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I'm sorry but your

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English it needs to be

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improved hey guys uh how are

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you I

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just criticized you I delivered

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criticism criticism is a part of

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everyday life love it or hat

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it uh and in English we have some

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Expressions that we can use to deliver

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criticism in a constructive way and

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we're going to look at a couple of those

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now um the first

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one no disrespect dad but I think Mom is

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a better cook than

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you no disrespect dad

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but I think Mom is a better cook than

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you in this example we are almost

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apologizing for the criticism which we

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are about to deliver and in English we

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sometimes refer to this as softening the

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blow okay making the information the

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negative information a little bit easier

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and nicer to deliver as a very British

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passive aggressive way of criticizing

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somebody in our second example my boss

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tore my business plan to

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Pieces my boss tore my business plan to

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pieces this is a more informal metaphor

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that we have used my boss did not

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literally tear my business plan to

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Pieces no it's a

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metaphor um and we use this to describe

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criticism which is delivered in a

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very negative way when someone totally

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does not want to even consider uh your

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idea or your

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opinion now of course there are many

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ways of softening the blow when we

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criticize uh I'm sorry but um I hate to

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say this however H I see your point of

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view

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although in English we have many

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Expressions uh and I hope that this has

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been

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useful uh and what I said about your

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English I didn't mean it good luck guys

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you're doing very well