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Transcript:

The following program contains explicit language. Today, on the Vocab Man, I am talking to you about the phrase (to) bitch about
Hi everyone. This is Stephanie from the Geopats Language Podcast. I am coming to you from the Grand Park of Tirana, which is in the capital of Albania. A lesser known country, unfortunately, but a beautiful one that is just East of Italy and just North of Greece. I am from the U S but am living here for a few months, because - well COVID anyway, today, on the Vocab Man, I am talking to you about the phrase "bitch about", so let's get started.

0:57

So the phrase bitch about, is quite interesting now that I think about it, it usually introduces something that you're complaining about.

1:05

We need more people out there voting because if we do not get more voters than those same politicians that everybody likes to bitch about all the time on both the right and the left, they're going to stay in power because it's just going to be the same people voting every single time.

1:21

It basically means the same thing as complaining about. So, if I were to say, I don't want to bitch about my homework but it's basically the same thing as I don't want to complain about my homework but, but homework is boring. So let's think of a different example. I don't want to bitch about my husband but....

1:39

Shh...don't tell him, I don't want to complain about my husband but... now I lied a little bit there. When I said that it's the same. It's not the same. Otherwise, we wouldn't have different ways to say it. Can you hear the birds in the background?


2:01
Wow. They're really loud today. Anyway. it's not the same when you say bitch about, you're definitely talking to someone you're very friendly with someone you're very informal with and someone that you know that you can trust, because you're about to tell them a lot about the thing that you're going to complain about.



2:27
So for example, if I say, I don't want to bitch about my husband but he does blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Those things that I'm telling that person are very private.
I will leave the comments open if you guys want to bitch about it, whatever you're feeling. Go ahead!


2:46
Well, they're just things I wouldn't say in public.
So when you're using bitch about versus complain about it's more casual, more private and more informal. So you would never say this, for example, you would never say this in a job interview. You would never say this to an older conservative relative. You would probably not say this to your parents unless you were like an older adult or you had very free loving kind of anything goes kind of parents.

3:22

This is my channel. Okay. I'm doing what I think is best and that's what it is. So that's what it is. And if you guys go in the comments of this video and go bitch about it, delete delete, delete, delete. Like I'm going to delete everyone who complains about it because I'm done with this. Okay.


3:38

Generally speaking "bitch" is not the worst curse word you can use, but it's definitely not one that's as soft as say "shit" or "damn", it's definitely not the F-word, which I don't even feel comfortable saying on a recording, to be honest with you, but it's definitely a strong one. Now in it's strict sense, bitch. B I T C H actually is just the name of, I believe it's a female dog and I actually don't know why it has come to mean what it means now in this sentence in this example, bitch about it is the verb.

4:16

(to) Bitch is the verb. It's the action, like complain as an action, but bitch can also be a person, but that's an entirely different episode. So I'll let Daniel explain that to you later. Thank you so much for listening to this breakdown of how to use the word bitch about or the phrase bitch about, again, this is Stephanie from the Geopats Language Podcast, which can be found wherever you listen to audio.
It's G E O. P A T S Geopats Language. Thank you so much. Bye bye.


4:52

The be careful with how much you bitch about other people.
Thank you so much, Stephanie, for your contribution. I really had a blast when I was listening to your audio message with your great explanations. And just so you know, here comes the audio bit, which comes from Stephanie's podcast and actually.


5:14

I came across "to bitch about" and I just asked Stephanie, if she could give us an explanation. Thank you for listening to the Vocab Man. Bye.
Why are we talking today? Because you had a podcast frustration that I found really relevant under talked about, and that I wanted to hear more about. So you ready to bitch up a storm?

5:37

I am extremely ready to bitch up a storm and I'm mostly, mostly bitching about myself. So... that's cool.Well. You're bitching about an element of podcasting that I think is still tenable. So first of all, we have to mention the name of your podcast because that's where. Part of the bitching started. So can you introduce your podcast, please?