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Describing major change

change so i'm recording this video in june of 2021 so february last year was 2022 and in europe at least we didn't really know that the pandemic was going to happen and the worl...

Course: Precise words and opinionsSection: Advanced adverbsSubtitles: en

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to

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change

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so i'm recording this video in june of

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2021

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so february last year was 2022

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and in europe at least we didn't really

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know

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that the pandemic was going to happen

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and the world was going to change the

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kovid was going to spread all over the

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world

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so we were blissfully unaware we had no

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idea of what was going to happen

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so we used blissfully in this way to say

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you know we were happy before we didn't

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know but

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you know we were happy not knowing so

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you can be blissfully unaware about

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something that's going to happen

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in the future or blissfully unaware of

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something

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that is happening now but you don't know

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about it okay let's move on to the next

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one

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utterly this is a good one and i think

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it's very

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british english you don't hear it so

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much in american english or

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other english-speaking countries around

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the world

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utterly it basically means totally or

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completely

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it's really to add emphasis to something

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it could be positive or negative in my

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example is

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positive the banoffee pie we had for

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dessert was utterly delicious

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