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hi everybody welcome back to ask Alicia

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the weekly series where you ask me

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questions and I answer them maybe let's

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get to your first question this week

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first question this week comes from

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Eduardo hi Eduardo Eduardo says hi

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Alicia what's the difference between as

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long as so long as and providing thanks

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ah nice question as long as so long as

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and providing okay so we can use these

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three words or these three expressions

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in the same way in some cases so let's

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take a look at an example sentence or an

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example situation where we could use all

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of these so for example you can go to

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the party as long as you finish your

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homework or you can go to the party so

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long as you finish your homework or you

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can go to the party providing you finish

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your homework so all of these sentences

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are correct they all mean you can go to

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the party if you do your homework so the

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expression as long as or so long as as

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you might also hear it used means if the

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this condition is true or only if this

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condition is true can this other thing

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be possible or can this other thing be

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done so you can go to the party as long

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as you finish your homework sounds like

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saying if you don't finish your homework

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you cannot go to the party right so we

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use as long as and so long as to do this

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and providing can also be used to do

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this but providing is something that

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sounds much more formal or more official

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so although I used it in the example

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sentence earlier that wasn't necessarily

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a natural example sentence grammatically

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you can go to the party providing you do

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your homework sounds maybe in most cases

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way too formal for kind of an everyday

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exchange between a parent and a child

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probably but we would see this providing

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term used more in official agreements

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like in contracts documents some maybe

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like business email for example when you

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want to give that same feeling of as

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long as this is true this other thing

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will be possible we use providing to do

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that in a very quick and efficient and

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very sophisticated way so I mentioned

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that you can use these three terms or

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these three Expressions sometimes in the

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same manner or in the same situation and

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that's when you want to express this

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only if situation so only if this is

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true can you do this other thing that's

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the situation or that's the condition in

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which it's okay to use all three of

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these in the same manner however of

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course you can use as long as in a

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completely different way as long as can

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also be used to talk about two things

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that are of equal length right for

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example this phone is as long as that

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phone that means they have the same

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length right so my iPhone is as long as

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his Android for example so if you want

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to talk about the lengths of two objects

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you can use as long as we cannot use so

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long as and of course we cannot use

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providing in this way so keep that in

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mind as long as does also have this this

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other meaning this other use that we use

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to talk about two things that are of

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equal length but for your question as

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long as so long as and providing have

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the same use but they do have different

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feels I would recommend that you use as

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long as in everyday conversation so long

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as is less commonly used in American

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English and providing tends to be used

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more in business English and other

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official documentation so I hope this

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helps you thanks very much for the

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question okay let's move on to your next

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question next question comes from Vijay

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hi Vijay Vijay says hey Alicia are the

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last two weeks and the past two weeks

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interchangeable nice question okay the

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last two weeks in the past two weeks

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this depends on context this depends on

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the situation so for example I ate so

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much junk food in the last two weeks and

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I ate so much junk food in the past two

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weeks are exactly the same we're talking

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about the previous two weeks so before

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this conversation before the the

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statement we're talking about the two

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weeks prior right so in this situation

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they are completely interchangeable you

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can use them in exactly the same way

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they have exactly the same feeling

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however there are some cases where you

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can use the last two weeks in a

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situation but you cannot apply the past

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two weeks and create a correct sentence

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so for example let's imagine that you're

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part of a group that is planning a

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schedule for a project and you want to

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look at the final two weeks of something

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right so when you say to your group okay

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I want to talk about the last two weeks

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of the project that means that you want

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to look at the final two weeks in your

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schedule so maybe you're thinking ahead

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in your plan so maybe you're in month

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one right now but you want to talk about

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month three of the project you want to

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talk about the last two weeks of the

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project in that case you cannot say the

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past two weeks so the past two weeks or

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always going to refer to a point in time

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in the past when you talk about the last

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of something it can mean the most recent

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of something the last few days the last

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few weeks and so on but when you're

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talking about a schedule especially like

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a schedule in the future as in my

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example situation you need to rely on

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the context of the situation so if

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you're looking at a schedule for the

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next three months and someone in your

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group says okay let's talk about the

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last two weeks here that means let's

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look at the final two weeks in our

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project schedule so pay attention to the

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context you cannot say let's look at the

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past two weeks in our schedule that

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would not be correct here so please keep

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this in mind generally in everyday

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conversation we're not really thinking

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so much about something that's so far in

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the future we're not thinking so much

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about like a future schedule or

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something like that but you may find

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situations where you need to talk about

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a specific part of a schedule for the

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future in that case make sure you use

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the last two weeks or three weeks or

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days or whatever measurement of time

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you're using so thanks very much for

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this question I hope that this answer

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helped you all right let's move on to

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your next question next question comes

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from Sana hi Sana Sana says hey Alicia I

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was wondering are there other ways to

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say I love you in English for example to

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my family or my friends yeah great

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question super nice question so I love

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you in English is a very open phrase and

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a lot of people like to use this phrase

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rather generously and they'll say I love

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you or I love this or I love that or

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they might even call another person love

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so depending on the person they might

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use I love you and other similar

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Expressions very freely or some people

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might be a little more reserved with how

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often they use this expression but yes

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we do have other ways to express our

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appreciation when we think about love we

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often think about it in like a romantic

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sense right we would say this to our

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partner so we might say love you to that

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special person in our life right but how

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do we express our love and appreciation

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for family members or friends and so on

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it's common to say I love you to your

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family members that's also okay to use

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it doesn't mean romantic love in that

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case and we understand that from the

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context it's also okay to express I love

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you to your friends as well so if you

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don't want to say I love you to someone

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but you still want to express your

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appreciation you can say I'm so glad

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we're friends or you mean a lot to me or

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I really appreciate you or I really

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appreciate that thing that you did for

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me or I'm so happy that we met there are

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a lot of ways to express this kind of

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appreciation for someone without saying

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love interestingly we don't really say

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like I really really like you so much we

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sometimes use I like you a lot when

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we're first getting to know a romantic

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partner but that's pretty much the only

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time that we say I like you unless we

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kind of want to make a little joke to

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somebody like in our family or to our

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friend Circle we generally don't say I

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like you directly we might say some

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other kind of compliment like you're

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really funny or I'm glad that you're in

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my life or something like that so you

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may not hear people using like that much

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but from time to time depending on the

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person I suppose it is possible so

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that's a quick list of just a few

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Expressions that people like to use from

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time to time you mean so much to me I

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really appreciate you thank you so much

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for doing that or thank you so much for

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being friends with me thank you so much

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for being a part of my life I'm so glad

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we're friends I'm so glad that we met

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and so on I think that you kind of get

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the idea so Express that happiness and

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appreciation and you can communicate

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something similar to love even if it

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that special kind of family related love

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how you can express those nice feelings

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in a way different to saying I love you

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alright thanks very much for an

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interesting question thanks for sending

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it along okay that is everything that I

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have for this week thank you as always

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for sending your great questions

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