Snowflake

Learning English Conversations

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Language Learning, Education

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2017

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Do you melt too easily?

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0:00.0	This is a download from BBC Learning English.
0:03.0	To find out more, visit our website.
0:06.0	The English We Speak
0:09.0	From BBC Learning English.
0:12.0	com Hello and welcome to the English we speak I'm Neil now
0:16.8	Faye will be joining me in just a second she's a little bit sensitive so I'm
0:22.0	going to try to deliberately upset her just to teach you
0:25.6	an expression in English. Hi Neil. Oh hi Faye, so what do you think of the new
0:31.9	Justin Bieber album?
0:33.2	Oh, it's just great. I love it.
0:36.2	Really?
0:37.2	I think it's rubbish. You must have terrible taste to like Justin Bieber.
0:42.8	Neil, that's so rude?
0:45.4	It's not rude, it's just a difference of opinion.
0:48.0	Honestly, Faye Faye Faye Faye Faye, you're such a snowflake.
0:50.5	Oh, you mean beautiful and totally unique?
0:54.0	Um, no I mean you melt easily.
0:57.8	You can call someone who gets offended or upset too easily a snowflake. Here are some examples.
1:04.0	A so-called friend of mine deleted a comment I made on his social media page just because I didn't agree with him.
1:15.0	What a snowflake!
1:18.3	There are so many places you can express yourself these days, but at the same time everyone gets offended so easily.
1:25.1	You can see why it's called Generation Snowflake.
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