What does "Americans VR's can't even understand American" mean? And what does the acronym VR stand for?I saw this sentence among the discussions at Youtube: comrade44: Maybe they should have tried a Canadian Accent, eh. =P Next0gen0: I'm American, and I Approve Of This! (Americans VR's can't even understand American :P)This is the link to the video and the comments: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FFRoYhTJQQ

Asses as well as pitchers have ears. What does it mean? I wonder not only it's final meaning, but also how the words of this sentence are connected with the meaning, because the phrase seems to be a nonsense.

What does "so married" mean? I cannot understand the "so married" expression in the following fragment: HECTOR So I'm calling the dentist a plumber. So do you know a good plumber? BRIDGET A plumber? What for? ANNIE Nick has toothache. BRIDGET Well, he doesn't need a plumber. He needs a dentist. NICK Aaah! ANNIE Yes, Hector, we have the number of a very good plumber - Julian. BRIDGET Oh, Julian! He's so gentle. ANNIE He's so married! Oh, hi, Julian. Listen, we have an emergency here. What are the symptoms? Oh, shaking, squealing..., yeah, just a toothache. You can? Oh, thank you! Bye! Sorted. He'll see Nick now.Addition: What does "the number of" mean in the following sentence: Yes, Hector, we have the number of a very good plumber - Julian.I mean, why Annie say "the number" instead of "a number of very good plumbers"? Is it because the number equals one, i.e. Julian is the only good dentist?

What does "swaggy girl" mean?

A Verse One person asked the people in the internet to translate a verse to English. It was an old verse written by a Russian poet of the 19th century. I have translated it and sent the translation to the internet. However, I suspect that I made a lot of mistakes. Could you correct me? This is my translation: Oh, Freedom, will you rise some day above this dark and dirty crowd? Will your tremendous golden ray shine over people snoring loud? Your ray will spark and blew away the fog, the sleep. But what you say of scars of old humiliations, the scars of deep mortifications? They make the souls corrupt and poor. They eat the brains a lot. They hurt. Who has to cover them and cure? You'll do it, Christ's clean tidy shirt. The following is the original Russian verse. You can run it through Google translation service to learn what I tried to translate. Над этой темною толпой Непробужденного народа Взойдешь ли ты когда, Свобода, Блеснет ли луч твой золотой?.. Блеснет твой луч и оживит, И сон разгонит и туманы... Но старые, гнилые раны, Рубцы насилий и обид, Растленье душ и пустота Что гложет ум и в сердце ноет, — Кто их излечит, кто прикроет?.. Ты, риза чистая Христа...

The vacatiion and the Skype The vacation came at last, and then I remembered why I came to Italki. A long time ago I have read about language exchange. It was a good idea to talk with a native English speaker and to help each other. However, immediately after the registration on this site I ran out of time. Later I could write maximum some small texts in the italki notebook from time to time. However, two days ago I had got a lot of time. The first step was to install a software for talking. It seemed that the most popular application is Skype. However, the people complained that Skype had became huge and eating too much of computer resources. Since I use a laptop bought ten years ago, I decided to download an old version 3.8 of Skype. The program was installed quickly. I became cheerful and excited anticipating the first talk with a native speaker. I opened italki and sent a message to a person who had the same level in Russian as I have in English. No answer. I tried to write to another person. The result was the same. I wrote to approximately ten native English speakers sequentially. I received only one answer (very kind refusal). And then it suddenly dawned upon me: there are many Russians learning English. We are in a majority. Every native English speaker already talks with some Russian speakers. Nobody need more than two or three interlocutors. As a result, I have a nice but useless Skype on my computer. It is good that the 3.8 version does not occupy much room on the disk.

A Plant When I was a child, there were several plants at my home. Some of them had beautyful flowers, some others had long leaves. I also remember a cactus, which didn't flower for years. One time it unexpectedly gave an unusual pretty red flower, and then it never flowered again. One day all our family decided to go to the village for three weeks. My mother asked a neighbour to take care of our plants while we are absent. However, the neighbour became ill and couldn't rise to our flat and pour the plants. When we arrived home, most plants were dead. Only two plants were alive. One was the cactus, another was a plant with unknown name, which had small rounded thick leaves and a short thick stem. There were small roots hanging down from its branches. The leaves became wrinkled but still green. Shortly after pouring they became rich juicy again. Last year at my work one office was liquidated. We were asked to take some flowers from that office to our room. I refused, because when month's holiday there is nobody to take care of the plants. But I agreed to receive one plant. It was a flower with small thick leaves and roots hanging down. It is alive now, but I don't know it's name.

How I learned to park Today I saw a bif car unsuccesively trying to place itself between two other cars on the side of a road. This event recaaled me how i had learned to park. Many years ago most people in Russia had no cars, therefore they didn't need to leard driving. In fact, there was no need in cars too, because all people which worked in cities lived in the same city, not in the suburbs. However, one family after another bought cars. I didn't want to look as a white crow, so one day I decided to buy a car. But first I need to obtaing a driving licence. I found a driving school and joined it. There was a big queue for instructors. But one instructor was free. I have been interested why, and received an answer that he is too rude. He always shouts to the learners and swears using the obscessive language. As for me, it was not a real disadvantage, so I hired that instructor. The driving school had no ground to train the learners to park. The instructors used a rectangular area which was used by an open-air cafe in summer, but was empty in winter. Plain car-owners never used that area for parking because the only way to it was a vary steep and uncomfortable road. We studied various manoevres such as side parking, back barking, rotating etc on that place. We also trained to start on a rise using that steep road. The instructor shouted to me less and less. One day he became ill and was replaced by another instructor. The new one had usually trained women, so he called side mirrors "ears" and so on. After all, we came to the autodrome to an examination. There were hundreds of people there. Two third of them were women. I was surprised by all ladies were smoking. Before that I saw smoking women very rarely. The exam was passed succesively, but now when I see somebodies' troubles with parking, I always remember those days.

What is the meaning of "flat" and "come what may" in this particular case? The following fragment confused me: "Light should go at 186000 miles in a second, flat. I mean by that, 186000 miles a second come what may." What is the meaning of "flat" and "come what may" in this particular case?Could you explain the meaning in English, please (using other words)?I do not speak any language except Russian and English.The person that wrote it was Richard Feynman, an American Nobel Prize winner.