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Skinny and thin

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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