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lindsay on a recent episode we used make it in a unique way and this is i i love i love when
this happens when you're like oh that would be a good follow-up in the moment and then i'm like
done done done that would be a good episode by the way i'll write it down right now done
weirdest like ideas coming out of our ears here but it's great ideas out of our ears
but this is a particular particularly good one though michelle isn't it yes yes lindsay this
is all year you i wouldn't have picked up on that one so this is i'm not fishing for compliments or
anything i'm just saying it's good it's good this is going to be useful for our listeners you know
exactly this is going to be good so you know what we're actually going to start
with a little role play okay i like this here we go all right so lindsay can you make it to
my party thursday oh yeah i'll be there oh good god all right so yes we used a make it
yeah and in just a minute we're gonna i'm going to ask you you know are you talking about baking
something right baking something for the party making something for the party right but guys
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yes okay awesome go on over there now so uh well after the episode yeah after the episode after
the episode uh or you can press pause whatever you whatever you like anyway so what you said and make
it so as lindsay said you may be comfortable with using make it for things like putting something
together like oh we need dinner i can make it this afternoon right or maybe to assemble something
right lindsay right because you guys know we did our top 15 mistakes in english we did a whole
episode about the difference between you know make and do and but that's a different conversation
right michelle today we're talking about something totally different yeah it make it is very very
very frequently used to talk about attending or not attending something right lindsay exactly
exactly so i think we should just dive into some more examples so our listeners will get the drift
here we go i'm so sorry i can't make it to the meeting today can i meet with you after to discuss
or sorry no go ahead go ahead okay uh i can make it to the wedding but i will have to buy a new
dress yes so i see that this is being used kind of in a business context and a social personal
context too right michelle so oh yeah is it is it just business or what oh i don't think so
i think it's just anything um i i don't know that this is i don't think this is really formal or
informal right um but i and i do think it can be used for business but i don't think that's
the only place that it can be used i think you're right so it's it really this is one of those gems
that goes across everything business life family wherever you want to use it guys it's it's useful
so good absolutely yes exactly so um i mean let's i mean we can also use it just to talk
about arriving right okay so you could say something like i'll make it there by 3 p.m
if i leave by 2. um yeah so we might say something like or can you make it on time
so that's kind of related to the first meaning we just talked about but it's like it's used in a
slightly more time-based way right michelle right so this can be used um more specifically about
attending an event and the other one can be a slightly different meaning is just like
arriving talking about time talking about numbers um and then there was another useful way from the
dictionary that i i wasn't considering um but this is about uh adjusting something so this is
this is awesome um guys we can i mean this is from thefreedictionary.com um so i'll give you
an example can you get two poster boards you know what make it three we need an extra just in case
oh yeah now this one is it's kind of historical like i'm sure you've heard this in movies guys
especially ordering food or drinks right make it a double or something like that that kind
of deal here's another example i'll get my eggs sunny-side up actually make it scrambled please
now here's a question in that kind of scenario you're ordering from a waiter or waitress is that
is it rude at all or is it just conversational and fun when you say make it because it's a
little bit demanding right it's a little bit like it sounds like it could be that way but
guys i don't think that you should be worried that it sounds like that i think it's just very natural
it's just conversational what do you think lindsay i agree i think it's fun it's fun i mean
you know you can get the drift of of the person serving you we had breakfast on sunday morning
up in the mountains we had a really fun waitress she was bubbly she was fun she was joking
and that would have been a great way oh can i have some i'll have home fries on the side oh
no make it fruit on the side instead i could have said that to her you can get a sense of the vibe
because this is playful when you use this in a way of ordering food or drink exactly yeah yeah
the free dictionary did mention you know that this is good for ordering and things like that so um or
you could say oh we'll have two diet cokes make that three right sometimes we say make that right
yes that's three yeah yeah this also makes me think makes me think of um the super sizing
concept right that mcdonald's the whole oh would you like to make it a super size i'm sure a lot
of vendors said that at that time when that was a big deal or would you like to supersize that they
actually made it a verb right or would you like to yeah make it a super size i'm sure customers would
say that right it's funny that you bring that up because i started watching that documentary again
oh the original one the original one i did i i didn't finish it um but i i will but i i
do you ever get that lindsey when you just think of something from the past like this documentary
is i mean maybe 20 years old i don't know and like and and then you're like okay i have to
watch it now like yeah yeah i mean because i like to go back to old things you know you think about
where you were at when you first watched it your mindset may have changed or something
you know yeah yeah and and it's also like fun if you're watching with the with a person who yes
hasn't it seen it before so for sure yeah yeah i'm fortunate in my relationship because i
i don't know how but like i can pretty much say like oh let's watch anything and dan will be like
oh okay that sounds good and he's like happy to he's happy to watch it so
that's amazing that is i know i'm very i'm very lucky he's very flexible and watching things or
maybe my taste is just excellent i don't know that could be too michelle that could be true
yeah we started watching this but then we have to get back into it it's it's yeah it's good
but that's a good point about make it it's good yeah guys go check out so the documentary again
just to be clear what we're talking about here is mark is it martin or morgan okay i always say
so morgan spurlock's original documentary super size mean it's all about uh the controversy of
you know weight gain in america and the role that fast food chains played by building it
into their products you know too much food you know and then that makes me think of um
when in new york they wanted to like ban how big the sodas were do you remember that yeah bloomberg
yeah exactly so we have a lot of things like that in this country about
you know i don't know how this uh discussion got started but
this theme for this episode and you know it is true because it could be like oh make it make it
a large make it a super size right get a super size make it a double make it a triple right do
you want a single cheeseburger no make it a double cheeseburger right so this would show up a lot
in the way so easy too easy and a lot of these conversations end up being about the greater
good personal health like cost of health care versus personal choice freedom of choice which
is so sacred in our country so that will open up another discussion for another day
yes exactly we'll save that one but yeah just make it i mean in all of these examples so we you know
we talked about you know arriving somewhere like with the time we talked about if you can attend
something and then we talked about this adjusting an order mostly um or something that you're buying
i mean i think in all of these examples it's it's casual i think it's conversational and
natural what do you think lindsay oh for sure and and it's it's more versatile than i realized
when we first said we're gonna do an episode on it it actually is and also i want you guys to
listen for it because now that you know about it you can start listening for it and really
understand what people mean they're not just talking about make versus do that's a very rigid
one way to think about the word make right right right right exactly there's
so much that you can do with this make it or like i said might be make that yeah um
but there's there's just a lot of places you can go with it and you just because it sounds i think
that's you know a trap we don't want to fall into is just because it sounds uh a little bit
casual you know that we think it is and i i don't think it is yeah i think you know you're saying
for example for using it in the workplace that we're afraid it might be too casual for the work
i mean listen to your colleagues see what they are saying and mirror them guys that's the key
but i think anything that's going to build a relationship should be considered professional
because that's the whole point of work is building those relationships right right
exactly so i think i think that this is just useful for business for everyday life so i i
this is i'm really glad that you kind of picked up you latched on to this one lindsay because i i
think it's an important one for our listeners yeah let's do a role play for them what do you think do
it okay let's do it so we're right here we are out of yeah we're at a bakery and we're about to get
some cookies yes i can't wait okay okay so let's get two chocolate chips and one sugar lindsey make
it three chocolate chips uh you have no idea how amazing they are okay sounds great oh no we're
gonna miss the movie no we'll make it if we leave right after this oh you're right it should be fine
oh i've been meaning to tell you i can't make it to your game night saturday oh no all right so
we're using it in a lot of different ways ordering food here guys it makes me think of a cookie shop
up in breckenridge where we like to go skiing sometimes when we stay up there we'll go and
get co it's this whole shop just for cookies and like very thick intense cookies so good oh my gosh
that sounds good definitely all right so let's go through it i am so you said they'll get two
chocolate chips and one sugar and i said make it three about the chocolate chip cookies yep make
it three make it three you got it so i'm ordering i'm changing my order right a little bit um okay
sounds great are we going to miss the movie no we'll make it if we leave right after this so
meaning we will arrive on time right michelle uh-huh exactly exactly so instead of saying
no we'll get there on time you can say just say no we'll make it yes perfect perfect i love
it it's so much more casual and conversational and human yeah right yeah right yeah i think so
um oh you said uh i can't make it to your game night on saturday so this is about you
know accepting an invitation or not accepting an invitation yeah yeah i mean it's good because yeah
make it ends up being casual it absolutely does but think about the alternatives you could say i
can't come to your game night on saturday which is fine but a little boring a little bland i
can't attend that's way too stiff you know so make kind of fills that gap here of yeah yeah
it's really good it's just to me this sounds like the most natural out of like yeah i use a
attend [ __ ] i think this is just very natural like and rolls off the tongue rolls off the
tongue guys so yeah go for it any takeaway for our listeners for today what should we leave them with
guys i mean like we said this is common and useful try you know play a little game try and replace
some of your words with make it see if they're like think of situations that are kind of coming
up in your life do you need to tell someone if you can attend something can you use make it instead
so kind of divide it into these categories um and see see where you can use this because i think
you can pretty much use it every day if you want to so maybe have make it a goal
make it the goal for yourself to to try and use one of these uh these in a different way yeah
or every week or something yeah we could do a follow-up on other ways that you could say this
you know some people like to say you know this expression like make it a great day right that
idea very positive um so guys open your mind to different ways to say things especially as
michelle said when you're accepting the invitation which is the final scenario we talked about here
don't be so cat don't be so formal all the time right this is the way to be casual and fun and
build that relationship so good absolutely i love it okay well this was fun great idea
lindsay and thank you guys for listening make it a great day michelle all right bye bye
you