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Inflated, jargon-cluttered prose that fails to communicate the message so desired to be set forth by the… enough already!!!
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You want examples of gobbledegook? How about 100?
Back in 2007 (and reincarnated earlier this year), the UK’s LGA (Local Government Association) published a list of 100 words it claims councils should avoid when communicating with the public:
http://new.lga.gov.uk/lga/core/page.do?pageId=41517
“Why do we have to have ‘coterminous, stakeholder engagement’ when we could just ‘talk to people’ instead?”
However, the list isn’t without it’s controversy. Although examples such as in that last paragraph are obvious, could “client”, “customer” and “service user” really all be replaced with “people”?
[[Delete]]…[de-faulting the ass-istance]
gotta go, with my hoe and hack, will be back 
holy cross my ears
A Vogue cover girl has confronted – and forgiven – the anonymous blogger who trashed her as a ["skank"] and a “ho” on a special Web site.
[SKANK] 
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/08/19/2009-08-19_court_tells_model_liskula_cohen_identity_of_blogger_that_called_her_a_skank_she_.html#ixzz0OsRR8kP8
Hello Marina! I’d like to know the origin of the word [theme park]! And why is a theme park called a theme park?
xxx Gabriella
privet Marina! do you sell shirts? if not you should. like one that says “Intelligence is sexy”. i think people would buy them. it would be good advertising too. by the way i first say you on The Factor.
Yeah! I turned off trackbacks and pingbacks from my whole website which means that I am now able to turn off that Akismet plugin that was sending so many of your comments to spam. So now you won’t have that happen anymore.
Sorry about that run there.. I turned on trackbacks and pingbacks sitewide and my website then got flooded with spam and I had to turn on the spam filter because I was unable to turn off trackbacks and pingbacks until I got back home (it’s a complicated database command you have to run, and I was scared to run it!). Now we are back to normal!!
It’s a shame as in theory pingbacks and trackbacks are supposed to be good for a website, but spammers figured out how to hijack them. Oh well.
that’s refreshing
Glad your back home M.
Hope you had a great time in NY.
capman911
she would have had a better time, had she had time for a ride on the Harley 
i also offered to take her to Petrosian’s for Caviar
seems she had a Sirius radio gig to do 
oh
we shall see 
B.B. lovin the book & special sighned picture i received 
and champagne
well maybe nxt time or when i visit her on the west coast
That’s cool Barry.
Mike
hey Mike
FYI M is way prettier in person than on video 
I khow its hard to believe 
but trust me 
you classmate B.B.
i hope you find out for yourself real soon
nicely done GP looks like water cooled engine
desighne(sic)
Very interesting chopper. Good for shows or for parade on the mainstreet. Strong design, and weak engine. That thing will blow up in a thousand pieces if you try to turbo it. I’m not even sure it’s functional, and if it is, it must be a really boring, slow (and quite noisy) ride. Hog. A suitable name for this.
i hear ya. i’m more of a desighne(sic) man myself but i know some folks who make custom bikes. i enjoy listening to you guys talk about bikes. (chop shop talk) perhaps i learn something.
Now we are back to normal.
Does that include your ol’ buddy Bee?
Thats a good word[normal]
Crap, forgot to check if you did it already…
Thought you might like this…Preussens Gloria
Quote
…cool for leads
“A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.” – Lao-Tzu 570?-490? BC…Preussens Gloria 1870
..Ja stired me up with those “14 POINTS”…[wilson] still sucks
its hard not to shop when in the BIG APPLE lol B.B.
Let me test this before……
…W0Rk
The radio said; the word of the day is “legs”…so spread your legs….
I wanna know about the word [Knuckle duster] everyone know what it is, but why just “knuckle duster” and notl ike steel knuckles, iron knuckles, why just [knuckle dusters]?
I would like to request the word [foo fighter] a term used by pilots to describe UFOs in World War Two. (Also the name of a popular rock band in the ’90s.)
Hello Everyone,
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Hello Everyone,
If your comment is not being displayed, it is most likely due to the new spam filter that is in the process of learning what is spam or not. Captain Jack is taking notice of the comments that end up in the spam bucket and he is un-spamming them. Two of my comments ended up in the spam bucket and the Captain released them. Thank you Captain Jack
nigahiga is now #1 in all time subscribers and has surpassed Fred. He is adding subs at a rate of about 4,000 subs per day. The YT channel page doesn’t reflect the updated numbers yet as those pages are always behind. It seems that the YT dynamics and landscape is continuing to evolve.
Hi Karl
it’s come to this
Hey GP,
Thanks for that video. I didn’t know it existed, and of course he just uploaded it today. I actually liked watching it. That young kid did a great job. the music intensified things and his ending was hilarious, but at the same time I got a kick of his video.
Ah, you’re welcome Karl
Yeah, those kids are hilarious. The tension builds up, boy the drama! Yet I felt it only right to add a disclaimer just in case
*disclaimer* if you don’t want to lose 3 and a half minutes of your life that you can’t get back don’t watch that vid
Hey marina i’m having a fight whit my girlfriend about the origin of the word “banana” can you help me please?
Reminds me of the time a girl asked me, “Is that a banana in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?” Much to my chagrin, I actually DID have a banana in my pocket!
I was still happy to see her, though
HOW
kinda neat—hot for teacher…thanks giving you old HOT4worder
LOL!
Thats a good one! There seems to be a lot of good jokes comung from that area right now. I hope you had a good turkey day, leonard. Better start working on your wish list. Christmas(oops, are we allowed to say that anymore? 
) is right around the corner…
Hello Marina, I was wondering where does the word [Rock n Roll] come from?
Hey marina, I would like to know the origin of the word [libertine]. like in that johnny depp movie… thanx!
There is a very cute yellowish kitty poppping up @ 0:33 in this video, which seems to have sparked lots of interest for cats and their lifestyle, as I can see in the comments. But personally, I think the real visual show-stopper of this lesson is the teacher’s awesome pair of glasses which disappear at 0:18 (and are not genuine Kawasaki 704s BTW).
I don’t want to be immature and off-topic with this lesson (which is primarily about gobbledygook) and insert too many irrelevant comments, but I just happened to read the wikipedia article about cats (felis catus) and found it really interesting. So let me take the liberty to post the link here, for those cat lovers around.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat
Enjoy.
Hello Marina
What is the origin of the word [Fashionista]? I know this is a more recent word as I dont remember it being said back in 80’s or early 90’s.
Love
Jess
I’d like to know the origin of the phrase [under the weather].
Thanks.
Where does the word “drama” come from?
I am an armchair classicist and I have done some research on what a republic is. I would like for you to research the term [republic]. There are many definitions of that term. And no, the English Oxford dictionary is not the bible on this.
Machiavelli, and the Enlightenment, changed the meaning of the term.
I have two articles for you The Classical definition of a republic and to pay attention to the last section where it has “Shift in Meaning”.
Second article is here: The Spartan Republic
You should find this challenging, interesting and a bit scary. This is a big issue. One thing is that only a few scholars acknowledge this; they have divided the term into “classical republic” for the ancient states and “modern republic” which has a different definition. My research is groundbreaking.
I’m driving along on the highway at 65 miles an hour minding my own business, when outta nowhere there’s a big crack in my windshield!! I don’t know how I am going to fix it
You ass, how could you say that?
Oh, crap! You can’t fix a crack like that.
That (horrible) image conjurs up Jeff Foxworthy’s line “You Can’t Fix Stupid.”
Dunno how to fix it eh Capman? Pimp yer ride and leave it behind!
Pimped out the Green machine and loaned it to a Frog lol
Reminds me of some lyrics too, but these ones I forgot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ceIvpFZuUg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZNgxUfWvEM
As simple as 1, 2, 3, you need to pimp yer ride, ho, pimp yer ride, heh, you need to pimp yer ride, hah didelee, wow dideloo, and leave behind this behind, yeah yeah yah, yippeee yeah, yo ho ho, and wheelies and stoppies.
(I don’t know who dared to commit these bozo lyrics, I think it was MacHammer, Fluff-Hummer, Shmosh-Hammock or something like that). Anyways… Here they are…
Not bad. Now all you have to do is put a Zeppelin drum beat underneath that(‘when the levee breaks’ seems to be the most popular) and up the charts you’ll go!
Or a little more bestial Iron Maiden number 1 beat.
The intro to this song would do nicely, I think.
If, Heaven forfend, Marina were to accept a ride on someone’s Harley and appeared similarly exposed in public, would it make you want to Gobble-da-geek?
EUPHEMISM? Like the veiled language the military used to describe military attacks agains the Viet Cong in the Viet Nam War? The “little guy” won there! I thought solomon used some euphemims for sex in THE SONG OF SOLOMON as well.
Since time immemorial militarys have used veiled language so as not to reveal there intentions. Sun Tzu talks of deception in “The Art of War”, the oldest military reference there is. And about Vietnam: The words I heard a vet use one time sums it up for me
Hey B, Got a video viewing suggestion for you if you haven’t seen it yet, it’s a doc called “Vietnam, The Ten Thousand Day War.” Critics and people say it’s too the left but any Vietnam doc would fit in that category. Both the left and right are fairly represented in it and it’s graphic and detailed to get the point across. The words you heard that Vet use is true:
WE DIDN’T LOSE, WE LEFT
History Channel had a series on called that. I watched it quite a bit. I try to read more first hand accounts, though. James Webb-D, Virginia; has quite a few books out on Nam. I also have a Time-Life book, Vietnam in pictures or something like that, that has all of the Robert Capa-award winning photos.
Although hes more WWII, I got to give W.E.B. Griffith props, also.
Unfortunately The History Channel could only get the rights to an edited version, but reading about first hand accounts is the way to go.
I’d like to know the word [Camoflauge]
thanks
i m wondering when her book is arriving in Japan….
I put in hotforwords in the search option of different book sites, if a lot of people searched it, they will add it to there inventory faster.
I’d like to request the word [gyp] or the phrase [what a gyp]
before i saw it written down, it seemed quite innocent, but is it a racial slur?
please clear this up for me
xx
“gyp” allegedly comes from “Gypsy,” and if so is a sort of racial slur.
The name “Gypsy” arose from the mistaken notion that these people (who call themselves “Rom”) came from Egypt. Their roots are in northwestern India; their language is related to Hindi.
Inthe latter 19th century, gypsies were notorious hustlers, swindlers, and thieves. So, if you get ripped off, you got gypped.
Her book came in the mail yesterday and I am finding it quite
interesting and engrossing. Congratulations, Marina. You’ve earned your success. Didn’t know quite what to expect-other than words and meanings, of course-but I wish I could find a photographer to make me look that good.
Last night I was watching a movie with Jennifer Aniston and
Kevin Costner and he invited her to a ball, which got me wondering how one small word could mean different things:
A round toy, A dance, having fun, Being gutsy (you have brass
balls). Anybody have any ideas??
I was woundering if you coud discribe the word [Free country] ofc Im living in one. But it’s still not a free country? I can’t do whatever I want, can’t say what I want. thats a free country?
Ugh, it would probably help if you told us where you lived.
Also, aren’t/weren’t you saying what you want right now/then? 
I know I have been away from here a while.. I will be back soon. I have been quite busy. Infact I have had to use the organiser i my phone to keep track of what I am doing!
Carry on, James. Your public is a patient sort.
I know what your feeling. I get very busy during the summer and it’s very confusing to keep everything in order. I go through many note pads during the summer. I try to use my Palm Lifedrive to keep notes in but it’s very slow when I’m writing in the note pad. I don’t think I will ever get a way from a note pad or a Hipser PDA.
Barnacles in the intake valves, are you having a problem with barnacles in the Northwest?
This year is the worst year for barnacle infestation in the Northeast. Many boats are overheating due to the blockage.
That and the fact that the weather has been crappy so boats sit unused and the barnacles have plenty of time to settle in.
It’s always been a problem in the NW with mussels not barnacles. Their worst for they grow very large. Many older boats haul out every year just to clean them out. Some boats use copper pipes which solves the problem. Newer vessels use a closed loop keel cooled systems (little pipes under the ship that work like a radiator) The ship I worked on had such a system.
Copper pipes OK that sounds like a winner.
Some guy in a wetsuit was making good money yesterday cleaning out intake valves. I think he was monitoring the marine channel b/c he was waiting for people at their slips when they were towed in. Three boats overheated at the same time in the middle of the day..
BTW all set on the Gmail, I been using Gmail for my other accounts. Tks.
Monitoring marine channels for boats being towed in. Wow now that’s a way to find customers. People are really getting creative now with high unemployment rates.
Yeah I really like Gmail now. I didn’t at first, but as they improved it over the years, I’m totally sold on the product. I really like the spam filter. It rocks! Wait until you discover all the little ‘Google Labs’ features. I have 28 of them turned on and they do an awesome job of making gmail fun to use. Did you know you can do video chat while your typing an email? How cool is that? For some people, that’s a bit much for them, but people like me with a bit of ADD. It’s no trouble for me.
Bug me anytime if you have any questions about gmail.
Hi JACK—I feel like I have been jacked!!!
Go on, Capt’n. Your public is a patient sort.
I received Marina’s excellent book in the mail today and at the end of the book, Marina wanted to know what I thought of the book.
I wrote a review of the book here.
Then, at the end of the book, Marina said she is at my
beck and call. Fantastic! Marina, could you get me a ham and cheese sandwich, please. Reading your book made me hungry.
Hi Karl
Was this the correct link to your review of the book
http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/marinas-book
may want to clarify linkage
Yeah, I messed up when editing.
The correct link is here.
http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/marinas-book#post-9574
The correct link to my book review is here.
I ran out of time re-editing.
http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/marinas-book#post-9574
Sorry PK. Spam filter is still learning. I’ll have Marina break out her ruler and smack the filter across it’s CPU chips.
Cool. We’re good to go now.
soul is so what…sole
no link or rhyme 
Can’t think of something very specific right now but I think a lot of speakers in religion spew out a lot of gobbledygook along with the world politicians close behind.
Here’s someone besides you that has a grasp on gobbledygook. Unfortunately he’s not around anymore.
George
,
ps, don’t say he is up there
Asked this one before, but not sure if it was in the latest topic: [delete] 5.58 / 7.50
word request [kit and kiboodle] as in the whole kit and kiboodle.
“Unfortunately, nobody was shot!”
Awww my gawd Marina, that had me rolling in the aisle.
That was sooo funny. Excellent video!!!
I thought it was just me, but you heard it to.
Check out out this sweet video of of Marina And HotForWords.
I have a feeling you’re really going to like it..I really, really do.
Marina and fans,
This vid really is a MUST SEE for all HotForWords fans!!! It truly captures Marina’s allure and glamour!
M, if you were still doing “Teacher’s Pet,” PageDoll would HAVE to be chosen!
Evan
Excellent Montage for Marina!
PageDoll you’ve done really good here and don’t worry the syncing is just fine.
nice job PD. You had a great subject to work with. This is now my favorite video of all time.
I just added your video to my YouTube favs list
Thank You
I LOVE it!!! It’s so great!!! WOW!!! Thank you so much! I want to upload it to my channel!!!!
I am lost for words.
You certainly went balls to the wall on this one.
pageDoll
NICE 
very well done 
(even though you had such
B.B. i will try to learn how to save it 
a great subject)
PageDoll, that’s WONDERFUL! Marina will love it! I love it!
Thank you!
Thanks everyone for all the kind words. I’m so glad you liked it, and I can safely say, with the utmost confidence our teacher loved it as well.
THANK YOU MARINA!!!
Great work on the video PD. I loved it.
What video editing software are you using?
If I remember, you got a Mac last year, if my memory correct?
How are you liking it and the editing? I noticed that you uploaded it Std Quality, and the quality and sound is excellent. Great job.
Its a imac and I love it! I’ve only had it for about 3 months or so and have hardly scratched the surface of its potential but It-Is-Awesome!
The whole video was done in iMovie and it was very easy to use. I have a feeling I didn’t even go that deep into the potential of imovie either. But I was also learning how everything worked as it progressed. What weird is I tried to make a video with windows movie maker when I had my PC and just got so frustrated and quite, but when I opened imovie for the first time it almost like I knew what to do to at least get started. Odd, but the more I let common sense take over the easier it was. I guess I could have just said I love the editing!
About the video quality, When I uploaded I wasn’t really sure what I was doing so I just picked “medium size” format and went with it. I wanted to do it HQ but wasn’t sure how to.
The music was strait from my itunes. The first time I tried uploading I was stopped at the gate for copyright issues but then did a little investigating on were else, YT and found THIS ..and all was good.
Oops, wrong link. Here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mDJ2zjET7A
I tried to edited that link in the above with this one but it would let me.
I was wondering if you could change the link for “THIS” to the second one I gave you?
…don’t want it to apppear as a malicious view bumper.
PD, I wouldn’t worry about the “This” pointing to your video. In either case, whether the link points to your video or someone else’s, someone’s views will get bumped, so it might as well be yours.
Also, the views count is different depending on how the video was discovered. So, no worries.
Also, I don’t have access to making changes to your comments. Marina will do it if she feels it is necessary.
Just enjoy it.
Thanks for the update on your iMac and your editing experience. Microsoft Windows Movie Maker is a joke as most of the stupid stuff that MS gives you. I’m glad that you are enjoying it.
I have been researching for some custom effects I would like to implement. Very much to my surprise, it is possible to do non-trivial effects in Windows Movie Maker — but the catch is that one must write XML. Here’s what one has to do to get picture-in-picture (like how HotForWords does for video-requests): http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/PapaJohn/Picture-in-Picture_Tutorial.aspx Here’s the docs: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms867186.aspx
Never actually seen Final Cut, but I guess it offers a mouse-based-point-and-click interface. And I suspect the learning curve for XML will be much steeper than that for mouse-based-point-and-click interface.
I am still researching since the effect I want is not picture in picture. The effect I need for a raw footage of a speaker is that of one or more objects moving toward the speaker in certain trajectories and having certain impacts with the speaker.
There is a possibility that I might be able to get access to Final Cut Pro for at least 3 hours every week! Yeah!
So I will be able to compare the XML and point-and-click techniques not just for the learning curve but for repeated use after one has learned each technique.
PS to 54.10.1.3: I am not under the illusion that video effects is what garners viewers. My primary goal is to get better at communicating — I want to make my lessons in such a manner that they make sense to the guy on the street — whether he agrees with the lesson or not he should be able to understand what I am saying. So far in my life, I never wanted to be a teacher and never wanted to explain anything to anybody — I just had a goal and learned what I needed for it and used what I learned for it; now I think I have something worth saying, and would like to communicate that well.
Is this working?
[turkey]
I that that annetwahnette may be prettier than Marina.
Marina, what is “жаргон”?
Perhaps you met “джаргон”?
Where — here, or some other вебсайт?
I would like to request the word [ Footsie ] and possibly a video of you demonstrating it. Thanks.
She did “fetish,” showing her feet — close enough.
Not the same.
Marina what is the origin of the word [Scapegoat] meaning something to blame on?
Thanks sweetheart!!!
Sometimes I wonder if spokesmen for the Federal Reserve go to an elite school to get a Masters degree in Gobbledygook… or maybe members of the Federal Reserve scout for convincing looking people that are naturally chock-full of Gobbledygook!
Gobbledigook…I don’t know why the band Sigur Ros spelled it with an “i” instead of “y” but it’s a great song!
Some nudity in the video but it’s for art and not you pervs~
http://vimeo.com/3987450
Please would you be as kind as to find the definition of the word
Ty in advance… and lots of love from Crete Greece 
[Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia] for me
[buzz]
[wisper] [whisper]
[suggestion] [confidence] [disclosure] [divulgence] [gossip] [hint] [hum] [hushed tone] [innuendo] [insinuation] [low voice] [mumble] [murmur] [mutter] [report] [secret] [secret message] [sigh] [sighing] [susurration] [undertone] [word]
Psst! So dude, what IS your name?
It almost sounds like Anthony is gone ring at someone’s door, and whisper some secret gossip.
6:00PM Wednesday, Aug.19 & 101 degrees in central Texas means our Dear Teach is kicking off her New York book-signing hootennanny with many fans and some HFW Family members. Said a quick prayer for mucho success tonight. Kick some yankee ass with your wit and charm, Marina!
originalistrick
I just got back from the book sighning @ borders
true 
I know all are waiting to hear & unfortunately NO
she did not take a ride on my Harley, BUT I was the first to get a signature, a picture & a bottle of nuiero gasem had a great time,so glad
B.B. goin to sleep now perchance to dream 
and i gotta tell ya M is georgous was a good turnout ( even a reporter
from Bloomberg news ) she took & answered questions even had Gorby
with her
I was able to meet our dear teacher in person. Maybe next time dinner &
RIDE
Hey bigbhd95,
Thanks for the update. That must have been a blast. I’m trying, with only moderate success, to control my envy of everyone who’s been fortunate enough to meet Marina (and now Gorby) at her appearances. Sounds like it was a fine time. I’m really happy for ya’ll and for Marina.
And good luck with the ride. She probably won’t do it without Gorby. Hey, Kyle Petty has a sidecar rig…
Gobbledygook not only fails to communicate the message, it fails to answer the questions too. Politicians, CEOs, lawyers, consultants, etc… know it very well and use it every day. We are literally invaded by this useless verbiage, everyday, everywhere.
So very true!
Blame the lawyers for examples like that.
hi do you know the orgin of the word moon and the first known name of it’s god?
please
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=moon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selene
If you have a word request this is what you should do (click and read)
So your request: [orgin of the word moon and the first known name of it’s god?]
Please tell me about the word [troop] or [trooper]. You see alot of it in the papers and on TV when discussing the war in Iraq.
Word request [Web 2.0]
Apparently considered to be the 1,000,000th word to be added to the English dictionary.
I hate and despise this word/phrase but thought you might have fun with it.
another word that was added was [noob]
that too might be fun.
chris
She already coved that word in the news section.
Web 2.0
BRILLIANT ORIGIN MARINA!!!! But, if I remember, I asked for this word a while back. Well, if you’re not going to bother to give the students a mention then I don’t want to know you any more! WHY DIDN’T YOU MENTION ME! WHY WHY WHY WHY *pressure pressure* WHY WHY *feeling guilty and upset yet?* lol
xx
Poor James do you need some Xanax.
Or even better how about a Valium. 
you been reading the spam comments, mike?;)
damn Alex you caught me. lol
Me being the home body that I am, I don’t what any of that stuff is. I can only assume that it is something to relax….
Hey, Cman, I’ve been a little stressed myself… 
Damn, Bee, he wasn’t offering. Behave
Beevee here’s what you need a good ole massage. Do you like snakes?
Damn, skeered me a sec, thought them wuz coral snakes!
“Red & yellow
You’re a dead fellow;
Red & black,
You’re OK, Jack!”
‘Round here (well, east of the Cascades) all we have is rattlers; they usually warn you if you’re getting too close, then move out of the way, not aggressive at all. Kinda cute, if you’re into reptiles.
mike, i think your emoticons are self medicating.
I had a few oxycontin that fell on the keyboard. ˙ʍou uʍop ǝpısdn ɹ syǝʞ
psychological evaluation based on emoticon communication.
emoticon war
loved the psych eval based on emoticon communications. i looked for this >:) and this >:| .. and this Oo. thinking they’re warning signs. lol!
nice to see you, buzzword.
hey, taking inventory of the comments after a long evening of studying. good to see you around.
imdb rating was 6.9, not bad. oh well. “surfer, dude” had like 4.7/10 and i don’t know why — it was great. you just can’t tell from other people’s ratings.
yeah.. true. i liked surfer, dude, too.
psych stuff huh, sort of like aggrevate in the mind.
that’s like instigating flame
When you understand the behavior of the signs you can get wise to the markings. It’s sort of like when wild animals make markings into bark to signal danger.
Don’t you ever think it will be turned against you Damiana(?)
here you go ..1. Oo
have some of your projections back *narf!* >:)
feels good huh
□ >:|
*slide some compound interest in there for good measure*
*narf!* >:) was my comment to your malicious comments to alex and then editing out the maliciousness..
are you making threats again, gp? that’s not right..
and yes, i know i just replied to myself, but you’re at the end of the thread..
just comes back at you babe
wise always win
noticed you three talking the psych mind game stuff, not me
are you prepared for some of your own(?)
What with talking about threats Damaina(?) since you mentioned it first, not I, I won’t let you go until you explain the meaning
Like I just got chewed out by a TA here because of people like you D
How would you like to play guess what’s in the Scientology box with me Damiana(?)
it was a question, and you didn’t answer it. enough drama. why not chill and be cool?
Here’s your comment Damiana
my response to your question is no I never made any in the first place (very tricky question you asked)
oh, you guys laugh it up about that, yeah, that’s really cool, sure
peace&love
hehe. yeah, take a good look around. :X
lol! Oo
agh! your a sneaky bastard.
http://www.aloha.net/~hawmtn/amb.gif
i’m a little angel. 0:)
dude. if you ever get the idea to take a break from studying and watch a movie or something — don’t see “across the hall”. just got done watching that. only thing that brings you through the movie is brittany murphy. till she dies.
i read a review on imdb of across the hall after you told me about it earlier.. s-l-o-w was the operative word. :/
wasn’t that an “independent” movie? anyway, you know i only watch movies with talking animals in them.
nighty nite alex, hope you sleep as well as a dead brittany murphy.
independent? pffff. independent from entertaining maybe.
as for the animals … yeah, the bellhop scrunches a cockroach.
hey buzzword.. when you get a chance, alex and i have a new pic thread..
http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/alax-and-damis-heads-chimps-welcome
cool, just looked that over. cool shit. if i opened up photoshop i wouldn’t get any sleep tonight.
Damn, buzzword, those prescriptions are scary. My ex insists on giving our rebellious daughter SSRIs, and what with being on both Prozac and Luvox, she had an attack of serotonin poisoning recently.
not good evan. although meds have significantly helped many, there are some who are harmed far more by misdiagnosis and poor support.
photoshop’s too much fun.. and sleepless isn’t good. :/
yeah true, what is it with art and music that keeps people up late? seems like a good time to leave the party anyway. here’s to dreams.
niiice, tom waits. nites, buzzword. have a good night.
hopefully not as long, though. n8.;)
james you suck.
please leave james alone.
Buzz, surely you can come up with a more creative insult?!
lol nite evan.
I would like to request the word [Fear of Escalators] or
the phrase [if you can't take the heat then get the hell out of the kitchen.]
It started with this video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvvHoc0I9Ao], and that is my older brother and I want to know the name of the condition or the disease that he has.
Thank you Marina for going back to the web site attached to our names. XOXO
Well sh*t fire and save matches. The site went back the way it was. Now the names are back to how much we have commented.
Dear Marina,
There are many examples of gobbledygook:
It was nice of you to post a video during your big trip to New York to promote your book!
I’m one of the few who actually do your homework.
For instance, a magician will sometimes say “abracadabra” when performing a magic trick.
Gobbledygook is used to disguise something. When we allies bombed Tokyo in April, 1942, Roosevelt said the bombers flew from the aircraft carrier, “Shangri-La.” (The USS Hornet actually sailed in to launch the attack.)
Sometimes, doubletalk is considered gobbledygook: If I said “Marry me or be my wife”, you would have two choices for the same result!
(Of course, marriage must be preceeded by enormous love!)
Seesixcm6
Homework: sounds kinda like pig Latin, but your just stepping around the real meaning by adding in a lot of nothing to baffle the masses. Politicians do it all the time to get around the real answer or the truth.
Google in pig Latin: http://www.google.com/intl/xx-piglatin/ Maybe it’s a good setting to seach political things.
Pigs. Yes. Gobbledygook is like throwing false pearls before true swine.
Pig Latin reminds me also of the worst and most stupid song lyrics I have ever heard. Ever. Will Smith perpetrated this rubbish:
Was that rap or crap.
I always thought they were one and the same!
i would much enjoy it if you please do a video about the phrase (so close but no cigars) i use this phrase very much and i do not know where it orginated. this is very important
thank you!
Marina,
Scouting, as in Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts, has been a long standing tradition in America. I discovered the existence of a Dog Scouts organization at: http://www.dogscouts.org/Home_Page.html
I’ll bet Gorby would enjoy earning any of the 70 merit badges available for placement on his sash. I’m quite sure his master would make sure he achieved all of them. It might be an enjoyable diversion.
Dear Teacher,
I was searching for a word to describe the action of clicking on the friend of a friend of a friend on FB. The best I could come up with is [fricking].
Should we add this to your list?
I’m sure you frick from time to time.
I agree distinctav, that would make a great nerd word. Fricking. I hope she does it for you.
Gobbledygook is like hogwash talk. Responsible parents point out to their children proper etiquette and manners at the dinner table and let their children know it is impolite to talk when their mouths are full.
And when the children are still impolite at the table, we can just season their dinner with Valium
i know a mom who feeds her kids lots of turkey when they get out of hand
Hello Marina!Great choice of words!I was wondering if you or anyone else has got the new word lock?I just got mine and haven’t been able to get it to lock.No matter how many times I go over the directions it willn’t work for me!Thank you for your time!
Do like I do if something doesn’t work. Curse it, throw it and then try it again.
Then I found out if all else fails read the directions again. 
send it to me, I’ll make it work and send it right back to you
I suggest you stop messing with it, or else you risk accidentally inputting a password that you won’t be able to replicate.
Here are all the instructions you need for every type of word lock, have fun with it.
Did you look at this?
LOL, Chemikal, you beat me to it.
Thank you all you your help!
The topic of the “homework” reminded me also of the Sokal hoax, whet physicist Alan Sokal submitted on purpose a pseudoscientific gobbledygook to a sociological journal “Social Text” just to check out if that gibberish would pass the recension process. And it was published, no sociologist from the editorial board pondered over the meaning of the text.
Here is the original hoax articleTransgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.
Does everything passes in some fields of social sciences?
i would like to request the word [gold digger].
Why, are you planning a fieldtrip?
And I would like to request the etymology behind your user name! [beffuhknee]
I think I requested the term [gold digger] some months ago. My friend just escaped from a gold digger. It was a $14,000 dollar lesson he says. It’s difficult for men to discover he is dating a gold digger. The old saying ‘love is blind’ I think holds true in this case.
From the Online ED,
“Gold-digger”woman who pursues men for their money,” first recorded 1915.
I wonder what it’s connections are with mining gold. One would guess this is where it has originated from, but like Marina has uncovered with many words, it’s not always the case.
Doctor Phil had two self proclaimed gold diggers on this tv show a few months ago. One woman was training the other to be a gold digger. I heard in the grape vine that the number of women that practice this behavior is on the rise. It could be because of the recession in my opinion.
Also their is the terms “ditch digger” (a female who chases poor males). Then there is the “silver digger” who chases middle-class males males probably because she feels she can’t compete on a higher level with the caliber of females who score accomplished men.
Some gold diggers are males. I met one when I was in the Navy. The guy was dating older women. He was aways getting gifts like rings and other jewelry. Later he would hock them for money. Coyotes (women who date younger men) should be wary of male gold diggers.
Gold digging doesn’t work as well for males since males don’t have the power to seduce that females have. All a female has to do to become rich is poke a lonely rich man in the belly and her bills are paid. If a male pokes a rich woman in the belly there is a chance he is going to prison for being a creepy sexually assaulting pervert. Though this doesn’t seem to be a problem if the women is a coyote. Its dangerous for males to gold dig for the same reason its dangerous for males to flirt in the work place. Most males fear being prosecuted. Females are “predator paranoid”. I think that is why most gold diggers are not males.
Some men are accused of being a dirty old man for falling in love with a young adult woman and she is a gold digger for falling in love with an older man. This is fading away now that it’s becoming more common thing with Hollywood celebrities.
I wonder if Marina could uncover an interesting story about the term ‘Gold Digger’. I’ve heard of this term many times this year and I think it would be interesting to explore it’s origins.
Thanks for bring up your request Beffuhknee. Maybe Marina will do that word.
Homework Any time we have an election there is always a new amendment I have to vote on. They always start out “Shall the state of..blah blah blah…allow this …blah blah blah…or that”.
Thank goodness I read the paper and I understand what I’m voting for or against before I go to the polls! 
Hello, your cars gonna need extensive perpetual work.
We’ll have to torque them “valve stem caps” manually with a highly trained service technician certified in valve stem cap torqueing.
Ought to be $100 a wheel.
Oh and your 710 cap needs inverting.
We’ll have to subcontract that out.
Hey Marina. Love your videos.
I would like to know the origin of the word [welcome]
Is it a combination of Well Come?
Thanks!
In 1979 when I began my college at a Community Technical College, we had to read an interesting essay in our communications class. The essay said that in the VIET NAM WAR, the military used innocent sounding names to sanitize what they were doing there. I think that aerial bombardments of the VIET CONG were called orchestrations or symphonies. To deny the ugly reality of what America was doing there. Of course, old Bonzo headrest in the 80’s named the MX nuclear Missle THE PEACEKEEPER or PEACEMAKER; the cruise nuclear missile called THE TOMMAHAWK liike the hatchet of the american indians. And of course, the Strategic Defense anti missile laser was compared to the sci fi flick STAR WARS. IN an honors class where I was a TA in 1986 there was a student named DuPuy like a general in the Viet Nam war. Another girl named LeMieux I had to wonder if she was related to Gen LeMay the founder of the Strategic Air Command. Old Theresa Douglass Cordway told me when I met her at a christmas party in 1975 that her uncle was John Paul Vann, the subject of a Neil Sheehan history book A BRIGHT SHINING LIE. I give that book four stars. Maybe her mom was a slutty drunk like John Vann’s relatives. They really liked using lasers in teh chem department at MSU in 1984. One man who just got his PhD in Physical Chem expained to us in a seminar what a TEM spot energy pattern of a laser beam was.
I heard some angry men and a woman outdoors howling last night after I made this posting. But cowards they all are over the last 22 years!
Thats why I don’t put my picture up, tony. I am a non-confrontational and rather timid person so the internet gives me the anonymity to voice my views without getting beat up, which is never good.
Do you have a shotgun? A shell being racked into the chamber in the dead of the night makes a sound all its own and will very likely turn whoever is causing a ruckus’ bowels to turn to icewater!
my beloved mother jsut won’t let me keep a gun in the house alhtough the Army did teach me how to use one when I was just 17. the old faggot letches and their thugs began howling again last night and Ihad diaherria four times. Some of it has to do with my evil brother Erik MD’s associate Dr. Mounir Elkhatib who is an Internal Medicine doctor. He msut be some stupid old letch. My mom and my evil brother christopher see the old fool as well too. But I do not go to him for my illnesses. I think they made some game out of my ridiculing Bush and the Iraq War on the Al Jazeera website blog. Now Christine Fastnacht from my mom’s church Cathedral of Praise which used to be on Sylvania but moved to Waterville like Spycast, I knew for a fact that she dated these rich arab guest students who attended U fo Toledo on Visas and she was trying to hook a rich arab into marriage. I do not have any arab friends. I am not pursuing any rich arabs in Toledo or anywhere elso for their money. And I am opposed to gay marriage. And Iam looking if I can relocate out of Toledo becuase my mom said christopher took good care of her in the hospital. I was dreaming serial dreams about World War II like in movies. Maybe the american war effort in Iraq really will instigate World War III like in Revelation 9!!!
I’m starting to think the end could start righr here, especially if BHO rams the HC bill thru regardless of what the majority of the country thinks. “Nuclear Option”
Puhleeze 
Oh yeah, homework. A bunch of my history books are filled with a bunch of $5 words and historical jargon. Some of them actually have some good history buried in there. It is a shame that so many historians need to puff up their ego with a bunch of fancy-schmancy talk. Samantha Power does a super job at avoiding this. Check out A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide.
just ordered the book, looks good. although i have to get through a stack of text books before i start on that one. i’m getting really tired of all these medical classes. this text is my latest investment.
This one is also pretty good for a brief, 20th century world history (kinda spotty on that level). She does an excellent job at presenting the problems, but I disagree a little on her course(s) of action to fix the problem. I’ll try not to poison your thoughts before you read it, though. Give me a {..bU-zz] after you read it. I believe you will find it quite stimulating.
A hundred fifty smackers!? We bitch when we get a $30 book. Of course, we do get 6 or 8 books per course, but still… A hundred fifty bucks! It had better come with a DVD, jar of lotion, and box of tissues for that
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Five more days ’till classes start! I am actually excited to get started. Only one more year for me. How much longer do you have?
Speaking of cats – I have two beautiful kittens that need a good home. Forward me your e-mail, and I’ll send you one.
Cat and Gorby, you think that’s a good combo?
The kitty is black. It would make a great contrast with Gorby!
I bet your cats are cool…
The mice and rats are back with the bubonic crap from China….soul please do NoT eat the Kitties…thank you
All you need is an e-mail, because you want to forward someone a kitty?
I heard that pedigreed pets are actually expensive.
The funny thing is that not many people know what a pedigree is, and it’s not that hard to obtain one for your own pet.(instantly increasing their valor)
I wish you luck with the two little baby cats. But remember, their cuteness is only a temporary natural defense mechanism, that all newborns share.
That’s where HotForWords comes in
a lesson on Pedigree
I think I was going to include that on my fav hotforwords vid list but Karl beat me to it.
Yes… a moment of honesty… I can’t believe how much she’s taught already. Every time in a pleasant way and each time more entertaining.
She is gone now, but after 24 years, I still loved my cat. And the last few years she was cute again.
You had a cat for 24 years? Holy Shit! I’d like to see a picture of that cat. Did it have any hair? Could it walk? Amazing…
On all the question yes.
To see the difference in age i got 3 pictures for you.
here she is a few months
This is how she looked most of the years
this is the last 4 years. In this picture she is 23,5 years. For me she had the most character in this the last few years
Good looking cat. I got one that looks like that but then again, I got alot of cats(and dogs). After 24 years, I know you had to be close. I had a farm so I never was as close to cats. They die to quick in that enviroment. 24 years! I’ve never heard of a cat living that long!
Thanx for the pix
That means she was 168 years old in cat years. 7 years for every 1 human year.
pretty kitty, rijk. i’d never heard of a cat living so long.. Oo
cats have 9 lives silly >:|
0:)
Rumour has it that with a little pimping par-ci par-la you can bump up the lives to 12 or even 13. That will unlock new feline-levels, previously unseen.
Hey Bob her email address is up in the contacts section. If you want to send her a gift you use that address.
I bet she would be surprised to find two kittens at her office when she gets back. 
suddenly everyone wants to give kittens away
Need a few GP
you mail them out(?) perhaps i do want a pussy
what colors do you have(?) any in brite pink(?)
just funning
farm cats may be a good idea
i hear tabby cats love the farm life
Go green!!!
One Pink Cat. lol
oh, she’s adorable! maybe i can get a special on a packing crate.
lolcat
Pimp it up, Capman!!!
I can roll with that
Hi gamara,
Marina’s already covered that one and you can find it here.
I would like to request the word: [quakebuttock]. I heard it on Bill O’Reilly and could not find the etymology of the word. I believe it means a coward and sounds as if it could possibly have its origin in the 19th century. Thank you.
my word is [vivacious]. Oh and by the way you are vivaci
us thing, I love your web site. LOL
I recently heard last night that they wanted Daniel Radcliffe to play a young Bilbo Baggins for The Hobbit movie, but he said he was done doing that wizardry kind of stuff.
I was at a restaurant recently and the waiter recommended the bouillabaisse, and it got me wondering:
What is the origin for [bouillabaisse]? What does it mean?
appearance, sorry about that spelling blooper!
A classic piece of traditional gobbledygook from the European Union institutions:
We, in Europe, have to spend money on that.
It’s enought to quote Eminem: “Nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got somethin’ to say. But nothin’ comes out when they move their lips, just a bunch of [gibberish]“.
European union has the problem that there are the governments of the separate countries as well. So for a lot there are two parliaments. If Europe wants to become the European union the got to get rid of the governments of the separate countries. That would for us mean gone liberal drugs-policy.
Well you are one of the few that actually made an effort to do the homework.
So I’ll post mine here, to be honest, I got a guy named Bush to do it for me.
LOL of the Bush parody video by John Morgan!
Bushisms are real consolation for non-natives who has problems with English collocations.
As I come from Poland, I need to show off a “performance” of the former president of my country. He was a very clever man, speaking 4 languages, but once during a visit to Ukraine he got drunk and gave a speech like that. The “lecture” at Kiev University was in Russian, not Polish, and there are some English subtitles in the video.
Now that’s doing your Homework the best way I know how.
Looks like you have had a great week in NYC, when will your new The Factor appearence air?
i m lucky because i dont use the words “activation” and “implementaton” at any situation. how do native english speekers use them in life?
The implementation of this policy will help in the overall progress of life as we know it in the world.
With the activation of the solar panels we will have free electricity.
Marina,
Just got your book yesterday. It’s awesome!!! You are gorgeous in the picture on page 115 (your always gorgeous, but that one floored me). One question, what is “Engish”? Also, can you do a video on [rigmarole]? I think that would be interesting.
Thanks, and have fun in NYC!
Google, 0 hits. Spelled it correctly?
Which one? Engish?
yes that”s the one. Looking at the dutch word eng (means scared or narrow) for my 50 cents: narrow
Reason I asked is that it is the title of a chapter in her book. I think it was supposed to be English, but I’m not sure how or if the proofreaders missed it.
Sounds like a misprint to me, hope for you its a one of
Otherwhise we’ll have Marina correct every book by hand
Well hopefully we can find out [straight from the horse's mouth]. Not that you in any way resemble a horse, Marina!
rigamarole?
I got like 421,000 hits on rigmarole.
weird. i get 238,000. oO
Sorry Alex I stole your word to use on M’s YT channel I couldn’t think of any thing else.
lol, mike, that’s quite alright, it wasn’t my idea anyway, it was zacintosh’s.
looks like there are two spellings.
yeah, a true nightmare for the spelling fascists.:D
Hello, HotForWords, can you please tell me what the origin of the word [ Tristadecaphobia ] fear of the number 13”
[Triskaidekaphobia] comes from the Greek τρισ και δεκα φοβια, literally “three and ten fear.”
I would love to be in the Cash Cab right now with Marina.
You old goat, you would like to be in any cab with Marina.
2008 Golden Bull winners
Hiya Bob, Today is boating day, I off to the bay maybe I’ll motor on over to NYC & see Marina, just got to stay in front of hurricane Bill.
Shiver me lumber!!
As an opposite to gobbledygook:
“Old words are best, and old words when short are best of all.”
–Winston Churchill
sounds like Gobbledygook Youtube is down thats OK I get upset at all the hater posts there very good such a busy day TV Radio walking Gorby cleaning up after Gorby Thats a mental picture and still time to make edit and post our lessons what a good teacher.
I loved Marina’s gobbledygook, it’s so refreshing.
I amuse myself daily of such talk, while watching my talk show.
Gobbledygook is sloppy jargon intended to confuse nonspecialists
Limited Learning Degrees
Cat out with all what is hot 
What is not understood
very good
ooh cool, new video!
good job