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The word angst, meaning neurotic fear, anxiety, guilt or remorse comes from German, but has been used in English since the 1940s. It comes from the same root as the word anger, and was originally popularised in English through translations of the work of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.

The word has more recently adapted however, and now teenagers are much more likely to talk about feeling angsty. When they complain about not being understood by anyone, or that they are alone in the world, they are feeling angsty. When they insist that you could never know how terrible it feels to them, how the whole world wants to destroy them, they do it because they are feeling angsty. An angsty person feels completely unloved, unwanted, disrespected, ignored.

Some cruel people might suggest that those who feel angsty are just looking for attention. But these people don’t understand us. And they never will!

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Yvonne: Hi, this is '6 minute English' and I'm Yvonne Archer…

Callum: I'm Callum Robertson. Hello!

Jackie: Hello, welcome to the programme, with me, Jackie Dalton. This
programme is all about expressions you can use when you think someone
is wrong about something and you want to disagree with them.

We’re going to do this with the help of British Prime Minister, Tony
Blair. He was recently interviewed by John Humphries, a BBC journalist.
Tony Blair disagreed with quite a lot of the things John Humphries said
and we’re going to look at some of the language he used when he did this

Where do you keep your clothes? In a chest of drawers? A closet? Perhaps a wardrobe? Well, if you’re anything like me, quite a few of your clothes at any one time might be on the floor. It makes it easier to select what you want to wear. I – and millions of people like me – call it my floordrobe. It’s a form of storage for clothing which requires no hangers, drawers, doors or effort. Simply drop your clothes on the floor and you have a floordrobe. If a husband and wife are similarly untidy, they might even have a 'his-and-hers' floordrobe. You just enter the bedroom, and there it is – a walk-in floordrobe.

Why go to the trouble of hanging your clothes up when you take them off at night – they’ll be easier to find in the morning if you just leave them on the floordrobe.

Teenagers tend to have the most sophisticated and developed floordrobes. In fact, parents might be completely unaware that floordrobes even exist. They just see a pile of clothes on the floor!

Transcript

Note: This is not a word-for-ward transcript.

Alice
Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English. I'm Alice…

Neil

Neil: Hello, welcome to ‘How to…’ with me, Neil Edgeller. In this
programme we’ll take a look at how to gossip; that is how to talk about
other people’s private lives. Perhaps you’ve heard a rumour – an
interesting piece of news that may or may not be true – and you really
want to tell someone else.
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Have you heard about Mike?
I’ve got the juiciest bit of gossip ever

It’s probably true that people from big cities tend to be much more impatient than people from small towns. Getting from A to B is just so much more difficult with all the traffic and crowds, so people are in much more of a hurry. Also, large towns tend to have a lot of tourists, or people who are a bit lost. So if you’re an impatient city person, desperately trying to get to that important meeting, you might get really angry with the meanderthal in front who is slowing you down by those crucial seconds! You turn left to get past him, and he turns left, you turn right, and he does the same. It’s like a strange dance, in slow motion. You’re going to be late and it’s all that meanderthal’s fault!

To meander means to walk slowly, without any clear direction and a Neanderthal, spelt with N for November, was a kind of primitive person who lived in Europe a hundred thousand years ago – something like a caveman perhaps. So when we call someone a meanderthal, we’re combining these two words, meander and Neanderthal. And we’re actually being very rude. We’re saying that the person in front who is slowing us down is stupid, they haven’t evolved, that they don’t know what they’re doing or where they’re going.

But then, if you’ve ever walked down Oxford street in London at five in the afternoon, rush hour – you might well wonder if some of those shoppers, moving so slowly with a glazed look in their eye, are actually 21st century human beings like you or me. Perhaps they really are meanderthals….

William: Hello, and welcome to How to…our guide to the everyday language of life. My name’s William Kremer. I take every opportunity to shock my colleagues
here at BBC Learning English dot com and earlier on I gave several of them a
big shock. I went around the office complimenting them.
Why did I compliment them? Did they look good? Had they made programmes that I’d enjoyed? Well no, not really. I just wanted to see how they would react
- how they would respond - to my compliments.
I started off by approaching Carrie at the photocopier. How did she react when
I gave her a compliment?
William: Hello Carrie. You’re looking lovely today…

Li: Hello and welcome to The English We Speak from BBC Learning English. I'm Yang Li. I am waiting for Jen to arrive in the studio, but she's outside and she's in a really bad mood, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to teach you some weather idioms. What do you think? Jen's looking really angry. Have a listen…

Jen: (Screaming and shouting)

Li: She has a face like thunder. If you have a face like thunder, it means that you are very angry indeed. And Jen definitely seems angry!

Jen: (In the background) It's so unfair. When things go wrong for me, they always go badly wrong. It never rains but it pours!