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| Also known as | Marina, Марина Орлова |
| Born | December 10, 1980 |
| Ethnicity | Caucasian |
| Nationality | Russian |
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Marina Orlova (Russian: Марина Орлова) (born December 10, 1980) is a Russian-born philologist (although primarily an etymologist) who has become an internet celebrity, hosting one of the most popular channels on YouTube, HotForWords, and a corresponding website. She also hosts a bi-weekly radio show on Maxim Radio on Sirius Satellite Radio. The theme of Orlova's YouTube videos, which begin with the tagline "Intelligence is Sexy", and of her website is tracing the origins of English words. Some of her entries focus on common everyday words such as irony and OK, while other address lengthy and rarely used tongue-twisters such as floccinaucinihilipilification and antidisestablishmentarianism. Some entries also address idioms, including "let the cat out of the bag", "dressed to the nines" and "three sheets to the wind" or new words like the verb "to google". As a Moscow Times editorial observes, Orlova's success is not solely attributed to her pedagogical value:
- Marina exploits her blonde-bombshell looks to the maximum: She appears in her two-minute clips scantily clad, pouting and making doe eyes. This is surely the main factor in her success. However, while the number of scantily clad girls on the Internet is limitless, not all of them put so much intellectual effort into their success.[1]
The channel became active in 2007, and Orlova has since been voted "World's #1 Sexiest Geek" in Wired magazine's "Sexy Geek of the Year Contest" contest. G4 TV has similarly listed Orlova among its "Hot Women of the Net" on several occasions, and Cosmopolitan magazine has identified her as the "most subscribed to YouTube guru".[2] Orlova has appeared on a number of Fox shows including on The O'Reilly Factor,[3] and was profiled on "The Medium", an internet feature of The New York Times Magazine.[4] In June of 2008, Orlova and radio personality Danny Bonaduce signed endorsement deals with "coComment".[5] As a G4TV profile of Orlova indicates, she received two degrees in philology from the Nizhny Novgorod State University in 2002, and taught English and world literature to high school students in Moscow, before moving to the United States to pursue further education.[6]
References
- ↑ Marina Orlova has managed to get several million people interested in the origins of English words, Victor Sonkin, Moscow Times, June 6, 2008.
- ↑ Molly Fahner, Cosmopolitan, June 2008.
- ↑ Internet vixen teaches O'Reilly a thing or two about origins of words (right column, halfway down the page).
- ↑ Virginia Heffernan, Sexicon, The New York Times Magazine, December 17, 2007.
- ↑ coComment Ignites Web Commenting With HotForWords and Danny Bonaduce
- ↑ HotForWords G4 TV Appearance of Marina Orlova.
