English Vocabulary & Slang to talk about AGE: retro, dated, antique, old school

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Hey guys, I'm Alex. Thanks for clicking, and welcome to this lesson on... Sorry, I can't
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read that. I'm getting old. Okay, let me put my glasses on. Oh, okay, age, vocabulary,
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and slang. Okay, that's better. So, in English, we have many ways to talk about things that
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are old. Usually, we talk about objects or people when we're talking about age. I guess
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ideas can be old as well. So, today, I will teach you some synonyms for the word old,
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as well as some slang and some common vocabulary that people use. So, for example, my computer,
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this is true, I have a laptop, and it is six years old. Now, for a computer to be six years
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old today means that it's time to buy a new one. Unfortunately, I don't have the money
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for a new computer right now, so I will have to keep using my old computer. So, my computer
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is, it's old, right? My computer is old. What are some other ways to say old? I can say
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my computer is ancient. Ancient, meaning thousands of years old, right? It's very, very dramatic,
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a bit of a slang expression. Okay, my computer is an antique. Okay, something that is an
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antique is very old. Usually, it's an object from like the 1800s or early 1900s. People
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collect antiques, and you can go to an antique shop to buy old things. Okay, now, think about
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these big, giant creatures that died millions and millions of years ago, and those creatures
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are very, very old. They are called dinosaurs. So, if I say my computer is a dinosaur, that
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means it is incredibly old. It is a dinosaur. All right, I can also say, I'm going to give
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you two expressions that are similar, closely related. My computer is dated, is dated, right?
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You see the word date, something that is dated. It's not current. It's not recent. It was,
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you know, good yesterday, but it's not good today. Now, instead of saying dated, we can
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also say out of date. It is out of date. So, if you have something that is out of date,
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again, it's not current. It's not new. It's not recent. Two more expressions. These are
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a little bit different, and they don't exactly mean the same thing as this, but they are
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in the same family of expressions. I'm going to say old school. Maybe you have heard this,
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or you've seen the movie with Will Ferrell. Okay, if I say my computer is old school,
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it's old school. The term old school generally means traditional. For example, your parents
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can be old school. So, if your parents are old school, they're traditional, not in a
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positive way. Also, I can say my computer is retro. So, again, if something is retro,
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it was in fashion in the past. It's not in fashion today. Some people like retro, though.
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You can have retro clothing, or retro video games. So, if I play Super Mario Bros. 1 or
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Donkey Kong on my Atari, those are retro games, old games that were cool back then, are still
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cool today. I think retro is a cool fashion today.
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Okay, guys, that's it. I'm so old, I forgot how to speak. If you want to test your understanding
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of this old vocabulary, ancient and antique, a dinosaur, dated, out-of-date, old school,
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retro, you can check out the quick quiz on www.engvid.com. Take care, guys, and good
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luck. See ya.
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