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Softening negative comments

polite you're saying something negative but you don't want to say it so directly let's imagine that you said I like Vanessa's videos but her facial expressions though oh this me...

Course: Speaking with ease every daySection: Using though in conversationSubtitles: en

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little bit more

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polite you're saying something negative

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but you don't want to say it so directly

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let's imagine that you said I like

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Vanessa's videos but her facial

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expressions though oh this means that

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you enjoy my lessons but you don't feel

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the same way about my facial expression

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maybe you think my facial expressions

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are a little crazy or stranger it's just

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not a good fit for your learning style

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but you don't want to directly say that

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you don't want to say I like Vanessa's

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lessons but her facial expressions are

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strange though so instead you're going

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to just stop your sentence maybe have a

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little pause maybe elongate that final

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part her facial expressions though and

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you're kind of letting your listener

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imagine what you think you're not

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directly saying it but it's a little

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more casual it's implied

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for the second casual use of the word

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though you're gonna see this most often

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in really casual situations like an

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Instagram hashtag somewhere like this

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you probably aren't gonna say this in

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conversation you might see this you

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might hear it in a TV show but I want

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you to understand what it

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