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Oops!!! I made a mistake. Well we are humans, I know mistakes are unpleasant but at times
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they can be useful as well. And as I said, we are humans, mistakes are inevitable. So
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let's see what are we going to learn today.
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Welcome everyone, thanks for clicking, I'm Niharika and in today's lesson, we are going
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to look at some slang terms used for making mistakes. Well we all make mistakes, yes whether
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we are kids, adults, old people, we all make mistakes, quit inevitable. So in today's lesson
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we are going to look at these fun words that will help you to talk about making mistakes
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and probably if you use these fun words, people might let go of your mistakes. So let's get
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started. The very first one that I have for you is blooper. What's a blooper? Well yes
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it is a mistake but a clumsy or an embarrassing mistake. Now when do you get embarrassed?
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When you have to face people, right? So blooper is an embarrassing mistake, especially. One
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made in front of many people. Like I have to share this story with you. last weekend
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I went to the mall and I went to the washroom okay the public washroom that’s in the mall
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and while I was cleaning my hands by mistakenly I dropped my phone. Yes I dropped my phone
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and people just are looking at me, gave that weird look and yes it was quite embarrassing.
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So if I have to talk about this situation, I’m going to use this slang term by saying
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dropping my phone in the sink in a public washroom was a complete blooper. So it was
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quite an embarrassing mistake, right? So if you have any embarrassing stories, where you
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have made mistakes, try and using this word instead of the boring word that's mistake.
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Alright let's have a look at another one which is boo boo. Now this term of course it's a
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slang term again and it has several meanings. One of the most common meaning is, you know
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when we get hurt, like we physically injure ourselves, maybe we scratch ourselves and
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you call that a boo boo. Aww... you got a boo boo. So it means you got a physical injury.
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So that's a boo boo. But of course that injury is nothing related to this lesson. So a boo
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boo also means a silly stupid mistake. Yes there are times when we all make these silly
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mistakes. So what do we call such silly mistakes? A perfect term that you can use is boo boo.
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Uh... I’m so done with your boo boos at work. So it means that probably I have a colleague
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who keeps making these silly mistakes. So I’m not going to say silly mistakes, I’m
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going to use the term boo boo, alright.
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Let’s have a look at the third term which is slip up. Now slip up is again a very careless
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error. Like for example, a friend of mine, okay what he did, well yes he slipped up.
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Now why am I using the term slipped up? Because he made a careless mistake, a careless error
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and what was it? Well he ended up calling his current girlfriend by his ex's girlfriend’s
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name, oops yeah he slipped up. That was quite a careless mistake calling his girlfriend
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by his ex's name. Yes so he slipped up. Yes so he slipped up. So it means it was a careless
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mistake on his part.
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Let’s have a look at the fourth term which is boner. Now what does this really mean?
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Well boner means a clumsy blunder and how do you use this term? Well let's look
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at an example. My friend took a girl out on a date and he bonered that date. So here what
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I really mean is that he made a mistake and what was the mistake? Well the date was really
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going fine, okay they were having a good time, they were chatting and then he dropped hot
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soup on her. Well he spilt hot soup on her and wow that is quite clumsy mistake, right?
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So he completed bonered the date. Alright so he made a clumsy blunder. That's how you
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can use this term.
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Now let's look at the fifth term that we have, which is screw up. Yes we use this term when
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we completely mess up a situation or we mess up something. Like I went on the weekend to
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a pizza place, I was craving pizza so I ordered for a nice, delicious pizza and I was really
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excited because after a long time I was having the pizza but then guess what? Well the pizza
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was completely unpalatable. I couldn't eat it. So the chef totally screwed up the pizza.
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So it means that he messed up the pizza. It didn't taste good, it was of course a mistake
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on his part, so I'm going to use the term that he screwed up the pizza, right? So if
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you have people who mess up situations or who tend to mess up everything, then try to
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use this term, you will sound really nice. Alright let's have a look at another term,
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which is flub. Yes what does this really mean? Well flub again means a clumsy mistake. Now
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how do you use this term? Well for example, I go for a presentation, okay may be there's
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a big conference and I go for a presentation and I make mistakes.so I haven't carried my
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job well okay. I did a bad job at my presentation. I screwed up the introduction; I didn't talk
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about the content correctly. So yes it was quite a clumsy mistake and of course my bosses
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didn't appreciate that. So I made flubbed the presentation. Okay so an action which
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was not carried out well. Okay it was badly done, it was a clumsy mistake on your part,
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then you can use the term flub. So I flubbed the presentation, so it means I made a mistake
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okay it was not right on my part while I was giving that presentation, right?
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Let’s have a look at another term which is, bungle. Now bungle can be similarly used
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as this one. Okay it also means an action which is carried out badly. Now let's use
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this word in an example, now your company's accounts department, their work is not that
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great, they do make mistakes, may be silly mistakes. So their work is carried out badly,
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right? So how are you gonna use the word, you are gonna say, the accounts department
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bungled with the company's accounts okay. So they made a big blunder, they made a mistake
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while doing the accounts for the company, alright. So that's how you will use this term.
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And then let's have a look at the last term which is goof up. Now goof up is again a careless
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mistake and especially because of irresponsible behaviour. Yes there are so many people around
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us who are so irresponsible. Well these irresponsible people literally get on my nerves because
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they goof up things easily. So goof up is careless mistake
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because of irresponsible behaviour. So if you have such people around you, for their
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mistakes rather than saying, hey you have been making so many silly mistakes. So rather
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than using this term, try and using this term which is goof up, okay. So you have goofed
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up a lot these days or you have been goofing up too much these days. So it means that you
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have been making a lot of careless mistakes because you are irresponsible about your work,
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okay. So that’s how you will use these words.
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So we have 8 expressions, 8 slang terms that you have learnt today, try and use them in
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your daily conversation instead of using the same old boring word which is mistake. Their
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fun to use and I’m sure, there's a probability that people they just let go of your mistakes.
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So I'll be back with a new lesson soon, till then you take care.