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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 299. Today we're going to look at the
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difference between malfunction and dysfunction and of course any other
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forms of it. You know, like the adjective malfunctional or dysfunctional or you
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know malfunction of a verb. Of course, will say will follow the same meaning as
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malfunction as a noun and adjective as well. So let's take a look at the note
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here. A malfunction means something has an incorrect or faulty function.
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It basically means something does not work correctly, especially used with
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machines. Malfunction tends to be used for single events you know something
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that happened. It malfunctioned at that time. So it's not usually used for
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ongoing or continuing events. At least you know, with the same person or with
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the same exact object. Okay. Let's take a look at the second one here. Well, let's
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continue with the note here. If something has a dysfunction, it means something
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fails to work in an expected way or in a complete way. Dysfunction or
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dysfunctional as an adjective is especially used in regard to medical or
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psychological terms. It is often used with disorders or if a bodily organ
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doesn't work correctly in your body something like that, is not working.
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Dysfunction tends to be used with events that are ongoing or continuing or more
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long-term. So there's another clear difference between the two. All right. And
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let's look at some examples we have here. GM had to have a recall. A recall that's
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when you know there's a problem with the car and they, they ask everybody who
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bought the card to bring it back in , and they change a certain part. So GM had to
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have a recall due to a malfunction in that part. So one part was not working
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correctly. So again this is with machines and you know it's just one part that's
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not working. So we usually would use malfunction for that.
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Yeah. We don't usually say a dysfunctional part. That would be weird.
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So again, with machines we almost always use malfunction. The computer system is
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malfunctioning. Again here we're using it as a verb. It must have a bug or maybe a
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virus or something like that in it. So again, it's not working correctly it's
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not working properly. Okay. Number three. Again the that voting
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machine seemed to be malfunctioning. Many voters complained that they voted for
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one candidate and it recorded the votes for the opposite candidate. Yeah. That's a
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big problem. In some elections, this happened. So that voting machine was
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malfunctioning, was not functioning correctly. All right. Let's look at number
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four. He comes from a dysfunctional family. All right. Yeah. Now we're getting
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into like psychological terms or you know something to do with medicine. You
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know, the dysfunctional families. A family that's not working properly, especially
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in regard to behavior. All right. Let's continue. Number four. He comes from a
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dysfunctional family. Oh no, That's what we just read so number five. Grandpa
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is suffering from a kidney and liver dysfunction. All right. It's your body parts.
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It's a body part that's not working correctly. So yeah we don't usually say a
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malfunctioning kidney. We usually say dysfunction or dysfunctioning or
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dysfunctional kidney. All right. Let's continue. She is showing signs of
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dysfunctional behavior. Again. remember both medical and psychological terms in this
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sense will probably use dysfunctional. And number seven. He is suffering from
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erectile dysfunction. It's one of the ways they like to say it. If some poor guy
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you know, he's a sexual part is not working in regards to sex anymore. You
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know, it's a it's not getting you know hard like it supposed to. That's referred
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to as erectile dysfunction. So that's another common way that you hear this
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used. Anyway, I hope it's clear. I hope, I hope you have a better sense of when you
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should use malfunction and when you should use dysfunction. Okay. Bye-bye.
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Thank you for time. Bye-bye.