We tackle the idiom "Don't quote me on that" and give some real life examples.
I came across that expression on Ep. 111 of my other podcast called My Fluent Podcast:
https://youtu.be/YFR13RnpWqETranscript:
I think I ordered it from Highland. Don't quote me on that. I'm not a hundred percent sure, but I think I got it from Highland.
Today's expression is.
Don't quote me on that.
Welcome back to the Vocab, Man. I am Daniel. I come from Switzerland and my goal is to become a better English speaker. And at the same time, I want to help you out because Yeah learning together is a lot of fun. Thanks for tuning in.
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So there are different ways on how to use this expression. In the very beginning you could hear don't quote me on that. And in the second example The speaker just said don't quote me.
So this expression is just a way of indicating or explaining to your listener that maybe what you're saying is not 100% true. And you also have to know what. To quote means. To quote something or someone is to repeat the exact words they said, or to recite the exact words written in a book.
So again, When you are saying, don't quote me on that.
You're just being open about the fact that what you are about to say is probably not a hundred percent true
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And where did I come across that expression? I'm going to tell you. So I was interviewing Vince from the Philippines for my other podcast called my Fluent Podcast. And we were talking about the topic speed listening. Speed listening to level up your target language. So basically it's like speed reading. But instead of the method of using books You just speed listen to podcasts. And that way you can learn a lot of stuff. What I mean by that is. You know, these days you can easily speed up. The audio clip in your podcast apps so that you can listen to your resources at a two times speed or three times speed etc.
But now let's take a closer look at an audio snippet of episode, 111.
It wasn't really that special to me when I first did it and it was because. I just thought that after a while, once you are really fluent in a given language, you should be able to just speed through. And I've heard of visually impaired individuals, , could do this because audio somehow can be sped up. Don't quote me on this because I don't have the, the specific paper, but what you can quote me on though, is that one of my co members in the Influency community said that if you speed up something, your brain is not given the time to translate. And so it really forces your brain to think in the given language that is being spoken in that tape or audio. So that is the philosophy behind it. That if you just speed it up, you're forcing your brain to comprehend the language that is being spoken.
And of course it also goes the other way round. So you could just say. Can I quote you on that? So there is also the idiom. To quote someone on. Meaning to tell other people that someone said something. But i think it is more common the other way around So in the negative sense.
Thank you guys for listening. Let's wrap up this episode. Don't quote me on that is a phrase said after a statement a person is not sure is correct.
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