crazy. The movie industry is doing very well. Schools, like mine, are doing very poorly. It’s freaking me out to be honest.
Here’s a surprise: someone’s making a good living off of selling prepackaged brown-bag lunches. Americans have been eating a lot of meals at fast food restaurants, which are not all that cheap…but have forgotten how to pack their own. So they’re buying these bag lunches — cheaper, and even more convenient!
Brown bag lunches! Wow! Well they are much healthier than fast food for sure. This goes to show you how lazy Americans have become. I think we are going to see a lot of things like this. Back to the old ways of doing things. It’s will even become a popular thing to do.
I’m sorry, I laughed so hard while reading this… Your mom is so cute…
What you should have done, is shown her some of your comments and conversations you’ve had here.
Introduce me, introduce me!
Cute Out Takes. I would like to know where the phrase “Tit For Tat” come from. Also the word “Gleek,” as in spitting tha saliva from under your tounge. Thanks Love YA
I second the word requests – Claymore Mine and Gladiolus Flower, and pay a nod of admiration to your finely honedswordsmanship, as well as your razor-sharp wit!
☞Hey guys. Marina informed me of a cool little easter egg in her “Out Takes” video. No one has mentioned it yet. It’s hidden very well in plain sight. Can you find it? [Update:] “I’ll give you a clue. Remember the first movie “The Matrix”? What was wrong with the cat?”
UPDATE: Im such a moron!!!!! Ok that’s nothing new… The Easter Egg is NOT in the “Out Takes video”. No wonder you couldn’t find it. Sorry guys! Its in the Contumelious lesson. I’m so embarrassed. I don’t know what I was thinking. I guess I’m working on too many projects at once. Im going to start a new thread on that page with the clues. Come and join me over there and let’s see if we can find it! http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/01/09/contumelious/
Not yet. It will blow some of you way for it’s so well hidden. I’ll give you a clue. Remember the first movie “The Matrix”? What was wrong with the cat?
Ah, the cat being a cat was unable to determine between the “red” pill and the “blue” pill. Determanism! Physicist Sir Arthur Eddington writes: “The revolution of theory which has expelled determanism from present-day physics has therefore the important consequence that it is no longer necessary to suppose that human actions are completely predetermined.” the key word is “expelled” coz Marina mentions that in her blooper video.
Wasn’t the matrix scene with the cat, something to do with deja vu? or a possible glitch in the matrix?.
Because if I remember rightly, Neo saw a Black cat shaking like a dog would when its wet, and walked away, and then saw exactly the same thing a second or two later.
I agree with you on the black cat, but I don’t see any reference in the video to what CJ is giving us the clue on.
I watched the video a dozen times, but couldn’t find any Easter egg.
Yes kaibanator, thing with the cat has a Déjà Vu aspect to it. Glitch is more of a misconception though of what the cat represents in that scene from the Matrix. An example: if someone taped a segment of show onto a vhs tape then re-taped the same scene overlapping one scene upon another, and perhaps when they did that a few seconds of copy repeated itself on the recorded tape you’d have noticed a cat walking by then a few seconds later it walks by again
Captain Jack…”Easter Egg” is my word request…I know you said not to make them in the replies, but, maybe you pass it on. The forced bulbs for flowers(tulips) in the video have something to look for in plain site? Are there mistakes or rather bloopers hatched before the egg is laided? All in fun and best to you what do you mean, an easter egg?
My understanding of an “easter egg in a dvd” is a scene that is not documented in, for example, the list of scenes mentioned in ads or in the “dust-jacket” for the dvd or in the “title or root menu” of the dvd. The manufacturer would give instruction on how to access the undocumented scene in small print (e.g., “go to scene such and such and click on that characters face and the easter egg will start playing”). The thing that meets this definition for this lesson is the link to the lesson on the word bloopers.
Before DVD’s, Software programmers have been hiding little surprises in their code for years. Many video games are full of them (i.e. a certain key combination gives you unlimited lives, another displays a group photo of the programming team, in a particular Star Wars game, one can access an image of an individual holding a model TIE fighter in one hand and an X-wing in the other).
I had a friend that owned some hard rock vinyl record that had a secret slot were you could play it backwards and hear a few interesting words. He also had a vinyl record that had a 10 second track just past the end of the last song.
Yes you can make word origin request in the replies. She can search all the request no mater where they are on the site. Just remember to say use the words ‘origin request’ or ‘word request’. This might change later for it’s seems proper to state a request for the origin of said word.
I do not pass on requests for they need to be posted in your comments to be search able.
hs4mm has a good description of ‘Easter Egg’. I would like to add that many computer games, console games, and music CDs have Easter Eggs. Here is what I found on Wiki… "A virtual Easter egg is an intentional hidden message, in-joke or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, computer program, web page or video game. The term draws a parallel with the custom of the Easter egg hunt observed in many Western nations, but actually is derived by the practice of the last Russian imperial family's tradition of giving elaborately jeweled egg-shaped creations by Fabergé which usually contained hidden gifts themselves" Now I’m interested in… you guessed it.. Russian’s connection with jeweled egg-shaped creations. I will second your origin request for Easter Egg. Might be a good lesson for Marina to do in the upcoming celebration.
Yes the The Romanovs were famous Ruling Tsars of Russia and are well know for commissioning of the Fabergé eggs (for Easter gifts) that are very great treasures of artwork.
I know what it is Captain Jack, cept I ain’t going to give it away, if you really want to know you have to earrrrnnn it! as in extra credit “hint” the word “cram”
Still happily frustrated “cram” + “something wrong with a cat in a movie I’ve not seen” = Fianchetto quite perplexed! Thanks for the puzzle, CJ, and for not giving it away, GP!
The cat in the matrix passed through the doorway twice, a side effect of the code being reordered, phenomena named Déjà Vu.
There’s no Déjà Vu in he blooper tag, is it?
I wonder what it is…
Yes Chemikal, you’re totally onto something with the cat and Déjà Vu. In the first Matrix when Neo spotted the cat moving in exactly the same way as it had an instant before Neo merely commented verbally with no real contempt in his voice, just as a matter of fact as if to say “What’s going on here?”
Very good Chimikal. Now what you know about the cat. What is in this video that is similar to an older video that Marina did awhile back. Here is another clue. On thing in this video is just an illusion from a previous video.
The matrix cat was there then ran off then upon looking again was there again. I think. However upon researching the word cemetary got this (cemetary not to be confused with Cemetery) could this be was she considers lame?
“cemetary” or “cemetry” should be “seminary” I think. (I think it would be quite difficult for a corpse to do anything, save becoming a vampire, that would get it ‘kicked out’ of a cemetary; however any succombing to temptation of the flesh could easily get one kicked out of a seminary). But if this is some part of the mystery, I still don’t get it, and remain happily befuddled.
You may be correct however , the slide in of gorby with the ballon remark was written “cemetary” a word that had to be inserted while editing the video, i don’t think she would have made a mistake of that nature, Unless it was a red herring.
Hey Captain Jack, my guess is that, that is Not Gorby in the out takes. I think that is another dog that belongs to Marina’s sister or someone else we might know?
Hey cute!
The mafya is a very complicated system, people never gonna know what is happening “underground”, but I’m sure you can tell me the origins of the word MAFYA.
Thanx
Czety
Hi Marina , I have a couple of new word requests 1= Sabbatical it was/is a sabbatical year and the other word is 2= facile, I think it means fluent or something.
hey marina…i was playing the World war 2-based game called call of duty 5 and i found a gun (german i think ) called Kar98k …i really liked that weapon so i was wondering if you can tell us the origin of the word…thanks
That’s lovely, Marina, although I have to admit at being slightly disappointed at the lack of wardrobe malfunctions. Don’t those ever happen while recording?
Hey guys and gals I hope everyone is well today. I just voted and hopefully raised Marina’s tally up one more notch. You know something I just figured out. Probably most of you already knew this, but if you click on your name after “Logged in as”, just above this first comment box it will take you to the Dashboard. I don’t play with things like I used to, clickable things that is on web sites. I hear you laughing in the back there. Any way don’t forget to vote for our Dear Teacher.
Oh by the way if you want to make an ole man happy donate to my car fund.08 Challenger with a 6.1 Hemi in Hot Rod Orange. Love those retro look cars. The 60’s and 70’s were the best years in muscle cars.
I have a question. Not about a word exactly. What do we call the years 2000 – 2009 ? The 0’s? The 2000’s? No one has used anything as they did in the 90’s, the eighties, ect, that I am aware of. What did they call them in the early 1900’s? in fact what do we all the years 2010- 2019? The tens? The teens?
Марина, добрый день!
Вас страшно разыскивает журнал “Афиша” (www.afisha.ru) на предмет интервью
подскажите, пожалуйста, как с вами можно связаться!
Заранее спасибо!
ольга, oytkina@gmail.com
The weak has out takes and the year, 52. Outlined with outfitted outdoors outgrowth; outlandish in humbolt-nature, an outburst over herded the pastroralismness…..what you do to me How about a pat on your back!!!!!!!!
Hello hs4mm,
Yes I have, but that was some time ago when WP was first released (Linux, etc) . I occasionally look at some code here and there, but I am super busy with other projects right now.
Marina, I have a question about word usage which has occurred to me as a result of a post in the forum.
The person wrote,
“If any topics of my creation are in their ‘most proper’ place, I must admit, it is purely coincidental.”
Am I being too pedantic in suggesting that this is not a correct usage of “coincidental”? I would say “fortuitous” would be more appropriate, and that “coincidental” should only be used if two unconnected things had happened, for instance two people had posted the same thing or one person had done something correctly twice, when they were not renowned for doing so.
Do you have any comments?
Yeah, you are being pedantic. Stop using my stick.
Just kidding.
Hey Bob, very interesting observation, and I agree with your assessment and there are many words, which escape me at the moment, which also fall into a similar category you described.
Might this fall into a category where certain words are sliding into an area which, through misuse, (evolving) are taking on new and different meanings?
Those are my suspicions too, PK; all the more reason, then, for Obama to make it compulsory for everyone to attend Hotforwords classes to learn the origins of words so that they know when and where to use them as they were intended to be used.
Dear Marina, Nobody is perfect
So you are certainly forgiven for your mistakes, cause they were quite amuzing aswell
Now I was wondering today “the big ten – four” where it comes from (I heard it in some movies once) and I tought theres nobody better to ask then Hotforwords
Not sure.
Are you saying that it is working for you now? But wasn’t before?
If that is the case, let me speculate in this way.
Google has been having major issues in the last day or so.
About 3-4 hours ago, Google was down.
If you look at my comments from yesterday’s video, the Internet had about 5-8 routers down, meaning it affected all links to Gravatar.com and Gogole syndication links. So, my guess, it is related to that.
hs4mm, I cache the pages on the website to speed thing up. The widgets are all on a cache that is sometimes 1800 seconds or longer or less. So if you don’t see things update right away, it could be because of that.
Dear Marina,
I forgive you. Don’t worry – you need neither ask for it, nor need you even feel remorse. I expect neither. My love for you as another human being is without qualification and unconditional, transcending and pre-empting any other requisite on your part, and shall remain so, no matter how many covert insults you attempt to send my way. My response shall always be to forgive, however petty, however undeserved the barbs and insults sent intentionally, and surreptitiously at me, for I know ignorance to be the source, and there is no crime in ignorance. For the record, my capacity to forgive exceeds your capacity to debase, demerit, defame, libel or slander by many orders of magnitude. Continue if you really feel you must, but know that you are forgiven in advance.
Addressee knows, and I do not believe you to be so aloof as you present yourself. Question my belief in detail @ http://uk.youtube.com/Fianchetto1, s’il vous plait, mon frere.
Perhaps I am mistaken, but *appears* so to me. So to presume utter innocence on your part, as you claim:
I understand that appearances can be decieving- perhaps I decieve myself in misinterpretation.
“Your comment makes it look like I sent insults your way? Yet I haven’t nor would I to anybody… so I am confused.”
If you haven’t, then I stand corrected. My apologies.
Regardless: (note proper usage thanks to yourself) My love for you as another human being is without qualification and unconditional, transcending and pre-empting any other requisite on your part, and shall remain so.
So, two cases we have:
1. intentional insults sent my way => forgiven.
2. misunderstanding on my part => please forgive me.
I suspect Fianchetto is trying to acquire undeserved status in the student body by hinting, disingenuously, that he’s having a private communication with Marina, thereby hoping to excite feelings of jealousy in his fellow students.
If my scurrilous allegations are ill-founded, I trust Fianchetto will extend to me the same forgiveness that he professes to convey to the object of his illusions.
“But honey, what did I do?
Oh, you know what you did!”
I thought that was one of the women’s weapons to confuse men.
But I guess it works both ways, cool.
Unless I see indisputable proof, I’m on your side sis!
She doesn’t seem to understand it, but I am actually on her side, as well. Which fact making the whole thing even more convoluted than (I think) ever intended by either of us.
Fianchetto, we’re all good friends here, and we have each other’s best interest at heart, so why not spell it out?
It’s not clear to me, or to her, what went wrong.
I’m sure something did, if you feel this way now. And I’m all for fixing it!
I can tell that your a good person, and I can’t stand it when good people are feeling down.
Especially not here, this is a place where people come to feel good, and have their brains stimulated. Marina doesn’t always pay as much attention to her students after class, but that’s the way it is. Did you use to hang out with your teachers all day after school? Not likely
I respect whatever decisions Marina makes, because I’ve come to trust her. She proved to be a very smart girl and very independent, and I know that nobody can take that away from her.
So don’t worry so much about her.
I’m still glad that hotforwords is free, and she’s not charging us to see her show.
Being on YT, means putting yourself out there, for everyone to see. I bet you noticed that some people like her, and some don’t. I’ve never even seen her insult one of her haters, that’s how smart Marina is.
So if you feel insulted by something, I’m sure that it’s probably related to something she didn’t do, rather than to something she did do. And you said yourself “there’s no crime in ignorance”. As I see you’ve already forgiven her for that, so we can move on, and feel something new.
I hope that writing your thoughts in your comment, and hopefully afterwards reading my reply, makes you feel a lot better. Isn’t that what friends are for anyway?
Thanks, Chemikal. I love her as a sister, making forgiveness that much easier. BTW – MY definition of forgiveness is exactly equivalent to “Complete, and unqualified pardon. Offense never happened in the first place.”
So, next step for me is to take a bit of time let it sink in to my thick (read: human, and fallible) skull that I may move on as you appropriately suggest. Thanks!
And thanks for watching my vid 30+ times just to push it over 200! I am SO flattered! You are one awesome dude, and I am proud to have made your acquaintance!
Growing and feeling better alla time, thank you for the kind words!
A Redneck from North Carolina walked into a bank in New York City and asked for the loan officer.
He told the loan officer that he was going to Bakersfield , CA on business for two weeks, needed to borrow $5,000 and was not a depositor of the bank.
The bank officer told him that the bank would need some form of security for the loan, so the Redneck handed over the keys to a new Ferrari.
The car was parked on the street in front of the bank. The Redneck produced the title, and everything checked out. The loan officer agreed to hold the car as collateral for the loan and apologized for having to charge 12% interest.
Later, the bank’s president and its officers all enjoyed a good laugh at the Redneck from the south for using a $250,000 Ferrari as collateral for a $5,000 loan.
An employee of the bank then drove the Ferrari into the bank’s underground garage and parked it.
Two weeks later, the Redneck returned, repaid the $5,000 and the interest of $23.07.
The loan officer said, ‘Sir, we are very happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you were away, we checked you out and found that you are a multimillionaire. What puzzles us is, why would you bother to borrow $5,000?’
The Redneck replied, ‘Where else in New York City , can I park my car for two weeks for only $23.07 and expect it to be there when I return?’
OK, for those ‘A’ personalities who need extra stimulation and who can’t get by with just one HotForWords video lesson per day, here is a related lesson called Bloopers.
I usually pick on blonds when they make mistakes, and tell them, it’s OK, it’s normal to screw up sometimes, because your blond!
It just never occurred to me to make fun of you that way. Is it because I’m sensing your not a natural blond?
I remember that video, but since Marina also had some sort of modeling career, changing hair colors is nothing unusual, at that age.
Coach Owen, thanks for helping me correct another mistake!
This one I knew, I didn’t pay enough attention.
I’m starting to think directly into English now, but some words sound the same, and they need translating if I’m to write them right, every time. I’ll get it soon enough though.
In conclusion, I’d vote for redhead too, and I also noticed the booby growth since then.
(I could wonder why she did it, she was OK the way she was before, now those two are just real attention grabbers… buuut, I won’t wonder about that since I do have other things to do She’s smart enough to make the best decisions for herself, and so am I )
I’m going to courses now, and I’ll talk to you tomorrow, after exams.
Chemikal, I must be missing something obvious that maybe you can explain to me. I keep reading references to Marina’s supposed surgical enhancement (”boob job”), yet to me she doesn’t look any more buxom than my ex-wife. As far as the change from the red-head picture, she was obviously much younger then, and didn’t have her full “maturity.” So if you know something from Googling her (in either meaning of the word), please send me an email at YouTube (just click my name above) and tell me what to look for.
I only know what she has told us.
I didn’t google her, and she never contested the fact that she has implants. (I don’t remember her saying she does, but I am pretty convinced about it)
Though in her case, where her motto “Intelligence is Sexy” applies, she could have just gotten them after each diploma!
Hi Chemikal,
As long as I’m at it, here’s a followup on your “Aromanian” comment.
I was a bit startled at your comment that they are related to the Welsh, until I remembered that there were Celts in southeastern Europe as well, and that Vlach and Wallachia are etymologically related to “Gaul” and thus to Wales.
My mother’s church also hosts a Romanian congregation, whose pastor, Reverend Tudor, joked about being Welsh (because of his name.)
Bits and pieces, nothing in depth.
Here’s another one for you: “Ankara,” capital of Turkey, was named by the Celtic Galatians (of New Testament fame); the name (formerly spelled Ancyra and Angora) was borrowed by the Celts from Greek, and means “anchor.” “Angor” (meaning anchor) survives in modern Welsh.
I have a question to ask the student body. Why is there this obsession with the color of white? If I were to guess a color of someones yacht I would guess white and I know I would be correct about 80% of the time. My best friend had a white condo, white walls, white computer, white tables, white car, white cat, white ferret, white sofa, Oh I could go on forever.
I can only guess it has a large connection to a psychological reason. would the same/opposite be true with people that all wear black? Is it some kind of fear? Is it some kind of bad experience in the past? I just wanted to post this question in case someone had a good answer.
I apologize for calling white a color for it call be of all colors or none at all. Better known as a shade.
Now, it’s because they are original!
White and black are non-colors, so when everyone was trying to pick some color that suited them, the rest decided to go with the non-colors.
Hello Captain Jack,
I’ve known many people that are drawn to various colors such as white, black, purple, violet, yellow, blue, green and so on.
Aside from a conscious decision by some to associate with, lets say black or white for obvious reasons I might speculate that some color choices are based on how that color makes one feel.
As you know light is part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum whose color properties (frequency, etc) have been tested in hospitals (green, blue, pink, earth tones) and prisons (pink, green etc).
Since light can exhibit properties of both waves and particles, I’m sure the physiological effects of various frequencies of light, i.e. colors, affect some people more than others in terms of mood, feeling of well being, agitation and so forth.
Hey Capt’n,
It is safe to call black or white colors in general discussion. The pedantic details of whether one is or is not a color is described in this easy to read web site.
One needs a break every now and then, even when one is working on his or her labor of love.
Thanks for the laughs, Marina. Look forward to learning more stuff I don’t yet know.
“I have no special talents. I am only infinitely curious”;
Albert Einstein
As the late professor explained, intelligence and the genius that results from it is a matter of inspiration, dedication and hard work. I appreciate and love you not because you are some Goddess born a master numerous alphabetical languages, but because of your limitless passion, dedication and hard work.
Thank you for all you have done Marina and best wishes to you.
Hello Marina!! I don’t mean to bother you, but I really just can’t believe this word is not in your list…! I can’t believe you’re not bombarded by requests for this one word… So, early in this new year, I’m going to ask you again…
Marina, will you please have an orgasm video…? Do it just for me, baby…? Ok, maybe I need to pass around a petition and have people request this word (BIG HINT to everyone reading this). But, with the oldest SLOGAN in business and tv being, “SEX SELLS”, I just can’t believe this word is not on the list. Let me guess… You’re absolutely overly miffed by SO MANY requests for this one word that you’re rebelling, and refusing to have an ORGASM video… Is that it? Well, Marina… Let’s just do it and get it over with… and have an orgasm video…
Hey dellforce, are you kidding me? Marina is just getting warmed up with 378 videos under her belt. She can’t be presenting the climax video before 1000 or maybe 10000 videos or so. You know, she has to take it slow and easy. Don’t want to spoil the surprise. Marina doesn’t pop a video just like that. Takes time you know.
What if she did the orgasm video, would you stay around for the following videos? Would you respect her in the mornnig? No? Look what you would miss. Hey, half the fun is getting there. Stay glued to the HotForWords Tube and you’ll get your’s coming.
Out-takes?
Marina makes mistakes?
Naw…not our dear teacher!
She’s an internet goddess, right?
No? Just a nice person doing hard work and lots of it?
And she makes mistakes every now and then and keeps on going!
That’s we love you, teacher, flaws and all.
Here’s a word suggestion:
PRESIDENT
is it related to the word
RESIDENT
(as in Primary RESIDENT)???
Arf Arf!
Sweet, sweet, how freakin’ sweet is this “lesson!” You are so funny and cute when these bloopers happen. Precious! Thanks for this, Dear Teach, and keep ‘em coming from time to time. Be safe going home.
Always.
Dear совершенная Марина Орлова, I hope you have a nice, safe trip back to your home in California, and you get enough rest after traveling. It was nice to see the photos you posted on Twitter of the Presidetial Suite in the hotel. That’s probably the closest I’ll ever be to such accomodations!
I’ve stayed at cheap motels more often than a hotel. In the Army, I got to sleep in tents, woodframe barracks, Quonset huts, and cheap apartments. For me, it’s a treat to stay at a mid-level hotel like the Comfort Inn or the Marriott.
It also was nice of you to post another short video, even though you were away. You are very nice to your subscibers.
I dudn’t laugh very much at your out-takes. Instead, I was pronouncing words for you (as if you could hear them). “Con-temp-tu-ous”, “”A-byss”, etc. I’m glad you no longer say the word, “fudge” on your bloopers. Be more careful. If you keep blowing air through your lips, you might develop a pout on your lower lip, like Angelina Jolie has!
С влюбленностью к Марине, seesixcm6
It is good to see everybody taking a little study break. My other classes start back tomorrow night, so it will be hectic again. I will try to stop by a couple times a week to see who has gotten into the most trouble. Hopefully, I will be able to keep breakfast with Che and Bob.
I think she is in front of a green screen. That is why it looks the same all the time. I can’t imagine anyone having a neat bedroom all the time. But you never know. Marina could be one of those who has to have everything looking perfect. It’s not likely but possible.
Thanks for the out-takes Marina, you have provided a real insight into how frustrating it can be to get things right, yet you still manage to appear happy and cheery in the resulting product. Also, the out-takes are entertaining.
Studying??? thats not what I saw…
Gotta love it when you watch a vid or something & it has
0 views, is like opening a brand new CD & playing it for the first time.
Just popped by, to see who’s on, got onto flickr. Talked to Mary about posting pic’s there as we don’t have them in any order. Some may be sitting on dormant computers & nowhere else. I liked it when you just threw them all in a big box & picked out the ones you liked later.
Just picked up a book today with a bonus disc on fast photo editing.
Tried the “edit” @ flickr & it seems easy… anything but fast. Could (and will) spend many hours editing.
Take lots of pics of your kids though. I used to take a ton of pictures of scenery before I had kids. but none bring a smile to my face like a simple old snap of any one of the kids.
Wow! I learn a lot from this video. I just looked at my last video and I killed like 14 minutes of tape just trying to do an introduction to my next interview. I could not find any cut that was decent enough to use and I have to go re-shoot. Some days I’m just not in a perky mood at the time I have to film. I need to warm up more before I shoot I guess.
If she does, she’s one smart lady.
I like smart girls!
Oops, clumsy me! That was my first comment out take.
I have to write the comment all over again.
If she does, she’s one smart lady.
I like pie!
Good job, that’s a wrap!
Now let’s wait for some feedback.
Every time I think she is not very smart I dig a bit deeper and find myself humbled by her intelligence. When Steve Jobs took over Apple again some of the changes he made really confused me. I later on learned that his ideas were the right way to navigate Apple to the company that it is today.
Good catch. She obviously changes her outfits and messes with her hair between lessons. It’s fun to run the YT cursor (or whatever it’s called) back and forth to make it look like time-lapse photography. It’s even more fun to see what the outfits do to her… uh, figure.
I catch a lot of little things but I don’t care enough anymore to post my findings very often. I’m still stumped about one thing. Her massive collection of outfits. The only think I can think of is she is renting them.
hey captain if she was my shes worth more and i’ll give it all to her everyone has dreams of being at her side mmmmmm just my sweet dreams gettin the better part of me
You question eludes me. I guess I should have picked a different word. It’s such a complex word that I leaves it’s self open to misinterpretation. I’ll have to think of a replacement.
I took my cue from the pulldown menu “Request a
Word” button. Word ( or Phrase ) request ( colon )
- followed by the requested word/phrase.
Since the first line of a comment is posted to the
Recent Comments list, it’s easy to spot on the list
from the home page, or any lesson page you’re in.
Technically, Word ( or Phrase ) Origin Request is
more proper; for the practical purpose of using
the Recent Comments list, I’ve truncated it to fit.
Keyword “request” is all I use for searches, anyway
Fun out takes! It’s not so easy being hotforwords, huh?
OK, what?
Did I just say that your out takes were a hoax?
And so, I believe I’ve just formulated a new word request, please look into the word “fun” for me, and tell me what you discover, in a future video maybe!
More power to you, hotforwords!
I like the word “hoax”… so request the word hoax. Interesting meaning & handy in scrabble & word games when you’re stuck with that “X” near the end.
Earlier, in your reply (to me) did you mean something like this?
Are you of age though? oops
I like the flame idea, would make an interesting, you might say “hot” background idea. Looks really good on M on the English Leather Magazine cover… what, was I innaccurate?
What a distraction from class, Billy were being naughty in the back That is close to what I had in mind also, but still not quite. I was thinking about wearing an actual fireman “hot” suit!
Only human… reminded me, don’t forget your second wind… gotta love the eighties, if you can remember them.
Cheers Mr. Volay line from the song “…you’re supposed to make mistakes…”
Hmm , she changed the name of this video, more out takes videos to follow?
Its areally tough job but somebody has to do it !
Keep up the goooooooood work Marina Baby !!
How about a word request like “JOB”
dont worry marina…. i like the out takes too. your videos are great
Albeit…
I assume the system picks a random quote to display every 24 hours; how come it picked up two quotes today?
Dear Hotforwords.
May I know where the term “Pass with flying colours” originated from?
Love,
VoodooKing
Dr. Marina, You Are Amazing! It’s incredible, how you make the outtakes seem like ‘accidents’—like you don’t know everything-you-do with your beautiful knowledge will help your students!
Hi Marina,
What are some common bloopers Americans make while trying to speak Russian?
A couple of examples from other languages:
When trying to say “I’m embarrassed,” Americans speaking Spanish often accidentally say “I’m pregnant.” Then they really ARE embarrassed.
Trying to ask “How old are you?” in Italian, Americans succeed in saying, “How many assholes do you have?” Which makes the American look like an a**hole.
Anyway, we’re not laughing AT your bloopers; we’re laughing WITH you!
***RUMOR DEPARTMENT: Marina’s Sweetheart***
I was watching Marina’s “Hawaiian swimsuit video”
again last night (word request: “gobsmacked” 
) , and finally noticed what 170,000 other subscribers saw before me. How could she possibly look that cute and fetching unless she was extremely fond of whoever was holding the camera? I’ve always found the amateur quality of that video somehow highly appealing, and now know why: just remember the etymological origin of “amateur!”
Anyway, maybe we should recall that our marriage and other proposals to Marina could be seriously annoying Marina’s sweetheart, which would not be fair to our dear Teacher.
So as the video ended, I marveled again at how it gives me a feeling exactly like being in love.
Then I reminded myself I was looking at a computer image broadcast to 170,000 other subscribers, and the feeling went away. 
Still, it’s nice to know I can still feel that way. 
Marina knows that–though she might be looking at a not-so-bad-looking person–she’s communicating with ‘hundreds-of-thousands’ (or ‘hundreds, thousands of times,’ but still lots of people) and enriching their lives through her spare-time sacrifice—spare-time she could be using to Save the World!
Word Request
Malarkey
Word request : Tech
It may or may not technically be a word. However, I was curious about the word, as it is a shortened name for technician. It is also in words such as techno, technology, technicolour, Hi-Tech etc.
Plus I like techno music
Night Got to take a nap
Hi!
Word request: Promise
I promise you that I will thank your answer.
Bye
Word request : boycott !!
something my country has started doing in effort to stop the Gaza incident
weird middle eastern people , why can’t they just be friends ?
preparing the guess the word game ? can’t wait for it
Dear Marina:
WORD REQUEST: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue will soon have a new inhabitant. My hope for the nation and the world is that he does a great job. To send him off in the right spirit would you investigate the meaning of the word: INAUGURATION?
Thanks! Q
Jay Leno mention In-and-out burger. I missed eating there. After watching a movie at the drive in I would go and get a In&out Burger. Whats kind of cool is there stickers. If you cut out the letters B and the R you get a really funny bumper sticker. Maybe thats why I like the food?
do they sell hotdogs too ?
Marina, If i get nothing else from this video, I do get the sense that your working very hard to speak very proper and understandable Engish. It appears that even after two years it can still be a strugle for you at times. I can only imagine what it must be like.
Another word phrase request: “If I get nothing else”
Bye the way (yes thats another phrase) you’re speech doesn’t have to be perfect as long as the message is intelligible (capable of being “understood” yes another definition for “understand”)
When English is your second language and she pick a job of doing lessons on a video to well spoken English speakers is a great challenge. I feel I have a decent grasp of English and I still mess up on my videos and classes.
You do?
Make a blooper video!
I would never claim for myself to be a well spoken English speaker, i just talk like it comes natural to me, perhaps a faux pas because that is an assumption that everyones meanings of the words are the same as mine.
Note here
I was going to say a mistake on my part but i remembered thats a fault and i don’t have any , and thats my jokerism of the day??
hi marina!
i was just wondering what’s the etymology of the word sassy, and maybe if you could make a video about it. thanks!
btw, i really like your videos. they’re informative.
“Bloopers”- Aw, the good ol’ days…a year ago!
You sure have come a long way teach.
I think I just realized that for the past 8 months I’ve been visiting this site I’ve been watching the American Dream unfold right before my very eyes.
Very cool.
.
Marina,
Since I asked about a timestamp based on when the raw footage was taken, did you make this “lesson” at the same time you made the GTW Game XI Answer? The bed and the bed-table area look alike in both videos; there is a grey folder-like thing toward the lower left (viewer’s left) corner; in one, Gorby is in your left hand and in the other, Gorby is in your right hand; in both, you handle lucky Gorby the same way; and your dress, hair, nail-polish, relation to the camera are the same in both.
Anyway, I can notice differences in the background among your other videos, but not between the “Out Takes” and “GTW Game XI Answer” videos.
–H4Mm
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Connection to the easter egg?:
Yesterday, when I wrote the above, I thought the easter egg was the link to the bloopers lesson and did not think that what I was writing about had anything to do with the easter egg. But today, I read Captain Jack’s comment about the easter egg being related to the cat in the movie matrix (and related comments). So is the above “deja vu” the easter egg? Cap’n Jack mentions an illusion — is the illusion the background — did you actually shoot the introduction to Out Takes in Las Vegas and use the background from the GTW Game XI Answer? (By considering the parting of your hair, one can see that Gorby has actually moved from your left to your right and so the scene of you holding Gorby is not an artificial/mirror image of the previous scene taken in a mirror.)
Do you plan to reveal the easter egg?
–Hs4Mm
.
Hey Marina Met You at Youtube Live and Requested this Word in person but I Made a Video Request for the word “Matrix” Here’s my Video Request http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDjDE8KB3dY
Hello Professor,
I request the word
“Success”
& thanks for the Holiday card. Welcome 2009!
Thanks
Murat
Hey, Marina.
Can the next “Out Takes” be of the wardrobe mal-function kind, a la J. Jackson?!?!
Secondly, with the financial crunch we are all feeling, it led me to think what is the origin of the term “Piggy Bank”?
Finally, last weeks jeopardy had a category for stupid word origins, mainly because the pronounciation was the same. I dont remember the clues but here are some of the anwsers in non-jeopardy format:
german eis = ice
french jaquet = jacket
Old kinderhook = OK
seophon = seven
Keep up the good work, Ms. HFW. Thanks.
***BLOOPERS***
OK, here’s one of mine:
MOM IS REALLY MAD AT YOU! (Or maybe me!) I showed her the “Salary” lesson, and she said:
“WE FOUGHT FOR GENERATIONS TO GET MEN TO RESPECT US FOR OUR BRAINS WITHOUT GAWKING AT OUR BOSOMS — AND THERE SHE SITS, SCANTILY CLAD ON HER BED, WINKING AT YOU! WE’RE BACK TO THE DARK AGES!”
I explained that I only watch you for the intellectual content of your videos, and she gave me a dirty look!
Which I suppose confirms what Lincoln said:
“You can fool some of the people all the time; you can fool all of the people some of the time; but you can’t fool MOM!”
{I wonder if they publish in braille for the visually impaired?}
I love your posts, EO, keep them coming!
Your Mom (respectfully) just did what us men are accused of doing. Not giving Marina the chance to show that she is very smart. Marina used her looks to get our attentions and then fill our brains with knowledge. Apparently the formula is working. Had Marina only used one or the other she would not be where she is at now in the most viewed ratings. I think if your Mom knew what Marina was teaching she would tie you to the computer and make you watch her lessons. Im thinking images of the movie ‘Clockwork Orange’. You should not show your Mom any of the lessons just yet but tell her what you have learned. Then when she asks you where are you learning all this you can show her who is teaching you this knowledge. I think then she will understand her first assumption was incorrect.
I hope anything I said was not taken in any misunderstanding. Just wanted to make my statement to help. 
Right… right CJ!
Evan, take CJ’s advice, and mine, and
we’ll make a subscriber out of her yet!
Hi Captain Jack,
With respect, Marina could do very well on her brains alone. As evidence, consider Anu Garg’s “A Word A Day” newsletter — no visuals, 600,000 subscribers.
I’m not sure I get the Clockwork Orange analogy. Malcolm McDowell was tied down in a state of near agony. I’m magnetically glued to HFW in a condition of near euphoria.
I doubt I’ll teach Mom much at this stage in her life (she was born before women had the vote) — but her store of knowledge may come in handy. With a looming depression, it may be useful to ask advice from someone who lived through the Big One.
In the movie Clockwork Orange one of the characters had tooth picks place so to keep his eye lids open. There was some other head gear that kept him facing forward to watch some disgusting videos to break him of some habits. It was a rather disgusting movie. I was using the idea of force feeding lessons to you. LOL….
Evan! Your Mom lived through the Depression! That is my current research project!
I’m trying to retool my business to best adapt to the current depression (aka recession. Now officially recognized. 
Definition of a depression is a sustained recession.) I’m looking out for ideas that business came up with to survive those times. What I’m discovering is what worked back then is working today. Shoe repair business are growing like crazy. The movie industry is doing very well. Schools, like mine, are doing very poorly. It’s freaking me out to be honest. 
Here’s a surprise: someone’s making a good living off of selling prepackaged brown-bag lunches. Americans have been eating a lot of meals at fast food restaurants, which are not all that cheap…but have forgotten how to pack their own. So they’re buying these bag lunches — cheaper, and even more convenient!
Brown bag lunches! Wow! Well they are much healthier than fast food for sure. This goes to show you how lazy Americans have become. I think we are going to see a lot of things like this. Back to the old ways of doing things. It’s will even become a popular thing to do.
I’m sorry, I laughed so hard while reading this… Your mom is so cute…
What you should have done, is shown her some of your comments and conversations you’ve had here.
Introduce me, introduce me!
Dark Ages
Phenomenal! 
Ahh , your mom loves you very much i see
Out takes are always great to see, just like when actors/actresses miss a line in a movie and it gets thrown into the bonus features, its great!
Cute Out Takes. I would like to know where the phrase “Tit For Tat” come from. Also the word “Gleek,” as in spitting tha saliva from under your tounge. Thanks Love YA
***WORD REQUESTS: Bizarre etymological connections***
What is the etymological connection between:
claymore mine and gladiolus flower
“to Welsh” (i.e. renege on paying a bet) and Boston Celtics
Or should I just do the videos myself and post them on YouTube?
I second the word requests – Claymore Mine and Gladiolus Flower, and pay a nod of admiration to your finely honed
swordsmanship, as well as your razor-sharp wit!Hello Marina.
Would you find for me the origin of the word “mantra”?
Marina Search Mantra Marina Search Mantra Marina Search Mantra Marina Search Mantra
Be Good Be Good Be Good Be Good Be Good
Hi Marina,
One word:
***TOASTMASTERS!***
☞Hey guys. Marina informed me of a cool little easter egg in her “Out Takes” video. No one has mentioned it yet. It’s hidden very well in plain sight. Can you find it?
[Update:] “I’ll give you a clue. Remember the first movie “The Matrix”? What was wrong with the cat?”
UPDATE: Im such a moron!!!!! Ok that’s nothing new… The Easter Egg is NOT in the “Out Takes video”. No wonder you couldn’t find it. Sorry guys! Its in the Contumelious lesson. I’m so embarrassed. I don’t know what I was thinking. I guess I’m working on too many projects at once. Im going to start a new thread on that page with the clues. Come and join me over there and let’s see if we can find it!
http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/01/09/contumelious/
Is it the fact that she talked about ALBEIT and she hasn’t posted that video yet?
Try again.
Um was it the little window that said click for the origin of BLOOPER?
Gorby spelled Cemetry wrong. He spelled cemetary as a place to bury people and that is even spelled wrong as it should be cemetery.
Ooooohhhhhhhh. Wait, that’s it?
Any body close on the Easter egg yet Jack?
Not yet. It will blow some of you way for it’s so well hidden.
I’ll give you a clue. Remember the first movie “The Matrix”? What was wrong with the cat?
Wasn’t the matrix scene with the cat, something to do with deja vu? or a possible glitch in the matrix?.
Because if I remember rightly, Neo saw a Black cat shaking like a dog would when its wet, and walked away, and then saw exactly the same thing a second or two later.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_KmNZNT5xw
I agree with you on the black cat, but I don’t see any reference in the video to what CJ is giving us the clue on.
I watched the video a dozen times, but couldn’t find any Easter egg.
Yes kaibanator, thing with the cat has a Déjà Vu aspect to it. Glitch is more of a misconception though of what the cat represents in that scene from the Matrix. An example: if someone taped a segment of show onto a vhs tape then re-taped the same scene overlapping one scene upon another, and perhaps when they did that a few seconds of copy repeated itself on the recorded tape you’d have noticed a cat walking by then a few seconds later it walks by again
Was it that Marina was doing today’s lesson on albeit and goofing it up with the rest of the bloopers?
Captain Jack…”Easter Egg” is my word request…I know you said not to make them in the replies, but, maybe you pass it on. The forced bulbs for flowers(tulips) in the video have something to look for in plain site? Are there mistakes or rather bloopers hatched before the egg is laided? All in fun and best to you
what do you mean, an easter egg?
My understanding of an “easter egg in a dvd” is a scene that is not documented in, for example, the list of scenes mentioned in ads or in the “dust-jacket” for the dvd or in the “title or root menu” of the dvd. The manufacturer would give instruction on how to access the undocumented scene in small print (e.g., “go to scene such and such and click on that characters face and the easter egg will start playing”). The thing that meets this definition for this lesson is the link to the lesson on the word bloopers.
That helps me, thanks hs4mm
Before DVD’s, Software programmers have been hiding little surprises in their code for years. Many video games are full of them (i.e. a certain key combination gives you unlimited lives, another displays a group photo of the programming team, in a particular Star Wars game, one can access an image of an individual holding a model TIE fighter in one hand and an X-wing in the other).
http://www.eeggs.com/
Enjoy!
I had a friend that owned some hard rock vinyl record that had a secret slot were you could play it backwards and hear a few interesting words. He also had a vinyl record that had a 10 second track just past the end of the last song.
Yes you can make word origin request in the replies. She can search all the request no mater where they are on the site. Just remember to say use the words ‘origin request’ or ‘word request’. This might change later for it’s seems proper to state a request for the origin of said word.
I do not pass on requests for they need to be posted in your comments to be search able.
hs4mm has a good description of ‘Easter Egg’. I would like to add that many computer games, console games, and music CDs have Easter Eggs. Here is what I found on Wiki…
"A virtual Easter egg is an intentional hidden message, in-joke or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, computer program, web page or video game. The term draws a parallel with the custom of the Easter egg hunt observed in many Western nations, but actually is derived by the practice of the last Russian imperial family's tradition of giving elaborately jeweled egg-shaped creations by Fabergé which usually contained hidden gifts themselves"Now I’m interested in… you guessed it.. Russian’s connection with jeweled egg-shaped creations. I will second your origin request for Easter Egg. Might be a good lesson for Marina to do in the upcoming celebration.Yes the The Romanovs were famous Ruling Tsars of Russia and are well know for commissioning of the Fabergé eggs (for Easter gifts) that are very great treasures of artwork.
The Romanovs
http://tinyurl.com/9earwc
The Fabergé egg
http://tinyurl.com/9ok8wb
And just for the inclined to history another famous Russian family
http://tinyurl.com/9lbtt5
The bed has not been slept in between videos
When first viewing this video I got the impression this was made in one sitting and not really series of true bloopers.
She just changed her dress.
The plant did not grow between lessons and this plant just showed up short while ago.
Unless your talking about ‘Outtakes’ being one word and not two. But that is not IN the video.
She says these are some out takes from the “week.” Obviously these weren’t all done in one day, by her own admission.
Yeah it’s was obvious the bed wrinkles had not move during the outfit changes. But that is not the Easter Egg we are looking for.
Is it the link to the lesson on bloopers? [Edit: noticed that someone else mentioned it above.]
Nope.
Still happily frustrated
“cram” + “something wrong with a cat in a movie I’ve not seen” = Fianchetto quite perplexed! Thanks for the puzzle, CJ, and for not giving it away, GP! 
No, wait, I blooped. Actually it’s that Marina has not done a request for the origin of the word “Albeit” yet. Is that correct(?)
hummm nope.
My guess at the ‘Easter Egg’ – a link to her blooper lesson video @00:34?
CJ has already debunked this one, GP – no harm, no foul, no need for apology, mate. All is cool.
The cat in the matrix passed through the doorway twice, a side effect of the code being reordered, phenomena named Déjà Vu.
There’s no Déjà Vu in he blooper tag, is it?
I wonder what it is…
Yes Chemikal, you’re totally onto something with the cat and Déjà Vu. In the first Matrix when Neo spotted the cat moving in exactly the same way as it had an instant before Neo merely commented verbally with no real contempt in his voice, just as a matter of fact as if to say “What’s going on here?”
Very good Chimikal. Now what you know about the cat. What is in this video that is similar to an older video that Marina did awhile back. Here is another clue. On thing in this video is just an illusion from a previous video.
I’ll bet it’s the part when she was wearing pink.
But really, I failed to see it.
I won’t investigate, so you can either tell me, or I will never know.
Illusion = background – she uses her new blue/green screen?
Is that the answer you’re looking for?
The matrix cat was there then ran off then upon looking again was there again. I think. However upon researching the word cemetary got this (cemetary not to be confused with Cemetery) could this be was she considers lame?
http://tinyurl.com/8r8hcx
(definition of “Lame” not to be confused with the person in this video)
http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/06/18/dont-be-lame-be-cool/
Word phrase definition: Riding coattails
Is she talking about Gorby’s claim to fame?
She can’t be talking about herself.
Just specuslation on my part at her callenge she had you post here Jack.
But this is probably way off the mark.
“cemetary” or “cemetry” should be “seminary” I think. (I think it would be quite difficult for a corpse to do anything, save becoming a vampire, that would get it ‘kicked out’ of a cemetary; however any succombing to temptation of the flesh could easily get one kicked out of a seminary). But if this is some part of the mystery, I still don’t get it, and remain happily befuddled.
You may be correct however , the slide in of gorby with the ballon remark was written “cemetary” a word that had to be inserted while editing the video, i don’t think she would have made a mistake of that nature, Unless it was a red herring.
“Cemetary” a name for a rock band in the late 80′’s and early 90’s.
There is no spoon
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Hey Captain Jack, my guess is that, that is Not Gorby in the out takes. I think that is another dog that belongs to Marina’s sister or someone else we might know?
I’m with chem, I thinks its the pink dress. It almost looks like CGI…Mabye its just the fabric the dress is made out of though.
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If you have Fire Fox here is a page for BBCode add on.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/128
hey Marina
i would like to request a word the word is Saippuakivikauppias
haha 
have fun trying to pronounce it
Thanks Take care xx
PS Saippuakivikauppias is the world’s longest palindrome: 19 characters from start to Finnish!
Hey cute!
The mafya is a very complicated system, people never gonna know what is happening “underground”, but I’m sure you can tell me the origins of the word MAFYA.
Thanx
Czety
Hi Marina,
I was wondering how the word pretty ended being used as a substitute for “quite” or “very”, as in pretty good.
Thanks.
SNL Doogie Howser theme song
Speeking of Out Takes, this one surely found its way to the cutting room floor!
Listen as famous DJ Casey Kasum goes into crisis meltdown mode in the studio.
Do you ever have a meltdown moment while recording or editing your lessons Marina?
Have a good Monday.
Since the Consumer Electronics Show was this past weekend, where did the word “Swag” come from?
Hi Marina =)
I have a word request. What is the origin of the word ‘pregnant’? I know what it means, but where does the word come from?
(Also, what about ‘knocked up’? I know that it means that you’re pregnant, but where did this originally start?)
Thank you!
And does it have anything to do with the Brit use in knocking up (visiting, thus knocking on the visited’s door)?
Thats nice one!
Marina good work
i’d like to know about the phrase, “not all the dogs are barking”. thanks!
Hi Marina , I have a couple of new word requests 1= Sabbatical it was/is a sabbatical year and the other word is 2= facile, I think it means fluent or something.
Thanks a bunch, Lovely
YOU NEED SINGING SONGS, HOW KATE PERRI. DON,T WORRY AND START IT. PLATINUM DISK WAIT (MAARIIINNA-A-A, A-A-U, HI SAID)
hey marina…i was playing the World war 2-based game called call of duty 5 and i found a gun (german i think ) called Kar98k …i really liked that weapon so i was wondering if you can tell us the origin of the word…thanks
That’s lovely, Marina, although I have to admit at being slightly disappointed at the lack of wardrobe malfunctions. Don’t those ever happen while recording?
Those out takes are only for her most intimate of friends.
Good one John.
Just stating what should be the obvious
I would like research on the word bejesus as in, “He scared the bejesus out of me.”
Hey guys and gals I hope everyone is well today. I just voted and hopefully raised Marina’s tally up one more notch. You know something I just figured out. Probably most of you already knew this, but if you click on your name after “Logged in as”, just above this first comment box it will take you to the Dashboard. I don’t play with things like I used to, clickable things that is on web sites. I hear you laughing in the back there. Any way don’t forget to vote for our Dear Teacher.
Oh by the way if you want to make an ole man happy donate to my car fund.08 Challenger with a 6.1 Hemi in Hot Rod Orange. Love those retro look cars. The 60’s and 70’s were the best years in muscle cars.
I have a question. Not about a word exactly. What do we call the years 2000 – 2009 ? The 0’s? The 2000’s? No one has used anything as they did in the 90’s, the eighties, ect, that I am aware of. What did they call them in the early 1900’s? in fact what do we all the years 2010- 2019? The tens? The teens?
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Call ‘em the noughts (00) like Jethro Bodine did …..
Hi Popzzz, Thanks for the link. Interesting. I was wondering…..
Марина, добрый день!
Вас страшно разыскивает журнал “Афиша” (www.afisha.ru) на предмет интервью
подскажите, пожалуйста, как с вами можно связаться!
Заранее спасибо!
ольга, oytkina@gmail.com
I Voted Today
My Hero!!!
Thank you for voting ChaCha!
Marina’s votes are doing great and she is moving closer to the goal. I’ll present more charts on Thurs.
Thank you everyone else for continuing to vote.
The weak has out takes and the year, 52. Outlined with outfitted outdoors outgrowth; outlandish in humbolt-nature, an outburst over herded the pastroralismness…..what you do to me
How about a pat on your back!!!!!!!! 
WordPress is an open-source project. Has any participant of the HFW site looked at the source-code (or done more)?
Hello hs4mm,
Yes I have, but that was some time ago when WP was first released (Linux, etc) . I occasionally look at some code here and there, but I am super busy with other projects right now.
The source code for Wordpress? I look at it all the time when I tweak things
It’s just PHP and mysql.
You make it seem so easy, effortless even.
I bet I could do anything, if I were you.
Marina, I have a question about word usage which has occurred to me as a result of a post in the forum.
The person wrote,
Am I being too pedantic in suggesting that this is not a correct usage of “coincidental”? I would say “fortuitous” would be more appropriate, and that “coincidental” should only be used if two unconnected things had happened, for instance two people had posted the same thing or one person had done something correctly twice, when they were not renowned for doing so.
Do you have any comments?
Yeah, you are being pedantic. Stop using my stick.
Just kidding.
Hey Bob, very interesting observation, and I agree with your assessment and there are many words, which escape me at the moment, which also fall into a similar category you described.
Might this fall into a category where certain words are sliding into an area which, through misuse, (evolving) are taking on new and different meanings?
Those are my suspicions too, PK; all the more reason, then, for Obama to make it compulsory for everyone to attend Hotforwords classes to learn the origins of words so that they know when and where to use them as they were intended to be used.
My hands are way to much into PHP. I only dive into HFW code if I get errors or someone has an issue. I have my own WP site I’m tweaking on.
Dear Marina, Nobody is perfect
So you are certainly forgiven for your mistakes, cause they were quite amuzing aswell
Now I was wondering today “the big ten – four” where it comes from (I heard it in some movies once) and I tought theres nobody better to ask then Hotforwords
On the main page, the entire right mini-column — Recent Comments, Forum Last 10 Discussions, and Quote — is not being updated.
[Don't know what the comment counter refers to and how accurate it is. It does not refer to the #number used in the link to the comments.]
All is well. The comment counter now shows 101864
Mozilla rules.
Edit:
Comment counter now shows 101865
How did it get fixed? I had seen the main page several times today, and the right most mini-column was frozen.
Not sure.
Are you saying that it is working for you now? But wasn’t before?
If that is the case, let me speculate in this way.
Google has been having major issues in the last day or so.
About 3-4 hours ago, Google was down.
If you look at my comments from yesterday’s video, the Internet had about 5-8 routers down, meaning it affected all links to Gravatar.com and Gogole syndication links. So, my guess, it is related to that.
Hello hs4mm,
If you click on the comment counter, you can read Liz’s blog on Planetozh about that WP widget.
hs4mm, I cache the pages on the website to speed thing up. The widgets are all on a cache that is sometimes 1800 seconds or longer or less. So if you don’t see things update right away, it could be because of that.
hi Marina!
i´d like to know where the word “whisper” come from.
thanks for the classes till now!
how do i do colour on the forum?
http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/html-sandbox-for-new-forum/page/3 Scroll down & popzzz will show you how to do color text.
Scroll 5 more posts down for the specs.
Where is the Maxim show for “cunt” ?
Ciao,
Fianchetto
What do you mean?
Addressee knows, and I do not believe you to be so aloof as you present yourself. Question my belief in detail @ http://uk.youtube.com/Fianchetto1, s’il vous plait, mon frere.
Fianchetto, I m confused. Your comment makes it look like I sent insults your way? Yet I haven’t nor would I to anybody… so I am confused.
Quote
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” – Sir Winston Churchill 1874-1965
D’accord, mon frere! Welcome to my world.
Perhaps I am mistaken, but *appears* so to me. So to presume utter innocence on your part, as you claim:
I understand that appearances can be decieving- perhaps I decieve myself in misinterpretation.
“Your comment makes it look like I sent insults your way? Yet I haven’t nor would I to anybody… so I am confused.”
If you haven’t, then I stand corrected. My apologies.
Regardless: (note proper usage thanks to yourself) My love for you as another human being is without qualification and unconditional, transcending and pre-empting any other requisite on your part, and shall remain so.
So, two cases we have:
1. intentional insults sent my way => forgiven.
2. misunderstanding on my part => please forgive me.
Much love and every success!
Ciao,
Fianchetto
I suspect Fianchetto is trying to acquire undeserved status in the student body by hinting, disingenuously, that he’s having a private communication with Marina, thereby hoping to excite feelings of jealousy in his fellow students.
If my scurrilous allegations are ill-founded, I trust Fianchetto will extend to me the same forgiveness that he professes to convey to the object of his illusions.
Suspicion = innaccurate.
Forgiveness = granted. (of course!)
Illusions = jury still out on the matter, and hoping they are simply that: illusions misisnterpreted by myself.
Misinterpreted AND mis-spelt!
“But honey, what did I do?
Oh, you know what you did!”
I thought that was one of the women’s weapons to confuse men.
But I guess it works both ways, cool.
Unless I see indisputable proof, I’m on your side sis!
She doesn’t seem to understand it, but I am actually on her side, as well. Which fact making the whole thing even more convoluted than (I think) ever intended by either of us.
Fianchetto, we’re all good friends here, and we have each other’s best interest at heart, so why not spell it out?
It’s not clear to me, or to her, what went wrong.
I’m sure something did, if you feel this way now. And I’m all for fixing it!
I can tell that your a good person, and I can’t stand it when good people are feeling down.
Especially not here, this is a place where people come to feel good, and have their brains stimulated. Marina doesn’t always pay as much attention to her students after class, but that’s the way it is. Did you use to hang out with your teachers all day after school? Not likely
I respect whatever decisions Marina makes, because I’ve come to trust her. She proved to be a very smart girl and very independent, and I know that nobody can take that away from her.
So don’t worry so much about her.
I’m still glad that hotforwords is free, and she’s not charging us to see her show.
Being on YT, means putting yourself out there, for everyone to see. I bet you noticed that some people like her, and some don’t. I’ve never even seen her insult one of her haters, that’s how smart Marina is.
So if you feel insulted by something, I’m sure that it’s probably related to something she didn’t do, rather than to something she did do. And you said yourself “there’s no crime in ignorance”. As I see you’ve already forgiven her for that, so we can move on, and feel something new.
I hope that writing your thoughts in your comment, and hopefully afterwards reading my reply, makes you feel a lot better. Isn’t that what friends are for anyway?
All the best,
Chemikalz
Thanks, Chemikal. I love her as a sister, making forgiveness that much easier. BTW – MY definition of forgiveness is exactly equivalent to “Complete, and unqualified pardon. Offense never happened in the first place.”
So, next step for me is to take a bit of time let it sink in to my thick (read: human, and fallible) skull that I may move on as you appropriately suggest. Thanks!
Growing and feeling better alla time, thank you for the kind words!
Hey Fianchetto: what was Given? in that it makes Marina confused?…HUMANISTICALLY writing, you used some heavy words.
Is MARINA’s HOTHOUSE cooking?
This one’s for you, Capman!
A Redneck from North Carolina walked into a bank in New York City and asked for the loan officer.
He told the loan officer that he was going to Bakersfield , CA on business for two weeks, needed to borrow $5,000 and was not a depositor of the bank.
The bank officer told him that the bank would need some form of security for the loan, so the Redneck handed over the keys to a new Ferrari.
The car was parked on the street in front of the bank. The Redneck produced the title, and everything checked out. The loan officer agreed to hold the car as collateral for the loan and apologized for having to charge 12% interest.
Later, the bank’s president and its officers all enjoyed a good laugh at the Redneck from the south for using a $250,000 Ferrari as collateral for a $5,000 loan.
An employee of the bank then drove the Ferrari into the bank’s underground garage and parked it.
Two weeks later, the Redneck returned, repaid the $5,000 and the interest of $23.07.
The loan officer said, ‘Sir, we are very happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you were away, we checked you out and found that you are a multimillionaire. What puzzles us is, why would you bother to borrow $5,000?’
The Redneck replied, ‘Where else in New York City , can I park my car for two weeks for only $23.07 and expect it to be there when I return?’
Damn…that’s so American
I like that one Fianchetto. Just great.
What a smart redneck!
Funny!
OK, for those ‘A’ personalities who need extra stimulation and who can’t get by with just one HotForWords video lesson per day, here is a related lesson called Bloopers.
See if you can find how many times HotForWords says fudge and post it in the comments below.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/12/18/bloopers/
I am back now….. How is everyone then!
Terrific and getting better….
Welcome back, James!
Hello cufan71,
Here is your answer to the question you left on the forum.
Oh, you were gone
G’day
if you could find the origin of the word “Sovereignty” or “sovereign”, it would be appreciated… cheers and keep up the good work
I usually pick on blonds when they make mistakes, and tell them, it’s OK, it’s normal to screw up sometimes, because your blond!
It just never occurred to me to make fun of you that way. Is it because I’m sensing your not a natural blond?
Check out Nickname at 1:11 min:sec. If that’s really her, much younger, she’s a redhead!
A couple of other things seem to have changed too, with maturity.
English coaching:
Your = belonging to you
You’re = contraction of “you are”
I remember that video, but since Marina also had some sort of modeling career, changing hair colors is nothing unusual, at that age.
She’s smart enough to make the best decisions for herself, and so am I 
)
Coach Owen, thanks for helping me correct another mistake!
This one I knew, I didn’t pay enough attention.
I’m starting to think directly into English now, but some words sound the same, and they need translating if I’m to write them right, every time. I’ll get it soon enough though.
In conclusion, I’d vote for redhead too, and I also noticed the booby growth since then.
(I could wonder why she did it, she was OK the way she was before, now those two are just real attention grabbers… buuut, I won’t wonder about that since I do have other things to do
I’m going to courses now, and I’ll talk to you tomorrow, after exams.
Chemikal, I must be missing something obvious that maybe you can explain to me. I keep reading references to Marina’s supposed surgical enhancement (”boob job”), yet to me she doesn’t look any more buxom than my ex-wife.
As far as the change from the red-head picture, she was obviously much younger then, and didn’t have her full “maturity.” So if you know something from Googling her (in either meaning of the word), please send me an email at YouTube (just click my name above) and tell me what to look for. 
I only know what she has told us.
I didn’t google her, and she never contested the fact that she has implants. (I don’t remember her saying she does, but I am pretty convinced about it)
Though in her case, where her motto “Intelligence is Sexy” applies, she could have just gotten them after each diploma!
Hi Chemikal,
As long as I’m at it, here’s a followup on your “Aromanian” comment.
I was a bit startled at your comment that they are related to the Welsh, until I remembered that there were Celts in southeastern Europe as well, and that Vlach and Wallachia are etymologically related to “Gaul” and thus to Wales.
My mother’s church also hosts a Romanian congregation, whose pastor, Reverend Tudor, joked about being Welsh (because of his name.)
Wow, you sure know a lot about history and roots.
Bits and pieces, nothing in depth.
Here’s another one for you: “Ankara,” capital of Turkey, was named by the Celtic Galatians (of New Testament fame); the name (formerly spelled Ancyra and Angora) was borrowed by the Celts from Greek, and means “anchor.” “Angor” (meaning anchor) survives in modern Welsh.
I have a question to ask the student body. Why is there this obsession with the color of white? If I were to guess a color of someones yacht I would guess white and I know I would be correct about 80% of the time. My best friend had a white condo, white walls, white computer, white tables, white car, white cat, white ferret, white sofa, Oh I could go on forever.
I can only guess it has a large connection to a psychological reason. would the same/opposite be true with people that all wear black? Is it some kind of fear? Is it some kind of bad experience in the past? I just wanted to post this question in case someone had a good answer.
I apologize for calling white a color for it call be of all colors or none at all. Better known as a shade.Now, it’s because they are original!
White and black are non-colors, so when everyone was trying to pick some color that suited them, the rest decided to go with the non-colors.
The color white in many people’s thoughts signify purity and cleanliness.
I like purple, orange, lemon yellow, all those bright, rainbow colors. Hmm… I bet one could analyze colors like Freud analyzed dreams. … I dunno.
Hello Captain Jack,
I’ve known many people that are drawn to various colors such as white, black, purple, violet, yellow, blue, green and so on.
Aside from a conscious decision by some to associate with, lets say black or white for obvious reasons I might speculate that some color choices are based on how that color makes one feel.
As you know light is part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum whose color properties (frequency, etc) have been tested in hospitals (green, blue, pink, earth tones) and prisons (pink, green etc).
Since light can exhibit properties of both waves and particles, I’m sure the physiological effects of various frequencies of light, i.e. colors, affect some people more than others in terms of mood, feeling of well being, agitation and so forth.
Body, end, dot.
Hey Capt’n,
It is safe to call black or white colors in general discussion. The pedantic details of whether one is or is not a color is described in this easy to read web site.
Is Black a Color? Is White a Color?
black is the absence of the reflection of any color and white is the reflection of all colors
Shut up everyone! Of course white and black are colours! Otherwise they wouldn’t be there.
funny mistakes! hehe
albeit part
so , saw any cool stuff at CES ?
around 0:36-0:55 was funny! Mostly you went pbbbbt.lol. sweet!
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Ok so it “out takes” or “takes out”???
Like in “shout outs” or “shouts out” …..
And if so, why?
And if not, why not?
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Hmm… I do not know if either one would be the subject. Uhh… I guess it is screwy from the start, so why stop now?
Take outs would be five burritos to go, so that would not work.
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Dang ….. I need some sleep LOL!
My previous post should have been:
Ok so is it “out takes” or “outs take” ???
Like in “shout outs” or “shouts out” …..
And if so, why?
And if not, why not?
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grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ….. see above …..
@HotForWords My Favourite Was: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0Kjpp-FHtE#t=0m56s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0Kjpp-FHtE#t=1m06s
Albeit: albeit date…was the best.
albeit date back…
albeit
Say: Albeit Date Back 5XFast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0Kjpp-FHtE#t=1m26s
This is a fun ride… retro-bloop
Kewl retro Billy!
I just now saw your post. I just posted that vid up above also.
One needs a break every now and then, even when one is working on his or her labor of love.
Thanks for the laughs, Marina. Look forward to learning more stuff I don’t yet know.
“I have no special talents. I am only infinitely curious”;
Albert Einstein
As the late professor explained, intelligence and the genius that results from it is a matter of inspiration, dedication and hard work. I appreciate and love you not because you are some Goddess born a master numerous alphabetical languages, but because of your limitless passion, dedication and hard work.
Thank you for all you have done Marina and best wishes to you.
Well said, Sir.
Hello Marina!! I don’t mean to bother you, but I really just can’t believe this word is not in your list…! I can’t believe you’re not bombarded by requests for this one word… So, early in this new year, I’m going to ask you again…
Ok, maybe I need to pass around a petition and have people request this word (BIG HINT to everyone reading this). But, with the oldest SLOGAN in business and tv being, “SEX SELLS”, I just can’t believe this word is not on the list. Let me guess… 
You’re absolutely overly miffed by SO MANY requests for this one word that you’re rebelling, and refusing to have an ORGASM video… Is that it? Well, Marina… Let’s just do it and get it over with… and have an orgasm video…
Marina, will you please have an orgasm video…? Do it just for me, baby…?
You know you want to…
Hey dellforce, are you kidding me? Marina is just getting warmed up with 378 videos under her belt. She can’t be presenting the climax video before 1000 or maybe 10000 videos or so. You know, she has to take it slow and easy. Don’t want to spoil the surprise. Marina doesn’t pop a video just like that. Takes time you know.
What if she did the orgasm video, would you stay around for the following videos? Would you respect her in the mornnig? No? Look what you would miss. Hey, half the fun is getting there. Stay glued to the HotForWords Tube and you’ll get your’s coming.
Wickedly funny, you naughty boy
Out-takes?
Marina makes mistakes?
Naw…not our dear teacher!
She’s an internet goddess, right?
No? Just a nice person doing hard work and lots of it?
And she makes mistakes every now and then and keeps on going!
That’s we love you, teacher, flaws and all.
Here’s a word suggestion:
PRESIDENT
is it related to the word
RESIDENT
(as in Primary RESIDENT)???
Arf Arf!
my word is sex
how did the most thing we do in our lives get a name called “sex”
thankyou please
Think about it… The intersection of 2 (or more) people… HHHhhhhMMMmmmm!
My “most thing I do” is WORK! Want to trade?
I’d like to request the word dumb-bells… it seems kinda oxymoronic to describe as dumb something that’s designed to make noise.
Marina,
Keep up the good work. We all love our favorite philologist. Your out-takes were fun, but you’d have a lot more if you were a Sesquipedalian!
Here are two fun words for you to research:
Twaddle – I’ve never heard so much twaddle from him!
Bamboozle – I’ll keep him bamboozled while you get the car.
BillCa951
Hello billca951,
I don’t know if that was a coincidence or if you knew that Marina is a sesquipedalian as she did a video lesson which you can view here.
Sweet, sweet, how freakin’ sweet is this “lesson!” You are so funny and cute when these bloopers happen. Precious! Thanks for this, Dear Teach, and keep ‘em coming from time to time. Be safe going home.
Always.
Although you can’t speak English fluently, I would not kick you out of bed for improper grammar! so just remember ,you alwas hev e ples en mi eart…..
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my word is ’simplicate.’ i’ve published a booklet called ’simplicate your life: vol. 1′ on this page (http://www.simplicate.com.
thanks.
Dear совершенная Марина Орлова, I hope you have a nice, safe trip back to your home in California, and you get enough rest after traveling. It was nice to see the photos you posted on Twitter of the Presidetial Suite in the hotel. That’s probably the closest I’ll ever be to such accomodations!
I’ve stayed at cheap motels more often than a hotel. In the Army, I got to sleep in tents, woodframe barracks, Quonset huts, and cheap apartments. For me, it’s a treat to stay at a mid-level hotel like the Comfort Inn or the Marriott.
It also was nice of you to post another short video, even though you were away. You are very nice to your subscibers.
I dudn’t laugh very much at your out-takes. Instead, I was pronouncing words for you (as if you could hear them). “Con-temp-tu-ous”, “”A-byss”, etc. I’m glad you no longer say the word, “fudge” on your bloopers. Be more careful. If you keep blowing air through your lips, you might develop a pout on your lower lip, like Angelina Jolie has!
С влюбленностью к Марине, seesixcm6
I love boopers er I mean Bloopers
It is good to see everybody taking a little study break.
My other classes start back tomorrow night, so it will be hectic again. I will try to stop by a couple times a week to see who has gotten into the most trouble. Hopefully, I will be able to keep breakfast with Che and Bob.
Party on, Dudes! (and Babes)
Hey marina, wat bra size do u wear? SOLES PLZ FOR THE NEXT VIDEO!!!
Eating take out and watching out takes…
Privet Marina,
The other day I had a conversation with a friend about the difference between “speak” and “talk”…. Both words make reference of the same action.
So I think while “speak” is more serious / formal, “talk” is rather informal… Is that right?
Would love to know about it.
Yours truly,
hopstercool
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An in-take on haker:
A few hours ago, I went to the library and looked up haker in the Unabridged Oxford English Dictionary (OED):
–Hs4Mm
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Phew! That’s a relief!
I guess Oxford is better that Merriam-Webster.
Marina, it appears that your production tech has been progressing. I noticed that your bed is made exactly the same for each taping. Anyhow, I thought I’d submit this URL to a
video of some amazing skydiving in Norway.
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1778399&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1
The URL is correct. Let it load, it’s worth it.
who knows maybe i’m there keepin it clean opps now my litte scrects out
LOL!!!
wow it was you i saw the other morning going to work while Marina and i was having our morning coffee hehe
From all of us… to you Marina… WE SALUTE YOU! Thanks for crossing the Atlantic to smarten us up! There was Catherine the Great… AND NOW… we have Marina the Great!
(or maybe you crossed the Pacific)
Hey, I remember that anthem from Rocky IV.
Would someone tell me…
ROLF… its meaning and maybe a web page reference to all these sort of things. Please and thank you. I really need to get up to date on this lingo.
David, go to http://www.urbandictionary.com put your inquiry jnto the search bar.
Right on! Thx.
Marina is so cute and funny
Thanks for the out-takes Marina, you have provided a real insight into how frustrating it can be to get things right, yet you still manage to appear happy and cheery in the resulting product. Also, the out-takes are entertaining.
Will these be a regular weekly posting?
Keep having fun doing your work!
Thank you Marina,
these were fun to watch.
On a different topic,
I hope you can sleep tonight.
if she has a hard time sleeping or just need to chill out some i’m here
Nice outtakes, Marina. They make me appreciate the work you do all the more.
sorry Im late for class
could you guys be quiet, i’m studying.
ROTFLMAO!
okay, that was not quiet. not to mention you looked ridiculous.
I know Buzz. Life’s a beach. I’d like your gravatar, but I guess I can’t change mine anymore.
Studying??? thats not what I saw…
Gotta love it when you watch a vid or something & it has
0 views, is like opening a brand new CD & playing it for the first time.
hey, bonobo’s are my favorite ape!
you caught me as i was closing the books. abnormal psych.
Just popped by, to see who’s on, got onto flickr. Talked to Mary about posting pic’s there as we don’t have them in any order. Some may be sitting on dormant computers & nowhere else. I liked it when you just threw them all in a big box & picked out the ones you liked later.
yeah, back then one had fewer pics. so easy to accumulate thousands now.
Just picked up a book today with a bonus disc on fast photo editing.
Tried the “edit” @ flickr & it seems easy… anything but fast. Could (and will) spend many hours editing.
Take lots of pics of your kids though. I used to take a ton of pictures of scenery before I had kids. but none bring a smile to my face like a simple old snap of any one of the kids.
check out a photo i just uploaded.
now be quiet you guys, i’m sle… zzzz
Aw, these girls sure shake it right!
Wow! I learn a lot from this video. I just looked at my last video and I killed like 14 minutes of tape just trying to do an introduction to my next interview. I could not find any cut that was decent enough to use and I have to go re-shoot. Some days I’m just not in a perky mood at the time I have to film. I need to warm up more before I shoot I guess.
If she does, she’s one smart lady.
I like smart girls!
Oops, clumsy me! That was my first comment out take.
I have to write the comment all over again.
If she does, she’s one smart lady.
I like pie!
Good job, that’s a wrap!
Now let’s wait for some feedback.
Every time I think she is not very smart I dig a bit deeper and find myself humbled by her intelligence. When Steve Jobs took over Apple again some of the changes he made really confused me. I later on learned that his ideas were the right way to navigate Apple to the company that it is today.
Good catch. She obviously changes her outfits and messes with her hair between lessons. It’s fun to run the YT cursor (or whatever it’s called) back and forth to make it look like time-lapse photography. It’s even more fun to see what the outfits do to her… uh, figure.
I catch a lot of little things but I don’t care enough anymore to post my findings very often. I’m still stumped about one thing. Her massive collection of outfits. The only think I can think of is she is renting them.
hey captain if she was my
shes worth more and i’ll give it all to her 
everyone has dreams of being at her side mmmmmm just my sweet dreams gettin the better part of me 
I thought I read or heard once upon a time that she had a friend in the rag biz. Maybe she borrows them for one wear and returns them.
Humm I must have missed that one. I don’t read all the comments on the site. I would never get anything done if I did.
You don’t care enough anymore Capt’n Jack?
You question eludes me. I guess I should have picked a different word.
It’s such a complex word that I leaves it’s self open to misinterpretation. I’ll have to think of a replacement.
Tips for when you interview Marina – by Ron Bergundy
Coffee works, good. Not too much, though
Warm up doing tongue twisters and other phrases
( so you can hear your articulations ). Try this:
“Rutabaga, rutabaga, peas and carrots,
rumble, rumble, mutiny, mutiny, mutiny”.
Ron Bergundy – Too much coffee
Are you sure the site for that link is on HFW?
BTW, I remember where the rumbling came from.
Word Request: albeit (heh heh)
tongue twisters, is another phrase request.
There’s roob on the baggy buby bluggy bampers… I still can’t get it right.
Here’s a thought. In regards of asking Marian to do a word. Is it a word request or an origin request? Which would be more proper?
I took my cue from the pulldown menu “Request a
Word” button. Word ( or Phrase ) request ( colon )
- followed by the requested word/phrase.
Since the first line of a comment is posted to the
Recent Comments list, it’s easy to spot on the list
from the home page, or any lesson page you’re in.
Technically, Word ( or Phrase ) Origin Request is
more proper; for the practical purpose of using
the Recent Comments list, I’ve truncated it to fit.
Keyword “request” is all I use for searches, anyway
Hey, Marina. Have you ever felt like it’s just been “one of those days”?
Oh, I see that you have. Several times.
Keep up the good work.
Admitting error clears the score and proves you wiser than before.
Fun out takes! It’s not so easy being hotforwords, huh?
OK, what?
Did I just say that your out takes were a hoax?
And so, I believe I’ve just formulated a new word request, please look into the word “fun” for me, and tell me what you discover, in a future video maybe!
More power to you, hotforwords!
I like the word “hoax”… so request the word hoax. Interesting meaning & handy in scrabble & word games when you’re stuck with that “X” near the end.
Earlier, in your reply (to me) did you mean something like this?
Are you of age though? oops
I like the flame idea, would make an interesting, you might say “hot” background idea. Looks really good on M on the English Leather Magazine cover… what, was I innaccurate?
What a distraction from class, Billy were being naughty in the back
That is close to what I had in mind also, but still not quite. I was thinking about wearing an actual fireman “hot” suit! 
hi Marina.
i was wondering if you could please investigate the orign of the phrase
“I’ve lost my marbles”
i kinda know that it means you are crazy, nuts, etc.
But i really want to know where it came from.
Thanks!
Blooper oops
Was that I’ll will be ba-xck? Funny…You worked hard and need break
Now we know what that hand jesture means.
It means Gorby’s been chewing on my knuckle.
albeit ever so humble, there’s no take like an outtake…
What the hell was I doing?
Only human
Good Horse Impression
Only human… reminded me, don’t forget your second wind… gotta love the eighties, if you can remember them.
line from the song “…you’re supposed to make mistakes…”
Cheers Mr. Volay