hey Lindsay oh wait hold on okay I'm ready okay Michelle okay uh yeah so what's going on over
there are you okay today I'm okay I guess I just needed them I needed a deep breath I needed to
motivate myself but I'm here I'm ready to go oh my God I actually didn't know if you were
stopping like really stopping I didn't see her now I didn't know that you were oh that's funny well
I'm a great actress what can I tell you you are you are you're a natural actress natural performer
I love it so good I wonder what we're getting into today this is now I'm intrigued I'm in yes well
I'm glad and everyone should be intrigued this is a very intriguing situation guys what are guys and
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all right so Lindsay we recently did an episode about the difference between weight and a weight
and I was thinking about weight and how we should uh talk about that word and different ways to tell
someone to wait all those weights yes I agree let's talk about it a little bit more because
we don't just use those two words I mean in that episode you guys will have to go check it out but
we did come to the conclusion that 99 of the time you're going to use weight not a weight but that's
not your only option right exactly exactly so guys we also want to uh send you to all there's
English episode 1498 which was your breaking up using phrasal verbs for telephone conversations
because things like hold on things like that can be used for the phone but Lindsay sometimes we
need to ask someone to wait for something so maybe it's in a friendly way or maybe it's a little more
direct if someone's being pushy but either way we need the language to say wait and I'm more
unique than just saying wait every time we need many ways to say it oh my gosh for sure otherwise
otherwise we sound like that recording that we talked yeah wait wait wait
it's so funny guys again if you didn't hear that episode that is you know in cities like Boston New
York City probably Jersey City the big cities many of them have a very annoying and quite frankly
abrupt and rude recording when you hit the button to cross and you're waiting and it says wait wait
very loud and obnoxious so yes you don't want to be that person in conversation and connection who
just says wait it's actually that would be kind of rude wouldn't it it would it would so Lindsay
let's go through some of these other ways that you can say it so the first one is hold on or hang on
um and this is good really for the phone right it was probably on the episode I mentioned but you
can say hold on I'm looking for my keys you could also say wait I'm looking for my keys but this
just it's just another way to say it or what's another thing you could say what's something
you could say with hang on well if we want to get even more casual which I like this one because it
feels a little more collaborative or something I don't know why but it has a friendlier air to it
in my mind hang on right hang on I'm just getting a snack and then we can get started I'm not sure
why do you feel that way to hold on hang on you know what it's funny I see what you mean hang
on more so than hold on yeah I feel like it's a little friendlier but it might just I see what you
mean no I I see what you mean I had never thought about until you said it but as soon as you said
it I agreed with you but I don't know why yeah we like to analyze language here dollars English but
it's a negligible difference guys okay so don't worry about that difference use either one both
are super native and natural for connection what's the next one stay put okay so this one
is a bit more about not moving physically okay so don't leave you know stay put I'll be right
back and I need to talk to you now this sounds like it could be a little bit scolding right
like talking to a teenager or a child but not always mm-hmm right right exactly so you could
say stay put I'll be right back and I need to talk to you yeah now would you use this with anyone I
mean you know let's say at work anyone above you below you at work or just anyone or there only
certain relationships where you would use stay put I don't think I would say this to a boss
yeah that's what I was thinking too yeah that would feel a little bit funny to me but I think
yeah I think really anyone else if somebody's just waiting for you oh just stay put I'll be right
back you know right or maybe a friend is waiting for you at it you're going for ice cream and
you're meeting up and you know you got caught in traffic or the Subways late where's your favorite
place to get ice cream in New York Michelle by the way do you have any favorites [Music]
that's a great question I will always break for ice cream talk I know oh man oh gosh
um my favorite ice cream place in New York you know what I can't think of anything off of the
you're really the ice cream lady I'm the ice you're right you're the cookies girl I'm an ice
cream lady so I'll tell our listeners if you come to Denver go to licks they are oh man their ice
cream is just sugary anyways I'm gonna go for an ice cream cone after this I think good you
deserve it you deserve all right what's the next one Michelle what's next the next one is standby
so this one makes me think of like a show or a broadcast yeah yeah like waiting to do something
or for some important information so like you might hear a newscaster and say like stand by I'm
getting some new information oh my gosh yeah this feels a bit more official it has a bit of more
of a procedural official tone to it I've been on airplanes a lot I was in LA on Friday and I'm back
and forth just going all over the place Michelle and I remember here hearing this yesterday the
captain saying to the flight attendants you know standby flight attendants for cross-check
standby for cross check right that's the one you always hear the same every time Michelle yeah
okay Michelle do we have another lovely expression let's do one more this one is very unique this one
is time out and Lindsay um did you watch Saved by the Bell oh yes I remember this Zack Morris
would look at the camera and then he'd be like time out time out yeah he would make a tea and
everybody would freeze like he had this power and then he would talk to the camera or do something
to someone and yeah so time out is just like it's also used a lot in sports or in games um so yeah
uh like like a timeout right the team took a time out the coach called for a timeout so the team
could talk yes but people use it conversationally too it's kind of unique maybe not used quite as
much as the other ones but it has a it puts a unique Twist on it yeah for sure so here's
a sample sentence time out we need to go through these files before we move on so I like how maybe
this originally came from Sports because like we said in sports there are time out time time
timeout opportunities options moments where you have to get out of the game or pause the game but
it does bleed into the business world or our lives right and I remember and say by the Bell always
being very confused because there was no context as to why he had those Powers never explained you
could just grabbed them that's weird anyways 90s TV what can you do what can you do what can you do
um so Lindsay which one of these does and do you gravitate towards any of these more than
the others I really like hang on because as I said before it feels maybe I'm just reading into
it but it feels more friendly it feels casual but it's still clear that I need to wait yeah I like
hang on too um I like time out just for fun um yeah I I think each one of them has it's it's its
own place I mean I when I think when I hear hold on or hang on I think a lot about the phone uh
yeah when I hear stay put I think about not moving standby makes me think of a TV broadcast timeout
makes me think of sports or Saved by the Bell so it all that they all have their special place
and sometimes they might be more appropriate in certain contexts but I think we went over some of
the basics today yeah we talked about some of the basic broad buckets here I also think timeout has
a place with kids like parenting right oh oh yeah yeah I had a whole other discussion right yeah to
put a kid in time out I've never once put my son in time out oh I don't do I don't do it I don't
do it like some people believe in it and some people don't and that's okay whatever you choose
um but like I don't I don't know I just like it I just never did it all right that works for me
sounds good yeah so I mean so guys yeah clearly there are some buckets we've conveyed to you
guys that you know like like Michelle said yo standby is a bit more procedural you hear it on
an airplane stay put us more physical hang on hold on especially comment on the phone but not always
right let's go into a role play Michelle shall we let's do it so you are getting a bag ready
um that I am going to deliver to your friend oh so complicated okay I know it is a very
complicated change chain of events like guys we're going to use a couple extras and hear
some bonuses okay are you oh you go first you go first are you ready oh sorry not yet hold on
I just have to add a few more things uh okay I'll sit tight whoa pause where's the card right there
oh thank goodness okay stay put one more second okay ready all right so we didn't use all of the
ones we taught but we did add a couple bonuses it's kind of interesting here I'll just call out
this one first so that in this case you weren't telling someone to sit tight you said I'll sit
tight and that works that works too right right so that's a that was a bonus guys to sit tight right
um yeah you can say sit tight that's so you can use that to say weight or that you'll wait like
I'll sit tight right I'm just I'm just waiting yes and yeah we didn't teach that one and we also
didn't teach whoa pause right this is something else you could say that's pretty casual bonus
for today but the ones we did teach Michelle were what was the first one to hold on right hold on
I have to add a few more things and then the last one is stay put one more second and again we said
that stay put is much more about the physical right I would say it's really only about the
physical I want you to stay in the same place right it's not really on the phone that would
be weird if you use the other phone you said stay put right that'd be strange yeah it would
um so Lindsay this was fun but the main idea is different ways to say wait right some of
them are better for certain contexts than others we went through them today we did a role play we
gave you some bonuses lots of things but uh guys sit tight for the next episode of all
ears English and we'll see you again soon yeah I love it and and just to add on to that Michelle
I mean don't be that robot yeah on the street on the street corner that says a wait wait right so
we're trying to get away from being robotic on this show we're showing you how to be human the
human connection and these phrases are connection worthy I love it so good so good okay Lindsay
thank you for hanging out and guys we'll see you soon all right take care bye foreign [Music]