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Well, well, well,
don't we look snazzy?

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Hi.

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James from engVid.

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Mr. E is wearing a top hat,
has a cane, and a bow tie.

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He looks very snazzy.

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You're probably going,
"What is snazzy?

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Is that a good thing
or a bad thing?"

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Because he kind of looks a
little funny for a dressed-up worm.

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Well, what I want to introduce
you to are some words that...

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Some words that are going to mean bad, because
this lesson is actually on stop saying bad,

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but not for what you think
or the reason why you think.

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I'm going to introduce some words that actually
describe things in a bad way, but then I'm

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going to throw on the other side
some opposite words that you can use.

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Snazzy is one of them.

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The reason why I'm doing this particular lesson
is, do you need other words that don't mean

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bad?

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Because bad is a great word.

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Bad means it doesn't work, not a
good quality, it's a great, great word.

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But when we talk about people and things,
sometimes we want to dress up the words, and

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it will take us from
an intermediate stage.

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I've got a student named Liliana, and she
found that when she learned words like this,

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she went from intermediate
to an advanced stage.

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And that's what you want to do.

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Are you going to use
these words all the time?

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No.

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Will you encounter these words?

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Sure.

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So, once you go from basics, you're going
to read books, talk to different people, and

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then these words are going to come up,
like snappy, snazzy, dusty.

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And you're going to want to know what
they mean, not just an idea of them, right?

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So, today I'm going to give you, I think it's
about six words, we're going to go to the

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board,
and I'm going to give you their opposites.

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So, stop saying bad.

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Something is always bad.

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Let's use some different words,
some better words.

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You ready?

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Let's go to the board.

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All right, E,
you do look snazzy.

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I don't care what
the people say.

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Now if you look at it,
the bad words are going to be in red.

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I love seeing this on YouTube.

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Don't say these words.

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The good words are going to be in black,
okay?

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So,
first one I'm going to talk about is dowdy.

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Dowdy is like old-fashioned
or not very stylish.

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Now it's usually used for women.

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I'm not saying it can't be used for men, but
if it's a young woman and she's wearing like

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a dress that doesn't fit her and it's baggy
and it's old-fashioned, let's say she looks

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rather dowdy.

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Like, you can say it for men, but it's usually
used for women, so just understand that.

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The opposite of that is actually snazzy,
stylish, looking good, right?

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When you're being stylish or snazzy,
right?

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That's what my man looks like.

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How about this one?

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Cheesy.

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Okay.

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I don't care where you're from.

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I'm sure you've seen a movie where it's about
teenagers and they're going through so much,

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so many problems and having so much angst or
stress, and they're being played by 35-year-old

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adults.

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You know, they've got the beard
and they're like, "Sally's really sad!"

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It's like, you're old,
why are you playing a teenager?

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And then they're like, "Ah,
high school, it's just so horrible!"

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That's cheesy.

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We say it's inauthentic,
insincere.

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Also, sometimes something is cheesy, like
you go to a restaurant and they've got the

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plastic on the tables and, like, those brown
bottles with candles inside of them, and you're

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like, "Oh god,
this place is so cheesy", right?

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And we're saying it's cheap, and then because
of that, it could be considered unpleasant,

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right?

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When something's cheesy,
it makes you, ugh, alright?

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The opposite of being cheesy is elegant,
stylish, and manner.

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I wish I had a better - yeah,
I do.

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Elegant.

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Elegant.

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Elegant.

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Elegant.

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Elegant.

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Stylish.

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Alright?

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Think James Bond.

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Now, let's go over here.

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Dusty.

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I didn't want to leave the women out, because
some of you women are like, "James is so sexist.

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He talks about
women being dowdy.

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What about the men?"

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Well, I have one for the men,
ladies.

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So when you're out, and you're at the club,
and you see some guy who hasn't showered in

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a week standing there, can't afford a drink,
he's broke, has no money, maybe he looks very

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disgusting, you go,
"He's dusty."

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It means - imagine dust, and you know
what dust is when you go in your furniture?

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It's like he's so old and dirty,
he's got dust on him.

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So if a guy looks dusty, he's going to look
bad, he probably has no money, he might be

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ugly, right?

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Disgusting.

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You go, "He's dusty looking."

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Usually used for men,
not women, so there.

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That's from me to you,
gift, okay?

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Next time you tell your girlfriend, "Your
boyfriend looks dusty", she goes, "I need

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a new man."

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All right, so the opposite of
"dusty" is "successful" and "affluent".

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I want to use my glasses again and show you,
it's like that man who's got the big watch,

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the nice suit, looking good, they're successful
and affluent, and that's the opposite of being

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dusty.

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How about this one, "nasty"?

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Well, nasty means disgusting,
awful, or rude.

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If someone's being nasty to you,
they could be rude.

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You know, you go into a store,
and they're like, "What do you want?"

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And you go,
"You don't have to be nasty", right?

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Or it could be disgusting,
like, "Ew, what's on the floor?

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That's nasty!"

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You don't want to step in it.

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The opposite of that is "pleasant",
right?

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Nice, charming, and likable.

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If someone is a nasty person, they're not
very nice, but if they're pleasant, they're

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charming, right?

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Like me.

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No, not like me, like the word.

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"Gross".

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Ew, gross, that's gross,
yes, that is gross.

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Something disgusting.

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It could also be ugly, right?

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Some people think insects are gross,
or weeds are gross, which I find funny.

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Weeds are just flowers we don't like,
just saying.

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Anyway, the opposite of being
gross is being nice or beautiful.

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If you say to somebody,
"You look lovely", right?

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It's another way of saying "beautiful",
which is a nice word, right?

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I actually have a video on stop saying
"nice" and "beautiful", check it out.

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That's the opposite
of "lovely" is "gross".

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Now, how about this one,
"corny"?

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"Corny" is something that is
obvious and unsophisticated.

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It means it's very simple,
very easy, low, like for children.

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So if someone tells you a corny joke - now,
let me think of a corny joke.

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See, I can't - I don't go that way,
because I am sophisticated, I am not.

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But a corny joke might be like,
"Why did the chicken cross the road?"

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To get to KFC,
but don't - that's so corny.

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To become chicken?

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For food?

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It's a corny, unsophisticated,
obvious joke.

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Or when they say to get to the other side,
whatever.

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Sophisticated means worldly.

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Worldly means they have knowledge because
they've traveled the world, they've read,

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they've met interesting people,
been to interesting places.

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That's worldly.

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"Complex" means many details.

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The "complex" and "detailed" is opposite of
the "corny", which is obvious and easy, right?

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And not sophisticated.

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I guess that's what that is.

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Now, "tacky".

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"Tacky" is interesting, because tacky - if
something's tacky, it means it kind of - it

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sticks, too.

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But in this case, when we talk about someone
being tacky, they have bad taste, right?

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They're ugly, they're loud.

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A lot of times,
people show Americans as being tacky.

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They'll have, like, red and white and blue,
and they'll have, like, a red-white hat on,

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and they're like,
"America's number one!"

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We consider that tacky.

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Now,
am I saying Americans are tacky?

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No.

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I've seen a few trolls or haters, the people
who will go underneath going, "How dare you

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talk about America
and saying it's bad?"

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I said, "Other people say",
and they put pictures showing that.

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I'm not saying
Americans are tacky.

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But that's an example that people will go,
"Yeah, I've seen that."

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Many people do that.

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"Tacky" is being loud.

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That person in the restaurant who's speaking loudly
and being - I don't want to say "boisterous",

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because it's just
another word for you.

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So, they're loud, they're - see, I'm thinking of
all these other words I don't want to introduce

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right now, but they're loud,
and they're noisy, and they're just - ugh.

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It's tacky.

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They're bringing unwanted attention because
they're very, very - well, it's kind of gross,

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nasty, corny.

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Not nice.

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It's unpleasant.

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Okay?

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So, when you see something that is ugly, loud,
or unpleasant and in bad taste, that's tacky.

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Cool?

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The opposite of being
tacky is being tasteful.

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That is being modest, not showing too much,
not making too many - too much noise.

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Being good taste, right?

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Wearing the appropriate clothing
in the appropriate place, right?

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Or speaking in such a way that is
acceptable and pleasant to people.

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Tasteful.

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So, now that I've said - stopped saying "bad"
and shown you the other things you can say

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instead of "bad" in given situations, and
then I went a little further and said, "Hey",

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and you don't have to say that.

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Sometimes you want to say the opposite, and
I've given you words that are the exact opposite

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so you can use those.

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You've doubled your vocabulary.

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Why don't we do a little bit of a test and
see how well you've learned, and then I want

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to show you some words they
use on the other side of the pond.

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If you haven't heard that phrase, it means
when you're in Canada or the United States,

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it means England, and when you're in England,
it means Canada or the United States.

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So, I'll give you a couple from the other
side of the pond that are pretty cool that

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you can slip into your vocabulary
and start using right away.

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All right?

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Let's go.

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So, it's time to do the quiz.

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We did it.

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I gave you definitions.

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Now,
let's see how well you learned them.

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First question.

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"She took him to a something hotel that
had rats and cockroaches everywhere."

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Well, if you're like Indiana Jones, you may
not like rats or snakes or what have you.

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And what kind of
hotel would that be?

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Yeah, that'd be nasty, right?

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The opposite of pleasant.

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Not a nice place to be.

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What about number two?

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"When Mr. E gets drunk, he tells a
lot of something jokes about farts."

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Okay, some of you are going to go,
"What's a fart?"

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Gas that comes out the bottom.

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This is a burp.

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I can't even burp.

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I don't know how to burp.

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That's a burp.

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And if it comes out the other way,
that's a fart.

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It's a colloquial term or a low or
slang term for gas, passing wind.

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Okay?

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So, if someone's telling jokes and they're
drunk, and they're about farts, yeah.

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One second.

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I've got leaves.

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What the heck is leaves?

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What the heck is leaves?

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Gross.

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If you got this wrong,
this is on you.

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Jeez, come on.

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Leaves is clearly wrong.

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Lovely.

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So, which one is it?

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Gross.

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And I made a gross mistake, a very bad
mistake, at putting leaves on the board.

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Ah, okay.

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Next.

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"Her something green dress was
very stylish and looks great on her."

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What would that be,
if it's stylish and looked great?

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Would it be dowdy or snazzy?

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Yeah.

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If you remember Mr. E,
I said he looked snazzy, right?

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Because that would be in style, stylish,
versus dowdy, which means not, old-fashioned.

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Number four.

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"John liked something - restaurants - where
you could get excellent meals and a great

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atmosphere."

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And atmosphere means, you know, like if there's
music and good lighting, okay, so what's the

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atmosphere like?

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It's nice, it's bright,
it's new, what have you.

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Describes the setting.

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Well, elegant, because we know what cheesy
is, right, it's inauthentic, not sincere,

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it's cheap.

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Well, we're going to go elegant.

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An elegant restaurant,
opposite of a cheesy restaurant.

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And finally,
"Jodie's new man looked something.

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He hadn't showered in days."

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Yeah, last time I saw Elon Musk, Warren Buffet,
I'm trying to think of anyone else, Jeff Bezos.

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Yeah, they weren't looking - no,
they weren't looking dusty.

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If you guys were going, "Yes,
very successful without the shower look!"

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No, he was looking dusty.

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I mentioned a whole bunch of guys who have
lots of money who would not look dusty.

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Remember we said dusty,
unattractive, dirty in this place?

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Smelly, too.

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Whoosh.

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Alright.

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I'm going to put five
out of five on the quiz.

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Even if I made a mistake, you should get
five out of five, because I gave you one.

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That's what we call a gimme.

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Now I'm going to give you some from across
the pond that they might use in England.

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Sketchy.

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Well, that looks rather sketchy now,
doesn't it?

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It means not safe or dishonest, or if he's a
sketchy character - I don't trust him, he's

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a bit dishonest.

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If you're walking across a bridge and he goes,
"Well, that looks rather sketchy," it means

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maybe it's going
to break on you.

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How about dodgy?

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A bit dodgy.

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Now, you've got to watch one of my favourite
movies, the Christmas movie, and they talk

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about this.

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It's Love Actually, and they talk about Wadsworth,
the dodgy end, yeah, the dodgy end, and if

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you don't know what it means,
potentially dangerous.

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It's a bad area.

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So, if someone's dodgy, they look dishonest,
they're unreliable, or potentially dangerous.

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Right?

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So, that's dodgy.

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Now, what about grotty?

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Grotty comes from the word "grotesque",
which means ugly.

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In this case, when we shorten it, and English
people say it's grotty, they mean it's unpleasant

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or of poor quality, right?

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That's a rather grotty
shirt you're wearing.

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Poor quality, unpleasant,
disgusting, no good.

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These are basically British, but hey, if you're
in North America, spice up your vocabulary

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and use them.

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People will ask you, "What does that mean?" and
you'll get to have a conversation by saying,

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"Well, it's a British word
that means this", right?

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And if you're in England and you're learning
language, here's some of the things when they're

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talking about you.

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Look, look at that grotty man over there,
and you're like, "Yes, I'm grotty.

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I just got off the boat
from another country.

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I'm grotty."

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No, it's insulting,
so you should know this, all right?

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So, here's my question for you, because as
always, we have to have our homework as well

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as the extra information.

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Which one of these
is your favourite?

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Like when you were sitting there,
what were you going, "I love that one.

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I love it."

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If you love it so much, please, even if it's two
or three, make a sentence using this vocabulary.

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Put it in there.

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"The grotty man went to an elegant
restaurant and was quickly escorted out."

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Okay?

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And now that you've written a sentence about
it, think about where you're going to use

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it.

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Because the truth of the matter is, it's nice
to think about it, watch this video and learn

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it, and maybe smile a bit, maybe hopefully
I've not just entertained, but educated you.

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But if you're not going to use it, you're
taking time out of your life for no reason,

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and I don't want that.

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So, plan ahead, think of where you can use
it, because these words aren't just - as I

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said, it's about not saying the word "bad",
but these aren't bad words.

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They're words to help you be more sophisticated
in your way of explaining how you see things,

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and gives you more sincerity, so you're not
inauthentic, because you've got words that

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show,
"This is how I actually feel about it."

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Cool?

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Now, before I go, you know I got a quote,
and this quote is pretty good.

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Remember I said
from across the pond?

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This guy is from across the pond,
from way, way back.

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His name is William Shakespeare,
okay?

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Here's his quote.

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"There is nothing either good or
bad but thinking that makes it so."

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That thinking that makes it so.

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And as I said to you, these words aren't good
or bad, they're just adding to your arsenal,

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your ability to communicate with others,
alright?

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So,
this video is about stop saying "bad".

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You can now.

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You've got, like,
13 ways to do it.

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Have a good one, but before I go, I need you
to go to YouTube, hit underneath the subscribe

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button, ring the bell on the notifications,
and while you're there, press like, because

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if you're talking - if you're still here,
you clearly liked the video.

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Anyway, thank you again,
and we'll see you soon.

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Ciao.