Hacker would be correct. The most famous hacker I can name is:
Stephen Wozniak: “Woz” is famous for being the “other Steve” of Apple. Wozniak, along with current Apple CEO Steve Jobs, co-founded Apple Computer. He has been awarded with the National Medal of Technology as well as honorary doctorates from Kettering University and Nova Southeastern University. Additionally, Woz was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in September 2000.
concerning my request for Bulima, Anorexia, and Appetite and your reply “those words are too depressing”, It is the time of year that weight issues are foremost in many minds, and sexy/ thin/ models often struggle with these issues. Therefore, I ask you to reconsider and address these words as a socially responsible gift… openly saying and explaining the words, from the mouth of a thin beautiful woman, well, that will help bring awareness to these issues. Thanks ,, Dr. Dudney, Psychiatrist in Tampa
I was just joking about it being depressing. Gastro-intestinal words are right at the top of my list.
BTW, Doctor, howsabout adding your city to your HFW nickname so you don’t have to type it in each time?
1. Click Dashboard at the top of the page
2. Click Profile
3. In Nickname re-type your name, a hyphen and Tampa
4. Click Update Profile
5. From the Display name publicly as menu, choose your new nickname with the city in it.
6. Click Update Profile
Dr. Dudney, psychiatrist in Tampa, requesting HotForWords comment on Appetite/Bulima/Anorexia, has updated his profile as per request. Thanks, and have a nice thin day.
After considering everyone else’s thinking on the game, I have to admit that I can’t figure it out. I just hope that when the answer is revealed, we don’t wind up using the smiley because absolutely none of us agrees with it, i.e. we think she blew it entirely. That is always a possibility if we consider her to be human and not the infallible goddess we would like her to be. Perhaps by writing this and preparing you for the worst it might cushion the great fall should it turn out to be true. Oh, horrors! Am I being realistic or merely pessimistic?
If the answer is hacker; I think some of the HOTFORWORDS TA’s could stand to reason. The capital of the Republic of Lexicon and the inhabitants of Etymologia; asks for an investigation? Why would computer geeks want to tresspass; are not they our friends?
To be honest, I have no freaking idea of what that word can be! The only thing I could guess (after moultes réflexions) is that the second letter of this word is an “a”. Yes indeed, I am absolutely positively sure that the second letter is an “a”. I think I also glimmered on a pinko-grey “U” or was it a “V”, on some sort of weird black backgrounded lexical construction. It popped up in my brain, out of nowhere. I don’t know why this happened. Probably some spurius irrelevant neuronal connection that has nothing to do with the word in question.
Is the word “plough”? Remove the “p” to get lough, which is a lake or other type of body of water…lough fisherman? Just a guess and nothing more. A type of plough would be, say, a share plough, or sokha, to name a couple. Can’t fudge the “illegal” bit from all this, however. Thanks for the help with the log in! PS: How about tackling the word “onomatopoeia”?
Latin; co = together, pac = peace, the suffix etic means of or pertaining to. If that helps any. Just another hybrid word so doubt there is any story to it, but who knows.
There doesn’t seem to be any known origin of the word. It appears to have originated in the United States… perhaps the word cope plays a part.. but that is about all I can find. It was probably just made up by someone as a word that sounds cool.
The word’s original meaning was an angry policeman, but like many words, the meaning was turned around entirely and now means “everything is OK.” This is probably due entirely to the sound of the word, which has a peaceful, almost whimsical sound to it. It is as though the sound overrode the harsh meaning. There are many such words in English.
Take bunny, for example. Bunny originally meant to kill by ripping the flesh off the body with red-hot pinchers dipped in battery acid. Now, of course, it is just a cute, fluffy rabbit. Another example would be kitten, which originally meant to rub ground glass into the eyes until blind, but now is a little baby cat. Finally, a Marina was once a place where innocent boat owners were driven from their berths out into the cruel, wintery sea by money-grubbing landlords who unnecessarily raised slip rents far above what was fair and sufficiently profitable. Now, Marina means a soft, sexy blonde woman. Go figure.
I’ve read that it’s an Americanism, likely originating between 1915-1920. I heard it used most recently on the television show ‘Mad Men’, which is set in the 1960s.
I really like the word. It sounds more sophisticated than “fine” or “okay”, and is fun to use because it is so rarely uttered these days.
I suppose it may just be a hybrid word, but I’d be interested to know who first coined it.
HotForWords, I am a psychiatrist specializing in eating disorders and cosmetic weight loss. Can you explain the words Bulimia, Anorexia, and Appetite? Thanks, Dr. Dudney in Tampa
Hi ya Marina; You’re stunningly beautiful as always. Since angler is also six letters my best guess is the word TAMPER minus one letter (M) and TAPER is a sort of fisherman. Tampering is illegal and a fisherman with a tapered rod could be considered a Taper Fisherman esp. if he is fishing for tapers. Love your videos. C-Ya
Dear Marina, I am tempted by the verb “Tackle” because of it’s nautical meaning when it is used as a noun ! But how to make a link with this : ” walking with hoses ? ” eh ! Ok that was just a trial !
This is the only other option I thought up yesterday that makes since:
HACKER
I looked up haker, but there is no mention of it as being a type of fisherman (Or even if it is a real word at all). Although there are different types of hake fish.
Oh, another request if the last one is too hard/boring. The word is douche As a Russian you probably wondered already about its relation to the Russian word душ, which is pronounced in the same way but means ’shower’ so its semantic similarity to the English cognate is very high too. But what served as the original source: that would be interesting to know.
OH MY…GOODNESS, MARINA, YOU LITTLE NEW YEAR’S ANGEL/VIXEN!!!!!
I was just going through my email and came to your New Years card.
You are SPECTACULAR!!! What a great surprise! Thank you so much!
Always.
Marina, I have a word request. Actually a morpheme request: the prefix RE- as in rewrite, redo, etc. Is it a gramaticalized form of the preposition OVER? If so, what is the preceding form, a noun maybe? How far ago can you trace it and prove relation to Modern Russian forms, such as CHEREZ, PERE- (через, пере-) if there is any. I think everyone will be interested in how what we think of grammar developes from words and how even such distant languages as English and Russian have so much in common even on the grammatical level.
It kinda cool that Marina is repeating Hotforwords site quotes as I add this paste from WIKI ( Liebling is remembered for many quotes and aphorisms, such as:
“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”
“People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.” ) HotForWords Is our Press and God Bless Marina
Hacking on my cigarette***While I dream of spring hoeing and a hacker of weeds, but, I leave all the flowers grow so much as not to cut any plants out of the picture, I’ll bet if I slaved myself too much, I would legally mulch. They say only one wife at a time and wives are legal. I’m netting with a dip net, for the seine was waited(weighed) with a trollop(slut for money) mind. As I troll; I lure. HACKER and fishing in the dark
My wild guess is WANKER (relation to hoes is metaphorical plus it’s not really illegal unless you do it in public ) > WAKER (as been suggested earlier this word has some distant relation to fishing, as an example a fishing lure can be called fish waker and by metaphorical extension the fisherman using lurers/wakers can be caller a waker too, or the one using a dynamite to wake all the fish from the pond
It is soooooooooo cold.. It was -10 yesterday… That was colder than GREENLAND!! and i’m in the south(warmest part) of the UK!!!
I am going to freeze to death. Thank god the cat is on the bed! I have my legs wrapped round him.. AHH we are keeping each other warm. I AM SO COLD!! :brrrr:
I can’t imagine what that must be like. Here in the hill country of central Texas is the farthest north I’ve ever lived. Experienced countless triple-digit temperatures, but I’d probably break like a glass rod in that cold.
I remember a few years ago when we got triple digit temps… Sweat was going in my eyes and making them sting… It is really cold… But my bedroom is freezing… I think outside is warmer actually… I will have to go outside and check now
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Think warm thoughts…freezing frees bad things, I was told more hacking today is legal, depending for the agency of our insitutional work force and demonicracrasting…keep warm jimmy
The coldest I ever experienced when I was in Greenland was -50.
When you go outside in that temperature, you take just one breath and all the hairs in your nose freeze rigid; it’s a very weird feeling.
Coldest I have been in is -20 I was in an industrial size freezer that held chemicals. Then I went in the fridge.. I swear the fridge was colder though.
‘okroshka’ is also called “jail beer” and most depends on type of molasses (made from region) used with yeasts and the rye grain(LSD)…I personally like ‘malmsey’…. love this HOTforWORDS site, it makes me see the light, right, bright, night of might……….peasepeace(l)
Good Morning, Everyone!
Back from the wilds; catching up on all the HFW-family shennigans.
Just a few thoughts:
Congrats Dear Teach on 150 million-plus.
The SEXY GEEK “contest” is bovine excrement.
Congrats Pedantickarl.
Gorby’s looking great.
Marina’s smile…defies description.
The BCS still blows. Hook-em!
Thanks for all this, Marina. I hope your life is blessed as never before this year.
you have gave to us a
4 clues those are:
>take away one letter of the word, the title is “I’m not one of those” and you said it meant working with hoes and will get a type of a fisherman<
it meant to me if you add “er” with
“a” and working with hoes……..so my answer is
“HACKER”
that’s my sure answer
and thanx 4r the clues
hi I want to ask a question:smile:
why? does here in phillipines
pronounce “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis”
to “pneumonoultramicroscopicvolcanoconiosis” and my question
is if “silico” remove from “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcano-
coniosis” and became “pneumonoultramicroscopicvolcanoconiosis”
is till the same meaning?
Since the silico references the silica dust I would say that no, they aren’t the same meaning. Although since pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a type of pneumoconiosis, you could get away with just saying: pneumoconiosis. Are you saying that in the Philippines they have a version of the word that doesn’t have the silico in it?
no….^_^ i meant
that if pneumonoultramicroscopicvolcanoconiosis
are still the same meaning of pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
if silico removed?
beacused my teacher here phillipines said that
the real word is “pneumonoultramicroscopicvolcanoconiosis”
but she does’nt know the meaning of it so I research that word in the web till…. I found this website but i meant that
if silico removed to “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis”
is till a lung diesis??
but gud reply thank you….^_^ and god bless!!!
Marina’s votes are continuing to gain ground and making an attack on the 2000 votes difference barrier. Please continue to vote. The link is below the video up above.
Hello hs4mm,
If you are using MSIE, I can’t speak to that as I do not use IE, except in very rare cases for well known web site.
For me, the voting works great using the top rated page using either FireFox or SeaMonkey and it works for other people as well.
As a security measure, I clear my cookies and cache very frequently. When the 24 hr period comes around to vote again, the arrows on the voting page are grayed out, which tells me that I can vote again.
If you are using MSIE, or any other browser. try clearing your cookies prior to voting and see if that will work for you.
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If you go here it is MUCH easier to see and use as the frame is busted out so you get them ALL on one page instead of having to scroll through that tedious ‘box’ they have them in ….. you still have multiple pages though so check the bottom for “NEXT” …..
I’m disqualifying myself from winning, but the latest clues seem to be vectoring unto the true answer.
In the context of the hacker guess, did anyone get the allusion to “phishing” and “phishermen”? And, is this another Marina current events vocabulary timeliness? If you read the news about the Twitter phishing this past Saturday, you’ll know what I mean.
Check the forum in the “Geeks, Nerds…” section.
My original guess was so wrong, Marina is going to flog me with a wet noodle.
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Yes I’m going with the “hacker” pack now because it’s really clear now that our very crafty and trusty hotforwords meant “phisher ” man instead of “fisherman”
That was what was tripping me up originally was making a “phisher ” man …..
Hogwash! (word request: Hogwash) You can play! If you win you can pick about anything. Just get an autographed photo or ask for a postcard. Just don’t ask for a new Boeing 777. I don’t think Marina can afford to give one of those out just yet. None of the TA have any inside information to the correct answer. So I see no reason we can’t play.
You can not be flogged with a wet noodle. Google it buddy.
Hello Captain,
I’m not speaking about all the TA’s, but for myself it is about perceptions. True, we don’t have any inside information, but if I did have the correct answer and if I kept winning, it just wouldn’t look proper.
Besides, I have won way too often already and I will bow out so others have a chance. How have I won? Just waking up in the morning and watching Marina’s videos is a big win.
By the way, my guess was Farmer and Farer as in Seafarer who were fishermen. Marina is way too clever, and I’m sure that I am soooo wrong, that I should be beaten with a candy cane. Phew! glad that wet noodle flogging won’t be happening soon.
Don’t always be so sure about your answers. I myself would go head to head with Marina when it comes to nautical etymology. Yet she put me in my place that lesson she did on the radio show with the BJ phrase. I was just blown away when I learned that origin. I even rechecked my sources and still could not find that phrase.
I do disagree (not with Marina) but with the writers of the OED in the work haker fishing. I think there findings are incorrect and needs further research. I’m not sure how to go about this. Nor how to verify my knowledge of the use of haker.
As for winning a prize. I really don’t think it would be fair for me to win for people would suspect I have inside information or I’m making millions of dollars helping out with the site. I don’t received once red cent. I only get an occasional thank you email or sent to the dog house for messing up.
Rethinking about the wet noodle flogging. I’m trying to figure out a way that could be done. I would like to try it in a traditional Myth Busters style.
Marina sure made it easy for us, by giving so many clues!
Even for someone who isn’t a native English speaker…
Here is a revision of the clues:
- 6 letter noun;
_ A _ _ _ _
- it originally meant working with hoes, and was legal;
- today it’s usually illegal;
- by removing the 3rd letter, we get a type of fisherman;
- mustn’t include the letters: O,I,B,Y or any more As;
Notice the two pictures she cleverly provided.
After sleeping on it, and heavy google action in the morning, I found the word. I only regret not being the first to figure it out, but I just had to post me a ticket for Marina’s contest.
Fingers crossed!
Solution: hacker
Extra credit: Victor Faur (or SirVic, believed to be the leader of “WhiteHat Team”, a group that breaks into systems belonging to US institutions, only because they are considered to be the most secure in the world.)
Congratulations to everyone else who guessed it also!
James.. about using music in your videos.. you will end up having to remove them due to copyright violations. You should attempt to not use music you don’t have the rights to and write your own with those loop making programs or get the permission from people on YouTube to use their music.
Just a suggestion as I like your videos and would like to see you become a partner soon
There is feature called AUDIO SWAP in the YouTube account section… there’s a library of songs to preview and choose from… all OK from the copyright holders… it simply replaces your original audio to something different.
Yes if you were using it strictly for educational use. If you want to become a partner you should stay away from anyones work unless you get their permission. Make sure you have documents proving your case. When I worked in college Audio Visual department I was filling out paper work on use use of copyrighted works. Some people were happy that we used their stuff while others wanted to sue the college for even thinking about it.
I would try new upcoming artists for product. Make sure you get some kind of written agreement on how you will use their stuff. Remember the guy who made the Yahoo tune? He later came back and asked Yahoo to pay him something for when they first started out the tune had very little value. Now it’s the heart of Yahoo so they ended up paying the guy thousands.
There is much PD stuff out there to use. Even Moby has some stuff.
The only answer I can come up with is HACKER from someone who hacks at weeds with a hoe. It fits the legal/illegal clue but I think Marina is being pretty sneaky with the fisherman clue – OK, I’ve heard of Crabbers, Shrimpers and Winklers but Hakers for someone who catches Hake after all no-one talks about Codders, Haddockers, Herringers, Mackerellers or Salmoners – do they.
Google certainly can’t hack it for a search for haker, however, the picture Marina used for the fish in the video definitely looks like a Hake or Pacific Whiting.
I looked at YT, but there is no trace of this lesson! It did not appear as a new vid from my subscriptions and listing all of M’s vids did not show it at the beginning. The earliest vid is “1 day ago,” which would be the next to the first if this one is counted. What’s going on?
Hello CK,
What’s going on is a change of titles. Marina has mentioned it in comments before, and I don’t want to misquote her. In my own words, I believe catchy titles elicit interest and create video views. I will clarify as I find the comments in Marina’s own words.
On this HFW site, the title of the video above is called:
“Guess the Word Game XI”. On YT the other day, it was called, something to the effect (going by memory), “I’m not one of those.” Now, the title is; “Being one is cool!”
Marina cracks me up.
Only a few minutes ago, that video was on the Most Viewed Page-1, but I see that it is now no longer there.
Marina has also explained that in the past. It has to do with how long a video is on the top 100. I think it is a 48 hour period. After that, it gets pulled.
Yes, I finally figured it out, too, but when I got back to say nevermind, I found your PhD thesis. Catchy titles, smatchy titles is what I say. I have asked several times that, to prevent confustion, the YT title be the word or phrase of the lesson and not something like “Being one is cool” (which is a bit of meaningless fluff if there ever was any).
If she has the ability to change the titles after the video is up, then it wouldn’t be so bad, I guess. She could start out with “I am lying here nekkid on a bed of hundred dollar bills waiting for you to take me” and then change it to “Asparagus” for the archives.
1) A few hours ago (perhaps around 8 PM California time), the main HFW page looked beautiful — all the components were well proportioned and were in their place. But now, the third column has gone to the bottom of the page; I can’t really tell why, but it might be because the space between the columns has increased and/or because a new font was used in the title for the current lesson toward the top of the third column.
2) Even now, this page looks good — but only if I am not logged in. Once I log in, the right column goes to the bottom of the page; so it could be the “leave a reply text edit box” is too wide.
3) The page for the lesson on the 45 character word has the right column at the bottom even when I am not logged in — perhaps because the long word above the video box makes the comment-column too wide.
These things can drain a lot of time to fix — not sure how important they are; especially since they depend not only on the html related code but also on the browser.
Are you going to guess the word?
Thanx for sharing the vids… the “Beautiful Day” vid had some awsome photos in it.
How about that Canadian junior hockey team, squeak by Russia in an O/T shootout to play for Gold & then winning their 5th gold medal game against Sweden. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfElV5LypDo&feature=related
Wow, teach. This has opened up some very lively debate. I do not have an answer of my own, but I agree with hs4mm that hacker fits all the criteria. I would not even consider it a cheat that “haker” is not listed in your dictionary. M did modify her sentence with “may” and “might.” The modifiers are the keys of those sentences. Methinks hs4mm has gots it.
I may have lost some of my enthusiasm, but I still think “hacker” is the best choice, so far. Perhaps M has one of those twenty pound unabridged dictionaries which lists “haker.”
I believe the word is HACKER. My Babushka was a hacker. (I capitalize Babushka, because that was the name she liked me to use for her.) One of my childhood memories was seeing her hack up the lawn with a hoe, in a futile attempt to rid herself of moles.
If you remove the third letter you get a HAKER. I never heard of someone who fishes for hake being called a HAKER. But that picture in video definitely looks like a Pacific Whiting, also called a Pacific hake.
Since my Babushka wasn’t exactly famous, I’ll just use Stephen Wozniak. He sold phone hacking boxes during his collage years, so I think he qualifies.
On a side note, I just love Gorby’s additions to the lessons. I can’t help but smile every time he “chimes in”.
farmer lol farmer hope thats tha answer if not well not as smart and hot as you are sure wold love one autograph photo of my one and only teacher love and kisses as always Ltcom August Van Suchtelen US Navy Seal doing his best to keep you (this country) and you safe !!!!!
Homework: This was a tough one for me. I searched my books and the internet. Come up with nothing really. Without access to the OED I found the search difficult. Maybe it’s time I should look into it. But I find the OED difficult to read.
I did find Hoe, a Korean style raw fish meal, which I have had before. Very tasty with a little bit of spices. Fresh or flash frozen is the key to good Hoe.
I searched for types of fisherman. Didn’t fine anything that would work in my references. So I strolled through the comments and seen the words ‘Hacker’ and ‘Hake’. I know what a computer hackers is for I have done that (white hat).
Then I saw the name of a fish called Hake. Well there are many types of fisherman. Different techniques for fishing. People who fish for Hakes are NOT called a Haker. Hake is a name. You don’t say Salmoner, or Trouter, or Sharker, etc. It’s improper. So clearly Haker is not a name for someone who fishes for Hake. They are called Hake fisherman. With that said. I think I would go with Hacker for my choice because is sounds like it could be connected with hoe (digging, repetitive task, boring). Hacking a computer can be very boring. Just like hoeing my grandfathers garden. It takes about two days to run a hoe through it.
P.S. Hacking is not illegal unless your hacking a system you do not have permission to use. That said without ethical hackers working to expose unsecured systems we might be worse off from black hat hackers (or more correct wording is “Cracker” Hacker breaking in for financial gain or to cause disruption)
You know, a Cracker was a man that cracked whips at slaves.
Your version of the word suggests that the computer Cracker enclaves systems, but did you think about this when choosing it?
I thought it was funny
I’d like to request a new word. BROAD, used as slang for a women. This quote from Mayer Quimby in The Simpson’s episode ‘Mayored to the Mob’ would be awesome if you included it in the video. “Just remember, you are representing the office of the mayor so I expect you to act accordingly. Now honk at that broad! (quote may not be perfect)”
When you said, “Can you name one”?, you really never specified whether you were referring to the person who works with hoes or the type of fisherman.
The type of fisherman is too challenging for me: could you possibly have been referring to a fishing rod that is PARED down from the size of a regular fishing rod, thus making one a PARED fisherman… Such is the case of famous fisherman inventor Ron Popeil who invented the famous Popeil Pocket Fisherman:
Very keen. Che Volay.
I just now noticed your comment.
At 4:54 am up above, I made a comment related to phishing and the current events of Twitter on Saturday. Very interesting how this all ties together.
Дорогая Марина Орлова, Originally, it wasn’t illegal to use a hoe and hack into the earth to prepare the soil for planting. Later, using a computer and a phone to “hack” into other computers or to the phone system was illegal. If you remove one letter from “hacker”, the “c”, you have “haker”, which may mean someone who fishes for a type of fish called “hake.”
Kevin Mitnick, Steve Wozniack and Tim Berners-Lee are famous hackers. Tim Berners-Lee made up for it by inventing the world-wide web.
When you posted photos of prizes, like the iPod, you included a photo of yourself on which you wrote “Love you John xoxox.” Who is John? I am jealous! The Russian word for “John” is “Ivan.” Well, you know the reason I write you like this is so you will love me more than anyone else! (And no one else writes to you so nicely.)
You look lovely in that black dress, and your dog, Gorby, probebly felt warm next to your dress material. You seemed so happy in this video, by asking a question that you know will cause most of your subscribers to play your game. We all know you will make everything good by giving us the answer in less than two days.
До следующего времени. seesixcm6
You just forgot to “click here to cancel reply” AND you forgot to backspace the character that was left in your original reply to alientruth’s message (a period — see it?).
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There is no “click here to cancel reply” when making a “new” comment and after posting when you try to edit the post, you cannot leave it blank, hence the periods …..
Word Request: Honorificabilitudinitatibus i do not know if you will do this word or not since it is not technically a word in the dictionary and is only used in a few works.
Do hackers work with short skirted hookers who carry around hoes? I can’t seem to wrap my head around this one. I’m goin’ back outside to talk to a snowbank and have a smoke!
A person uses a hoe to hack at weeds or veggies a hacker. Now a hacker would break into computers to do harm or steal software or ideas. Which made it illegal. A Hake is a fish so a fisher of Hakes would be a Haker.
You probably got it! Marina is definitely not a hacker… nor… does she have the time to be a haker!
However, the haker word would sort of imply that if you were fishing for salmon… a salmoner… a halibut… a halibuter… a swordfish… a swordfisher… hmmm???
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Yeah ….. or a shark a sharker or a minnow a minnower or a bass a basser or a perch a percher or a carp a carper or a crappie a crappier or a eel a eeler Hmmmmmmmm …..
I agree with hacker HOWEVER I still firmly believe our dear teacher would NEVER disappoint us and degrade her/our game with the use of a nonexistent word that does not even have a reference to it in the whole wide world like “haker” …..
Pirates love hoes so much they call em wenches. Is it that “pirte” is an early form of the word pirate, thus a letter taken away makes for a fisherman(?) Seems more respectable, then piracy would have been for the freebooters and the rebel rousers.
Rrr! the answer is pirate. Pirates have always been notoriously known for plundering and robbing, freebooters of the high seas. It’s been mentioned in the news a lot lately, illegal pirate activity. Pirating also refers to piracy, illegal taping, copywrite, issues, etc. Do I win a big hug from teacher(?) Oh, Blackbeard was a notorious pirate and he may have had a pegleg. Still researching this out, it’s fun
Everyone on Marina’s utube site are saying pander. Like the rest of us at first we didn’t pay attention about dropping out one of the letters. It’s as all of us have ADD, Another Deep Desire. She even gave us the letter to drop out. We are dumb arses. She left so many clues as the fish the man was holding. But I am like jindai I can’t find the where Haker to mean a fisher of the Hake fish. So I guess we will find out in about a couple days.
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I agree with hacker HOWEVER I also very firmly believe our dear teacher would NEVER disappoint us and degrade her/our game with the use of a non existent word that does not even have a reference to it in the whole wide world like “haker” …..
Hey new member love the show so far and i think you have the most unbealiveable blue eyes. Just thought i would request the word “difribrillator”. it is a device used to resesitate some one having a heart attack just wondering how the came up with the word. I would also like to request ambydextrious. Don’t think i spelled it right but it is when you are to use both your hands equally as good. thanks and keep up the good work!!!
i was gonna say that but last i knew farming was legal and she mentioned it is usually illegal i dunno tho i am going a few ways looking into some things
I’ll throw my answer into the ring, although I admit freely that I am copying hs4mm’s logic. Hacker is the word.
But I do submit that while a hake is a fish, and a person who fishes for such might be called a haker, I can find no reference material to agree that haker is a word. So, if that’s what you’re going with, I call it a cheat.
Oh, and the extra credit…famous hacker Kevin David Mitnick
I’m now more sure than ever that it is hacker. Looking again at the video, the picture of the type of fish shown with the fisherman is available online if you Google image search “Hake.” The exact drawing. “PACIFIC WHITING (HAKE)”
So, I still call Haker a cheat, I’m sure Hacker is the correct word, now.
But you’re right, there are still a lot of parts that are confusing. First of all, when was hacking not illegal? I suppose when the computer revolution first took off and there was no legislation against hacking because it was such a new phenomenon, hacking wasn’t technically illegal, so I suppose I can see how Marina said that. And I also have never heard of the term Haker as a specific kind of fisherman. And most damning of all–the only reason why I think it’s slightly possible you could be wrong–what the hell does hacking have to do with a hoe? I guess I can see it referring to using a hoe in that you use it to “hack” weeds.
You got it right there in the end. From Etymonline: hack (2) c.1700, originally, “person hired to do routine work,” as in farming, based on the year…what else kind of routine work was there in the 1700s? And she did say that it ORIGINALLY meant someone who works with hoes, which was never illegal. And now hacker means one who gains unauthorized access to computer systems, which is illegal.
It’s all a bit sketchy, and as I maintain, Haker ain’t a real word, but that’s my stand, and I’m sticking to it.
Hackers is a term used for those who have been closely associated with the development of the computer, outside of the traditional corporate structure, and the free software movement (Open Source movement). Those that help develop code to improve (or create new) software, and share that code with fellow hackers. Hackers therefore make things. Crackers break things.They are those who get their thrills by cracking software, creating viruses, and destroying things. Unfortunately media often confuse the terms, thus the term hacker, when mentioned in mainstream media, usually refers to crackers!
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I agree with hacker HOWEVER I firmly believe our dear teacher would NEVER disappoint us with the use of a non existent word that does not even have a reference to it in the whole world like “haker” …..
Wow, I haven’t the faintest idea. The only thing I could come up with apart from reading the comments was “mangler,” because you use a hoe to mangle weeds, and if you remove the “m” you get “angler.” That’s incredibly weak, I know. I have no idea why being a “mangler”–which I seriously doubt there are such things–would be illegal now, and I’m assuming Marina put the “take away” message in the third box intentionally. Christ, I feel stupid…
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Haven’t looked at any comments below; here’s my answer:
1) Noun is hacker from to hew.
2) Removing one letter to get a fisherman might be haker since hake is a kind of food-fish related to the Atlantic Cod (I do not eat sea food). BUT: haker is not in the on-line Merriam-Webster dictionary, and googling “define:haker” does not match anything in English.
I think you may have it! Great guess (much better than mine)! I believe the fishing reference may be to the word acker. As I think about it, what criminal would be more offensive to Marina than a hacker? For my homework I would offer Kevin Mitnick as one notorious hacker.
1) one that hacks
2) a person who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity
3) an expert at programming and solving problems with a computer
4) a person who illegally gains access to and sometimes tampers with information in a computer system
hs4mm, your guess seems the best i’ve seen so far. i’d just like to add a few thoughts on the word “acker” how it may be a form of the word “acre”, a person who plows, field worker. a hacker in computer terminology works the “grid” which may also refer to the “matrix”. computer hackers are problem solvers and it wasn’t until the term hacking was associated with hacking into a security system that the word hacker became deemed as something possibly considered illegal.
They hackel flax and hemp when they comb the fibers. Hoeing is whacking when in regards as hacking. Nose fishing. Ditch Witch…hoe, slut..dowser and a new word to me DOWSABEL
. Dowsabel – this is interesting. Perhaps it is a misnomer caused by people thinking that one could use a sweetheart to dowse (or douse) one’s fire; a misnomer because any such attempt can only succeed temporarily with the act actually working to soon rekindle the fire into an even more stronger form!
I’m going to have to say you have the most likely answer I’ve seen. And I have been working at this, asked several people, and all of us came up empty. So you’re answer is the best I’ve seen. It, at least, fits all the clues, with the possible exception of Haker, which, as you noted, doesn’t seem to be a real word, even though a person who might fish for a hake MIGHT be called a haker.
I’m giving it to you, and I hope you’re right. If there was a voting process, I’d vote for Hacker as well.
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If what I have written is correct, and it turns out that haker is not a real word, then this puzzle — which is a good one — can be easily fixed by adding the word might as shown below:
… take away one letter and you [might] get a type of a fisherman.
or:
… take away one letter and you get [what might be] a type of a fisherman.
Either of the above two requires that the player pay full attention to the wording of the puzzle — which is a good thing.
One could also redo the hint by saying that taking away two letters “gives what one can eat” or “gives a type of sea-food”, but this doesn’t seem as good the above two: it makes the puzzle complicated because two letters are being removed.
(Although I have read the responses to my comments, I have still not read any other comment.)
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The hint cannot be ‘fixed’, easily or otherwise ….. it is cast in stone.
I along with others, cannot find any reference to the word “haker” fisherman or otherwise and I for one do not believe our dear teacher would TAINT her/our game with a made up, non existent word which would be a real disappointment to us all.
I’m not registered on YouTube, I watch your videos on this site, so do I need to subscribe to your YouTube channel in order to get the answer for this game, or will you be posting an answer video as you did in the past?
Oh god. I cant take it here. I don’t even want to hang around for comment 69 now… I propose we all go and post on a different video instead where we can talk to each other with out trying to find our comments in loads of comments that just say pander.. Its my fault really… I posted it here in the first place.
Спасибо за рождественскую открытку Вы послали 2 недели назад. Теперь я хотел бы послать Вам желание счастливого Ортодоксального Рождества!!!! Вот слово, большинство английских людей разговора никогда не знало бы, что это прибыло из России. (Кавказец). получение из области Кавказа Южной ведьмы России находится в опустошении прямо сейчас
***WORD REQUEST: CAUCASIAN***
I’m not completely sure this is what “razorstwincam” was requesting, but what do all us white folk (caucasians) have in common with Kartvelebi and Azeris? (I’m not sure I want to be associated with Dzhugashvili! But I don’t mind hanging out with OUR “Koba” )
I dont know where you come up as concluding that caucasian is evil . The word was coined by a German anthropologist name Johann Blumenbach. In witch after a trip to the Caucasus region of Russia in the early 1800’s concluded this as the race of whites. consisting of Aryans ,Semites and so on. Thanks for tipping the hand to the class buddy!!!! Marina have a happy and blessed Orthodox Christmas !!!!!
Sorry, I did not mean that caucasian is evil. The “evil face” refers to Dzhugashvili (Stalin), who rivaled Hitler in the number of Russians, Ukrainians, and Poles he killed.
More explanatory notes:
“Koba” was a nickname both for Stalin and for Marina! The similarity ends there, of course.
“Kartvelebi” is the endonym for “Gruzinski” (”Georgians” in English — the ones in the Caucasus, not in Dixie! ) “Azeris” are the residents of Azerbaijan, to the east of Sakartvelo (Georgia), whose northern border is formed by the Caucasus Mountains.
I hope that placates those who accuse me of posting incomprehensible comments!
To begin with all I did was wish teacher a happy and blessed Orthodox Christmas You do know when that is dont you ? and give her a word for a lesson . Then you jump in and and try to pick a argument with me. You should act your age and not your shoe size.
here is two words for you and i will use them in a sentence. STALLIN if you were standing in front of me I would STALL my size 10.5 boot IN your ass and procede to kick your ass clear across the playground and i dont care if teacher sends me to the principles office !!!!!!!!!!!! Next word Oxycontin your photo looks your high on oxycontin so I guess that makes you a Oxymoron
@razorstwincam:
Re your proposal to fight:
I have a high red belt in Taekwondo, and while I value the training in self-defense, the more important part of TKD training is in respecting others so that one does not HAVE to fight. So I will try again.
I had no intention of insulting you or picking a fight. Apparently I was not clear in my remarks or gave offense without meaning to. Let me clarify.
Yes, I understood your wishing Marina happy Orthodox Christmas, and I wish the same to you as well. As far as “Кавказец” or Caucasian, I agree, these are excellent choices for a lesson. The more students who ask for a word, the more likely Marina is to do a lesson on that word. I asked also, so as to support your request.
Stalin came to my mind because he came from the Caucasus. Of course, many people still have very strong feelings about him, so perhaps it was not a good idea for me to mention him.
I have nothing against Caucasians, the race — I am one, of course — nor against any of the peoples of the Caucasus regions (области if you prefer) or nations. I deeply regret the recent suffering and destruction both in South Ossetia and in Sakartvelo, and wish that all peoples involved — Russians, Ossetians, Abkhazians, and Kartvelebi — could work out their differences without fighting, as no doubt you and I will do.
All that being said, perhaps there is still something else I said that you found offensive. If so, you are welcome to tell me. I would be glad to know more about your heritage, whether you are Russian or of some other national origin.
Harrow once meant raking or tilling and came to mean a form of robbery. If you delete the letter “h” you form the word arrow, an esoteric type of fishing.
Not bad, but if you watch the video, the 3rd letter is the one to be removed to make a type of fisherman. (Unless that’s a red herring, of course.) That would make harrow into harow, which I can’t find a meaning for. This is making me freaking crazy.
Thanks for the note Jindai! I hadn’t noticed the third letter hint (or, I am supposing, that the letters O, I, B, and Y are not in the word). I suspect that hs4mm’s suggestion of “hacker” is spot on. I found this to be a challenging and clever game and your comments made it more fun.
Hey Marina
I’ve had an epiphany!
It’s Pander!
But hey, where did the word epiphany come from? Isn’t that when Jesus is visited by the three wisemen?
Love as always
Maxim
Marina, as a Russian, can you clue me in as to what I said that so deeply offended razorstwincam above? Sure, I’m flippant, but this time I seem to have really hit a nerve. Have I trodden upon some cultural sensitivity?
angler
Hacker would be correct. The most famous hacker I can name is:
Stephen Wozniak: “Woz” is famous for being the “other Steve” of Apple. Wozniak, along with current Apple CEO Steve Jobs, co-founded Apple Computer. He has been awarded with the National Medal of Technology as well as honorary doctorates from Kettering University and Nova Southeastern University. Additionally, Woz was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in September 2000.
new age hacking
weed hacked
concerning my request for Bulima, Anorexia, and Appetite and your reply “those words are too depressing”, It is the time of year that weight issues are foremost in many minds, and sexy/ thin/ models often struggle with these issues. Therefore, I ask you to reconsider and address these words as a socially responsible gift… openly saying and explaining the words, from the mouth of a thin beautiful woman, well, that will help bring awareness to these issues. Thanks ,, Dr. Dudney, Psychiatrist in Tampa
I was just joking about it being depressing. Gastro-intestinal words are right at the top of my list.
BTW, Doctor, howsabout adding your city to your HFW nickname so you don’t have to type it in each time?
1. Click
Dashboardat the top of the page2. Click
Profile3. In
Nicknamere-type your name, a hyphen andTampa4. Click
Update Profile5. From the
Display name publicly asmenu, choose your new nickname with the city in it.6. Click
Update ProfileDr. Dudney, psychiatrist in Tampa, requesting HotForWords comment on Appetite/Bulima/Anorexia, has updated his profile as per request. Thanks, and have a nice thin day.
If the answer is hacker; I think some of the HOTFORWORDS TA’s could stand to reason. The capital of the Republic of Lexicon and the inhabitants of Etymologia; asks for an investigation? Why would computer geeks want to tresspass; are not they our friends?
Of course I’m your friend.
Thank You
My initial guess was something along the lines of _ANGLE.
After reading some of the answers and reasonings here, I will also guess HACKER.
You’re just too clever for us marina
Hacker pretty much describes my Gardening, Golf, Hockey & phishing skill-set.
omg its 7am here i am awake at like… america time……….
I wont be back until sunday (and we like it that way)
TC everyone
I hope to hell its not -X C outside
We Americans use F, which is much warmer.
DUH!!!! I forgot about the clue of the second letter being “a”. Sorry!
To be honest, I have no freaking idea of what that word can be! The only thing I could guess (after moultes réflexions) is that the second letter of this word is an “a”. Yes indeed, I am absolutely positively sure that the second letter is an “a”. I think I also glimmered on a pinko-grey “U” or was it a “V”, on some sort of weird black backgrounded lexical construction. It popped up in my brain, out of nowhere. I don’t know why this happened. Probably some spurius irrelevant neuronal connection that has nothing to do with the word in question.
Is the word “plough”? Remove the “p” to get lough, which is a lake or other type of body of water…lough fisherman? Just a guess and nothing more. A type of plough would be, say, a share plough, or sokha, to name a couple. Can’t fudge the “illegal” bit from all this, however. Thanks for the help with the log in! PS: How about tackling the word “onomatopoeia”?
I think I may have you stumped, Marina. I’ve asked for this word before:
“copacetic”
Any ideas? It’s an interesting word that has fallen out of popular use, and its origins are shrouded in mystery.
Have I stumped you?
Latin; co = together, pac = peace, the suffix etic means of or pertaining to. If that helps any. Just another hybrid word so doubt there is any story to it, but who knows.
There doesn’t seem to be any known origin of the word. It appears to have originated in the United States… perhaps the word cope plays a part.. but that is about all I can find. It was probably just made up by someone as a word that sounds cool.
cop = policeman
acetic = vinegar
The word’s original meaning was an angry policeman, but like many words, the meaning was turned around entirely and now means “everything is OK.” This is probably due entirely to the sound of the word, which has a peaceful, almost whimsical sound to it. It is as though the sound overrode the harsh meaning. There are many such words in English.
Take bunny, for example. Bunny originally meant to kill by ripping the flesh off the body with red-hot pinchers dipped in battery acid. Now, of course, it is just a cute, fluffy rabbit. Another example would be kitten, which originally meant to rub ground glass into the eyes until blind, but now is a little baby cat. Finally, a Marina was once a place where innocent boat owners were driven from their berths out into the cruel, wintery sea by money-grubbing landlords who unnecessarily raised slip rents far above what was fair and sufficiently profitable. Now, Marina means a soft, sexy blonde woman. Go figure.
It’s true, I tell you.
Nice, I like your hybrid definition more, angry cop is way more likely.
David Mamet’s version the origin is my favorite so far though. “”All is well, for the Cop is on the settee”
I believe you or how to bee alive in a thicket of small trees or bushes(coppice)
I’ve read that it’s an Americanism, likely originating between 1915-1920. I heard it used most recently on the television show ‘Mad Men’, which is set in the 1960s.
I really like the word. It sounds more sophisticated than “fine” or “okay”, and is fun to use because it is so rarely uttered these days.
I suppose it may just be a hybrid word, but I’d be interested to know who first coined it.
Thanks, Marina!
I get from creole > coupesetique….capable of being coped with
I never heard that word before.
HotForWords, I am a psychiatrist specializing in eating disorders and cosmetic weight loss. Can you explain the words Bulimia, Anorexia, and Appetite? Thanks, Dr. Dudney in Tampa
Those are so depressing that I don’t think we could stomach them.
Hi ya Marina; You’re stunningly beautiful as always. Since angler is also six letters my best guess is the word TAMPER minus one letter (M) and TAPER is a sort of fisherman. Tampering is illegal and a fisherman with a tapered rod could be considered a Taper Fisherman esp. if he is fishing for tapers. Love your videos. C-Ya
And the hoes?
Yes, to tamper the ground hoeing around the roots.
Gonna go with “hacker”. My example is Wozniak.
Dear Marina, I am tempted by the verb “Tackle” because of it’s nautical meaning when it is used as a noun ! But how to make a link with this : ” walking with hoses ? ” eh ! Ok that was just a trial !
word request: “NOOB“
Noob = Newbie (new·bie) noun. Slang
One that is new to something, especially a novice at using computer technology or the Internet.
Dangler has seven letters, Harlot would work except what type of fisherman. I give up.
This is the only other option I thought up yesterday that makes since:
HACKER
I looked up haker, but there is no mention of it as being a type of fisherman (Or even if it is a real word at all). Although there are different types of hake fish.
I guess hacker makes the most sense but I tried searching for a one letter removed word but couldnt make any good connections.
bizarre
insane
FBI sees serious threats from cyberspace
Oh, another request if the last one is too hard/boring. The word is douche
As a Russian you probably wondered already about its relation to the Russian word душ, which is pronounced in the same way but means ’shower’ so its semantic similarity to the English cognate is very high too. But what served as the original source: that would be interesting to know.
OH MY…GOODNESS, MARINA, YOU LITTLE NEW YEAR’S ANGEL/VIXEN!!!!!
I was just going through my email and came to your New Years card.
You are SPECTACULAR!!! What a great surprise! Thank you so much!
Always.
Actually, the dictionary defines vixen as an ill-tempered, scolding woman instead of a hot-looking babe as commonly thought.
Yeah, but she is pretty foxy!
Marina, I have a word request. Actually a morpheme request: the prefix RE- as in rewrite, redo, etc. Is it a gramaticalized form of the preposition OVER? If so, what is the preceding form, a noun maybe? How far ago can you trace it and prove relation to Modern Russian forms, such as CHEREZ, PERE- (через, пере-) if there is any. I think everyone will be interested in how what we think of grammar developes from words and how even such distant languages as English and Russian have so much in common even on the grammatical level.
It kinda cool that Marina is repeating Hotforwords site quotes as I add this paste from WIKI ( Liebling is remembered for many quotes and aphorisms, such as:
“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”
“People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.” ) HotForWords Is our Press and God Bless Marina
Marina: My guess is Dangler. Someone who offers something. drop a letter and you get angler.
If I win, I would love an autographed photo
Nap time for me Later Marina
ANGLER
Hacking on my cigarette***While I dream of spring hoeing and a hacker of weeds, but, I leave all the flowers grow so much as not to cut any plants out of the picture, I’ll bet if I slaved myself too much, I would legally mulch. They say only one wife at a time and wives are legal. I’m netting with a dip net, for the seine was waited(weighed) with a trollop(slut for money) mind. As I troll; I lure.
HACKER and fishing in the dark
Марина, с Рождеством вас!!!
MARINA HOW DID YOU SURVIVE RUSSIA!!
Such a cuttie as Marina is she probably had no problem whatsoever either in Russia or elsewhere.
She probably blagged her way for some free heaters… then devoured the boiler man
pander
I am going to start playing tomb raider again. I have been stuck on it and gave up… I must complete it !!!
My wild guess is WANKER (relation to hoes is metaphorical
plus it’s not really illegal unless you do it in public 
) > WAKER (as been suggested earlier this word has some distant relation to fishing, as an example a fishing lure can be called fish waker and by metaphorical extension the fisherman using lurers/wakers can be caller a waker too, or the one using a dynamite to wake all the fish from the pond 
It is soooooooooo cold.. It was -10 yesterday… That was colder than GREENLAND!! and i’m in the south(warmest part) of the UK!!!
I am going to freeze to death. Thank god the cat is on the bed! I have my legs wrapped round him.. AHH we are keeping each other warm. I AM SO COLD!! :brrrr:
I can’t imagine what that must be like. Here in the hill country of central Texas is the farthest north I’ve ever lived. Experienced countless triple-digit temperatures, but I’d probably break like a glass rod in that cold.
I remember a few years ago when we got triple digit temps… Sweat was going in my eyes and making them sting… It is really cold… But my bedroom is freezing… I think outside is warmer actually… I will have to go outside and check now
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Think warm thoughts…freezing frees bad things, I was told more hacking today is legal, depending for the agency of our insitutional work force and demonicracrasting…keep warm jimmy
The coldest I ever experienced when I was in Greenland was -50.
When you go outside in that temperature, you take just one breath and all the hairs in your nose freeze rigid; it’s a very weird feeling.
Coldest I have been in is -20 I was in an industrial size freezer that held chemicals. Then I went in the fridge.. I swear the fridge was colder though.
-10 in England??? That’s GOTTA be Celsius. Next you’ll be telling me you’re measuring distance in “clicks” like the Canadians!
GTW Game XI – I’m quite ill right now, so focused thought isn’t coming easily. I’ll take a S.W.A.G. and say HOOKER.
Can’t be HOOKERas there’s no O and the second letter is A. I strongly support the HACKER version and it’s relation to phishing.
Yeah-that’s probably right.
‘okroshka’ is also called “jail beer” and most depends on type of molasses (made from region) used with yeasts and the rye grain(LSD)…I personally like ‘malmsey’…. love this HOTforWORDS site, it makes me see the light, right, bright, night of might……….peasepeace(l)
Leonard, you’re a trip!
Good Morning, Everyone!
Back from the wilds; catching up on all the HFW-family shennigans.
Just a few thoughts:
Congrats Dear Teach on 150 million-plus.
The SEXY GEEK “contest” is bovine excrement.
Congrats Pedantickarl.
Gorby’s looking great.
Marina’s smile…defies description.
The BCS still blows. Hook-em!
Thanks for all this, Marina. I hope your life is blessed as never before this year.
Always.
HEROIN…bird fisher=heron…haue=to scrape(unriped poppies)
A= Sanger
B= anger
C= Marina
D=
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I think the word is hacker
I think it could be WACKER
as in weed wacker and also in fishing they hit fish on the head to kill them….
the word is Hooker Jimj1245
Speaking of Hooker. Have you seen Marina’s videos on that word? That happened to be a game also.
Check out the video hooker game here:
The Hooker Answer video is here.
you have gave to us a
4 clues those are:
>take away one letter of the word, the title is “I’m not one of those” and you said it meant working with hoes and will get a type of a fisherman<
it meant to me if you add “er” with
“a” and working with hoes……..so my answer is
“HACKER”
that’s my sure answer
and thanx 4r the clues
Middle English Dictionary
haker –> hakker(e. hakern –>akorn)
hakker …A hacker, chopper, cutter; also, one who makes the tool called a hak
hi I want to ask a question:smile:
why? does here in phillipines
pronounce “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis”
to “pneumonoultramicroscopicvolcanoconiosis” and my question
is if “silico” remove from “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcano-
coniosis” and became “pneumonoultramicroscopicvolcanoconiosis”
is till the same meaning?
Since the silico references the silica dust I would say that no, they aren’t the same meaning. Although since pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a type of pneumoconiosis, you could get away with just saying: pneumoconiosis. Are you saying that in the Philippines they have a version of the word that doesn’t have the silico in it?
no….^_^ i meant
that if pneumonoultramicroscopicvolcanoconiosis
are still the same meaning of pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
if silico removed?
beacused my teacher here phillipines said that
the real word is “pneumonoultramicroscopicvolcanoconiosis”
but she does’nt know the meaning of it so I research that word in the web till…. I found this website but i meant that
if silico removed to “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis”
is till a lung diesis??
but gud reply thank you….^_^ and god bless!!!
Marina’s votes are continuing to gain ground and making an attack on the 2000 votes difference barrier. Please continue to vote. The link is below the video up above.
Not sure about others, but for me voting from the “top rated” page doesn’t work; voting from the main voting page does work.
Hello hs4mm,
If you are using MSIE, I can’t speak to that as I do not use IE, except in very rare cases for well known web site.
For me, the voting works great using the top rated page using either FireFox or SeaMonkey and it works for other people as well.
As a security measure, I clear my cookies and cache very frequently. When the 24 hr period comes around to vote again, the arrows on the voting page are grayed out, which tells me that I can vote again.
If you are using MSIE, or any other browser. try clearing your cookies prior to voting and see if that will work for you.
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If you go here it is MUCH easier to see and use as the frame is busted out so you get them ALL on one page instead of having to scroll through that tedious ‘box’ they have them in ….. you still have multiple pages though so check the bottom for “NEXT” …..
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WORD REQUEST: accouchement
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WORD REQUEST: acersecomic
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I’m disqualifying myself from winning, but the latest clues seem to be vectoring unto the true answer.
In the context of the hacker guess, did anyone get the allusion to “phishing” and “phishermen”? And, is this another Marina current events vocabulary timeliness? If you read the news about the Twitter phishing this past Saturday, you’ll know what I mean.
Check the forum in the “Geeks, Nerds…” section.
My original guess was so wrong, Marina is going to flog me with a wet noodle.
Yes, Karl Phishe(r)
Just notice you found it
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Yes I’m going with the “hacker” pack now because it’s really clear now that our very crafty and trusty hotforwords meant “phisher ” man instead of “fisherman”
That was what was tripping me up originally was making a “phisher ” man …..
Hogwash! (word request: Hogwash) You can play! If you win you can pick about anything. Just get an autographed photo or ask for a postcard. Just don’t ask for a new Boeing 777. I don’t think Marina can afford to give one of those out just yet.
None of the TA have any inside information to the correct answer. So I see no reason we can’t play. 
You can not be flogged with a wet noodle. Google it buddy.
Hello Captain,
I’m not speaking about all the TA’s, but for myself it is about perceptions. True, we don’t have any inside information, but if I did have the correct answer and if I kept winning, it just wouldn’t look proper.
Besides, I have won way too often already and I will bow out so others have a chance. How have I won? Just waking up in the morning and watching Marina’s videos is a big win.
By the way, my guess was Farmer and Farer as in Seafarer who were fishermen. Marina is way too clever, and I’m sure that I am soooo wrong, that I should be beaten with a candy cane. Phew! glad that wet noodle flogging won’t be happening soon.
I’m just a walking cliche.
Don’t always be so sure about your answers. I myself would go head to head with Marina when it comes to nautical etymology. Yet she put me in my place that lesson she did on the radio show with the BJ phrase. I was just blown away when I learned that origin. I even rechecked my sources and still could not find that phrase.
I do disagree (not with Marina) but with the writers of the OED in the work haker fishing. I think there findings are incorrect and needs further research. I’m not sure how to go about this. Nor how to verify my knowledge of the use of haker.
As for winning a prize. I really don’t think it would be fair for me to win for people would suspect I have inside information or I’m making millions of dollars helping out with the site. I don’t received once red cent. I only get an occasional thank you email or sent to the dog house for messing up.
Rethinking about the wet noodle flogging. I’m trying to figure out a way that could be done. I would like to try it in a traditional Myth Busters style.
gobbledygook
Marina sure made it easy for us, by giving so many clues!
Even for someone who isn’t a native English speaker…
Here is a revision of the clues:
- 6 letter noun;
_ A _ _ _ _
- it originally meant working with hoes, and was legal;
- today it’s usually illegal;
- by removing the 3rd letter, we get a type of fisherman;
- mustn’t include the letters: O,I,B,Y or any more As;
Notice the two pictures she cleverly provided.
After sleeping on it, and heavy google action in the morning, I found the word. I only regret not being the first to figure it out, but I just had to post me a ticket for Marina’s contest.
Fingers crossed!
Solution: hacker
Extra credit: Victor Faur (or SirVic, believed to be the leader of “WhiteHat Team”, a group that breaks into systems belonging to US institutions, only because they are considered to be the most secure in the world.)
Congratulations to everyone else who guessed it also!
its the hoe part that tricked me
hacker …. genius
ITS HACKER I KNOW THIS BECAUSE I COPIED IT FROM EVERYONE ELSE!!!
But if it was hacker
the title is “im not one of those” so really you could say marina is not a pander, not a madame (she is Lady Orlova) and not a hacker..
James.. about using music in your videos.. you will end up having to remove them due to copyright violations. You should attempt to not use music you don’t have the rights to and write your own with those loop making programs or get the permission from people on YouTube to use their music.
Just a suggestion as I like your videos and would like to see you become a partner soon
There is feature called AUDIO SWAP in the YouTube account section… there’s a library of songs to preview and choose from… all OK from the copyright holders… it simply replaces your original audio to something different.
But that would be pointless, then I would have no audio of the vid… Unless you can all lip read
I see what you mean… I was thinking of music only… I forgot about the clips where you want your own words used.
Oh no! I wondered that too. I have permission to use this..
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NU8Oue1cC38
I thought I could get away with it under fair use if it was under 30 seconds.
Thanks though. I am going to look into music that is in the public domain, last thing I want is YT on my back again.
Yes if you were using it strictly for educational use. If you want to become a partner you should stay away from anyones work unless you get their permission. Make sure you have documents proving your case. When I worked in college Audio Visual department I was filling out paper work on use use of copyrighted works. Some people were happy that we used their stuff while others wanted to sue the college for even thinking about it.
I would try new upcoming artists for product. Make sure you get some kind of written agreement on how you will use their stuff. Remember the guy who made the Yahoo tune? He later came back and asked Yahoo to pay him something for when they first started out the tune had very little value. Now it’s the heart of Yahoo so they ended up paying the guy thousands.
There is much PD stuff out there to use. Even Moby has some stuff.
ooops I forgot to give you the link regarding the laws : http://bit.ly/R7co
I like your new dress a lot
I think it’s Hacker, i have no specific reason why i picked this word apart from the fact that Bob and fatbuffalo sound more correct that anyone els.
The only answer I can come up with is HACKER from someone who hacks at weeds with a hoe. It fits the legal/illegal clue but I think Marina is being pretty sneaky with the fisherman clue – OK, I’ve heard of Crabbers, Shrimpers and Winklers but Hakers for someone who catches Hake
after all no-one talks about Codders, Haddockers, Herringers, Mackerellers or Salmoners – do they. 
Google certainly can’t hack it for a search for haker, however, the picture Marina used for the fish in the video definitely looks like a Hake or Pacific Whiting.
Bob, there is another clue to tell you that you most correct.
Look at the title of the YT video.
I’m disqualifying myself, and I guessed something different earlier and I’m sure I’m wrong now.
I looked at YT, but there is no trace of this lesson! It did not appear as a new vid from my subscriptions and listing all of M’s vids did not show it at the beginning. The earliest vid is “1 day ago,” which would be the next to the first if this one is counted. What’s going on?
Hello CK,
What’s going on is a change of titles. Marina has mentioned it in comments before, and I don’t want to misquote her. In my own words, I believe catchy titles elicit interest and create video views. I will clarify as I find the comments in Marina’s own words.
On this HFW site, the title of the video above is called:
“Guess the Word Game XI”. On YT the other day, it was called, something to the effect (going by memory), “I’m not one of those.” Now, the title is; “Being one is cool!”
Marina cracks me up.
Here are the links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9GlTYZ943U
YT HD videos – Page 1 #5
http://www.youtube.com/browse?s=mphd&c=0&l=&b=0
Only a few minutes ago, that video was on the Most Viewed Page-1, but I see that it is now no longer there.
Marina has also explained that in the past. It has to do with how long a video is on the top 100. I think it is a 48 hour period. After that, it gets pulled.
Read this great technical article by Marina on YT views. It is an awesome article.
Yes, I finally figured it out, too, but when I got back to say nevermind, I found your PhD thesis.
Catchy titles, smatchy titles is what I say. I have asked several times that, to prevent confustion, the YT title be the word or phrase of the lesson and not something like “Being one is cool” (which is a bit of meaningless fluff if there ever was any).
If she has the ability to change the titles after the video is up, then it wouldn’t be so bad, I guess. She could start out with “I am lying here nekkid on a bed of hundred dollar bills waiting for you to take me” and then change it to “Asparagus” for the archives.
Also, see me comment above, a hacker can also be a phisherman as in phishing.
ahh , it really is hacker ==
So now i know the word games are this hard
is there another word game in the future ?
Happy birthday fatbuffalo!
I also think that HACHER!
Marina this is hard word to guess.
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Marina said she was going to make it a weekly thing …..
slang maybe ?
oh yeah , today’s my birthday too !!
Happy Birthday FB, have a good one.
I gived vote to you tody!OKEY!
Thank you onlycasperman for your vote.
This word is going to be computer/internet related word, yes
She did not say it was.
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Just some feedback on the layout based on IE6:
1) A few hours ago (perhaps around 8 PM California time), the main HFW page looked beautiful — all the components were well proportioned and were in their place. But now, the third column has gone to the bottom of the page; I can’t really tell why, but it might be because the space between the columns has increased and/or because a new font was used in the title for the current lesson toward the top of the third column.
2) Even now, this page looks good — but only if I am not logged in. Once I log in, the right column goes to the bottom of the page; so it could be the “leave a reply text edit box” is too wide.
3) The page for the lesson on the 45 character word has the right column at the bottom even when I am not logged in — perhaps because the long word above the video box makes the comment-column too wide.
These things can drain a lot of time to fix — not sure how important they are; especially since they depend not only on the html related code but also on the browser.
–Hs4Mm
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I have IE 7, and was getting the same thing until a few minutes ago. Mine is now fixed.
I just saw that the home page is still lopsided. The right column starts at the bottom off the middle column.
Uh, like this:
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I would guess the word is angler and my dad was a great one!
It’s nice to have guess the word game. sweet!
Are you going to guess the word?
Thanx for sharing the vids… the “Beautiful Day” vid had some awsome photos in it.
How about that Canadian junior hockey team, squeak by Russia in an O/T shootout to play for Gold & then winning their 5th gold medal game against Sweden. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfElV5LypDo&feature=related
Yah!… that was a good series.
Wow, teach. This has opened up some very lively debate. I do not have an answer of my own, but I agree with hs4mm that hacker fits all the criteria. I would not even consider it a cheat that “haker” is not listed in your dictionary. M did modify her sentence with “may” and “might.” The modifiers are the keys of those sentences. Methinks hs4mm has gots it.
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There were no “modifiers” “may” and/or “might” …..
Quote:
“Take away one letter from the word and you get a type of a fisherman”
No “modifiers” ….. Marina’s quote here …..
Ooh. mea culpa
I may have lost some of my enthusiasm, but I still think “hacker” is the best choice, so far. Perhaps M has one of those twenty pound unabridged dictionaries which lists “haker.”
What does the “wiener” get? LOL
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darner is someone that “works with hose” (WHAT? you guys MISSED the legs???)
HOWEVER, legal/illegal doesn’t fit and can’t find a reference that “daner” refers to fishing …..
“darne” however is a “thick cut from the middle of a fish” …..
Hmmmmmmmm ….. the quest continues …..
I believe the word is HACKER. My Babushka was a hacker. (I capitalize Babushka, because that was the name she liked me to use for her.) One of my childhood memories was seeing her hack up the lawn with a hoe, in a futile attempt to rid herself of moles.
If you remove the third letter you get a HAKER. I never heard of someone who fishes for hake being called a HAKER. But that picture in video definitely looks like a Pacific Whiting, also called a Pacific hake.
Since my Babushka wasn’t exactly famous, I’ll just use Stephen Wozniak. He sold phone hacking boxes during his collage years, so I think he qualifies.
On a side note, I just love Gorby’s additions to the lessons. I can’t help but smile every time he “chimes in”.
yahman
farmer lol farmer hope thats tha answer if not well not as smart and hot as you are sure wold love one autograph photo of my one and only teacher love and kisses as always Ltcom August Van Suchtelen US Navy Seal doing his best to keep you (this country) and you safe !!!!!
I would like to request the words “someone” and “somebody” and whats the difference in meaning.
Thank You Hot for Words,
Henry V
Homework: This was a tough one for me. I searched my books and the internet. Come up with nothing really. Without access to the OED I found the search difficult. Maybe it’s time I should look into it. But I find the OED difficult to read.
I did find Hoe, a Korean style raw fish meal, which I have had before. Very tasty with a little bit of spices. Fresh or flash frozen is the key to good Hoe.
I searched for types of fisherman. Didn’t fine anything that would work in my references. So I strolled through the comments and seen the words ‘Hacker’ and ‘Hake’. I know what a computer hackers is for I have done that (white hat).
Then I saw the name of a fish called Hake. Well there are many types of fisherman. Different techniques for fishing. People who fish for Hakes are NOT called a Haker. Hake is a name. You don’t say Salmoner, or Trouter, or Sharker, etc. It’s improper. So clearly Haker is not a name for someone who fishes for Hake. They are called Hake fisherman. With that said. I think I would go with Hacker for my choice because is sounds like it could be connected with hoe (digging, repetitive task, boring). Hacking a computer can be very boring. Just like hoeing my grandfathers garden. It takes about two days to run a hoe through it.
P.S. Hacking is not illegal unless your hacking a system you do not have permission to use. That said without ethical hackers working to expose unsecured systems we might be worse off from black hat hackers (or more correct wording is “Cracker” Hacker breaking in for financial gain or to cause disruption)
You know, a Cracker was a man that cracked whips at slaves.
Your version of the word suggests that the computer Cracker enclaves systems, but did you think about this when choosing it?
I thought it was funny
Yes!
I didn’t have to think about it, for I know. 
Read this: http://bit.ly/Z1Z8 
I forgot to thank you for the link
Thanks, Jack!
Sure thing Chem! You just like keeping me on my toes.
Please stop talking about hacking
It’s making me feel on edge. You don’t want me to take your back ground and give it to RRR, do you 
What up with you James? Did I wrong you in some way?
No, but look at all the hacking I have been doing since I was here. Like when me and foxbow went 16 levels deep on the test page. lol
Well I need some comments on my latest vid because I deleted my last one as it was a failiure..
*hint,hint*
Yea I seen that. That was a good hack.
I’m on it! I’ve been helping my friend Kyle out with his YT page. He hopes to hit most viewed in 6 months.
Hit most viewed? Most viewed what?
Most viewed YT. You know what I’m talking about.
oh, thats easy.
hey whats up captain long time huh enjoy the day
Hi Augie.
I’d like to request a new word. BROAD, used as slang for a women. This quote from Mayer Quimby in The Simpson’s episode ‘Mayored to the Mob’ would be awesome if you included it in the video. “Just remember, you are representing the office of the mayor so I expect you to act accordingly. Now honk at that broad! (quote may not be perfect)”
One legend is that broad as slang for woman started with the rat pack.
Hi Marinaaaa! The answer to the 1st GTW Game 2009 is pander:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pander2
Can I name one? Yeah! Elliot Spitzer.
When you said, “Can you name one”?, you really never specified whether you were referring to the person who works with hoes or the type of fisherman.
The type of fisherman is too challenging for me: could you possibly have been referring to a fishing rod that is PARED down from the size of a regular fishing rod, thus making one a PARED fisherman… Such is the case of famous fisherman inventor Ron Popeil who invented the famous Popeil Pocket Fisherman:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xtboh_popeil-pocket-fisherman_ads
Well, that’s it!!!
You have to give me the prize now, baby!! mmmmMMMMWAH!!!
I think the word is
farmer
OK… Here is another try.
Madame…
A type of fisherman would be a Madam X fly fisherman.
And a famous Madame… Polly Adler was a famous NY Madame. This was during the “roaring 20’s” and then in the 30’s.
is the word HACKER Marina? take away the ‘C’ and you get haker. steve wozniak is a hacker
Hi Marina!
I have a word request: Why do people use the term “Blue Blood” when reffering to royalty? What does having blue blood have to do with being royal?
Hope I can get an answer!
Rachel
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Blue blood would refer to the visible blue veins of the normally fair-complexioned aristocrats …..
Phishe(r)
Very keen. Che Volay.
I just now noticed your comment.
At 4:54 am up above, I made a comment related to phishing and the current events of Twitter on Saturday. Very interesting how this all ties together.
It’s either:
1. Farmer (my first choice) or
2. Hacker
There could be other possibilities. I’ll do some more research just in case. Phew!
I want to say farmer. get it, working with hoes (garden tool)
Дорогая Марина Орлова, Originally, it wasn’t illegal to use a hoe and hack into the earth to prepare the soil for planting. Later, using a computer and a phone to “hack” into other computers or to the phone system was illegal. If you remove one letter from “hacker”, the “c”, you have “haker”, which may mean someone who fishes for a type of fish called “hake.”
Kevin Mitnick, Steve Wozniack and Tim Berners-Lee are famous hackers. Tim Berners-Lee made up for it by inventing the world-wide web.
When you posted photos of prizes, like the iPod, you included a photo of yourself on which you wrote “Love you John xoxox.” Who is John? I am jealous! The Russian word for “John” is “Ivan.” Well, you know the reason I write you like this is so you will love me more than anyone else! (And no one else writes to you so nicely.)
You look lovely in that black dress, and your dog, Gorby, probebly felt warm next to your dress material. You seemed so happy in this video, by asking a question that you know will cause most of your subscribers to play your game. We all know you will make everything good by giving us the answer in less than two days.
До следующего времени. seesixcm6
You should do the word madame for a mystery word if im wrong on the answer for your video (im not one of these)
You should tell people about the meaning behind the phrase Graveyard Shift. It’s kinda scary.
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grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ….. I keep trying to make a “new” comment at the top of the page but it comes out here instead ….. WTF???
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR …..
You just forgot to “click here to cancel reply” AND you forgot to backspace the character that was left in your original reply to alientruth’s message (a period — see it?).
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There is no “click here to cancel reply” when making a “new” comment and after posting when you try to edit the post, you cannot leave it blank, hence the periods …..
Word Request: Honorificabilitudinitatibus i do not know if you will do this word or not since it is not technically a word in the dictionary and is only used in a few works.
A word like this might be well suited for when telemarketers call you. “Oh! Thank you for calling… you are… ______________!” Then hang up!
I would say a hacker, take away one letter the c and you have a Haker which is the picture of the fish in the mans hands in the picture.
Extra credit: Dmitri Sklyarov AKA Computer Hacker.
Hey Capman! Hello!
Do hackers work with short skirted hookers who carry around hoes? I can’t seem to wrap my head around this one. I’m goin’ back outside to talk to a snowbank and have a smoke!
A person uses a hoe to hack at weeds or veggies a hacker. Now a hacker would break into computers to do harm or steal software or ideas. Which made it illegal. A Hake is a fish so a fisher of Hakes would be a Haker.
I think you got it. If you look in the picture of the fisherman holding the fish and compare that fish to this picture of a hake, they are identical.
http://www.trawl.org/Art%20Work/hake.gif
You probably got it! Marina is definitely not a hacker… nor… does she have the time to be a haker!
However, the haker word would sort of imply that if you were fishing for salmon… a salmoner… a halibut… a halibuter… a swordfish… a swordfisher… hmmm???
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Yeah ….. or a shark a sharker or a minnow a minnower or a bass a basser or a perch a percher or a carp a carper or a crappie a crappier or a eel a eeler Hmmmmmmmm …..
I agree with hacker HOWEVER I still firmly believe our dear teacher would NEVER disappoint us and degrade her/our game with the use of a nonexistent word that does not even have a reference to it in the whole wide world like “haker” …..
Don’t you agree?
I’m still puzzled by this one… the ‘red herrings’ in this game could be some real doozies!
Pirates love hoes so much they call em wenches. Is it that “pirte” is an early form of the word pirate, thus a letter taken away makes for a fisherman(?) Seems more respectable, then piracy would have been for the freebooters and the rebel rousers.
I went to the YouTube channel for the first time… to read the comments… and I was
shocked 
Then obviously you now know why I prefer here
I only visit her Utoob site to rate her vids from time to time. (5 stars all, of course!)
Did she say hoes, hose, “hos” (whores), or…hooves???
yea hose !!! up your nose with a rubber hose crass boy
Arrrr
I also want a bootleg copy of Dark Knight…
arrrr
yarrrr….
Dear HotForWords,
I think I’ve got this one! Is it a HARLET?
I didn’t find anything about Halet and Fishing, but Chalet and Fishing?
Your Student,
ThoughtOnFire
Extra Credit: Babylon from the Book of Revelations?
Are you working on “the pretty box” (with a border)?
did your test pass?
…reruns ?
Thank you Marina for the friend reply.
Good Job M! Got that problem fixed.
Marina, if you delete the current blockquote CSS and paste in this it will stop the blockquote going behind the gravatar
blockquote{
background: #E8EDF1;
margin: 30px 20px 20px;
padding: 10px 20px 10px 15px;
border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD;
border-right: 1px solid #666666;
border-left: 1px solid #DDDDDD;
border-bottom: 1px solid #666666;
}
Homework: heh heh, Hacker…Hake(r)
Extra credit: Steve Wozniak
Thanks jindai
Everyone on Marina’s utube site are saying pander. Like the rest of us at first we didn’t pay attention about dropping out one of the letters. It’s as all of us have ADD, Another Deep Desire. She even gave us the letter to drop out. We are dumb arses. She left so many clues as the fish the man was holding. But I am like jindai I can’t find the where Haker to mean a fisher of the Hake fish. So I guess we will find out in about a couple days.
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I agree with hacker HOWEVER I also very firmly believe our dear teacher would NEVER disappoint us and degrade her/our game with the use of a non existent word that does not even have a reference to it in the whole wide world like “haker” …..
Don’t you agree?
The word logic employed is the same
as in the example of an eeler,
(one who catches eels)
I notice she picked a fish indigenous
to Pacific waters.
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Sorry ….. notwithstanding the logic, “hake” is not a word, at least not in our universe …..
Any/all references welcomed …..
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CORRECTION to above comment:
“hake” should have been “haker” …..
I agree, Oregon is “out there”
but, it is in the known universe
No mention of “haker” Doug only “hake” ….. you must have missed the correction just above your comment …..
Hey new member love the show so far and i think you have the most unbealiveable blue eyes. Just thought i would request the word “difribrillator”. it is a device used to resesitate some one having a heart attack just wondering how the came up with the word. I would also like to request ambydextrious. Don’t think i spelled it right but it is when you are to use both your hands equally as good. thanks and keep up the good work!!!
I’m a Farmer
Max Yasgur – 1969
Woodstock Music Festival
You Win
God Bless all farmers
I’m clueless
I’m thinking it’s “farmer”
1. Work with hoes (the garden tool)
2. Illegal farming in some cases
3. Take away the “r” you get famer. “Famer” is not in the dictionary, but it could be a type of fisherman?
For extra credit: Daniel Shays; recalling from my U.S. History class last year, I believe he was farmer who led Shay’s rebellion in 1786 to 1787.
I know there are a few bugs to my answer, but who knows
I’ll keep pondering on this…
i was gonna say that but last i knew farming was legal and she mentioned it is usually illegal i dunno tho i am going a few ways looking into some things
I’ll throw my answer into the ring, although I admit freely that I am copying hs4mm’s logic. Hacker is the word.
But I do submit that while a hake is a fish, and a person who fishes for such might be called a haker, I can find no reference material to agree that haker is a word. So, if that’s what you’re going with, I call it a cheat.
Oh, and the extra credit…famous hacker Kevin David Mitnick
I’m now more sure than ever that it is hacker. Looking again at the video, the picture of the type of fish shown with the fisherman is available online if you Google image search “Hake.” The exact drawing. “PACIFIC WHITING (HAKE)”
So, I still call Haker a cheat, I’m sure Hacker is the correct word, now.
Well I’ll be a son of a bitch, the fish in the picture is a hake. This leads me to a sinking suspicion that you might be right, Jindai.
But you’re right, there are still a lot of parts that are confusing. First of all, when was hacking not illegal? I suppose when the computer revolution first took off and there was no legislation against hacking because it was such a new phenomenon, hacking wasn’t technically illegal, so I suppose I can see how Marina said that. And I also have never heard of the term Haker as a specific kind of fisherman. And most damning of all–the only reason why I think it’s slightly possible you could be wrong–what the hell does hacking have to do with a hoe? I guess I can see it referring to using a hoe in that you use it to “hack” weeds.
A tool, as a hoe, used for chopping or breaking up something
You got it right there in the end. From Etymonline: hack (2) c.1700, originally, “person hired to do routine work,” as in farming, based on the year…what else kind of routine work was there in the 1700s? And she did say that it ORIGINALLY meant someone who works with hoes, which was never illegal. And now hacker means one who gains unauthorized access to computer systems, which is illegal.
It’s all a bit sketchy, and as I maintain, Haker ain’t a real word, but that’s my stand, and I’m sticking to it.
btw:
Hackers is a term used for those who have been closely associated with the development of the computer, outside of the traditional corporate structure, and the free software movement (Open Source movement). Those that help develop code to improve (or create new) software, and share that code with fellow hackers. Hackers therefore make things. Crackers break things.They are those who get their thrills by cracking software, creating viruses, and destroying things. Unfortunately media often confuse the terms, thus the term hacker, when mentioned in mainstream media, usually refers to crackers!
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I agree with hacker HOWEVER I firmly believe our dear teacher would NEVER disappoint us with the use of a non existent word that does not even have a reference to it in the whole world like “haker” …..
What do you think?
naughty-fied
So cute!
Hey Marina, have you got shares in a pharmaceutical company
We’re all going to have to take some medication after this brain teaser 
Wow, I haven’t the faintest idea. The only thing I could come up with apart from reading the comments was “mangler,” because you use a hoe to mangle weeds, and if you remove the “m” you get “angler.” That’s incredibly weak, I know. I have no idea why being a “mangler”–which I seriously doubt there are such things–would be illegal now, and I’m assuming Marina put the “take away” message in the third box intentionally. Christ, I feel stupid…
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Did you count the letters in your word “mangler”?
I’m stumped on the fisherman part, and I know it’s NOT harrow or fallow. Hopefully I can think of a better answer by tomorrow.
90th I guessing tackle. My brain hurts
I say it is Wangle change the first letter to an R and you have Rangle .
Extra credit would be Roland Martin.
wangle isn’t illegal and rangle has nothing to do with fishing spelt that way
This is a toughie
I agree
But you have to get rid of a letter, not simply change it to another.
Guys, isn’t “madame” spelt “madam” when referring to a pimp
Kinda knocks the socks off it if that’s true. 
Still trying to figure this one out.
I’m going with “raking”.
My Research
Excellent research, your a VERY good student!
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why would it be illegal?
Thanks Marina for making me you friend again on my channel.
I say it is Wangler change the first letter to an R and you have Rangler .
Extra credit would be Roland Martin.
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ummmm ….. both words are SEVEN letters …..
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legal pimping , 6 words , take out the third letter and it becomes a name for fisherman ==
or is it take out one letter , not necessary third ?
SAY WHAT
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Haven’t looked at any comments below; here’s my answer:
1) Noun is hacker from to hew.
2) Removing one letter to get a fisherman might be haker since hake is a kind of food-fish related to the Atlantic Cod (I do not eat sea food). BUT: haker is not in the on-line Merriam-Webster dictionary, and googling “define:haker” does not match anything in English.
–Hs4Mm
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I think you may have it! Great guess (much better than mine)! I believe the fishing reference may be to the word acker. As I think about it, what criminal would be more offensive to Marina than a hacker? For my homework I would offer Kevin Mitnick as one notorious hacker.
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Thanks, but it wasn’t a guess — I worked at it. Also, I did consider acker and reject it — based on this, acker might mean a farmer!
It is also possible to use hacker in a positive sense — see meaning (3) below from the on-line Merriam-Webster:
–Hs4Mm
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Solid research! Kudos to you!
hs4mm, your guess seems the best i’ve seen so far. i’d just like to add a few thoughts on the word “acker” how it may be a form of the word “acre”, a person who plows, field worker. a hacker in computer terminology works the “grid” which may also refer to the “matrix”. computer hackers are problem solvers and it wasn’t until the term hacking was associated with hacking into a security system that the word hacker became deemed as something possibly considered illegal.
They hackel flax and hemp when they comb the fibers. Hoeing is whacking when in regards as hacking. Nose fishing.
Ditch Witch…hoe, slut..dowser and a new word to me DOWSABEL 
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Dowsabel – this is interesting. Perhaps it is a misnomer caused by people thinking that one could use a sweetheart to dowse (or douse) one’s fire; a misnomer because any such attempt can only succeed temporarily with the act actually working to soon rekindle the fire into an even more stronger form!
–Hs4Mm
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I’m going to have to say you have the most likely answer I’ve seen. And I have been working at this, asked several people, and all of us came up empty. So you’re answer is the best I’ve seen. It, at least, fits all the clues, with the possible exception of Haker, which, as you noted, doesn’t seem to be a real word, even though a person who might fish for a hake MIGHT be called a haker.
I’m giving it to you, and I hope you’re right. If there was a voting process, I’d vote for Hacker as well.
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If what I have written is correct, and it turns out that haker is not a real word, then this puzzle — which is a good one — can be easily fixed by adding the word might as shown below:
or:
Either of the above two requires that the player pay full attention to the wording of the puzzle — which is a good thing.
One could also redo the hint by saying that taking away two letters “gives what one can eat” or “gives a type of sea-food”, but this doesn’t seem as good the above two: it makes the puzzle complicated because two letters are being removed.
(Although I have read the responses to my comments, I have still not read any other comment.)
–Hs4Mm
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The hint cannot be ‘fixed’, easily or otherwise ….. it is cast in stone.
I along with others, cannot find any reference to the word “haker” fisherman or otherwise and I for one do not believe our dear teacher would TAINT her/our game with a made up, non existent word which would be a real disappointment to us all.
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Regarding naming hackers: Even though “hacker” likely came into its present usage after 1960, I would consider the Allied cryptographers who decrypted German messages during World War II to be (good) hackers; see: “Enigma machine” and “How Puzzle Solvers Helped Turn The Tide In World War II”.
–Hs4Mm
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Click to see the quote on the word haker from the unabridged Oxford English Dictonary.
–Hs4Mm
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Hi Marina,
I’m not registered on YouTube, I watch your videos on this site, so do I need to subscribe to your YouTube channel in order to get the answer for this game, or will you be posting an answer video as you did in the past?
The first word that popped into my head wasHarlot, but since one of your clues was that there isn’t an “O” in it.Second thing was Madame
Oh god. I cant take it here. I don’t even want to hang around for comment 69 now… I propose we all go and post on a different video instead where we can talk to each other with out trying to find our comments in loads of comments that just say pander.. Its my fault really… I posted it here in the first place.
ok then… go on
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HOW CAN IT BE HARLOT WHEN O WAS ONE OF THE WRONG LETTERS AND WHAT THE FUCK IS A HALOT!
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Does you mother know you speak that way?
fuck yes/.
Then next question must be, “Does she care?”
Спасибо за рождественскую открытку Вы послали 2 недели назад. Теперь я хотел бы послать Вам желание счастливого Ортодоксального Рождества!!!! Вот слово, большинство английских людей разговора никогда не знало бы, что это прибыло из России. (Кавказец). получение из области Кавказа Южной ведьмы России находится в опустошении прямо сейчас
***WORD REQUEST: CAUCASIAN***
But I don’t mind hanging out with OUR “Koba” 
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I’m not completely sure this is what “razorstwincam” was requesting, but what do all us white folk (caucasians) have in common with Kartvelebi and Azeris? (I’m not sure I want to be associated with Dzhugashvili!
I dont know where you come up as concluding that caucasian is evil . The word was coined by a German anthropologist name Johann Blumenbach. In witch after a trip to the Caucasus region of Russia in the early 1800’s concluded this as the race of whites. consisting of Aryans ,Semites and so on. Thanks for tipping the hand to the class buddy!!!! Marina have a happy and blessed Orthodox Christmas !!!!!
xmas blessings to you every day of the year
Sorry, I did not mean that caucasian is evil. The “evil face” refers to Dzhugashvili (Stalin), who rivaled Hitler in the number of Russians, Ukrainians, and Poles he killed.
I never mentioned Stalin to begin with. You are crass and should learn more about the cyrillic language before you make a comment like that.
More explanatory notes:
“Koba” was a nickname both for Stalin and for Marina! The similarity ends there, of course.
“Kartvelebi” is the endonym for “Gruzinski” (”Georgians” in English — the ones in the Caucasus, not in Dixie!
) “Azeris” are the residents of Azerbaijan, to the east of Sakartvelo (Georgia), whose northern border is formed by the Caucasus Mountains.
I hope that placates those who accuse me of posting incomprehensible comments!
To begin with all I did was wish teacher a happy and blessed Orthodox Christmas You do know when that is dont you ? and give her a word for a lesson . Then you jump in and and try to pick a argument with me. You should act your age and not your shoe size.
here is two words for you and i will use them in a sentence. STALLIN if you were standing in front of me I would STALL my size 10.5 boot IN your ass and procede to kick your ass clear across the playground and i dont care if teacher sends me to the principles office !!!!!!!!!!!! Next word Oxycontin your photo looks your high on oxycontin so I guess that makes you a Oxymoron
Gentlemen, Please.
@razorstwincam:
Re your proposal to fight:
I have a high red belt in Taekwondo, and while I value the training in self-defense, the more important part of TKD training is in respecting others so that one does not HAVE to fight. So I will try again.
I had no intention of insulting you or picking a fight. Apparently I was not clear in my remarks or gave offense without meaning to. Let me clarify.
Yes, I understood your wishing Marina happy Orthodox Christmas, and I wish the same to you as well. As far as “Кавказец” or Caucasian, I agree, these are excellent choices for a lesson. The more students who ask for a word, the more likely Marina is to do a lesson on that word. I asked also, so as to support your request.
Stalin came to my mind because he came from the Caucasus. Of course, many people still have very strong feelings about him, so perhaps it was not a good idea for me to mention him.
I have nothing against Caucasians, the race — I am one, of course — nor against any of the peoples of the Caucasus regions (области if you prefer) or nations. I deeply regret the recent suffering and destruction both in South Ossetia and in Sakartvelo, and wish that all peoples involved — Russians, Ossetians, Abkhazians, and Kartvelebi — could work out their differences without fighting, as no doubt you and I will do.
All that being said, perhaps there is still something else I said that you found offensive. If so, you are welcome to tell me. I would be glad to know more about your heritage, whether you are Russian or of some other national origin.
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Harrow once meant raking or tilling and came to mean a form of robbery. If you delete the letter “h” you form the word arrow, an esoteric type of fishing.
This may be a stretch but that’s my guess. Q
Not bad, but if you watch the video, the 3rd letter is the one to be removed to make a type of fisherman. (Unless that’s a red herring, of course.) That would make harrow into harow, which I can’t find a meaning for. This is making me freaking crazy.
Thanks for the note Jindai! I hadn’t noticed the third letter hint (or, I am supposing, that the letters O, I, B, and Y are not in the word). I suspect that hs4mm’s suggestion of “hacker” is spot on. I found this to be a challenging and clever game and your comments made it more fun.
Dear Marina,
I have thought more about this. My guess is the word harrow.
Cheers, Q
Also, a type of fishing is Zander fishing…
Hey Marina
I’ve had an epiphany!
It’s Pander!
But hey, where did the word epiphany come from? Isn’t that when Jesus is visited by the three wisemen?
Love as always
Maxim
Happy EPIPHANY DAY to all folk lures…love it or love itself
or were there 3 Wise Women
It’s not pander.. Unlesss you can explain what a pader is.
omg that was the only thing that made sence to me XD
what is it then salmon? haha en samon.. sounds like.. salesman? hahah XD
I like your grav… lOl
I have been asking people to post on YT
salman as the answer. (salmon has an o which Marina said wasnt in the word.)
Then people might start posting something different.
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Explain “salman” in regards to “working with hoes/hose” and then explain how you drop a letter to make it one who fishes …..
Marina you need to block Jeelikeyou from posting on YT he has seriously just spammed the comments
I guess he will not win then, right? Plus, in order to win, you have to get the answer correct
Marina, as a Russian, can you clue me in as to what I said that so deeply offended razorstwincam above? Sure, I’m flippant, but this time I seem to have really hit a nerve. Have I trodden upon some cultural sensitivity?
Yea he is annoying but… it does help Marina’s Most Discussed Ranking on YT. Heck I would almost encourage it.
I still t