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Speaker 6: Hello listeners, welcome back to Luke's English Podcast. How are
Speaker 6: you doing today? I hope you're doing fine. So this
Speaker 6: one is called Funny English Errors Corrected and following on
Speaker 6: from the acclaimed Funny English Signs series from a few
Speaker 6: months ago, here is Funny English Errors, in which we
Speaker 6: will look at some yes, you guessed it, funny English
Speaker 6: air from around the world. We'll consider what mistake has
Speaker 6: been made in each case, what makes it so funny meaning,
Speaker 6: what the kind of unintended meaning is, and I'll correct
Speaker 6: them all to make sure that you definitely learn some
Speaker 6: English from this, because that is the whole idea of
Speaker 6: this podcast. Of course, by the way, I don't mean
Speaker 6: to mock people's errors in English. I want to make
Speaker 6: that point. I don't mean to just mock people's mistakes
Speaker 6: in English. As an English teacher, I generally don't mock
Speaker 6: my student's English mistakes. I think it's really important to
Speaker 6: make sure my learners of English don't feel judged or ridiculed.
Speaker 6: Of course, but sometimes people just come out with some
Speaker 6: really funny things and it's okay for us all to
Speaker 6: laugh about it together. And I do consider myself to
Speaker 6: be a language learner too, French in my case, and
Speaker 6: I make all sorts of stupid errors as well, and
Speaker 6: I don't mind laughing at my mistakes. I think that
Speaker 6: when learning a language, it's important to be able to
Speaker 6: laugh at yourself when you get something wrong, because you
Speaker 6: will get things wrong a lot, and it's not the
Speaker 6: end of the world. It's just a mistake and you
Speaker 6: can learn from it. We all make mistakes when learning languages,
Speaker 6: and I suppose we can choose how we react to
Speaker 6: those mistakes. We can either feel mortified and never speak
Speaker 6: the language ever again, or we could just kind of
Speaker 6: laugh it off, learn from it, and move on and
Speaker 6: make progress. Now, I speak French as a second language,
Speaker 6: and I make stupid mistakes all the time, for example,
Speaker 6: pronouncing the word the phrase in French, which means a lot.
Speaker 6: For example, if you say thank you very much in English,
Speaker 6: in French, you say mercy bokou, and I, for some
Speaker 6: reason can't quite pronounce the coup part of that, and
Speaker 6: I always end up saying something that sounds like mercy bokou,
Speaker 6: which actually means thank you, nice bum. So I'm really
Speaker 6: self conscious about those moments when I have to say
Speaker 6: thank you very much, and I'm sure I keep saying
Speaker 6: thank you nice bum. Also my inability to pronounce the
Speaker 6: word for water, such an important word and a word
Speaker 6: I have to use a lot in restaurants and things.
Speaker 6: But it's just a difficult vowel sound for me to pronounce.
Speaker 6: Ooh uh dulau mboute do. I mean, it's pretty disastrous.
Speaker 6: People often don't understand what I'm saying, they go huh
Speaker 6: like that, and so I just order beer instead. It's
Speaker 6: generally easier just to drink beer all the time. Also,
Speaker 6: my inability to remember masculine or feminine nouns in French
Speaker 6: and using the correct article, is it uh or un
Speaker 6: which is a really common mistake that people make when
Speaker 6: they're speaking French. For example, I have to remember arpano
Speaker 6: chakola un ghatto. Is it pano un panosh un ghatto
Speaker 6: chacola or basically I just order to instead. It's easier.
Speaker 6: Is it unbier It's no, it is unbier un pant
Speaker 6: but under me so unbier right, because beer is feminine
Speaker 6: un punt because a pint is feminine. But it's uh
Speaker 6: de me that's half, that's masculine. So even though it's
Speaker 6: half a pint of beer, and both pint and beer
Speaker 6: are both feminine words, the word for half is a
Speaker 6: masculine word. So it's so, I just order a pint
Speaker 6: every time. It's again, it's just much easier. As a teacher,
Speaker 6: my students make mistakes sometimes, even after I've worked hard
Speaker 6: to perfect their English. Here are some examples from student
Speaker 6: feedback forms at the end of a course at school
Speaker 6: I used to work in So. I used to work
Speaker 6: at this school in London. We have students. We had
Speaker 6: students from around the world coming at the end of
Speaker 6: their course. We would give them a feedback form with
Speaker 6: various questions in it. One of the questions was what
Speaker 6: do we do best at the school? What do we
Speaker 6: do best? And the answer was melting students from different countries?
Speaker 6: Melting students from different countries. I'm sure what the person
Speaker 6: meant was mixing students from different countries, But melting students
Speaker 6: sounds like, I mean, if you melt something like you
Speaker 6: would melt an ice cream, if you put it in
Speaker 6: the oven, it would melt. Yeah, So melting students sounds
Speaker 6: like we, you know, put the students in an oven
Speaker 6: and make them turn into liquid. It should be mixing students,
Speaker 6: meaning making them come together and socialize with each other.
Speaker 6: In which area has your English improved most? And the
Speaker 6: ideas you know in your speaking, in your vocabulary, range,
Speaker 6: in your grammar, in your pronunciation, in your writing. In
Speaker 6: which area has your English improved most? The answer High Street, Kensington,
Speaker 6: which was an area of London near the school. Apparently
Speaker 6: this is the area where this student their English most.
Speaker 6: Misunderstanding the question, but anyway, let's look at some English
Speaker 6: errors from around the world, including English speaking countries I
Speaker 6: believe like the USA, and will consider why they're funny
Speaker 6: and then offer some corrections so that we can all
Speaker 6: learn from these unintentionally hilarious mistakes. So as you read
Speaker 6: these or hear me describe them, can you decide how
Speaker 6: they should be corrected? So what is the error and
Speaker 6: how would you correct it? Okay? I got a lot
Speaker 6: of these from a website called dmilked dot com and
Speaker 6: also readit dot com, where you can find a lot
Speaker 6: of these sorts of things. So the first one is
Speaker 6: a sign in a public place I assume, next to
Speaker 6: a bottle of hand sanitizer for cleaning your hands. This
Speaker 6: would be from the days of COVID nineteen, when, of
Speaker 6: course we had to keep our hands clean and regularly,
Speaker 6: regularly clean our hands, sanitize our hands, and it says,
Speaker 6: please satanize your hand hands here, Hm, please satanize your
Speaker 6: hands here. Of course it should be please sanitize your
Speaker 6: hands here. But I'm interested in the idea of satanizing
Speaker 6: your hands. What does this mean? I suppose this means
Speaker 6: doing something evil with your hands, or doing something sinful
Speaker 6: with your hands, something you shouldn't be doing with your hands. Yes,
Speaker 6: just make sure that you satanize your hands before you
Speaker 6: do it. I will let you decide what that is.
Speaker 6: But yeah, you would have to satanize your hands first,
Speaker 6: and then of course make sure you sanitize your hands
Speaker 6: when you finish doing it, of course, and you might
Speaker 6: need holy water to clean it off after you've satanized
Speaker 6: your hands. But yes, sanitize is the correct word there,
Speaker 6: of course, So sanitize your hands, use hand sanitizer. The
Speaker 6: next one is what looks like a sign in the
Speaker 6: window of a shop, and it says closed for revolution,
Speaker 6: open soon, closed for revolution, open soon, yeah, open soon
Speaker 6: under new management after the revolution. So a revolution is
Speaker 6: something much more profound than just what you would do
Speaker 6: in a shop, you know, while it was closed. The
Speaker 6: right word here is renovation. Closed for renovation, that would
Speaker 6: mean maybe redecorating the shop, making changes, fixing things in
Speaker 6: the shop so that when it's open again it all
Speaker 6: looks new. It's all been repainted and redesigned, it's been renovated.
Speaker 6: So closed for renovation, but closed for revolution sounds so
Speaker 6: much more serious and profound, Like you think of a
Speaker 6: social revolution, you know, like what happened in France in
Speaker 6: the eighteenth you know, the late eighteenth century with the revolution.
Speaker 6: That means, you know, people rising up and releasing prisoners
Speaker 6: from the jails, and taking the aristocratic people and chopping
Speaker 6: their heads off, and a total dramatic shift in the
Speaker 6: social order. This is a revolution, of course. And yeah,
Speaker 6: I suppose if there was a revolution happening in your city,
Speaker 6: you might need to close your shop in the meantime,
Speaker 6: closed for revolution, open soon either that or there was
Speaker 6: some drastic change of management of the shop. But no,
Speaker 6: it should be closed for renovation, not revolution. Right now,
Speaker 6: as we go through this, there will be bits of vocab.
Speaker 6: As you've noticed, right, we've had sanitize, we've had hand sanitizer,
Speaker 6: we've had renovation to renovate. Pay attention because later on
Speaker 6: in the episode we'll review the vocab and I'll see
Speaker 6: how many of these little bits of vocabulary you can remember.
Speaker 6: Let's carry on now that This next one is a
Speaker 6: little kind of story. This is a meme in fact,
Speaker 6: which does go around the Internet sometimes, and it's a
Speaker 6: story of what happened when Prime Minister Japanese Prime Minister
Speaker 6: your Shiro Maury met Barack Obama. Okay, apparently this happened
Speaker 6: in two thousand and eight. So here's the story. Prime
Speaker 6: Minister Maury was given some basic English conversation training before
Speaker 6: he visited Washington to meet President Barack Obama. The instructor
Speaker 6: told Prime Minister Maury, when you shake hands with President Obama,
Speaker 6: please ask how are you. Then mister Obama should say
Speaker 6: I am fine, and you now you should say me too. Afterwards,
Speaker 6: we the translators will do the work for you. It
Speaker 6: looked quite simple, but the truth is when Maury met Obama,
Speaker 6: he mistakenly said who are you instead of how are you?
Speaker 6: Mister Obama was a bit shocked but still managed to
Speaker 6: react with humor. Well, I'm Michelle's husband, ha ha, he said.
Speaker 6: Then Maury replied me too, ha ha. Then there was
Speaker 6: a long silence in the meeting room. Right, So instead
Speaker 6: of saying how are you, I'm fine, me too, it
Speaker 6: was who you? Well, I'm Michelle's husband. Oh me too,
Speaker 6: ha ha. Okay, funny little story, but apparently it's not
Speaker 6: actually true. I did some research into this and the
Speaker 6: story is fake news. It's just one of those kind
Speaker 6: of I guess, a kind of like an urban myth
Speaker 6: or something, or just a joke which has been exaggerated
Speaker 6: or taken out of context. You can read the article
Speaker 6: about how this is in fact not true and it's
Speaker 6: based on other things, like the fact that Maury wasn't
Speaker 6: even Prime Minister when Obama was president. There's a major
Speaker 6: aspect of this, but there's another story that goes round
Speaker 6: about Maury as well, when he met President Clinton is
Speaker 6: basically the same thing. So it's unfortunately not true. And
Speaker 6: I'll let you read the article on snopes dot com
Speaker 6: if you want to find out the details. Let's move
Speaker 6: on the next one. Looks like it's in an airport
Speaker 6: somewhere in India, and it's a sign that basically says
Speaker 6: eating carpet strictly prohibited. Eating carpet strictly prohibited. Of course, well,
Speaker 6: how would you correct that. I've translated the Indian language
Speaker 6: part of the sign, and it should be eating on
Speaker 6: the carpet strictly prohibited. So this is presumably for those
Speaker 6: people who perhaps sit down and eat their lunch or
Speaker 6: something while waiting for their plane, while sitting on the floor,
Speaker 6: eating on the carpet, which you could imagine might lead
Speaker 6: to the carpet being stained or something. So it should
Speaker 6: be eating on carpet or eating on the carpet strictly prohibited.
Speaker 6: But eating carpet strictly prohibited tells an entirely different story.
Speaker 6: That does suggest that some people, for whatever reason, have
Speaker 6: been eating the carpet, and you know, you really shouldn't
Speaker 6: be doing that. I mean, and you can see the
Speaker 6: carpet in the picture. It looks very dirty. So I
Speaker 6: would not advise eating any carpet, especially that one, which
Speaker 6: presumably is why the sign has been put up in
Speaker 6: the first place. But of course it's wrong. This should
Speaker 6: be Eating on the carpet or eating on the floor
Speaker 6: is strictly prohibited. Sometimes prepositions are important, For example, the
Speaker 6: difference between peeing in the pool and peeing into the pool.
Speaker 6: That's obviously a very important distinction, don't you think, Or
Speaker 6: in this case, eating on the carpet and simply eating
Speaker 6: the carpet itself. Don't underestimate the importance of prepositions. The
Speaker 6: next one is in what looks like a car park.
Speaker 6: I don't know where in the world this is, but
Speaker 6: the sign in English says, please pay your parking fee
Speaker 6: before existing. Please pay your parking feed before existing, So
Speaker 6: even before you exist, even before you're born, you have
Speaker 6: to pay your parking fee for this for this car park,
Speaker 6: which seems a little bit unfair, doesn't it. I mean,
Speaker 6: asking me to pay my fee before I enter the
Speaker 6: car park seems unfair in itself, right if you even
Speaker 6: before you go in, if you have to pay before
Speaker 6: you use the service, that would seem a bit unfair.
Speaker 6: But asking me to pay before I've even been born,
Speaker 6: before I've even existed, that's just ridiculous. Please pay your
Speaker 6: parking fee before existing. Of course it should be what
Speaker 6: it should be. Please pay your parking feed before exiting.
Speaker 6: Right exit e x I T can be a verb
Speaker 6: to exit the car park. Please pay your parking fee
Speaker 6: before exit, before exiting not existing, yes, so I should
Speaker 6: just point out the vocab there it's egg exitting versus existing.
Speaker 6: There is a difference, of course in the pronunciation as well.
Speaker 6: Right exiting The first syllable is stressed exit and existing existing.
Speaker 6: The second syllable is stressed there. Let's move on to
Speaker 6: the next one. This is from a menu I don't
Speaker 6: know where, and here are the items on the menu.
Speaker 6: So number one hot wings, Number two honey wings presumably
Speaker 6: like chicken wings glazed in a honey sauce. Number three
Speaker 6: French fries, Number four cheese nane I think, Number five
Speaker 6: caizure salad. What a caizure salad. No thanks, So this
Speaker 6: of course should be a Caesar salad, Caesar like Emperor Caesar, right,
Speaker 6: Caesar salad, which of course is salad. Of of what's
Speaker 6: in a Caesar salad. It's parmesan cheese, leaves of lettuce,
Speaker 6: and croutons which are like kind of crunchy cubes of bread,
Speaker 6: and a certain Caesar dressing or sauce. That's a Caesar salad.
Speaker 6: But this is a seizure salad. Okay, Caesar salad. Correct,
Speaker 6: seizure salad spelt s E I Z you are e.
Speaker 6: Now this is this is not a salad that I
Speaker 6: would recommend, because a seizure is a kind of sudden
Speaker 6: health condition. If you have a seizure, it means you're
Speaker 6: you suddenly experience quite what can be quite a severe
Speaker 6: health condition, and it comes on very quickly, and it's
Speaker 6: where your your muscles start to shake and you can't
Speaker 6: control them, so your arms and legs might move around
Speaker 6: and you might fall onto the floor. It can be
Speaker 6: very dangerous. That's a seizure. To have a seizure. Also,
Speaker 6: a heart seizure is essentially another word for a heart attack.
Speaker 6: So I wouldn't recommend the seizure salad at all. A
Speaker 6: synonym for a seizure is a fit, to have a fit,
Speaker 6: for example, to have an epileptic fit. So the seizure
Speaker 6: salad is not very appealing, as you can imagine, right,
Speaker 6: So that's that vocab for this. We have a seizure
Speaker 6: and a fit. I think those are probably the words
Speaker 6: to include in the vocab list for that. So of
Speaker 6: course it should be a caesar salad, not a seizure salad.
Speaker 6: I think I'll just skip that and I'll just go
Speaker 6: for the French fries please, thank you very much. Moving
Speaker 6: on to the next one is a picture of a supermarket.
Speaker 6: I think it's in China, but it doesn't really matter
Speaker 6: where it is. And on the sign, so in Chinese
Speaker 6: I think it says fresh fruit, fresh food supermarket. But
Speaker 6: then written in English on the sign it says very
Speaker 6: suspicious supermarket. M very suspicious supermarket. Something just doesn't seem
Speaker 6: right about this supermarket. I just don't know what it is.
Speaker 6: But oh, I don't think I'll go in there. No, why, Well,
Speaker 6: it says very suspicious supermarket. How could a supermarket be suspicious? Like,
Speaker 6: I'm not sure about that supermarket? Why have you seen
Speaker 6: all these dodgy people going in and out carrying all
Speaker 6: of this fresh fruit and vegetables. Seems very suspicious to me.
Speaker 6: Something just doesn't seem right about it. So what do
Speaker 6: you think could be the word that they were looking for?
Speaker 6: Not suspicious, maybe specialist. Maybe a specialist supermarket one where
Speaker 6: you can find certain specific ingredients. That would be a
Speaker 6: specialist supermarket. But I have no idea how they've ended
Speaker 6: up calling it a suspicious supermarket. If something is suspicious,
Speaker 6: it means that it looks like something wrong is happening.
Speaker 6: It looks like maybe something dishonest is going on. Like
Speaker 6: you know, a suspicious man would be like a man
Speaker 6: wearing a long overcoat and a hat and glasses, standing
Speaker 6: outside the bank and maybe taking photos and generally looking
Speaker 6: over his shoulder, and then looking inside the bank, taking
Speaker 6: a few more photographs, maybe calling on his phone, and
Speaker 6: then hanging around looking around a bit more, and then
Speaker 6: going away. Right. That would be a very suspicious person,
Speaker 6: acting very suspiciously. Right. And then he turns up in
Speaker 6: his car, which is like a big van with the
Speaker 6: windows all blacked out, and he opens up the back
Speaker 6: of the van and he's got a big bag which
Speaker 6: seems to be very heavy, and he slings it over
Speaker 6: his shoulder and he goes into the bank. Very suspicious
Speaker 6: person with his suspicious car and a suspicious bag. What's
Speaker 6: he doing? A very suspicious man? Maybe he works at
Speaker 6: the very suspicious supermarket. Who knows, I'm sure they meant
Speaker 6: specialist supermarket, you'd imagine, so suspicious is the vocab there? Okay?
Speaker 6: Have you ever seen anyone being suspicious in your area?
Speaker 6: The other day I left my building. I left my
Speaker 6: home pushing my son to the daycare center in his pram,
Speaker 6: and as I came out into the street, there was
Speaker 6: a man standing there with his phone out, clearly either
Speaker 6: taking either taking photographs or video footage of my building,
Speaker 6: just blatantly in the street, apparently videoing my building. And
Speaker 6: as I walked past him, he carried on videoing. I
Speaker 6: walked past him and went down the street, and over
Speaker 6: my shoulder I could see he'd now started videoing the
Speaker 6: street where I was walking. Who's this suspicious character? And
Speaker 6: of course, you know, I'm I don't know, maybe a
Speaker 6: little paranoid or I'm a bit overcautious of these things.
Speaker 6: I was thinking, who is this person? And why are
Speaker 6: they videoing me? Apparently, and my building never heard or
Speaker 6: saw this person ever again, so who knows what's going
Speaker 6: on there? As if I'm not already on the internet enough,
Speaker 6: someone had to come and actually video me, I'm probably
Speaker 6: being paranoid, but who knows. Very suspicious. Next is a
Speaker 6: what looks like a warning label for I think some
Speaker 6: sort of laser. Right, it's covered in all these warnings
Speaker 6: like avoid direct eye contact, do not use on material
Speaker 6: that reflects the light, turn off the power when it's
Speaker 6: not in use. And then there's one in the middle
Speaker 6: that says keep it away from incompetent people such as
Speaker 6: children or pregnant women. Yeah, don't let children or pregnant
Speaker 6: women do anything they're incompetent. They'd probably break it or
Speaker 6: hurt someone. Incompetent people such as children or pregnant women.
Speaker 6: So it's the use of the word incompetent. If you've
Speaker 6: described someone as incompetent, you're basically saying that they have
Speaker 6: no skills, they're rubbish at what they do. They're just
Speaker 6: completely incompetent, like someone at work. If you had someone
Speaker 6: at work who was incompetent, you wouldn't really want to
Speaker 6: give them an any jobs to do, because they probably
Speaker 6: get it wrong. Someone who's incompetent, it's a very it's
Speaker 6: a very negative sounding word. It's not a rude word,
Speaker 6: but it does basically say that someone is just useless,
Speaker 6: no skills at all, and just fails at everything they do.
Speaker 6: So suggesting that pregnant women are incompetent doesn't sound right.
Speaker 6: It just doesn't at all. So, yeah, apparently this is
Speaker 6: a laser and it looks quite dangerous. But it would
Speaker 6: be better to say vulnerable people, I suppose, or at
Speaker 6: risk people, rather than incompetent people, because incompetent suggests that
Speaker 6: these people have no skills or abilities and that they're
Speaker 6: basically rubbish at doing things. So, yes, don't give this
Speaker 6: laser to a pregnant woman. They're rubbish at everything. It's
Speaker 6: the hormones, you know. Yeah, No, that just seems really
Speaker 6: really inappropriate to say that. So it's not incompetent, but
Speaker 6: I would say probably vulnerable. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 6: what the thinking is here. Why can't pregnant women operate
Speaker 6: this laser? Maybe it's because they're vulnerable, right, That's often
Speaker 6: the way that we consider pregnant women be because obviously,
Speaker 6: you know, if a pregnant woman has a shock, or
Speaker 6: if she gets sick, or if she has an accident,
Speaker 6: it can be very dangerous. Like that, they're more susceptible
Speaker 6: or vulnerable to these sorts of risks because it can
Speaker 6: harm the baby during the pregnancy, and it could end
Speaker 6: up in a miscarriage or some other health related issue
Speaker 6: relating to the pregnancy. So they are vulnerable. If someone's vulnerable,
Speaker 6: it means they are perhaps at risk of accidents or
Speaker 6: other health issues. Right, they need to be protected or
Speaker 6: maybe you know, pregnant women need to be taken care
Speaker 6: of more carefully and shouldn't be exposed to things like
Speaker 6: a laser. Right, same thing for children, right women in
Speaker 6: pregnant women and children. Fine, these perhaps are more vulnerable
Speaker 6: people in society or at risk people. Well, you know,
Speaker 6: again we also think of a COVID nineteen situation. People
Speaker 6: who were at risk would be people with underlying health
Speaker 6: conditions who should be more carefully taken care of. So
Speaker 6: do not give this to vulnerable people such as children
Speaker 6: or pregnant women. Might have been a better choice in
Speaker 6: that particular case. Okay, let's move on. So again, remember vocab.
Speaker 6: I'm going to kind of give you a little vocabulary
Speaker 6: quiz when we've been through all these signs. See how
Speaker 6: many of the bits of vocab that have come up
Speaker 6: you can remember. Okay, moving on. We have a road sign,
Speaker 6: a large sign, I suppose on a roadside, a safety
Speaker 6: reminder for drivers, and it says speed thrills but kills.
Speaker 6: The thing is, the word butt has been spelled b
Speaker 6: u t T right, so speed thrills but kills. Obviously
Speaker 6: it should be speed thrills but kills, so speed both
Speaker 6: thrills and kills, so it thrills, but it also kills.
Speaker 6: But the word butt is spelt b u t t.
Speaker 6: And of course this is American English slang. Your butt
Speaker 6: is your bottom, your ass, right, speed thrills butt kills. Well, yeah,
Speaker 6: you know, have you seen my butt? Be careful if
Speaker 6: you if you do, maybe that guy was taking a
Speaker 6: photograph of my butt because it's lethal. Have you seen
Speaker 6: my butt? So yeah, I mean, obviously speed thrills, but
Speaker 6: kills is the right answer. But you know, who knows,
Speaker 6: Maybe maybe they were saying, lower your speed and cover
Speaker 6: your bum. Just for the general safety of the local community.
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Speaker 6: Now, Right this next one. I actually love this one
Speaker 6: and I find it funny but also actually quite useful
Speaker 6: on reflection. So this looks like a Japanese one. It's
Speaker 6: got some Japanese writing, and then underneath in English, it
Speaker 6: appears to have been stuck on the front of maybe
Speaker 6: an office building, the entrance to an apartment, maybe in
Speaker 6: the street or something, and it simply says this, do
Speaker 6: not dumb here, not a dumb area here, Do not
Speaker 6: dumb here, not a dumb area here. Okay, so dumb
Speaker 6: is again slang American English slang. Really, but you know,
Speaker 6: everyone understands what it means dumb dumb. If dumb means stupid,
Speaker 6: it's not normally a verb. Do not dumb here, it's
Speaker 6: not normally a verb. But yeah, don't be stupid here.
Speaker 6: It's this is not a stupid area around it generally,
Speaker 6: So don't be stupid here, don't do not dumb here,
Speaker 6: not a dumb area here. After having translated the Japanese
Speaker 6: in the sign, I understand that what they actually mean
Speaker 6: is please do not throw away your trash here, or
Speaker 6: don't throw away you're rubbish here. So what they really
Speaker 6: mean is do not dump here, not a dump area,
Speaker 6: not a dumping area here. So this, I suppose is
Speaker 6: for the attention of people who are dumping their rubbish
Speaker 6: in front of this door. Maybe people have been dumping
Speaker 6: their rubbish in the street, bags of rubbish in front
Speaker 6: of this building, and so that the you know, the
Speaker 6: owners of the building needed to put up a sign
Speaker 6: say don't dump your rubbish here, don't leave your rubbish here,
Speaker 6: this is not a dumping area. But they've ended up
Speaker 6: with dumb not dump with this unintended double meaning of
Speaker 6: don't be stupid here. This is not a stupid area generally,
Speaker 6: so don't just you know, use your head when you're
Speaker 6: in this area. Okay. And for that reason, I actually
Speaker 6: love this sign, and I would like to maybe put
Speaker 6: up this sign maybe, you know, outside my office or
Speaker 6: in my classrooms. If I could put that up on
Speaker 6: the wall of my classroom, that would be good. Don't
Speaker 6: dumb here. This is not a dumb area here. Okay.
Speaker 6: This one is from what looks like a hotel resort,
Speaker 6: and it says the swimming pool was temporarily closed due
Speaker 6: to the David nineteen situation. Thanks to David nineteen, we
Speaker 6: can't use the swimming pool anymore, not to mention all
Speaker 6: the other things, all the other restrictions, like having to
Speaker 6: stay at home. Fuck you, David, David nineteen. Right. I
Speaker 6: don't know how they've ended up with David nineteen instead
Speaker 6: of COVID nineteen, but it would have been funny if
Speaker 6: COVID nineteen had been given a name, you know, like
Speaker 6: the way we name we name storms, right, we named
Speaker 6: you know, dangerous storms are given names. Maybe we should
Speaker 6: just name all catastrophes by people's names. So COVID nineteen
Speaker 6: we should have called it David nineteen. Maybe it would
Speaker 6: have helped us to deal with it a little bit
Speaker 6: better if we were all able to get together and
Speaker 6: fight against David nineteen. I'm not sure how people named
Speaker 6: David would have reacted to that, though, this swimming pool
Speaker 6: was temporarily close due to the David nineteen situation. Unless
Speaker 6: this is like something separate from COVID nineteen, that there
Speaker 6: was actually a guy called David nineteen. Like I don't
Speaker 6: know what would that be, some sort of artificial intelligence robot.
Speaker 6: You know, they made David one to eighteen, and they
Speaker 6: were all okay, Like David one was very basic, just
Speaker 6: a harmless, basic robot, and they kept advancing them. They
Speaker 6: got more and more advanced. David eighteen was really quite sophisticated,
Speaker 6: but also generally harmlessly, you know, operational. Then David nineteen
Speaker 6: something went wrong with the programming and he I don't
Speaker 6: know what he did. He he drained water from all
Speaker 6: swimming pools or something like that, or made it unsafe
Speaker 6: to be in water, pretended to be a shark, he
Speaker 6: decided that he was. I don't know what the David Knight,
Speaker 6: there's a great science fiction story just waiting to be
Speaker 6: written David nineteen, the David nineteen situation. I think Hollywood
Speaker 6: needs to make that film. I would go and see that. Yeah.
Speaker 6: The next one I think is from the United States,
Speaker 6: and it's a car, you know, the way in America,
Speaker 6: in the sort of the Bible belt of the USA,
Speaker 6: a lot of people are really religious. They're very strongly Christian,
Speaker 6: and they often write Christian messages on the back of
Speaker 6: their car. This one, and the license plate of the
Speaker 6: car says Jay is Lord, Jesus's Lord. But then they've
Speaker 6: written on the back of the car, Jesus I thrust
Speaker 6: in you. Jesus I thrust in you. It should be
Speaker 6: what not thrust in you? Because that again has another
Speaker 6: unintended meaning, which is quite rude. And it's unfortunate really,
Speaker 6: because I'm sure that the person who wrote that this
Speaker 6: is very far from what they would ever want to
Speaker 6: have written on the back of their car in white
Speaker 6: spray paint. It should be Jesus I trust in you, right,
Speaker 6: And you know in English we say you trust in someone,
Speaker 6: you trust in God, you trust in Jesus. Although I
Speaker 6: mean that on its own is quite worrying. If you're
Speaker 6: driving down the highway and you see this person driving
Speaker 6: at whatever it is, you know, ninety kilometers an hour
Speaker 6: down the highway, sharing the road with you, and they've
Speaker 6: written Jesus, I trust in you, and you think, well,
Speaker 6: I'd rather you trust it in the highway code rather
Speaker 6: than just leaving it all up to Jesus. But still
Speaker 6: but writing Jesus, I thrust in you. So the other
Speaker 6: meaning of this, and I have to say it's a
Speaker 6: bit rude. Thrust is to like push forwards with some force.
Speaker 6: When would you thrust Well, you know, I think the
Speaker 6: first thing that came to mind, and it's probably it's
Speaker 6: not just me, because that's why this whole this image
Speaker 6: has been shared on a website as a funny error.
Speaker 6: We would probably associate thrusting with the act of sexual intercourse.
Speaker 6: When a man pushes forward, right in this case, in someone,
Speaker 6: that means you know, well, that's you know how it works, right,
Speaker 6: You had science, you had biology lessons at school, haven't you.
Speaker 6: You've done it, haven't you? Maybe you haven't, but you
Speaker 6: know the way. You may have seen videos anyway to
Speaker 6: thrust in someone, right, but not Jesus. That's not what
Speaker 6: Jesus would have wanted. I'm pretty sure that's not what
Speaker 6: he wanted from his followers. Seems a bit much, doesn't it. Jesus,
Speaker 6: I thrust in you. I hope Jesus is okay with that.
Speaker 6: I expect he's not. Anyway, it should be Jesus, I
Speaker 6: trust in you. So to trust in someone, not thrust
Speaker 6: in someone, because that has an unintended sexual meaning. Let's
Speaker 6: move on. Okay. So this one I can't quite see.
Speaker 6: I think maybe this is written on the front of
Speaker 6: a shop. Looks like the like the canopy over the
Speaker 6: front of a shop. It says, first of all, the
Speaker 6: English is almost impenetrably bad here. But hidden within this
Speaker 6: bad English there is actually quite a funny message. It says,
Speaker 6: dot disturb I am married. I am already very disturb Right,
Speaker 6: So I think this is probably should be do not disturb,
Speaker 6: I am married, I am already very disturbed. Yeah. So,
Speaker 6: despite the English, the humor comes through loud and clear,
Speaker 6: doesn't it. But I think that's probably all we need
Speaker 6: to do for that one. Do not disturb, I am married,
Speaker 6: I'm already very disturbed.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 6: Here's one which looks like it's a sign in front
Speaker 6: of maybe a food court or a place where you
Speaker 6: can get food, maybe jerk chicken, which is a form
Speaker 6: of barbecued chicken. This is what I'm assuming, and the
Speaker 6: sign simply says, think before you jerk, don't jerk and drive.
Speaker 6: Now again, if you're familiar with American English slang, and
Speaker 6: you know most native English speakers are, so people from
Speaker 6: the UK Australia Island, everyone's going to understand what this means.
Speaker 6: Think before you jerk. The problem is that jerk in
Speaker 6: slang means to masturbate, right, The equivalent in English is wank. Okay,
Speaker 6: sorry if I've offended half the world's population listening to this,
Speaker 6: But my aim here is to educate and inform, and
Speaker 6: I think you need to know this one just in
Speaker 6: case you end up making this mistake yourself. If you
Speaker 6: work at a food court, think before you write a
Speaker 6: sign like this that says think before you jerk, don't
Speaker 6: jerk and drive. I mean it is good advice. You
Speaker 6: should keep both hands on the wheel at all times, right,
Speaker 6: so don't jerk and drive. I think what this. I
Speaker 6: think what they intended to say was like, think before
Speaker 6: you I guess, think before you eat jerk, meaning a
Speaker 6: type of barbecued food. Don't eat, jerk and drive, but
Speaker 6: think before you jerk. Don't jerk and drive. Yeah, I
Speaker 6: can only imagine this was at a food store, maybe
Speaker 6: selling jerk chicken, but think before you eat jerk. Don't
Speaker 6: eat jerk and drive. That still doesn't work. Don't eat,
Speaker 6: jerk and drive. Obviously, don't do all three of those
Speaker 6: things all at the same time. That would be a
Speaker 6: very bad idea. Let's move on to the next one.
Speaker 6: This appears to be a price tag in a supermarket
Speaker 6: for celebrations, which I suppose is some sort of like
Speaker 6: bag of chocolate or something, and it says celebrations Christmas
Speaker 6: bag of threats two hundred and fifty of whatever. The
Speaker 6: currency is Christmas bag of threats, which is an ideal
Speaker 6: gift for your enemies. Isn't it a bag of threats?
Speaker 6: So it's threats. It should be treats, treats tr ats.
Speaker 6: Treats would be like maybe little chocolates that you would
Speaker 6: eat or have to give yourself a treat, or to
Speaker 6: give your children a treat. If you give your child
Speaker 6: a treat, it's because they've done something good, Maybe they've
Speaker 6: been well behaved, maybe they got good good results at
Speaker 6: school or something, and you give them a treat. Well done,
Speaker 6: You've been really good. Here you go. Here's some chocolates
Speaker 6: as a treat. That's treats and threats. Threats are sorts
Speaker 6: of things that you would say to someone before you
Speaker 6: did something bad, like hurt them. Imagine like mafia gangsters.
Speaker 6: They issue threats to each other, give me all the money,
Speaker 6: give me the money, or are going to break your legs,
Speaker 6: you know, like something from a Robert de Niro film.
Speaker 6: Give me the money, or are going to break your legs.
Speaker 6: They'll mess around with me, So it's a threat. That's
Speaker 6: a threat. Give me the money or I'll break your legs.
Speaker 6: That's a threat. So a Christmas bag of threats would be, yes,
Speaker 6: the ideal gift for your enemies at Christmas time. And
Speaker 6: oh look what's this a lovely bag of Wait a minute,
Speaker 6: give me the money or I'll break your legs. Happy Christmas,
Speaker 6: you son of a bitch. Yeah, moving on. This is
Speaker 6: a sign somewhere. Is it on a plane or train?
Speaker 6: And it says emergency cock just in case. There's like
Speaker 6: a little door, you know, like the way you get
Speaker 6: like a first aid kit or a life jacket and
Speaker 6: you have to pull open the little door, a little
Speaker 6: hatch and it pops out here. It's emergency cock, just
Speaker 6: in case, because you never know when you might need one. Now,
Speaker 6: as we've discussed before, a cock is another word for
Speaker 6: a tap or valve sort of thing you turn when
Speaker 6: you want water to come out. You know you've got
Speaker 6: one in your kitchen, in the bathroom. That's a tap, right,
Speaker 6: So use the word tap. Okay, use the word valve
Speaker 6: if it's for gas or something, a little red valve
Speaker 6: that you turn to let the gas out, and you
Speaker 6: turn it again. That's a valve or a tap. But
Speaker 6: the word cock can be used. But you know I've
Speaker 6: said before, think twice before using the word cock, so freely,
Speaker 6: especially writing a sign like emergency cock, just say emergency valve,
Speaker 6: emergency tap would be recommended. Yeah, and this next sign
Speaker 6: is very confusing. It's entrance only, do not enter. You
Speaker 6: are entrants only, do not enter. I don't understand that sign.
Speaker 6: I don't know how to correct that sign. It looks
Speaker 6: like it's in America, so I don't know that. It
Speaker 6: feels like the sign is gaslighting me. Entrants only do
Speaker 6: not enter, So I mean this is only an entrance,
Speaker 6: but you can't use it. I suppose what's that?
Speaker 3: I mean?
Speaker 6: I have no idea how to correct that. Next one,
Speaker 6: is it Japanese? Is it Chinese? I don't know, it
Speaker 6: doesn't really matter. There's a sign with a man walking
Speaker 6: and a red cross through the middle of the man.
Speaker 6: I mean it just so happens to cross right right
Speaker 6: across his groin, which is the middle of his body,
Speaker 6: and it says erection in progress. Erection in progress. Now
Speaker 6: what this should mean is under construction, meaning do not
Speaker 6: enter this site is under construction, meaning that there's construction
Speaker 6: work being done here. Erection could mean when something is
Speaker 6: being put up. For example, if they're putting up a billboard,
Speaker 6: they're putting up a building, or something like that. They're
Speaker 6: erecting a building, erecting a ladder right, erecting some scaffolding. Yes,
Speaker 6: so that would technically be an erection. But of course,
Speaker 6: in most cases, when someone says erection, most people will
Speaker 6: think of the more sexual meaning, which is when a
Speaker 6: man's penis rather than a woman's penis. I suppose, why
Speaker 6: do I need to say man's penis? I don't know
Speaker 6: when a penis, whoever owns it whoever is responsible for it.
Speaker 6: When a penis becomes erect when it gets hard, that's
Speaker 6: an erection, so erection in progress. Do not enter. This
Speaker 6: could actually be a useful sign for a teenager's bedroom door,
Speaker 6: right generally, like if you've got a teenage boy in
Speaker 6: your house, that might be a useful sign to put
Speaker 6: on their door, do not enter if they if they
Speaker 6: need to, they could put the sign on the door,
Speaker 6: you know, like in a hotel the way you can
Speaker 6: put a sign on the door saying please do not
Speaker 6: do not disturb. You know, they could put that. You
Speaker 6: could give this to your teenage son and say do
Speaker 6: not enter. Erection in progress could be useful, but yes,
Speaker 6: it should be under construction. Is the is the correct one?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Okay, so that's foux cab. There we've got erection to
Speaker 6: erect something, okay, and also under construction to be under construction. Okay. Right,
Speaker 6: This is all vocab that will come up later on
Speaker 6: when I've been through all of these signs and there's
Speaker 6: only a few signs left. Next one is it looks
Speaker 6: like it's on a menu or maybe a card from
Speaker 6: a hotel or cafe, and it's it just says free
Speaker 6: wife and then like a password free wife. I mean,
Speaker 6: apparently someone is just giving their wife away free. I
Speaker 6: don't know how the wife feels about this, right, but
Speaker 6: free wife. If you're interested, just ask at the front desk.
Speaker 6: Of course this should be what this should be free WiFi,
Speaker 6: wif I, easy mistake, easy typo at wife. That yeah,
Speaker 6: that means someone's giving away their wife free. Oh, free wife?
Speaker 6: Is it like a buy one, get one free kind
Speaker 6: of thing? How does this work? You just we're giving
Speaker 6: away We've got one free wife. Congratulations, you are our
Speaker 6: ten thousandth customer and you as a prize, you get
Speaker 6: this free wife or free wife with every every order
Speaker 6: over fifty pounds. Sorry, I've already got one, you know.
Speaker 6: Next is a sign in front of a toilet, and
Speaker 6: instead of it saying men's toilets or gentleman's, it says
Speaker 6: toilet man, toilet man, or you know, it should be
Speaker 6: man's men's toilet, gentleman's toilet toilet man, which sounds like
Speaker 6: the worst superhero in the world, toilet man. Who should
Speaker 6: we call Superman? He's too busy? What about Spider Man?
Speaker 6: He's not part of this franchise? Who have we got oh,
Speaker 6: toilet man, and toilet man comes iron toilet man. He
Speaker 6: just flushes, but I you know, I say that he's
Speaker 6: useless to be fair. This is the hero we need.
Speaker 6: This is the hero we all need sometimes. Right, you've
Speaker 6: seen people rushing through cities. You might have been this
Speaker 6: person rushing through the city. I need the toilet, you know,
Speaker 6: I need the toilet. Hmm, call toilet man. He is
Speaker 6: the hero we all need sometimes. Yes, this one looks
Speaker 6: like it's from an email or something. It says genital reminder. Please,
Speaker 6: dear sir, please join on time. Many thanks. Genital reminder,
Speaker 6: dear sir, please join on time. This is your genitals
Speaker 6: reminding you please join on time. Many thanks. It's like
Speaker 6: when your dick is polite but has needs genital reminder.
Speaker 6: Dear sir, please join on time. I've been waiting. Many thanks.
Speaker 6: When your dick is polite, genital reminder, So no, not genital,
Speaker 6: but gentle of course, So the vocab there is genital
Speaker 6: and gentle reminder. So genital. Yes, it got a bit
Speaker 6: rude again, didn't it. I'm sorry. I assume that that
Speaker 6: fifty of the world's population who were offended by the
Speaker 6: other things Jesus and all the rest of it. Maybe
Speaker 6: I don't know what you've done. I don't know you've
Speaker 6: thrown your iPhone into a lake at this point, so
Speaker 6: I think we're probably all right now. Anyway, you need
Speaker 6: to know the difference between gentle and genital, don't you.
Speaker 6: I think you do, so that you don't make this
Speaker 6: mistake yourself. Gentle reminder, of course, ge ntl e is
Speaker 6: a lovely phrase. This is just a gentle reminder please
Speaker 6: join the Zoom meeting on time in future. Right, that's
Speaker 6: the sort of note that you could send to someone
Speaker 6: who maybe has been joining the meetings five ten minutes
Speaker 6: fifteen minutes late every day, and you'd say, just a
Speaker 6: gentle reminder if you could please just join on time,
Speaker 6: that would be convenient for everyone, Thank you very much, lovely,
Speaker 6: very nice that, But not genital. So genitals, your genitals
Speaker 6: are your private parts, right, do I need to explain
Speaker 6: any further? Have a look if you're not sure genitals
Speaker 6: I mean, don't necessarily do a Google image search. You
Speaker 6: don't need to do a Google image search. You could
Speaker 6: probably just look in your pants. Just do a pant
Speaker 6: search and you'll be able to see all the images
Speaker 6: you need of your own genitals, if that's necessary. But anyway, genitals, yes,
Speaker 6: the sort of sexual organs they are, let's say, scientifically
Speaker 6: known as your genitals. So a genital reminder would be
Speaker 6: some sort of reminder relating to your genitals. Please join
Speaker 6: on time, for example. Okay. And then finally, we have
Speaker 6: an incredible sign by the side of the water. It
Speaker 6: looks like maybe it's at the sea, maybe in front
Speaker 6: of a lake. And it's a sign with a fish
Speaker 6: and a hook, right, so perhaps related to fishing fish
Speaker 6: and a hook with a red line through it, as
Speaker 6: if to say no fishing. And it says it is
Speaker 6: forbidden to upload and download fish. I actually translated the
Speaker 6: original language there. I don't know what language that is,
Speaker 6: I have to say, but I translated that and it
Speaker 6: translated it exactly the same. So even in the first language,
Speaker 6: it seems this is a mistake. It's forbidden to upload
Speaker 6: and download fish. Extraordinary. Maybe this is some sort of
Speaker 6: like digital lake. Maybe this is an AI created lake
Speaker 6: and instead of catching fish, you download them with your
Speaker 6: fishing rod. I don't know, but I suppose what they
Speaker 6: mean is it's forbidden to catch or release fish here
Speaker 6: but it's forbidden to upload and download fish. How do
Speaker 6: you upload a fish anyway? I suppose you upload a
Speaker 6: fish in the same way as you upload anything else. Really, right,
Speaker 6: you just click on the click on the fish, right
Speaker 6: click on the fish, and click upload. I suppose that's it,
Speaker 6: and download more or less the same thing. Maybe you
Speaker 6: need a fish downloader to be able to do it.
Speaker 6: I don't know what's going on. I don't know how
Speaker 6: to correct that last one. I have no idea except
Speaker 6: maybe you know it's forbidden to release fish here or
Speaker 6: catch fish here, but upload and download fish. What's going
Speaker 6: on there? I don't know how that happened. So there
Speaker 6: you go. That was a selection of funny English errors corrected,
Speaker 6: and just as promised, what I'm going to do now
Speaker 6: is go through a list of vocabulary that came up
Speaker 6: in this episode, and I will ask you little questions
Speaker 6: to see how many of those words and phrases you
Speaker 6: can remember. Okay, right, let's do that now. Okay, So
Speaker 6: if you check the episode PDF for this episode, which
Speaker 6: you will find in the episode description, then you can see,
Speaker 6: first of all, a list of all the vocab items
Speaker 6: that I've dealt with, explained, defined, with examples and comments,
Speaker 6: and then this list of quick memory questions with answers underneath. Okay,
Speaker 6: so let's see if you were if you were paying
Speaker 6: attention during this episode. First of all, then which word means? Well?
Speaker 6: What happens to a candle, for example, if you put
Speaker 6: it near a fire, or what happens to ice cream
Speaker 6: if you leave it out in the sun. It's what
Speaker 6: mumm it melts? It melts. That goes back to that
Speaker 6: error in the feedback form. What do we do best
Speaker 6: here at the school melting students from different countries? What
Speaker 6: about the other word?
Speaker 3: Then?
Speaker 6: Which is where? For example, in a social situation, what
Speaker 6: does a good party host do to help guests get
Speaker 6: to know each other, doing something to encourage people to
Speaker 6: meet each other and socialize. They them, They don't melt them, No,
Speaker 6: they mix them. Okay, so mixing people? What s word is?
Speaker 6: What you should do with your hand to remove germs
Speaker 6: before you eat? Or during the COVID nineteen days, not
Speaker 6: David nineteen, but during the COVID nineteen era, we had
Speaker 6: to constantly clean our hands. What's another word for that?
Speaker 6: Remove all the germs, to sanitize with a hand sanitizer, Right,
Speaker 6: which our word. Yes, a cafe shop might have a
Speaker 6: sign that says closed for h closed for what It
Speaker 6: means that they are maybe redecorating, redesigning, refreshing the interior
Speaker 6: of their shop. That would be what a not revolution
Speaker 6: but a renovation? Yes, closed for renovation? What E word?
Speaker 6: This is what you must do before? Okay? What must
Speaker 6: you do before? According to the sign? Okay, hold on,
Speaker 6: let me just rewrite that. So you must you must
Speaker 6: pay the parking fee before something the shop? What is
Speaker 6: it before leaving the shop? Okay, it's exiting the shop
Speaker 6: of course. S what's the medical term for a sudden
Speaker 6: uncontrolled electrical disturbance in the brain which causes to your
Speaker 6: muscles to shake and you to lose control of your body.
Speaker 6: That is a It's like, oh my god, he's having
Speaker 6: a hm hm quick hot, Just make sure clear out
Speaker 6: the objects, get make sure that there are no sharp
Speaker 6: objects around him. Just try and lie him down on
Speaker 6: the floor. He's having a what a seizure? Seizure?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 6: Another word for this, another word for a seizure or sudden.
Speaker 6: It could also be used for a sudden outburst of
Speaker 6: emotion like a like when someone can't stop laughing to
Speaker 6: have a laughing it's a fit in that case, right,
Speaker 6: it's an epileptic fit, a laughing fit, a giggly fit.
Speaker 6: What S word describes a man standing outside a bank
Speaker 6: looking like he might rob it, a man acting very strangely,
Speaker 6: as if he's up to no good, like that person
Speaker 6: taking photos outside my building, or maybe a man standing
Speaker 6: outside a bank with a long overcoat on. Suspicious, Yes,
Speaker 6: very suspicious. Next word, if someone is completely unable to
Speaker 6: do their job properly. Someone is just rubbish, useless, They
Speaker 6: keep making mistakes, they are no good at anything. We
Speaker 6: would say that they are in what incompetent? Absolutely incompetent.
Speaker 6: Not a very nice thing to say about someone. What
Speaker 6: V word would we use to describe someone who needs
Speaker 6: to be extra careful because they can be easily harmed,
Speaker 6: like maybe children, the elderly, people who have underlying health conditions,
Speaker 6: they are called people. They're called vulnerable people. What D
Speaker 6: word should you not do with your old sofa on
Speaker 6: the street? So, if you've got an old sofa that
Speaker 6: you want to throw it away, you need to throw
Speaker 6: it away properly arranged for it to be taken away
Speaker 6: by the correct authorities. You don't just leave it on
Speaker 6: the street. You don't just it on the street. What's
Speaker 6: the word dump? Don't dump it on the street. What
Speaker 6: te word is when you have a strong belief in
Speaker 6: someone's reliability, like the way Christians have a strong belief
Speaker 6: in Jesus and they believe Jesus will save them. They
Speaker 6: believe Jesus is the way their spiritual guide. They trust
Speaker 6: in Jesus. To trust in Jesus. And then what's another
Speaker 6: word which means essentially to push something forwards? Right now?
Speaker 6: You might I don't know, thrust a sword into the ground, right,
Speaker 6: thrust a key into the keyhole. It can be used
Speaker 6: in a rude sense to thrust, or I gave you
Speaker 6: the answer, thrust in someone? Yes, there it is to thrust,
Speaker 6: meaning push forward, do not hmm. So this is something
Speaker 6: a hotel door might say if they want people to
Speaker 6: stay out, you'd leave it on the door. If you
Speaker 6: don't want to be bothered, do not disturb. But then
Speaker 6: another meaning of disturb to be disturbed, for example, oh,
Speaker 6: i've I've given you the answer, but anyway, Another meaning
Speaker 6: of disturbed then would mean like mentally disturbed, like mentally troubled.
Speaker 6: So if someone is mentally disturbed. I know, I don't know.
Speaker 6: Let's say someone has just watched lots of very violent
Speaker 6: films and played lots of violent games, or maybe they
Speaker 6: had some traumatic experience in their life, and it's meant
Speaker 6: that they are quite disturbed. You'd say he's a bit disturbed,
Speaker 6: meaning he's mentally troubled. So that's another meaning of disturbed.
Speaker 6: Do not disturb, right, but also to be disturbed, which
Speaker 6: is the crux of that slightly inappropriate perhaps joke about marriage,
Speaker 6: Do not disturb. I'm already disturbed. I am married. I'm
Speaker 6: already disturbed. Yeah hah, very funny. Jay. What's the slang
Speaker 6: word for a rude person or the vulgar word meaning
Speaker 6: to masturbate in American English? In the UK English with
Speaker 6: the equivalent would be to wank. In American English, it's
Speaker 6: to jerk exactly. It is also a word used to
Speaker 6: describe a person like you, He's such a jerk if
Speaker 6: you heard that in American English. But also jerk off
Speaker 6: means to masturbate. There you go. You learn all the
Speaker 6: important words with Luke's English podcast, and that brings us
Speaker 6: to the end of the episode. I just wanted to
Speaker 6: remind you that, yeah, there's an episode PDF for this
Speaker 6: one with all the stuff, all the signs that I've
Speaker 6: shown you, my comments, a full vocabulary list, and a
Speaker 6: list of memory questions as well, so you can sort
Speaker 6: of test your memory. Good way to push your vocabulary.
Speaker 6: This is what I always do in premium episodes, by
Speaker 6: the way, I always go through vocab in quite a
Speaker 6: thorough way and do lots of these memory exercises to
Speaker 6: help you practice recalling vocab. So it's all good and
Speaker 6: well seeing new words, understanding what they mean, recording them maybe,
Speaker 6: But there are several other steps that you must take
Speaker 6: if you really want to actively learn new vocabulary and
Speaker 6: genuinely broaden your vocabulary range. And that is to practice
Speaker 6: active recall, that is, making the words come into your
Speaker 6: head from nothing, okay, and these little questions help you
Speaker 6: to do that. And then the other final step is
Speaker 6: to actually use those words to practice your speaking. So
Speaker 6: if you can find ways to use all that vocabulary
Speaker 6: for talking about things, maybe you can go through the
Speaker 6: signs again, talk about them again on your own, look
Speaker 6: at the PDF on your own after having listened to this,
Speaker 6: and describe the signs, explain the mistakes and correct them,
Speaker 6: and in doing that and also give your comments, and
Speaker 6: in doing that essentially do your own version of this
Speaker 6: podcast episode. In doing that, you will no doubt use
Speaker 6: loads of the words that have come up here as well.
Speaker 6: So recreate the podcast episode that I've just done for
Speaker 6: you here in this episode. Look I'm going to finish
Speaker 6: here and look at that. It's amazing. It's going to
Speaker 6: be an episode that is less than one hour long,
Speaker 6: just to prove that I am capable of doing it.
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