65 Don't Get Me Wrong (idiom)

06/11/21 • 3 min

Transcript:
Don't get me wrong. I love it! Don't get me wrong. Don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to get you or anything.
In this episode, you will get familiar with the expression "don't get me wrong". And as usual here on the Vocab Man you'll listen to several examples of the expression that we are going to cover so that you can memorize it in a very easy way.
0:32 Example 1
Surely recycling can fix the plastic problem. Don't get me wrong. Recycling is vital for dealing with waste. I'm not saying you should just start checking everything in the bin for landfill, but unfortunately our recycling systems just can't cope with the amount of plastic we currently produce.
Plastics can only be recycled a certain number of times, so we can't keep recycling the same thing forever and making new recycled goods out of the plastic we recycle also uses up a lot of energy and resources. Doesn't plastic packaging, prevent food waste. This might seem like a question with a simple answer, but the links between food waste and plastic packaging are complex.
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Don't get me wrong. It's a very practical and useful expression. I think it's only used in speech. So you probably won't find it in written form and you might use it to avoid a misunderstanding. What I want to say is. Maybe you believe that the things you are going to say is a bit delicate or could be easily misunderstood by someone else.
So then you just begin with "don't get me wrong"
But it also works the other way around because according to the Wiktionary "don't get me wrong" is used to clarify that something previously said did not have a meaning that could be misinterpreted.
2:09 example 2
Now don't get me wrong. I do think it's important to know what's going on in the world, but I just don't think following the day to day developments of the news cycle is the way to do that.
So instead, I'm going to get one newspaper delivered to my house every week. And that is how I am going to stay informed.
2:29 Outro with Daniel Goodson
Don't get me wrong. What the man said just before. I mean, he made a good point, right? But on the other hand, one cool idea is to keep informed on a daily basis, maybe on the internet, but in English or in your target language, then it's a win-win situation. You keep informed. And at the same time you will learn a new language.
Thank you for listening. Daniel Goodson
www.myfluentpodcast.com

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64 To dither

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Transcript:
Dither - dither - dither
The world doesn't have that much time to dither!
Hello. I am the Vocab Man. After producing over 63 episodes consisting of five hours of audio materials in total, after more than 21,000 downloads. Thank you for that guys. The time has come to make a decision. Yeah, well actually, I've been dithering about what to do next. The thing is that my free plan on spreaker .
Spreaker is the Vocab Man's podcast hoster. So the free plan on spreaker, which consists of exactly five hours of content has come to an end. Yeah. Unfortunately, but there is no time to dither because spreaker offers a reduced price, which is available only for a few days. In other words, the VOCA man is going to exist in the future. for free.
If prince Charming walked up to you with a handful of diamonds, would you dither? Would you say, oh, I don't know. Let me think about it. Of course. He wouldn't.
To dither means to act nervously or indecisively. And according to the free dictionary, it also means to make a fuss or to be agitated. And dither as a noun means a highly nervous, excited, or agitated state.
So be committed to a national referendum. So the British people can again have their say and to hold it in the first half of the next parliament. This is one of the key choices that the election labor have spent 10 years making up their minds about whether they want a referendum on Europe. And after 10 years of dither, uncertainty, confusion, and contradiction, they've ended up making the wrong choice. And are still seeking to deny the democratic will of the people of this country.
So now let's take a look at the etymologist side. So according to the website etymonline.com the word actually came 1640s, and it means to quake, tremble and is a phonetic variant of middle English didderen from the late 14th century, which is of uncertain origin.
Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now yet we dither taking no action to divert the asteroid, even though the longer we wait, the more difficult and expensive it becomes.
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66 To slag off = to criticize harshly / informal

Transcript:
Slag off.
Welcome back, dear English, enthusiasts. This is Daniel. I'm the Vocab Man. And I was wondering, I mean, Don't get me wrong. I strongly believe that I have been learning a lot in the last four years here producing the Vocab Man for you, but let's take a closer look at it. Today is episode 66 and yeah, I have been producing over five hours in total.
So. Let's imagine if I produced double the amount or triple the amount, I mean, five hours in over four years, it's nothing. And let's say if I produced three episodes a week, I'd probably learn even more expressions. And as a result, of course, I would have become even more fluent in English, which is my goal, of course.
And I suppose it's your goal too, so I was just thinking, so now let's get started with an expression, which is a rather weird to me. It's called to slag off.
Because you must never, ever slag off the speaker because everyone, when you hear yourself, everyone always just gives, oh my God, I can't believe I sound like that company developed like that key thing is you focus entirely on you as the listener and you ask yourself just the following three questions.
Number one, how much does the speaker value? What he's saying to how much does the speaker value me as the listener? And then finally. Does the speaker make me care on that?
So to slag of means to criticize strongly, to say very bad things about other people, but it could also be a performance, etc. So it's rather a slang. So be careful when using it.
Some people are sort of saying, well, John Lennon know, he used to really slack off Paul McCartney. Um, and, and Paul says, no, no, no. He, we, we got on very well. It was just the way he was. He would be fast and loose and say crazy. Um, no Gallagher style things or Liam Gallagher style things. And actually he sentence overrated.
Anyway, he couldn't, uh, record an album like pipes of peace. If he tried.
So I repeat to slag someone off means to criticize them in an unpleasant way. So I think it's, it's rather British, right. And informal as, as I said before. So I really, I hope that you don't slack me off producing this episode, please, but if you have any suggestions for future episodes just drop me an email at [email protected].
Thanks.
Now I can tell you positive. I could slack off the professions and the juppies and how lots of them get paid for achieving very little goals . Um, I could question and challenge, but now I actually think, I think good things about people and places. Um, I rang a friend the other day. And I said to him, look, if I pay for your airfares, will you come to Northern New South Wales with me to the rainforest.
I just want to hang out in the peace and quiet. And, um, I can't do it on my own. And he said, yeah, I'll clear it with my wife. And I reckon that's alright