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Let’s clear up this whole FTW thing!
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hear it goes…
******first to win********* too,to winded
fight the whiteys…that is what my native[indigenous] friend from California, that moved to Wisconsin; said of “FTW”…—…code talkers [indigence] of street intelliGence
…[releif,relief,releaf]
well if anyone has spent time on world of warcraft ….
STFU is Shut the F**K up
Leet is elite as previously posted
pwned on our server always means Punk is owned
Noob is well….newb or newbie ….new guy or new player uncool…
It would like to request the word [impetuous], as in an impetuous wind, or an impetuous army. Be quick! I have sudden tantrums that go hand to hand with violence!
[loose cannon] and [layman]
Hey Marina, as I said on u2be what does “pwned” and “1227 (leet)” mean. Im pretty sure leet is elite and pwned is pounded+owned=pwned
Mountainboys word request of the day [corrupt].
FTW don’t they deliver flowers?
Close…. FTD = Florists’ Transworld Delivery, Inc.,
Congrats on winning the GTW Game Che.
Thk you, finally an academic accomplishment, don’t know what I won though.
FML… Scout, Demi Moore’s daughter found this & mrskutcher tweeted it… Ah twitter, thou do’st distract me so
HI Marina word request [Brilliant] or [Iniquity] Thanks
In fairness to Marina, it must be noted that FTW has had many meanings over the years. The ones I know best are from a time when she was only [a gleam in her Daddy's eyes].
Marina takes the usage of this acronym from the current use employed in Internet chatter. My only qualm is that the data for the origins of the past is out there, and wasn’t researched thoroughly.
For those who have not ever served this country in the military, clearly such a void of information is to be expected.
My service has helped me to understand many things technical, political, etc. that the common citizen will not understand whether by absence of knowledge, or a by a political choice.
Common citizens always look for the easy answer. Always.
An example of this is President Obama’s idea of sacrifice.
He has no clue what real sacrifice is, as he has never had to make any of consequence, himself. He has no skin in the game; the real test will come when the metal meets the meat. Meanwhile, his policies will gut and skin this country of it’s wealth and prosperity and affect every person of every class. The ones who will feel the most betrayed are those who were fool enough to vote for him. As for me?
Those of you who voted for him have already betrayed me; my service to this country; and the future of the World.
So don’t look to me for any sympathy, because you drank the Kool Aid.
One thing it will teach you is to do your own thinking, and trust no politician with “change” as a polical agenda.
YES! YESSSS!! YESSSSSSS WE CAN!!! I am totally convinced we can!!!
Cha Cha Cha for PRESIDENT!!! Cha Cha Cha for PRESIDENT!!! USA!! USA!!!! USA!!!!!!!!
Erm…. Let’s be serious now.. How much you need?
I second that…DOUG the TA…—…bidens his time
Chacha for president 
Send it all. The unused portion will be refunded
Don’t trust Karl Marx philosophy. Obama or Oprah Winfrey Philosophy it’s all the same-thing
And unfortunately these same people after getting screwed
will in 2012 vote for him again
What branch of the military did you serve in?? I guess I have my answer on you being a republican. I also think the Clinton administration demarcate of course is a big reason for the HIV scandal in America. Democrats say they care, but when it comes down to it just like a republican selfish and cares only about its class of people. I do appreciate your thought though in my case the U.S. government needs a way bigger change than Obama in the White House. See Ya Doug I was worried I thought maybe you got a drive bye thrown at you. HA HA just kidding
When I was in the Army, “FTA” was a frequently heard expression. (We all knew it didn’t mean, “Fun, Travel, and Adventure.”)
So many people vote for the politicians who promise them the most “giveaways” like free healthcare for everyone, more foodstamps, more welfare for longer periods, more this and that. So why work when it’s given to you for free? Let the suckers who work and produce and pay their taxes pay for it!
I doubt if any politician who runs on good policies can beat the ones who promise to “share the wealth”, i.e. “provide more giveaways.”
Hey Doug: Push for Marina to do “4Fs”
…Pat Riot…
schools know how inflation prints their(tears) cash flow 
USA-asu
DOTA FTW!
Some slang?
ffs, gtfo, ttys, wtf, gg, brb, bbl, idc and there’s plenty more.
I think GTFO in particular is interesting, but I dunno if you want to “drop the F-bomb”.
Wait, F-bomb…? You wanna make a video of that?
Sorry, I was AFK and my IWD
(AFK = away from keyboard)
(IWD = internet went down)
Word request [ Lasagna ], the Italian pasta dish. Heard the Greek root is interesting.
Not many people ar talking here! I have been gone about an hour and still there are no extra threads… Come on people ! Quit with all this antisocial rubbish!
BTW I did rate your video, when I rated it had zero stars now it shows 3 rates but only 2 are displayed.
I always thought it was a snafu of
WTF
Marina FTW, for the Sexy Geek Win, that is.
Please continue to vote for Marina here
http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top
1157 more votes to go to win the combined votes.
I have to admit I have heard both For the Win and F### The World. Has any one ever heard of F.I.D.O.
F### It Drive On. Usually said when you have just said or done something embarrassingly bad or wrong but don’t want to let it stop you from reaching your conclusion. I have never heard it said outside of the group of people I work with.
BTW the ending of the Video, WOW thanks a whole bunch.
Marina, I’ve been extending my vocabulary, but I cannot find the etymology of these new words:
[Foreploy] & [Cashtration]
Foreploy (n.)
Any misrepresentation or outright lie about yourself that leads to sex.
Cashtration (n.)
Reduction in cashflow suffered by persons caught using foreploy.
I like the cashtration….. maybe I can add it to my “Nerd Word of the Day” that I am starting. Can we change the meaning of cashtration to perhaps have something to do with the economy.. such as “The loss of so much cash flow that one cannot afford to date anymore.”?
Something like that?
That’s what I thought it meant in the first place!
[figs] or mulberries….[silk]..Dates are good food for the soul. Prunes help the tees branch. Good Morning–Miss HotForWords
“Cashtration” – fantastic term! And so timely.
Now the jokes expired, sure
The Urban Dictionary definition is :-
“The act of buying a house, car, getting married, or having kids, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.”
I like your interpretation, considering the financial climate. similarly, some men – armed with their flexible friend (credit card) – are known to become cashtrated after impressing women accustomed to an expensive life style.
I should have a new video by now! I have a reason! I stayed round my friends house on friday and we didnt sleep until 4 am… Then yesterday I fell asleep at six o clock until my mum woke me up at midnight…. I watched a bit of tv then fell asleep again… So I have had about 16 hours sleep… Guess thats one way to cut down on the cigs…. I must have been really tired because I very rarely sleep before 9… Or the day…
Also Marina, the recent comments are going off the page… If yo want me for some css stuff let me know
I’m trying to figure it out right now but with no success. Arrgg!
I got it James.. added in a overflow: hidden; dealio
Good stuff, But what about twitter? Where has it gone?!
Are you blind? You don’t see the big twitter box? Is it not there for pc users or something?
I was the first one to comment about the new Twitter widget here:
For James, here is what it looks like:
http://i41.tinypic.com/ndpsep.jpg
I can’t see anything at all, there is just a black place now where twitter used to be…
It is my adblocker….. But, Even though I have now disabled it on hfw there is still a box there. Maybe is disabling it because it is an ad that is not from this site.
James, it is a Flash widget. You may need to upgrade your Flash plugin.
Regarding 57.2.1.1.1: I actually “saw” it being installed. Around 11:30 PM, the widget was installed but it was located in a strange way in the third column. A little while later, I refreshed the screen and saw the third column in more or less the presesnt form.
Requires Flash 9
In the days before the recent Valentine’s day show, while you were experimenting with “heavy-load-mode” you had turned on a scroll bar for the “Recent Comments” section. Can this be brought back so that one can go further back in history?
Marina, where is the twitter bar?
lol
pmsl
wtf
Now I know why you usually wear your hair down. It looks like you could easily hurt yourself letting it down that way. I don’t think they design bras to withstand that kind of stress. However, that should in no way be seen as a complaint. Stay safe.
***Gwyl Ddewi Sant hapus ichi’n bawb!***
(Happy St. David’s Day to you all!)
Whoa, thanks for reminding me how you keep us students overstimulated, Lady Marina!
I’m thinking we should go retro here at HFW University and reintroduce spankings — for both good and bad pupils alike. 
Oh yeah, thanks to TA Melikadothechacha for the original meaning of FTW, something told me the teacher was off about this one (I just couldn’t think of where “FTW” came from). Of course Lady M still has my upmost respect and admiration — no can be perfect ALL THE TIME.
I would like to make my first word request: [fiend]
And could somebody PLEASE tell me how to change my picture ID?
big ed, simply go to Gravatar and signup with your e-Mail address used here, upload a picture and your image will begin to show here.
Spanking eh?
Nah.. I say let’s put BIG Ed at the front of the class right next to the teacher. His mere presence will impose itself as the quintessential embodiment of authority. I can almost imagine BIG Ed’s impressive silhouette supervising the teacher’s bed, one feet on the ground and the other one on the bed, in a martial, statuesque, conquering posture.
Good Night guys
I would like to request the word [niggardly]
[churl]….CEORL…stingy
cheap brains..ON-{hnoggr}!*!*!*!*!..yes, yes..A white country origin 
Marina, I want to make sure I understand. First, you replay a video in which you state the word “pussy” twice with a smile on your face. (There might be those who would debate you said it more because of the word “pusillanimous”. I will not be that picky.)
Then you give us the greatest 5 seconds of video in HFW history by letting your hair down and shaking your, umm …self.
I think you might be setting the bar too high for the next video.
I’ll be waiting with a smile on my face.
FYI, This lesson has not shown up in my YT Subscriptions as of 9:54 PST.
…but other subs have.
WTFH
Hey PageDoll, is there a possibility that you could have clicked on the video above prior to going to your YT account? If you watch the video, or started to, the video will be removed from your YT subscription box.
Interestingly, the FTW video is in my subscription box, even though I did watch the video here. Reason for the FTW still being in my subscription box, even after watching it here, is due to me deleting my cookies. Here is a screen shot I took a few minutes ago. http://i41.tinypic.com/m8l3y9.jpg
Ayatollah Khomeini issued a ["fatwah"] against author Salman Rushdie for his book, The Satanic Verses, for its supposed disrespect toward Islam.
Kangaroo words
“Kangaroo words carry a little joey — a smaller version of themselves within their spellings:
respite: rest
matches: mates
What are the joey words in these kangaroo words?
curtail:
regulates:
splotch:
deceased: ”
– from Anu Garg’s The Dord, The Diglot, and an Avocado or Two
curtail-cut
regulates-rule
splotch-spot
deceased-dead
What is the origin of the word [apprentice]?
Thank you.
-hakhey123
***Homework***
[LMAO] [ROTF] (often used in combination)
GMAFB, Marina!
No, I’m not disrespecting the teacher. I’m just doing my homework.
I think the origin of “ROFL Copter” would be interesting to research…. since it makes no sense at all
If a “word” makes it to a T-Shirt, it is widely used (at least among some circles!):
Rolling On the Floor Laughing — rolling like the blades of a (heli)Copter
One would think LAMO means “totally lame”; but click to see what it means on the internet.
PEBKAC = Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair.
Hello ibm6789,
Although Marina has not specifically done the origin of the word, Marina did include a reference to it in the SOS Game Answer video located here.
I gave several references to ROFLCOPTER in my comment located here.
One of the references was a Flash Game of ROFLCOPTER, whose link is no longer active. You can search Google for ROFLCOPTER games.
What is the origin of [clout] ? In reference to when someone says “he/she has clout”
lol
nvm
ttyl
\Y/
tyvm
fu
adidas
Marina, for the last part of your video, or what i like to call it, your signature, this one really turned me on, the whole let the hair down and give your head a shake got me hot like hot hot wow yeah yeah baby yeah. (middle finger and index finger together with thumb up in the shape of a gun and sounding like a gun while pointing at you and giving my wrist one flick while pulling the trigger and saying “poof” hot!) U rock Girl, Peace.
Is it me… that preview pic, whoa… lookin’ buff. Shoulders & arms pumped, you on performance enhancing frosted flakes or something?
HAHA!!!
I ALWAYS THOUGHT FTW ABBREVIATED “F?** THE WORLD.” THAT’S FUNNY! I HAVE ONE FOR YOU SINCE YOUR SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO INTELLIGENT… WHAT IS THE ORIGINS OF THE WORD PEON COME FROM OR IS IT JUST A “US NEW WORLD DEVELOPED IMPLICATION?” KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK BEAUTIFUL!
Please push the
Caps Lockkey on your keyboard. The lower case is really distracting.(Do you think I fooled him?
)
ITS WAS INTENDED FOR OLD FOLKS SUCH AS YOURSELF SO, YOU MAYBE ABLE TO READ IT!!! LOL!!!!!!
We “old people” are smart enough to have at least four different magnifying glasses next to the computer. Don’t worry about us.
LOL! DON’T
GET UPSET IM DOING YOU A FAVOR…GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!
SACRAMENTO MUST BE BLESS TO ACCOMPANY YOUR PRESENCE.
It’s the other way around, I think.
Gorby: “Huh?”
Dear Paradisexcali,
What you are saying is quite eloquent, impressively intelligent and logically structured. Let me guess. You’re a Harvard alumni, aren’t you?
lol! thanks for your encouragement but, I’m just a junior college student that wants to transfer to a Catholic University… lol! but i tend to have more logic then folks at times…. lol!!! if you could only imagine!!!
How about the reverse, WTF.
Please read below for seemingly endless discussion on the various permutations of this tri-group.
Thanks, Marina. Knew the F### the World bit, but not this.
Not to be too personal, but are those clear plastic bra straps? If so, that’s new to me. No pruient intent, just curious.
Always.
No, those are scars from the years of her flesh bearing up to the terrible, terrible strain.
The clear bra straps are what you wear when you don’t want the straps showing. Though they tend to show when I record.
That’s what I assumed. You probably think it odd, but I’d never seen that. Thanks for the info on foundations.
Always.
And at the risk of sounding like a broken record, you are exceedingly gorgeous in this lesson!
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, you are exceedingly gorgeous in this lesson!
{cut and paste!}
And at the sisk of rounding like roken brecord, you are gorgeousingly exceed-ilicious in all your lessons.
MAYBE SOMETIME YOU COULD STIMULATE SOMEONES MIND WITHOUT IT…;)
How profound.
YOU PERV!!!!
Why are you even here?
I MAYBE FOR THE SAME REASONS YOU ARE…? TO EDUCATE MYSELF AND BECOME AMUSED…!! LOL! OH AND TO MARRY MARINA!!!! LOL!
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, you are exceedingly gorgeous in this lesson!
How about [TWIRP] ? I’ve heard that was an acronym for “The Woman Is Requested (to) Pay.”
Love it when Marina lets her hair down
Marina, when I suggested the word [wobble] for one of your videos yesterday, I didn’t actually expect you to do it quite so, uhh… literally.
Welcome back Che!
We were getting ready to send out a search party. 
Got any new tattoos? 
Is anything blue? 
Did you CURA winner? 
Yea, I guess I missed my own party, still have no audio so have not listen to any lessons.
Will log off now and reboot to trick audio to come back on.
Uh, make sure the little thingy that goes to the speakers is plugged into the little thingy that has sound coming out of it (the green one, sometime it has a picture of a headphone.) If you plug the speaker thingy into the mic thingy (the pink one), things won’t work. If I sound like like I am extremely knowledgeable in this subject matter, it is because… uh… well, I kinda learned that one the hard way.
It happens every so often, not sure why.
Lady M lets her hair down for the win!
…and shakes her, uh… ummm… gollywobblers.
For most of the video, it looks like a braided bunch of hair has been pinned up on your right side. But at the end, you easily (attractively) unravel your hair — the braid was an illusion — it is like magic!
(Were Penn and Teller ever on Hollywood squares?)
I think they were on the Tom Bergeron version (1998-2004), and possibly on the John Davidson version (1986-1989).
Thanks; found a transcript http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Set/9859/hollywood.html
You’re welcome. Glad I could help.
Having a tough time logging in.
I’m back but having problems downloading a new flash player.
Virus/spyware knocked out two computers in household.
Had to send the CPU out to be cleaned up.
A little 409 and a Brillow pad will do wonders.
Did you ever try Superantispyware?
No computer crash before I had a chance, the tech loaded me up with stuff… still exploring with new software.
WHOA !!
Wrong!
Super-mega-WRONGO!
Uh uh, that sh*t don’t flush
As Muggins states, FTW means F*ck the World and has been in use by military personnel since the 60’s, maybe even earlier.
I had that one on my hardcover, in Germany, during the Cold War.
As word origins go, you missed on this one, BIG time!
The attempt here to PC it up and attribute the origin to others (Penn and Teller???) is soooo lame!!!!!!!
WTF! (Wait ‘Til Friday, perhaps?) I don’t think so….
Where did you go to research this? Wikipedia?
And by the way, a fatwah is an edict or decree, in Islam.
Just got your msg. I’m back barely.
Perhaps FTW is two different abbreviations with two different meanings. The context to which Lady M refered seems to express “for the win.” In this context, the Lady’s research seems valid.
I do agree that the Teach could have mentioned that this abbreviation has alternative interpretations, perhaps older and more widely used. I still give her five stars!
Plus, dude! Did you see that thing she did with her hair. That’s gotta be worth somethin’ to ya.
MeLikaDoTheChaCha, show me a credible source for FTW meaning “F.. the world”. I am not aware of that abbreviation. I’ve heard of SNAFU.. but not FTW.
The first time I heard it was ‘68 when it meant F*ck The War. While I was in the military, war changed to world. It’s old skool military lingo. Another one was WETSU, which was an Airborne Ranger jump call, meaning We Eat This Sh*t Up. I may not be able to find the credible source you request, but I’ll see what I can do to find you one.
Are there any other Vets out there who can back me up on this?
MeLikaDoTheChaCha no disrespect you being a vet and all but you got to know most military lingo never makes it into civilian lingo thus not into the books. just saying
I BELIEVE THAT IF THE MILITARY COULD DEVELOP HELL ANGELS FOR AIR CARRIERS “FTW” IS MINOR IN COMPARISON….
First of all, I would take Chacha’s oral history as a ‘credible source,’ though, as with all historical sources, further corroboration would be beneficial. In my short, four year stint in the Navy, I do not remember FTW. I do, however, remember FTN (FTNavy.) A couple guys even got FTN tattooes. I do have several old school military friends, and I will inquire if any of them recollect FTW.
I operate primarily on written examples of something, as it’s the only way that I can verify something. I ran into the same issue with Drink the Kool-Aid with some people writing to me, saying that they used the expression prior to the Jonestown Massacre, yet there is no written example of the use prior to that. I believe you in that you used the expression, but there is no example of it existing anywhere in written literature that I can find, so I didn’t mention it.
I never heard a single negative aspect of drinking Kool-Aid before Jonestown in print, broadcast, movies or whatever. And that’s over a period of fifty years. These people are just pesky troublemakers.
Unlike us.
I never heard it in the four years I was in USAF. SNAFU, FUBAR, FIGMO, but no FTW.
Do you remember the TS card?
Hey ChaCha, sorry mein Freund, I was in the military and I never heard of FTW. We hardly ever used any acronyms at all except two; FUBAR and SNAFU. FTW may have been localized to some military theaters, regions, or other areas. I was all over the Pacific.
In terms of recent modern usage on the Internet, the origin Marina presented is credible. Even though it may be true that there was / is a prior use of the FTW acronym, there seems to be no connection to it except coincidental.
The use of F.T.W meaning “Fuck The World” was also a single record from the Norwegian band Turbonegro in 2003, much later than Hollywood Squares.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck_the_World_(F.T.W.)
As an ancillary side note, it seems that there are many words, phrases, prefixes and so on that have different sources of origins, but later through time seem to appear to melt into one idea. Two that come to mind is the prefix “para” and the recent “Pusillanimous”.
Also, ChaCha, check out the Urban dictionary.
There are 14 pages for FTW, and no mention of military references. Biker references, and Free The Wales, First The Victory, Fort Worth Texas, are other meanings.
You would think that a military reference would have been entered by now. Here’s your chance to be “First To Write it in.”
Oh, damn. All these years, I thought FTW meant fuck the world. I think miscommunication happens a lot. In my case, probably more than average.
I don’t know what Marina is smoking ….
LOL! HE FORGOT WHAT HE TRIED TO PASS HER!!! LMAO!!!!
Hey ChaCha, mein Freund, check out my comment right above.
lol! thats laying down the law!!! lol!
In my initial response, it looks like I’m yelling or something, but it was just that I forgot to put a backslash in my html bold tag, and made everything after that bold, too. I’m glad that somebody else remembers the same meaning I remember. I don’t remember it from the military. Obviously, FTW has more than one meaning.
[ROFL]
oh yeah , what about [ROFL chopper] ? Don’t really know who started it , last I heard it was a machinima video (Arby n the Chief)
Hi fatbuffalo, check out my answer on page 2 where someone else asked about ROFLCOPTER.
Dota’s pretty boring for me , anyone play Left4Dead ?
[WTF !! OMFG n00b haxx0r !! OWNING !!!]
Pick any word you like , my brain can summon these few words for now , just woke up ==
FTW was a slang expression in use long before the internet, beginning with a four-letter word, …. the world. Nice to see the computer age has brought a little class into it.
I really agree with “Fut The Wuk” you are talkin’ about.
What about meow meow, tweet tweet or woof woof? Are these abbreviations too?
What would they stand for? No, they are just approximate spellings of the sounds.
It would be interesting to find out how other languages spell these sounds. One would think all cultures would come out with the same sound (no matter how they spell it), because, after all, animals have but one sound per species. Hey, look at this!
Funny one CampKohler.
wOW!! IM IMPRESSED YOU FOUND THE UNITY OF HUMANITY… NOW WHY DOES OUR US GOVERNMENT ALWAYS ALTER WORDS? CONFLICTING WITH DIALECTS, CULTURE, AND CONTRIBUTING TO GLOBALIZATION…??? HMMMMMMMMMMMM…….
Talk to Leonard. He knows.
I think the most impressive part of this lesson is the wobbling and shaking in the end. It literally commands our attention, if not our obedience.
First link doesn’t work. Click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsubvaIj2Cg
Mountainboys word request of the day [perverted].
ABC-123… I’ve seen this one and I still can’t figure it out. It is something that has boggled my mind for the last… WKHL.
To what do you refer to, ABC-123 or WKHL? The latter callsign is an obvious fake, because it is a known fact that nobody in Indiana has an FM radio. A young Hoosier, as a right of passage, will build an AM-only crystal set using a Quaker Oats oatmeal box for the form to wind the tuning inductor. If his work meets muster with a panel of wizened experts, he will use it exclusively for radio reception until his death. Any outsider bringing any other kind of receiver into the state is summarily condemned and buried up to his neck (to form a good ground) in the yard of a Hoosier who is getting poor reception due to the nature of local soil conditions. Be warned: these people are purists and will not tolerate heathen sets!
It’s true, I tell you.
I do believe that this hotdog, bow-tie President is just being facetious about the 123-ABC thing. That WKHL is an acronym for “who knows how long?”.
WCKT? (Who could know that?)
OTIK! (Only the insiders know!)
Penn and Teller for the win…
Dear Marina, I’ve used the Internet for many years, so I know some Internet slang and text messaging slang are the same.
^5 means “High Five.”
LYSM means “Love You So Much.”
ISLY means “I still love you.”
XOXOX means “Hugs and kisses.”
831 is “I Love You” (Eight letters, three words, one meaning).
(Marina, you may send these slang terms to me, anytime.)
831, Seesixcm6
DCOI = Don’t count on it
For the homework, I just googled “internet slang” and “internet acronyms” and came up with lots of hits.
HFWFTW
HotForWordsForTheWin
Woot!
w00t
Internet slang? How about [fnord]?
???????[medifaction??????] The word you use to describe DotA . I have never heard this word.
Marina, all over the internet, as well as the last Administration of the Presidency of the United States, I have seen, listened to, or read comments by people who I later declared to be [charlatan]s. I’m just curious, where does the word [charlatan] originate from?
The Last Administration pretended to be dumb. Charlatans pretend to be not dumb.
Watching a movie trailer here in class was pretty cool.
If you can do it,you should have movie trailers all the time. It makes for a fun little break while reading comments.
…and now its been replaced by the “1 rule” ad.
Hey PD,
So you are saying the video is only part of the training then?
Marina,
……Well this is going to be a learning lesson for me;…(I will read the comments as most here are more willing to show off their intell. than providing wou lessons words) I don’t know any abbreviations that you probably don’t already know.
brb
gtb
afk
kiss or kis (too keep it non offensive)
In my view, none of the abbreviations mentioned on the internet would make for a decent lesson. Not even FTW, but Marina pulled it off. I don’t know how she does that, but I guess that knowing what an abbreviation means, and knowing it’s origins, are two totally different things.
Now, anyone for DotA?
“fatwah”?
Dude, it’s FTW, how do you read it like that?
I say it like: FeTeVe
I know it’s wrong, as the letter is actually W, but at least it sounds more like FTW, than “fatwah” does!
Wouldn’t it be Ef Te Double U?
No wait, you don’t actually read “w” as Double U, in a word!
But that is funny!
Well you do in acronyms, not words. FTW is an acronym
ac·ro·nym (kr-nm) n.
A word formed from the initial letters of a name
So it is a word!
By the way, your gravatar is awesome-cute!
Who does it represent?
Chemikal, I don’t think you can take take an acronym and pronounce it like a word, not really. FTW is a perfect example of this. It’d be fitwe. Well known acronyms like CBS, BBC, ABC and the like are all the letter sounds, why on earth would you want to pronounce them as words?
Further investigation is needed
Just a wee friendly face, looks nothing like me
Glad you like it though
Uh, uh… cool,
then I’m waiting for you to reply to this thread : http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/show-your-face
Some further investigation for amnoaweegie and others:
You can pronounce any combination of letters if you try hard enough, even XRWOJSXC. But let’s face it, the average person would pronounce it uh, unpronounceable. Same with FTW. So it is not an acronynm, but an initialism.
Ed Zackly! Have you ever heard of “speeka”? No, but you know what ess pee cee aay is, don’t you?
Only letter groups that are ordinarily pronounceable are acronyms. An example is NATO. Most people would not say “N, A, T, O;” they would say “nay – toe.” Thus it is an acronym. PETA, but not PTA. Even HMMWV*, which looks to be just an initialism, is, by common, practice an acronym. (I’ll bet you have never heard it spelled out in your life. Not even once!) Chemikal: You said “A word formed from….” That’s my point. Just any collection of letters is not a word. If it is commonly pronounced instead of spelled, it’s a word.
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*BTW, what military contractor in its right mind would ever name their vehicle a “Low-Mobility Vehicle.”
I think it should sound like “eftew”… that’s funny, because that’s sounding like a phlegm noise.
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Marina,
DO NOT PRONOUNCE F-T-W AS A WORD IN PUBLIC PLACES — it might be mistaken for certain evil pronouncements such as Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1989 pronouncement of a death sentence on Salman Rushdie for having written a book (The Satanic Verses).
–Hs4Mm
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PS: For many people, the sound made by the word form of F-T-W is synonymous with the pronouncement mentioned above.
Marina, I just assumed you were pronouncing F-T-W correctly and did not think about it. Now that I think about it, there could be other ways to pronounce F-T-W that result in a sound that is distinctly different from the sound that should be avoided.
(By the way, I doubt it but if someone talked you into pronouncing F-T-W the way you do in the video, I would double-check their intentions — they might not be your friends.)
So, higher learning education, e.g. Harvard, Oxford and what are “[DOCTRINALLY]” classed doctors[dr]
of Institutions, ect……are based from their Mohammedan brothers.
My smattering of knowledge of history: A long time ago, for quite some time, the Muslims were the most advanced civilization: they had discovered Aristotle and had made significant advances in fields such as Astronomy and Mathematics (e.g., we use Arabic numerals today (except that 0 came from India), Al-Khwarizmi invented Algebra). But soon, they started emphasizing religion, and this led to their collapse into a primitive civilization (which they are to this day). Some of their books were saved from destruction (e.g., burning of libraries) and found their way into Europe. Europeans used these books to discover Aristotle which led them to start to flourish and eventually end up with the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution.
right on…write on —too, with tools and horses to plow the ground
I think abbreviations are pants. You never really know what they really mean.
A fatwa is not necessarily an evil pronouncement. Generally, a fatwa is an opinion of an Islamic scholar whether a behavior is allowed or forbidden under Islamic law. Most fatwas deal with things like dress code, rules for the Ramadan, how to pilgrimage corectly to Makkah, etc. I would say that an islamic fatwa is similar to the pastoral letters in some Christian churches. In Sunni Islam, a fatwa is definitely not more than that – it’s simply a recommendation for good behavior for the followers of that religion.
The Wikipedia article you’ve mentioned addresses mainly some of the extremest fatwas that are AFAICS
not representative for fatwas in general.
the way Marina pronounced it , it sounded like an Arab word . fatwah
I don’t get it. Marina is usually quite competent at word origins and philology. She fell all over herself getting this wrong. Hope she does some real research and issues a retraction!
hehe.. I [pwn] any [noob] on DotA!
[gg] to me, [gf] to you, [hf] to us.
NO LEAVERS PLS, PRO ONLY, BL ON!!!
no [zerg]!
should party a [tank] and a [nuke]
Wow , I’d like to see someone [zerg] in dota , seeing one only control a character
They can, it’s called “ganging”.
All players group and attack a smaller group from all sides!
Fun, because they usually don’t stand a chance, and get frustrated.
In any RTS (real time strategy) , zerg is a tactic in which a player builds a lot of cheap and weak units to overwhelm another player . Zerg is a faction in the game Starcraft , nasty insectoid aliens
That’s right for strategy games.
But for MMORPG, zerg is a way of rushing in a lot of players early in the battle.
The same can be done for DotA, it’s called ganging.
So we have zerg, rush and gang, all based on the same idea.
Alright, you two. Don’t make me whip out my goggle translator on your ass!
First time I’ve ever heard of FTW. Are you sure you are not making this one up?
FUNEMNX?
Its another fine lesson by Marina she is a genius!!!!
Dame sexy too 
Check out this sketch from The Two Ronnies (UK comedy duo)
pretty good comedy!!!
How could you tell?
Hollywood Squares Intro 1977
or The Hollywood Squares (1971) – Part One
OMG…ii…BLT…
a&e&i&o&u..[assimilated]Resistance is futile.
Very nice video. Can I request the word ‘Research’. It is used as an expression for finding out new information, most commonly data. I mean in the context of Research and Development, not as in the research for homework. This is because Re is a common prefix meaning ‘again’, and search. But how are you finding new information is you are searching again?
Hey Marina
Homework
[lol]
an internet word?
HOLYWTFBBQSAUCE!
but i’ve got a word request:
So the word is [Harlot].
I heard it in some songs and it appears to have several meanings.
In …uhm i think The beast and the Harlot I think it stands for a beauty (in german “Die Schöne und das Biest) or just a woman in general.
But in “Diadems” by Megadeth it stands for Babylon (the “bitch” in the bible)”The Harlot puddles (what does “puddle” mean by the way
) for her lies, from where she speaks”
so thats all i guess, i’ll wait for any answers
MOM
I have heard or see WTF which is backwards than FTW.
FTW has another meaning that I’m used to and it’s not For The Win.
F*** That Woman?
No, it’s slang for “Fuck The World”.
Find The Waldo?
I really thought that its meaning was something completely different.
(“For The Wecord”) i.e. “Sumptin” you’d use in a court case.
Follow That Woman!
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wow I like…the wind…games..WTF…lol..lots of love..Marina is the BEST*****
r.e.s.p.e.c.t aretha franklinGood God…[M.L.G] or i.e. or [ibid]…NWA…N/A
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Hometown: Etymologia
internet words in need of exploitation!*!*!*!*!
ABBREVIATIONSI know that abbreviation (WTF) better than FTW.
Ah, yes. WTF just seems so much more appropriate around here sometimes.