2021-12-29 08:48:47
Phrases for correcting yourself
Gapirayotib o'z xatoyingizni to'g'irlab ketish yo'llari...
- I went to the chicken...
I mean 'kitchen'
- I couldn’t find my purse
…I mean ‘wallet’.
- I missed the train…
or rather, the train was cancelled.
- I got a job in advertising…
Well, actually, I got a job doing photocopying in a successful ad agency.
- I met one of my idols,
or should I say, I waved at him from about ten meters away.
- I got deported or,
to put it more precisely / to be more precise, I got kicked out of the country because of an
admin error.
- Money causes unhappiness.
Well, it would be truer to say that people’s attitude towards money causes unhappiness.
- I don’t mean people are all bad.
What I’m trying to say is that they can become aggressive if they feel threatened.
- I
didn’t mean that English was easy.
What I meant to say was that, compared with Korean, it isn’t so difficult.
- I’m not being critical of the government.
The point I’m trying to make is that those in power are not in the best position to make decisions.
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Don’t get me wrong! I don’t think that all criminals are to blame for their crimes.
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Don’t misunderstand me! I don’t think men are cleverer than women. That’s not at all what I wanted to say.
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Let me try and explain that another way: If people feel that nobody is listening to them, they might start to get angry.
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Let me put it another way: Celebrities can do more or less what they want, but the rest of us can’t.
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Perhaps I can put that a bit more clearly: people hate being told what to do.
- To rephrase what I have just said:
people want to feel respected.
- Celebrities should be told how important they are…on second thoughts, that’s probably a terrible idea. it would just make them more arrogant.
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