Unsolicited Advice & Mirriam Webster Dictionary

Ever get unsolicited advice? Dangerous Dave talks about ways to deal with it. Plus, new words an phrases added to Mirriam-Webster dictionary.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Deeper in the Din with dangerous day wrestling
with a tough decision. When somebody well swoops in with
some helpful advice that you never asked for. There's four
ways you can respond the next time you get unsolicited advice.
Thanks for sharing, I'll consider it. It politely acknowledges their
input without locking yourself in.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
That's a useful view.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
I prefer to handle it this way, and it shows
that you're listening to their perspective while keeping their choices
on how to act in your own hands. I appreciate
your input. I already have a plan and how I'll
move forward. It respectfully signals how you got things under
control and saying I hear you. If I need more guidance,
I'll reach out. It validates their effort and prevents further

(00:42):
unsolicited input unless you seek it out.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
So there you go. You get unsolicited advice frequently. I
do too. I just it's you know, that's a polite
way to do it. Or you can just do what
I do and just say eh, I'm sorry. Are you
speaking English? Deeper in the Team.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Webster has announced a major update for the twelfth edition
of their Collegiate Dictionary they're adding more than five thousand terms.
They include beast mode, which Miriam Webster defines as an
extreme and aggressive energetic style or manner somebody adopts to
temporarily overpower an opponent in a fighter competition. Dad bod
a physique regarded as a typical average father. Dumb phone

(01:22):
a cell phone that does not have advanced software features.
Farmed a table involving or advocating the direct sale of
distribution of food from his point of origin to customers.
Hard pass a firm refusal or rejection of something that
has an offer. Love language a person's characteristic meanings showing
love or care for another, riz which is romantic appeal

(01:43):
or charm. Side eye, a sidelong glance or glaze, especially
when expressing scorn, suspicion, disapproval, or veiled curiosity. And tarraflop,
which is a unit of measure that is calculating the
speed of a computer equal to one trillion floating points.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Of operation per second.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
A lot of these seem a little bit old, but
the deal is that they haven't actually done a hard
copy of the Collegiate Dictionary for twenty two years, so
the new edition will be released on November eighteenth, with
these words included. There's another four nine and ninety one
words included, but you know it's Friday.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Let's leave it at that. Tune it again for another
episode of Deeper in the Den with dangerous Dave light Year.