Learn the English Ending "-wise" and Term "wise guy"

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In this English lesson, I wanted to help
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you learn how to use the suffix wise.
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A suffix is something that comes at the end of a word
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and when we use wise it means in relation to something.
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So if I was to say this, temperature-
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wise, it's a really nice day today.
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If I look in my wallet though, money-
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wise, my wallet's a little bit empty.
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Or if my boss said, is that project on time?
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I might say, ooh, time-wise,
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that project isn't going very well.
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So it's a little word or suffix we put at
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the end of a word that means that you are
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talking about that thing or in relation to.
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In relation to.
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So once again, temperature-wise, it's
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really nice out here today.
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I'm wearing a short sleeve shirt.
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Time-wise, I have a lot of time today.
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I'm done work for the day and
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I'm just home making this English lesson.
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The other phrase I wanted to teach
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you today or term is wise guy.
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A wise guy is someone who makes a lot
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of jokes and a lot of sarcastic comments.
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You could say, ah, Uncle Joe is such a wise guy.
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He's always cracking jokes and
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making sarcastic or funny comments.
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So to review, when you put wise on the
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end of a word, it means you are talking
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about something in relation to that word.
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Again, time-wise, I'm having a nice day.
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I went to work on time, got all
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my work done, I got home on time.
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So time-wise, the day is going well.
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And a wise guy is someone who tells a lot of jokes.
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Also, a wise guy can be
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a criminal in a criminal organization.
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Sometimes we call them wise guys.
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If you watch a movie, you might see that.
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But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from Mohd. How come Mr.
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Bob never showed us the little area
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in front of the barn extension?
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I briefly saw it in a members video before.
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There's definitely some decoration going on there with
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all those rotary blades mounted on sticks.
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But he never talked about it.
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Which begs the question, is Bob
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trying to hide something from us? My response?
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Hmm, it's our secret art installation.
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Maybe I'll talk about it in the next video. We'll see.
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So here's the plan.
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We got some of these things from Jen's dad, actually.
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Actually, I'll turn you around.
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That's maybe a better way to see this.
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Hold on, I'm going to spin you.
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Okay, so these are parts from a cultivation machine.
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Cultivation machine called a rotary hoe.
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So this is actually something that normally you would see a
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whole bunch of these on a machine in a row, and
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they would spin and they would weed the soil.
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That's kind of the idea.
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It's called a rotary cultivator or a rotary hoe.
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But we thought they kind of look like flowers.
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And because we live on a flower farm, we thought we
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would put some in front of the barn as decoration.
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So we put them there. We're not done yet.
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We have to get a little piece
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of steel for that one as well.
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And there's one over there. And this whole area, just
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in general, is going to be a flower bed.
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But if you watch Jen's videos on her
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channel, the goats got out once and they
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kind of chewed and ate the leaves.
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So those plants aren't dead, but
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they certainly will grow back.
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But overall, though, this is just an area in front
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of where we have the floral coolers and stuff.
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We might actually turn that window into a door
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someday and make it maybe into a small shop.
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We've talked about that from time to time.
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Whether that actually happens or not, we'll see.
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I mean, there's always plans for the future, and
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sometimes they get done and sometimes they don't.
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If you look behind me, there's still a
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big pile of stone that I have to
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distribute around the driveway as well.
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So, like anyone, I think you
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are all very similar to me.
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You have projects for the future and you get
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done the ones you want to get done.
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And some don't always get done right away.
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Anyways, thanks for watching.
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I hope you're having a good day.
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I hope you had a good week, and I'll
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see you next week with another short English lesson.
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Bye.
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