Gaffe
Have you ever committed a gaffe? I certainly have!!
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~/-..-/~ t’was a blown gaffe undacomma sorta hay day feelin’ reckclass & gay. lawst innocence under a olyander tree. r u b n dar n 2 day(?) k, ere’s da rub down; had a full hand, two (act julie) hole n’ da wall and we wass doin’ poetry.
beat it bub, no, no, i saes, lookn 4 aktshun baby, where’s da pony stauls wid the atm matcheen in the wall(?) show me the way to play round ere. so she grins, i bear it, tho i’m naught a hairy guy, took off my shirt and pants and proceeded to the entertainment area. there were rooms with coloured televisions and panty drop bins, i did not saes more for implication is naut a pertinent trait for bachelorhood to have to endure, howeva, under these unpure conditions i feel much was acomplished anywayz.
hotforwods…pretty bad …must go to bed…Hauled 7 loads of field rocks…lots of fun…small S-10 pickup and not too overloaded…hot rocks for big stone-ing…[HEATHEN] thing
[punishment] 
party with the Crown from CANADA 
Wow! Here’s an example of a costly gaffe and the expression is priceless.
HW: Ten minutes ago, when I dared ask my wife why she needs a floor lamp on in order to see the television.
[RADIO]…hotforwords [radio]- player…video please…a great piece—Video Killed the Radio Star
….may know a little some thing regarding home work; plus this pie tastes, really bad.
X
Good one
HotForWords book (continued)
Also enjoyed your bit on the origin of “to welch” (i.e. fail to pay a bet) as an ethnic slur. (Page 46)
[Welsh] itself has an intriguing etymology, deriving from “Gaul” via Anglo-Saxon. (The Welsh call themselves the Cymry, deriving from old British Combrogos, “fellow-countrymen.”)
Shwmae, sut i chi heddiw?
Rydw i newydd godi, ond yn hapus wrth weld bod yr haul yn disgleirio! Rydw i’n bwriadu nofio yn yr afon eto heddiw.
Beth amdanoch chi?
Holy smokes Evan I dunno what you said. I had a welsh friend send me a sweatshirt with the saying I gave on it. My guess is at the end you are asking me how I am doing. Fine thanks if my guess is correct.
Do ya think Marina has the skinny on Welsh?
Maddewch imi, unwaith eto yn Saesneg:
“I just got up, but I’m happy to see the sun shining! I’m planning to swim in the river again today.
“What about you?”
I would wager Marina knows that Welsh is a Celtic language that preceded English as the dominant language of Britain, and was replaced by the speech of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman French invaders. However, Welsh conjugated prepositions and initial consonant mutations are probably outside her ken, just as I am bewildered by the six Russian case endings for nouns and adjectives.
And now, off to the river.
Hi Marina!
Just got your book in the mail — yowzers! Too hot to handle! What’s a poor old divorcé to do?
Evan jumps into icy Nooksack River and swims two laps to cool off.PS would have liked to see how the Russian moloko relates to “milk” on page 70.
10 Most Awkward Political Gaffes
Hey CK where are you at, your time line reads you posted at 10:06pm. It’s 6:11 here in NC.
Whoops.. that was my fault.. I selected the wrong time-zone!
MARINA!!! HAVE YOU KILLED GEORGE?
WHERE IS HE!
Who is (or was! if he be RingIP) George?
Are the emails fixed? I haven’t received one from your comment to me.
Was this blunder intentional just for this lesson?
TEST…Entrepreneur Joseph P. Kennedy is best remembered as the patriarch of the politically powerful Kennedy dynasty, but in the ’20s and ’30s he was a noted producer and owned Film Booking Offices of America, a film distribution and production company, where he served as president and chairman of the board in 1928. He sold the company to RCA in 1929 and then bought a large share of Pathe Exchange. There he was president and director through the company’s merger with RKO in 1930. Kennedy became the special advisor to Paramount Pictures. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Kennedy supported his large family through numerous successful business ventures. He joined an investment banking firm, bought a chain of New England movie theaters, gained control of a film production company, bought and sold many properties in New York, invested in the stock market, and controlled a franchise on Scotch whiskey and British gin. All of these ventures proved lucrative. He may have earned as much as $5 million in three years from his motion picture work. He earned $8.5 million when he sold the alcohol franchise, which he had purchased for $118,000 13 years earlier. He always made a substantial profit on the properties he bought and sold…………..Political Ambitions
Kennedy’s own political involvement began in 1932, when he supported the Democratic presidential nomination of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He worked as campaign contributor, lender, and fundraiser. In return, President Roosevelt rewarded him with the position of first chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission, a decision that was not popular in some circles. A Newsweek article asserted “Mr. Kennedy, former speculator and pool operator, will now curb speculation and prohibit pools.” The New Republic characterized him as “the worst of all parasites, a Wall Street operator.” Still, Kennedy did a thorough and honest job. Despite his wish to become secretary of the treasury, Roosevelt appointed him chairman of the Maritime Commission. Kennedy eventually resigned from the post, tired of dealing with unions and ship-owners. In 1938, Kennedy was appointed ambassador to England. During this sensitive period just prior to World War II, Kennedy made a number of unfortunate mistakes. He was an isolationist, and gave speeches that implied agreement with policies designed to appease Hitler. He announced plans to resettle 600,000 German Jews in other parts of the world-a strategy he had not discussed with President Roosevelt. There also was speculation in some newspapers that Kennedy was thinking of a run for the Presidency in 1940-speculation that irritated Roosevelt, although Roosevelt may have planted the story. Amidst mounting pressure, Kennedy was forced to resign his post in 1940.
HISTORY GOES on…Make LEGAL Again H*E*M*P…thank you
Movie Producer
Kennedy’s career as a motion picture executive earned him kudos from some observers. He was wise enough not to tamper with a company that already was profitable. Photoplay magazine writer Terry Ramsaye said of him: “Now comes this banking person Kennedy and a very young person with freckles on his face and nonchalance in his manner. And he comes not as an angel hopefully backing a star-to-be nor by many of the other sidedoor entrances but bolting in the main gate, acting as though he knows just what he is doing. Apparently he does.” In 1926, Kennedy’s company FBO produced 50 films.
In Hollywood, Kennedy became friends with many well-known actors, Gloria Swanson among them. He became her adviser, consultant, and lover. Swanson named her adopted son after Kennedy. Their relationship lasted several years, but was broken off abruptly, according to Swanson, because she “questioned his judgment” and “he did not like to be questioned
Good catch, Capman, I assume you know Chemikal is usually in Bucharest.
“CK”? Has CampKohler’s nickname been retired/recycled so soon? I miss his wisecracks.
Hey Evan, no I would never replace CampKoler. He is too valuble to this site and I love his bantering that you, him, myself and others have with him. I hope he is doing ok and he is just taking a break from the site. He will be missed if he left. It was just my way of doing a quickie comment to Chemikal.
Hi Chemikal!
I’ve been reading Marina’s new book. A little too intense, so I had to set it aside and give the “book a rest”!
Get it? (Or did I tell that one before?) 
Oh, that sounds cool. I’ve only been “washing ton” of laundry.
I haven’t received my copy yet so all I can do is sit here sipping from my Glass going quietly mad.
time zones converge on the net *just a thought*
The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.”
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963). British author. Grey Eminence (1941).
ps–do you think Marina is cute?
Back to old server.. need to get emails working first. Hopefully will be on the new server by tomorrow.
[casket]…
…Boot – leg /’bu:tleg / 1. Vt. Make, transport or sell illicit alcoholic drinks: atrib. ~ liquor. It has been referred to the prohibition in the late 1920’s to 32, to make, consume, and distribute alcohol in the United States by law. ~ ger /’bu:tleg’(r) /n. The maker, seller or distributor of illegal alcohol. This was because the bootleggers would carry the products inside of tall boots and sell at famous houses of ill repute. Famous bootleggers include Joe Kennedy (president’s dad), Al Capone, Aldo “Rock” Calandro….from here http://www.bootleg.it/b-concept/?lang=EN
I’ve ALWAS had a problem remembering names-numbers and places are fine, but I have to use a new name several times before I’ll remember it.
But there have been worse instances.
When I was sixteen years old, I was introducing a new acquaintance to someone I had known for over ten years, who was at the time, my oldest and best friend. I introduced the acquaintance, turned to him, and drew a blank. His eyes widened and he said, “It’s John! J-O-H-N-JOHN!” Fortunately he knew me well enough to forgive me such a BLATANT gaffe.
how do we ever cope(?)
My boss often, [belittles] me during meetings with my colleagues. Please educate us on the meaning of [belittlement].
I am so hopelful you may consider my request for your attention to this fascinating word request.
And yes, i think you are a beautiful and smart woman.
God bless you and my many [colleagues].
You don’t have a boss, your not a dog. So don’t let them treat you like one, unless your name is Gorby. You have an employer
I just stumbled across this funny commercial, that I don’t think would air on television. Here is an example of a gaffe.
Wait, what the hell? ……The comments are getting posted out of order.
great commercial
Bob your thoughts
OMG What a way to start my day – with a blowjob.
Hilarious.
just blowing in the wind
Oh I’d say I’ve commited a few gaffes on here
I like your music player, you have some diverse sounds there
Where have I been to have not noticed Ronald Jenkees
Here’s this and that along with the one on your player that I like a lot, of course there are others.
Thanx M
Hey the time is off for my posting…oh wait a minute I see you have the wrong time zone selected. Well technically it’s no big deal.
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The site is definitely a lot faster on reload. No problem with all of the adds and the links loading.
I can’t remember the last gaffe I committed, but I can tell you where experts recommend you hide your money, and it works very well while traveling too.
Moving to faster server.. email messages not configured yet.. so you will have no messages for a little while.
I think in a letter to CRI English I wrongly believed that Chang Ki Shek was a communist revolutionary when instead he was the founder of Taiwan China’s enemy or rival. Chang K Shek was “the other guys” so to speak. My cultural ignorance. Baiden had some remark on CNN that he felt the US was superior to Russia and needed to abandon their past and get into line with the US! Bit that big goofy stupid smile makes Baiden look all the dumber.
I would like to request the word [czar] / [tsar]
As in:
Gov czars bail out banks and junky cars, while mafia czars become game and movie stars, but Russian and health tsars fear China’s SARS and milk jars.
So your really gaffe is not making a vid about this word, a dead giveaway that you’re not actually Russian.
-Simon
Please tell about the phrase “Spilling the beans”
Thanks Marina!
DLR
Hello thanks for the great lesson Marina!I never knew gaffe that it could mean to mess up or stick one’s foot in their own mouth.I also was wondering why not look up the word [Marina]Since they both are related to boating,and our great teachers name!Thank you for all that you do for us all,see you later Marina, or is it robotic Hot For Words
I would like to request the phrase [The Naked Truth].
Don’t wanna rip the Queen of some shine, but is it okay for members to answer word requests? Since she doesn’t seem to reply that often, I thought maybe we could help
I’d like to know the origin of the phrase [crack the shits]
My 1st 250K Star Medal in Bejeweled Blitz: 253,600 points
One of the world’s best scores. Yaaaaay!
Hey hotforwords, I’m a huge fan..I was thinking the the other day..
where does the word [FIRED] come from? as in Donald Trump’s famous slogan “You’re fired”…
please choose me for your next video, ’cause I’d really like to know where it came from.
Your fan,
HOTFORWORDS IS HOT
Well she needs you ,her air-conditioning is broken again. So get your ass over to her place
What is the origin of the expression [egg on your face]?
Wow Marina they are so jealous of you 1st page of comments on youtube 60% were by rude crude vulgar not so smart LITTLE BOYS you get the gold and the glory and they get SHISH S MASLOM
Hi Marina!
I would love to know the origin of word: mascara.
It keeps bugging me
Thank you very much! (:
keep up the good work!
Hi HotForWords!
Can you tell me the origin of [lazy susan]?
Thank you,
Keep up the great work!
Hugs.
Del Deschamps
knew that one but please help me here
{shit eating grin} where could this have originated????
[SHIT EATING GRIN]…originated by the chickens,roosters and the catamites
I am looking for the word “Frink”
I’m looking for that dirty[FINK]…
Bettie Page dances to the Seeds
…I’m looking, too. [;]
Here’s something:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fink
2. a labor spy.
3. an informer; stool pigeon.
4. a contemptible or thoroughly unattractive person.
–verb (used without object) 5. to inform to the police; squeal.
6. to act as a strikebreaker; scab.
—Verb phrase7. fink out, a. to withdraw from or refuse to support a project, activity, scheme, etc.; renege: He said he’d lend me his motorcycle, but he finked out.
b. to become untrustworthy.
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BEES R GOODE—chesters bro
Origin:
1900–05, Americanism; compared with G Fink lit., finch, colloquial epithet for an undesirable person, esp. an untidy or loose-living one (often in compounds, as Duckfink sycophant, Schmierfink untidy writer); but the transmission of this word to E and the range of meanings of the E word have not been clarified fully
How about the word [youtube]?
Incase you have not seen already.. here is that secret video I was on about!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CofgELBsb4E
Todays quote is:
“Hell is paved with good samaritans.”
- William M. Holden
After I ended up in hell, the devil threw me out
because he was afraid that I was going to take over.
- PK
If I’m not guffawing, then I’m gaffing.
There is at least one honest thief in heaven.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
[capitulate] vs. [recapitulate] would be intresting!
I’d like to know the origin of the word [patriotic] if you wouldn’t mind, please
I think this is a good description:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriotic
Thanks for that
I’d like the origin of the word [beelzebub] please!
Check this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beelzebub
FaR OUt…Pat Riot. The patriot says:
…PS…Nice radio MARINA…http://www.hotforwords.com/radio-player/
Tenacious D – Beelzeboss (The Final Showdown)
it’ll rock yer socks off!
William G. Golding
Groovy request
[Beelzebub] 
Can you dig it? 
I never figured gaffe could mean a booboo or a flub. I always thought it meant a hook for a boat. That was a good lesson.
Homework. Yes I made a gaffe last Christmas when I mentioned what we had gotten our son for Christmas. My wife wasn’t and still isn’t to happy today over that gaffe. I’ll never live that one down.
Hey, I found my Christmas presents hidden in my dad’s briefcase. Yeah, I was snoopy like that. I guess I never let my self be convinced of the existence of Santa Claus.
Kids really get over that kind of stuff fast, when he’ll grow up he’ll know you kept the [charade] up because you love him.
Hello Hot For Words. I’ve always wanted to know the meaning of one word. Could you please investigate the word [sweepstakes]. You hear in hundreds of commercials that there’s a grand-prize sweepstakes! May you please solve the mystery behind it?
Thank You, Alex M. (youtube account: acm1995)
I’d like to request the originof the term [rock and roll], please.
Marina,
Please share your insights on the origin/meaning of the word [Smithereens], as in “They were blown to smithereens”.
Thanx!!
OR
Hey, this is a pretty good song by The Smithereens
Second for [smithereens].
Also, [smashing], British sense. If you’re [smashing], do you create[smithereens]
Or am I a “howling Gael”? Lady Marina of Lochaber must investigate! 
And Bob must add another pun! 
Evan….my gaffe to you…Grace Potter and the Nocturnals at Farm Aid
…
it gives me this…98.6 – The Bystanders
At the beginning of 1967 in the UK , two acts released 7″ singles of 98.6 . One by Welsh band The Bystanders and the other by US singer Keith. The Bystanders version of 98.6 peaked at no. 45 but Keith`s managed to reach number 24.
98.6 was the Bystanders only UK chart hit . Their lead singer is Gerry Braden ( real name Lynn Mittel and now better known in Wales as Owen Money , comedian & radio braodcaster )
Advice to little puffs:-
)
Eat your smithereens and you too can grow up to be a howling Gael.
(Did I say grow up?
[patriot]…as in missles with prey…[prayer] for the player…
John X Smith invented your word request…thats what marco told me 
A live performance of one of my favorite Hollies songs.…stop the [horses] and let me drink my tea of leaks and peas 
Hey! Was wondering if you could talk about the word [word] .. i’m so curious as to who the first person to call words “words” was and why they chose it. Thanks! ~~SelenaMoon~~
Hey! m1stun here…just wondering if you could do the word origin of [yedding] and some history of this word. thanks
I often commit gaffes on purpose. In the Internet we call this: trolling.
I have seen the words “gaffe” and maybe “faux pas” in a David Letterman comedy paperback comedy book kind of like yours in 1986 but he is not sexy to me. Ask Radio Moscow about “Russian Roulette” maybe that is a gaffe or a faux pas.
A boo boo, why yes, yes I have
Moi aussi.
I thought about committing a gaffe a few days ago, by jokingly giving a hot girl the weirdest pick-up line I can think of. But I’m kind of afraid of how that might turn out afterward.
I usually tell hot chicks that that if they tape onions under their armpits with electrician tape they won’t perspire as much when it’s hot outside and their faces won’t look blushed and beet red and that usually gets me their phone number
A few weeks ago Marina asked a question something like, ‘What would you do with a hundred million dollars?” and I don’t remember want lesson or even the pretext. Anyway, I said I’d buy this insanely radical house I did some flooring in a few years back. Unfortunately I never got to see the completed house, until now!
Architect – Norm Applebaum
You have got to check-out this awesome, 2 part gallery of the house in its completed form.
THE ESTATE “Suncatch”
Gallery I
Gallery II
I’m telling you, you will be blown away by this.
Make sure you look at the pics in full size to get the full effect.
You will be staring in amazement! 
gorgeous house.. stunning. which of the pics include the flooring you completed?
That would be the HotForWords lesson on Alaska where Marina asks what could you buy for a 100 Million Dollar$
PageDoll, if you want to get good grades you really need to start paying more attention to the lessons teacher gives in class
*just josh’n*
The architecture on that house tho beautiful and somewhat stunning is too angular. Too many sharp angles cause hallucinations. Who wants to live there!
Very nice but it’s too big. If Gorby got lost it would take a week to find him.
Mike that is just a gorgeous house. I love it’s design and shapes and architecture. I don’t think 1 million dollars would even touch that acreage. Thanks for sharing with us this beautiful place.
I agree with greatestpotential.
It’s a stunning bit of architecture but more suitable as a museum or art gallery.
Not my idea of “homely” and I’m wondering what a Feng Shui master would make of it.
~namaste~ Japanese Buddhist Temple 仏教寺院 ,Pagoda & Zen Garden 日本庭園
That’s some house.
But he was given a great deal of freedom and time.
Think the triangle is used as the opposed shape to nature. Inner and outer space flow together. By the absence of the frame and the materials that go from inner to outer space. Great detailing. Love the doors in the hardened glass.
Do you have floor-plans as well, I like to see the lines of sight through the different spaces and which landmarks are framed.
I liked those “stalagtite” doors too; reminiscent of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Hello PageDoll How are you?I love the design and shape of this building,it is so awesome
Have a great day 
When did I comment a gaffe last? I don’t know, what time is it?
I’m pretty sure my last gaffe was when I told you the leash I got Gorby was made out of Kangaroo and not leather…Don’t worry, Kangaroos are like rats in Australia. So use that thing!!
Now we know why Gorby is always jumping up at Marina’s guests.
Q. What do you get if you cross a kangaroo with a sheep?
A. <a href="http://www.punkrockshop.co.uk/jumpers/jmpblk&redstr_detail.jpg“>A wooly jumper
You think she is gone put a bit of “rat” around Gorby’s neck?
Evening Marina!
I am just back from Vegas and it made me think of the word ‘Jackpot’. Sadly i didn’t hit the jackpot while i was there but it made me wonder about the origin of the actual word. Who the hell is Jack? And does the use of ‘Jack’ in the word jackpot have any relation to the phrase ‘Jack of all trades master of none’? One is good, one isn’t.
Thanks Marina.
bramallblade (aka Peter)
Hi bramallblade (aka Peter)!
If you want Marina to investigate [jackpot] you need to put it in square brackets like I have done.
Marina, if you pick this up, please look at bramallblade (aka Peter)’s comment above for a possible avenue of enquiry: [Jack of all trades master of none].
Bye for now!
i would like to request the word [bastard], as in illegitimate child, not the derogatory term for an unpleasant person
The lady in the office, at my condominium project, is poised to trounce on my gaffes whenever they slip out. I told her that I had a phone conversation with a man asking about the condos, and I gave him the number of the office, but I had difficulty understanding him because he sounded like an immigrant…
“Oh”, she blurted, looking around to see if anyone was in earshot, “we can’t use that word.” I found out we shouldn’t use the word “immigrant”. Then, the other day, I slunk into the office looking for a package, when a dude commented, “I like your pants.” I replied, “Yeah, I got ‘em on sale…” But, he cut me off in what would have been a long rap and asked, “Were you ever in the military?” Understanding that it was a dig at the style of pants, and noticing he was wearing chinos, boat shoes, and a polo shirt, I replied, “Yeah, I was in the military, and these side pockets are good for carrying hand grenades…” and the office lady had to bust in at that point, once again looking around for anybody who would be listening in, and told me we don’t talk about those kinds of things. So, yeah, I gaffe a lot, probably more than I realize.
Sounds like your office lady is a little to ‘PC’. Lose her before she causes major headaches.
To be fair, she’s from Chicago and very level headed. I understand her point of view. If I’m overheard talking loosely about hand grenades, the eavesdropper not understanding that I was merely throwing a curve ball at my fashion critic, rumor could spread that I was the owner of hand grenades.
And I wouldn’t own such a thing. Having thrown one in basic training, I don’t want anything to do with them. Those hand grenades made me very nervous. Her comment about immigrant? Perhaps too PC.
Maybe the reference to so-called immigrants could cause ill will or embarrassment to someone who has recently become a citizen. It’s not too much of a stretch to imagine that as being an unnecessary or even an unwelcome distinction, but in order to do so you may have to stand in someone else’s shoes. Plus, when you think about it, most of us have arrived where we are from elsewhere, whether it was recent or ancestral. So it’s often a moot point at best.
“nearest bridge is 2 miles back”
Was that car stunt for real, or just a cinematic trick?
It’s for real. A real car stunt.
I will punch that office lady in the tit for being so stupid.. Honestly…. can’t say immigrant. What a pile of shit
what are you supposed to call immigrants then?
Personally, I don’t use “immigrant” as a negative. I have high respect for someone who has the fortitude to relocate in another country, and perhaps learn a new language. So, I agree with you that the use of the term, immigrant, should not have a stigma attached. Keeping in mind that folks generally don’t care to be lumped into groups.
I don’t get on with them. What makes me laugh is that the UK are at war with Afghanistan, but the afghans are still coming to the UK, when we were at war with Germany the Germans didn’t all come over here because we were blowing them to bits, so what do the afghans think they are doing? Mind you, they do get away with it. They come to the UK and we will give them a free house but if we go over there we will be kidnapped and beheaded.
That idea is coming here to the US too! but right now we give people who are here illegally access to healthcare, jobs (not just migrate type work either!) and the topper “amnesty”. Meanwhile the people who go through the right hoops to legally obtain the correct documents and contribute to our society can at any time be told to leave! Go figure
I don’t think the UK is at war with Afghanistan, but rather it’s at war with the Taliban… or am I wrong here?
Marina is correct, however, the Taliban would no doubt say that it was the same thing.
You are right, and maybe you (other you) would flee a country too where the chop of your blue finger just because you voted
@that’s strange I didn’t see Bob’s post until I posted this one
ps Vrock67 I am working on a translation as a respons to the video
The Earthians are at war with idiots who hate life
Wall Street took the big hit, the global economy got turned upside down, and now it’s gotten personal. Now there is talk that the Internets of Earth have been threatened with a shutdown by the gradualists. 1984 never had it so good before.
When Silicon armchair warriors took the dot com businesses to new heights, then got hit for a loop there was a fallout, then a regrouping, then back to business again- this time with a different attitude towards survival in the market place. the net
Derek Reese: [to Jesse] Billy Wisher was my best friend. He was in my squad, we fought together. We saw things you can’t imagine. He was like my brother, and I loved him. But it turns out I never really… knew him. His real name was Andy – Goode. And back here in this world he created a computer program, the program that becomes Skynet. So Andy Goode is dead. And Billy Wisher is dead too. Because I killed him. I came back here, and I killed him. He was my brother. And I loved him and I killed him. And I did it for Kyle… and John, and I did it for you.
Terminator movie quote
Marina is correct. The UK is not at war with Afghanistan. The Taliban are invaders from Pakistan.
My wife is starting college next week on a course of “English for Speakers of Other Languages” so that is evidently the current PC phrase to use in this situation; they’re not immigrants, they’re Speakers of Other Languages.
Another appropriate word might be “expatriate”, which is what I shall be when we finally retire to Thailand.
For a moment I thought you meant she was going to be taught how to speak English to people who don’t master the language.
Would this also be considered a Gaffe
Dear Marina Orlova,
.
I am one of your video’s fans
I wanna request a word, a long word actually
You showed us the meaning of long words like: Floccinaucinihilipilification, Antidisestablishmentarianism and Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious but it seems like you missed one word
OK, here it goes, [Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian]
I found this word in the game Bookworm Adventures and I really don’t know what it means
So please explain that word to me and please tell me if it has anything to do with the word hippopotamus
Thank you
Sounds like a good suggestion rantaro311 the word [Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian] can Marina please investigate this word!Such long words can be fun once in a while.
That Homer Simpson soundbite was from the episode “Bart of Darkness.”
After attempting to build a pool, Homer ended up with a barn. “All right, everybody in the pool!” An amish man appeared next to him and said, “’tis a fine barn, but sure ’tis no pool, English.” Homer replied, “D’oh-eth!” In the next scene, Homer was able to build the pool correctly.
Dear Marina,
All my life I have heard the word [squirrely], for example, [that person is quirrley] but when someone ask me what it means it is hard for me to explain, it is a southern expression thats been around longer than I care to think, where does it come from and what is the true meaning.
Dear Marina,
Back in my University days, a little gaffe took polace:
Late in the afternoon, I was walking home, still in my ROTC uniform. At the same time a drama class closed and students were walking home. I said “hello” to two girls I knew, and we stopped to chat. They decided to have cigarettes, so I pulled out my Zippo lighter to light them.
Well, a bunch of elderly people who were taking a campus tour saw me lighting cigarettes for two young women who wore nun’s habits! I heard one of them say, “It’s shocking what our boys in uniform will do these days!”
(Of course, they really weren’t nuns, and I hadn’t graduated yet, but it didn’t “look good.”)
Seesixcm6
I committed a gaffe when I posted my fantasy about being Marina’s lover and raising a family together.
Kinda spoiled the Teacher’s Pet award. 
Oh common, I still think that’s like the sweetest thing. Marina isn’t as innocent* as some of us may occasionally think. In her videos, hotforwords is a character. Marina is a person and she is different, but the cool part is that often, hotforwords betrays/suggests to us something about Marina. Of course we don’t know for sure, because none of us really know her.
I’m not generalizing, but even though Marina does this for maybe millions of students worldwide, we can interpret that she’s doing it especially for one. And in essence, I think she is…
As long as she shows up in my subscription box every day or so, no one is stopping me from believing that she’s making the video for me, or for any one particular person that’s watching. That I believe is the reason for the feeling of [nexus].
*Back to your self-declared gaffe… Marina admitted to taking advantage of her womanly attributes to attract an audience. Now tell me, how does that make her innocent in a way that she can’t handle causing guys to fantasies about her? As long as she puts up with YouTube’s foul comments, I think a little fantasy wouldn’t upset her.
I know what you might be thinking though… “the way that she puts up with the negative comments is by ignoring them. OK, but since she hasn’t replied to me in some time, then does that mean that she’s ignoring me too? Was it something I said? Yeah, it must have been that one time when I confessed that crazy fantasy of mine.” (fictive monologue!)
Well, let me put it this way… does she reply to anyone else on a regular basis? Not really… I often look for the bad in people first, then if I’m not shocked by it, I continue to seek the good. It’s not the best mechanism to use, but it’s one that is safe for yourself. With that in mind, I don’t believe Evan Owen is one to be ignored.
What other insanely unfair system could Marina be using to look at people, such that the outcome would be the opposite of mine? One that’s highly unlikely to her personality!
I’m not saying I’m right, but I just wanted to put my thoughts out there in regards to this matter, because I see you mention it from time to time in your comments. And I think it’s really nothing to be ashamed of.
If I’m somehow way off with this, excuse moi s’il te plait, it might be because it’s 5 AM and I’ve just returned from a wedding that started at 5 PM yesterday.
But I will say one more thing, if Marina was to reply with a simple smiley face to this, it would have probably been worth the same amount as all of the words above. Because you don’t need to break down a matter to show someone that you’ve understood correctly.
OK, good night!
Buna seara (and now, buna ziua) to you too, Chemikal!
I appreciate you taking the time to write down such a well-thought-out answer.
OF COURSE, Marina, with some 254,000 subscribers and 16,000 unread channel comments on YouTube, is not going to have time to reply regularly to any one fan (except possibly James.
) I doubt Marina even really noticed my “gaffe,” in the midst of all the other (often inappropriate) overenthusiastic fan comments. I simply embarrassed myself by openly admitting wasting time on a fantasy about a woman far too young for me.
Your “coming back from a wedding” reminds us that we find love where we are, not with some fantasy figure on YouTube. (OK, Marina is real, but something other than the HotForWords character she has created.) The men who have developed crushes on her would do well to remember this.
“excuse moi s’il te plait” — I never cease to be astonished at how much Romanian resembles the other Romance languages!
Multu mesc, Chemikal
Evan
About “wasting time on a fantasy”, the wise Bob once said that: http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/08/01/nice-is-nice-pics-from-nice-france/comment-page-1/#comment-144700
Oh, and “Excuse moi, s’il te plait” is French, so what exactly did you mean by Romanian resembling other Romance languages. (which is true, I don’t contest)
“What exactly did you mean?” I was teasing, of course, as usual.
I can never tell for sure if Bob is wise, subtle and profound beyond my comprehension, or just as shallow as the rest of us!
“Still waters run deep” so the more I tweet and post [inanities] on this web site, the shallower i become.
“Twitter” is a hangout for the [criminally inane]
You ever heard of this dating advice from Ayn Rand? Curious to see how well know that is.
very nice, let’s see.
save a lot of time & effort with velcro
Someone made a gaffe on an airline flight when they lost their pet. I hope you have better control over Gorby, Marina. Don’t forget your hotforword lock.
Good morning Bob—-Swing Dancing to Bill Haley and the Comets (1956)
Amazing what the after e(a)ffects of ww2—gave US—
….Bill Haley and the Comets performing See You Later Alligator from the movie Rock Around the Clock, 1956. Brought to you by the San Francisco [Jitterbugs], http://www.jitterbugs.info
Gaffes are the salsa picante of life. Without them, existence would be as boring as a bowl of noodles.
goggles
thanks for the [zeal]
you left no room to reply so doing it here.
You are right, it’s not .[new Zeeland], But it should have been nieuw Zeeland
Leo was doing the original name.
So, what do you call a gaffe on Twitter?
Gafweet? Gweet?
That kinda sounds like french.
Hey, it could happen.
A twaffe?
As cute as ever, Marina.
I probably make at least one gaffe a day with my posts on your web site, but I console myself with this quote from Albert Einstein:-
And if you’ve never tried anything new, you’ve never learned anything at all.
RT @sexythinker: The illiterate of the 21st cntry wont be those who can’t read & write,but those who can’t learn,unlearn,&relearn.~Toffler
See, the true test will be in the knowing and unknowing of the law of averages, give or take a few percentage points. Most folks will simply read the comments and find that the majority of text is free of gaffe.
A mistake is that which seems incomprehensible. Other than that you’re doing just fine.
I actually use gaffe in my vocabulary every so often and this HFWs video just helps me understand the meaning of the word more.
If a thief were to sneak into Marina’s apartment, he would have to know who is living there. And as far as I know, Marina is generally safe from people with bad intentions, people that would leave bad comments, 1 star rating and just generally being mean.
So is the phrase above considered a gaffe as well? Because I was under the impression that it meant any kind of mistake.
Well Marina says its a blunder, a mistake where you say something that you should not have said.
But if so, the “underground bunker” isn’t a gaffe but a joke. Also it seems a lot of our fellow students give an example of a gaffe where the did something wrong (not say).
I am puzzled as well you say something that you should not have said oke, that’s clear. But is it a gaffe because at the moment you say it, you think sh**. Or is it also a gaffe when a few minutes or more have past before you think: that wasn’t the smartest thing.
If the last one is also a gaffe, mine on this site is ”wasn’t that Nelson”
I googled it, but M won’t let me trust Wikipeda. But now I am really confused
Can any of the other students reveal the true meaning?
I think that gaffe is one of those words that is currently having it’s meaning broadened.
I recall a discussion where a certain conclusion was reached… that if a word is used in a particular way by enough people, then the actual meaning of the word is that of the present usage, due to the constant evolving nature of language.
Words change their meaning, their spelling and their use, thus giving them a whole new light, or simply creating new words all together. That’s something that permitted the vocabulary to grow. Of course there are other factors, but this is one of them.
Hi ya can you explain the word[TOEJOB] is it a job or something to do with your feet??please make a video and answer this.many thanks j
,,,[poney]….walking in the bull and poney poop in bEtween the toes and the [THUMB]…
[camel-toe]…Hi-ya:jg792000
I wold like to request the etymological difference between [sauce and gravy] when one speaks in reference to the red stuff that goes on pasta. If such a designation does not exist, which is more grammatically correct when subject to the aforementioned condition? Personally I’m on the sauce side of the fence. You’re aces kid
@ misterwhy
B.B. 
in my neck of the woods (brooklyn N.Y. )
the difference is sauce comes from tomatoes & or other vegetables,
wheras gravy comes from meat sauce
hope that helps
B.B.
I’m seeking an answer beyond the colloquial strictly in reference to the red stuff that goes on pasta. Though all that I can find thus far is that the term gravy’s principal usage in reference to the red stuff, is derived from those individuals whose ancestry is Italian and south of Rome. Everyone else in the world, as far as I understand, seems to refer to sauce as sauce, in reference to the red stuff. Brooklyn may maintain a strong tie to southern Italy, I’m in Chicago, and I’ve only heard the reference “gravy” from south siders. I’m not unwilling to chalk up the difference to dialect. But I am neurotic enough to ask the question. Tomato, toemaatoe.
Here is a word I never heard of till the last couple days. I know alittle about it, but was surprised that not many know at all what it means.
[Schism, schmism]
Lots of people were scratching their heads over this one…
If I remember right, I think Dan Quale was good at that,the ex vice-president.
Ya, that was one. I guess their also Barack Obama who said their were 57 in the US..
That, basically, was all Benson had in his quiver. One cheap shot at an easy target. Quayle was a bad choice for a Veep. It seems to be a tradition to have lousy Vice Presidents. Occasionally, there are exceptions. Bush Sr. was qualified, and so was Harry S. Truman…and of course, Teddy Roosevelt.
Dan Quayle was a great servant to his nation…Did he want coca tea legal(oh it is)
The last time I committed a Gaffe was when I spoiled a suprise for my son back in July.
I did the same last Christmas when I mentioned what we had gotten our son for Christmas. My wife wasn’t and still isn’t to happy today over that gaffe. I never live that one down.