The Vocab Man - Fluent Vocabulary

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Antifa or Antifa, depending where you live in this country, the anti-fascist who go mask into demonstrations, why are they masked? They do not want to be identified. Antifa has always been a buzzword. In the media, a buzzword is a word or phrase that becomes very popular for a period of time. They will move quickly and talk about Antifa this, this, uh, uh, group that's been identified on the far left.

Um, how do we read that? And just today, the president Trump has declared Antifa as a terrorist organization. And that's the reason why today. We're gonna focus, um, Antifa and whether you call them Antifa or Antifa, the group has become a relatively recent buzz word in the news. Yet the antifascist movement has been around for nearly a century.

So what exactly is the modern Antifa and where does it come from? Well, historically anti fascism has been defined as a reactive and Milton opposition to fascist groups in power.

According to Merriam Webster, the definition of Antifa Antifa is a person or group actively opposing fascism. The second definition is an anti fascist movement. An example from tart Chitlin would be. Antifa is the backlash to the backlash at defensive response to the growing presents of right wing extremism.

The first known use is 1946 in the meaning defined at the first definition, and from the etymology point of view, Antifa was borrowed from German. Antifa short for anti-fascist dish in anti-fascist tissue act tune, meaning multi-party front initiated by the German communist party in 1932 to counter narcissism.

Pivot of, you call it whatever you want, but they're people that want free speech. If you look at what's going on with free speech with the super left. With Antifa with all of these characters. I'll tell you what, they get a lot of publicity, but you go to the real campuses and you go all over the country.

You go out to the middle West, you go out even to the coast in many cases, uh, we have a tremendous support. I would say we have majority support. I think it's highly overblown, highly over. I totally agree. And we see it on the ground and some people say, Hey, I'm, did you recognize that voice? Have a guess.

So guys, that's it for today. I'm Daniel Goodson. Thank you very much for tuning in. Bye. We could even engage in some light and gun-free fact checking every now and then you could while your friends online by being the first to figure out that this supposed image of a. Antifa demonstrator beating a policeman in Charlottesville was actually an altered photo of Greek protests taken years earlier.

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Insurgency from Below: Activism in the Trump Era
The Graduate Center, CUNY

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Shields and Brooks on John McCain’s patriotism, Florida election upsets
PBS NewsHour

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Antifa's Violent History Explained | NowThis World
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President Trump Participates in a Panel Discussion at the Generation Next Summit
The White House

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The internet is trolling you | Pamela Martin | TEDxUSU
TEDx Talks

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“Having said that” is a useful transitional phrase that has become common in spoken language. When people say, “Having said that” it is a signal that they are gonna say something which will contrast or disagree with what they said a moment ago.

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Now, having said that, I would tell you as well that in education and in healthcare in particular, the two words that you’re going to hear for the next decade are going to be transparency and efficacy
Having said that, we must recognize that these detention policies cannot be unbounded.
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On episode 21 (22) we want to cover the expression “having said that”. Having said that is a transitional phrase that has become more and more common in spoken language. When people say, “having said that”, it is a signal that they are going to say something which will contrast or disagree with what they said a moment ago. And to be honest with you. I came to learn about this expression just today when I was listening to a podcast called Inglespodcast. And before that I always misinterpreted this expression. So it’s about time to discuss this expression and learn it for good. So the Inglespodcast puts it this way have a listen:
So it’s when you want to give a different opinion about something. An example would be he forgets most things. This is probably me. Craig forgets most things, but having said that, he always remembers my birthday. So what that really means is, despite what has just been said, despite what has just been said. And when you want to give a contrasting opinion, so you give one opinion, but then you want to contrast it with another comment. Even though you think both things are true, you could say, for example, Apple products are expensive. Having said that, I must admit they’re very well made, so many people use that expression. Having said that, some people don’t. Some people say “That being said“, it’s not so common, but it means the same thing. Here’s an example, but Peter was reading, listening, and writing are all very good. That being said, his speaking needs to be improved. I could replace it with, having said that, his speaking needs to be improved. So that being said is a variation of having said that,
Inglespodcast

Some synonymes
What would be some synonyms we could use? Well. It’s that simple, for example there is: However, though, after saying that, nonetheless, nevertheless.
…hearing about the importance of local connection, uh, and instead of just sort of the network participation serving that community, any thoughts about that? I think where we’re headed is to become more national. Now, having said that, what I really mean is local. That sounds like a paradox, but by, by saying more national, I think NPR has realized that it is more important now, maybe more than ever before for them to reach out beyond the beltway, beyond the traditional coastal media centers and reach out to different parts of the country.
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As always, you can read along while you are listening to this podcast. That way you can improve your English even better. My name is Daniel Goodson and this is the fluent vocabulary podcast. Bye.

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On this episode of fluent vocabulary, we focus on a bunch of phrases and the expression "I've lost my train of thought". Just stands there, representative for functional expressions that buy you time. So if you don't know exactly what you should say, and maybe you just need a second to think about it.
Then there are a lot of functional phrases which I want to tackle in this episode. I've lost my train of thought. No, a golden Apple. Got it. I want you to look it up. AUSL program. Okay. Golden egg. That was a bit fast, but you can hear in the beginning he said, I've lost my train of thought. And then the other speaker gives him a cue word (buzzword) so that he knows again where they were.
Once again, I lost my train of thought. No, a golden Apple. Got it. I want you to look it up. AUSL program. Okay, so to lose one's train of thought means to be unable to resume one's previous progression of thought. So it is used figuratively. In other words, it's to forget what one was talking or thinking about.
And the next useful expression is,where were we, in serious point. Thanks very much. Um, so I was there, I was talking to this builder. He's a lovely bloke. And so the expression is where were we, it's real difficult to make this phrase out. So let's hear again. Well, we're in serious point. Thanks very much. Um, so I was there.
I talked to this builder. He's a lovely bloke. Another great expression is my mind went blank. So if you had kind of an blackout and you don't know what to say, you can just say, my mind went blank. So the other person knows that, you, you've kind of lost your train of thought. I have some shows on this.
We're going to try to do a couple of live shows from there. Mmm, Mmm Mmm. In my mind, just... my mind just went blank. Too many things going on in my head. Yeah. Laura, Laura Eisenhower is going to be there along with a lot of other people. My mind just went blank. So a fantastic expression too. Buy you time to think about something or just to signalize that your mind went blank.
So these are all useful expressions to buy your time and as you could listen to this is very useful, not only for non-natives. Even the natives are using them. So, instead of stuttering or just saying, ehhm, mmm, mmm. You can start out to use these phrases in your daily life. So they will get stuck in your head.
You will remember them better. Another phrase is. "On the tip of my tongue". So this is for the situation when, when you know something, but you just can't find the (except: error) the exact words. So it's literally on the tip of your tongue. Now I can't think of a better artismal coffee shop name than the one on the tip of my tongue here.
Birch and sons. Actually, it's 2015 Virgin daughters. There we go. So I've got my Birch and daughters coffee shop on the tip of your tongue. What a wonderful expression. And now comes to question. Where did I find all all of these expressions? Well, I listened to a wonderful podcast called Zdenek's English podcast.
And on episode 298 the host Zdenek said the following words. Practice makes perfect. Remember that. So it's not enough to just listen to me saying these phrases to you or even writing them down. What you need to do is to actively start using these. So whenever you can't think of a word, whenever somebody asks you a question, need.
You need to give yourself more time to think about it. Well, why not try and use these expressions? So on this episode of Zdenek's English podcast, the host, when... tackled a lot of these kind of expressions. So I jotted them down and try to Google them. And. And searched for for audio bites, but I haven't used them yet.
That's the next step. But what I want to say is that normally I just consume or listen to a podcast and then I just go on to the next podcast and so on. It's like when you're watching Netflix, you may also binge-watched series, which I certainly did many times, but sometimes it's just good to stick to one thing and then try to remember the words or the expressions, because the more we are being active in a way.
The better. We are gonna learn the words we are gonna remember them and so on. So let's have a quick listen to Zdenek's English podcast. Now I've also used the, the idiom, it's on the tip of my tongue, which is another one you could use. When, when you forget what you want to say, or when you forget the word, you just say, it's on the tip of my tongue.
What's the word I'm looking for? You could even use both of these together. So before I wrap this up for today, I say goodbye and if you want to have a listen to Zdenek's Einglish podcast, the links are on the show notes. It's really worth it. I mean, it's a great guy. He is an English teacher and he knows his own onions.
In other words, he knows his stuff. He's very knowledgeable. By then there's another one. My mind has just gone blank, or my mind went blank, you know, blank paper is paper with nothing on it. Um, so you could use it. That means you're admitting to, to completely forgetting what you were about to say. Right.
That's okay. Let's show is your honesty, and again, nice idiom to use, but this one is my personal favorite, and it's, I think it's used in British English mainly. Uh, sometimes the, the British say, I've lost my train of thought. I've lost my train of thought. What a great piece of language this is.

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Zdenek's English podcast

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And how it goes is up to all of us. Stone the stone across the morass as my father used to say. You're going through a morass and we are in a morass, there is no doubt about that. Find a stone, find firm footing and step onto that stone. Then you find the next stone, then you find the next stone. That's what we've been doing. This reopening is the most data-driven fact specific science driven reopening that has been done. Period.

Andrew Cuomo - New York Covernor (Coronavirus News Conference May 15, 2020)

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“Unmitigated.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unmitigated. Accessed 14 May. 2020.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unmitigated

Definition of unmitigated
1
: not lessened : unrelieved
sufferings unmitigated by any hope of early relief
2
: being so definitely what is stated as to offer little chance of change or relief
an unmitigated disaster

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Every tenth pot of rice I make is a unmitigated disaster and I don't know

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government has

no role. The one common denominator that unifies all economic thinking is the unswerving belief

in pursuing growth.

JR: But what happens when we no longer can grow at the same pace that we've been accustomed

to in the past? Is it the unmitigated disaster that we've been taught to believe. Curiously

when we look around the world and we see which societies and which economies have the most

content and happiest people, they are seldom the economies that have the largest GDP. They

are seldom even the economies that have the fastest growing GDP. Countries like Denmark

consistently outpaced countries like the United States.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1508&v=leyxgPRYDuk&feature=emb_logo

And sadly, there is an African-American

man right now who may be executed, by the name of

Duane Buck. Google him when you get a chance, and you'll

discover sadly, that Duane Buck is on death row, because

an expert witness, during the sentencing phase of the trial, had

the unmitigated racist gall to suggest that because

he is black, he is much more dangerous. It's his skin color

that makes him, that makes him dangerous. And the jury then

sentenced him to death. To execution. They are in the state of

Texas, again I'll repeat, the criminal justice system

experienced from the bottom up is often criminal and downright

unjust.

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“Unmitigated.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unmitigated. Accessed 14 May. 2020.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unmitigated

Definition of unmitigated
1
: not lessened : unrelieved
sufferings unmitigated by any hope of early relief
2
: being so definitely what is stated as to offer little chance of change or relief
an unmitigated disaster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3264&v=ZzzVdhyKjww&feature=emb_logo

Every tenth pot of rice I make is a unmitigated disaster and I don't know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=489&v=-xY57F_cJ6k&feature=emb_logo

government has

no role. The one common denominator that unifies all economic thinking is the unswerving belief

in pursuing growth.

JR: But what happens when we no longer can grow at the same pace that we've been accustomed

to in the past? Is it the unmitigated disaster that we've been taught to believe. Curiously

when we look around the world and we see which societies and which economies have the most

content and happiest people, they are seldom the economies that have the largest GDP. They

are seldom even the economies that have the fastest growing GDP. Countries like Denmark

consistently outpaced countries like the United States.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1508&v=leyxgPRYDuk&feature=emb_logo

And sadly, there is an African-American

man right now who may be executed, by the name of

Duane Buck. Google him when you get a chance, and you'll

discover sadly, that Duane Buck is on death row, because

an expert witness, during the sentencing phase of the trial, had

the unmitigated racist gall to suggest that because

he is black, he is much more dangerous. It's his skin color

that makes him, that makes him dangerous. And the jury then

sentenced him to death. To execution. They are in the state of

Texas, again I'll repeat, the criminal justice system

experienced from the bottom up is often criminal and downright

unjust.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/de/worterbuch/englisch/unmitigated
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The US Department of Defense has released three declassified videos of "unexplained aerial phenomena". Due to this news, we want to cover the abbreviation UFO which means „unidentified flying object“. Contact me to suggest vocabulary/expressions we should cover on the vocab man!
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By the 1970's UFO sightings had become so commonplace that the Royal Australian Air

Force provided a pro forma questionnaire to members of the public

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2200&v=F2pQjdRa77w&feature=emb_logo

Did you know that the whole UFO started here?

Back in 1947, a pilot flying between Yakima,

on the west side, saw these strange clouds.

And he thought they were flying-- they called these--

and they were moving quickly.

The winds were changing.

And he claimed-- well, at least the media

thought that these were flying saucers, alien presence.

So it's kind of interesting.

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Consider the fact that Google processes

over one billion search queries every day,

that every minute, over 100 hours

of footage are uploaded to YouTube.

That's more in a single day

than all three major U.S. networks broadcast

in the last five years combined.

http://www.learnersdictionary.com/definition/UFO
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52457805
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/Film__Documentary/Alien_Wasteland
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phenomena

The terms average Joe, ordinary Joe, Joe Sixpack, Joe Lunchbucket, Joe Snuffy, Joe Schmo (for males) and ordinary Jane, average Jane, and plain Jane (for females), are used primarily in North America to refer to a completely average person, typically an average American. It can be used both to give the image of a hypothetical "completely average person" or to describe an existing person. Parallel terms in other languages for local equivalents exist worldwide. (wikipedia)

Transcripts:

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...so we go through dumpsters and recover it. Especially commercial dumpsters-a lot of it gets thrown away. A lot of it gets thrown away by your average Joe consumer, but also a lot of it gets thrown away by shops and retailers and middlemen before it even reaches the consumer

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...and then the citizens understand that and citizens can range from developers who build a lot of

things in cities to, you know, just average Joe and Jane that might not be related to development.

But you can feel that and sense it. And it gives a sort of guiding star to everyone that is involved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=454&v=uCC3d-7FrkQ&feature=emb_logo

..., and out-of-reach for the average Joe like me that I just wrote it off completely. I seemed to be witnessing the dawn of a truly disturbing food revolution, and it sucked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=82&v=MG5BcWgnjz4&feature=emb_logo

Intro used as outro :) - The average Joe podcast

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We cover the rather easy expression "Let's put it this way" which shall make you sound more natural. You can find the transcripts of the audio bits below. This way, you may learn more vocabulary.

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Let's put it this way, we did thirty seven covers the first night, then we did seventeen, then I got worried but what was the most amazing thing I've ever seen was every night, and this is before social media, the word of mouth was spectacular and you started seeing the most important people in New York, you know Geoffrey Beene, you know, Herbie Hancock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=574&v=aa2MEQ6FL7k&feature=emb_logo

I think we have ... Let's put it this way: The world is always changing, and our company been changing all these years we've been in existence. Now with my three oldest sons working in the company along with some of the most amazing people I've ever come across, I think the future looks very good, so I'm very positive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=594&v=4uIvOniW8xA&feature=emb_logo

When you say most, I mean, let's put it this way--most of the atheists and most of the secular

or non-religious people I know believe that. But here's a question.

How do you prove that?

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So, here's a case.

Imagine we've got a person, Rachel,

and she wants to go visit her mom-- or let's put it this way.

She has to go visit her mom.

She doesn't really want to.

And she can either fly, or she can take the train.

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In episode 15, we cover the expression "the thing is". From now on you'll have all the transcripts of the audio files in the show notes. That way you'll learn even better English.

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... any resources they pull from, they come to me. And so, the thing is, I am obviously not unique in this at all. We're entering this era where there's this whole new kind of mental health crisis of.

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...l, and the thing is hotels, unlike airlines actually have a lot of competition. Think of where you could stay in Las Vegas...

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...And the thing is, we just wanted to create fitness careers for people. Because before, people would pick up one thing here, and one thing there...

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nd, so, like -- and -- but the thing is, is that a lot of institutions don't do this and instead they hedge their bets with a lot of very vague language where they say, like, oh, this is public domain for academic use. And you're like, what is that even -- that doesn't -- is not a thing that exists, all right? You know, like either it's public domain or it's not public domain. But the --

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