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539 Glossary for any unfamiliar terms

From discourse to social contexts | 223

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[talking about spring flowers in speaker A’s garden]

A: Angela planted them. There’s crocuses around the base of the trees but

they’re 

just about gone I think. 

B: Oh right. Yeah. Cos it’s been very mild hasn’t it. 

A: It’s been very mild. 

B: Yeah. 

A: We had snowdrops but the frost kind of killed them I think. 

A: It’s warm in here isn’t it. 

B: It is warm in here now. Yeah. 

A: Turn the radiator down a little bit perhaps. 

B: Yeah.

I mean 

roughly it’s going to cost about another thousand pounds.

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also 103a Vague language

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