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Can you figure out what the word "Commerce" means in the following passage?
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jour brought to you by old ladies All right check
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out old mistresses apple aug All right well we've got
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to answer the following question I know your skin in
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your skin and your skim and thus much for my
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paradox All right we're reading Jerry crutchley and old doc
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johnson Dr j how's it hanging All right Well here
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we go What is the meaning of the word commerce
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as it is used in this letter and hear the
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potential answers All right we'll have to skip back to
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the passage for a second to see exactly how the
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word commerce is used Well seems clear to us that
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our speakers idea of commerce is what goes on between
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men and women Giggity in this case young men and
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old women Oh double giggity Yeah when they're dating So
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even though we usually associate the word commerce with buying
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and selling like ebay or ali baba weaken nick's choice
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eh If the speaker were advising mixing um you're with
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money Well then this would be a very different set
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of advices Yeah that we'll also cut choice b sometimes
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commerce can also refer to an exchange of ideas which
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might make this option a little bit attractive Well there's
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nothing in this passage about politics though like so many
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ruined politicians the speaker's mind is only unloved C is
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one of those random answers the test makers throw in
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just to see if we were paying any attention whatsoever
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If we bother to read the sentence in which the
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word appears we won't find anything about advertising Of course
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with the way things are going we'll have product placements
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in our standardized tests any day now There's no doubt
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that choice d is the best answer The sentence in
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which commerce appears specifically advises that in all your amores
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you should prefer old women to young ones So we
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know we're talking about romantic affairs here Rest homes across 00:01:59.596 --> [endTime] the globe just got a whole new visitor list
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