STOP SAYING "Crazy" - Improve your English vocabulary

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I just watched Game of Thrones
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and we need to talk
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about this word crazy because sometimes it's not enough
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Okay so we have the common adjectives "Crazy"
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We also have mad if you've seen
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Game of Thrones you'll be familiar with this word "Mad"
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it means the same as "crazy"
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but here are some other adjectives you could use to describe a crazy person
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What the hell!
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So we can also say "Nuts" "Bonkers", "Mental", "Insane"
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these ones are quick words you can use to say this person did
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something so ridiculous that this is the only thing you can say to them
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pronunciation nuts these two are very British bonkers mental you are bonkers
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you're absolutely bonkers repeat after me
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you're absolutely bonkers you're mental notice the L in mental because it's more
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British sounding will make that L into an L mental mental you are mental and of
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course insane you're insane these two are also adjectives but more commonly we
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use them to describe a situation more than a person you you can use them to
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describe a person but it would be more about their behavior your behavior is
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ridiculous the way you're acting is ludicrous these
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are just extreme adjectives very very crazy also these are common when you
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respond out of surprise it's really common to do that actually so for
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example oh my god I got fired from my job today
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no that's ridiculous that kind of thing it's very common to hear that way of
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speaking okay okay we also have really fun
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expressions with this so here are fun expressions you can use to be out of
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one's mind or to be off of one's rocker so when we say ones thing you change the
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pronoun there for example if it's a blonde dragon writing female you might
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say the female pronoun her the full sentence she a version of be whether
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it's present or past in this case we'll use present she is out of her mind
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you can modify this with the word damn and this sounds really strong for
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example she is out of her damn mind if you watch this series suits they say
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this every episode you're out of your mind every episode trust me again this
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one let's use the male pronoun so he again present is off of his rocker he's
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off his rocker often in pronunciation you might notice that of we can just
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leave it so it sounds like this he's off his rocker so we just say he's off his
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rocker he's off his rocker and we have a few of these types of
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expressions to imply the person's brain is not complete so there may be
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aggressive or violent right so we could say to be a sandwich short of a picnic
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full sentence I met this guy yesterday and he let's use past tense I met this
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guy yesterday and he was a sandwich short of a picnic he tried to steal my
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phone or be not playing with a full deck so we use a negative here let's use
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I met this crazy girl yesterday she she wasn't playing with a full deck did you
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see that last episode of Game of Thrones I don't think she's playing with a full
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deck and finally not all of one's dogs are barking again we changed that
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pronoun right so here's that Trump idiot he says some crazy things I think not
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all his dogs are barking again you might notice that that of drops not all his
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dogs are barking that's that's more how you'd say it not
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all his dogs are barking okay so practice those let me know in
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the comments these similar to something in your language tell me how they
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translate to English from your language also like I said we need to talk so let
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me know what you thought about that last episode of Game of Thrones or if you're
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watching this in the future final season episode 5 what the hell
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what the hell thanks for watching if you like this subscribe if you want
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seen the next class
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