Let's Learn English! Topic: Describing Things You Buy! ⛽⌚💎 (Lesson Only)

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Learn English with Bob the Canadian


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Well hello and welcome to this English lesson about describing
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things you buy. You can't really go through life without
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buying things. So there's probably things that you've
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bought that you already own. Or things that you want to buy or
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are going to buy. And it's nice to be able to describe those
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things. There's a variety of words in English that we use to
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describe the things we buy. Um sometimes used to express what
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we think about it. Before we buy it the reason we want to
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buy it or to describe it after we bought it. Some of these
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words will be very positive. Some will be a little bit
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negative. But once again welcome to this English lesson
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where we're going to learn to describe the things that we've
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bought or the things that we're going to buy. Premium. So when
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I buy gas I buy regular gas. So if you look here there are
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three different types of gas. There's regular and there's and
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there's premium. Premium is a word we use to describe
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something that we buy that's of very high quality. If you buy
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cheese you can buy buy premium cheese. It's the best cheese.
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Maybe it's been aged for three years instead of one year. When
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you buy gas in Canada you can buy premium. There's other
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words too. When you buy gas you can buy plus and super and
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super plus. We have a lot of different words. Um Bob
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generally buys regular because he just drives normal vans. I
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don't drive a sports car. Um and by the way the prices there
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are not the Canadian prices. Unless you put a one in front.
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Like a dollar fifty-four a litre would be right. I think
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this might be American pricing. I'm not sure. But premium. A
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way to describe something that is very high quality. Which is
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the next word. When you buy something that's high quality
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it's made really well. They view Used the best materials
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when they've made it. And they've really made sure when
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they make it that they take their time and do it properly.
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If you've ever bought in a high quality belt it lasts for
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years. When you buy a high quality belt the buckle on the
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belt is very very well made. When you buy a high quality
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belt they use the best materials. The best leather or
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any other material that they're using. So high quality means
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the best material and they were very careful and worked
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cautiously no not cautiously. They worked carefully and with
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a lot of care when they put it together. Which is the opposite
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of low quality. I'm sure you've bought something before that's
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low quality. If you buy low quality jewelry sometimes it
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breaks really easily. Sometimes the clasp on the necklace will
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stop working. The clasp is where it connects together on
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the back. If you buy a low quality belt sometimes the
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buckle breaks or maybe some of the thread starts to come out.
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So high quality well made good materials. Low quality. Just
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not made well at all and very low quality materials as well.
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We also use the phrase well made. In Canada it's well known
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that Japanese cars are well made. A lot of the cars in
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Canada that are imports. The cars that come from other
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countries are very well made. American cars are well made as
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well. But there was a time when people really like to buy Honda
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cars in particular they still do by the way. Or Toyota cars
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because they're very well made. At the factory the people who
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are building the car have very high standards. They always do
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a good job when they're building the car. And so when
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the car is finished it's considered to be well made.
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When people buy a car like that it lasts a very long time and
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doesn't need to be fixed very often. So a well made car is
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just put together with care. When the people are building it
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at the factory they do a really good job and they always use
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parts when they build a car that are well as well. Poorly
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made. So I apologize to anyone who is from America. This is an
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American car. This is a poorly made car or was known to be
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poorly made. It had some design flaws. One of the problems with
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this car is that it very easily if it got in an accident bad
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things could happen. It wasn't very well made. So we would say
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it was poorly made. I believe this is a pinto but I'm not
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100% sure. So a poorly made car the design itself is bad.
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Perhaps the way it was put together is bad and the
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materials that were used were bad as well. Poorly made. And
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then sometimes we just in English say something is junk.
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So junk is usually used to refer to things you don't want
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anymore. Um so you throw so trash garbage junk. We use
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those words somewhat interchangeably. But we also
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some Sometimes we'll just say oh I bought a new purse and the
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strap is already getting frayed. You see how it's
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getting frayed. Someone might say ah it's just junk or they
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might say it's a piece of junk. So it's another way to describe
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something that's poorly made. You might just call it junk. Or
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you might call it a piece of junk. I in the past have bought
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many things where I'm like ah this bike is just junk. Or I
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did have a belt once that was just junk. A piece of junk.
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Work of art. So art is something beautiful that people
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make. A painting or a sculpture. A work of art can be
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a painting or sculpture as well. But sometimes you will
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want to buy something like an iMac. Uh which is just so well
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designed. And looks so nice that you would say it's a work
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of art. Have you seen the new iMac? Oh it's a work of art. It
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means that you like the way it's designed. You like the
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curves and the edges and how it looks and the metal and plastic
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that they use to build it. So if you ever buy something
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that's just beautiful as well as functional you would maybe
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describe it as a work of art. Flawless. So flawless is often
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used to describe something like a pearl or a diamond but it can
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be used to describe many things. It means that it has no
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flaws. So there's no imperfections. So a flawless
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pearl. There's no like it's perfect round. It doesn't have
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any marks on it. There's no small holes. It's not
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misshapen. It's a perfect sphere. So you would say it's
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flawless. I used a lot of words there. You might have to rewind
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and listen to that part again. But when something is flawless
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it means there's no mistakes. There's no flaws. Um there's no
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blemishes. There's another word for you. And often used to
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describe something like you know if a diamond is cut
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perfectly. It's a flawless diamond. Or if you buy a
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perfectly spherical pearl. You might say that it is flawless.
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And then we have handcrafted. So handcrafted is used to refer
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to anything that is made by hand that is made with
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someone's hands instead of a machine. So when something is
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handcrafted someone took the time to make it with their
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hands. Jen sells bouquets and we call them handcrafted
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bouquets. She puts them together one stem at a time.
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She doesn't put all the flowers in a machine and a bouquet
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comes out the other end. Every bouquet is handcrafted. So it
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also communicates to someone that each one is unique. A
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machine makes perfect copies when it makes something. But
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when something is handcrafted each item the person makes
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usually is a little different than the one before. So it's
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handcrafted. Perfect. So perfect is used to describe
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again something that has no flaws. Or even that looks
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beautiful. Often a bride will describe their wedding dress by
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saying it's perfect. Or someone will say did see her dress it
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was perfect. So it just means something that's really well
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made. Something that was made with great care. Um something
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that's good for the situation as well. So if I bought a bike
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because I was going on a long bike ride someone could say how
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was the bike? And I could say oh it was perfect. It was
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exactly the right bike for the trip that I went on. So when
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something's perfect it's just awesome in every way. So
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there's three words I'm going to teach together here,
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inferior, superior and extraordinary. And I'm going to
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use my the three kinds of ice cream we buy. You'll notice
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there's French on some of these. Because in Canada
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sometimes both languages or both languages are always on
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everything. But when I buy this brand of ice cream hopefully
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the company that makes it doesn't doesn't watch this
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video. I feel like it's inferior. I'm comparing it to
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this kind of ice cream which is better. It's superior. And this
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kind of ice cream which is extraordinary. So inferior
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means low quality. The ingredients aren't the best
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ingredients. It in fact this ice cream has fewer
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ingredients. The extraordinary. Um it just has cream and sugar
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and a couple other things in it. But this one has a lot of
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ingredients. It tastes okay. It's not amazing. Um in English
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we might say it hits the spot like if it's a hot day and you
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want ice cream. I will eat this kind with some chocolate sauce
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on it. But it's not as good as the other two. It's an inferior
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product. This is a superior product to this definitely.
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This is really good ice cream. In fact yesterday at the market
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there's a shop an ice cream shop that sells this ice cream
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and I had two scoops of mint chocolate chip. It was tasty.
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This ice cream though amazing. It's the best ice cream that I
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can buy. Um it's also a little bit expensive. But it is made
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with the best ingredients. It's made with high quality cream.
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Um it's made with a recipe from 50 years ago where it's just a
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simple awesome ice cream. So three different words inferior
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not as good superior better and extraordinary like the best.
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This is an extraordinary ice cream. You know some in English
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we will over pronounce this word we'll say something like
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ah it's extraordinary. But the fast way to say it is
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extraordinary. It's extraordinary. But sometimes
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just to be fun we will say extraordinary. Maybe just Bob
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says that. Run of the mill. So when something is run of the
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mill it's just normal. Maybe you went to a restaurant and
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you had green beans and someone says oh did you have those new
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green beans? Those new amazing ones. The new variety. You can
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say no it's just a run of the mill green bean. So it just
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means you had an ordinary bean. There was nothing special about
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it. Um when we buy strawberries we just buy run of the mill
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strawberries. When I buy let me see I'm trying to think of
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another example. I'll leave it with those. But basically run
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of the mill simply means ordinary. Nothing special about
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it. And then we just have the word ordinary. So when you buy
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a car if you buy you know just a simple four door car with
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nothing extra. It doesn't have a bigger engine. It doesn't
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have big 17 inch wheels. Like there are a lot of extra things
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you can put on a car. But sometimes you just need an
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ordinary car. A normal car. An average car. So to me this is
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just an ordinary car right now. It's a little newer than what I
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would own. But when I go for a walk there's a lot of very
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ordinary cars on the road. Just simple four door car used to
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get people where they need to go to get them to work or get
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them to school. Commonplace. So I just realized this is a
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lesson where I'm trying to talk about things you buy and nobody
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buys dandelion. So this is a bad picture but it is good for
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the word commonplace. If someone said do you have
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dandelions? That's what this type of flower or it's actually
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a weed. If someone said do you have dandelions in Canada? I
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would say oh they're commonplace. This simply means
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they're everywhere. When I look out the window I can see
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dandelions. When I drive to work I see dandelions. When I
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get to work the lawn has dandelions and So they are
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commonplace. If you were to ask something I'm trying to think
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of something you buy. Oh if someone said are do people eat
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breakfast cereal in Canada? You would say oh yeah breakfast
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cereals are commonplace. There's a whole aisle of
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breakfast cereal in the grocery store in my grocery store. So
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when something is commonplace it means it is everywhere.
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Grade A. So there's a number of different ways to specify
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quality. Sometimes things are rated grade A sometimes they're
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graded triple A when you buy things like vegetables you can
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buy grade A vegetables. That means when they harvested the
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vegetables. They took the best vegetables and said these are
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the best and they put them in one spot. And then there's less
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good vegetables that in other spots. So grade A simply means
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the best. So in any kind of sorting process we often use
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this for meat as well. Grade A or triple A grade meat. So
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lackluster. So this is now more negative. When something is
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lackluster it's it's less than ordinary. Um it there's nothing
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really that exciting about it. So you might buy a watch and
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this watch has a simple black band a simple white face and it
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tells the time but it doesn't tell you the month. It doesn't
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tell you anything else. It's a very Trying to think of another
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word for it. Like it's a the base model. There's nothing
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exceptional about it. So we would say it's lackluster. So
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my son bought a watch. I'll show you what watch he bought
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in a little bit. And it's kind of fancier. So this would be
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just a plain watch. Um a normal watch. And then not nothing
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exciting about it. You wouldn't see someone wearing this watch
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and then go home and tell someone oh you should have seen
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my boss's new watch. If your boss this watch, you probably
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wouldn't even notice it. Garden variety. So this is another
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phrase we use to describe something that's ordinary or
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normal. So if you get the flu or if you get COVID if you have
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the flu let me back up. If you were sick and someone said oh
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you have the flu. Do you have COVID? You might say no I just
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have a garden variety flu. Garden variety means like just
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the normal flu. Oh do you have pneumonia I just have a garden
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variety cold. So I have the normal cold. So it just refers
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to something that is ordinary or normal. Was kind of funny
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because I made this lesson and then last night at market I was
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talking to the vendor beside me and he said well you know you
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get what you pay for and I thought oh I I should go home
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and put that phrase in this lesson. In English when someone
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says you get what you pay for. They usually mean that you have
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something that isn't working right. But you bought something
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cheap. So if I was to buy a really cheap car and it a day
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later. My brother might say well you get what you pay for.
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If I was to buy cookies and those cookies were half the
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price of all the other cookies in the store and if I took a
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bite and I was like oh this does not taste good. Jen could
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say well you get what you pay for. Basically it's kind of a
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saying saying well you didn't pay enough for that so why are
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you surprised that it broke or doesn't taste good or whatever.
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So you get what you pay for. So we have a couple phrases to
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talk about things that are kind of ordinary. I've gone over a
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few already. But one would be plain vanilla. Or even just
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vanilla. Vanilla is a flavour. But we also use it to describe
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the ordinary version of something. If I bought a new
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minivan there are three different options. The bottom
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option the cheapest option. I might just call it plain
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vanilla. It doesn't mean the van is white. All it means is
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that if I was to buy the $30, 000 van or the $40, 000 van or
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the $50, 000 van I would describe the cheapest option as
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plain vanilla. It doesn't have any of the extras. It's just
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the normal version. I bought a new phone there are three
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versions of this phone. A Pixel 7 A, a Pixel 7, and a Pixel 7
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Pro. I just bought the plain Vanilla Pixel 7 A. I didn't
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spend extra money for the Pixel or the Pixel 7 pro. Okay so
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it's just another way to describe usually if there's
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more than one option the lowest option available to you. Top
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notch. So I think I've taught this word before in another
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lesson. When something is top notch it is the best or at
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least one of the best. Um my mother-in-law makes really good
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pie. It's top notch. That means that when I think about all of
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the different pie I've eaten in my life. Hers is really really
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well made. I really like it. It is top notch. When I talked
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about ice cream the ice cream that I described as
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extraordinary. I could also say is top notch. Oh that ice cream
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is top notch. I love it. It is some of the best ice cream.
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Professional. So sometimes we say professional grade.
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Sometimes we say it's the professional series. When they
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make certain things they make it they make certain things for
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normal people. And then for people who do that as a job. So
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something like tools. This is a great example. You can go and
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buy ordinary tools. But you can also Buy professional grade
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tools. They're more expensive. But they they just last longer.
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They do a better job. So if you and you don't have to be a a
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professional to buy professional grade tools. It's
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just a way to describe them. So when I buy tools I usually
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spend a little more money to buy professional grade tools or
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professional tools because they last longer on the farm. They
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work better. Cream of the crop. So cream of the crop is used to
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describe the best of anything. It doesn't have to be fruit. It
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can be almost anything. But when you buy apples if you buy
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the cream of the crop it means you're buying the best apples.
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No bruises. No blemishes. Um perfectly ripe. The cream of
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the crop. So if they harvest a hundred apples and ten apples
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are perfect. We would call those ten apples the cream of
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the crop. Best seller. Sometimes you go and you buy a
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book and you buy a bestseller. Sometimes an author is referred
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to as a best-selling author. So if you buy a new book and
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someone says hey is it a good book? You could say yeah did
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you know it's a best seller? Um which basically means they sold
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a lot of copies of that book. Award winning. So in Canada I'm
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sure in many other places in the world there are cooking
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competitions. Two that come to mind are sometimes there's a
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chili cook off where people go and make chili. Chili is
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something that's made with beans and hamburger and
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vegetables. If it's vegetarian chili it obviously doesn't have
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hamburger in it. But sometimes you go to a restaurant and they
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serve an award winning chili. Or an award winning soup or an
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award-winning bread. It means that they won an award
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somewhere. It means that you can buy award-winning wine in
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my area. Wine that's really good and it won an award from
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some sort of award-giving organization but if something
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is award winning, it means that at some point in time, they won
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an award, a medal or a trophy because it was so good. Top of
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the line I don't always buy top of the line computers my
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computer over there where do I click here my computer right
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here oh it's kind of hard to see it's it was a top of the
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line computer four years ago and I probably should replace
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it next year but top of the line means the best so if there
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were 10 different computers that I could buy if you buy the
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one that's the most expensive you would say it's top of the
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line I didn't actually buy the most expensive computer though.
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But anyways it still was a really good computer. In my
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mind it was top of the line. It was the best computer. It's
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getting a little old now though. Lit. So this is a newer
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word. Uh this is the watch that my son bought. Um which is
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definitely not ordinary. It's pretty cool looking. It's
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white. It has a really cool face. It has a neat name. G
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Shock. And a word that has begun I think I started hearing
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it three years ago is lit. Younger people use this word
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like oh that watch is lit. It means cool. It means awesome.
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It means amazing. Um let's get the official definition of lit.
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Meaning of lit. I wonder if it's even in the dictionary
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yet. We'll find out in a sec. Meaning of lit. Is my internet
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not working? Hm I should check to make sure the live stream
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still working.
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I think everything's working. We'll see you in a moment.
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Meaning of lit. Let's see. I don't even know if this
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definition is here. Very good impressive or exciting. Yes the
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party was lit. So there you go. Lit. Amazing. Exciting. Cool.
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Awesome. Really nice. Durable. In my in my video a couple
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weeks ago I was wearing jeans and I said I like wearing jeans
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because they're tough. They're durable. They don't rip easily.
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It's a good thing to wear on a farm. I don't roll up my pant
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legs like that though and I don't have nice shoes like
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that. This guy is stylish. Anyways, jeans are very
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durable. It's a very tough material. It doesn't get
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wrecked easily. It doesn't rip easily. So, jeans, very, very
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nice. High end. I cannot afford this but this is high-end sound
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equipment. So, high-end refers to very expensive, very well
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made. All the best materials and components. Some people
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love sound equipment and they buy high end speakers.
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Loudspeakers. They buy high end sound equipment. So it means of
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the best quality. Like super super high quality. High end. I
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would love to own sound equipment like this. When I
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listen to music it would sound amazing. So definitely high
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end. So I'm going to at four things to end. Brand new like
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new used and refurbished. So this is how we describe things
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that we buy. I bought a brand new phone. It simply means that
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noone owned this phone before me. They made this phone at the
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phone factory and they put it in a box and then eventually I
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bought it and they sent it to me. It is brand new. No
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previous owner. No one owned this before me. Like new means
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that someone owned it before you but they took really good
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care of it and you're buying it used but there's no scratches
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you wouldn't even know it was used it was so well taken care
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of so it's like new sometimes when you buy a phone you don't
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want to buy a brand new phone so you go to a store and you
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buy one that's like new so it is used but it's so it was well
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taken care of you think it's new still. And used is just
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simply a general term for anything that was owned before.
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You can buy used clothing. You can buy a used car. Uh you can
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buy a used bike. Um if someone was to buy a motorcycle you can
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say oh did you buy it new or used? Oh I bought it used. I
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can't afford a new one. So used simply means that someone owned
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it before you. Refurbished refers to something that was
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previously owned. And it's you Used but someone made sure it's
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working well. We usually use this to talk about computers
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and phones or printers. Usually electronics. Like oh did you
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buy a new printer? Uh no I bought a refurbished printer.
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That means it was used but someone who is an expert at
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printer maintenance. Hello Fly. Made sure that it's working
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well. They cleaned it. They replaced the toner. Um it looks
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almost. Um a refurbished computer is a computer where
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maybe they clean the screen, replace the battery. They made
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sure it's working and in proper order. So it is refurbished. So
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it's used but an expert has made sure that it's working
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properly again.
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