Molotov Cocktail

I have never played that game.
But I thought that “cocktail” was a combination of gas. and Oil, the gas to get the oil to burn, hence making for a hotter and a stickier fire.

Not really a word, but might be interesting.

You spoke about the lack of a “w” sound in Russian. I’ve heard that every sound that can be made by the human mouth is used somewhere in some language. Like clicking languages in Africa. What are some unusual examples.

I love the russian language. I thought it was cool that you did it in Russian. But I like it better when you speak english with your Russian accent. Its sexy.

Btw, I am too poor to play video games. So I guess I dont get extra credit.

I still want you to find the origin of Shenanigan. I am new to this site for a week.

Another word I want you to find the origin of is the phrase “In the Limelight”.

THanx. I love your lessons.

Marina, That it the best teachers pet outfit yet!!!
Great idea also on doing the lesson in Russian.
bcero xopowero, Scotthorn :wink:

It would be fun if you find where the word “Random” comes from! :D

in credibly blue :roll:

first comment ??

i’m surprised that you play those kind of violent games …
of course i play …

but i didn’t expected that from my teacher …
strong

i havent gta IV yet but in vice city and san andreas,
the previous GTA games, the longer you push the button the farther you throw the molotov,
i mean if you do it very quickly
you can be burnt because the strenght isn’t enough …
and if you change the view a bit higher the angle you throw is bigger so it can go farther too …

and as i say in youtube …

can we expect a lesson in spanish? …
bit difficult
anyway, in russian sounds very se… good

i agree about the teachers pet outfit
you should be very proud ryanboobuddy
and now i’m full of envy …

Never played the game ether so can’t help you there, but great
video anyway. Any other languages you speak? May be interesting
to have some leasons in other languages. Word request for you
Deteriorata

I already complete the game… I may help u !

I never played Grand Theft Auto IV, I’m a Command and Conquer fan myself.

Nice video! I love when you factor in new twists like the Russian language. Since you Russian is your first language, how about adding a bit at the end of each video, or some videos, where you give us the Russian word for the word you are investigating? I know some Spanish and Norwegian, but other than “da,” “nyet” and “Za zdoróvye” (tips back shot of vodka), I have no knowledge of Russian.

From Russia with Love… :cool:

Spasiba Marina! Sorry, I can’t write in Russian. I have been learning to speak it, but not write it. This was very fun, although you speak a little too fast for me at my stage. Da skorova!

:lol: Specebo, umen ya OCHIN horrosho.

My Russian is more than a little rusty so I could follow only by reading the subtitles, but it was fun for a change.

Russian may not have a “w” but the Russian “sh-ch” gave me problems in school, and no one in the class could trill the “R” like it sounds when spoken by a native.

Suffice it to say your English is far superior to my Russian.

Marina,

I never played that game. I wouldn’t buy it myself. Having killed people in real life just removes any interest in those types of games. :sad: When I do play games I prefer games that interact with other people. :smile: Its more a challenge to reason with a real person than a computer. The last game (well its really a VR simulator) I played was “Second Life”. Its all real people behind the keyboard and not some computer A.I. In SL I have one 88 meter sailing yacht that i use as a condo and I have 2 sailboats (one about 7 meters and the other is about 2 or 3 meters.) That I can sail in the game. I give a lot of rides to people that never sailed in the game. I also like the game because its easy to create your own things in the simulator. I can make things just the way I like them. I plan into the future to teach nautical related classes in SL. Its unbelievably interactive. I can show videos, draw on a white board, speak, show models, do field trips, read books, etc. The greatest thing over all is I can teach anywhere in the world without leaving my boat. So basically I find the simulator very practicable. Oh and did I mention the game was free? Well free to download and play. If you want to buy property you have to pay real money. People create clothing, skins, cars, houses, toys, etc, and charge for such creations. If you don’t mind last years styles then you can find that stuff cheap or even free. Oh yea you can even create an income with the simulator. I have 3 friends that buy and sell VR properties that make about $200US to about $1,000 dollars a month.
Sorry Im just babbling on here.

Marina, I liked your Russian version of your video. You make Russian language sound so sexy. That was very cool idea of making a Russian video. It added more favor to your vids.

Keep up the great lessons. :mrgreen:

Very fun video! Thanks!

(unsolicited video style feedback: I’ve always enjoyed how abruptly your videos end, halting the music and the video with a loud kiss. This video played music after the kiss, and it felt a touch broken to me. just one viewer’s opinion. thanks for listening.)

On which console are you playing?

I still prefer the Red Eye Show outfit and the yellow swimsuit top. I prefer her photos of today over the photos of her modeling days.

I would also love to hear this lesson. Follow up question: Has the word “randomize” become an official word?
Thanks,
turtle

Wordrequest:
“Steak”

I heard so many stories… I dont know what to believe anymore =P

Nice idea to do the video in Russian! :mrgreen:

But speaking of Molotov Cocktails, where does “Cocktail” come from I heard several stories, but they’re all rather ambiguous.

Dear Teacher:

I would like to know how the letter “w”, double U
came into existence and why it isn’t considered
a vowel. Also if there are any words with two Us
in them?

Okay, I’m DEFINITELY getting an F today! :cry: :cry: :cry:
First of all, I overslept! (hence my tardiness…) :roll:
Secondly, of all the Russian I’ve been typing in, I forgot to request that Marina do a russoparlant version of ГДС (Горячий Для Слов)! :sad:
And thirdly, I haven’t even played GTA-IV! Therefore, I can’t do the homework because I don’t have GTA-IV, nor do I know anyone who has it… :???:

Тысяча извинений, моя дорогая учительница! :sad: :cry:

Every sound that can be made by the human mouth is NOT a feature any language! :sad:
There are way too many sounds the mouth can make that don’t pass for decency! :mrgreen:

I’d also like to hear the origin of the word “cocktail.” Seems like it could have to do with a rooster, and that ought to be an interesting tale. :grin:
Cheers!
turtle

kurome, did you do all the jumps around the city? Did you cheat?

I haven’t played the game yet, but I want to.

How does one become the teacher’s pet? And if we are picked, do we get to request what the teacher wears? If I was teacher’s pet, I’d ask the teacher to wear a fuzzy sweater :-)

Я люблю вас, мой дорогой учителя

psst, sweaterhugger, check out the “TA/Pet” link on the second line of the menu bar under the “HotForWords” picture at the top of the page.

Good luck! :mrgreen:

Actually sweaterhugger, you can be teacher’s pet just by making a comment here… so you are entered to be teacher’s pet and will be shortly :-) The TA App if for the Teacher’s Assistant position and involves actually having to help out once in a while :-)

The word :arrow: mousse. I think it’s interesting. Seems like a mouse, but a bit tastier. :mrgreen: Are they connected somehow? :smile:

Captain Jack… are you talking about Second Life http://secondlife.com/

I attended a conference presented by the developers of Second Life and I think it has awesome potential, especially for internet talents like Marina.

Marina, you could create your own Island on Second Life, and invite class members to come stay with you. The experience would be even more interactive then your blog; and you might have an additional revenue model in there somewhere.

I’ve been too busy to spend any time there, but I’m going to make some time in the next month or so. Will investigate and report back more ideas.

Very cool lesson Marina.

1) I’d learn Russian for you any time!

2) Haven’t played GTA at all, but going to now. I have the WII and Xbox – which do you use?

Word request: God.

Why do we call God “God?”

trgoblin, ps3.

thxeleven38, going to do that one soon.. it’s actually interesting! Related to my issue with w! :-)

When you sprint in that game, Niko tilts to the sides like a motorcycle turning. It’s so weird.

I just stick with good ol’ Vice City.

I still say she was never more beautiful than in the Werewolf video.

If I remember correctly from my gunnery lessons, the longest range for a projectile is obtained when the launch angle is 45 degrees.

p.s. after posting i though of the other vowels. I know “e” and “o” are very common doubles in words. I don’t think there are many words with double “a”s, “i”s or “y”s.

I’ve played San Andreas and I own Vice City.

The way you use it in those games is that the longer you hold the throw button, whichever that may be, the farther your hurl it.

If you tap the throw button, the character drops the bomb right in front of him.

If you hold it for a couple seconds, he hurls it far away.

Hope that helps!

“Teacher’s pet just by making a comment here?????”

If I haven’t made it yet, I never will… :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Hey this is a difficult word. I didnt understand it :cry:

For a safe boom-boom, :cool:

1. Place on ground.
2. Light fuse.
3. Get away fast.

Oh wait, that only works in reality,
NOT virtual reality! :grin:

Don’t you wish GTA4 was this easy? :!:

Haven’t played it much, mostly just
stealing cars and running over folks.

melikadothechacha, you should do a contemporary Anarchist Cookbook! :mrgreen:

Yes…it is a great stress reliever.

I do that when I’m not doing missions.

Anarchist? Moi? :shock:

Marina, have you ever played “Pro Evolution Soccer” ?

Belarusian has a /w/ sound, it is spelled with〈ў〉.
Ukrainian also has /w/, but it basically only occurs as a syllable coda. it is spelled with〈в〉. E.g., «Київ» (Kyjiv, Kiev) is pronounced “KIH-yeew”.

LOL :mrgreen:

Telling Marina to hold the button longer,
to get the fuse delay, is the best advice
she’s gotten so far. I had forgot that.
Long, hard and repeatedly!!!! Woo Hoo!

I think that it would be appropriate for you to do a history on the term “drop dead gorgeous”.

I don’t know why this term always comes to mind when I’m in your class…

=o)

And speaking of the Russian language, where on Earth could russianboy be? Kind of ironic, doncha think? :roll:

Marina, can you teach me Russian please?

We should play cops and robbers hotforwords.

Marry me Marina?

Trgoblin, Yes that is correct. :grin: Thanks for posting the link. It is a very interactive place. I have a top builder that would build me a very nice class room when I’m ready to start teaching on SL. She built some European Conference Center or something to that effect. I have contacts to property owners that will find me a great deal on nice location for the school. I’m working on the possibility of being the first USCG approved training facility on the Internet for captain’s licensing. Having trouble with the examining part. I have to prevent cheating some how. But as for a general nautical training facility I think I can make it work. :mrgreen:

There are many classes in all kinds of subjects that you can participate in on SL. Some classes are free some cost very little. What I like about it the most is the instructor and students can be located anywhere in the world and still meet in one place. The second thing I like is I can make little training models of boats with different light configurations that is not possible in the real world.

:idea: I too agree Marnia can take great advantage of this world of SL. Who know what kind of classes she could teach with this VR world? I think there will be a day come where you no longer surf websites but move though VR worlds to find things. It won’t be the end of webpages. You still can see them on SL. Its interesting how the web is changing for the future. :cool:

__/)__

Or cowboys and engines! VROOM VROOM!!! :twisted:

(That was too silly and I apologize! :roll: )

Is there a letter character for “F” in the Cyrillic alphabet?
THAT’S what yer gonna git if’n yer late agin – LOL!

Yea you got that right. Where is the boy at :?: :?: :?:

Why is it not called a double “v”? vv = w ?

First of all, I want to say you sound lovely in Russian. I love the way the Russian language sounds and would love to learn it. Second, I noiced thetrouble with the letter ‘W’. I’ve noticed so many people who speak another language have trouble with certain letters; most Asian languages have no L sound, hispanic languages have no J sound. are all languages like this? maybe you could do a video or a series of videos on missing sounds in different languages?

Such morbid people out there :mrgreen: Wanting to steal cars, running over people, shooting everything. Well I guess it better to get it out of your system than doing it for real :!:

Aye aye, Cap’n! Aye aye! :mrgreen:

_˜˜~˜__(\__˜~~~_

(Sorry, my seascape’s a bit sloppy! :sad: )

Anyone play Counter-Strike 1.6?

〈Ф〉= /f/

That’s a good point, Cap’n! :mrgreen: Alot of parents overlook that philosophy.
Of course, that philosophy isn’t widespread enough… :sad:

Thank you for clarifying this for us Marina. We thought since the link said TA/Pet that it was for both.

I have a question. How do we know if you have received our application for the TA position and its up for review? Also what will the duties be?

hey marina….. :wink:

i can’t think of a word right now, but i just registert( :???: ) and i wanted to ask if you could speak a few words in dutch, because i’m from belgium and i speak dutch :smile:

also it would be an HONER to be mentioned in your video :smile:

ik kijk er al naar uit :razz: = i’m looking forward to it :!:

kisses xxx

Good idea! I second that notion!

However, there are good many Asian languages that have an /l/ phoneme. Chinese, Lao, Thai, Korean (when final ㄹ), etc. Japanese uses a funny sound to represent both〈r〉and〈l〉, namely /ɺ/; it’s almost sounds like a /d/, sort of.

Im a huge fan of the GTA-series and i never thought that you liked them. Neither that you eaven played games. Great plus. And great russian! :)

I pre-ordered this game about a year before its release and im so pleased wit hthe game. Im sorry to hear you have problem to throw the motolov cocktails. Interesting lesson nevertheless. And @ample (a previous reply); its Cops ‘n Crooks. Not Cops and Robbers. :)

And Marina, HFW: Where does Cover come from? And it can mean a couple of things. Cover me. Cover the car. Cover as in sheat(?) and then on. Does it has something to do with the prefix co- as in co-operation? Doesnt seem like it. But perhaps?
Love.

D’oh, “…it almost sounds like a /d/…” Sorry. Me bad sometimes… :sad:

“sheat” as in “sheatfish”? :?:

Welcome to the club of unwanted pets. :mrgreen: Hitman and I are so unloved. Are you too? :sad: I guess its kind of hard for her to pick from a list of millions of subscribers. Maybe she is saving her most loved pets for the TA position(s)?

Thanks Marina, I really appreciate your idea, your make every Russian pride of our language.
As everybody see, our language is becoming popular and it is used in many parts of the entertainment for example in HItman Movie or GTA

GTA IV In Russia

:cry:

Well, she hasn’t kicked us out yet. At least, maybe she doesn’t hate us! :mrgreen:

Great video.
Umm,my request is the phase,”out of the closet” or “coming out”.
I really don’t understand how a door represents their sexuality.
Help?

I’ll second that
I can feel another heart attack coming on everytime I watch each video.
One day she will de drop dead gorgeous !

Yea I like the turtle neck sweater. Especially when she wears it with not pants on. I notice her knee caps popping up and out of the vid. I can only imagine what she might have had on. :twisted: :mrgreen: :twisted:

Knees can be sexy! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

I haven’t played GTA IV yet, which means I fail at homework once again. :roll:

I do have a word request however. This beautiful weather we’ve been having got me thinking about a picnic. Then I was like, picnic that’s an odd word. I know someone who might want to investigate.

I’m sure there’s more Russian that almost everyone who speaks English knows:
babushka
balalaika
bistro
Bolshevik
borsht
glasnost
kolkhoz
mir
perestroika
pirogi
samizdat
samovar
soviet
sputnik
tsar
and, of course, vodka

I second that motion! Do picnic! :smile: Even though it’s almost the same in most languages! I can just see it now: Marina outdoors on a checkered blanket covered with a basket and plates and whatnot of luscious, delicious food and talking all about the word “picnic”! :mrgreen:

To use the Molotov Cocktails. You have to use the Aim indicator and the you throw it . If you dont you use Aim indicator you just drop it and ..On fire you go . LOL!

& Yes I did play it . The game is AMAZING but I expected A LOT more.
The online game play is good too . :cool:

I PLAY CS 1.6 HAVE YOU EVER USE HAMACHI TO BE ON VIRTUAL PRIVATE NET ???? I DONTLIKE TO PLAY CS BY INTERNET, I PREFER USING HAMACHI AND THEN WE CAN PLAY AS WE WOULD BE ON LAN….YOU GOT THE IDEA ??? PLEASE REPLY THIS
AHH WELL IF YOU WANT …gioforeverc@hotmail.com

I use cryllic alphabet to write in English because
1) No else one can understand it (except my last wife)
2) The whole Russian language is phonetic. If you speak Russian you can automatically spell. (with the exception of the ‘b bastards’)
3) Russian characters give a specific sound. Sometimes softened with b after it but that is it. You don’t need to look at the surrounding letters to decide how to pronounce it like you would in English.
In English the same character can have many different sounds depending on the pronunciation of the country from which the word was loaned (or more like stolen , by us thieving Brits LOL)
eg A as in apple
A as in are
A as in Ward
A as in Ainsdale or plate

4) You can speak perfect Russian to people without the silly English accent (you haven’t a bloody clue what it means you are just reading it LOL) Joking apart when you learn the language which you are doing now you pronounce everything properly so Russians won’t find the English accent patronisingly amusing.

I have two word requests: “KIDNAP” and the cardgame “BRIDGE”. Thanx! :grin:

Two problems, though:
1) ákan’e
2) free stress

:???:

I finding exposure to Russian culture/language kind of a healing/retraining part for me. I grew up in the cold war. That was most relevant to my life when I served in the Navy. Training for a possible attack of the USSR. When the cold war ended I felt a bit like Captain Kirk in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Peace with the Klingons, who would have guessed it. Peace with the Russians, who would have guessed it. After many years of seeing Russians as the enemy it was kind of hard to accept the change. The movie really help me change my thinking and government programing. I see how my former thinking was very stupid. :sad: Its was the governments that I hated not the people. Now I have friends that are Russians like you. Which is very cool. :cool:
I make sense? :mrgreen:

Yow! You don’t hav’ta yell, gio!!! :razz: ( :wink: )

WOULD YOU HELP ME ?….. I HAVE A QUESTION….IT’S A SHAME BUT I WANNA SHOW MY PERSONAL PICTURE AS YOU, BUT I DONT KNOW HOW TO DO IT. PLEASE TELL ME HOW COULD I DO THAT ??? HOW DID YOU DO IT, MAN ??? :oops: :?:

i diddnt play it but by watching lots of footage, i think you have to do that thing where you aim then you fire

P.S. What version did you get, Xbox 360 or PS3?

vacuum! :smile:

Go on Google buddy and do a search for russian cryllic characters alphabet whatever. 33 characters 30 in sensible use.
Use the characters to send me a few words (in English or Russian not important) as an email through my channel ID and i will reply in English but using Russian characters

:mrgreen: I used to play that all the time. I used to host games at a place I worked at called “Game Dogs” in Olympia, Washington. We would play until 3 or 4 am every Friday and Saturday night. We would have pizza delivered and played rock music really loud. The room was painted dark blue and had disco & black lights installed. Oh missed those days. The company is now defunct. :sad:

Да, конечно! :mrgreen: (Yes, of course! :mrgreen: )

I think she has ps3.

Of course you make sense.I grew up with the idea of “the enemy is the USA” and maybe we didn’t think it by ourselves , it was the government and the society which puts thats ideas in our minds.Nowadays I have got no regrets against American people, but I have my ideas against capitalism but that is another story.
Is pleasant to hear Americans and Russians talking about each other as normal people; not having the old ideas of antagonism or having some wrong ideas about the other nations.
Greetings from Russia
(I understand why you nick is captainjack)

Don’t forget Bolshoi probably the most famous of all oh wonderful one

HEY GIO, WHO IS WORDLOVER ??? I SEE IT, IT MAKES COMMENTS EVERYWHERE…I WANDER WHO IS IT ??? wordlover WHO ARE YOU :grin: ??? AND LET ME TELL YOU I’M NOT YELLING :oops:…MAYBE YOU THINK I AM YELLING CAUSE I WRITE MAYUSCULAS JAJAJA

vow what a good knowledge combined with sexiness…. russianess…… lovin it..

REALLY ??? I SOUNDS VERY FUN :twisted: JEJEJE MAYBE WE BOTH PLAY SOMEDAY AGAINST :D gioforeverc@hotmail.com

i want to request the word
Taboo
cus i find it quite unique

It was invented by some randomer LOL

But how will you represent the sounds in English that don’t exist in Cyrillic?

:idea: How ’bout this:
〈ә〉= /æ/
〈ҙ〉= /ð/
〈и〉= /ɪ/
〈і〉= /i/
〈ҏ〉= /ɝ/, /ɚ/
〈ҫ〉= /θ/
〈ң〉= /ŋ/
〈ў〉= /w/

Otherwise, «фит» could stand for both “feet” and “fit”—not to mention “feat” and “fete” (if you use that pronunciation).

Marina’s, finger nail clipping can be sexy too. :shock: Now be honest, would you pay $5 bucks to have Marina mail her finger nail clipping? I know I would. But then I would have to submit myself to some mental hospital for observations. :grin:

SHE WOULD REALLY LIKE PLAY THAT GAME, AND THINKING ABOUT IT…..SHE GOT A PS3 OHH MAN, I JUST HAVE MY POOR PS2 :cry: HOW I DESIRE TO BE MARINA ….. BUT THAT GAME ITS CALLED “WINING ELEVEN” IN MY COUNTRY. I’M DOWNLOADING PES2008 FOR PC FROM AN INTERESTING PAGE IF YOU ARE INTERESTED ON HERE’S MY MAIL gioforeverc@hotmail.com

Comments used to be considered rude to use in chatrooms and online discussions: it was the equivalent of yelling. Y’know, like they do in comicstrips. :mrgreen:

gio.forever, just curious, but does the “j” in “jajaja” and “jejeje” stand for a voiceless velar/uvular fricative (/x/ or /χ/)? In other words, do you use it to represent a laughing sound? “JAJAJA” = “Ha-ha-ha”? :?:

Yeah, the “w” sound seems to be a problem for quite a lot of people, not just Russian speakers. Also “h” is a problem for Russians too I think, maybe “th” as well. Certainly quite a lot of people have problems with that one as well.

BUT…. you’re lucky you don’t have to learn languages the other way. Some Russian words are soooooo full of consonants.

AND…. what about that letter that looks like a sort of “w” with a little tail – “shch” – try saying that quickly in the middle of a longer word when you’re drunk and not a native Russian speaker!

And not to mention, what was it, some 6 different cases for three different genders. At least the genders are regular and the spelling phonetic :grin: unlike English :sad:

Nick

I, too, have reservations about capitalism. But, that’s about all I’ll say here…

Russian (proper) has /h/, but only in a few loanwords; e.g., Гитлер (Hitler).

w with tail = щ /ʃʧ/

Yea no miSTAKE about it. You are STAKE-ing your claim on the word STEAK . This is not a pisSTAKE There is too much at STAKE here.

Marina;
why do you play GTA while you can play HItman?
I recommend it,is a little bit frustrating at the beginning, but you can develop your own strategies to accomplish all the objectives and you will learn a lot about weapons.

Thanks you, because is the first time I appear in one of your videos :mrgreen:

Oh, and, also the interjection «ага!», pronounced like English “aha!”

Correction, they don’t exist in Russian, all of them exist in Cyrillic (excluding〈ҏ〉).

By the way, the best molotov cocktails have a thickening agent mixed in with the gasoline (Motor oil, dish soap, even styrofoam) so that the liquid will stick to the target. I’ve actually seen some things the Finns used during the war, even a catapult made from a truck’s leaf spring to hurl cocktails.

That is,〈ҏ〉for /ɝ/ and /ɚ/.〈Ҏҏ〉in Saami (Kildin) is for /r̥/.

“pisSTAKE” as in “to take the piss out of someone”?

How do they say it (Winning 11) in your country? :?:

YEEEEAHH WE LATINAMERICAN PEOPLE, WE GENERALY WRITE WITH “J” TO REPRESENT LAUGH AJA, SO THE ANSWER IS , YES I DO :cool:

YES, IN LATIN AMERICA. PES2007 IS EQUIVALENT TO WINING 11…SO PES2008 WOULD BE EQUIVALENT TO WINING 12 BUT THE NAME “WINING ELEVEN” HMM WON’T BE USED.TODAY TO FOWARD KONAMI CALLS THIS GAME AS “PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER” AND THE NAME “WINING ELEVEN” WILL BE PART OF THE PAST :cry:

:idea: REQUEST: what’s the origin of the word ninja :!:

Bolshoi is a wonderful one! In a very big way! Harharharharharharharharrrrrrr!!! (Whoa! I don’t know what came over me! :eek: )

Ok, just wondering. My other guess was that it was /j/, y’know, the “y” sound. So that JAJAJA would be YAYAYA (like yes-yes-yes). :mrgreen:

So wordlover you would recommend a video game of The KKK being the hero and lynching blacks to blow off steam? Letting teens play this so they don’t grow up to be raciest? Would that really work? The the two things are comparable and make no sense whatsoever.

WordLover, please help me, i wanna put my personal picture to display it right there. When I created my account I thought there was an option to load a picture to show everyone my personal picture, please dont bother :cry: help me, I know it’s a shame but I really want you to help me on this trouble

In case you’re wondering how to write it in Japanese, here’s what it looks like: 忍者. Pretty cool, huh? :cool:

One last comment from me regarding the correct “coctali”.

I have talked to me ex-military friemnds, first therte was no styrofoam back then.

They all said it was a 2:1 gas:oil mixture. you needed the heat to drive the [people out of the tank.

Hi Marina,

I received the error message that the video was no longer available again. So I put aside my frustration at not being able to see me favorite teacher to try a few things. For some reason unplugging my modem cleared it up, at least for a while . I don’t know if this will help find the problem but I did come up with a word origin question in the process. Where does the word ‘Glitch’ come from.

As always, thanks for the entertaining education.

Mark

Go to gravatar.com and sign up/register, it tells you what to do there. Enjoy! :mrgreen:

excuse me, but, I really don’t know what are you talking about :razz: …I can’t answer that cause I ignore it, man, jejeje so I can’t answer your guess :sad:

I love you…THANKS. Are you male or female ??? :eek:

ok so i would like to hear what the world l33t origin and why do people use it?

As our extremely learned friend mentions Adolf Gitler, but also Gannibal, Gomosexualist , Gong Kong, (but Russians are now being ‘taught’ how to use loaned words ‘correctly’ by character translations from foreign film companies on Film covers.
Tom Hanks is spelt with an x thus pronounced correctly)

It wont be long before Э is used mid word as a hard e , instead of Russian character e which is pronounced ie or ye

I aagree I think w with a tail is the Щ (alveolo-palatal fricative sh)

What I found weird about Russian was that the most difficult word for me to learn was the first that you would ever want to learn.
Formal hello……..How mad is that ?
Zdrrasfeestya crazy !!! My mother in Law to be gave me right load of ear ache because I said Priviet (informal Hi)

Origin of “w” – very interesting. This is what I’ve been able to find:

1. English is a germanic language (germanic really means north west european here). 1500 or so years ago the language wasn’t much written down, but when it was written, it was written using runes. The eighth letter of the runic alphabet is called (today) “wunjo” (pronounced wunyo) and it is believed that this letter was sometimes said as a modern “v” and sometimes as a “w” (how they know this I am not sure since they didn’t have tape recorders then!!!). Anyhow, it looks like “w” was part of spoken proto german – at least some of the time (and according to one web site!!)

2. Proto german came (or started coming) to England in the 5th century (after the Romans left) when there were supposedly invasions from mainland europe (probably a lot of these “invasions” were just people emigrating and taking a bit of land).

3. Possibly due to the influence of the Catholic Church, people tended to stop trying to write using runes and started using the Latin alphabet. Now this is where it gets real confusing. The latin alphabet had what today we call a “u” – though they wrote it look more like a “v”. But the “u” in Latin has two uses. One as the normal vowel and one as in the word “equus” (ekwus – horse – similar to equine in modern English). So the first “u” could be thought of as having a “w” sound in Latin.

So…. the situation was that proto german had a “v” and a “w” and they were trying to write this using “u” which looked like a “v” and sometimes sounded like “w”. No wonder the Anglo Saxons were confused.

Anyhow, the upshot is that today we have all three of “u”, “v” and “w” and “w” is known as a “double you” because of the Latin words like “equus” which literally has a double “u” in it. The fact that it looks a lot like a double “v” is either just stylistic – or maybe because, in Latin, the “u” actually looked like a “v”.

What I don’t understand are these two things:

a) If proto german really had a “w” sound, why did they lose it?

b) similarly, the runic alphabet is called the “futhork” and the “th” is one letter in runes – so proto german must definitely have had a “th” sound. Yet, today, modern germans have probably more problem saying “th” than they do “w”. Why did they lose that sound as well?

Nick

Nick

OH I UNDERSTOOD WHAT YOU MEANT…. WELL, I’LL EXPLAIN YOU. IN ENGLISH, IT SOUNDS …HAHAHAHAHAHA, BUT IN SPANISH IT SOUNDS JAJAJAJA. IN ENGLISH, THE LETTER “J” SOUNDS “Y” SO WHEN YOU SAY : “ARE YOU JOKING ???”, IT SOUNDS TO US (SPANISH): “are you Yoking???”. GOT IT :wink:

The ‘w’ sound is oa in cryllic
So why use this at the beginning of video when v has it’s own character в ?

English with a Russian accent is off the scale sexy
Russian with a Russian accent is not
Russian with an American accent a definately not …sorry.

Can’t see it I think we all need to install that language.

Wow that was a fast response. The electrons didn’t even finishes drying on the last messages. :mrgreen:

Thanks guys! That really makes a difference reading that. :smile: Now I have to go dry out my eyes. :oops: I’m having a hard time typing my thoughts. Oh great now the phone is ringing. Oh fantastic, Its the boss. :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: Couldn’t Murphy’s Law be anymore perfect on timing?

Ok Im back. Sorry about that. I got a bit emotional there. :oops: Your exactly right Hitman about the governments and society putting wrong ideas in our heads. I call it stinking thinking. :smile:

I notice our boarders here are closing up. I’m now required to carry this ID card called Transportation Workers Identification Credentials (). It’s a bio-metric card. If I don’t get it I can have my captain’s license suspended or revoked. In the we have to clear customs even though we have not left the countries boarders. Many places are requiring 2 forms of ID. A passport being the primary form of ID as a pose to our drivers licenses. Worst of all is what I call the $10 million dollar system (read the last paragraph) why I think this is a bad idea. Even a former thinks this is getting nuts. If the current government maintains its course and speed I believe this Roman Empire is next to fall.

~~__/)___~~

And what happens when the mind confuses fantasy with reality.
Not sure about this wannabe a thief / killer concept

Ok I screwed up that xhtml stuff. Damn I can’t edit it. :mad: :mad:

I just don’t understand. I also grew up during the cold war. But i believe the Russian people\ public and American people\public actually want the same things, a safe place to raise their children, a roof over there heads and food when their hungry. It seems like government is the only ones who are always threating that someone else is out to destroy each other. Its always our way is better than your way. but the end result is for the common people we basically want the same things.

Dear Teacher:

Very nice video. Very nice your investigation, russian language sound nice but I prefer the class in English.

Regards

Alidor

I think he’s part lizard and kangaroo. :mrgreen:

Hey Marina,

I would like to recommend the word “Bistro.” I know this word comes from Russian roots, so if you can explain it using your knowledge of Russian, that would be great!!!

Thanks!

Hoodster

P.S. Maybe you could do a show of words with Russian roots that we stool…

a) It may have been lost in part during the Great Sound Shift.
b) Some believe that the interdental fricatives /ð/ and /θ/ have been simplified in all the Germanic languages to /d/ and /t/, resp., except for English and Icelandic for both /ð/ and /θ/; and Danish and Faroese for /ð/.

Just a couple of thoughts. :mrgreen:

Yes. The russian “x” is more similar to “h” than its “g” I think. Though russian “x” isn’t really quite the same as “h” – the russian “x” is more like the “ch” in scottish “loch” – so some russians must be called Tom Hanks sort of Tom Khanks I guess

Nick

Hence, my comment that the philosophy isn’t widespread enough. Widespread within the minds and hearts of gamers. Jim Morrison said that within every game is the idea of death. I don’t think this is true. Think about Solitaire—although, that itself can get nerve-racking at times.

I’m not suggesting that people intentionally partake in virtual violence, but if it were a difference between virtual and actual violence, hands down I’d opt for the former.

Peace. :cool:

Get Back on topic eh “who stole my car”? http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=1fuDDqU6n4o
the new moltov cocktail (Photon Accelerator Annihilation Beam) good against enemys :twisted: “I wanna go on that ride daddy”

¿Cómo no, Señor? ¡Claro que sí! :mrgreen:

oops :oops: wrong one
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=F–xOlbLoK0

No, I’m male.

100% ♂
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Very interesting. Practice your “W”s :razz:

Dea HotForWords Teacher,

What is another word for “Thesaurus’? :arrow:

Also, in Belarusian and Ukrainian〈г〉is pronounced /h/. For /É¡/ they use〈ґ〉. Czech and Slovak both have /h/-coloured words as a holdover from *-g- to -h-. It sounds kinda funny to hear a Ukrainian word like «лінгвістика», it is pronounced “leen-HVEEST-ih-ka”. Maybe it’s just me, but it’s kinda cute-sounding, like something a baby would do.

Yeah – maybe. But I am not sure that really makes sense. From what I remember reading of the German “great sound/consonant shifts” is that these have tended to soften the consonant usage. For example English “ship” is German “schiff” – but the English is more true to the original German than German is. So, if it is true that modern German has softened its consonants, why did they lose “w” (arguably softer than “v”) and also lose “th” (arguably softer than “t” or “d”).

It would make more sense, (I don’t know if this has any historical or linguistic truth at all), that some Poles filled the gaps where there had been German/Dutch/Danish people (around the time those people were coming to Britain) – and that they maybe did have a problem with “w” and tended to change it. This could have been going on in the more eastern parts where proto German was spoken. And it could also have pre-dated the consonant shift.

Guessing – not sure anybody knows or ever will.

Nick

Oops! Sorry.

Try this:
忍者.

Old proverb, can’ hate what you didn’t once love

WL Yes, men have this neanderthal urge to go and fight or kill something. I guess its part of the hunt. Which in our society hunting has gone away from our life styles and was replaced with grocery stores. But the Neanderthal urge still remains.

After playing those type games, the urge is gone mostly for that day. For others they want to continue. Which without good parenting this could go way out of hand. People forget it take a village to raise a child. So the responsibility don’t fully lye on just the parents.

I think games like World of Warcraft, Counter strike, and many others of similar type are better for this kind of neanderthal urges. My only issue is that it will desensitize a person to have the ability to act out what they played. GTA is not the game you want people being desensitized on. The near perfect killing machine is a person that has been desensitized on that act to the point that they even forget about the act or even treat it as just another day at the office.

I agree with Geronimo that GTA is not a good choice of game for this type of … what ever you want to call it… for these urges. WOW is fantasy characters and CS is more combat or paintball concept that is void of racism, acts of violence against bystanders, etc.

2HFWFC, In that case the person should seek counseling before it develops to some kind of unhealthy thinking. This kind of person should not be playing such a game. If I had any kids I sure would not let them play the game ever.

Speak for yourself! Language ITSELF is sexy.

sorry guys thats ” can’t”

Hum your not leaving the club of unwanted/unloved pets are you? You have to be mentioned as a teachers pet before you can graduate from C.O.U.P. Or should it be called Society of unloved/unwanted pets (S.O.U.P.)? :mrgreen:

Some PIE reconstructions place -w- with -g- roots. There are also the labialised gÊ·, kÊ·, etc. I’m not certain about the softening issue. I think the main changes among PIE, and even PGmc, occurred long before the GSS. It is tough to say, though. Personally, I hope we DO know someday.

Cheers :mrgreen:

Proverbs, shmoverbs! :razz:

I don’t know if this means anything but in Chinese (my native language) 忍者 means a “person who endures”.

Thought you ought to know.

I’d like to know the origin of that.

You’re ahead of me with Belorusian (should we really spell that Byelorussian) and Ukranian. I only learnt Russian at school – and that was – well – a long time ago…. Unfortunately I’ve never really had a use for Russian – the nearest I’ve been is Vienna many times and Budapest once. One time when a trip to Moscow came up in the office someone else was sent.

I asked the Hungarians if they spoke Russian – they didn’t like to say that they did – seems they had to learn Russian in the cold war days. They preferred to speak English or German. Glad those days are gone now – never liked having to think of Russians as enemies.

Nick

Now that was Great Marina.

Do Have a Good Week.

An Admirer,
Billy

Hey guys I have an off topic item I would like to Know about. Was Hungary a part of the Soviet Union?

I have to plead innocent on this one, I’ve never played GTA4, so I don’t even know what’s in it—other than molotov cocktails. :mrgreen:

I prefer word games, card games, and enigmas for my entertainment urges. Sounds nerdy, but it ain’t! Crossword puzzles are EXCELLENT for the brain! And I ain’t exaggerating! Nor am I whistlin’ Dixie! You bet your asteroids I ain’t! :razz:

Oh darn you can’t edit your comment.

Any WordPress experts out there that can suggest a solution for Marina HFW site in editing our comments?

The current standard spelling is “Belarusian”. :smile:

I am not leaving the club of unwanted pets…. someday I wish to became the Teacher’s Pet and leave this Glorious Club, but till then.

Im not sure but I do know I am getting Hungry. I guess its my lunch time. :mrgreen:

SOUP? Hmm. I like it! Since it IS a kind of BROTHerhood! :wink:

Can’t help you with GTA IV, still working on Black on the PS2. Can you explain any of the Russian phrases they use in that game? Or how about what the Russians in Call Of Duty IV are saying? It seems that with the popularity of Kalashnikov rifles more video games are using Russian language. Or maybe it’s just a good way to curse and not have us non-Rusky speakers know what they’re saying about us? сволочи!

Its very cool that you did a video in Russian. Yes I play GTA IV on the 360. I think the game is very fun especially playing online co-op with your friends. :mrgreen:

Yes, I knew that. And I was relieved that it didn’t mean “person who cuts jugular veins undetected”! :wink:

Its incredible, a lot of people know a lot of things about Russia and our language maybe, the next year it won’t be surprising that everybody love matryoshka dolls (матрёшка) or drink Vodka in excess. :wink:

Hungry for Turkey? :wink:

Teacher

I was pondering where the phrase “dime out” came from? The context for which I know it correlates to telling on someone for doing something wrong. I just can’t seem to connect “dimes” with giving up information to incriminate someone. Can you enlighten me?

thanks

Devil6

Alas, this game is probably gonna be a console port over to the Pc and I probably want every play it. I’ve got about three games now that were ports and the controls are so screwy i just end up uninstalling them. Sorry , Marina i guess i flunk this test.

Give me PC or i”ll keep my money
Death to consoles

«сволочи» isn’t a nice word to be used by non-Ruskies, don’t you think Сниперская?

Marina,

What is the origin of saying regards at the end of a letter??

Also how is this word related to saying “in regards to” ??

BTW, FWIW, they mixed the gas with other things to make it stick and burn better. Nosdrovia!

I love GTA IV, though I am totally stuck on Brucie’s missions cause I suck at racing in GTA games (which is weird, cause if it was Rockstar’s Midnight Club games, I’d easily get that “Top of the Midnight Club” achievement!)

As for the Molotovs, yeah I suck with them too… though from what I understand the deal is you use the AIM button (left trigger for xbox 360) and toss it with the attack button, but you HOLD the attack button, the longer you hold it, the harder you throw it… in theory at least.

SO, I am curious who has what system for GTA IV? I’m an Xbox 360 version user myself, and if any of you out there want to hook up with me in multiplayer sometime, it’s AbsolutGrndZer0

i got the game on sunday and……its pretty sweet
i havent had a chance to play it that much but so far its good

Last thought – have you ever thought of teaching a Russian Language class online? Seems to be some demand for learning Rusky.

Don’t knock consoles! They’re unique and everyone should have at least one, even old ones—ESPECIALLY old ones (in working condition, of course). I still have an NES, an SNES, and a gameboy (green screen, though :sad: ). What’s your OS, stokesjrj1?

IF YOU ARE MALE, WHY DO YOU SHOW FEMALE LIPS ???
MAYBE YOU FEEL WOMAN OR MAYBE YOU WANNA BE A HOT GIRLS LIKE OUR TEACHER…..MY DEAR PROFESORA MARINA :P

I was just wondering , I should know, history was my favorite subject in school. Our local University just created a new department recently for Chess studies. The teacher(its probably more that teacher) Is the worlds first Woman Grandmaster in chess. Really neat huh? She is from Hungary

Why XP 64 bit of course nothing else will do.

Hear hear! :mrgreen:
I’m to typo-prone! :oops:

D’OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Case in point! :sad: :sad: :sad:

I mean “I’m too typo-prone!” :roll:

Wordlover, Никакое дело, не убивает их все, препятствовало богу сортировать их вне.

Uh….

I’d have a great sound file all about l33tspeak to link to you… however it’s no longer online at this time…

So, I will just say this instead…

1F U C4N R34D 7H15 U R34LLY N33D T0 G37 L41D

Just kidding guys I wouldn’t mind having a ps3 you can hook up keyboards and mice to them.

ME PARECE PERFECTO :razz:

Apparently (I’m English) English with an English accent (at least when spoken by a man) is quite sexy to a lot of American women. And English with a Scottish accent is off the scale sexy to some American women.

I actually think Russian sounds cool. If I was a woman I might even think it sounds sexy as it seems to suit a masculine voice better – just like French sounds feminine.

Nick

Oh I love Hitman too…. :)

No, it’s just that I like looking at them lips! :mrgreen: Somewhat like a soldier’s picture of his sweetheart kept in the cockpit! Hey, there’s a word: cockpit! How ’bout it, Marina? :grin: :grin: :grin:

Hitman the game or Hitman the online persona?

And what if you can TYPE it? :shock:

It was an “Iron Curtain” country – part of the “eastern bloc”, but it was always an independent country (or independent in theory anway – I don’t think the Hungarians saw themselves as truly independent). Prior to “the great war” (or world war one – whichever name you prefer) it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Nick

Yes French sounds feminine (and I’m male and partly French).

Consider this, though: Russian sounds sexy when spoken by a female, but commanding (or powerful) when spoken by a male!

Who else feels this way?…

Right now I can’t only dream…

˜$˜ ˜$˜ ~~~~
~ ~~ ˜$˜ ˜$˜
~ ˜$˜˜$˜ ~~
~~~ ˜$˜

___________/|________

Actually, it’s from a t-shirt, and I had to look at the t-shirt as I carefully typed it.

*whistles innocently*

I do not translate that crap for my teams when fighting Freakshow in City of Heroes and City of Villains… Anyone that tells you I do has me confused with someone else.

Actually if you want to hear the sound file I wish I could link, go to http://www.thecaperadio.com and ask in the forums about the l33t PSA. Hopefully one of the DJs can link it for you or whatever. It’s hilarious because I totally agree iwth it… l33tspeak annoys me to no end, the fact that I can actually read it annoys me even further,because in case you couldn’t tell, I was joking above… when fighting Freakshow someone always will say “What the hell did he just say?!!?” and lo and behold I’m left to translate. Luckily, I play on a mostly RP server, so I don’t see that crap from players, just from the freakshow enemies where it’s a total joke that they actually talk like that.

Now I’m curious… because I DO know the origin of all this l33tspeak, Marina, are you even going to consider doing this, or is it ok if I just answer it so you don’t have to lobotomize yourself?

(Geez, can’t hardly type! :sad: )

The game(s). And actually the movie too… for being a video game movie, Hitman was actually quite amazingly done. Course, having Vin Diesel as the executive producer could very well be a reason why. He’s a hardcore gamer, both “tabletop” and video games. On the set of Chronicles of Riddick he even taught Dame Judi Dench how to play D&D! :P

Что вы подразумеваете? К чему вы обращаетесь? :?: :?: :?:

I’d agree with Russian sounding commanding when spoken by a man. I don’t think it is particularly sexy or commanding when spoken by a woman – but English spoken by a woman with a Russian accent is definitely mega sexy. Russian spoken by a Russian woman is – well – just OK – it doesn’t sound bad or anything – it just doesn’t have an easy label.

But there must be different Russian accents. I remember when I was learning Russian (this was in the 70s) my Russian teacher said that he had been to Moskva and he reported that the Moskovites thought he was from Georgia (Georgia the country – not the American state). So there must be different accents over there too – there can’t just be “russian” accent.

Nick

(snicker :lol: )

Babel Fish Translation Help

По-русски:
Не получите возбужено, оно будет только видео- игрой :mrgreen:

Marina, just a thought before I head out to work: what is the origin of the word “bra”?

did anyone understand the subtitles? :?: I was to busy watching the teachers lips moving russian..does that mean i still got to do my homework Marina? :?: ..is it just me or was that just way too sexier done in russian? :grin: :mrgreen:

All i know is that The Molotov cocktail, also known as the petrol bomb, gasoline bomb, or Molotov bomb, is a generic name used for a variety of improvised incendiary weapons. Simple to make, they are frequently used by rioters.

The bombs were derisively named after Soviet Foreign Minister, Viacheslav Molotov, by the Finnish people during the Winter War.

now listening: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=99AKecT_QqQ use it while playing grand theft auto (motivational)..might not get burnt so much :lol:

In my experience, I first heard this usage as “drop a dime,” meaning to rat out somebody (and there’s another version of this theme). The term supposedly suggests the act of dropping a dime into a pay phone to make a call as an informer. Later, I noted that the original term had drifted into a new form: “dime out.”

Of course not.

Likewise, until recently, Belarusian and Ukrainian were considered merely dialects of Russian; hence the epithets White Russian and Little Russian.

The speech of a Muscovite woman is at least worth listening to (unless you’re gay…)

And, again, yes, there are so many dialects of Russian—well, let’s put it this way, there’s not just ONE Russian accent. ‘Sides, Russia is HUGE!

you were thinking about a bra on the way to work? :lol: :mrgreen: :twisted:

Try Kalashnikov vodka. Great stuff. And a cool business case: diversifying from mass production military firearms to fine spirits. Capitalism rocks, eh, Marina?

ru: Оно?
en: It?

Try saying your message again in English, please.

Absolutely not! In fact, the Hungarians revolted against Soviet occupation authorities in 1956. Heavy fighting in Budapest, but eventually, the Red Army crushed the revolt. Read about it in “The Bridge at Andau,” which was once prescribed reading for adolescent students in the U.S. A bit of anti-communist propaganda…now THERE’s a word…

wordlover, can’t only dream? odd does this mean you can afford one?

Just going down the list, bra being a abbreviation of Brazier from a French word referring to the support for the baby.

put a dime? possible a variation on dropping a dime, the cost of phone calls in the good old days.

Suggestions Threshold – a word that was once quite literal
Boycott – once a mans name.

:shock: . mhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, lets see, hot to use molotov coktail ?

:neutral: ………………. :???: …………….i just played GTA 3 XD.

Anyway this was a good episode. Todyua i dont have nothing to say.

greetins

I have had occasion to make a few so-called Molotov cocktails in my time. There’s really no prescribed formula. Gasoline is a very common ingredient because it has a very low flashpoint. But diesel fuel will work, and a mixture of gasoline and oil is sometimes used, or gasoline and paraffin. In fact, you can even stop up the throat of the bottle with paraffin, which is handy, because this makes the bombs easy to transport (when you stop them with a rag, the fuel “wicks” out of the rag and evaporates…and causes a dangerous mess, as well). But please…DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME.

Yes, I know. I was born at the time of the Hungarian “uprising”. My mother, who was into astrology a lot, seemed to think this was significant so I was reminded of this quite a few times in my childhood.

I was in Budapest not too long after the Berlin wall came down. I remember seeing bullet holes still in some of the buildings on the way to the city centre from the airport.

Nick

Who doesn’t? C’mon…

Hummm….

that game isn’t available on WII yet; and I’m guessing even then, we won’t be gaming in the same place as you and the other PS3 users…

…wait for the WII version or buy PS3??? (Rhetorical)

Hey Marina its me Matthew I was wondering if you can derive the word “Prom” since its prom season in schools right now and the use of “G-Language” because I hear it everywhere when people want to keep a secret. Thanks a lot Marina

P.S pleaseee let me e one of your teachers pets!!!!

Matthew

I acknowledged my typo with the comment: (Geez, can’t hardly type! :sad: )

(Geez, I can’t even communicate! :sad: :sad: :sad: )

Well, let’s see…Is it
(1) the name of a dinosaur whose most notable characteristic was a vast and rich vocabulary?
(2) derived from ancient Greek θησαυρός thesauros, meaning “storehouse” or “treasury”?
(3) The surname of the author, Roget Thesaurus?

New request; doppelgangers. hope it is fun one.

Boycott is also a place in Bucks.

(DRRRRRRRRING!)

Was that the bell?

Yawn… I’m gonna hit the hay…

Спокойной ночи! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

It was never really a russian word because they have a different word for Beef. But as many already know, French speakers have allmost the same word for beef as English speakers.

Napoleon’s army occupied Moscow. Restaurants there served a beef and pasta dish, which pleased the French officers. “Boeuf Stroganoff” was recreated in Paris soon after.

being that I drive a -REAL- 200mph Ferrari 550 (WYO550 on YouTube) I’d take every one of the stupid “Grand Theft Auto” F_____ video games and throw a Molotov cocktail onto them all!

And then I’d dance around the May Pole like a Polish revolutionary who hates Soviet Putin-style oppression

Ochen Spacebaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Devochka!

“Djon”

Here in the US, years back, kids enjoyed a cartoon spoof of the Cold War dastardly duo, Boris and Natasha Badanoff, nemeses of Bullwinkle and Rocky. Every time I hear a Russian woman, I think of Natasha!

By the way NW, how easy is it for you Brits to fake an American accent? and can you pick up our Southern accents distinctly, the way many of us here can discern Scot and Irish accents pretty well (but get lost trying to figure out Welsh ones.)?

Hi, I was wondering if you would do one on the word behave.

Gosh, fellers! All this discussion stemming from
a simple set of firework rules – wow. :!:

I could only steal cars & run over folks
’cause I only know a few controller buttons. :mrgreen:

Clumsily steering with a joystick thumb button, well
I just HAD to run over whatever was in my way! :twisted:

Re: Geronimo / Anti-social game possibillities:
Many games exist featuring alternate reality scenarios.
One I’ve seen involves a guy who goes back in time
to bring AK-47′s to General Lee to win the Civil War
for the Rebels, and continue the racial mindset

A thing to remember, if the energy you get from playing
these games makes you feel a criminal – then you get it!
If you enjoy it and begin to act-out these behaviours, then
comes the question: Are drugs the answer, or the problem?

Games simulations are designed to give one perspective
views leading to a feeling of catharsis. 3D games are a way
to be immersed into environments, teaching judgement values
suchas right and wrong – . Moral lessons can be taught, but
without a test, how do you know it has been learned?

I always thought the best way to teach someone to drive is
to make it a survival course, ie: teach them about the mistakes
that get people killed while driving, so as not to be a victim.
eg. “Just go around RR crossing gates, unless you see a train”
- then show ‘em the pictures! Put the reality of consequences,
for failing to be responsible behind the wheel, into their heads

- it’s just a game…

The word cockpit has been done.
But Marina didn’t touch “joystick”.
Probably tired of all the innuendos.

i was wondering if your next word would be the following:

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

type s-l-o-w-e-r. the processor can introduce
wait states to the keyboard buffer. the results
I’ve seen are that a string entered too quickly
can have letters missing. I dunno if it’s just
my machine or interface issues. just deal…

Hi Marina,

I was wondering if you could explain the word “Prom” to us. I’m interested to know where such a memorable event in life is known by a four letter word that no one really ACTUALLY knows the origin of lol.

Thanks
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origin of…came from*

This video is the first one I’ve ever seen, and I loved it!!! Back in high school I traded yard work for Russian lessons from a little old lady from Poland that had been a U.N. translator after escaping from Poland. That was quite a few years ago. When I went into the Army, they loved that I had this training and wanted me to go to California to continue my studies. I declined as the other part of this deal was that I would have a chance to visit foreign countries for nefarious reasons. Listening to you was enjoyable.
I chose my screen name because it is my last name and because of its translated meaning. My father is of Czech descent, I speak a little of both.
As far as playing GTA, I’ve never played, so I do not know how much control you have regarding throwing. I do know how to make one, such as tying the rag to the bottle to ensure it wont spill much when you throw it. Learned that in a book by Abbie Hoffman written in the late 60′s early 70′s called “steal this book”. He couldn’t find a publisher, so he published it himself.

If they had that game type I would have offered.

Dude! Need for Speed 2 has been a great game for me!
I trashed millions of dollars worth of simulated cars before
finally becoming good enough to beat the dang thang
and I enjoyed every bit of it.

I was the Corner Marshal at turn 4 of the road course for
the F1 Ferrari Challenge held recently at Homestead, FL
Haven’t seen your vid, yet. That’s my next stop

Hey Marina,

I have a word request. I would like to know the origin of the word Diet. I was wondering how it came to mean both a prescribed selection of foods as well as a legislative assembly.

Thanks so much! ^_^

Like what?

geez, maybe i can’t understand… err where is that video must watch again.

Ditto.

I’ve spoken French for a number of decades, and I’ve spent about 3 years of my life (in bits and pieces) in France. I’ve heard the language so much that I don’t have any notion of whether it sounds feminine or masculine. It’s just French to me. I think a lot of American women find men who speak French quite sexy (Maurice Chevalier and Yves Montand made women swoon way back when), and I personally find French very sexy when spoken by a woman (that’s why my girlfriend is French!). I don’t care much for the sound of most languages. But I’ve always loved the French language.
I used to have a Yugoslavian girlfriend (long before the country fragmented into smaller countries), and she introduced me to Serbo-Croatian. I find this language very appealing, especially visibly (the words have a great science fiction look to them) but, alas, it’s spoken by so few…
Back in 1994-95, when I was being a bohemian in Paris, I had some Russian friends who were artists working in front of Notre-Dame, and I found that I really liked the Russian language as well. I therefore enjoyed listening to Marina speak Russian!
I also find the Vietnamese and the Ethiopian languages very easy on the ears.
I find German quiite funky. I spent one year in German class in college, and I’ve forgotten every word I learned. The funny thing is that my ancestry is English/Austrian, so my paternal ancestors spoke German.
I’m always amazed that people who speak Dutch don’t cough and gag themselves to death. I have a long-time friend who is Dutch, and I’m also a huge fan of Paul Verhoeven’s Dutch language films. Dutch is the most guttural language I can imagine, though Arabic comes a close second (I have a close friend who speaks Arabic).
I’m pretty apathetic about most languages. I don’t care for Spanish, though I studied it for 2-1/2 years and retain a fair amount of reading comprehension. Italian fails to excite me. I’m not really familiar enough with Danish or the other Scandinavian languages to offer an opinion on them. I do not care for Asian languages (with the above-mentioned exception of Vietnamese).
The point is that the appeal of other languages seems to be a personal preference, kind of like music and art. I can think of no more appealing a language than French, but I have no clue as to why. If I were to learn another language, and time and availiability of native speakers were not an issue, I would probably choose Serbo-Croatian. My next preference would be Russian (it has macho appeal when spoken by a man, and it’s sexy when spoken by a woman) or German (for amusement and out of respect for my ancestry).
I have a lot of respect for multilingual people. I reached a plateau (years ago) in French where I just coast, rarely learning anything new. It would be nice to have the time to learn other languages, so that I could speak four or five. When you speak another language, you think about things in a slightly different way, and you actually tailor your thoughts to the demands of that language. There are some things that simply cannot be said in one language or another, so when another language has a word for something that your own langauge does not, you actually get to experience a thought that you never had before. There are a number of multilinguists on Marina’s web site, so you know what I mean.
Anyway, language and etymology are fascinating subjects.

I was hoping they would make a sequel to The Chronicles of Riddick (which was itself a sequel to Pitch Black). It’s actually a very creatively conceived sci-fi movie.

Groan! That was just plumb gruel and unusual.

I prefer the Hawaiian alphabet……only has 12 letters and you pronounce them as you see them. ;-)

was that meant to be a rhetorical question? :eek:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_question :razz: :grin: :wink:

I detect the faint scent of an impending field trip… YEAH!!

Just curious, Marina. Have you ever seen Fox Animation’s “Anastasia?” It has fun characters and catchy music. I’ve seen it more times than I’m willing to admit. Don’t look for any historical accuracy, though!!!

HI THERE, I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS, YOU’RE AMAZING,, WELL SO, I WANT TO KNOW THE ORIGIN THE WORD

RAVE
RAVE

I HOPE YOU CAN, I GUESS YOU CAN ;-)

Yeah, me too but unfortunately, CoR didn’t do as well as they’d hoped. I still need to get the Directors Cut myself, I do have the CoR: Pitch Black Director’s Cut… it’s really cool it shows you that Riddick is really a GOOD man, driven to be bad by the government. Like in the special features there is uh darnit i never remember hisname but the BH that caught him Pitch Black… anyway, he’s after Riddick and Riddick as about to escape for good when the guy grabs a little girl and puts a gun to her head and says “If you don’t surrender, I’ll blow this little girl’s brains out” and Riddick actually surrenders to save the little girl, and that’s how he ended up on that ship in Pitch Black. I read the novelization of Pitch Black, and it gives his history, he was actually speaking out against unsafe practices at a mine, so when he turned out to be right, they blamed the accident on him, said it was sabotage, and so those were his first “murders” and since then pretty much every “murder” has been a bounty hunter after him, or guards and such when escaping. he’s never actually killed anyone that wasn’t trying to kill him :) I really like that about him.

where d f..k is buck? :grin: :lol:

Thinking about “picnic” reminds me of the animated film “Antz,” which is very cleverly written and visually entertaining.

Oh yeah..well now try saying it with a mouthful of peanuts :lol: :twisted:

It was cool! The entire video in Russian language. Anyway, GTA is a kick-ass game on PS2. I still love playing retro games like DKC series, Paper Mario games, Legend of Zelda, etc. I can’t count new games out. Super Mario Galaxy is an awesome game for the Wii. Same for SMK foe the Wii.

Marina, I love the B&W photo of you in that black and white striped top. But the YouTube video color photo that originates from the teacher’s pet segment is NOT flattering at all. Could you please use the B&W photo here, too?

ragabashmoon, I have the Unrated Director’s Cut of “The Chronicles of Riddick,” and it’s worth the investment. Buy it and enjoy it!

i want to ask for the word
FOOLSCAP paper and TELE from teletubbies and television

Depending on the speaker, behave might actually be mistaken for bee hive.

YEAHH THATA A GOOD WORD REQUEST…WHAT ABOUT “JOYSTICK” MARINA MY DEAR PROFESORA :grin:

Marina, I left you a comment for this video on Youtube comments pages, I hope you read it. This is for another word request.

Word Request: “acquiesce”

Shall I acquiesce till another time of your choosing?

See i used it in a sentence. I Hope correctly…………..I see you have a hard time the w sound, beautiful recovery through. Gee it just started raining here gotta go have work tommorow.

bye
John

my dear profesora I wolud like to learn more with you…..r help :wink: . FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU. MUUUUA…AND I WONDER IF YOU USE HOTMAIL MSN LIVE ? here’s mine gioforeverc@hotmail.com , please It’ll be nice talk to you and make a funny conversation SEE YOU AROUND MY DEAR…PROFESORA -> CALIENTE – PARA – PALABRAS :grin: :grin: :grin: HOT-FOR-WORDS !

HAVE YOU REALIZE THAT THIS VIDEO IS THE MOST COMMENTED IN YOUR LIFE UNTIL TODAY ??? IN THE HISTORY OF HOTFORWORDS, WE HAVE THE MOST COMMENTED VIDEO !!! WOAW MARINA, YOU REALLY DID IT :grin: ONLY A CELEBRITY LIKE YOU CAN DO THAT, AMAZING MY DEAR PROFESORA MMMUUUUUUAAAA (KISS)

COCK—- TAIL HMMMM… INTERESTING …HMM YEAH TWO INTERESTING WORDS MAYBE THOSE CAN BE GOOD REASON FOR A FUTURE INVESTIGATION AND WHY NOT A VIDEO ? :wink:

though I should say

Hey Marina,

please discuss the origin of “rock bottom”…or if you would rather discuss frustration…you know coming from the video where you are frustrated with those molotov cocktails…

i hope you pick my request(s) this time.

thank you,
a-ten-ista

yah lublu vas!!! –> i hope this was right…hahahaha.

Dear Marina, I’ve heard a couple different ideas about the origin of “God Bless You” or “Gesundheit.” Some people say your heart skips a beat or stops for a split second when you sneeze. I was wondering if that would be an interesting topic to investigate. I’ve seen all your videos by the way, they are amazing. keep doin what you do best. :wink:

Nice video, by the way, I’m fascinated for other languages, do you know another one? maybe you should try it! (I’m Brazilian, and I speak Portuguese as my maternal language)

Russian sound very close to German to my ears(I don’t know nothing about both)

GTA is a pretty good game, but in nowadays the violence culture dominate the children minds, so I think that people must separate game from reality.

byebye my dear teacher :)

This is all very scholarly (for which read “over my head”) and interesting (which means that I am stretching myself to understand it), but I have an issue with your post which I would like to point out to you in a spirit of helpfulness.
Marina had already mentioned that she is working on a video regarding this matter, so I suggest it would have been polite to have waited with your comments until after the video has been released and posted them in the comments to that video.
As it is, you have pre-empted Marina’s efforts and you may have pissed her off.
Sometimes it is best to keep your mouth shut, or at least think before you open it.

that was mmmmm so hot tht russian talks and ur blonde uuummmm russian ladies rock my world now i understand why ur GODs gift to this world lov and kisses my sweet teacher :!: :!: :!:

I’m with him I THINK THERE ARE KIDS WHO DON’T REALIZE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A GAME AND THE REALLITY. SO WE HAVE TO TAKE CARE WITH THEM. EACH GAME HAS AN ADVICE BUT THAT IS NOT ENOUGH CAUSE CHILDRENS …WELL THEY DO MANY THINGS TO GET A VIDEO GAME….NOWADAYS. TAKE CARE FOR YOUR CHILDRENS WHEN THEY PLAY GTA 4 :razz: THIS GAME CONTAINS VIOLENCE, REAL SEX SITUATIONS AND USING DRUGS SOO, ITS FUN BUT FOR PEOPLE WITH THE CORRECT MIND AND AGE :smile:

I’M SORRY MAN, SHE’S MARRIED :cry:

As I have raced real cars & built a few up for my son to race, video games, I don’t have much time for, well to be honest I suck at video games. Just can’t get the feel for it as the smell of gasoline & burning rubber excite my sences far too much, & sitting in my living room causes my sences to numb & I sleep the sleep of a warrior at peace. That being said I ‘ve seen a little of the hype/controversy over the new version of GTA and I hear there is a PC version in the works complete with book club, sign me up :grin: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=PAWbAf_7xX4&feature=related
I’ve crashed a few times & hitting other cars doesn’t hurt that much. Hitting the wall does make one stop abruptly & thats when you realize that you have internal organs. The outside of your body stops before the innards do. Also can’t set the car for no damage so the work starts again when the races ends. Here is one lucky guy.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=b2Oa36IurB0
Russia? meet monty python/tim conway with a little candy in the last two mins. Hitman is this funny :?: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb4GxdatOQo
… or even really Russian?

There’s a life lesson in here.
As far as Lao and Thai are concerned there are both “R” and “L” sounds but when hearing most people speak they tend to sound the same or get swapped around. However, if you listen to educated speakers, the sounds are used properly and are clearly distinguishable.
What is most confusing is that in Thai there are only six sounds possible at the end of a word or syllable so many consonants alter their sound when they are a final consonant.
Even after seventeen years of speaking English, my wife still cannot pronounce certain sounds at the end of a word so she either uses Thai rules or “swallows” the sound altogether, which makes it very confusing for most people to understand her and a gift for me to make her laugh by pretending to misunderstand.
The life lesson is that you have to play the game according to the applicable rules. You can’t play soccer using volleyball rules and you can’t expect to be accepted in one society using rules applicable to a different culture.

Yeah, field trip!
But beware the hayseeds in the hay rick.

sure?

I’ll go for 2. thesauros = the s(t)aur (h)o(u)s(e). :roll:

DON’T YOU THINK THAT A BEAUTIFUL HOT SEXY WOMAN WITH 27 YEARS OLD ON HER SHOULDN’T BE SINGLE ???

cause it was once spelled “uu”.

it was a long way from runes to latin letters.

however, it is not true that the letters we (germany) use today are only latin letters. the letters coming from latin are the capitals. lower-case letters did not come from the latin alphabet.

I TOLD YA …SHE’S MARRIED :???: !

/w/ is what linguists call a glide. glides are kinda in between consonants and vowels. you could very well argue that /w/ is a vowel. it appears to be closer to the class of vowels than to the class of consonants.
every (natural) class is a class because its elements share certain features. a ford crown victoria belongs to the class of automobiles because it shares certain features with other elements in that class — say, a ferrari f40 — e.g. four wheels, a motor, and so on. it does not belong to the class of bicycles because bicycles don’t have four wheels and a motor.
now, the features of a vowel are [-cons, +son, + approx], that means [it is no consonant, it is a sonorant, it is approximantic]. doesn’t really matter what those things are, we can’t get into these details on here, I guess.
the important thing, though, is that glides (sometimes called “semivowels”) have those features, too. the feature that distinguishes vowels from glides is [+/- syllabic]. vowels are syllabic (don’t make me explain that, please), glides are not. many linguists question that, too. some see glides as (rising) diphthongs. a diphthong is basically a sound made of two vowels, so glides would be vowels then.

Where did the word nuts originate from to make it mean crazy :?: ? :?:

Please anser this question

From TongueTwister :mrgreen:

nw2394,

I hope I didn’t misunderstand you. if so, correct me, please.

what do you mean by “soft(en)”? “voiced”? the voiced counterpart of /p/ is /b/. p and b are explosives, f is not. so, they belong to different classes.

yeah, there were two great sound shifts. but, the second one didn’t affect dutch. only the first one. so … some dutch people say that they actually speak the “germanier” german than the germans.

also, keep in mind that “germanic” is not “german”.

That was excellent Marina! keep up the good work. Five Stars for our dear teacher! thanx for mentioning me! Yayy!!!

wtf. turn that fucking capslock off, dude. kthxbye.

jack,

the tag thing in html is like opening and closing a door. just remember to close that door after you let the link in. you always close a link with “/a”:

code:


<a href="http://hotforwords.com">hotforwords.com</a>


oh, damnit.

why won’t the automatic word wrapping work.


<a href="http://hotforwords.com">
hotforwords.com</a>


Hey Marina. I love your videos. I totally dig this one with all the Russian language! Two things:

1) What is the origin of the word ‘video’?
2) Suggestion: Start Videos teaching us all Russian!!

by the way, jack, have you ever seen “the fog of war?

You’re so sexy when you speak Russian… :razz:

And the lesson was really interisting today. Thanks Marina.

Could you make a video for me in french soon ?…

Love from France,

Bibul

Марина
Спасибо за видео на русском))) И кстати что касается коктейля Молотова в GTA… Надо его просто кидать выше и на объекты которые далеко от тебя!

Марина
Спасибо за видео на русском))) И кстати что касается коктейля Молотова в GTA… Надо его просто кидать выше и на объекты которые далеко от тебя!
PS а вы можете делать видео с русскими субтитрами пожалуйста))) а я буду вас рекламировать в России

Марина, в русском языке нет понятия “для дополнительного кредита” в данном контексте. Звучит как плохой дословный перевод :(

Oooh yeah I know I mean I’ve SEEN it.. just don’t OWN it… I LOVE the added scenes, they sooo much more explain that it’s not just a hardcore sci-fi world, it’s sooo unique and rich and it’s really too bad that it wasn’t the hit it should have been… So you played Escape from Butcher Bay? I need to get it again, I had a bit of a financial crunch a year or so back, had to sell some of my older games for a bit of cash (though the place I sold to is very nice about how much they pay… it’s not like $2 to you and $20 when they resell, more like $15 to you and $20 to resell, I love them, and then if you do trades, they give you darn near what they are going to sell it for plus 10% store credit) to get through the month, that’s the one I kinda wish I’d kept.

I lost four months of my life playing a game called Doom!!!! Never again!!!!!!! so have not played vid games since then, which was a long time ago……G-Sibs kick serious butt on vid games and get annoyed when they fail to complete the mission……GT looks pretty cool just have little time to play.

Marina, any chance you could teach us students a little of your mother tounge, Russian word/ phrase of the week would be great.

Superduper lesson, look fantastic as ever

HFW’s143always…….

Marina and aLx – further to my log on issue…. it’s weird – I “logged on” using the button at the top right of the home page. I then clicked to the Molotov Cocktail page and the “reply” links were on. However, I clicked to the Mayday Game page, and the “reply” links were not on. I tried a couple times (same browser window as well as different browser window), and same result. I am sure that in a little while, the Mayday Game replies will be on too; at least that’s what’s happened lately.

This is just weird! I wonder if anyone else has had the same issue.

do you now something from slovakia speak ? i am from slovakia :razz: :razz:

Hi Marina, id like to request the the words: Placebo, nocebo and the word poignant.

Dear Teacher,

I wish you all the best on National Teacher Day!! Thanks for enriching our lives with lasting contributions of knowledge, wisdom and beauty. I place a virtual apple upon your virtual desk. I am positive all of your students would vote for you as teacher of the year!

After loggin if a page doesn’t show reply I’ve been hitting the digg & then when I hitt the blue & return the replies work “dunno why?”

Great Lesson Marina ;) Loved the idea with using Russian. you should do more of these lessons :) just a small question, why did you said “HotForWords must investigate” rather then your usual line ;)

Anyway, Keep up the great work ;) and I hope to see more video’s in the good old native language ;)

Ah, so I’m not the only one! Whew! I was starting to think I was crazy.

Who is married gio? I’m not.

:smile: Hi Marina,
Hope you are doing well!

The 1st answer to your question, “does anyone know how to throw a molotov cocktail in GTA IV?” No. because the game was just recently released in the usa.
The 2nd answer. I love the Grand Theft Auto franchise, since my first time with GTA III. My biggest favourite so far is GTA San Andreas. Makes me want to play right now. :lol:

p.s.
you’re such a beautiful sight to see, first thing after waking up. :wink:

Gio, kids are a lot smarter than we often give them credit for. The main character in GTA does not do drugs and the characters that do do drugs end up getting killed. If you drive drunk you end up getting arrested by the police. Yes, the premise of the game is to survive in NY and that involves perhaps becoming a hit man, but it’s a game.

We have to be careful, because if we start censoring games, then we can use that same logic and say that movies teach kids to be violent and then we should perhaps go even further and censor books that show violence as books can teach kids to be violent as well.

I really don’t think the world is as bad a place as the media makes it out to be.. there are less deaths per 100,000 people then ever in history.. the world is actually a much safer place than it was hundreds of years ago.. it’s just that our PERCEPTION of the world, with the constant barrage of media ONLY covering tragedies and not good things, that makes people think the world is a bad place.

Just my 2 cents (wonder why it’s only 2 cents and not 3 cents… hmm.. must investigate :-)

PS3.. hotforwords.. too bad I can’t play you ragabashmoon :cry:

Thanks zymo!

@ aLx, Oh yea. I forgot that. :roll: I was just coping and pasting the xhtml code and forgot to add /a> at the end. But since we can’t edit our comments we are just crap out of luck.

No I have not seen the fog of war. I’ve seen parts of ‘why we fight’. I’m well aware of the war machine is in full control of the people of the US. The people of this nation are lied to and yet we still look the other way. Why? We are powerless to change it, for we are more interested in going to work and paying our mortgages, feeding our families, and watching American Idol.

No your not crazy. Just take the blue pill and all will be fine. :mrgreen:

I agree wholeheartedly with Marina.

I’ll add that people have always tended to think that they were/are living in the worst of times. We always tend to look back fondly to the good old days, when children respected their parents, everyone was godly and true, and crime was nearly non-existent.

Such a time never existed. Violence was here long before there were violent video games and violent movies. As an anecdotal example, I’ll point to a documentary I saw last night about the Five Points Gangs in New York (which formed the basis of the DiCaprio movie “Gangs of New York”). Back in the 19th century – Victorian times – New York City was crazy violent – gangs were rampant, drugs, prostitution, gambling, extortion, bribery, vote fixing and election rigging, murder, racketeering….the whole ball of wax. All before video games.

What we need to keep in mind is that the people living back then thought THEY were living in the worst of times, and that in generations past, children were good and kind, and respected their elders, and went to church on Sunday (or temple on Saturday, or mosque on Friday, whatever).

When I was a kid, it was violent cartoons and movies that were going to make the kids violent. They got rid of bugs bunny shooting Elmer Fudd in the face with a rifle, and Wile E Coyote falling the bottom of a canyon – cartoons I watched every Saturday. They got rid of toy cap guns, and “army men.”

Well, Marina, I hope you don’t mind that I decided to “ante up” my “two cents.” After all, my two cents might not be worth a “plug nickel” — well, maybe less than a plug nickel but more more than a “pretty penny.” In any case, it’s a “nickel’s worth of free advice.” I hope I don’t seem as “phony as a three dollar bill” but you can “bet your bottom dollar” that opinions are “a dime a dozen” on this issue.

Are there any languages besides English and Russian that you speak fluently/beautifully?

childeofmalkav, I don’t know.. maybe to mix it up? I get caught up in the tenses of things sometimes.. in other words.. did I already investigate it? Or am I about to investigate it? Still playing around with that…

And one more thing….I can’t seem to figure out how to upload a picture for myself, instead of having this boring little gray square as my icon…any help?

Howdy Marina! :grin:

GTA IV sounds like a great game. Wish I had a PS3 or Xbox 360 (Got a Nintendo Wii tho) :smile:

I was watching one of your lessons the other day (can’t remember which one), and I remember you mentioning the word ‘onomatopoeia’. This inspired me to ‘investigate’ the origin of this word.

*kaibanator investigates!* :mrgreen:

I found some info from wikipedia:

Onomatopoeia. The word is a synthesis of the Greek words όνομα (onoma, = “name”) and ποιέω (poieō, = “I make” or “I do”) thus it essentially means “name creation”, although it makes more sense combining “name” and “I do”, meaning it is named (& spelled) as it sounds (e.g. quack, bang, etc.).

So thank you very much for teaching us philology and I am looking forward to watching more of your lessons :mrgreen:

Go here.. it shows you how.. it’s called a gravatar… http://www.hotforwords.com/help

kaibanator, I’m working on a video for onomatopoeia, it’s actually a collaboration with Venetian Princess… will be coming out soon :-)

Well, after seeing Marina’s video lesson on the Molotov cocktail I guess I had a couple of things on my mind…..

2hotforwordsfanclub, have you ever heard a Russian say “Wodka”?

It’s almost scary how quick you replied to make question about my “gravatar”…kinda makes me wonder how you stay so in shape if you stay in front of the computer that much… ;-)

Gio, Children are exposed to just about the same amount of violence, crimes, etc as they where 50-60 years ago, maybe even hundreds of years ago. Think of the old wild west days. I have found some of my old favorite movies that where rated PG then and today they would be rated PG 13 or R. We as a society try to censor more of what our children are exposed to based on our beliefs. What the result of this is pussyifcation of our society.

I don’t think its censorship we need to be worried about but more like desensitizing our people. The desensitized person is the perfect soldier. The perfect soldiers is the perfect subsidiary of the Military-Industrial complex.

Marina, what is your references for the death rate per 100k in history? The world safer as in what? Violent crimes? Wars? Auto accidents?

Student body, Something everyone should be aware of is that the retail marketing system is all about brainwashing you into thinking you need this and that. Remembering the car commercial, ‘You will look good in the new infinity five.’ Its all about selling you something that you don’t need but making you think that your life will be much better if you buy this widget. In my 22 years of sales, I can not only convince Eskimos to buy ice but also sell the ice maker with bottled water refill kits. I even think I can sell bottled air to people that live in LA. I did play a bit of GTA one or two. I don’t remember which version. I didn’t find anything that attracted me into playing it more or even purchasing the game even then. Yea sure the graphics are better, I can add better computer generated graphics to a bad movie and it would do well in the market. People are attracted to bling. Plain and simple. Even rats like bling. I had a rat that when let out of his cage he would steal shiny objects and hide them under my bed. I don’t know why this is and I should research this someday. I wonder if this has a connection with the so called “Rat Race”? :grin:

Oh thats my 2 bits worth.

Sorry, but if I were to tell you that I might get a visit from the MIB/KGB. I don’t need that kind of attention. You’ll have to research it yourself. I’m not the teacher and I’m not about to impart any bomb making info that might get Marina’s site in trouble!

sweet thanks for the quick reply :grin:

“Oooh Ooh I requested it” *raises hand* :mrgreen:

To Whom???

I’ll take the red pill, Thanks anyways. I’ll stay in wunderland

When I was a kid, it was violent cartoons and movies that were going to make the kids violent. They got rid of bugs bunny shooting Elmer Fudd in the face with a rifle, and Wile E Coyote falling the bottom of a canyon – cartoons I watched every Saturday. They got rid of toy cap guns, and “army men.”

prospero, Yes I remember that day when they decided to do that. It was a big controversy. I remember my mom taking away all our cap guns and army men. Cartoons where kind of violent back then. But Cartoons where originally for adults. I didn’t understand them until I was older.

Dear Marina:
From all the chatter here it is apparent that there is quite a bit of interest from your fans in learning Russian (or at the very least, watching you as you speak it. Russki seems to go well with sipping Stoli…) Perhaps you should consider opening a pay site where you could teach those of us who are Russian language impaired…
I have always liked the sound of Russian (Especially when coming from the lips of one as lovely as you.) but I haven’t got the time now to go back to school and take Russki yizzik classes. I’m sure there must be others out there like me. I’d like to learn it even if I couldn’t get college credits. Do you think it might be worthwhile researching, or would it cut into your GTA IV time too much?

Oh I forgot to give you a wooden nickel. I do have one around here somewhere. :mrgreen: Really, honest, picked it up at the center for wooden boat in south lake union. :mrgreen:

huh? not even putin sounds commanding.

I eat right jimmy24651 :-)

another mccain ad. ^^

Can you send me a copy of your diet, Marina? I want to give it to my girlfriend. :smile:

replying to trainerdave, I guess a lot of Brits are not so good at immitating American accents – mainly because they are heard less and the one’s you do hear are on the news mainly from people who tend to speak with relatively little accent. Some are good at it – but they are good at different Brit accents too. I can do a decent Southern drawl and my son can do New York ok. I guess it helps that I have two Brit born but now thoroughly American aunts – one now living in Georgia and the other a bit ouside NY.

Y’all keep safe now.

Nick

Marina, I have a question I have been thinking of asking since last night. What is the reason you bought the game?

How about “Fudd” does it sound womantic?

dude?

Replying to Bob, very solly chum. I am not 100% sure my info is all correct for a start off. Second, how many of Marina’s students actually read these posts at all – and of those that do, how many read the longer, more detailed ones? If Marina is cross with me then I apologise, but I doubt that I have spoilt anything very much. And, in any case, much of what she says is freely available on the net using a google search anyway to anyone who was genuinely interested in the first place – most people will, however, wait for her to say what she says in her own way.

Nick

Don’t believe her, I hear the fridge is near empty. Your avatar pick looks good & you managed to get it quicker than i got mine. Cheers

replying to aLx, I mean schiff sounds softer than ship to me. I am not a phonetician (or whatever the right word is!) – just someone who was interested in the origin of “w” a year or so ago and spent and hour or so looking it up. Some of the info on it seemed quite speculative, so I am not really sure how much of what I read can be trusted.

I am aware that German and “germanic” are not the same – I don’t speak any Dutch though. English is most closely connected to Frisian.

Nick

She should get the game for free for pomotional purposes, or better yet get paid $$ :smile:

If, as Bob suggested below, you are cross with me, my apologies.

Nick

en mi caso tampoco, cuando yo era un niño veia mucha mas violencia que ahora y aun asi nunca cambio mi percepcion del mundo ni mis actitudes, es cierto depende de cada persona :cry:

I’m really late, but all this talk of gasoline explosions & hard driving etc.
Makes me realize that gasoline does flow in my viens. this is as it were right up my alley. For all the old cogers that Marina allows to come to this place http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI40qNY7mIU

ONE THOUSAND TIMES ALL THE PEOPLE WILL PREFER TO BUY A PLAYSTATION THREE :smile: !!!. THE DIFFERENCIA BETWEEN THIS TWO CONSOLES IS BIG, AND THE SAGA “PRO EVOLUTION” ALWAYS WAS PREFERED TO PLAY IN SONY. :smile:

Can you cover the English GESTURE where the first two fingers are held straight and the others clenched with knuckles facing the recipient. (Like the reverse of Churchill’s ‘v for victory ‘
THIS IS NOT AN OBSCENE GESTURE

Most believe that this means f*** off or go forth and multiply, but if you check the symbol actually originally means YOU ARE ABOUT TO DIE FRENCHMAN and originates from a fantastic tale of Shakespear’s King Henry 5th battle of Agincourt 25th October 1415.
When a retreating English army of 900 was cornered by the French 8000 strong , the English archers (with a range of well over 1km) shot the Falconbergs and Meres at the back of the French ranks before they came into the pathetic 500m range of the French Archers at the front.
French did not take English prisoners of war they always removed these 2 drawstring fingers making them useless archers and unworthy opponents.
So the English displayed them to the French to humiliate them who consequently fled climbing over the bodies of their dead colleagues to be killed by the next shower of arrows raining down in the same spot as before.

Probably the most unexpected outcome of any massacre since Bodicea in Roman times.
I just think that this fallacy for this gesture should made more known.

aLx, DON’T YELL :!: :???:

I don’t know how to throw a molotov cocktail in a drink. I made one once, and we launched it…and then we went to the hospital to take care of the burns. In retrospect, I wish that I could have seen how difficult they are to handle in a CGI world before I tried it in real life.

That was a long time ago, and only the emotional scars remain.

So I have a question about the word “phonetic.” How come it isn’t spelled “phonetically.” Shouldn’t it be “funetic?”

That brings up a whole lot of questions about the English alphabet itself. Has there ever been a move to “clean it up?” Can’t we get rid of the “C”? We have an “S” and a “K” to do the work of the “C”. There are more where that came from .

57f^ |_4l\/l3r.

Marina,
When I was out in the woods I saw something very interesting. A cow, calf, and bull moose were walking in a field below where I was standing and they were all grazing. The bull was very interested in the cow and he walked right up behind her and tried to mount up. The cow turned her head toward the bull and said as clearly as could be “Noooooooo”. I laughed so hard I could not continue standing. That leads me to the question, where does the word “no” come from???

GTA4 is the best ever game l’ve ever played! Your So Gorgeous Marina! :) xxx

Marina, when I first subscribed to your videos about a month ago I have gone back to the first one and watched every video you have made. You can see the changes in your style that keep getting better. Keep up the good work.

ANYBODY PLAY “GUITAR HERO” OR “ROCK BAND” FOR PS3 :?: :smile:

Who says the game needs promoting ? Most people I know slept on the street outside the shop to be the first to buy it !

Does the left side of Jimmy24651 taste bad ?

Yes I asked for help with that too !
Marina we all love and adore you !

Marina gets it. She may have read my stuff :oops:

Gio – you have amazing energy! Gadzooks!

I watched the Molotov lesson twice,
before I even noticed there were subtitles!

Speaking of games, and Russia, and “mucha mas violencia”;
Where exactly does the “game” Russian Roulette come from?

Please define and relate the history of the word “Latin”. I’m latino, but I also understand that there are Latin Europeans, and of course, other variations, such as Latin Americans, and so on. As a word, it has very much Euro-centric connotation in meaning, just as much as Hispanic. Can you convey its meaning and importance in totality to people who seem to have little to no knowledge of its true meaning.

Charles Bronson, The Great Escape (1963)
“I wasn’t planning to use it, myself”

I would like to request the word computer hacker

Marina, Did you lose some comments again?
you’re the best,Scotthorn :roll:

saltine crackers

You are very wise, my friend.

I almost posted a recipe from Abbie Hoffman’s “Steal This Book!” re: napalm, but decided against it as well. Just checking, you passed the test. The world is a safer place with you in it.

Peace.

The sky is blue on my planet.
What color is yours?

Hmm, that spaghetti looks so tasty, it made me wonder, what is the origin of the word spaghetti (I guess it comes from Italian), but what really is it’s origin.
Please share your spaghetti recipe with the class…

:oops: BTW…the first sentence should read: don’t know how to throw a molotov cocktail in a VIDEO GAME.

Ok, when it gets that far into the l33t it actually takes time for me to read…

:(

Gio, maybe she is looking for the perfect head in a jar. (see: “I Dated a Robot” episode in season three of . ) Its a concept that if you could not afford having your body frozen to later bring back to life in the future you could just freeze your head at a much lower cost.

The head in a jar is my concept of the perfect partner for marriage. If two can live happily together as just two heads in a jar then the marriage could be a life long success. Thus eliminating “sexual intercourse” or “Looks” playing in the part of making a decision of living that person for the rest of your life. I developed this concept many years ago long before Futurama came out. I still have some bugs too work out of the idea before I put it out to market.

_/)_

Dear teacher,
Goddam it! a little bit of time to write something to my teacher!
Very interesting to see the real person. A big gift to us all. Thank you!
But a little bit difficult to analyse the sound of russian!
Bon, puisque c’est comme ça, nous aussi, les élèves qui ne pittons rien au russe, on peut parler dans une langue étrangère !!!!! Et alors là ? Quid understand lo que Ich dis? Because das est facile no mais!!!!! :mrgreen:
Well, to answer your question, I don’t play GTAIV. I prefer roleplaying games.
Thank you for this interesting lesson.
Your devoted student
Felipe Bey

Marina, I would like to know the origin of the word Erebus. I have no desire to know about the mountain but i do know what erebus means. and i guess its from greek mythology but i want to know where THEY thought of it. definition is this:Classical Mythology. The darkness under the earth, imagined either as the abode of sinners after death or of all the dead.

Thats two words. You only get one word or one phrase. :mrgreen:

Yours truly started hacking and pirating back in 1979. I wrote my first virus before I knew they where called viruses. I called it a prank program but it was an early form of computer virus. It was called A dot F. written in BASIC or Applesoft (A Microsoft language – yes Bill Gates was writing for Apple back then, where do you think he got the idea of Windows?)

Both Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs where early computer hackers. The even built blue boxes. Some of the early Macintosh/Apple programs like VisiCal (one of the first spreadsheet programs) where hacks.

I was able to duck out of Operation Sundevil :twisted: I think its because I kept myself as a low level hacker. I didn’t boast my hacks.

I think there are two distinct classifications of hackers. White Hat (good) and Black Hat (bad) hackers. Yea and even Gray Hats, but I’m not going there.

Oh the Secret Service is knocking on my door. I have to run bye… :twisted:

I have a theory of why she purchased the game. If someone asked me if she purchased the game I would not have believed them because of her perceived profile. It didn’t make any sense. Which is why I asked the question. I don’t want to post my theory for it might become a Schroders cat and effecting her answer.

BillyB, I can email you my theory if your interested. Just shoot me an email. I think you still have it. :grin:

Dear fellow student
Interesting theory, but we should not ask ourselves this kind of question. This is a part of the deal. It would not be as interesting if we knew. I think all of us has already had a sexy teacher as teens. You surely dreamed of a romance (or something else) but it remained a pleasant remembrance because nothing happened.
So, the more important is to….. learn ENGLISH WORD ORIGIN!!!!!!!
An impossible to stop laughing fellow student,
Amicalement
Don Felipe Gonzales

Interesting point.

BTW, specifically Northern Lao is probably more liable to have R/L problems.

LOL :lol:

Marina, I need help using my joystick! :sad: ( :wink: :razz: :mrgreen: )

Dear teacher
No, please do it!
thank you
Don Felipe

13, including the ʻokina〈ʻ〉, which IS a letter.

I request the word Pigeon. In Grand Theft Auto 4, you can collect 200 pigeons and was wondering, why they are named that. And why they are so frequent around New York City. Thanks.

I didn’t get it; what did aLx say?

TD, are you suggesting that “bistro” is an abbreviation of “beef” + “stroganoff”: bi(f)stro(ganoff)?

:lol:

Are you joking or do you really not know?

If not, Bucks is short for Buckinghamshire (in England).

It’s funny how non-Cyrillicists spell «спасибо» as “spaceba”. Almost like “spacebar” but without the “r”. :roll:

STFU Lamer

Cap’n, you seen “The Man With Two Brains”?

Где вы были, russianboy?

I ain’t needs no pills! :mrgreen:

Sort of, aLx.
Non tonic /u/ as an on-glide often becomes /w/, same as when it is non tonic as an off-glide.

Etc., etc., etc. :mrgreen:

… and how exactly does this relate to my comment?

Dang, ragabashmoon! What store is this? Seriously! :shock:

OIC… :neutral:

heh. n4ps. ;P

I’m sorry, how DOESN’T it… :?: :?: :?:

Молодец! Я вижу что многие, спасибо тебе, хотят выучить Русский язык. Я начила серию на Ю-тюбе под назбанием “Russian Lessons”. :idea: Тебя прошу, пожалуйста, помоги мне. :razz: Покажи линк на моё видео в твоём описание. Это мне так поможет, даже не предстовлаешь. Мой канал на YouTube называется RussianVlog.

So your lengthy argument is that a game like I described would have no effect on the minds of people playing it. A game that makes a hero of a KKK member who lynches Blacks would probably not turn a non raciest person into a a raciest, but I know that it would strengthen the hatred for a person who already leans that way. If children were so smart, as marina suggest, we wouldn’t have anymore raciest. The fact is, raciest raise their children to be like them. very few grow up to see the error of that kind of thinking. The same is true with these games. A child growing up to playing these games put less value to life than they otherwise would. I have nothing against first person shooters, but I do believe that the ones that make a violent criminal the hero are not a good thing. If you really don’t agree, than ask your self honestly if you would let your child play a game like I described.

In australia they censored the sex stuff out to allow the games to be imported under a MA15+ rating.

Oh wow, that’s SO funny…almost!

Thanks but I’m afraid that since I collect former Combloc sniper rifles (don’t ask) the jury is still out on that one …. Peace – through superior firepower.

Dear Marina

Yesterday a saw your russian explanation about Molotov Cocktail with legend in english. Well, I’m brazilian and love this site but my english is not good to understand all that you say. Then, I would like know if it’s possible to insert english legend on all diary hotforwords. So people around the world could follow, well, hotforwords explanations and improve english. You would become the most sensual, sexy and intelligent teacher of the world.

General Teacher : Marina,

This is a formal Request for withdrawal of the above mentioned word request;…”acquiesce”………….Reason Stated: Clearly this post has been misconstrued!

New Words Request: withdrawal
…………………………..: misconstrued
…………………………..: Greatest
…………………………… Apologizes

:oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:

OK- I’m gonna parse this out, maybe not a book
just a chapter. Gere we ho…

Premise 1 (truncated):
…your … argument is that a game (as described)
would have no effect on … people playing it.

my response: I made no such arguement; au contraire

The premises that immediately follow use the word
raciest (oops!) I guess you mean racist – so be it.
You used it 5 or 4 times to make these 2 points.
1. a person who is not racially motivated would
likely not change and become a racist.

my response: it’s a moot point, but I agree.

2. a person who is already of a racist mind set
would feel strengthened and reinforced.

my response: it’s a moot point, but I agree.

interjection: the game, as you describe it,
SUCKS ASS. I wouldn’t play it.

Your next series of statements is tricky.
You arguements are not clear

ver batim: If children were so smart, as marina
suggest, we wouldn’t have anymore raciest.

my response: the fact that Marina observes
(correctly) that children are
smarter than you think,
does not rule out stupidity!
The arguement that remains
unclear is the one you make
by combining this with race
issues (no correlation).

The rest of your dissertation is descriptive
of things which are in some ways true.
Yet, there is no logical point of conclusion.

my response: you is what you are.
In this country, slavery ended 150 yrs
ago. I see a LOT of people walking
around with a mind set they brought
with them from massah’s plantation.
Handed down and preserved through
the generations, this mind set is evil.
It is the source of dichotemy we see
today. And there are those who prey
upon this mind set to keep all this
hate alive in their hearts.
its just another pussy game.
I wouldn’t play it.

Try to focus on positive things
you can do in your life. Don’t
be sucked into that game,
don’t be so sensitive!!!

work hard, rock hard,
eat hard, grow big;
and wear glasses
(if you need ‘em.)

Good luck! :mrgreen:

*cries because the l33t just won’t leave me alone*

CD Tradepost. They rock.

Wow! I’ve never seen anyone take so long to completely miss the point. This isn’t an argument over racism or if my game type was a good one worth playing. It was just to illustrate that there are games that people wouldn’t play because of the offensive or violent nature. In other words, there are games you wouldn’t let kids play. Another example would be a game where the hero rapes little girls. If it’s “just a game” then why not let them play? Why not? The answer is obvious, as it was the first time.

Dera teacher!

I just wanted to say that I learn new thing every day from you! I knew the answer to the cocktail, but I never thought the russian language could sound so smoth and sensual! ;)

from your dear student / Swedehunter

:wink: Very nice :cool:

Жизнь будет по-другому :grin: ты забыла русский язык???

where were i???

She looks to be smart as anything so I wouldn’t put it past her to speak other languages, and even if it was totally pronounced wrong from her it would still sound beautiful.

For some reason a lot of people I know who speak Russian as their first language tend to have English as their third (or fourth :shock: ) language.

The same way you throw the grenade you have to hold the button down (only for just a few seconds and then release, hold it for a long time and it blows up on you)…. I wish i had an example of how that works in everyday life, maybe i can think of “1″ :wink:

well, l33t starts with “lol” and the like. which you used in another post. so you’re using this “crap”, too. heh.

try to see it as a language. I think it is. and no language is better or worse than any other.

k? l8r, d00d.

The comment doesn’t make sense. Who DOESN’T need to get laid? :lol:

w00t!

No, actually it didn’t start with lol, it started with All Your Base Are Belong to Us, then it got shorted to “I own you” then someone mistyped I PWN you… then it got to hey let’s misspell on purpose to be kewl. Abbreviation and substitution of letters and numbers with purposeful misspellings are very very different.

My name is Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire, I own a mansion and a yacht.

no, that’s not what I meant. sry for not being clear on this one. I didn’t mean “start” in a time sense.
I meant to say that when you use “lol” you’re already knee-deep in l33t country. ;P

i was just joking sexc lips :wink:

a couple? Bwhahhahaha..I dont get it? :wink: :lol:

can u play with me Marina? :wink: :mrgreen:

What state, city?

I love AYBABTU! :mrgreen:

“Funny” here meaning “strange” and “quaint”.

spacebar – r = spaceba

Duh! :razz:

Yes, this lesson should’ve been right up your alley yet you were tardy! :sad:

(No reply necessary. :mrgreen: )

I doubt anyone will read these studies, but I have. The science is solid. Violent media contributes to violent children. I have collected other research as well, based on anthropology, neurology, sociology, psychology to cover all the approaches, variables and levels of analysis. I also have lots of anecdotal material from friends in social work, pediatrics and family counseling. Media violence harms children.

Everyone familiar with me should know or expect that my opinions regarding censorship, language, etc… are very liberal as my posts frequently convey. But this game, which I have played, as well as many other games and mediums with similar content are not healthy for children.

You can argue with me all you want but I’ll scientifically beat the shit out of you.

American Psychological Association
Psychological Science in the Public Interest
American Academy of Pediatrics
Psychiatric Times
Current Directions in Psychological Science

Eat a healthy diet of locally raised organic food or better yet become a vegetarian. I can provide you with a bunch of scientific studies and shit. Guessing her BMI, physiological characteristics and attachment to animals, I’ll lay you odds that marina is a vegan.

That’s Erwin Schrödinger, just in case anyone was trying to look the reference up.

Uh lots across the country…. http://www.cdtradepost.com You can even tell the website what you want, and as long as the store participates in the online wish list (most of them do, a few do not), you could live in Kansas and have the Oklahoma store email you that they have your item(s). Then it’s just $3 extra for S&H.

Ok maybe not all over the country, but KS, MO, NE, and IA.

No, LOL is not knee-deep in l33t country. They have totally separate origins. Internet abbrev. and l33t are totally separate things.

hm. no one seems to be sure about the origins of leetspeak, except you.
well, whatever, since most people on here think that wikipedia is a reliable source — read the wiki article on “leet”, you’ll find “lol” there, too.

well, if you still think “lol” and leet are two totally separaty things, let me make it easy:

l0l, lo1, l0|_, |_ol, |_o|_, etc. etc. — l33t enough? ;)

Very Good!!! I like your lesson! It’s the best!
Супер! На щет GTA IV – нажми и удержывай кнопку “огонь”…
Ð’ зависимости от того сколько держать… зависит как далеко упадет Коктейль Молотова…

Thanks buzz, :mrgreen: I didn’t think I had his name spelled correctly and I should have looked it up.

BillyB and I had a long discussion about my theory and about car racing which was very interesting. If anyone wants my email just go to my contact page and fill out the form and I’ll email you back. I just don’t want to post my email online here for spam robots to scoop up.

http://captainjack.ws/page1/page1.php

~~__(\__ Oh look a storm. Let go check it out!

Ok, what did you say? :grin:

Well I never leaned it yet. Too busy leaning Hex decimal and Binary. :mrgreen:

Hummm Might be good for a few of us to learn a few phrases. I watched the first lesson. A bit to fast for me. But I guess she was making it more like an introduction to the language. Tagalog, Spanish, German, & Greek are a few languages I have played around with. Greek looks somewhat similar in text as Russian. Do they have the same roots or is just a quincidence?

i played GTA the first one…then the rest got a bit boreing…. :roll:

I play CITYOFHEROES….online gameing……..also just got my self ASSASINS CREED ……im on the PC games……..

SPORE going to be great. :cool:

oxooxoxoxoxoxoxoox

sure !
I was told by my teacher in my 1st year learning Russian at French school, that the Cyrillic (Russian) alphabet settled in the 9th century after the work of two Orthodox monks – hmm maybe they were Saints as well –

So they borrowed from Greek alphabet they used for liturgy many letters to represent phones of the slavic languages they spoke.
- You’ll find a deeper explanation in Wikipedia’s “Cyrillic” article -

Dear teacher,
You could go on in Russian forever, I’d love it –
- here in France my first foreign language was English, and 2nd… Russian, this lesson reminds me good old times, when I was a young boy.
who knows , if my Russian teachers had had half your charm,
maybe I’d become a Russian/French translator ?

btw, Love the blunders in Russian, even if I can catch only part of them.

ваш преданный учащийся

Dear fellow student
If I may, the two orthodox monks were called Cyrillus and methodus if I remember.
Just wanted to help.
Amicalement
Don Felipe

Whatever, I’m through with this, it’s already getting too heated, and I really don’t want to see it escalate any further and get either of us in trouble with Marina, so let’s just forget it, ok?

k.

maybe we should request a lesson on it, though? +35+ h3|2 1337 $|<!|_lz?

Oh my God !!!!!! I LUV when you speak Russian……..it makes you even SEXIER !!!! (if that’s possible). They should make a new game……”Grand Theft Marina” Then guys like me could try to steal you away!!!!

Kewl. :cool:

I highly doubt it, buttwipe buzzword. What grade are you in? :razz: :razz: :razz: :lol:

More shit than scientific studies, I bet… :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

He told her to hold the throw button, and it’ll make the Molotov Cocktail go farther.

I just love it when you speak Russian…..

Maybe we can play sometime :D
add me on xbox live.. Evil Casserole

omg that was awesome, I am self teaching Russian right now and it is super hard without a teacher. You should do a “simple” Russian video, like how to say Thank you, yes, no, hi, bye… that kind of stuff.

How lovely! Russian really is sexy, like John Cleese said in “A Fish Called Wanda”.

this is his son, koty. I think you are doing a great job and i believe Grand theft auto IV is great. A major improvement of GTA 3. I would like to know the origin of the phrase “charlie horse”.

As usual, you are always captivating in any language! :wink: Thank you for making the internet a more enjoyable place!

Marina,
Sorry; but I never played grandtheft auto but Mikhale Gorbachave sure must have been pissed to see a coctail ruin his most expensive military toys

Greg

Marina, That was amazing, what a beautiful language. I wouldn’t have understood most of what you said without the subtitles. But you already knew that:) Just russian tank and cocktail molotov. I haven’t got this game, so i can’t help you with the gameplay. You look great as always.

Bye
John

Я играл отстой коктейль молотова для того чтобы поджигать дома людей делать пожары и взрывы .Твое видео super

I have been thinking about that and came to the conclusion that the letter “C” should be used for the sound of “CH” as in church or “curc :lol:

Yeah, the ‘dubya’ sound is hard to pronounce.

I don´t like the game.

i loved the russian video can your ”sister” cum and teach me how to speak like that and by sister i mean you you are awe some

whats this obsetion with GTA what other games do you like my favorites are call of duty 3&4 and grand turismo 4

in call of duty 2 you can play as a russian fighting the germans it good but i like playing as an american

Начала слова KGB ???? :arrow: :roll:

I stumbled across this clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsJfXA0XbWI and it made me think of the hotforwords GTA IV lesson :grin:

ok to throw the Molotov Cocktail(or grenade) you have to hold down the aim button and then hold the fire buttin so you dont just drop them and yes i have played the game and i more or less enjoy jumping ou of choppers

I was Curious of the Word “Won’t, which is a contraction for Will not. I wanted to know why the contraction is not Willn’t. Do not is Don’t. Does not is Doesn’t. So where did won’t come from?

Marina, you should try the new game “Call Of Duty: World At War”. There’s a mini game in it called “Nazi Zombies” and one of the weapons you can use are: 4 Molotov Cocktails.

They’re even more deadly than in GTA IV. I think of all the times I tried using them, I’ve killed maybe 3 zombies. I killed myself like 10 times. If they explode too close, you instantly die (which isn’t good if the rest of the team can’t save you).

OH captainjack, were you behind the scene in picking “hacker” for latest word game? You sure know your computers! :lol: peace

Nope. she did not consult me on that word. She never consults me on any word for many times she has more in depth information than I do. I leave it all up to her. :grin:

wow, Russian is a pretty language, it flows off your tounge like [molasses].

Just wanted to know do you have an XBox 360 or PS3?? (>^_^)> huggies for you! love your videos!!

Я никак не могу в нее поиграть, так как мой ноутбук не поддерживает шейдеры версии 3.0 =((((( Обидно, Марин.

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Ivan_Russia
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from Russia with love

I believe you meant “hexadecimal”. ;-)

Does Marina know that some hexadecimal numbers are also words?

DADA

It was 2am when I wrote that. I was very tired. :oops:
Not sure if she knows or not. She does know a bit of coding. She is mostly focused on word origins.

I am not sure if I remember right, but when I was a kid, my dead dad told me that a Molotov Cocktail was part gasoline, part oil (Motor Oil) in a wine bottle with a rag for a wick. But I am not sure if you wet the wick with gasoline or motor oil. Dad must have had some firsthand experience with guerella stuff in WWII! It is like in TIME magazine in the early 90′s they said the IRA in Ireland made dynamite out of a mixture of nitrogen fertilizer and deisel fuel. Now you can buy a copy of THE ANARCHIST COOKBOOK complained against by that LaPeer fella of the NRA. I had just dreamt that some anarchists would set fire to the Princeton Univeristy library. That was that John Nash’s favorite hangout in A BEUATIFUL MIND. My mind is more of an angry one.

Вопрос не соовсем по теме: Что в данном случае имела ввид Марина за фразой “для особого кредита…”?

I think it’s an absolutely vital tool. I have been intimately familiar now over the past decade with the cases of rendition that the U.S. Government has been involved in. And I can say without a doubt that it has been very successful as far as fred perry outlet producing intelligence that has saved lives.

Resources like the one you mentioned here will be very useful to me! I will post a link to this page on my blog. I am sure my visitors will find that very useful.