John says 'hectacre' for hectare throughout his Ethiopia agriculture video, seen by Bill Gates (2014)
story · status: told 2× · last event: retold (2014-11-18)
In his August 2014 video on agriculture in Ethiopia John said 'hectacre' for hectare again and again, and the next week he told how mortified he was. Hank brought the slip up again that November.
About: hectare, Sarah Urist Green, Bill Gates, World Food Programme
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-09-02 (happened 2014-08-26) | told | John tells of saying 'hectacre' throughout his agriculture video, Sarah's reassurance, and Bill Gates, the WFP head and Ethiopia's foreign minister seeing it within a day. (playful) → refers to Food Is Weird: Understanding Agriculture in the Developing World | MORTIFICATION 00:00:07 |
| 2014-11-18 | retold | Hank recalls that John recently mispronounced hectare as 'hectacre'. | How to Never Feel Embarrassed Again 00:02:40 |
What is said about it
4 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2014-09-02 · MORTIFICATION — John corrects himself: he meant hectare, which is 100 ares, an are being a unit of 100 square meters. — 00:00:20
- 2014-09-02 · MORTIFICATION — John: Sarah reassured John that nerdfighters are forgiving and few outside Nerdfighteria would see an agriculture video; within a day Bill Gates, the WFP head and Ethiopia's foreign minister had seen it. (playful) — 00:01:49
- 2014-11-18 · How to Never Feel Embarrassed Again — Hank: In the comments of his Friday video Hank owned up to 'dipthong', likening it to John's recent 'hectacre', and asked people for their own 'hectacre moments'. — 00:02:40
- 2014-09-02 · MORTIFICATION — John says land-area units are not his expertise, but he was trying to share what he learned about making more food available to hungry people. (playful) — 00:00:31