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My name is Jack and I'm here with my co -host Sochal.
And today we are stepping into the vocabulary spotlight.
And Sochal, I have a list here of 24 new words that were recently added to Webster's Dictionary in 2023.
and i thought it would be kind of a fun um be fun to kind of go through this list over the next uh several months and so maybe we'll do like three words uh per episode and the first word i'm just going to kind of test you and see if you know what the the meaning is uh beast mode oh yeah beast mode is like
oh i went beast mode on it like hulking out or like also doing like top of your game at something yeah i i see it a lot on like uh because i game forums yeah game forums yeah in gaming and also in like fitness oh yeah yeah like like someone would say like um did you have a good workout today and you're
like yeah i went beast mode and it means they did like a very intense workout or i watch uh basketball highlights I love to watch NBA highlights and stuff like that.
And sometimes the announcer will go, whoa, LeBron James went beast mode on the other team or whatever.
And so it's kind of like going above and beyond the normal expectation to a very intense and focused mode of being, I guess.
What about in gaming?
what what is what does it mean in that respect um beast mode yeah I think it's just like it's same as like with athletics I honestly think that my generation sometimes sees like gaming as an extreme sport basically yeah it is now yeah yeah it is and so it's like you have competitions and all this stuff
um and I think that it's basically it has the same exact meaning but just applying it to gaming you're just killing a lot of people and you're doing really really well in the game and you you're basically you're going yeah yeah yeah going beast mode yeah okay um so there you go listeners you can use
beast mode when you study English study real hard and go beast mode um number two this one I have never heard before but um I'm curious if you have bracketology bracketology bracketology yeah bracketology I don't think I've ever I haven't heard of it I haven't heard of it yeah this is for this is for people who are oh
I know what bracketology is oh I do I do I just it just hit me I remember all those YouTube videos that were trending in 2022 and 2023 where it would like put things into brackets so to like A, B, C, S level or whatever brackets, ears, kind of, is that what we're talking about?
Exactly. And it's, it's mostly comes from like online gambling on sports or just people who love sports.
So, you know, for example, there's the college basketball NCAA tournament, which happens in March.
They call it March Madness.
And people love to try to predict the outcomes of the games.
And so, bracketology is the practice or study of predicting outcomes of elimination in tournaments or competitions.
So, bracketology is the practice of that.
So, So they, you know, I mean, it didn't really need a name, you know, like filling out a bracket for trying to predict which, you know, people will do it for the World Cup for soccer and stuff like that, too.
But now it has a name.
And so they call it Bracketology, which is kind of interesting, I think.
OK, I remember actually doing this.
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any foot long for just 6 .99 use code 699 fl now only here for a limited time redeemable at participating u .s restaurants subway app online orders only add additional plus tax additional fees apply on delivery excludes footlong snacks limited time um in kentucky like when i was growing up in high school
during big basketball state yeah yeah yep it's a big basketball state um during march madness which is like the kickoff basketball season right we would have these like paper like we would get these during school they'd give us like a a paper with little brackets and you would put like the sports team
your sports teams or whatever on them that yeah and what what did you did you go based on like the colors of the jerseys or something like i want blue i honestly think i was i honestly think i just like i have no idea i think i just spaced out or i would just like write down some random stuff and then
spend the extra time that everyone else was doing was like drawing on the back of the paper right right right right yeah if you're not into sports i i think bracketology is probably maybe the most boring thing but the the fact that like now um sports gambling has been legalized in america um i think
a lot of people are really getting into you know brackets and sports and betting on games and things like that and so um because of gambling i think that people are taking it much more seriously because there's money involved right and oh yeah so so they've actually given it uh a proper name so there
you go listeners bracketology and our last one is chef's kiss oh chef's kiss I is one I'm definitely familiar with it's like the if something's perfect it's like oh chef's kiss moi and the person kisses their hand like when the chef makes a perfect meal yeah um yeah that's kind of what it is right kissing
the fingertips of your hand yeah it's like you know like yeah the chef's chef's kiss with like you're like throwing a kiss kind of to the chef or no to the perfection of the dish or whatever you created or whatever going on yeah yeah I've never I've never really liked this one I do use it sometimes
when I am teaching a class and you know it's Korean students and I tell them like my favorite dish I'll say something like you know I don't know some kind of some kind of Korean dish and I'll do the chef's kiss and to kind of emphasize how much I really love that dish and everybody see this kind of a universal
gesture isn't it yeah yeah i think well in the u .s it certainly is i don't know if it is other places um yeah yeah yeah my korean students tend to understand when i do this but um oh when you do the chef's kiss oh interesting i think because of the propagation of u .s media culture like our movies are seen
all over the world and our tv shows are seen all over the world so I think because of that a lot of our gestures are like adopted into other cultures I totally agree with you I was thinking of like ratatouille or something like that yes exactly ratatouille um I agree yeah all right listeners well if you know
what a chef's kiss is make sure to leave a comment down below at a to z english podcast .com shoot us an email at it is the english podcast at gmail .com or join our we chat and whatsapp groups to join the conversation.
I would honestly love to hear if there's a similar gesture in your culture.
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