HURRY UP! - Using the Exclamation Mark ❗ - English Addict - 🔴LIVE STREAM -- Episode 268

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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We are here today.
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Don't worry. It's only the Internet.
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You don't have to be afraid or concerned at all.
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Here we are. It is English addict.
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Live from the birthplace of English, which just happens to be.
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I think you know where it is.
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It's England now. Now.
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Here we are again.
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We are back with you live on YouTube.
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It's ever so nice to see you here again.
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Hi, everybody. This is Mr. Duncan.
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And there he is over there standing next to me with a big smile on his face.
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It's.
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I'm Mr. Steve.
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He is. I, Mr.
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Duncan's helper.
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Like, sent a little help.
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Sometimes Mr.
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Steve actually does help me.
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But for most of the time, he doesn't.
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Do I hinder you?
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Do I.
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Do I hinder rather than help? Yes.
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Sometimes you do hinder.
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It's a great word.
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Yes, Hinder.
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That's a good word to start off with.
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Look back into sort of interferes. Doesn't. Doesn't help.
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They hold you back. They they interfere.
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They get in the way.
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Or maybe they they serve no know, helpful purpose.
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The opposite of helpful is hindrance. Yes.
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So to be helpful is useful.
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To be a hindrance is to hinder interfere.
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You hold that person back.
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But for most of the time I was joking.
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For most of the time Mr.
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Steve does does help out
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a lot.
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I try my best.
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If I wasn't helping you, I'd be in the living room. That's true.
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If you weren't helping me, you would be somewhere else.
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Might actually be out in the garden.
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That's where I'd be. Here we go.
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We are back together again.
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And today is a special day, by the way.
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You may have been aware of it or may not.
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Either way, I will now tell you what is happening.
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Today is a special day.
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It is Remembrance Sunday, Remembrance
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Day here in the UK and what we normally do on this day.
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Now I have to explain that the proper Remembrance
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Day is always on the 11th of November.
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But of course Remembrance Sunday
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always falls on the nearest Sunday
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to the 11th, which was yesterday.
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But today, of course, is the proper Remembrance Sunday.
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So this morning everyone gathered in London
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near the very famous
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and for many reasons, war Memorial called the Cenotaph.
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And there it is this morning with everyone gathered.
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And as usual, at 11 a.m.,
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people will go into a two minute's
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silence every Remembrance Sunday.
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So that happened this morning.
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And people then will wait.
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And one by one,
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members of the royal family
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and politicians will each lay a wreath,
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a remembrance wreath at the Cenotaph.
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And this morning he was there.
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Yes, King Charles was there this morning putting his wreath down.
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Now, I think this is the second time
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he's done it because he did it last year, didn't he, Steve?
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Well, you mean when the queen wasn't very well?
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No, the queen was dead last.
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Yeah, the queen was not alive this time last year.
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Mr. Steve. He has done in in at least a year, right?
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At least in one previous year when the queen was alive, he stepped in.
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But as his actual role as the king.
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As his role as the king.
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Yes. It's the officially. Yes, it's time.
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So last year was the first time he did it officially, and this year is the second time.
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So a lot of people this morning gathering and they were all paying their respects to those who died.
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Now, this used to be always for the for the First World War.
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But nowadays, people often use this day
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to remember those who fell in all wars past.
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And I suppose I should say present as well.
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So all those who lost their lives in all wars,
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we have
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Remembrance Sunday and it was a very solemn occasion.
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Fortunately, the rain stopped
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because if you're standing around for a long time, Mr.
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Steve, there is nothing worse than getting wet.
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And we have been getting a lot of rain, haven't we?
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Mr. Duncan It's raining as we speak outside right now.
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It won't stop.
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It won't stop. We've got more rain this week. It's very.
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It's been a very rainy autumn.
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but of course, you always associate,
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Remembrance Sunday with sort of bad weather.
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A bit like Guy Fawkes Night we had recently.
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So. So this time of year, it tends to be very damp and cool.
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You can see behind me that is the view from the studio window.
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And yes, everything really does look like autumn.
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It is a very autumnal day today, I have to say. Yes.
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As you say, Mr.
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Duncan, this this this date today, Remembrance Sunday is a chance.
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It's why we have two minute's silence just to remember all the people that died in conflict.
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Two, particularly for this first and Second World War to ensure
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that we carry on
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with our values and our life.
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And we weren't taken over by by horrible people.
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And yeah, fighting evil really, isn't it?
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That's what it's as.
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It's perceived as those who who wish to undermine civility,
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I suppose, or the civil way of life, I suppose, Although yesterday
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in London it wasn't very civil because lots of people at the moment are having disputes and arguments
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and fighting because a lot of people are divided on their opinion
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of current news events, which we won't go into
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because this is not the time or place.
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Very interesting, Mr.
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Duncan, we watched, didn't we, last night, a lovely programme, a lovely documentary
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about the about monkeys in Sri Lanka. Yes.
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We decided to do something that did not involve
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watching the news or listening to people complaining or fighting or arguing.
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So we watched this lovely documentary
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made by Disney, all about these little macaque monkeys.
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Macaque monkeys.
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I was going to make Mr. Jenkins so cute.
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They were lovely and cute. It was. It was.
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I went to bed happy instead of watching the news
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and watching programmes about things going wrong or film,
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violent film
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went to bed happy smiley and had a good night's sleep.
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I think that makes a big difference.
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But the point I was going to make about this was that they followed the lies of this troop of
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of monkeys, these macaque monkeys, and they had their territory,
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which is on this sort of big rock and a rival gang,
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you could say, or rival troop of of monkeys
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attacked them and took over their territory.
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And it just shows you
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doesn't matter what species you are.
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Everyone's always fighting to try and take over somebody else
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or get their land or get their possessions or something. Yes.
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So monkeys do it, Humans do it.
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We all do it. It's it's part of our nature.
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And fortunately, although some people might say we're not very far apart
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in our behaviour, sometimes from from from the wild animals.
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But it is true many animals are terror tutorial.
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They will insist on having their own space birds.
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Birds are very territorial.
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They often hang around or fly around in large flocks
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or they will divide up during the breeding season, especially
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so when the breeding season is around, when all of the birds
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are preparing to find their lovely mate, they will become very territorial.
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One of the worst and most violent birds you might not believe. This
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is the robin
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that lovely little friendly robin.
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One of the worst birds for
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for being territorial is that lovely little friendly Robin.
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And they will actually fight another bird to the death.
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They will actually kill another bird.
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These monkeys were, weren't they. They were, right. Yes.
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This, this true took over one of them.
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One of the other monkeys died in the fight.
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And then but then later on, the people, the monkey
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originally their went back and there was another battle and they got their territory back again.
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I mean, it was quite incredible to watch how similar their behaviour was to humans.
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We are so close
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to monkeys, apes, chimpanzees
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that think the chimpanzee is the closest to us in terms of its
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genetic heritage.
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Yeah, it's like Mr..
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Mr. Lomax, like Mr. Lomax, but.
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But yeah, so it was an interesting programme to watch and quite pertinent
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based on, on, on obviously Remembrance Sunday and all that.
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Yeah,
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but there we go.
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All animals fight for their territory.
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It is true.
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All fight to get somebody else's. Yes.
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Because it's all fight over one individual,
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maybe a mate or maybe two males.
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Well will want the same girlfriend and they will fight
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just like we do on a Saturday night outside the pubs.
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And of course they're after resources, aren't they?
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Said those monkeys wanted that particular patch of ground because it had a lovely fig tree,
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a giant fig tree with lots of fruit on it, lots availability, food, so that they want resources.
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And that's what we do is he means that we we take over somebody else's country
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because there are resources there that we want.
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Yes, it's a bigger cell.
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It's slightly more dramatic when we do it, though.
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Yes. But I'm just saying the principle is the same argument these days.
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That's not an argument there.
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As I'm just saying this.
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It's interesting how how much more aggressive we tend to be,
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even though we are supposed to be civilised.
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Well, underneath, you see, we still got a monkey brain.
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Well, some people maybe you have.
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Well there's a book written because there's something about the monkey brain and how that controls this.
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I've read that.
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It's very interesting that we've got this this mischievous.
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I mean, it may be true, It might not.
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As Catarina says, we haven't we have a satellite yet.
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It's very much I am now is very mischievous and spiteful.
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You should have seen them when they were going into people's homes.
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They were wrecking their houses for food.
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Well, it happens all over the place. These monkeys are annoying.
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Thailand also has them as well.
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And Japan.
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Hello, Japan.
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Japan also has monkeys.
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I think they are also macaques and they and they are also very mischievous.
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They got to get up to all sorts of things.
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In fact, in English, we often describe a person
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who is mischievous or naughty as a cheeky monkey.
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We will say you was you are such a cheeky monkey.
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Yeah, we will say that because after seeing that, what can I do the like thing today?
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You can.
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Beatrice has keep it still.
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Beatrice has put her like home. Thank you very much.
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She says she's the first, so please don't forget to like this.
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Even if you don't like it.
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Say you like it. Yes.
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Just because. Just pretend you like it.
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Because what happens is that this review recognises
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all the likes and that it means that more people will get to see Mr.
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Duncan's video.
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And even if you don't like it, somebody else might.
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So don't be selfish, even if you don't like it, which we are hoping you will.
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You were lucky you were like it here, just like it.
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And then it'll get sent out and lots of people will see Mr.
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Duncan's video, which is what he needs.
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He needs views. Lots of views. Yes.
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So don't forget to like, please.
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Yes, I do feel like one of those poor little monkeys hanging from the tree.
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Wait, It waiting for a piece of fruit to fall down
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for me to to eat and consume.
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by the way, today we are looking at exclamation
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marks, exclamation.
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It is something that happens a lot in English, but I think and we were talking about this yesterday
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when we were having our meal in town, a lot of people misuse
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the exclamation mark.
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It's a very simple thing, but the exclamation mark
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is something that people often overuse
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or use in the wrong situation.
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So we will be looking at that today.
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by the way, you might also notice there is a poppy next to Mr.
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Steve that is also connected to Remembrance Sunday and also Remembrance Day,
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because a lot of people wear those rhubarb makes a comment and
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I'm going to have to say good
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to correct you on this rhubarb.
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The poppy is nothing to do with politics.
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It's not a right wing ideology. It is.
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It is.
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The poppy is a symbol of a dead soldier.
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Well, yes, it's simple.
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Well, anyone that died in the war, it's more than that, though,
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because it's, of course, from from the poppy fields where many of the soldiers lost their lives.
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That's it. I think it was the Somme in France.
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So So that particular area is where the poppies will rise.
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And so it became symbolic of those
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who fell during the First World War.
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I always find it amazing that they they used to call the First World
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War the Great War.
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There's nothing great about war now.
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I think they mean big, large, dramatic.
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So it is interesting how you can use that word in different ways.
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Something is great.
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It means it's good.
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It can also be something big or oversized, a great rock
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or you had a great time.
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So it is interesting how that word can be used.
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So people yes, it was adopted, as you say, Mr.
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Duncan, the poppy was adopted after the First World War
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because so many people died
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on the battlefields in France.
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Millions, I think it was hundreds of thousands of soldiers
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died in the trenches and the poppy because all the poppies grow there.
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Wearing a poppy is a sign that you are remembering a soldier that died in the war.
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It's nothing to do with politics.
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It just that although it does often become political, people will make it political.
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But it's not, especially when you don't wear one
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every year in this country, you can guarantee at some point
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one person will complain because a famous celebrity
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or a well-known person was not wearing their poppy.
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So it is ironic that a symbol of freedom is often
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used as as a weapon against those
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who don't follow those procedures.
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So there is a strange irony when people start
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telling other people that they must wear a poppy.
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You can look at the fact that you have the freedom not to do it.
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You can look it up on YouTube.
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Poppy wise. The Poppy. Well, I've made it.
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I've made a lesson about well, not exactly. I was not.
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Come on to that. You've made a lesson about it. So
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look for Mr.
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Duncan's lesson on that. Yeah.
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What's it called?
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Why do people wear the poppy?
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Why do people. Mr. Duncan made a video about it. Yes.
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So go and watch it.
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You've got a search button. I should have, haven't you?
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I think everyone has a search button.
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Why do people buy the poppy?
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And that will explain everything you need to know.
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I keep my I keep my search button in my underwear.
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It's a sign of respect. And remember. Yes.
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So it is a political.
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But sometimes it is it is used in a political sense.
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But the reason why it exists is not political.
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It is purely about remembrance
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and paying respects,
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how it is.
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I think I think we explained that very well.
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I think we deserve some sort of prize for that.
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You will get to go and watch Mr. Duncan's video.
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Do we wear a poppy? Yes. All is explained.
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Yes and yes.
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We haven't promoted that one for a while.
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Well, I don't watch today.
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Well, I have been promoting it on the face on Facebook and Twitter.
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Okay. So
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so who was first on the live stream And Mr.
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Duncan, is it time for that?
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Vitesse was first on today's live chat once again,
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he's so quick.
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So quick
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there.
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I mean, I think the first probably five or ten
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people are probably all within a second of each other.
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Okay.
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So but Vitesse was first, Beatrice was second.
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Well, sex, I'm saying second.
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I didn't really mean second.
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Beatrice Palmira,
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Francesca,
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Mustafa, Olga,
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were all on there pretty damned early.
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So well done for your,
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enthusiastic support.
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Yes, that's. That's one way of putting it, I suppose.
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Or maybe you just have nothing better to do today.
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Either way, we're very pleased to see you here
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on the live chat November.
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We are almost halfway through November already now.
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I can't believe how fast this year has gone by.
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I think this year has gone by really quickly.
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It seemed to go slowly at the beginning and then suddenly
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the year went by very quickly.
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So November and then we have December.
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We are coming towards that special season.
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Some people celebrate it, some people don't.
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But it is time to have fun.
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I believe also at the moment Diwali is being celebrated as well.
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So so the the Festival of Light is what they call that.
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So if you are doing that, I hope you have lots and lots of fun
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and of course lots of delicious food.
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Yes, I'd like to be invited actually, just to get some some nice home
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cooked curry,
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but I haven't been invited yet.
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I think you can sort of.
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I have been into places where they've been celebrating in shops and local places like that.
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Haven't been handed some Samoas or something like that, which is always very nice
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because we've, we live very close to an area where there are,
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there are lots of different cultures living nearby to each other.
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So we would often see this in Wolverhampton
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because there are lots of communities in Wolverhampton
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from various areas and also
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of course various religious beliefs.
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So they will all have their festivals and that's one of the things I always remember about Wolverhampton.
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Wolverhampton is a bustling,
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busy metropolis, I have to say is the century
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that says this is the poppy, a funeral flower in the oak.
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I don't think it is.
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I don't know. I've never seen it used.
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It is used, it is used of course on wreaths,
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but that also is connected to this particular period, which is Remembrance Sunday.
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Yes, but you might be confusing it, of course,
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with roses, which look very similar.
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So roses and poppies, the petals can look very similar.
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Funeral flowers in the UK, lilies.
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Lilies are very popular to put in in bunches of flowers for a funeral.
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I mean, you can put anything in there, but
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if you go to funerals, you usually have.
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Nice, but yeah, lilies are quite poor.
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My mother never liked lilies in the house because she said it always reminded her of funerals.
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Probably not because they've got a very strong smell, haven't they?
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Lilies.
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And they can stain your clothes. The pollen.
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And some people don't like the smell either, because they are.
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They all quite pungent, very strong.
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Yes. Lilies are tend to be associated with funerals,
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but I don't think they used as much as they used to be. No.
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They pop poppies, generally speaking, grow.
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They are picked, maybe they are displayed.
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They are often used in paintings or pictures
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because if they signify chickens with the colour, because of course,
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it is very hard to escape these days how colour
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has become very important in symbolism.
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So we often look at many colours of having as having
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certain symbols or meanings.
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So we often see red as maybe anger
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or quite often violence or maybe even death.
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So we often see red as is as an angry, fierce colour.
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And of course the poppy being red is the colour of blood.
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So that's another bit of symbolism
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in with that remembrance as well. Yes.
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So it is interesting, it always interests me how these things come around every year.
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So you can always guarantee as as October comes to an end,
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people always start talking about the Remembrance
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Day and the poppies and things like that.
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So every year in this country people always start talking about it as well.
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You don't have to wear a poppy.
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Rhubarb never is. Nobody's forcing people to wear one.
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It's just
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the ordinary person in the street.
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Nobody is going to come up to you and say, Why aren't you wearing a poppy?
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It's just on TV.
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Celebrities go on TV sometimes
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or a newsreader at this time of the year and isn't wearing one.
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Then people, what your stupid social media will start to make comments.
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It's not stupid, but that's how I make my living.
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Social media.
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I'm talking about like Twitter and just like that.
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But ordinary people in the street, I mean, I don't I mean, I will give money,
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but I don't often wear a poppy.
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No, because I just don't want to.
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But I know nobody's nobody's
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going to criticise the average person in the street if they're not wearing a poppy, although I did find it
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interesting yesterday that there was a lot of violence yesterday in London,
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and I did notice many of the ones that were supporting the Cenotaph
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were not wearing poppies,
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which I thought was very interesting because they were so aggressive
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and so and so angry and yet very few of them were actually wearing their poppies.
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Well, that's it.
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The right wing people won't wear upon me.
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Well, okay.
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I'm just saying they often do it because they're anti anything and anything that's and,
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you know, they'll protest against anything as well.
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The far left, of course, red says Francesca, is also the colour of passion
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with just red roses.
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So in some some cultures as well
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then red is a sign of passion as well.
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You know, the red blood coursing through your veins, excitement.
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Well again, it's love hearts. Yes.
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So, so it is interesting.
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So yes, I suppose I said anger earlier on,
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but of course, Red can also symbolise love.
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Yeah.
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I mean, they used to be a thing with men at work.
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What kind of tie do you wear?
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What is that saying about you?
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If you I remember we used to have sort of training on
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not training, but sort of advice on what to wear at work with customers.
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And if you wore a red tie, it was seen as something
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that could make your customers a bit agitated.
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But then it gave you a sort of it was almost like a symbol of power.
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Okay.
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But if you wore a blue tie or a green tie,
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it was, you know, you were sort of not so aggressive.
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So if you wear a red tie, maybe you're putting the thrusting salesman type,
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you know,
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this is what you're saying.
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I've got a red tie.
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I'm, you know, I'm important and thrusting.
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I want to sell you something.
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So I used to be.
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So of course, men don't really wear ties anymore.
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No, I was going to say.
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But these days now, of course, red things, red caps and also red ties are often
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attributed to
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maybe Republicans in the US, say, or maybe Donald Trump.
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So he has kind of hijacked red clothing.
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Now, I remember a few months ago we went to see a comedy show in Stafford
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where I used to live and I was wearing my my red hat.
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It had nothing written on it, but it was red.
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And the comedian who was performing picked me
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out of the audience and said, look, look at them.
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There is wearing his his Maga maga hat.
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And I said, It's not a MAGA hat, it's just a red hat.
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It's just red.
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And he was making fun of me.
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Beatrice's car is red.
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It's a cute, cute car.
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Yes, Red suit.
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Certain. It's funny and it is used to talk about
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different colours, suit cars, particularly cars in different ways.
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A smaller car or a sports car.
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It looks good in red.
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I mean, Ferraris, of course, are always associated with red,
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that sort of, you know, Italian sort of
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spirit driving fast.
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Enzo Ferrari, you know, and all that kind of thing that
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that, that Ferrari red fact if you see a Ferrari, even even now,
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if I see a Ferrari in any other colour but red, it looks very disappointing.
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A lot of people now get the Ferraris in grey or something like that.
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I mean how boring you spent all that money and you've got you've just
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you just got this bland colour,
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you know, Ferrari is a red.
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But anyway that's my, my opinion. Yeah.
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That was.
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But the bigger the car is the worse it looks in a bright
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colour I think depending on the car like a saloon cars.
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You had a mercedes S-Class.
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Okay Steve, you even have it in red. It would look very odd.
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This is now turning into something else.
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Or as a fiesta or something or a sports car.
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It's very nice and red, but it's interesting how the colours of cars over
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the years have changed because I remember growing up
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I used to see all different colours of cars on the road, some of them very bright.
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You would see yellow cars, not necessarily sports cars,
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but they were still yellow or green or bright blue.
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And quite often they were, they were very bright
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and even floral in colour.
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And then for a very long time everyone stopped having colourful cars
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and then they just have black, white, silver
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or grey for a very long time.
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But I've noticed recently, I know you want to put in, but I've noticed recently
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the colourful cars have started coming back again.
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I've seen quite a few cars on the road that are that are brighter now.
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These aren't sports cars, they're just your average cars.
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So I think people are slowly going back to having colourful cars again.
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Well, I'll tell you the the colour that's come back into fashion is green for a car.
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Lots of people are getting green cars now.
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That was always seen when I was growing up a green car was seen as unlucky.
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If you had
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a green car that I was associated with, having more accidents,
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weather, the weather, the statistics back that up or not, I don't know.
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But of course, if you've got a green car and you're driving on a country road,
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you can sort of just blend into the into the trees maybe.
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But what you're driving, are you driving in the sky or.
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Well, I'm just saying, you know, if in certain angles
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you might not see a green car because you've got trees and fields,
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you know, it might not stand out, but in fact, grey cars don't stand out at all.
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But then everyone's got driving lights now, so it doesn't matter.
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Yeah,
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you could have a red car and then you'd never know that you had an accident.
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Where red cars do go, The statistics show
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red cars have more accidents because they're normally bought by people who want to drive fast.
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That was just a road closure.
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That was just that was just a joke.
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That was Steve I just told you.
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So as I say, I'm wasting my time
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anyway. Yes.
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Anyway, talk about exclamation. Exclamation marks.
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Rose has made a comment about exclamation marks when we're going to do that in a moment.
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We are going to do that in a moment.
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So I will keep Rose's comment nearby so that I can I can reference it.
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A quick break and I have some sad news to tell you.
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Some sad news because this week
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we had to say goodbye to some neighbours
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that have been living behind our house for the past six months.
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We had to say goodbye to the cows.
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They have gone. They have been away.
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They have been taken away by the farmer to another place.
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I just hope
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we hope it's not the slaughterhouse.
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But they have gone.
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So for the next couple of minutes, let us remember our lovely,
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lovely neighbours our bovine neighbours.
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The lovely, lovely cows
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and aren't they precious?
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They really are.
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The cows have officially left and they've.
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They've gone somewhere else.
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I don't know where they've gone Mr.
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Steve, but they've disappeared unfortunately.
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I think they've gone sadly to cow heaven.
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So we will remember them.
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okay. Steve.
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I wasn't, I wasn't going down that road.
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Remembrance Day is also for the cows, the fallen cows and cows.
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All the cows that have been slaughtered. Just fallen man.
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So I can have my beef burgers.
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As low as they're sacred in India.
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I'd, you know, I could, I could, I could live in India and
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you know, and revere the cow as sacred.
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Because I can see why they're.
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They're just lovely, gentle creatures.
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You just have a little bit of them.
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You just have a little bit off the side.
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And then just keep it and then just have a little bit.
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38:14
Just keep the cow, but just have a little bit.
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38:17
You don't want to be greedy, Sarina says.
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How many beef steaks in this video?
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Yeah.
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So if you're from India, you're probably right.
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Appreciate that comment.
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But yes, you know, different cultures, different things,
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different beliefs.
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So yeah, that's fine. But yeah, I could.
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Wouldn't that be nice if, if suddenly we could go to the farmer next to you
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when we get the cows and say, I'm sorry, but you know, I've converted
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religion, these are now sacred cows.
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You cannot remove them from this field.
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Which religion would that be?
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I think it's Hindu, isn't it?
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I think you'll find it's right.
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So yes, because Hindus are vegetarian, so they won't be eating cows and they will see Kansas.
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Well, they do see Kansas, I don't think I think we've had this conversation.
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I don't think Hindus are vegetarian.
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I think they just don't eat cows.
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I think other animals I'm sure some people tell me we had this conversation before, but I remember
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looking it up and the information I got about the religion was
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there isn't that there aren't vegetarians.
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There might be, but they'll eat anything except for cows.
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Not anybody I love.
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I'll say anything because I might be wrong.
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I love eating cow.
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I have to say, okay, I love them.
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I love a nice beef burger.
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As long as I can't see where it came from,
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as long as it's not walking around in the field looking into my eyes.
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Make it your car says today is Diwali.
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Today? Yes.
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So that's why we do our little issue.
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That's why I mentioned it.
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It is today, the Festival of Lights.
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I don't know why many celebrations, religious celebrations or any celebrations.
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In fact, quite often there are lights involved.
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I think it's lovely Fireworks, lights, maybe even fires as well.
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So have a good one.
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Have a good exclamation marks, Mr. Day.
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Yes, that was an exclamation mark on the end of my word.
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Exclamation mark.
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It is interesting, actually, when we look at the English language, there are many varied
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uses of punctuation.
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And of course, when we look at the exclamation mark, there it is underneath,
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we often talk about punctuation.
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So when you are typing or writing or composing a message
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or maybe a script or maybe you are writing to someone,
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maybe you are looking for a job,
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quite often you will use certain types of punctuation.
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The most obvious ones, of course, is the full stop.
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It's just that the full stop that comes at the end of a sentence.
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So that's the most common punctuation.
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But of course we also have this guy here,
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the exclamation mark, which is often used incorrectly
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or it's used in situation where you don't need to use it.
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And I think sometimes, especially in writing, people get very carried away.
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In fact, I think you mentioned that as well.
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We will talk about that a little bit later on.
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So when we talk about exclamation,
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there is the word exclamation
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and I've put an exclamation mark at the end.
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So you could say exclamation is the urgency
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that is often stressed in words,
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quite often vocally, you will exclaim,
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If you write something down
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and you want to show that that thing is important, you want to use stress to show
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that something is is needed or it must be done.
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Or maybe a person is angry, you will often use the exclamation mark.
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So the is what we call it in
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grammar, in English grammar, we call it the imperative,
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something that must be done,
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something that has to be done, something urgent.
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You are using the exclamation to show that emotion.
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However, it is possible
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to misuse it quite often warnings as well.
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Steve So I think this is the most common type
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of use of exclamation.
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So you can think of many situations
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where where you would you would have a warning.
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Would you say, yes, many road signs
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if they're warning you of something, if there's a danger ahead,
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then you
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will have an exclamation mark after whatever it is that they're warning you about on the sign
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that's quite popular, it might say, you know, danger,
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Slippery Road ahead or something like that.
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I don't think that's an actual sign, but that's an example.
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Watch out is an exclamation.
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It is something that you might write.
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It is something you might say.
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And this is where it becomes interesting because it is
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the spoken form
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of the exclamation that I'm interested in.
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So this one, it's very obvious that if you write this
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or say it, then the message or the meaning will be very clear.
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Watch out, watch out.
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You are using it as a as a warning.
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You are telling someone, watch out.
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Yeah.
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Think the exclamation mark makes makes you look twice at it.
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okay.
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That's something I need to pay attention to.
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That's what it's saying to hear. there's excellent.
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There's an exclamation mark.
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I need to pay attention to whatever is being said in that word or that sentence,
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because there could be danger.
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Or that could be.
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Yeah, there's a classic one.
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Watch out.
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But as you say, they're often overused,
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particularly whilst texting. Yes.
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So. So anyway, we're drifting off a little bit here.
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Watch out.
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Written is is showing that something is important.
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And that's why I think the exclamation mark is used so often.
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It is used often in writing
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because you are showing that thing to be important.
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So I always think it's very interesting when people use the exclamation
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mark on signs or maybe something they want to say to another person.
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They often want to put it there just to show
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that that thing is important,
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not necessarily because they want the person
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to shout out the window the thing they are writing down.
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45:25
Watch out so you can see or you can hear
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that this is an important thing.
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So my voice is expressing that exclamation mark.
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You can hear it in my voice. You're raising voice.
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An exclamation mark means that you are saying that particular word or phrase loudly. Yes.
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45:47
Watch out.
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yeah. You didn't need to do that. Steve.
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45:51
That's actually not not exclamation.
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That's just shouting.
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But you would put an X if you were writing,
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you know, if you were writing a book or something. Yes.
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And You know, you're trying to express that you would put an exclamation and not say exclamation mark.
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It's a difficult way act, exclamation mark.
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Okay.
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Try and having difficulty saying that at the moment.
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Another one, another one that can be used as a warning.
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46:17
Look out, Look out.
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Maybe I'm driving well, well, maybe I'm in the car with Mr.
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46:23
Steve. He's driving. And Mr.
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Steve, as usual, is being careless with his driving skills.
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And I might shout, Look out, look out!
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46:33
But in text, in writing,
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46:36
that would immediately make you think of that way
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of saying that phrase, You would immediately think, it's got to be said in that way.
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So this is pointing to something you need to pay attention to
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46:48
straightaway in the written word.
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But the use of the exclamation mark is actually quite subtle.
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So you think it's a giant hammer
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coming down, smashing something.
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47:01
But in fact, the exclamation mark can be used in certain situations,
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but it is often overused as well, which is what we will look at in a few moments.
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Yes, Mustafa says here we are violating its real purpose.
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The exclamation mark. Yes.
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As we use it in almost any written situation.
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Yes. Yeah.
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You can send emails too.
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47:24
I mean, this is a classic one we had at work actually only recently, an example
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47:29
of how not to write an email and it was written
745
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47:33
and imagine if an exclamation mark so well capitalised.
746
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47:37
That's another one, isn't it. Yeah.
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47:38
If you're writing capitals, that's almost like an exclamation mark in itself.
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Well that's normally that is a very different thing that I'm glad you mention that though,
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because that is another way of expressing maybe your anger
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when you write everything in capital letters
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and that normally is a bad thing to do.
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48:00
By the way, if you want other people to think you are completely insane,
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48:05
type using
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capital letters if the whole thing is in capitals, you mean.
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Yes, that's what I mean. Well, just yeah, Yes.
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Well, even then, even then, it's
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48:17
often it's often seen as rude.
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Or maybe you think the person typing the message might be slightly
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in, say, look out.
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Here's another one.
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48:31
Another phrase I often use to Mr.
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1969
48:33
Steve, Be careful, be careful, be careful.
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Maybe Mr.
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48:38
Steve is going out for a walk and it's a very cold day
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48:42
and there is lots of ice around and Mr.
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48:46
Steve is walking and he nearly.
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48:48
He nearly falls over.
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48:50
He nearly slips over.
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So I shout, Be careful, Be careful.
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48:55
If you were to write that down, you would put an exclamation mark like that.
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The catch is that, you know, there's a rock or something.
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Be careful or a slippery patch.
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Be careful.
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Yeah.
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Take care as you walk.
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49:11
Another way of using the exclamation
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mark, of course, is in in anger.
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Anger.
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Quite often we will use the exclamation
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mark when we are angry or about something.
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49:28
Well, is there a difference between watch out and look out?
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49:31
And they are basically the same thing.
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49:34
One should watch out. Look out.
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49:37
So in that sense, they are basically the same thing.
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49:40
Beware, beware.
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49:43
You know, look out, watch out.
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49:45
You would use them as synonyms, I think. Yes.
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If I was walking down the road and say there was a frog
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49:51
and I was about to step on it accidentally, you know, look out,
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49:56
watch out, you would probably say the same you did using.
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49:58
Are you saying that to the frog?
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you know, I'm saying it to Mr.
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because he's about to step on it with his feet.
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I thought you was lying.
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I thought you were telling the frog to watch out because I don't think he would understand you.
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50:10
Yes, Beatrice.
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The exclamation marks helps to emphasise the situation
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50:14
and the feeling, the emotion behind the words.
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50:17
So the phrase.
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Yes. So thanks for that.
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50:22
So quite often in anger we will use
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exclamation marks when we are when we are feeling annoyed
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or we want to show annoyance in writing.
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50:35
Or of course, if I was to say,
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50:38
for example, get out,
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50:42
get out, I am showing anger
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written down.
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You can see that that is anger.
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The exclamation mark signifies
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50:55
that that is an angry statement.
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50:59
You're fired.
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51:02
We discussed that last week. To me.
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51:04
You wouldn't. You would. Yeah.
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51:06
Lewis is not at all disappointed
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51:09
by the fact that it was sad that we may be stepping on a frog
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51:14
because he's seeing that as something to eat.
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51:17
I see.
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51:19
That's funny, Lewis.
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But in the end, you're glad to see them on your plate.
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51:25
At least we know.
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51:26
We know that Lewis is in France, you see? Yes.
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51:29
And they like their frogs legs
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51:32
and the rest of the frog as well.
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51:34
Get out.
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51:35
Get out!
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51:36
Well, but we could replace frog with snail maybe.
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51:39
We know we cannot because the French eat snails.
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51:43
But of course, I know the French eat horses.
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51:47
Is there anything that the French don't eat?
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51:50
To be honest, I don't think there is. No.
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51:51
There isn't anything.
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51:52
Yeah, there isn't anything.
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It's all. It's all on the table.
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You go along the road, you're talking and there's a car coming the other way.
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Watch out.
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Often say that to you. Actually.
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Look out.
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Well, move over.
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Yes. Anyway.
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Well, we've moved on somewhat from the get out.
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52:09
You are showing anger or maybe something I often say to Mr.
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52:14
Steve, I hate you, I hate you.
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52:19
You are showing anger.
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52:21
You are showing aggression as well.
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52:24
So you will notice something here, though.
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52:26
Can you see what I've done here, Steve?
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52:29
I haven't just put one exclu
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Asian mark I've put for you.
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52:36
See Rosa, I got very greedy there.
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52:39
Rosa mentioned this,
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This is what Rosa mentioned earlier.
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Sometimes I put three or four exclamation marks and Grammarly says it's wrong.
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52:50
Yes, well, well, grammar lady,
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52:52
I'm not going to mention that name again because that's a company they can
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52:56
they can give me money if they want me to mention their name.
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52:59
But that particular product, it will often correct
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53:04
certain types of grammar formation,
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53:07
especially with formal grammar.
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53:10
So certain things that will correct your grammar will say that that is wrong.
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53:15
However, if you are writing something informally,
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53:20
casually, quite often you will do this
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53:23
because you want to show how angry you are.
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53:27
So every time you put an extra
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exclamation mark, you are increasing
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the level of anger that you are feeling to the emotion to that person you are showing.
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53:39
You are you are not just a little bit angry,
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53:42
you are full exclamation mark.
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53:46
What's the maximum? Do you think you should? Five Probably.
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53:48
You could say I love you in a text and you could put lots of exclamation marks after that.
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You know, you're just expressing that emotion.
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53:58
I hate love, but whatever it is.
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54:00
But yes, generally it's not a good idea.
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54:05
I mean I mean, think is it
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54:08
if it's formal, if you are writing a letter
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54:12
and you want to show how excited you are to be applying
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54:16
for a job, don't.
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54:19
In fact, it's probably a good idea not to use exclamation marks at all.
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54:24
Informal writing.
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54:27
If you are writing a letter, if you're writing, writing something,
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54:31
you might be judged with that that person seeing you.
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54:35
I would always say beware of using any exclamation
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marks, especially especially for salary.
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54:44
No. Are you actually salary?
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No. I think it's saying get lost. Bug off the zipper.
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54:50
Shut up.
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54:51
You saying that to us or are these just examples
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54:54
of using this is this is an exclamation mark.
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54:57
I'm just joking. This is like my email inbox.
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55:01
Yes. are you directing that at somebody in the live chat?
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55:07
Yes. I don't I don't know.
891
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55:08
I know stuttering is just being chattering is just joking.
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55:12
Well, they are examples, you see, of the way you can use exclamation marks.
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55:16
I think that is what is happening.
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55:18
So my advice is if you are going to use exclamation marks,
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55:24
if you are writing something casually, maybe you can use one.
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55:29
But you have to be careful.
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55:30
If you start using more than one.
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55:33
It's a bit like capitalising
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55:36
your text when you're writing, when you're typing,
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55:39
they can make you come across as slightly
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55:42
aggressive or even crazy.
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55:46
So you have to be careful so that you see
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55:49
looks very expressive.
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55:52
But if you wrote that to someone, it might also make you look a little bit,
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55:56
a little bit mad and mean I'm guilty of this.
906
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56:01
When I write texts to people, I'm often guilty
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56:05
of putting exclamation marks and then I reread it before send it.
908
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56:09
That's always a good idea, isn't it?
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56:10
To reread your text before you send it.
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56:13
Just to make what face?
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56:15
I want to make sure you're sending it to the right person.
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56:17
And secondly, to check that what you want to say is right, because it's very difficult
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56:20
to get emotion across in a text because they're very short
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56:26
and there's no sort of build up.
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56:27
You can't write a lot of things in a text is too cumbersome,
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56:30
so you tend to put exclamation marks to make people notice what you said.
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56:35
And sometimes I'll read back, look through my text before I send them,
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56:39
and I've put exclamation marks out to the end of every little sentence.
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56:43
And so I go back and take them off. Yes.
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56:45
Well, I can see now, Steve, that that is definitely not a good idea.
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56:50
However, that is the reason why we have emojis.
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56:54
The whole reason for emojis
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57:00
is so whatever you are typing is more clear.
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57:04
The emotion that you are conveying is clear
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57:07
and concise, and the emoji will show how you're feeling.
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57:12
Or maybe what that thing is.
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57:15
If it is a joke, if you are being light hearted
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57:19
and making fun and having a laugh,
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57:22
maybe you are trying to cheer someone up,
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57:25
then you will put a smiley emoji.
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57:29
Or maybe if you are feeling a little sad, maybe you put a sad face.
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57:34
So I think text is very good,
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57:38
but emojis are useful as well.
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57:41
They are very useful for conveying that moment.
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57:44
They are in a text because you you can't write, You're not writing a long
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piece.
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57:51
You're not writing a lot by you could explain more about what's on in the context.
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57:56
It is a short text, so you don't want to be the whole point of a text messages.
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58:01
You don't have to write lots and lots to be understood.
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58:04
Yes, some emojis are useful.
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58:06
Exclamation marks or activation point.
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58:10
It can cause an exclamation point quite often in the U.S.
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58:13
in American English, they will call it an exclamation point.
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58:17
We call it an exclamation mark. Yes.
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58:20
So you can use these are useful on the phone because you're not writing a lot of things. Yes.
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58:26
And the emojis are very useful for that. Yeah.
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58:29
I'm going to make a confession.
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58:32
I don't like reading long texts or long emails.
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58:37
I like.
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58:38
I like things that get straight to the point.
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58:41
So I do like reading messages.
952
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58:43
That's why I don't really like Twitter anymore.
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58:46
Because since since they've allowed people to to write very long posts,
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58:52
I, I don't have
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58:54
time to read 50 paragraphs
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58:58
on, on the current world situation
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59:01
according to another user on Twitter or as they call it now X.
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59:06
So I don't have time for that.
959
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59:08
So I do prefer things to be short and succinct.
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59:15
I like that word, something that is brief, something that is short.
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59:19
So you are not taking up too much of the other person's time.
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59:24
Yes, there are going to be issues, as you say, something there about
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59:27
if people are using emojis a lot here, the thumbs up, that's a common one.
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59:31
Thumbs up. Yeah, I agree. Good.
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59:34
If you don't if you haven't got much time, maybe and you don't want to say too much
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59:39
because sometimes, you know, you haven't got time to keep replying to people's texts.
967
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59:42
So I often like using the one of the face,
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59:47
the evil one where
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59:49
people are crying and there's lots of crying coming out.
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59:52
You're laughing so much you're crying.
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59:55
I like that emoji.
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59:56
I like the thumbs up one and the one.
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59:59
We're not talking about emojis.
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60:00
I like the one with the somebody with sunglasses on.
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60:03
I like the poo, I like the poop one.
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60:06
I use that.
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60:07
I use that quite a lot.
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Especially when people reply to me.
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60:10
Sometimes I will reply to them with a big emoji poop because you often fear
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60:14
if somebody write you a text, you've got to reply to it in some way.
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60:19
Otherwise they think you haven't read it and people get upset if they don't get replies to text.
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60:23
So just a little emoji is a quick way of saying, yes, I've read it.
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60:28
Yes, but I know I agree with it, which will drifting once texting.
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60:33
Drifting. We are talking about exclamation marks.
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60:36
You might also use it to express
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60:40
surprise surprise.
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60:43
Mr. Steve.
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60:49
surprise.
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60:50
So quite often, if a person is surprised
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60:53
or maybe delighted by something, you will use an exclamation mark.
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60:59
You only need to use one.
992
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61:01
You don't need to use 20.
993
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61:04
Just one will do.
994
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61:06
You might be surprised by something.
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61:08
Maybe Mr.
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61:09
Steve comes home with a big surprise for me.
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61:15
something lovely. Maybe he's.
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61:17
He's bought me a surprise gift
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61:20
and I open it and I go, wow.
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61:24
Wow, wow, wow, wow.
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61:29
But often in texts, people will use it after just saying, you know,
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61:33
I saw Angela the other day, exclamation mark.
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61:38
You know, you don't need that really.
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61:41
You were obviously expressing the fact you were surprise.
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61:45
That's it.
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Well, actually, you can you see that?
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61:47
I know you can, but people, you know know that well.
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61:50
Do you all agree with me?
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61:51
I mean, argument in English.
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61:53
In English, you can use.
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61:55
So if you are expressing surprise in text, in that sense, you can use it.
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62:01
So I saw Angela the other day exclaim, and Mark, that is good.
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62:06
That's okay.
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62:07
You can do that because you are expressing to that person
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62:12
without them hearing your voice.
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62:15
That is a surprising thing.
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62:18
So that's okay.
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62:19
So there are situations where you want to convey that surprise and that's what said earlier.
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62:25
The exclamation mark is a visual.
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62:28
It's a visual
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62:30
way of letting the person
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62:32
know that that thing is is out of the ordinary.
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62:36
But then if you do something different, if you then wrote two or three of the sentences
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62:41
after that and always put exclamation marks after them,
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62:44
the first one would be lost or the Elizabethan text.
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62:47
So use it sparingly.
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62:49
You could say, I saw Angela the other day,
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62:53
exclamation mark, or you could that.
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62:55
But then you put she, she was wearing a short dress. Yes.
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63:00
Exclamation mark.
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63:02
But if you put it on the first if you took it off
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63:05
the first sentence, the second sentence would have more impact. Yes.
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63:09
So if you're writing several sentences in a text,
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63:12
you want the exclamation mark on the most important bit about that text.
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63:16
That's it.
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63:17
So wherever wherever you want the stress to be, yeah, that is where the exclamation mark will be.
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63:23
As a wise. It's like crying wolf.
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63:26
You can't always be excited all the time, but every little thing in a text anyway.
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63:31
Next, the imperative and imperative,
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63:35
as I said earlier, is normally used as urgency,
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63:42
something that want that person to understand
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63:45
very quickly an imperative.
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63:48
For example, we might we might tell a person
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63:51
at school, the teachers at school used to say this to me
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63:56
quite often when I was late for class.
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64:00
They would say, Don't run, don't run, don't run.
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64:04
You are telling that person, don't run.
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64:07
And the teacher would shout at the top of their voice
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64:11
and they are telling me they are giving me information.
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64:15
They are telling me something that I have to obey.
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64:20
It is an imperative if.
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64:22
It is something that is being ordered, you are being instructed.
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64:28
You are being told normally in an angry
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64:32
or surprised way, don't run, don't run.
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64:35
But then we went to our little favourite tea
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64:39
shop yesterday for a cup of tea, a cup of coffee and a cake,
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64:43
and they got an inappropriate use of the exclamation mark
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64:48
and they so they this particular place,
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64:50
they don't come to your table you have to go to the.
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64:53
I am going to mention that. Okay.
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64:56
I thought we were going so I thought no we're not going just yet because I have a few more to look at.
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65:02
Another one.
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65:02
Steve, hurry up, hurry up.
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65:06
So maybe we are going on a walk together and I am going very slow because.
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65:11
Because my legs.
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65:15
Sorry.
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65:16
It's alright, Karen.
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65:17
Explain that to me now. Yes, yes, yes and no.
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65:20
Carry on going.
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65:20
I say I like it when Mr. Steve corrects me.
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65:24
Is that, is that okay.
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65:25
Well I just said yeah, carry on, corrects me.
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65:28
So if I'm walking slowly
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65:32
or at a slow pace,
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65:36
sit. Yes, Mr.
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65:37
Steve might shout, Hurry up, hurry up, because I'm going
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65:44
dragging my feet along the ground, going so slowly.
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65:50
And that's, that's, that's it really.
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65:53
That's all I want to say about that.
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It's fine here.
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65:56
Here is a good use of good use. No,
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66:02
a good example.
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66:03
right.
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66:04
Here is a good example of incorrect
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66:07
use of the exclamation mark.
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66:11
So this is something that is said quite often in a friendly way.
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66:16
You would never put an exclamation mark
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66:19
at the end of your sincerely at the end of a letter
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66:24
because you are being honest
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66:27
or you are being sincere as the word suggests.
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66:32
So there are situations where you don't need or
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66:35
you don't have to put the exclamation mark
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66:38
because the word itself is expressing the feeling
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66:43
it is saying this is what I mean,
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66:47
so sincerely is always a positive thing.
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66:52
Yours sincerely.
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66:54
And if it doesn't, if that is not right, appropriate to say it in that way.
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67:00
Because if you're putting an exclamation mark, then you're raising your voice when you say that thing,
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67:05
that's what that is indicating to you or lots of emotion in there.
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67:10
Then if it's if it doesn't feel appropriate when you say it back to yourself,
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67:14
then take the exclamation point.
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67:16
Yes, but but my guide is if the word is positive,
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67:21
you don't need to express it any more than the word that you're using.
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67:27
So in that situation, yours
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67:29
sincerely, it isn't yours sincerely.
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Yeah, that's what I mean.
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He wouldn't say that's it with a raised voice. Next one.
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Now this
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can or cannot be used with an exclamation mark.
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What do you think, Steve?
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Do you think this is a good use of an exclamation mark or bad to use?
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Depends where. It depends on the context.
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As with all of these, it would depend on the context where that
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particular phrase was being used. Yes.
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You know, if it was,
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I don't know, the police station or something,
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they might be trying to give you an order.
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That's almost that.
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The exclamation mark on that phrase is giving an order.
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So if you are really giving an order, you might want an exclamation mark.
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But if it's just say in a waiting room, say going to the doctors
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or and it says, you know, please wait here.
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You wouldn't want an exclamation mark then, because you wouldn't
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let the doctor to be shouting at you in writing.
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This would be wrong.
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It would be wrong
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to put an exclamation mark there because.
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If you are using please, you never use please,
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and then shout and in an aggressive way
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in writing, you often don't put exclamation marks at the end of a sentence
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where you are clearly defining something that is not aggressive.
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so unless of course you were being ironic in that sense.
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But that is a very particular situation.
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So if you didn't have please there, if it was just wait here, you could put an exclamation mark.
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Wait. Hanging on the situation. Yes.
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But if you're saying please,
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then you wouldn't shout.
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Please wait here, which the exclamation mark is suggesting.
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So it's always really exclamation mark.
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It's always you always raising your voice, aren't you? Yes.
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You're saying.
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Well, as I've given you the examples of a warning
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or instruction or an imperative or surprise.
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So this is just a simple instruction.
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Please wait here. Please wait here.
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You don't need to shout.
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You don't need to scream about that one another.
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What do you think of this one, Mr.
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Steve? Isn't this a lovely day?
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Yeah. You.
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You could do.
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You could definitely put an exclamation mark after that
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because you might be saying, Isn't it a lovely day?
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You want to exclaim the fact that you think it's a lovely day,
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but it depends on the context of the rest of the sentence.
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But you might just say, Isn't it a lovely day and you might not want to put an exclamation.
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Yeah, if you want to say it in a gentle way.
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So I think in this situation, because you're using the word lovely, it is a positive
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sentence.
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However, maybe in this sense you might be also
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expressing surprise that it is a lovely day.
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You might come outside and go he it a lovely day
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and yes, then that sense
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I would say that the exclamation mark would be useful.
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Yes, it would serve a purpose.
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If you're saying that's almost that you're surprised.
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So yes, if the emotion is high
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in the sentence and you can put an exclamation point.
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But as we said, that particular phrase could be said in different
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you could just say this is a lovely day.
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And if you said it like that, you wouldn't put an exclamation mark.
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But if you said, isn't it a love day and you know, you're really surprise
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and you're happy, you might convey that extra emotion by putting the exclamation mark on that.
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And that particular emotion might be or will probably be surprise.
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And here is the one that Mr.
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Steve was about to talk about.
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So now you can talk about it here.
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Please order at the till.
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First of all, I will explain till means
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the place where you pay for something.
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So quite often we will say at the cash register
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or the clerk or the till the person who is taking the money.
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So please order at the till
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or please order your food at the till.
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So we saw this yesterday didn't we. This sign.
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Yeah.
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Because this particular cafe that we go to, they don't come to your table.
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There's no table service which if you Louis would find
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that very odd, you go to a restaurant and somebody wouldn't come to your table.
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But in the UK quite often you have to you sit then to order
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what you want a cup of coffee, you have to go to the table and
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place the order that way. Yes.
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So there's signs when you go and sit down, there are signs near the tables
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telling you that basically no one's going to come and take your order.
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So if you want a drink, you've got go up to the tent yourself.
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But here, no, I noticed this when I looked at the sign
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and I said to Steve, I said, I don't think that needs to have an exclamation.
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No, because you're not you're not ordering them.
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You're not, you're not shouting at them.
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Please order at the till.
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Yeah. You don't want that really.
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It's almost like they're saying you idiots, you know.
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Yeah.
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You stupid idiot.
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Don't sit there waiting for us to serve you.
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You have to go to the till to ask for your food.
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So please order at the till because you've used the word please.
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You don't need to have an exclamation mark at the end.
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Yeah, because.
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Yeah, this is actually a friendly message.
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This is a kind message.
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This is this is not aggressive.
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This is kind. Yes.
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They've turned it into an aggressive phrase, whereas in fact, it's they're putting it out anyway.
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It's an inconvenience for you to have to go to the till to order anyway.
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So you don't want to shout at people, You don't have a point, you know,
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you do want to highlight the fact that you're actually inconveniencing your customers
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because you can't be bothered to come over and serve the table.
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That's your decision as a as a as a as a business.
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It's it's like being ordered in a Army camp
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or maybe if you are a prisoner or something.
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So you don't say, please order at the till.
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You say, please order the till.
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Please order at the till or place your order at the till.
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Please place your order at the till.
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We don't have to use an exclamation mark when we're not angry with you
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because you don't realise that that's the situation.
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So What? We're just asking you nicely.
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Maybe, Gareth.
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And that is it.
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So the final one.
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The final one before we go.
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What do you think, Mr. Steve?
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Is this a good use of the exclamation mark. Yes.
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Because you're.
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Yeah, you're, you're expressing an emotion that.
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It's my pleasure.
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Yeah. So it's a high emotion.
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An emotion of, you know, you saying you
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like doing whatever it is you're doing
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so you might want to you might want to put an exclamation
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mark to indicate that you are really
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very, really pleased about whatever it is you've just done.
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Yes, it's my pleasure. It's my pleasure.
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It is my pleasure being here with you every Sunday to do this.
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It is my pleasure. It's not a problem.
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Maybe a person who is serving you in a restaurant,
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maybe you've already ordered your food from table.
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And then they bring the food and you say thank you.
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Thank you.
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So that could also have an exclamation mark because you are expressing the feelings.
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Thank you.
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Thank you so much. Thank you very much.
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And then the person will reply with, It's my pleasure.
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It's my pleasure. It's my pleasure.
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You're welcome. You're welcome. No problem.
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You're welcome.
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So again, in that situation, quite often
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you would probably put an exclamation mark at the end
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just to show that that person is being civil.
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They are showing some sort of emotion.
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So I think it's fair to say that the exclamation mark is an emotional
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punctuation mark.
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Yeah, whatever that emotion is.
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I'm happy sad, angry, Yeah, Love.
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Wherever the emotion is.
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An exclamation mark will will indicate
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that your level emotion is is high. Yes.
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The extreme in that emotion is the extremes of feeling
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maybe that you want to put into words.
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So maybe the words are not enough.
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Maybe you will put an exclamation mark.
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But don't forget, not too many.
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This really has I haven't shaved Mr. Duncan.
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That's around a bit right?
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It's a bit like now because by going rough duo Mr.
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Duncan
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anyway, right?
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Yes, I'm hungry.
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So that is today's lesson out of the way.
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It's finished.
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It is time to say goodbye.
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Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye.
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I hope you've enjoyed
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this lesson.
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And I hope it's been fun.
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Do I need exclamation marks there?
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Yes. Maybe, maybe, maybe not.
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Maybe. Well, you said it in an emotional way.
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If you just said.
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I hope you've fun, you wouldn't have put an exclamation mark.
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But as you said, I hope you've had fun.
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Exclamation mark would be appropriate in that case.
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But, you know. Yes.
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Thank you very much for your company.
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I am back on Wednesday, Wednesday from 2 p.m.
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UK time.
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I'm also working on some new lessons, some longer lessons.
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Now I've been putting short lessons on which which are very short,
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but I've just I've decided to write some longer ones
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like I used to, so I'm going to be doing that over the next couple of weeks,
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making some slightly longer lessons
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and hopefully they will be enjoyable to you.
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So it's time to go.
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Thank you very much for company.
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Don't forget to give me a lovely hold.
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It's still There you go.
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You can wave it like that if you want.
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Well, if I'm doing it.
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Not that you see I'm trying to get I'm trying to get noticed. Yes.
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Yeah. You trust me?
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You are already noticed.
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We've all noticed you, Mr. Steve.
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Thank you for your company.
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See you later.
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And pages puts at the end to green, which looked like marijuana leaves,
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but I'm sure they're not
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as emojis.
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After the end of the day, they look like clovers.
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They are close, but it is my eyes.
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And because it's small on here, that could be taken as something else.
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You know, Who knows?
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I'm joking. I'm joking.
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I was talking to Steve yesterday about being careful.
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What we say on the live chat because of the algorithms and they're Steve already doing it anyway.
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See you on Wednesday.
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Yes. You okay, Beatrice?
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He's done it again. Okay.
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See you on Wednesday around 2 p.m.
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UK time and I will do this again.
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Don't forget to like this
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79:22
and also subscribe as well if you haven't already done so, take the bell to bell.
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Yes. Don't forget to ask for you for the notifications
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and you will never miss this ever again.
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Thanks for the company.
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See you later. And of course,
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until the next time we meet here on YouTube.
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You know what's coming next. Yes, you do.
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By the way, Mr.
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Steve is not wearing his ring
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again again.
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He's not wearing it.
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I'm wearing mine.
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You can see.
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In fact, I've glued it.
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I've actually put some superglue on my ring.
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Well, no, on on this ring.
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right.
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And now it won't come off at all.
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So I never have an excuse for losing it.
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See you on Wednesday.
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And of course, until the next time we meet.
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Are you ready, Steve? I am
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ta ta
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for now
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that's different!
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