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Course: Richer words and phrasesSection: Using vague languageSubtitles: en

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gentleman yeah you come here in it

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please so many I need to ask you a

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question just a minute please

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okay sorry everything okay

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I'm just looking for my hairdryer any

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idea where it could be um no I have no

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idea you know I haven't seen it for ages

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I think you were the last person to use

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it yeah Wow I kind of remember using it

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well I used it on Tuesday there was a

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lot happening and stuff like that and

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anyway so I used it and more or less the

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dog ate it

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thought as much

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hi so you could see from that example

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there I was trying to ask Johnson where

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my hairdryer was he wasn't 100% sure

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probably because he broke it or lost it

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happens frequently

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so in this case we use what we call in

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vain language well we don't give a

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precise answer maybe you want to avoid

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giving an answer or maybe just like no

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and so you had lots of you know kind of

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stuff like that more or less we use this

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so we don't have to give a direct answer

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we can be vague

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for example Danielle how old you I am

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you know 29 see ya

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