Accent
Accent.. where does the word come from? Oh, and I take a dig at bad accents in movies!
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Telephone
luv ur accent! more then ur b… no! not more then that….
I have a Midwestern US accent, which is pretty much accentless. I do tend to adopt other regional accents depending upon to whom I am talking.
This is my first post. I found your site yesterday, and have already recommended it to several others.
I do like your accent very much. Growl!
I don’t really have an accent. I like your’s:)
I have a southern accent, but not a very thick one.
That song Kalinka aounds like a hearty folk song. Wikipedia says it is a love song of a man towards his wife or girlfriend. I got the impression that it was a good hearted song.
Dear Marina,
I have an accent in my mother language. It’s the accent of the area, where I grew up.
Marina,
Love your site and videos! I worked in Nizhny Novogorod for a couple years, and stumbled across your name/site when I googled Nizhny to see what was new there. Were you born there or just went to university there?
As for my homework, I have a slight Southern accent (growing up in North Carolina), but when I lived in Russia people told me that I sounded as if I was from one of the Baltic states (Latvia, Lithuania), like Valdis Pelsh, the “Ugadai Melodiyu” TV host from the ’90s. What do you think? Do Americans who learn Russian often have a Baltic accent? Please investigate!
C uvazhenium,
–Glenn
Nope, I don’t think I have an accent, being a Californian of midwestern stock. But then, a Texan would think I have an ‘ack-sayent.’ My dear octogenarian aunt, born of Russian emigres and raised in Belgium, came to the U.S. right after WWII. After 25 years here, she thought she had lost her accent, but no one else did!
A guy walks into a bar with his pet monkey. He orders a drink and while he’s drinking, the monkey jumps all around the place. The monkey grabs some olives off the bar and eats them. Then he grabs some sliced limes and eats them. He then jumps onto the pool table and grabs one of the billiard balls. To everyone’s amazement, he sticks it in his mouth, and somehow swallows it whole.
The bartender screams at the g uy, “Did you see what your monkey just did?”
“No, what?”
“He just ate the cue ball off my pool table… whole!”
“Yeah, that doesn’t surprise me,” replied the guy, “He eats everything in sight. Sorry! I’ll pay for the cue ball and stuff.”
The guy finishes his drink, pays his bill, pays for the stuff the monkey ate and leaves.
Two weeks later the guy is in the bar again, and has his monkey with him. He orders a drink and the monkey starts running around the bar again. While the man is finishing his drink, the monkey finds a maraschino cherry on the bar. He grabs it, sticks it up his butt, pulls it out, and eats it. Then the monkey finds a peanut, and again sticks it up his butt, pulls it out, and eats it.
The bartender is disgusted. “Did you see what your monkey did now?”
No, what?” replied the man.
“Well, he stuck a maraschino cherry and a peanut up his butt, pulled them out, and ate them!” said the bartender.
“Yeah, that doesn’t surprise me,” replied the guy. “He still eats everything in sight, but ever since he had to shit that cue ball, he measures everything first.”
A great AMERICAN leadership conference and thanks for the seminar…it was demoncractically paid for by the best [mass-media] service: beevee14. Thanks.
Mother’s milk—”A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.” – John D. Rockefeller 1874-?????
Now, more than ever…
This guy got a new Harley and kept vasolene in his pocket to keep it rust proof…he went to have lunch with his new girlfriends family and the father has a rule who talks first does the dishes…You must know about when it started to rain! Sex is like insurance brought to from the [[CITY-STATES]]…Those Darlins – DUI or Die…the cities will provide you with imigrants to milk the cows and steel your land and the red-necks can die fighting for more education…lawyers are the AMERICAN MADE bible—- loving the gentile!…we are all brought to earth by being fucked
property is a movie made MAN-date 
This guy got a new Harley and kept vasolene in his pocket to keep it rust proof…he went to have lunch with his new girlfriends family and the father has a rule who talks first does the dishes
Sex is like insurance 
If that is a joke you have got to tell the rest because the set-up is decent. Plus, I’ve never heard it before, which is unusual.
Yeah, you pay for it everyday, you hardly get to use it, and then when you really need it, you get told your policy is cancelled!
Joe wanted to buy a motorbike. He doesn’t have much luck until one day, he comes across a Harley with a ‘for sale’ sign on it.
The bike seems even better than a new one, although it is 10 years old. It is shiny and in absolute mint condition.He immediately buys it, and asks the seller how he kept it in such great condition for 10 years.
‘Well, it’s quite simple, really,’ says the seller, ‘whenever the bike is outside and it’s gonna rain, [ rub Vaseline] on the [chrome]. It protects it from the rain.’ And he hands Joe a jar of [Vaseline].
That night, his girlfriend, Sandra, invites him over to meet her parents. Naturally, they take the bike there. But just before they enter the house, Sandra stops him and says, ‘I have to tell you something about my family before we go in.’ ‘When we eat dinner, we don’t talk. In fact, the first person who says anything during dinner has to do the dishes.’
‘No problem,’ he says. And in they go.
Joe is shocked. Right smack in the middle of the living room is a huge stack of dirty dishes. In the kitchen is another huge stack of dishes. Piled up on the stairs, in the corridor, everywhere he looks, dirty dishes.
They sit down to dinner and, sure enough, no one says a word.
As dinner progresses, Joe decides to take advantage of the situation. So he leans over and kisses Sandra. No one says a word. So he reaches over and fondles her breasts. Still, nobody says a word. So he stands up, grabs her, rips her clothes off, throws her on the table, and makes love to her right there, in front of her parents.
His girlfriend is a little flustered, her dad is obviously livid, and her mom horrified when he sits back down, but no one says a word.
He looks at her mom..
‘She’s got a great body,’ he thinks. So he grabs the mom, bends her over the dinner table, and has his way with her every which way right there on the dinner table.
Now his girlfriend is furious and her dad is boiling, but still, total silence.
All of a sudden there is a loud clap of thunder, and it starts to rain. Joe remembers his bike, so he pulls the jar of [Vaseline] from his pocket…
Suddenly the father shouted….’I'll do the dishes!!!
That jogged one loose:
A doctors phone rings at 3 a.m. on a weekend. The man on the other end has a hard-luck story. He claimed that he picked a girl up at the bar and took her home. As they were getting ready to do the damn thing the girl stopped him, said she had been to see her doctor earlier that week and the doc told her she had either VD or TB and she couldn’t remember which. The man says, “I know that she is your patient but I have forgotten her name. Can you help me out?”
The doc said he couldn’t remember her with any certainty but did offer a solution: “Chase her around the bed a few times. If she coughs, nail ‘er!”
Hi! I would like to request the phrase [hot for words]
Hi mangini,
Marina actually covered the origin of the word hot and since it is part of her namesake, she also tells you in the video why she is known as HotForWords.
Click on the “All Words” navigation link in the upper left,
then click on the “H” and scroll down to the video entitled, “Hot”.
Here is that video lesson.
Hot
Marina explains why she is Hot For Words at 1:08
http://www.hotforwords.com/200.....06/21/hot/
Enjoy.
Were NOT gardeners either
Can you get some hot chicks and lets see which one can hop the most in two minutes with wet T-shirts
Question: in the United states there is a state called Michigan, and in Mexico there is a state called Michoacan. I heard that they both have the same meaning. so does it or not? why is Michigan called michigan, and Michoacan called Michoacan, and where did this name originated from?
There you go now class is in session, Luv yah
Michoacan is a place in in Mexico. I bet this is where the word is from.
Hola “SadSonrisas”,
Según Wikipedia, “Michoacán” (Nahuatl) quiere decir “lugar de pescadores” y “Michigan” (Chippewa) quiere decir “lago grande.” Coincidencia magnífica, verdad.
According to Wikipedia, [Michoacán] (Nahuatl) means “place of fishermen” and [Michigan] (Chippewa) means “large lake.” Wonderful coincidence, true.
Disculpe mi pregunta tonta, pero ¿qué es “LBC”? ¿Lugar en Baja California?
I live just south of the Canadian border, near Vancouver, and we see a lot of car license plates that say “BC.” I was confused by all the “BC” plates I saw on a visit to San Diego, until I realized they meant “Baja California.”
Marina, remember after “Alaska” you said you’d do a series of lessons on state names?
Thanks for youre Information very helpful, i always wanted to visit Canada maybe one day. LBC is Long Beach California. Its a 2 1/2 hour drive noth of the border. Thats why i have that picture of that ship its the Queen Mary which is located in Long Beach.
“THE [LETTER"]– Mar 17, 2010 … Legendary Memphis musician Alex Chilton died Wednesday evening in New Orleans, according to his friend and bandmate in Big Star, …
-Alex Chilton (born William Alexander Chilton, December 28, 1950, in Memphis, Tennessee – March 17, 2010 in New Orleans) was an American songwriter, guitarist, singer and producer best known for his work with the pop-music bands the Box Tops and Big Star. Chilton’s early commercial sales success in the 1960s as a teen vocalist for the Box Tops was not repeated in later years with Big Star and in his indie music solo career on small labels, but he did draw a loyal following in the indie and alternative music fields. 
My favorite-The Box Tops – Trains and Boats and Planes
…good night
I always liked The Letter, even if I did think it was Johnny Rivers in my early years!!
In honor of The Tournament starting, here is another one from the way back file: Tobacco Road
You know, if you don’t have some stout speakers, that bass line could turn them into confetti!
Hmph. Nothing for St. Patrick’s Day. As a Celt, I feel slighted.
[blarney]
[malarkey]
[shillelagh]
YEAH! Nothing for St-Patty’s day! What is that, eh? Not even a green bikini!
Hey, my dear estimated fellow students, how are we doing? Hey, guess what! Today was St-Patty’s day!!! I probably said no, nay, never no more will I play the wild rover no more in the past, but, sanga geheno (don’t worry if you don’t understand, it’s esperanto), I was saying, yeah, but, sanga geheno, it was time for beer, pints of Guiness! Stout by the barrel, by the truckload!! I even think a little leprechaun dance is de rigueur, isn’t it? Enjoy my dear fellow students!
So can you get buzzword a raise!
hEar to settle a book deal and a berry best business…
Souls are invaded, heart in a groove.
Beatin’ and beatin’so outta time.
What’s the mad matter with the church chimes?
Bloody hell, buzzword didn’t tell us he’s Irish!
No sé cual es su profesión, pero me parece que lingüística es una de sus fuerzas mayores, señor Owen. Un poco más y usted se va a poner a hablarnos en Klingon.
Ud. es demasiado generoso — si se habla inglés y español, solamente se necesita un poquito de imaginación para entender el mayor parte de Esperanto.
I work as an accountant; dabbling in linguistics is to keep me from dying of boredom. You’ve been an inspiration.
And here’s the wild rover, while we’re at it, my dear fellow students. In verity, as true as I tell you (hic!), no nay never no more will I post this kind of insolent comments! Eh, you bet!
This is the real me
I’m impressed — you didn’t say anything nasty. Now go play with your cat.
“Go play with your cat” what are you saying by that. Hippocratic how you say that. Quite nasty
I meant, go play with your cat.
what do u do when ur pubic hair gets itchy? do you use powder? if so, what brand? Do russian girls shave their pubes, more importantly, do u? And do u shave it all? And if u don’t, at which length do u keep your trimmed pubic hair? Do you trim AND shave????
I have been to Russia the women have hairy legs and arm pits. Just like Grateful Dead tour girls hot I love a hairy pie and legs.
I also like a shaved muff no more of your Irish friend pic please St. Patties day is over. 
Hey speaking of Hair Pies:
Q) What is the last sound a C-hair makes before it hits the floor?
A) (Bee makes spitting sound)
Okay, oops! sorry i didn’t do the brackets! [pretty]
Hi Marina! could you do the origin of the word Pretty? I find that word very interesting.
Yes, because there’s “nothing better than a [pretty] girl who knows just how to use her high IQ”
Back to the accents, “pretty” is also a pretty example of “flat t” (glottal stop), a very distinctive feature of the majority of American accents
*flap t
When I call my wife crazy, I say she is [hysterical], then she calls me [testy], and [penal]izes me by making me wash the dishes.
I would like to request the word [Agnosticism] Please!!!
Yes, and the second question is why the [agnosticism] isn’t the antithesis of [gnosticism]
And why does [deism] differ from [theism], although the both terms has the same etymology (deism was imported from Greek via Latin, theism directly from Greek).
***Word request***
[rasterize]
Does this process give you dreadlocks and a Jamaican accent?
Who is your favorite disney princess? My favorite Disney Princess is Aurora, because they call her Rose, which is my name. Also, i would like to sleep for a hundred years as well, so when i wake up all my problems in the past would be just that. In the past, where it belongs……Spectacular!
OK, NOW I believe you’re 14!
And I’m sorry for any rude remarks I might have made to you.
likes she is a troll
Pepperann, Peperann, much too cool for seventh grade…no-one’s better than Pepperann……Pepperann!!! C0o0o0o0ol….a mood ring.
[U N I] ted states
Sprachen Sie Denglisch?
*sprechen
my fault
sehr gut mein Freund
or
bardzo dobre moim przyjacielem
And, what about [respond]? What the heck? If you [respond] to someone does that mean the person who you’re talking to [sponded] first?
On behalf a youtuber I am a fan of, BionicDance, I would like to request the word [cherry] and [cobbler]. She pointed out in a video that a cobbler is one who makes shoes, right? But, a [cherry cobbler] is a kind of pie. Are there shoes in it? What the heck?
Is there a link between [guano] and [Guantanamo Bay]?
And what about [napkin] and [pumpkin]? WTF?
She raised these words in her Weird Thoughts Volume 07 video. I thought they were good ones that you might want to do.
shit Marina, guess you can forget about my previous postings. You must be having a ball reading these other comments.
CoMeDy on HotForWords
Hey, how about the word [Vanity] I’d like to know about that one from you.
The End of Humanity = Self-Love
Hello Dave!…[chic] or broard]…”We didn’t lose the game, we just ran out of time.” – Vince Lombardi —10 New Women in Music Who Should Be on Your iPod…check out Vagina Panther…
Hell yeah for the return of all the Angry Female Rockers!
VP is it,Thanks leoNard!
but lets not forget on this Saint Paddys Day:
The hungerstrike of 1981 was one of the most influential periods in the present phase of the struggle for Irish freedom.It not only thwarted Britain’s plans to criminalise Ireland’s long and noble fight for freedom, but concentrated world wide media attention on the war in Ireland, paving the way for Sinn Fein’s entrance into the political arena and the many electoral successes that followed.
D’oh!!!
the fuck, spelling with two D’s? what in the hell was I doing?!
s’up, vrock
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually
run out of other people’s money.”
- Margaret Thatcher
Hey Hey beevee
Nothin’ much, I was just stoppin’ by and hittin’ up the hotforwords lady with a few word requests. Looking around here it looks like some people or a person is trying to stirrup controversy for Lady M. To each his own I guess 
and with us going to war with Iran who knows what the world is going to look like after that ride?
Yeah I’m familiar with that quote from Thatcher and it is so true! Nobody learns from history
Hey, don’t know if you like Maiden, I was surfing YT and found this along with some other shit. U can check if you like
Women In Uniform(Skyhook cover)
Got Gothic? edit version
Scare Tactic? Federal Reserve
The Bloody family
Primal Scream – Country Girl
whew! hope all these work. Okay you might be saying what the fuck is up with all these links. don’t know dude just wanted to share.
….of course there are websites that want to debunk the theory ones 
My boss and I were talking today and she mentioned a phrase hanging out your shingle. I would like to request the phrase [to hang out one's shingle]
to hang out one’s shingle
(idiomatic) to open an office or business, especially in a profession.
She’s good enough at fixing vacuum cleaners that she should hang out her shingle and try making some money at it.
[edit] Synonymsset up shop
Retrieved from “http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hang_out_one%27s_shingle”
were the name UNICORN came from
Very [unique] but you must be out of your mind like the U.S. government for doing, and what has been done to me.
Kitty from gunsmoke — is the lady with tv’s longest relationship with out …[modern-love/sex]— what does [rape] mean?
…The sum of mind rape has many games with loaded dice and slice one die and do you get a pair of dice?
You forgot to use
Where the Fuck is mgreen you bastard!!11111111111111
THIS!!!!
IS MRGREEN DUMB SHIT
YA I KNOW BUT YOU MISSED HIM IN THE [COLLAGE] YOU MADE DUMB SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Main Entry: col·lage
Pronunciation: \kə-ˈläzh, kȯ-, kō-\
Function: noun
Etymology: French, literally, gluing, from coller to glue, from colle glue, from Vulgar Latin *colla, from Greek kolla
Date: 1919
1 a : an artistic composition made of various materials (as paper, cloth, or wood) glued on a surface b : a creative work that resembles such a composition in incorporating various materials or elements
2 : the art of making collages
3 : hodgepodge
4 : a work (as a film) having disparate scenes in rapid succession without transitions
— collage transitive verb
— col·lag·ist \-ˈlä-zhist\ noun
This is what you accomplished with you [massacre] dubmy!!!!!
Main Entry: 1mas·sa·cre
Pronunciation: \ˈma-si-kər\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French
Date: circa 1578
1 : the act or an instance of killing a number of usually helpless or unresisting human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty
2 : a cruel or wanton murder
3 : a wholesale slaughter of animals
4 : an act of complete destruction
Who looks dumb now fuck face!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hows that?
Much better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yall need to get a room
I told my friend to go to http://www.hotforwords.com and she claimed it was a porn site
Hi Hotforwords!
I was wondering if there is a similarity between {secret} and {secretary,} and why they have their current definitions.
Thanks,
Littlejager
To my most dearest hotforwords hottie girl –
Marina! You disappoint me! You need to stop [fartin'] around and do my word [FART] already! I know you are busy being the SME (Subject Matter Expert) on all the words in the world and all, but what better word to do in light of the stinky healthcare legislation being shoved down the American peoples throats, than the word [fart?]
I tell you what – if you choose my word next – I will do a video for you of all the various accents I have encountered since I left Southern California, back in 2000. Accents will include, Surfer/Valley Dude from CA, Chicago dumbass and mafia nubs from IL, BBQ Billy and Ned/Bubba accents from TX, Toothless grinning accents of MO, and my most favorite of all – the Oh Well Ya Know accents of Minnesoooooota.
If you include phrases when you do my word like [cuttin' the cheese], [droppin' ass], and [queff], I’ll toss in a bitch slap during one of my skits on some unexpecting stranger.
It’s up to you my dear, but thus I digress.
Yours faithfully…
iluv2cutfarts
USA
C’mon, dude, I’m sure someone has already explained that F.A.R.T. is merely an acronym for Flatulent Anal Rectum Trumpet.
Are you a cute, buxom, Russian blond? If not – keep your gas in your own ass. I don’t wanna hear about it from you!
Sorry, but these words smell not good. I would never forgive Marina, if she demonstrated farting or puking in her show. I don’t want to gain such associations with her. Probably it’s not only me that finds your word suggestions a bit distasteful.
Spoken like a true word Nazi! What a fair-weather fan you are!
You must be from a country who doesn’t have freedom of speech. I feel sorry for you.
Sorry, but I just used my human right to speak freely in my previous post. Of course, we can carry out the survey of who likes farting and who doesn’t. I don’t mind
You’re just being stinky! You’re probably one of those girls who [farts] into her pillow and then put it’s to her nose to sniff it!
And you must be a liberal from America. Who else is gonna get on here saying the shit you do and then bitch about freedom of speech when somebody has an opinion different than yours. You are an ASSHOLE! Go Away, Putz!!
What an angry little dick man you are! Such a profane way to express your displeasure! Ah – a Buckeyes fan…no wonder.
***Saint Patrick’s is tomorrow!***
[Fenian]
[Wild Geese]
[Gaeltacht]
The Wolfe Tones sing The Foggy Dew — song of the Easter Uprising, 1916.
Marina, if you do something special for Saint Patrick’s Day, I’ll forgive you for forgetting Saint David’s.
Was that a bitch slap I saw at the end?
I have a watered down Long Island accent. I used to have a really thick one, but I’ve worked on my own to lose it. You can’t really have one if you want to be in broadcasting, unless you’re a sports radio host. But that’s just me. Opinions vary.
I like the Jamaican accent.
But don’t try to fake it! You’re gonna fail! Even with a Jamaican hat on your head.
Just give me one of those fast talkin’ Puerto Rican chicks with a New York accent.
You know the ones who talk faster than they can think.
I’m 14.
Hi I’m Chris Hansen, would you like to have a seat?
So what do I get you? Cookies and milk?
Get on the ground!!!
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
u look very womanly.
Jailbait!
OK rosiecheeks, now you’re REALLY messing with us. Who’s that in your new gravatar — your dad?
Marina,
I have a friend who makes up words. Is this allowed? What do you call someone who does this? Some of his words are: magnable (magnetic), and buckety (resembling a bucket.) I keep telling him he can’t just go around making up his own language…
There are so many pictures of you, have you modeled all of your life, or just since you began HotforWords?
i feel ever so frustrated. y can i not look like a young brooke shields. o woe is me.
Don’t get frustrated. You have lots reasons to feel lucky. Only 2 of them: You are living in the best, most wealthy and most powerful country in the earth and universe. The language you natively speak is comprehensible for people all over the world. What’s more to want?
AMERICA SUCKS. Id rather be a tea-baggin hoe in the shrubs of Ireland.
Bend over, I’m looking for a four leaf clover.
Che Volay, i miss u i have been raped many times over again by everyone’s eyes on this site. I have a new love interest her name is Brooke Shields circa 1980.
you look manly
Of course, there is no country without some disadvantages. When I saw this photo taken by Marina, it was not Gorby that drew my attention, but the asphalt patches on the road surface , each one in a different color. That looked so familiar to me!
You’re prettier.
its a joke cuz nobody believes i am a 14 year old girl.
Akcentoj eh? Mizera. Mi ne kompren homoj kun akcento.
Mi estoy “esperanto” kompren tu.
Esperanto ne estas ne mistifika lingvo. Aŭ eble estas.
Leonardo DiCaprio acted convincingly only in the movie “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape”, where he impersonated a mentally challenged boy. That happened because he probably had an inborn predisposition to this role
Accents and dialects are a favorite hobby of mine. I could write tons on the topic, but no fear, I won’t. I don’t think I have an accent at all, but a lady once guessed where I was from, and said it was ‘cuz of my ‘Indiana Accent’. Beats me.
On the subject of Dear Teacher losing the Russian accent, put me on the ‘on knees and elbows begging and pleading NO!!!’ side of the debate.
Teach, if you ever lose that smooth, sweet, smoky, sexy accent of yours, I will no longer have need of these ears of mine.
Love to Teacher,
xoxodc
very sexy! WOW
Not as sexy as your Gravatar photo your looken hot babe!!!
Historical linguists have been unable to definitively link the Tai-Kadai languages to any other language family. Many words in Thai are borrowed from Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer. It is a tonal and analytic language. Thai also has a complex orthography and relational markers. …just saying Hello: ballmdr
[Siam was the name of Thailand] before 24 June 1939 and again from 8 September 1945 to 20 July 1949.
Thanks, leoNard, Bob “HotForThai” Morris would appreciate that post.
LETS GO TO THAILAND I WANT TO LICK YOUR BODY YOU BETTER BE THE SAME PERSON AS THE GRAVATAR IF YOU PULL A ROSIECHEEKS MOVE I KILL YOU IN THAILAND………………
Vagina Panther – “Dave, You Are Killing Me” ….
…..Love the One You’re With 
Cover by Wesley, Danielson and Starr……Momma and daughters…… 
Rosiecheeks already said she was 14. Fourteen! That didn’t scare you off?
ballmdr has kinda got that Shania Twain thing goin on, don’t she?
Yes she does I want her badly!!!!!!!!!!!
jeez hittin onall the girlz on this site!!! lolz!
Ya, I haven’t had any tail for a while if you know what I mean. If you are the chick in the gravatar then your next !!!!!
Well if my gravitar photo will ever change, i put a photo of my real self on it
see this is me I SWEAR
My coworkers say I have a southern German accent everytime I listen to my CD of German language. So I guess they are not necessarily a part of childhood. If anything, I would be considered to have an American midwest accent.
I have a request. How did the phrase [anal retentive] come to mean someone who is stern or inflexible or even incredibly cheap with money. I just don’t get the connection. It is considered to mean the same as [tight ass]. I don’t get that either. That phrase must have had an amazing journey through the English language.
bump!
It comes from the early Freudian (psychoanalytical) theory (or rather fables) of developmental stages (oral, anal, phallic, genital) and various fixations on them, resulting in different dominating personality traits. In the case of anal retentive personality, Freud supposed that it was a result of punishing young children for shitting still into diapers instead of the pot, It was regarded by Freud as a cause of constipations in childhood and obsessive-compulsive behavior in adulthood.
I AM OFFICIALLY NOT A MEAT CURTAIN.
Gee, rosie, did someone say you were?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....C5BIuhQBy0
It may be a skit, just like the one with Borat.
Gotta hand it to Sasha Cohen — he’s pissed off the Kazakhs (obvious reasons), the Poles (the only part of his “Kazakh” that isn’t gibberish is Polish), the Americans (for violating our trust), and the Jews (because he’s such a f*cking embarrassment.) It takes work to be that thoroughly detestable.
Except his intentions, I think he also imitates the features of the Polish intonation, technically even in quite a good way. He sounds just like a Pollack who tries to sound like an American.
I’m ashamed of how many Polish people speaks English, even our prime minister and other politicians.
*of the way that many Polish people speak English
My sad reflection is that almost no Pollack is able to learn to use English that is good enough not to sound asinine. I abandoned my hope and fell into a deep depressive state.
fglrx, do you remember President Carter’s translator in Poland? Carter said he was fond of the Poles, and the translator rendered it as “I desire the Poles carnally.”
That’s what Americans do on the rare occasions when we try to learn other people’s languages. We have no business making fun of what foreigners do with English. 
I haven’t heard of that situation. But I remember how many problems the translators had with the former Polish president Lech Wałęsa, when it came to consecutive interpreting. Wałęsa used to express many “witty thoughts” and self-made idioms, e.g.
“I’m for, and even against that.”
“Your health, our throats, bottoms up!”
“You, sir, have come in here like into a barn. No word, no sound, no cock-a-doodle-do.”
“I’ll answer evasively straight.”
“The positive and negative assets.”
“My quantity slightly spoils my quality.”
“A drowning man clutches at anything.”
Nobody was able to persuade him not to speak in this way, even when he spoke live to the international audience with the help of interpreters. That was a really hard way to earn a living for them!
I’ve read the same happened many times to George W. Bush interpreters.
Geez, if that’s the competition, maybe there’s hope for me.
I’m an old Oklahoma Cowboy as well as a rock and roll musician.
I have been told that I sound like an educated Western Cowboy actor, so I get lots of voice-over work in radio and TV commercials and the occasional role in a film. I can also do different English accents and a funny drunk-Sean-Connery Scottish accent.
I think I have a little of Jerry Garcia accent when singing. Take a listen and tell me what you think since your a musician.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....xX9F3vVrnA
Les Dudek – “Old Judge Jones”
…Guitarist Les Dudek has played with some of rock and pop’s biggest names (Stevie Nicks, Steve Miller, Dave Mason, Cher, Boz Scaggs, and the Allman Brothers Band, among others), in addition to issuing solo albums on his own.
Ol’ Les plays the accoustic on “Jessica” by the ‘Allman Bros.’ Probably the best instrumental rock song ever made. If the piano solo doesn’t make you want to rip the knob off crankin it up, you don’t like music!
JMHO
Jessica was first released on the band’s 1973 album Brothers and Sisters, and has subsequently been used in many musical contexts. In January 2006, a Wall Street Journal article referred to the piece as “a true national [heirloom].”</b? It is widely known as the theme to the BBC Two motoring program Top Gear.
(from the coastal county up the road-ManitowocWI)…ps, Jim also wrote "the bears still suck polka" 
RIP 
Mason performing the song he made famous with the songs original composer Jim Krueger 
..While this [genre] is hEar
Yeah, I can hear it in there.
Thanks for listening at least I know you know the accent I am [evoking] for.
I think an accent might be a minor issue for a speaker unless it affects the fact of being fully comprehended. (That concerns, of course, only the non-native accents, as the native accents become optimized through the centuries of evolution).
I can’t speak English at all. Sometimes I’m able to write something with effort and pain, but speaking (more fluently than 1 word a second) remains still far beyond my reach.
English only seems to be the easiest language in the word, but is actually very hard and sophisticated: full of idioms, fixed collocations of the words and partially replaceable synonyms. Yes, it’s easy, but merely for reading. Thanks to that, producing gibberish comes easily, but trying to use proper words can really squeeze the cr*p out of any non-native.
What’s worse, the native speakers like y’all are forced to see and hear all our sh*t. As a result of all those difficulties, the world is becoming infested by so-called simplified International English, which is just a bunch of bureaucratic loan translations. They sound equally bad in all languages, but are easily translatable. American and Commonwealth citizens handed over their language voluntarily to the barbarians from all over the world; that’s like monkeys would have been given a razor blade.
Yup, we gotta larn all them furriners to talk good English!
Yes, I also have committed this error. Maybe if I had used the “organism” as an biological term that means every living system, especially with reference to its inner structure, it wouldn’t have been incorrect, but nobody is supposed to be familiar with the strict scientific meaning of words (that are universal all over the world).
Reading the clumsy pidgin English texts in the Internet, especially on forums, must be a great fun for all native speakers.
jak sie masz, fglrx,
English IS a pidgin language. Mash together Old Dutch, Norman French, an infusion of Latin and Greek and a sprinkling of just about every other language on earth and you get English. The “clumsy pidgin” we see on the Internet is just a continuation of the long evolutionary process of our language. It’s fun, but not to be “made fun of” (disparaged or looked down upon); what other peoples do with English is an intriguing window onto the structure of their native languages and their way of thinking.
Some of the best examples are on http://www.engrish.com/ , a site dedicated to Oriental use of English — a fascinating glimpse of Asian thought and character as revealed in how they use our language.
The most obvious reason why no foreigner can use proper English without 30 years of practice:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collective_nouns_by_subject_A-H
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.....ubject_I-Z
And of course a famous joke on the subject:
“What a cute bunch of cows!” she remarked.
“Not a bunch, herd”, her friend replied.
“Heard of what?”
“Herd of cows.”
“Of course I’ve heard of cows.”
“No, a cow herd.”
“What do I care what a cow heard. I have no secrets to keep from a cow!”
——–
But probably the next generation will reduce all these subtleties to “a bunch of”, “an assload of” and “a shitload of”.
Most of those I have not heard of.
Check out Basic English:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.....ic_english
Hi, my dear teacher, I’ve a mexican accent because I’m a mexican and live in Chihuahua
Bienvenido, gemini, ¿tiene gemelo?
Rosie cheeks maybe trolllike but she is hot.
She’s VERY naughty. If she were MY daughter, I’d spank her most sternly.
She might be a 40 y.o. man equally well, showing us such an avatar as a bait for trolls to kindle weird discussions. Who knows.
Will you sleep with me and take care of me? I want u to be my lover, buy me stockings and clothes. You can visit me at my house and be my fancy man.
Rosie—-12 year old Brooke Shields playing a child prostitute from Pretty Baby (1978) Brooke Shields … Violet Keith Carradine—
The pair of partners are also Broadway producers, famously and successfully of the multiple Tony award-winning “Billy Elliott.”
1978??? My god, it’s been that long?!
Um, yeah, if you can remember “Pretty Baby” then I’ll have to give some credence to what fglrx says.
no evan, u got it all wrong. I just love brooke shields. Ever since i saw her movie Blue Lagoon on amc a while back ago, i just been in love with her that’s all. She is a classic beauty, and that is rare to find these days.
Yes, of course I have it all wrong. Young ladies don’t know when old goats are teasing!
Whats with the Shan Dawson-esque thumbails Marina?
Marina, I enjoyed the second or two of you singing the famous Cossack song.
Also, is your slutty sister available to be ordered?
***Save the Languages!***
)
(Starting with Welsh!
If accents are charming, then regional & minority languages are more so.
Half the world’s 6000 languages will go extinct in this century. You can help save one of them by signing the following petition:
http://deiseb.cymdeithas.org/english.php
http://deiseb.cymdeithas.org/ (in the original Welsh)
A geiriau bach hen ieithoedd diflanedig
Hoyw yng ngenau dynion oeddynt hwy
A thlws i’r glust ymh mharabl plant bychain
Ond tafod neb ni elw arnynt mwy…
(“And little words of languages now vanished
Were once alive, and danced on human tongues;
Sweet to the ears in parables of children
And songs that centuries have left unsung.”)
– Waldo Williams, translated by E. Owen
If the British were gay, there wouldn’t be 60 million of them.
We were adopted.
You’re messing with my head, James.
AS OTHERS SEE US
There were the Scots
Who kept the Sabbath
And everything else
they could lay their hands on;
Then there were the Welsh
Who prayed on their knees
and on their neighbours;
Also there were the Irish
Who never knew what they wanted
but were willing to fight for it anyway;
Lastly there were the English
Who considered themselves a self-made nation
Thus relieving the Almighty
of a dreadful responsibility.
[British]
[Britain]
Thank God for that or the Aids virus would have been spread 100 times worse!!!!
I really enjoy your site! I sure is a fun way to learn about words! I am a school teacher and had my students ask me a question about the origin of the two words: bolt grading. They know what these two words mean but want to know where the idea and standard of bolt grading came from and started? I have spent many hours on the net trying to find this information and have hit a dead end! I know this is not the usual type of word request you get. But any help you can give me would be very helpful!!! Thanks for your unique approach to teaching and increasing interest in vocabulary!
Hello you need to put the words you are requesting into brackets like this [bolt grading]. This is how Marina knows which word you are requesting. If you are teaching English you need to proof read a little your second sentence is wrong(It not I). I always wanted to fucken {stump} a teacher. You need to proof read better HA HA!!!
Main Entry: high–grad·ing
Pronunciation: ˈhī-ˈgrā-diŋ
Function: noun
Date: 1974
: the practice of selecting only the most healthy or valuable individuals in harvesting a natural resource (as timber or fish)
I would think the word is very close to this definition. I am a mountain climber. I drill bolts into rock sometimes the rock is what is called [chaus], and I have to tap on the rock to find a solid placement for the bolt. The word to me sounds like looking for a good placement of a bolt. Maybe this is a term from rock quarries where they grade the ground and then drill and blast just a thought. I hope this can help you in your [pursuit.]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....tM4rGfHMTs
Hey Marina – this is my tribute to you!
http://babesagainstcommunism.b.....ssian.html
I met you (and gorby) at boarders last year!
very nice Marina Orlova and Veronika Zemanova
as long as you learn something at the same time – that commies suck
Marina seems to be thriving in a capitalist environment.
["name-dropping"]
In Marxist theory, the capitalist mode of production consists of two main economic parts: the Base and the Superstructure. …[HEAD]..how ya say that in your language?…type xoxo 
We didn’t lose the game, we just ran out of time.” – Vince Lombardi …from the HotForWords web- site
God Bless America for it
Wake up dude! 21 centuries the world has changed. Fighting with Communism today is like kicking a dead dog. Veronica cool but I’m glad that Marina has something else not only beauty.
Мир
@ Evan Owen – first
@ pushups2345 – second
something wrong with my comments
or with my head
It aint over yet, not until the 1960s new left nut jobs give up and lying about their favorite dictators, i.e. all those moron actors and wannabe intellectuals who worship castro and mao
if they wont listen to reason, maybe they will listen to babes
and yeah, marina is the smartest one of all
It is music that I get my accent from, most people get their accents from their parents, i listen to too much music, and from the streets, maybe a little skooling….
I listen to reggae and world music, and maybe a little rap or rock types… so much listening to marlies makes me learn word pronounciation from these musicans. plus i dont like the small talk so much, so i hear people like you with long statements of interesting things and i takes on me.
keep it up chica (oh yeah) i try to learn words in other languages, so i am influenced by all the other accents too, i dont like amerikan accent too much.
Marina!!!! and everybody, check out this cool video I just found!
I really think you”ll like it …again, I really, really do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....Rdz0kRCcMo
Obviously done by someone who’s very fond of Marina.
Growing up in New England made one really keen on detecting the subtle difference in accents.
The closer you were to my home the more accurate I could locate your accent’s origin. Not only a certain city but I could tell what neighborhood you were from.
Example a Boston accent is a lot different from a NYC accent. A Harvard/Cambridge accent was different from just a Massachusetts’s accent.
Certain ethnic pockets would give one a big hint on the location.
My accent is now gone after many years in California. It does make an reappearance on certain words especially after a few beirs. (sic)
Great performance. cool accent!
I would like to request the word [embolization] or [emboli]
How are you supposed to rate videos on the new youtube layout.
Hi James
You just need to click on the fifth star once you have logged in. Remember nothing less than 5 stars for teacher
Andy
I am only seeing thumbs up and thumbs down.. that new layout is hideous
I have a feeling I am seeing a new layout no one else is.
James,
You are not the only one seeing the new YT layout. That new YT layout covers a lot of different types of pages and not just the video pages and is being presented to a small number of people at a time.
Last week, YT presented to me the new layout not only for videos, but the home page has been re-designed as well as the other YT pages. A lot more of the links are hidden in pull-down lists which is horrible as one has to hunt for things.
Currently, I am seeing the old style again. There was a pop-up on one of the YT pages on the right hand side a week ago where one could opt-in or out of the new pages.
For the above video, I rated 5 stars, where for the prior video I had rated thumbs up.
“i gotta feeling! woo hoo!!”
I am so glad you do not think that british guys are gay….but I am so sad that there are not enough russian brides that look and sound like you
Another great video and I am one of the students that loves your accent. I am scottish and have a scottish accent but one you may just about understand 
This is the first homework you have done so I hope that teacher is pleased 
Luv ya
Aye, but can ye say, “It’s a braw bricht moonlicht nicht”?
Then yer a’richt, d’ye ken?
Just a wee doch an doris
See you jimmy, I’ll ge ya a glasgy kiss or poke ye wi my skian do fur yer cheek
seriously though I am from Perth and we are a bit posh there, although I still eat haggis, wear a skirt, and have red hair….actually no I don’t have any hair but if I did have hair it would be red……to go with the nose which is also red …..because of the bottle of whisky i drink every day…..for breakfast.
and it is a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht boyo
I am from the Midwest and of course I don’t feel I have an accent. I lived in Denver for a while (Frahdae=Friday) and I worked in an Italian resturaunt Pinnochio’s (Pinocheeo’s). My boss spoke in broken Italian or as he said “Scisilan Greech” (Scicillian Greek). He said my accent sonded like I was from Chicaga(Chicago), and he said when he lived in Sain Louie (Saint Louis), that would make him and his friends nervous. At the same resturant I worked with a guy from Maine, wich sheds a new light on the pronunciation of clam chowder. I took a drama class and was told that the accent, of a play by Shakespear, was like the midwestern accent. Well from what I discovered the debate is still going on. Seems like anywhere you are, that’s what you get. http://www.bardblog.com/a-shak.....an-accent/ Marina, I think you can get the shoes and still make videos. I can only imagine your accent whispering into my ear. I could see you running around kitchen, cooking and singing that excellent song.
“Your gonna die an old lady” You sounded like an elderly Italian woman.
Hello Marina,how you been doing?I love your accent I think it’s hot and sexy.I also like other people with accents as well,but will never compare to yours,your the best teacher ever,peace
Most dearest hotforwords Hottie Girl!
I feel so neglected! You won’t do my most favorite word in the whole world – [fart].
This is becoming a silent but deadly situation, in which massive amounts of flatus are being built up in eager anticipation of your exquisite manner of word definitions! I am going on a [fart] strike, and will not [fart] again until you finally do this very hot word.
Please hurry so I don’t blow up!
Yours truly,
iluv2cutfarts
USA
I love your accent Marina!
yes, southern accents are beautiful. “I’m sorry….I’m engaged to be married…” -Alison Lohman in BIG FISH
I guess you have accepted my proposal we are going to own this website!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wow, ugly couple
[jealousy] hurts mo fo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Like you and your cat.
Hello Marina!
I have a regional accent called Geordie. If you’re not use to the accent it can be quite thick and differcult to listen to. But when I speak Hakka apparently have an English accent.
I would like to request word [word] for your next video.
Thanks.
On a different note, I think you look classy as a brunette.
Marina! That Leo thing was good, I think you stole that dialogue from a critic….
I don’t know why people think brits are gay, I would have thought snobby would be our stereotype. Park my car, was very good! You sounded really
GayBritish!… Not so much for the last bit… We don’t have yards.When I hear accents the stereotypes I think of are
Asian: Food.
Russian: Communists.
South USA: Thick.
Turkish is a bitch to understand
Don’t even get me started on India and Saudi…
French: the french flag and garlic.
Italian: Lamborghinis old stone houses and pizza.
There many UK accents, when I was in wales, I asked people what they thought I sounded like.. They said “posh” LOL
Then you have then accents from up north. This is a piss take of footballers wives. It’s hilarious.. Notice that although it’s an impression it sounds nothing like my accent… They also like to pronounce anything ending in k with ccccchhh “Loooch, there’s a hoocch in a boooch”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....cl6sU8mV1s
I don’t have the “Dorset” accent… Occasionaly people notice I pronounce certain words country-like.. I ain’t no ffffaaaaaarmmmeer!
I know.. I was trying to think what people think British guys are.. and gay came to me even though I don’t think that!
Well, I hear we are gay and have yellow teeth…
Not all of us are gay… We don’t have the best dental health going either. 
I find it really funny when people live up to stereotypes, because it proves when people say ” that’s not true, they don’t do that” they are WRONG!
I just find it funny,
when a big black lady goes “mmhhh hmm”
when a Jamacian says “pon de …. ”
The most recent one I saw that made me laugh was a Japanese girl on the bus, she was watching a video on an mp4 player, I thought it was a bit odd as most people don’t have mp4 players, but I thought nothing of it because the Japanese are waaaaay ahead of us in technology…….. Then, I saw what she was watching…….. Manga cartoons…… Then she stopped playing it, her wallpaper was hello kitty! Just made me laugh seeing someone live up to a stereotype.
I had an asian bus driver and I feared for my life! He was driving along, bending down and not looking where he was going. Nearly crashing into every car in sight… Not a stereotype I thought was funny
Where does the word “egghead” come from? Thank you. Rick
Dear Marina,
Yes, I speak English with an accent. It’s called a “flat accent” and used to be called a “California accent.” California is home of the vast movie and TV industry. It has a huge population center and leads in radio, TV, and computer centered communitctions. More mass communications originate from here (LA and Silicon Valley) than anywhere else. So the flat accent has become the American standard in movies, TV and radio, even in other media centers like New York, Chicago, or elsewhere. There are speech coaches in Hollywood and elsewhere that help foreign students speak in an American accent.
Marina, you now speak English with just a slight Russian accent, and I think you will more familiar with our sounds, so that you’ll soon talk just like our “Valley Girls.” As a Russian mail-order bride, I think you should be nothing less than a “Trophy Wife” for some fat, fabulously wealthy Silicon Valley tycoon, and appear in fabulous gowns, sparkling jewelry and radiant beauty on the red carpet at the opera, the ballet, the symphony orchestra and other super events!
(No, I’m not wealthy enough!)
Seesixcm6
Yes, California is the most recognizable state of the USA. If you ask an average European which state for example New York or Chicago are located in, he probably won’t know. But being asked about free associations with California, he’ll point out at least Los Angeles, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Orange County, Standford University, Arnold Schwarzenegger and many, many more…. I dare to say that 95% of information about the USA in the European media come from California.
In her interviews and tweets, Marina shows a tendency to use many interjections like: totally, that’s awesome, OMG, like, duh; so it portends well for her as a wannabe Valley Girl
I have a roaming accent…happy mid-month you-all.. IDES say:
I have a you guess my cave…relatives 
…piece of words…words of peAce
5 Stars!!!!! Russian accents are soooooo exotic! Loved your singing. I sang with you, but changed the words to: Маринка моя!
Howdy there pretty lady! Well ain’t you just the Silver’s shine.
Alright, so I just made that second part up on the spot, I only say ‘ya’ll’ all the time to be cute/funny ’cause I was raised in Texas.
But I’ve completely adapted or at least acclimated to California well enough that I don’t have a Texas accent period…but I can turn it on and off as needed to entertain city dwellers at parties in the hills.
Comedy.
Ooooohhhh!!!! Russian mail order brides!!! I always thought it might be cool to get one of those because they’re gorgeous and supposedly not nearly as f*cked-up as Americanized girls…and supposedly it could save them from a life of poverty and they make good companions.
But I don’t know. I think that’s just what I read on the internet a long time ago. It would be cool to save a beautiful person and find true love, but I have pretty insanely high standards and expectations of myself…and in others…but I’m not rich yet so I just can’t go saving every good-hearted Barbie Doll that needs saving much as I’d like to and then design my own supra-revisioned Playboy/Disney/Fantasyland Brand/Empire/Belief System what have you.
But I inadvertantly took some misadventurous but damn sure interesting paths during my time ’round L.A. instead of focusing on becoming rich and famous so I could get girls like you or presumably meet dream girl material elsewhere one day at some point..perhaps because even as picky as I am there must be at least a few hundred thousand girls on the planet that qualify as beautiful and good enough…
…but I’m not done climbing yet…
…and my life will only improve exponentially better over time…
That would be awesome if you could save something you love like the ‘stories’ of the Russian bride scenario. If it would improve someone’s life I would love to marry a foreign blonde bombshell that was everything I wanted but hadn’t been able to find in America yet. I would even marry the right person for the minimal required period to make them a citizen and just consider it a mutually-beneficial long-term relationship. If it turned out to be true love and just stayed married, great. If not, at least at the end of a few years of investing your life into someone you would have more to show for it than a box full of photos you can’t look at. WTF?
Will you help me design a ‘brand’ of women that supersedes all political, religious, and national barriers? Hugh Hefner’s getting really old anyway and I want to design some sort of superior brand to adopt/replace/redefine Playboy like a new standard of classy beauty that requires intelligence and personality above and beyond the ‘Girls Next Door’ cool-but not exactly the grade of trifecta I dream of…
Wait. I’m sooo on a tangent again.
In summary I ain’t got no Texas accent but I can pull of simple ones about as well as you do. And I’ve always those Russian brides are cool. I like most Russian girls — especially the ones with cat eyes.
They get me everytime.
You should do your part to ‘save the world’ by using your beauty and allure to broadcast stories for RT instead of O’Reilly because then they could at least compete with Fox aesthetically.
Hey, just remember, relatively speaking, most of the world is f*cking retarded. That’s why you have to sell sex to teach the meaning of words and I have use shirtless photos of myself as bait to get girls to follow along closely enough to actually get exposed to real, meaningful, world-changing-for-the-better content.
And yet the crazy part is it occurs to me most of them don’t give a damn how brilliant I am or secret esoteric political coding on the internet and TV in general…they just think I’m good-looking and funny and might even be secretly entertaining the idea of wanting to sleep with we.
Hmmm…
Damn beautiful mind always getting in my way
Wow. That one was random, but f*ck it,
You wanna know something else funny? Although it’s cool how you explain words because I’m always curious about where things come from, my favorite video of you is one of the first ones I remember seeing where you are imitating that Japanese girl and not saying anything as you just stare in the camera.
Even without saying anything your sequence of facial expressions and timing shows just what an interesting thought process you’ve got going on upstairs, and that’s what I think is cool about you.
Ya’ll take care now!
- A -
Hi Allen,
How are you doing? That was some comment post. Interesting reading.
At the end you said;
“I remember seeing where you are imitating that Japanese girl and not saying anything”
The girl that you are referring to is called Magibon (Margaret) who was born in Florida and lives in Pennsylvania. She is not Japanese, but is part Native American Indian. She was enamored with the Japanese culture and studied Japanese via Japanese shows and Forums. Back in 2006, one of the Japanese Forums requested people to post a short video clip of themselves to introduce each of the subscribers to each other. She posted a short clip of her just starring in the camera and from that video an Internet meme exploded.
The video that you are referring to where
Marina does a great Magibon is
Spitting Image & Magibon 2 (March 29, 2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=314xb48jGCw
Marina also does a brief Magibon
at the end of this video starting at 2:51
Gird Your Loins (Game) (May 7, 2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....Br1yvgOgfQ
Thanks Karl!
You kick ass.
I couldn’t remember the name of the girl she was imitating, but that explains why my cursory search for ‘silent Japanese girl’ didn’t successfully find it – which is why I just went with the round-about more lengthy description instead.
That is so cool that you took the time to respond and that you’re so full of useful knowledge.
Muchas gracias mi amigo!
I was dead-tried when I wrote that last night and haven’t had a chance to go back and read it yet…but it occurs to me perhaps I should when I get a minute later.
Well, if nothing else I crack myself up.
Thanks again for the 411. Now at least I should be able to remember it…AND it gives me an excuse to watch that video lesson of Maria’s demonstrating the mesmerizing power of silence when used correctly.
lol
Take care my friend!
- A -
[SOCIAL-MEDIA]
…mothers/money
Dolly Parton – D.I.V.O.R.C.E…[out-sourcing] love for a standard of living…[star search] 
That’s a very interesting spectrum of reference material you have leoNard. It’s cool though b/c all that was before my time so it’s literally seeing new old stuff for the first time.
Hell if I know. There’s an entire spectrum of realty and possibilities out there so my only plan is to achieve an acceptable level of happiness one way or another.
Speaking of which, no more time to chat – gotta get back to working on getting rich if not famous so I can presumably open the door to a whole host of comically unforeseen problems…like only being seen as desirable for being rich and/or famous.
(facepalm)
lolz
But I’ll just keep trying to see if can find any that love me for me in the meantime…
^thought
Ha. So I just got around to actually reading what I wrote and watching the linked videos. First, I’d like to say Thanks! (again) for taking the time to share your in-depth knowledge of Marina’s production ‘library’ with me Karl!
Second I’ll have to go ahead and apologize for that extremely-poorly written initial commentary. In this case I can put some of the blame on the Kool-Aid (no, literally, the weed behind that fading-off-to-sleep missive was called ‘Kool-Aid’) and a mild degree of previously out-on-the-town excitement and delirium, but I suppose the funny part is most of the content is true…or at least true/possible in ‘remote theory’ according to my knowingly-limited worldly knowledgebase.
That said, the series of follow-up comments and video links has been quite enlightening in unexpected ways.
Watching that pair of her videos from 2008 I realize, ironically, that a less-commercialized/’Hollywood’ version of Marina existed, and in all honesty, it seems far more…genuine…even as I was whining about the ‘Americanization’ factor being a problem (facepalm) with some women that in completely-blind theory made the Russian bride thing historically so appealing as a ‘alternative option’ that I was never really sure or serious I would explore given my American-grade aspirations and the consequent ability to simply over-ride any shortcomings of the American woman’s mindset in terms love, money, and quality – but that was knowingly just a stereotype-based statement to begin with and I of all people insist that people be treated and analyzed on a case-by-case basis regardless of where, what, or who they come from.
Keep me away from Real Housewives of OC Gretchen and Vicki-types and I’m gonna be alright (actually “i-ight” said in Eminem-style ‘mimickery’).
There are undoubtedly a plethora of great girls in America to balance-out the ones I would rather avoid, but when she mentioned Russian brides I got all excited because it finally gave me an excuse to explain my thinking when it came to that one specific relatively-small aspect of life. It was a topic I had briefly considered before, albeit just in theory, but give me an excuse to talk about something I’m interested in and weed and well…there you go.
Comedy.
Anywho, the other thing that tripped me out was, once-again, the irony of Marina’s performance in the Magibon video. It’s either she’s in love with herself (hey, it happens, there’s nothing wrong with being in love with yourself until you can find a fitting ‘spitting image’ opposite sex equivalent match to focus on loving instead), or she’s really (literally) selling ‘love’ as an act to the camera more than I realized having not been paying attention for the last few years.
And ‘audience love’ is a totally different thing.
Hmmm…
Anywho… Interesting.
That Magibon video wasn’t the one I remember. And I don’t know where the one I remember is, but I learned (and now understand!!!) where the term ‘spitting image’ comes from while on this tangent – so her scheme coupled with your extensive support is working perfectly in enlightening me to information I would naturally like to know and find interesting but otherwise wouldn’t be exposed to, so I reckon she gets a WIN on that level.
As far as the ‘girding one’s loins’ video…
Ummm… Errr… I’ll have to watch the answer video to that one at some point and figure it out from there.
And sure my whole comically delusional but strangely esoterically-known blueprint for ‘Priceless Romance’-grade ‘girl branding’ is silly and perhaps just a bit wayyy more over-the-top then what I need to truly be happy in my Zen-like sphere of existence – but it never hurts to throw ideas and dreams out there just to see how they’re received while at the same time trying to understand where ‘dream theory’ meets ‘close-enough-to-dream-reality’ in my feeble little mind.
Comedy.
But, between that, this:http://video.foxnews.com/v/4108141/same-sex-smooching , and everything else going on in the world (although admittedly much of it just in suspicion/*theory*) I’m not even sure what to think or aspire to anymore…so why not aim for a superlative design and imaginary hypothetical option above and beyond anything that currently exists?
Well, I guess that part’s a common theme. lol
Alright, I suppose I’ve shared and explained enough for the time being like it actually matters to begin with.
Take care Karl!
Have u heard before there was this accent call Manglish…? My country speaks english this way …….end with a “LA”….example, i’m not going “LA” try n guess where m i from…?
Hi antzzz1985,
My guess is that you are from Malaysia, yah lah?
I visited Singapore several times and I’m familiar with Singlish and I spent four years in Hawaii and started to talk in pidgin.
shaka bra
Oh well i guest u got it right…….so u r good in this way of speaking LA……good LO…..so u been Singapore for few times n what’s the occasion…..?
I lived in Singapore for a couple of years and my abiding memory of “Singlish” is the expression “Cannot-La” which was the standard response whenever one was trying to get something done.
HaHaHaHa
I agreed…….that’s true….!!!
Why do you keep bleeping yourself out? Very annoying. Forget the edits, this is youtube. Anyway, your accent is super, super sexy, even more than Australian, which used to be number one for me. I am originally from the Midwest where our main accent is no accent.
HW: I grew up in the southern US, and I lived in CA and NV for about sixteen years before I came back to NC. People here think I have a “city” accent (still not sure exactly what that means…), but when I leave the South, most people think I have a Southern accent. Guess I just don’t fit in anywhere…
Do I have an accent? Well I think no, but when I start to talk to people I have a bad habbit of picking up their accent. Once on a ship I was talking to a guy from Irland and I started to talk like him. I couldn’t stop. Then on the same trip in Oslo I was talking to a teacher friend of my friend. My friend Bob said when he was in talking to his cousin he herd me talking to his treacher friend and I was talking with an Norwichen accent. Then when I was practicing my German for school one of my German workers stopped and said I sounded just like a native German. So I have a habbit of picking up accents without trying. I don’t think I ever picked up a Romanian one from my ex-wife, but I did have a friend that said I had a Spanish one mixed with a Midwestern and Southern.
That is because I was born in Iowa and at 10 moved to Arizona and then was stationed in Arkanasas when I joined the Air Force. I guess I am just mixed up. 
[chameleon]
Good segment Marina. The bit about Leo was very funny.
Those of us from the Jersey area, often get caught with having an accent. Obvious words that stand out for us are “Water” (Pronounced “Wood-er”) along with our mutilating of words such as “Coffee.” (“Cauw-fee”)
Dear Miss Orlova,
I recently found out I have a mental health problem. I am a [procrastinator]. There are different types of procrastinators, but I am of the relaxed type. I have a tension to delay work and deadlines as an evasion of the work that needs to be completed. Many people asked me the question: ‘How can you be so relaxed about everything ?’ I also replace important tasks by other tasks, which may be more difficult but have no short-term significance.
I am sure many people suffer from this condition without realizing it. That’s why I hope you could make a video about the word and the different types, so people would recognize these types of behaviour and get help if needed.
Here you can find some general information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.....astination
Thank you my teacher !
Greets from Brussels, Belgium x x x
Thanks, Mr. White. I’ve been meaning to do something about my procrastination — maybe tomorrow.
Lol exactly
Procrastinators often have great difficulty in seeking help, or finding an understanding source of support, due to the stigma and profound misunderstanding surrounding extreme forms of procrastination. One of the symptoms, known to psychologists as task-aversiveness, is often mischaracterised as[ laziness], a lack of willpower or loss of ambition.
Procrastination can be a persistent and debilitating disorder in some people, causing significant psychological disability and dysfunction. These individuals may actually be suffering from an underlying mental health problem such as depression or ADHD.
While procrastination is a behavioral condition, these underlying mental health disorders can be treated with medication and/or therapy. Therapy can be a useful tool in helping an individual learn new behaviors, overcome fears and anxieties, and achieve an improved quality of life. Thus it is important for people who chronically struggle with debilitating procrastination to see a trained therapist or psychiatrist to see if an underlying mental health issue may be present.
People who exhibit procrastination and decreased impulse control appear to be prone to internet addiction.
…………..accent sang to a low german slang; saved for con-fus-sion 
……………………………..Now where is my pudding
Guilty on that one. Actually I’ve recently been making (relatively) great progress in leaps and bounds though.
Every case is different. I blame circumstantial conditioning and [epic] [distraction] coupled with known [ability] to catch up lightning quick in certain areas.
But therapy would be a great luxury. Especially cupcake-centric therapy.
[Know] thyself and know thyself well.
Now let’s see if I insert following that Wikipedia link on procrastination into my to-do list and how far I get through it in light of the entertainment vortex that is my mind.
This is a very convenient reminder though, and I thank you for that.
Nope.
FAIL.
Or perhaps simultaneous WIN…
Because I forgot to click the link while in a rush to get back the myriad of other tasks at hand…but then remembered I considered it was something I might be well-advised to look at…so I just Googled it directly instead….but instead of following the Wikipedia link followed this one more specifically pertaining to writing
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb.....ation.html …read the first two lines then left the tab open to return to at a future point after I’ve run a couple presumably more important errands…
Point in case.
TBC
TBD
I’m working right now as the “b.s.” shines on my soul!
…beas are out and be cool 
the brownies R coming oVer! 
I think everybody has an accent, just some are thicker than others. When I first moved to Montana I had a huge Maryland accent. My sister still slips into it from time to time and we moved almost 26 years ago.
I wondered where the fuck you had been
I am from Slovakia, but I do think I have an accent
Hi Monika, I think your gravatar is arty and cool!…Did you produce it?
hey thanks:) yes I made it
When I see the nationality and Nation of Slovakia; I automatically think of Andy Warhola
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.....ndy_warhol
I was raised in Long Island, NY. Even though I’ve been gone for over 20 years, I still say certain words that gives me away as a former Lon
Guylander.
I would like to request the phrase [Hit the hay]. I’ve heard many people say it when they’re tired “Well I’m going to hit the hay, good night!”. But what does it really mean? Did people really HIT THE HAY?
[Hit the hay]
-Merci,
Canadian
From when people had their mattresses stuffed with hay/straw
But why would they ‘hit’ it
Ahhh, good question
I think they DID that to beat down the hay/straws lumps. kind of like punching your pillow a few times before you head for the land of nod.
But then, what do I know. I tried!!
Hmmm… That seems reasonable
Marina does work dilligently and persistantly at this website, and she gets 5 stars for doing multiple videos every week !!!
Dear Teacher would have gotten 5 stars for Accent if she had said ‘Moose and Squirrel’, but alas . . . she couldn’t hear us from the back row requesting. Sometimes an accent isn’t only on the tongue, it’s in the ears as well.
Personally I like to hear different accents. It would be so boreing if we all sounded the same. It also helps to know who’s on the phone.
So dismay not Marina, russian is as russian does, and you does nicely !
For your homework Marina,
Which American accent do you find most intriguing or captivating ?
OOO! Just spotted a great word on your thumbnail:
[Sasquatch]
Homework:
We all have accents, and none of us think we do until we move to somewhere else.
After returning home from a trip to Wales, during which my cousin Gwynallt taught me a lot more Welsh, friends and family told me I had acquired an accent.
A serious question; what’s the distinction between accent and [dialect]? Or are they synonymous?
I would suggest that Marina’s accent is the way she speaks English, whereas her dialect is the way she speaks Russian.
Having lived and worked in so many different places and with so many different nationalities, I no longer have a dialect (if I ever did have one) but I have a lot of different accents. I have often been accused of being an Australian or asked which part of Scotland I come from; when speaking Norwegian, I have been taken for Danish and when speaking Danish, for a Norwegian, and when speaking French I’ve been told I don’t have an accent at all, which means that I had the same accent as the person who said that to me.
According to the linguistics, an accent is just a manner of pronunciation and intonation, while a dialect is a form of language, used by a particular group of the language’s speakers, that includes an accent, a subset of specific vocabulary and sometimes some changes in grammar, all bundled together. Somebody may speak with some kind of accent, but if he uses the set of vocabulary and follows all grammatical rules of the “standard language”, we can’t say that he speaks a particular dialect. Probably the vocabulary is the main factor that constitutes the differences between dialects and the accent is second one. But that’s not strict. Moreover, according to the colloquial meaning of “dialect” every variety of a language that isn’t standard is a dialect, but in linguistic terms the standardized form of language is also a dialect.
Of course, the Russian language has a variety of accents and dialects too. Someone noticed in the comments below Marina’s videos in Russian that she spoke with some kind of “posh” Moscow accent and used the vocabulary that belongs to standard Russian (she was a school teacher, so it was required by her profession), somehow infested with a couple of loan translations from English (after years of stay in the USA; my second hypothesis was that it might be a part of her role-play).
I would like you to do the origin of the word [pallbearer].
Oh, I can’t RESIST: Kalinka, Red Army Choir and the Leningrad Cowboys!
Damn! pK beat me to it!
Hey Marina.
I just want to say that I love your accent the way it is. and your hair is awesome. and no I don’t have an accent. but I do accents for fun.
I see you’re getting close to 300 million views.
And I wouldn’t say I have an accent. I would say sometimes I don’t enunciate and speak up well to where I slur my words a bit. Maybe that should be your next lesson:
WORD REQUEST: [enunciate/annunciate]
Russian annunciat ion- Архангел Гавриил и Дева Мария
Date XIX c.
…I like your request animalntaz…Annunciation is also cited in the Quran, in Sura 3 (Al-i-Imran – The Family of Imran) verses 45-51~~~~~~~~~~VerbInfinitive
to enunciate
Third person singular
enunciates
Simple past
enunciated
Past participle
enunciated
Present participle
enunciating
to enunciate (third-person singular simple present enunciates, present participle enunciating, simple past and past participle enunciated)
1.(transitive): To make a definite or systematic statement of.
2.To announce, proclaim.
The boss enunciated the new policy.~~~~~~~
and how the note is released (air release, tongued release, etc.) For wind players, articulation is commonly talked about in terms of tonguing because the tongue is used to stop and allow air to flow in the mouth. Tonguing does not apply to non wind instruments, but articulation does apply to all instruments…
Tonguing is a technique used with wind instruments and brass instruments to enunciate different notes through using the tongue on the reed or mouthpiece. 
I love your accent Marina that is was really makes you so cute and sexy. All the makeup up a side can you make love to man on [assent] of a mountain common your Russian. Russian girls are tough and real.
Marina I have a southern Accent my soon to be wife is from ukraine so Yulia has one too. Hers is more sexy.
Teegarden & Van Winkle God, Love & Rock N’ Roll
Barf. Go back to being blonde and maybe i’ll watch ur video.
Hay your a brunet what wrong with brunets? I agree though Marina is hotter a blond. I think she trying to capture your kind of beauty in her brunet look though. Rosiecheeks you are a really [observant] person.
Thank you dear. Here is me waving you goodnight.
[hunger]…super smart and sweet talking
Blondie – Touched By Your Presence
…please no barfing or use the [bathroom]
Leonard, i’ve been waiting for you…
STUTTER]~~Peggy Lee: Day In-Day Out/Boston Beans.
~~~My accent is on the 2nd bowel movement and sometimes loud to soft…musical beans…bubble bath baby!!!…now for music…ja think that sounded like a banjo plucked for koto strings?…PS—I like blue roses……by PAM…special accent for the RED rose…sshhh…Marina is going Green..exocist style for the irish singers
Do you find you have no idea what Leonard is on about? Ever? I feel like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....BI3lc18k8Q
For looking so sweet, you can be VERY naughty.
Hi Marina!
Your accent is wonderful! I recently flew over Nizhny Novgorod and listened extra carefully for any special dialect but I couldn’t make out your truly unique accent. Maybe next time?
My word request is [apple]. I have a Kindle but am thinking about getting the [Apple] I-pad and I know you like [Apple] products. Also, many student wish to be the [apple] of your eye.
Cheers, Q
p.s. Homework – I have a California accent (though I have not lived there for a long time).
Hey Marina, you definitely
needmust put out a video/CD of you singing. I love Kalinka and many of the other Russian songs. Here are a few samples.Ielena Merzoian – Kalinka Калинка
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdmZ2GasMJ0
Kalinka / Калинка
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUQ1PQMM7vA
RED RUSSIAN ARMY CHOIR “Kalinka”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_A7Hu0uKNw
Check this out, this will give you an idea of what you can do.
Katusha – Intro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1cHNcSFr7g
Ирина Билык – Катюша (Katusha)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....rUjAz4Kh5A
Here is fun techno version of Kalinka
by the Russian duo Lena Katina and Yulia Volkova of t.A.T.u.
t.A.T.u -kalinka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....eHIspyAtGs
no, no, no,
no singing, heard her in one of the early vids that’s just dreadful. it will scare a lot of viewers away.
for the homework, yes i have an accent, but how to call it, no idea.
VERY GOOD!
—Don’t say it in Russian,
Don’t say it in German.
Say it in broken English,
Say it in broken English.
Lose your father, your husband,
…AND REMember to THINK!.. before you click or like I used to preach–”before you press their buttons”… 
+++very good+++
Your mother, your children.
What are you dying for ?
It’s not my reality.
It’s just an old war,….PS___—
I think MARINA and the HOTFORWORDS speaks a true accent………….my European blood and being [NATIVE] to america; makes my generic speech 100% pro-revolution([slider])…I lost 2 post
I tell you what’s good a Leonardo Azimut yacht……………………………………
Every time I see your gravator I think of a
http://www.azimutyachts.com
Why! . . . JA gonna give me a spin in your boat?
Yachts moored at Rowe’s Wharf in Boston Harbor.…I thought you were doing a video request for [BOAT-HOUSE]…Marina does the boat-house cleaning on the coast of France with David 
..ps… an old DEAD-Head song 
done in Greek by a Jen 
FIRST, I haven’t watched the video yet,
but I don’t have an accent, well,
except when I try to speak Spanish.
Love this video, great singing of Kalinka.
Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Да
You are too funny Marina. Great video!!!
Karl, Congrats on this #1! Thanks also for the tips on HFW’s 300 milion views count.
Cheers, Q
No problem quiggles.
By the way, I have a burning question to ask you and I am still trying to find the answer out myself, but I am about to give up, so don’t stray too far as I will be asking you in a few days or weeks.
Hi pK,
Re Spanish, I have a speech impediment that doesn’t show when I speak English, only when I speak Spanish: I can’t roll my “rs,” no matter how many times I practice saying “Que rápido corren los carros del ferrocarril.”
That’s funny.
I can roll the “r” in Spanish alright, but when I try to speak Spanish it sounds like I’m from Sweden. Maybe I should do another yacht race and spend more time in Ensenada.