129. Sorry
The Allusionist
Helen Zaltzman
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Apologies are such important verbal transactions. So why are so many of them soooo bad? Susan McCarthy and Marjorie Ingall from SorryWatch and Laura Beaudin of fauxpolo.gy pinpoint what to look out for, to sort the apologies from the fauxpologies.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the illusionist in which I, Helen Salzman, give language a sword and a ball of thread |
| 0:08.9 | and strict instructions not to get eaten by a minotaur. |
| 0:12.4 | This episode is all about Apologies, one of the most important verbal transactions, and |
| 0:19.0 | perhaps one of the most challenging, because, as Elton John sang, hold me closer tiny |
| 0:24.5 | dance at Wales to someone. |
| 0:25.9 | When I was down I was your clown? |
| 0:27.4 | No, I missed the earth so much I missed my wife. |
| 0:30.6 | Can you feel the love tonight? |
| 0:32.0 | I'd buy a big house where we both could live. |
| 0:34.0 | It seems to me you lived your life like a candle in the wind. |
| 0:37.6 | Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, |
| 0:42.6 | Saturday. |
| 0:43.6 | Hang on, here it is. |
| 0:44.6 | Sorry, seems to be the hardest word. |
| 0:47.9 | Got there in the end. |
| 0:49.3 | I hate myself. |
| 0:50.3 | I could apologise for it, but I did just choose to do it. |
| 0:54.4 | So, on with the show. |
| 1:01.4 | Sorry, if you're offended. |
| 1:09.0 | I apologise to anyone who thought I did anything racist, sexist, sexist, slash other. |
| 1:13.8 | I regret the offense I caused. |
| 1:15.4 | No, hang on, that's not making about me. |
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