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they would rather be called thin but a lot of people don't care if someone says that they are skinny yeah skinny can have like a sort of negative feel to it um whereas um thin i...
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skinny
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they would rather be called thin
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but a lot of people don't care if
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someone says that they are skinny yeah
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skinny can have like a sort of negative
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feel to it
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um whereas um thin is
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um has a
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the connotation or the sort of idea of
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you can be thin and healthy but when
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you're skinny it sounds less healthy and
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maybe more negative
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yeah and captain t said slim that's
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another nice way
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um
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yeah yeah thanks for your questions and
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thanks for your comments everyone i
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really yeah i love this um
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love this participation
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okay
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so was that the last oh no we have one
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more thing of course age yeah that's a
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big descriptor for uh for people
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do you know how
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to ask someone their age
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yeah what's the question we what's here
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how do you ask someone their age
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i'm gonna do this real quick
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i'll write the answer here
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how old are you
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yeah how old are you
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so let's learn how to answer that
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question
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for example i'm 30.
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brian how old are you i'm 31. okay
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yeah and you can also say so it's common
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to say i'm you know and then the number
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so i'm 30.
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but you can also say i'm 30 years old
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be careful in english we do use the verb
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to be
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so if you want to ask about somebody
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else
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we can maybe look at one of the pictures
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here
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you might say
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so this girl here if you look at the
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picture she's standing in front of the
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calendar
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um you might want to ask about her age
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how would you ask that
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you would say how old
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i can type it in the comments too
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um
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how old
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is she
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how old is she
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how old is she really nice
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okay so to answer go ahead oh oh yeah
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what's her age yeah you could also ask
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that too yeah what's her age it's more
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common to ask um
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how old is she but yeah what's her age
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that's perfect too
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um and she looks to be about 12 years
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old so i think
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she's 12 years old
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that's my guess
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