Hi, everybody. Welcome back to Ask Alicia, the weekly series where you ask me questions and I answer them.

Maybe. Let's get to your first question this week. First question this week comes from Rubo. Hi, Rubo.

Rubo says, what's the difference between blame and frame? For example, he blamed me or he framed me.

Super interesting question. Great.

Okay, so let's talk about blame first.

So when we blame someone, we blame another person for something,

we are saying you are responsible for this thing. So another key part of the meaning of the word blame is that we are

saying you are responsible for usually something bad that happened. So if an accident happened

and we want to talk about the person who is responsible for it, we might blame that guy, which means it's that guy's

fault or he is the one who is responsible for the accident.

So when we blame someone for something, we are pointing them out as the reason something happened.

So again, we tend to use this in accident situations, maybe in cases where

someone has done something against the law, so they've stolen something. We can also use the

word blame to assign responsibility to a machine for something bad that happened. So for example,

if you have a security system in your house and a thief

breaks into the house, a thief is able to get into your house and steal things, after this happens,

you might say, oh no, the security system didn't work or the security system had some kind of

problem. You could say, we blamed the security system for the break-in.

So that's assigning responsibility or pointing out the security system

as the responsible thing in that situation.

So a key with blame, as I said, usually we are talking about something negative that happened

and we use it to point out the person

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