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M - Today we're learning something about the expression “SHUT UP !”
M- Hi Cindy!
C- Shut up!
M- I beg your pardon?
C- Shut up!
M- Well, that’s not very nice, Cindy!
C- I’m just kidding with you, Marta! ‘’Shut up’’ is actually the topic of today’s podcast!
M- Oh, thank goodness! For a second there, I thought you were telling me to shut up! And I thought to myself- ‘’but I haven’t even spoken a single word yet!’’
C - No, I would never tell you to shut up, that would be a very RUDE thing to say. ‘’Shut up’’ is a very ABRUPT and IMPOLITE way to say be quiet, stop talking or stop making noise!
M- So if telling someone to ‘’shut up’’ is not polite, why do we even need to talk about it?
C- Because last week I was away on a trip and our first day something happened that got me thinking about the phrase ‘’shut up’’ and all the ways it is used nowadays. Interestingly enough a couple of them are not rude at all.
M- So then I guess that would depend on many things? Like the context in which it’s said? Or the tone of voice used? For example: used in anger during an argument ...or just joking around with friends?
C- Exactly! And there’s even a third way of using ‘’shut up’’. It’s to convey surprise or disbelief.
M- OK, before we get into all three uses for ‘’shut up’’, let’s back up...where did you go last week?
C- Paris!
M- Lucky you! So what happened on your trip? Did you tell someone to shut up?
C- Oh, I came very close, but I thought twice and realized it wasn’t worth it. Not only, but I felt there was a greater lesson to be learned from it- that even our individual actions affect all of those around us.
M- What happened?
C- It was funny, really. I was in my hotel, getting ready to go out and the windows were open to the street below. All of a sudden I heard a group of people talking. Loudly. At the end of the street.
M- You could hear them all the way from the end of the street?
C- The end. That’s how LOUD they were! Then the CHATTER started to grow and come closer. I thought it was a tour group! And when the noise and COMMOTION had stopped directly under my window I realized it was just 4 Americans!
M- Only four people?
C- Only four - two men & two women making enough noise for a tour group! The entire street (now, imagine a nice, quiet residential area of Paris filled with high rise apartments- windows open to the sun) they had all been witness to this. Oh Marta! They were so loud! Voices like loudspeakers RICOCHETING off the cement buildings and filling the street!
M- That’s really funny!
C- It wasn’t funny worth a darn at the time! Ok, so anyways, they didn’t enter the hotel but decided to take pictures of each other and remained YAPPING at full volume under my bathroom window!
M- How annoying?!
C- Awful! And I haven’t gotten to the best part yet!
M- What’s that?
C- The man who inspired this whole idea for a podcast!
M- Oh no!
C- As the chaos rumbled below my window and they passed the camera between each other for photos, one of the women SPOKE UP and said ‘’Now y’all I want a photo of the three of you!” (They were Southerners, hence the southern accent)
M- Oh, okay. I was wondering why you switched voices?
C- There are regional differences in American accents. I have to make it authentic! So the head-loud talker, the alpha male, the king of the jungle- I’ll call him ‘’Stan’’. Stan pipes up and responds with ‘’Hurry up!’’ And she says ‘’Oh, just one more, picture of the three y’all!’’ Stan’s response: ‘’Hurry up! Cause’ I gotta pee!’’
M- No!
C- Yes. He did. Full volume. Stan the Man had just informed an entire residential street in the 16th arrondissement of the status of his bladder. Yes. He did. Thank you, Stan the Man.
M- Oh my goodness!
C- I was astounded. Does that information really need to be broadcast at full volume?
M - No.
C - The group then disburse

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