[Idiom] in bad taste

[Saki6]

"Taka was so rude in the meeting." - "Yes, his comments were in bad taste."
(Words & Phrases Tip 235 "in bad taste")


How about saying "in poor taste" to mean "in bad taste"?

 

[Skrej]

Yes, you can say that as well.

That video has several spelling errors - some of them even have the red underline from a spellchecker.

 

[Saki6]

Thanks for the reply, Skrej.

Several spelling errors? Is one of them "werein"? The teacher changed "were in" into "werein" just because "were in" is pronounced like a single word.

 

[emsr2d2]

If a teacher is going to run two words together in order to help students with pronunciation, they need to make it clear that the new word is not a real word. It's no good if that teacher's students start thinking that "werein" is an acceptable English word.
I haven't managed to watch the video but I don't see why any teacher would encourage their students to say "were in" as if it were one word.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Thanks for the reply, Skrej.

Several spelling errors? Is one of them "werein"? The teacher changed "were in" into "werein" just because "were in" is pronounced like a single word.

Words usually get run together when spoken in phrases or sentences. There's no such word as "werein."

If it were, then wordsusuallygetruntogetherwhenspokeninphrasesorsentences would be a word, too!

 

[Skrej]

One other I noticed was at about 0:53, where he has "inapprpriate".

By the time the word returns at around 2:13, it is spelled correctly, however.

 

[Rover_KE]

... then wordsusuallygetruntogetherwhenspokeninphrasesorsentences would be a word, too!

Right - though the Germans have no qualms about making a single word out of regionalfactoryforthedevelopmentmanufactureand
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