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super rare
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- 00:03
Okay C t s spire er's We're nine of twelve
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making big progress here All right super rare It's in
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paragraph three Let's give to get down there The great
- 00:12
wise apex predator top food chain if we pray seals
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line walruses great white sharks widely distributed lotion and temperate
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- 00:19
waters Their relative proximity to shore is what brings them
- 00:23
into contact with humans Although encounters are super rare kind
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of like super bad fine movie I think meryl streep
- 00:31
wasn all right well we're not looking for an obvious
- 00:37
error here but we should recognize that the underlying portion
- 00:41
represents a shift in the style of writing used throughout
- 00:44
the passage While we may throw around the word super
- 00:47
to mean very in everyday conversations you know yeah we
- 00:50
do it all the time It doesn't actually fit in
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the context of kind of documentary style neutral journalistic key
- 00:58
informative passage about great white sharks really is another one
- 01:03
of those fluff words So is very really very Then
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it's just excessively fluffy and redundant repetitive saying the same
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thing over and over and over again Rare to the
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extreme Sounds like surfer dude speak maybe in south africa
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for a shark attack at just even more awkward and
- 01:20
wordy And we're going to go with the upgraded version
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Thanks a lot Extremely rare So it should read their
- 01:27
relative proximity to shores What brings them into contact with
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humans Although encounters are extremely rare can't towns all properly
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formal and extremely good Alright dude hanging ten
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