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All Ears English Podcast

AEE 1856: There's No Rhyme or Reason! How to Say It Doesn't Make Sense in English

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Business, Education, Language Learning

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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0:00.0

This is an All-Ears English Podcast episode 1856. There's no rhyme or reason how to say it doesn't make sense in English.

0:11.2

Welcome to the All-Ears English Podcast. Downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English?

0:20.5

We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection. With your

0:28.8

American hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York radio girl,

0:36.8

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0:46.0

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0:54.0

Why are there so many stars? Why is the sky blue? Are there some questions you just can't answer?

0:59.7

Learn what to say in these situations in English today.

1:07.7

Hey there, Michelle. How's everything going? Good to see you on video today.

1:12.0

Yeah, guys, we are over on YouTube so go on and make sure that you also subscribe or follow us on YouTube.

1:20.3

I know. We try to put a few videos a week on YouTube so guys don't miss it. Michelle, what are we

1:25.6

getting into today? What's the topic for the day? Okay, well, this is going to be good. So, Lindsay,

1:31.0

does it bother you? Are you one of those people that gets bothered when there's no true explanation

1:36.7

for something when something isn't logical? Definitely, yeah. Because I'm already confused,

1:41.5

I think I shared on another podcast. I'm already confused like 75% of the time about everything.

1:47.5

I just find things confusing. So when it's really confusing and there's no logic, it definitely

1:52.8

bothers me. What about you? Yeah, I think we all, like I think it's frustrating when there's no

2:00.5

like good explanation for something, especially you know what when there's like some sort of random

2:05.9

rule and it doesn't make any sense and like it's frustrated. Oh, yeah. And I know people in the

2:14.5

workplace really don't like this. So if you have a company and you're going to set rules,

2:19.2

there has to be a reason for them. You have to be able to justify that to your team or your employees.

2:24.8

Otherwise, it just feels kind of meaningless. And I think the days of meaningless rules at work

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