Hi everyone. It's Yukari.
Today, this video is the first Stu-san's English lesson.
Which come from my English mistakes when we have daily conversation,
we will give you an English lesson.
We were talking about Stu-san's friends one day.
Y: So Stu-san, are you gonna go out tonight?
S: Uh...no...John cancelled.
He's going hiking or something...
Y: Oh really? That's not nice to you...
S: Well...it's not a big deal. It's okay...
Y: You're so acceptable
S: Acceptable?
Y: What was wrong that I said, "you're acceptable?"
S: What you meant was I'm the kind of person
who accepts situations without complaining...
Y: Or accept the person.
S: Yeah, accepts other people and what that means is
you don't have any big complaints about things that are happening.
The word "acceptable," however, doesn't mean that.
What the word, "acceptable" means is that...
the quality of the thing that you're talking about is
it's like the lowest you are willing to accept.
So, for example, if you have some food at a restaurant
and it's not very good but it's also not bad...
It's just, just good enough. Y: Hmm...acceptable.
S: The minimum good is "it's acceptable..."
So to say that your boyfriend is acceptable
it just means like well, "he's okay!"
Y: Not too bad...not too good
S: Not good, not bad...just "acceptable."
Y: So if you use that word
to somebody like who you don't know really well...
S: It sounds a bit rude...
Y: Super rude, right?
or to like, older people? S: Yeah, yeah...
Be careful with that word,
it's not often used for people.
It's mostly used for things like food or
technical products.
Y: My new phone is acceptable.
S: Maybe it's not great but it's not bad...
it does...it does the job...it's acceptable.
Y: So what should I say?
S: If you want to say somebody is willing to allow changes to happen...
who's not very stressed out about those kind of things
You should say they are an accepting person...
Yeah, so "ing" form...
Y: You're accepting!
S: You're very accepting. Y:You're very accepting.
And what that means is that you don't care too much about people changing their plans...
you're flexible, you're a more easygoing person.
You are accepting.
So one thing to keep in mind though is that
the opposite of acceptable is "unacceptable"
So, "acceptable" means not great, not bad.
but unacceptable means very very bad.
So, for example
if one of your friends did something that was super super mean
and very rude or violent or something like that
people might say "this is unacceptable"
Y: If somebody kicks you...
"That's unacceptable!"
S: It's unacceptable that this person did this...
It's unacceptable that that happened.
So, slightly different meaning...
Y: So quite strong negative word? S: Quite strong negative, yeah.
whereas the word "acceptable" is quite mild...
it's like a medium word...
Not a very strong meaning...
Y: Do you have differences between
"it's not acceptable" versus "it's unacceptable"
S: Just a little bit...so...a nuance of meaning...
If I say of something, "it's not acceptable..."
it means that it's sort of it's not good enough for my standard
like a new phone...it's not acceptable...
It's not working well enough...
If I went into my phone shop and say it... my phone was kind of slow...
I bought a new phone and it was slow...or the battery was running out...
If I went in there, "this is unnacceptable!"
It's very strong...
but I could go in there and say this is not acceptable
It's a softer meaning.
So like, if I say, "oh this is acceptable," or "not acceptable..."
"Unacceptable."
Y: Not acceptable means like
you don't like it but not too bad
So they're quite different meanings.
S: Yeah just to conclude...
Think about...if you want to show that somebody is flexible...
they're easygoing you should say that they are "accepting."
If you want to say that something...usually things...is...it's okay!
Not bad, not great...but...it does what it's supposed to do...
It's "acceptable."
If you want to say something is not that condition...
It's "not acceptable."
But if you really want to say something is completely bad and...
And you really don't...you cannot allow this to happen...
It is "unacceptable"
So, slight differences...
Y: So this was the first Stu-san's English lesson
about the differences between accepting and acceptable.
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