Vocabulary Spotlight Spicy, Hot, and Salty

Become a monthly subscriber for just $1.99 per month and receive an additional two to three episodes per week!https://app.redcircle.com/shows/9472af5c-8580-45e1-b0dd-ff211db08a90/exclusive-contentIn this episode, Xochitl explain the various meanings related to the words: spicy, hot, and salty.Transcript:00:00:02XochitlHello A-Z English podcast listeners Jack and social are back with another episode for you and today we are doing a vocabulary builder so we want to do words that have two different meanings and we're going to expound or explain what these meanings are. So Jack, what are our first ones salty and salty, same words.00:00:21JackYeah, something salty. Yeah, salty is an adjective, right? Something is.00:00:23XochitlMeanings.00:00:26JackHealthy. Usually we use it when we're talking about food, so if this say this ohh these these French fries are too salty, it means it just has or this soup is too salty. There's like a lot of salt in it, I mean.00:00:42XochitlThe salt level is by.00:00:44JackYeah, it's making you thirsty. You're drinking a lot of water because you're like you're. Yeah, you're you. You could just, you know, when something has too much salt, you know, salt or you know what? I'm. I'm not even gonna say too much salt because pretzels are salty.00:00:48XochitlMaking your mouth sucker.00:01:02JackAnd I love pretzels because I have a I love salty food. So, you know, eating salty pretzels. It does make my mouth dry and and kind of, you know, want to drink water. I do enjoy the taste of it. I I do enjoy it.00:01:20XochitlHow that would say because if you like the salty flavor of of the soup at someone's house, don't say wow, the soup is salty. You know that not.00:01:28JackRight.00:01:28JackAnd.00:01:29XochitlHumble it use leaves me negatively, so just maybe the soup is delicious or something.00:01:29JackI.00:01:35JackYeah, just say this is delicious. Don't say this is salty because if you say salty, it means that's just the that's that's a coded word for too salty.00:01:45XochitlYeah, has too much salt. Yeah. No, Jack, what is the other meaning of the word salty?00:01:52JackYeah, this one's a little more complicated. This is when we, a word we ascribe to people, right? So when someone is salty, it means they're being standoffish. Prickly, cantankerous. Yeah. I'm using all these words that no one's going to know. So they're not helping you guys at all.00:02:04XochitlAnd and that.00:02:12JackGrumpy, you know, like, you know, salty.00:02:16XochitlGood word from SpongeBob.00:02:18JackWhat's that?00:02:19XochitlLike Squidward from SpongeBob?00:02:21JackYeah, like Squidward from from SpongeBob. He's a salty character. He's like, he's not nice.00:02:27JackHe's he's, you know, kind of kind of.00:02:28XochitlYeah.00:02:31XochitlFrankie Grumpy in a bad mood?00:02:32JackYeah, cranky, grumpy. He's short. He's.00:02:34JackShort tempered, he's you know when you ask him a question, he snaps back at you. It's not, you know, a a person that you would just sit and have a fun, casual conversation with. If someone is kind of salty, they're a little bit difficult to talk to, a little bit standoffish.00:02:54JackIt doesn't mean they're not nice, and it doesn't mean they're not helpful. It's just that their personality is they're they're kind of like a porcupine or a cactus. You know, they're prickly.00:03:04XochitlYeah, they're pretty.00:03:06JackYeah.00:03:07XochitlAgain, this isn't isn't really a neutral word, so don't describe someone as salty. If you mean well.00:03:15XochitlIt's not like an endearing term. It's kind. It's a negative term, so keep that in mind. But yeah, that is just all.00:03:21JackIt's a negative term, right? And with when I'm when I'm describing the pretzels, that's fine. This popcorn is salty. You know when you're eating.00:03:29JackUh. Movie theater popcorn. It should be salty, you know. But describing the soup, it should not be described as salty if it has the right salt content, then you say it's delicious.00:03:43JackAnd.00:03:43XochitlYeah, I would say when in doubt, don't call it salty. You know, when in doubt, just don't call it salty. But yeah, this is good. This is tasty. This is delicious. You know those other adjectives, but salty just means something that's highly salted and that.00:03:50JackRight, right.00:03:53JackJust say good. This is good, yeah.00:03:57발표자Yeah.00:04:03XochitlCan be positive, negative or new.00:04:05XochitlControl and when in reference to people, it's pretty much always a negative connotation, so just keep.00:04:11XochitlThat in mind.00:04:12XochitlYeah. Yeah. And so so our next one, we have spicy, spicy can mean something that is like a chili pepper where you take a bite out of it and your mouth is on fire. Right. Oh my God. So spicy.00:04:23JackMm-hmm.00:04:27XochitlA really spicy soup. You know, it has a lot of different Peppers.00:04:32XochitlAnd you know, you take a bite and again your mouth is on.00:04:35XochitlFire you gotta.00:04:37XochitlTug down some cold water or some yogurt or something that is 1 meaning spicy and the other meaning of spicy is something that is well spiced and that means it has a lot of condiments, but none of them are necessarily.00:04:54XochitlBringing your mouth on fire. So like a a Christmas cake like a.00:04:56JackRight.00:05:00XochitlOrange aniseed, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg could all be in there and it could be a well spiced cake. A spicy cake, but it's not spicy in the sense that your mouth is on fire, it just has a lot of different flavor profiles to.00:05:16XochitlOther I would say calling something spicy in the sense that it has a lot of spices is an old fashioned term, so people don't.00:05:24JackYeah.00:05:24XochitlUsually do that.00:05:27XochitlYou might say ohh this cake is nicely spiced, but that would be something you'd probably read in older literature and not something that you hear colloquially, meaning you don't hear like people speak that very often.00:05:30JackYeah.00:05:39JackI think flavorful would be a better one. You know better adjective. This is really flavorful because it's full of different flavors, you know and yeah.00:05:43XochitlYes.00:05:47XochitlBut yeah, that's a more common one. Yeah. So, but if you're reading, you know.00:05:53XochitlAn old English literature, but can you see someone called a Christmas cake spicy? They don't mean it has like hot Peppers.00:05:59JackIt's just, it doesn't mean there's 25, you know, little Thai Chili Peppers in there. Yeah. Jalapenos or a Carolina Reaper or something like that. You know, that's going to make your head explode.00:06:04XochitlHow old are you?00:06:12XochitlYeah, or like a.00:06:14XochitlIf you see a recipe for a spice cake online, that just means a cake that has a lot of spices, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, all those things. It doesn't mean that cake that has jalapenos in it, so that's just a distinction.00:06:21JackRight.00:06:28XochitlYeah, Jack, how about the next one? Hot. What are the two meanings for hot?00:06:34JackOhh yeah, this is a good one too because hot can mean spicy like and by spicy I mean.00:06:43XochitlHot pepper hot.00:06:44JackPepper, spicy, right. The kind your mouth on fire, you know.00:06:45XochitlHow can you?00:06:50JackSpicy. Yeah, but it also can mean temperature hot, so you know. Ohh Ouch. I burned my. I burned my mouth. I burned my tongue because the soup is too hot. You know, temperature wise. Yeah.00:07:04XochitlThe tea is too hot. Yeah. Ohh. This tea is so hot. This hot chocolate is so hot.00:07:10XochitlI burn my mouth.00:07:12XochitlWhereas if someone says ohh the soup is hot, you have to ask them before you try it. If they mean temperature hot or they mean spicy hot.00:07:22JackMHM.00:07:22XochitlSo remember, keep that in mind if you're a person who doesn't like spice or something because a lot of times in the US we will use hot interchangeably with temperature and spiciness, and it can mean both as well, like, oh, the soup is hot temperature wise and spice level wise, so that is.00:07:36JackYeah, like hot sauce. You know, is going to mean spicy. You know what I mean? Cause it's like there's no, it's not like you're going to heat up a bag of sauce, you know, like.00:07:41XochitlYeah.00:07:48XochitlYou something like hot ranch dressing or something?00:07:53JackYeah, just.00:07:56JackStraight out of the microwave. Yeah. No hot, hot sauce means spicy sauce, you know? So we we say hot sauce. That means spicy sauce. But hot soup. Yeah. Hot tea. Yeah. Hot tea is better. Yeah.00:08:08XochitlSorry, do you know hot tea is going to be temperature wise hot because it's going to be very weird for someone to put like jalapenos or Thai chilies in a cup of tea. Right? So you people are if you use contacts there, you'll realize people mean temperature.00:08:15JackRight.00:08:25XochitlHot.00:08:26XochitlSoup as Jack.00:08:27XochitlSaying that, one can go either way, so you have to ask, you know the clarifying.00:08:31XochitlMotion temperature. Hot or spicy hot and that would kind of get you an answer of neither or both or whatever. 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