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today's expression is a good one it's a good word it's not really an expression but it's a good word perplexed perplexed and we usually say I'm perplexed or this perplexing, or I was so perplexed.
It's a great word. P -E -R -P -L -E -X -E -D, perplexed, perplexed.
Keep the ED so when you are perplexed, when something is perplexing, it's very difficult to understand.
It's very confusing.
So for For example, as an American growing up in the country, what do we eat?
What do country people in America eat?
We eat meat, and potatoes, and vegetables every day.
Sandwiches for lunch, cereal, maybe pancakes for breakfast. But every day, it's meat and potatoes, meat and potatoes, meat and potatoes.
So we need a fork and a knife, and sometimes a spoon.
One day I went to this city and my friend took me to a Chinese restaurant and they gave me chopsticks.
I had no idea how to use these chopsticks.
It was very perplexing.
And even the food on the menu, I had no idea what these things meant.
Those words it was so perplexing.
This soup here and this dumpling thing there and these chopsticks and this tea and the red tablecloth and the Dragons everywhere.
It was very interesting but very perplexing.
I didn't understand the menu.
I didn't know how to use the chopsticks.
That's a perfect example.
Now we can use this for language situations for when we go to another country and the culture is just so different we don't know what to do we can say it's perplexing a perplexing problem would be a problem that is just very confusing you don't know how to solve it let's check out a dialogue you look Perplexed.
Yeah, was that a man or a woman?
Oh you mean Pat? Yeah I'm not sure either actually Yeah, yeah there are those people Who?
Children children all look like boys and girls.
They all look the same, but I mean an adult an adult, you know 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s.
Sometimes it's really difficult to know if the person is a male or a female.
It's very perplexing.
Am I talking with a man or am I talking with a woman?
Is that a man or is that a woman?
It's perplexing. It doesn't matter but still.
It's perplexing. Hmm.
We'll have to watch that person when they go to the bathroom.
Which bathroom do they go to?
I always go to my bathroom at home.
Yeah, and the name pat Everybody pat can be a guy's name and it can be a woman's name.
It comes from patrick Which was which is a guy's name or patricia?
Which is a woman's name.
OK, yeah perplexing Perplexed.
When was the last time you were perplexed?
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Let's check that dialogue out two more times.
You look perplexed.
Yeah. Was that a man or a woman?
Oh, you mean Pat? Yeah.
I'm not sure either, actually.
hmmm... You look perplexed.
Yeah. Was that a man or a woman?
Oh, you mean Pat? Yeah.
I'm not sure either, actually.
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